I can tell you that the only Pokemon cartridges that have those darker black colors are HGSS, BW, and BW2 - the darker color indicates that the games utilizes IR connection! Your Platinum may still be fake, but the color of the cartridge alone is okay :)
Loved the video and can relate to it deeply. I have loved the series since my early childhood with fond memories of playing all the games and collecting the cards. I originally bought a modded 3ds with all the pokemon games on it. It didnt satisfy that feeling of having the authentic originals. That set me on a course to “collect them all”. I started collecting the loose copies of the Gameboy games, then Gameboy color,advance, etc. Once I completed that, I went on to collect the Complete in Box (CIB) DS games. Then once I had finished those, I went back and bought the Gameboy games CIB. I have finally collected them all. I spent a boatload of money but have no regrets. It was a fun collecting them all and running back memory lane of all my old happy memories playing these great games. Enjoy the journey
@@lray4him dude that’s impressive I’m happy to hear that!! Also that’s so cool that’s what I also felt when I got some modded games as well it doesn’t quite scratch that itch
I love Pokemon ORAS so much. I probably played it just as much as you if not more as a kid. It was that game and Minecraft that literally carried my childhood. It is 100% my favorite Pokemon game of all time ❤
I just bought Black and white, black and white 2, and soulsilver… and I will be getting emerald and fire red soon. My collection now consists of leaf green platinum, HG,SS, B&W, B2&W2
Impressive collection, I understand your pain in price of games 😅I've managed to get all 3ds titles, I'm only missing heart gold and English platinum for ds titles, I got japanese platinum just to multihunt with but that's all I know I can manage 😂
It's criminal how game freak refuses to release it's classic pokemon games as a compilation. They could change $80 bucks as a volume 1 and 2 and people will buy them off the fly day 1.
Man i feel you. I got a fake heart gold. The pain is real, also just a tip you can buy japanese cartridges of pokemon games from X and Y onward and just change the language to english in settings
I just subbed, just remember this in case you ever get millions of subscribers and get really rich. If that ever happens I just want a good vr headset pls and thank you
I still have my DS versions of Pokémon. After 9 gens I went back to the original 3. Thanks to Everdrive and Analogue Pocket I can replay old gen Pokémon
Great video! I lost my childhood pokemon platinum and I want to kms every time I think about it... Idk if I can bring myself to buy another one I applaud your efforts here
Good luck if you decide to go for the pokemon games on the gamecube. I'm incredibly fortunate to have held on to mine as those things are hella expensive
I’ve spent the second half of the year building a collection from nothing. I have 7 games left to go. I feel you tho it’s been really expensive. Only games I need now are Pokemon red, sapphire, emerald, pearl, white, black 2, and white 2.
As someone who completed most of their collection before the new pokemon craze began, I'm so happy I started when I did. I can't imagine having to buy all of them today. Only have a few niche titles left, like one of the mini and the perdue games, but yeah I probably wouldn't have started with the current prices.
It’s taken me a while to get all the Pokémon games I’ve wanted, usually around 3 months in between purchase because I try to find the best deal possible. On marketplace I was able to talk a guy down to $100 for HeartGold, $75 for platinum, $40 for White and $120 for CIB Black 2
Last week my copy of Heartgold came in, completing my physical cartridge collection from gen 1-7 and bro let me say I don’t wanna know how much I spent over the past two years 😅😅😅 but I’m so happy I have them all now
Nice video. So relatable. Wonder if you'll get Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl, Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee? I had managed to get Crystal on the 3DS Virtual Console. But I didn't get a copy of G/S/R/B/Y in time. So I'm still so hurt about that. I hope Nintendo releases them on the Switch or Switch 2. I have unopened versions of Legends Arceus, Sword & X that I never got around to playing. So Those are on my to do list. Pokemon SoulSilver holds a special place in my heart. The Pokemon franchise is so AWESOME!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
I still consider myself extremely fortunate that I bought the majority of my Pokémon games about 3 years before the nostalgia wave raised the prices to second mortgage tier. The cheapest for a Pokémon game I paid was about 15 bucks for a loose fire red cart on eBay. (Greetings from Canada)
@@EvMattYT That was years ago now. The most expensive I ever got was around 45 on a diamond copy on auction. needed auction sniper but I got it! HG/SS were both around the 35-40 mark as well and grabbing a loose pokewalker was 15-20. the one I'm most proud of was a legit copy of Platinum with a case for around 40 bucks. Also, the black or grey cart thing only counts for HG/SS, Black/White and B2/W2. shine a bright light under the cart, if it's actually translucent Red, it's a legit IR card. It was tech incorporated into the carts for faster trading and battling as well as Pokewalker functions. Gen 4 D/P/PT do not have those carts. You're welcome. :)
The biggest issue with the DS Games is how many Reproduction (Counterfeits) there are. That if you want an authentic copy, you'll have to pay a lot. Especially if you want the game to last. I really hope that they re-release these games in the future.
Always have and always will be a gen 4 simp, Platinum will always be my favorite game and Infernape always my favorite starter. There's probably some nostalgia in there but I've just always gravitated towards the designs of Sinnoh and the setting
It is a very cool game, I was only able to play one session before I realized my saved weren’t working but it’s a very cool region and the starters are heattt
Make sure you check your game cartridges are real. I had to refund a version of platinum someone sent me which was fake. It cost me 260 AUD and was counterfeit.
This is what happens to good people when Nintendo acts like a shitty company and doesn’t sell desirable products that they created. They’re not only leaving money on the table, but letting scalpers have all of it instead. It’s truly everyone’s loss.
good stuff bro.. i recently bought a complete inbox copy of soul silver for £140.. yeah these things aren't cheap...but nostalgia am i right...aha :') also i lived XY as it really resurrected my love for the franchise..and also sylveon lol
Im in the same boat 😂 except im buying complete in box gameboy, gameboy color and advance pokemon games. never grew up on the ds or 3ds like my neices. will eventually pick up a cib new 3ds xl. Pokemon Yellow was my first pokemon game on my older brothes gameboy color 16-17 years ago.
This is why I'm so glad I live in the UK, our prices haven't gone up as much (and I own a decent amount of my original games) The thing I hate is how I used to sell old games to buy new ones. So ages ago i sold heartgold (cost me £80 to replace recently which was a bargain) to buy paper mario sticker star (worth like £10 now) All I need for the mainline games are the GBA games, Black 2, and then Let's go Eevee and legends arceus on switch. Spin offs I have most of too, I think I only need like Pokémon colloseum/XD for my GameCube, battle revolution and Pokepark 1 on Wii, link(trozei), conquest and explorers of sky on DS. I think I have all the 3ds Pokémon games that had physical releases at this point? I have Red Rescue team, Blue rescue team, Explorers of time, Explorers of Darkness, Gates to infinity, super mystery dungeon. Ranger, ranger shadows of almia, ranger guardian signs Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Black, White, White 2, X, Y, Omega ruby, Alpha Sapphire, Sun, Moon, Ultra sun and Ultra moon (I have the steelbooks for S/M, USUM and alpha sapphire), let's go Pikachu, sword and shield, BDSP, and scarlet and violet. Pokémon dash, detective Pikachu, super Pokémon rumble, Pokepark 2 wonders beyond, pollen tournament DX, and detective Pikachu returns. I also have a DS, DS lite, DSi XL, 2ds, 3ds and New 3ds XL.
@EvMattYT yeah, sticker star is fun (even if not as good as TTYD or Super, but given it's value today compared to heartgold I'm gutted about that transaction XD
At least switch games will (hopefully) drop in price when the next console arrives. Even though Ultra Moon is my favourite game i also enjoyed Lets go Eevee, Violet, Y and Diamond, which led to me craving legends Arceus. I am also playing black, shield and Omega Ruby at this moment.
If you, or anyone you know is going to or in the UK, I'd strongly advise getting a DS console or DS games from the UK if you can, they're cheaper, still in English, and DS games aren't region locked (3ds are if you don't mod/hack it)
Pokémon game so expensive but show they are still really good game to this day I lucky I got lot of them when come out and how I got in Pokémon like u but my old brother give one of Pokémon gen 4 games I would keep all my Pokemon games as they bring back memories from watch tv shows as kid good like with your channel
Well Platinum’s is supposed be grey at some point they switched it to black after for anti piracy purposes so for heartgold and so on if you put a flashlight to the back you’ll see it’s sides become red while the light’s on but yeah since yours keeps crashing ig it is a fake but yeah Platinum’s cartridge is supposed to be grey
Your money is better spent on authentic hardware then getting the flashcarts for the games themselves. Luckily I bought all the games pre-covid so it was no where near as bad as this. It sucks that the retro market is in such a shit state right now.
If you lot going about buying unsealed games you ain’t spent the kinda money I have buying all of these I’m in the thousands 😂 just starting to sell them after completing it I’m worried they might lose there value sooner or later
@@SuperColtsrock11 I had purchased it like earlier in the year, I have basically been buying games throughout the year, and was like hmm maybe I should make a video on this, but essentially I didn’t check until I started recording
I made a homebrew ds for my sister but for some reason when I did it for my sister it didn’t work, but also I just wanted to collect the game cartridges
Bro spending money like an unsupervised middle schooler, I love it
That’s very much true lol
I can tell you that the only Pokemon cartridges that have those darker black colors are HGSS, BW, and BW2 - the darker color indicates that the games utilizes IR connection! Your Platinum may still be fake, but the color of the cartridge alone is okay :)
Loved the video and can relate to it deeply. I have loved the series since my early childhood with fond memories of playing all the games and collecting the cards. I originally bought a modded 3ds with all the pokemon games on it. It didnt satisfy that feeling of having the authentic originals. That set me on a course to “collect them all”. I started collecting the loose copies of the Gameboy games, then Gameboy color,advance, etc. Once I completed that, I went on to collect the Complete in Box (CIB) DS games. Then once I had finished those, I went back and bought the Gameboy games CIB. I have finally collected them all. I spent a boatload of money but have no regrets. It was a fun collecting them all and running back memory lane of all my old happy memories playing these great games. Enjoy the journey
@@lray4him dude that’s impressive I’m happy to hear that!! Also that’s so cool that’s what I also felt when I got some modded games as well it doesn’t quite scratch that itch
This was really great and extremely relatable I hope your channel takes off
Thank you that means a lot
I love Pokemon ORAS so much. I probably played it just as much as you if not more as a kid. It was that game and Minecraft that literally carried my childhood. It is 100% my favorite Pokemon game of all time ❤
Yeah same here loved that thing
Currently collecting all the DS and 3DS games only need 3 more games. Nice video!
I feel so lucky to have collected them early on. I filled out my whole gen 1 to 5 collection around 2015 and man it saved me a ton of money.
This Is why game freack needs to realse them on modern consoles
I just bought Black and white, black and white 2, and soulsilver… and I will be getting emerald and fire red soon. My collection now consists of leaf green platinum, HG,SS, B&W, B2&W2
Honestly this is one of my favorite channels on RUclips. Dude makes some good content and is clearly just getting started. Props to him!
yawn
Lol
Impressive collection, I understand your pain in price of games 😅I've managed to get all 3ds titles, I'm only missing heart gold and English platinum for ds titles, I got japanese platinum just to multihunt with but that's all I know I can manage 😂
It's criminal how game freak refuses to release it's classic pokemon games as a compilation. They could change $80 bucks as a volume 1 and 2 and people will buy them off the fly day 1.
favorite game is alpha sapphire! great video!
did they charge like 200% gratuity on that white copy or wtf
Man i feel you. I got a fake heart gold. The pain is real, also just a tip you can buy japanese cartridges of pokemon games from X and Y onward and just change the language to english in settings
I just subbed, just remember this in case you ever get millions of subscribers and get really rich. If that ever happens I just want a good vr headset pls and thank you
I could barley afford one myself
But that’d be pretty fun I’ll try to remember to check in later and see if I can get you one lol
@@EvMattYT hahhahahhahaha, then I wish you the best
I still have my DS versions of Pokémon. After 9 gens I went back to the original 3. Thanks to Everdrive and Analogue Pocket I can replay old gen Pokémon
I'm glad some of the old consoles don't sell as high priced as the games so you just need the console and can run its roms
Great video I can relate getting pokemon yellow at 9 and playing them with my cousin was magical
Great video! I lost my childhood pokemon platinum and I want to kms every time I think about it... Idk if I can bring myself to buy another one I applaud your efforts here
Damn I’m so sorry, I get that I’ve had copies of games that have gotten scratched beyond repair and I’m upset at myself now for it
This might be the most relatable video on the internet.
Just subbed hope to see your channel explode!!
Thank you!!
Good luck if you decide to go for the pokemon games on the gamecube. I'm incredibly fortunate to have held on to mine as those things are hella expensive
Ooooh like Pokémon stadium I don’t know why those didn’t cross my mind!!!
I’ve spent the second half of the year building a collection from nothing. I have 7 games left to go. I feel you tho it’s been really expensive. Only games I need now are Pokemon red, sapphire, emerald, pearl, white, black 2, and white 2.
As someone who completed most of their collection before the new pokemon craze began, I'm so happy I started when I did. I can't imagine having to buy all of them today. Only have a few niche titles left, like one of the mini and the perdue games, but yeah I probably wouldn't have started with the current prices.
Ah dude I get that I hope you’re able to get those games
It’s taken me a while to get all the Pokémon games I’ve wanted, usually around 3 months in between purchase because I try to find the best deal possible. On marketplace I was able to talk a guy down to $100 for HeartGold, $75 for platinum, $40 for White and $120 for CIB Black 2
That’s awesome good idea!!
Ahh the years before 2020 when everything Pokémon was still super affordable and reasonable. 😢
Erased is top tier anime 👌
you should for sure return that platinum if you can
Last week my copy of Heartgold came in, completing my physical cartridge collection from gen 1-7 and bro let me say I don’t wanna know how much I spent over the past two years 😅😅😅 but I’m so happy I have them all now
Nice video. So relatable. Wonder if you'll get Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl, Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee? I had managed to get Crystal on the 3DS Virtual Console. But I didn't get a copy of G/S/R/B/Y in time. So I'm still so hurt about that. I hope Nintendo releases them on the Switch or Switch 2. I have unopened versions of Legends Arceus, Sword & X that I never got around to playing. So Those are on my to do list. Pokemon SoulSilver holds a special place in my heart. The Pokemon franchise is so AWESOME!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
Subbed good content
Thank you!!
Been doing the same. Recently bought emerald, leaf green, crystal and platinum. Can always sell them later on too
I still consider myself extremely fortunate that I bought the majority of my Pokémon games about 3 years before the nostalgia wave raised the prices to second mortgage tier.
The cheapest for a Pokémon game I paid was about 15 bucks for a loose fire red cart on eBay. (Greetings from Canada)
Oh sick, Canada’s great been up there a few times. But yeah old copies are hard to get ur hands on for sure
@@EvMattYT That was years ago now. The most expensive I ever got was around 45 on a diamond copy on auction. needed auction sniper but I got it! HG/SS were both around the 35-40 mark as well and grabbing a loose pokewalker was 15-20. the one I'm most proud of was a legit copy of Platinum with a case for around 40 bucks.
Also, the black or grey cart thing only counts for HG/SS, Black/White and B2/W2. shine a bright light under the cart, if it's actually translucent Red, it's a legit IR card. It was tech incorporated into the carts for faster trading and battling as well as Pokewalker functions.
Gen 4 D/P/PT do not have those carts. You're welcome. :)
The biggest issue with the DS Games is how many Reproduction (Counterfeits) there are. That if you want an authentic copy, you'll have to pay a lot. Especially if you want the game to last. I really hope that they re-release these games in the future.
Man the beginning of this video made me feel old lol had a similar story with the original Ruby
Always have and always will be a gen 4 simp, Platinum will always be my favorite game and Infernape always my favorite starter. There's probably some nostalgia in there but I've just always gravitated towards the designs of Sinnoh and the setting
It is a very cool game, I was only able to play one session before I realized my saved weren’t working but it’s a very cool region and the starters are heattt
Make sure you check your game cartridges are real. I had to refund a version of platinum someone sent me which was fake. It cost me 260 AUD and was counterfeit.
Ah damn I’m sorry, that shit sucks but I hope you got ur money back
watching this with 4 3ds systems 2 ds lites and at least 1 copy of each pokemon game on my desk 😿
i have 150+ hours on omega ruby, truly a masterpiece game
3:11 is that world wide noise?!!!!
This is what happens to good people when Nintendo acts like a shitty company and doesn’t sell desirable products that they created. They’re not only leaving money on the table, but letting scalpers have all of it instead. It’s truly everyone’s loss.
good stuff bro.. i recently bought a complete inbox copy of soul silver for £140.. yeah these things aren't cheap...but nostalgia am i right...aha :') also i lived XY as it really resurrected my love for the franchise..and also sylveon lol
Im in the same boat 😂 except im buying complete in box gameboy, gameboy color and advance pokemon games. never grew up on the ds or 3ds like my neices. will eventually pick up a cib new 3ds xl. Pokemon Yellow was my first pokemon game on my older brothes gameboy color 16-17 years ago.
I deadass spent $200 dollars on a limited Shiny Oshawott plush back in 2015. I was fucking 14 💀 all my Christmas money went straight into that
This is why I'm so glad I live in the UK, our prices haven't gone up as much (and I own a decent amount of my original games)
The thing I hate is how I used to sell old games to buy new ones. So ages ago i sold heartgold (cost me £80 to replace recently which was a bargain) to buy paper mario sticker star (worth like £10 now)
All I need for the mainline games are the GBA games, Black 2, and then Let's go Eevee and legends arceus on switch.
Spin offs I have most of too, I think I only need like Pokémon colloseum/XD for my GameCube, battle revolution and Pokepark 1 on Wii, link(trozei), conquest and explorers of sky on DS. I think I have all the 3ds Pokémon games that had physical releases at this point?
I have Red Rescue team, Blue rescue team, Explorers of time, Explorers of Darkness, Gates to infinity, super mystery dungeon.
Ranger, ranger shadows of almia, ranger guardian signs
Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Black, White, White 2, X, Y, Omega ruby, Alpha Sapphire, Sun, Moon, Ultra sun and Ultra moon (I have the steelbooks for S/M, USUM and alpha sapphire), let's go Pikachu, sword and shield, BDSP, and scarlet and violet.
Pokémon dash, detective Pikachu, super Pokémon rumble, Pokepark 2 wonders beyond, pollen tournament DX, and detective Pikachu returns.
I also have a DS, DS lite, DSi XL, 2ds, 3ds and New 3ds XL.
Quite the impressive collection I also played a lot out of sticker star
@EvMattYT yeah, sticker star is fun (even if not as good as TTYD or Super, but given it's value today compared to heartgold I'm gutted about that transaction XD
UR SOO SOO SOO SO OSO OSO OSO OSO OSOSOSOSOSOSOS REAL FOR THAT ENTIRE VIDEOOO
At least switch games will (hopefully) drop in price when the next console arrives. Even though Ultra Moon is my favourite game i also enjoyed Lets go Eevee, Violet, Y and Diamond, which led to me craving legends Arceus.
I am also playing black, shield and Omega Ruby at this moment.
If you, or anyone you know is going to or in the UK, I'd strongly advise getting a DS console or DS games from the UK if you can, they're cheaper, still in English, and DS games aren't region locked (3ds are if you don't mod/hack it)
you got scammed on that pokemon alpha sapphire. its complete on ebay for $30-40
Got my from a retro game store I also added tax as well
Bro is probably going to get big .
Pokémon game so expensive but show they are still really good game to this day I lucky I got lot of them when come out and how I got in Pokémon like u but my old brother give one of Pokémon gen 4 games I would keep all my Pokemon games as they bring back memories from watch tv shows as kid good like with your channel
Man still needs Pokemon Platinum and Black 2. Oh no.
That and fire red and the gba games maybe one day I’ll post another video with the whole thing
Well Platinum’s is supposed be grey at some point they switched it to black after for anti piracy purposes so for heartgold and so on if you put a flashlight to the back you’ll see it’s sides become red while the light’s on but yeah since yours keeps crashing ig it is a fake but yeah Platinum’s cartridge is supposed to be grey
Thank you for the clarification
@@EvMattYT you’re welcome 👍🏽 thought it would be important to let yk
I actually didn’t know I watched a RUclips video comparing real and fake, with like the codes on the front and back and logos being spaced weirdly
Your money is better spent on authentic hardware then getting the flashcarts for the games themselves. Luckily I bought all the games pre-covid so it was no where near as bad as this. It sucks that the retro market is in such a shit state right now.
I have the same problem bro ❤ ahah
Epicsauce
I want to buy them to transfer to modern games
Your first DS was a 3DS XL? Holy cow you’re young lmao.
@@definitelynotgore 20 hahah
My favourite is Gliscor
If you lot going about buying unsealed games you ain’t spent the kinda money I have buying all of these I’m in the thousands 😂 just starting to sell them after completing it I’m worried they might lose there value sooner or later
Wait you paid $180 for a fake and couldn’t return it??
@@SuperColtsrock11 I had purchased it like earlier in the year, I have basically been buying games throughout the year, and was like hmm maybe I should make a video on this, but essentially I didn’t check until I started recording
not enough lopunny
Damn I’m sorry lol
Same brother same
That Xerneas pronunciation lol
Oh my gosh, I didn’t even notice I said it like that
Or how that is spelt haha
Ruby and sapphire
Aside from transferring up Pokémon there is no reason to buy a game from 3ds or older. You can emulate them all super easy on 3ds
I made a homebrew ds for my sister but for some reason when I did it for my sister it didn’t work, but also I just wanted to collect the game cartridges
@ That’s very fair tbh
Why is it always the Evan's that pay do this shi 😭
P.S my name is also Evan 😭 and i do the same shit 😂
Meanwhile I’m playing all those games for free on my 3ds 🤣
stop spending all your money on overpriced games you don’t know are real, you are an adult that can think and make decisions without impulse