I'm thinking about purchasing a bootleg lot for the cheap, and I want to hear peoples thoughts about them.
My friend had one with loads of NES games on it. His dad went to China and got it for him.
That's about all I know.
I'm thinking more like single game gba games.
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=180353097770
hopefully they look neat. :P I'm looking for something that obviously isn't real but you can tell they still tried. :P
Buy a flash cart and you can bootleg 'em all you want. But only if you get the translated version of MOTHER 3 while you're at it.
MOTHER is always relevant. :P
That isn't an issue. I have flash carts. they are nice, but it isn't the same.:P
Actually as I recall, my little brother bought a bootleg copy of Pokemon Sapphire. It had a regular black cartridge and some time-sensitive game elements (berries, for example) didn't work after one "use".
Cool cool. Any other odd ends to the bootleg scene?
Quote from: LocalToast on May 04, 2009, 05:55:55 pm
Actually as I recall, my little brother bought a bootleg copy of Pokemon Sapphire. It had a regular black cartridge and some time-sensitive game elements (berries, for example) didn't work after one "use".
I had something like this, but with Pokemon Emerald. It was a black cart, the title screen said "POCKET MONSTER EMRALD" and every single opponent in the game cussed when they lost. The save and time functions didn't work sometimes either.
Cursing? In a Nintendo game? Madness!
It was pretty dry too, most of the time it would go like this...
Tyler defeated Team Aqua Grunt!
Grunt: DAMNIT,`!
Tyler was payed 5,000P
Why was there swearing? Hacking?
Well...it was a pirated game, so I'm sure the people who pirated the cart changed a few things ;)
I wouldn't recommend it. The only bootleg game I've ever (unknowingly) purchased, Fire Emblem, took a substantial amount of force to fit in the cartridge slot. The saving feature was absent.
Same with mine, it took a lot of force to get it in, and I didn't know it was a pirate :-\
I've seen a couple of pirate GBA carts that had 'NONTENDO' written on the back :D They were black instead of grey, didn't fit the cart slot properly and a lot of the in-game text was corrupt in one of them. Both were glop-tops.
The thing that tickled me the most was the manuals, which were about four pages long and full of text the pirates had copy+pasted from Gamespot reviews LOL
GBA piracy is weirder than Famicom piracy. :V
Well I decided to grab a DS pirate too. New Super Mario Bros complete with box and manual for like $12 shipped. I am also bidding on another DS game which I believe to be a pirate.
If it's a DS or GBA game and it's on eBay, you can pretty much lay money on it being pirate.
I got a Castlevania Double Pack boot from China