How to spot a fake Gameboy Advance Cartridge

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I had the misfortune of buying a game from the amazon.com seller alrecordexch and the games arrived late, they were fakes, and didn’t work properly. Every time I tried to save the game and go play Pokemon Diamond, I’d come back to find the save game was wiped clean on the other carts… So I went and bought authentic games at Wal-mart, and decided to show the two sets side by side before I sent them back for a refund through amazon.com…

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i found out that my emerald i bought was fake because of some stuff u showed

Oh, and your methods are inaccurate. I have LeafGreen without a foil label but with the stamps on said label, no numbers on the board but correct ones on the back.. yada yada etc. Got it at walmart a few years back.

lmfao
Try playing the hacked advance cart on a GBA.
Derrp.

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my pokemon soul silver is fake but giving to gamestop anyways

LoL. You made me go home to make sure my games were legit.

i got a fire red cartrage just like your fake one from some chineese pirate in kowloon in hong kong, it says the save file is ok whenever you start it up and theres sdome minor ingame differences

@armando92 :yes:

@armando92 :yes:

@iSnowbAlLxx2 well even when the cartridge is a fake the rom inside it maybe its the same so it probably work

i still dont know if i should by one of ebay

Son Of a @#$%^@#$ I wish I had seen this video a few weeks ago. I found a deal for 5 pokemon games and they did not turn up for weeks. I did start a claim but when they arrived I only checked that they worked and then closed the claim. Now that my nephews have finished the games they are coming to me saying they can’ trade or transfer any pokemon. And buy seeing this video I now know why :( DOH!!!!

i had fake emerald like 6 years ago but i could trade :D

Do the fakes work

Thanks! helped me a lot i was going to buy a gba pokemon cartridge but thanks to this video i identified the game and it was fake

@iSnowbAlLxx2 probably not, but it’s worth a shot.

I just found out my leafgreen is fake but i want to trade my pokemon from my LG to my emerald… Will it still trade?

I have a fake Emerald, but I still play it. Works just fine except you can’t trade. /:

All my gba pokemon games are real except for ruby :( the only thing I noticed tho is that the seal of aprooval is greenish. Other than that it works just like a real ruby

@Davijoe193 his characters name was A. So it’s like he saved the game.

6:37 Lol, instead of saying “Game Saved”, it said “A saved game.”

@shinyrhydon maybe the battery died? IDK

can you still play the games on the fakes?

IF YOU BOUGHT FROM A SELLER IN CHINA THEY MAKE THE LABELS DIFFRENT!!!! THEY SHIP THE GAME WITHOUT LABELS TO THE US AND THE US HAS THEIR OWN.

did you sue the guy?

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