Castlevania Doublepack Fake? help
-
Gunstar Green
- Next-Gen
- Posts: 4962
- Joined: Sat Jan 08, 2011 11:12 pm
- Location: Pennsylvania
- Contact:
Re: Castlevania Doublepack Fake? help
Ebay is pretty good at going after counterfeiters these days. You shouldn't have much of a problem.
Re: Castlevania Doublepack Fake? help
Man, that's lame. Hope you get it sorted out shortly.
Not counterfeit, but I'm reminded of the time I ordered Advance Wars: Dual Strike, popped the game in, and was greeted with "E.A. Sports. It's in the game." Oh, joy, someone did a sticker swap. Blah.
Not counterfeit, but I'm reminded of the time I ordered Advance Wars: Dual Strike, popped the game in, and was greeted with "E.A. Sports. It's in the game." Oh, joy, someone did a sticker swap. Blah.
Re: Castlevania Doublepack Fake? help
Well I know you got your answer, but the inside is obvious too, can't remember any legit gBA games using a glop top or having stickers on the chips either. There's a good bit of obvious tells still out there on the exterior. Usually the plastic itself the molding for the GBA logo or the Nintendo branding in the rectangle on back aren't cut as cleanly or are thinner than normal too. Then stickers, if they are fuzzy at all, dead give away. The ESRB usually is the most obvious tell most the time as they're oddly usually all the wrong size, the letter is a bit smaller, or they look fuzzy instead of very crisp.
The problematic carts which are insanely great duplicates those at worst will have a slightly thinner font either on a very small printed word or letters on the cart in an emblem or maybe a mm or less smaller width to the AGB-code. Basically impossible to tell from most if any pictures people tend to take on ebay and still kind of hard to notice in person too. The best fakes are like that, they even get the (c) nintendo ink inside the cart slot above the pins right too.
I've got a fraud from a few months back last year from the UK of Alien Hominid, side by side it's amazing until you open it, find the glop top and some normal chips. It's the newest style of fake board that uses the glop top to negotiate the data from the chips down to a level the amount of leads off the cart pins can handle into the system to communicate with it. Those even with saving games have a solid FeRAM saving chips that don't need a battery to hold a charge and the normal chips don't need one either to maintain the data. They look and function like a normal GBA game and unless you crack it open you wouldn't be the wiser. I did get a refund on mine, and since it came from the UK I got to keep the game and my money while they got busted for selling multiple frauds in my batch which got their account canceled shortly after.
The problematic carts which are insanely great duplicates those at worst will have a slightly thinner font either on a very small printed word or letters on the cart in an emblem or maybe a mm or less smaller width to the AGB-code. Basically impossible to tell from most if any pictures people tend to take on ebay and still kind of hard to notice in person too. The best fakes are like that, they even get the (c) nintendo ink inside the cart slot above the pins right too.
I've got a fraud from a few months back last year from the UK of Alien Hominid, side by side it's amazing until you open it, find the glop top and some normal chips. It's the newest style of fake board that uses the glop top to negotiate the data from the chips down to a level the amount of leads off the cart pins can handle into the system to communicate with it. Those even with saving games have a solid FeRAM saving chips that don't need a battery to hold a charge and the normal chips don't need one either to maintain the data. They look and function like a normal GBA game and unless you crack it open you wouldn't be the wiser. I did get a refund on mine, and since it came from the UK I got to keep the game and my money while they got busted for selling multiple frauds in my batch which got their account canceled shortly after.