If you're interested in buying three Xbox 360s 100 bucks for all three I'll include three new power bricks and three controllers if you're interested let me know if you are
@thatweeb555reshelled or not, it's still plays as an original. Try to find one new inbox nowadays, i do have multiple old and console inbox. A reshell is still valuable
Everyone in the comments is saying completely wrong things. The DS has the internals of a real DS console, but the plastic shell was just replaced with an aftermarket one, just like the Wii you got. Looks like they replaced the digitizer and also maybe the LCD screens. To tell if GBA pokemon games are real, check the back and look through the opaque plastic. On the top left, real copies have four golden rectangles/squares on the pcb. Looking at 2:28 in the video, you have all these dots you can see through the shell, but no golden squares on top left. Also, the stickers on the front of real copies have a stamped two-digit number that is embossed physically into the paper, slightly off to the right and easily visible with a raking light. I've seen some comments saying you can tell its real by checking if the PCB says Nintendo above the gold contacts but a lot of fakes nowadays put that there to fool uninformed kids. FireRed and LeafGreen do not have internal batteries, RSE have internal batteries that are easily seen from the front, just behind the sticker. Most reproduction fake copies also have a weird message when you boot them up. Once you get passed the "PRESS START" menu, you'll get a message saying something along the lines of "the game can now be saved". Real copies never have that message, even in RSE if the battery runs dry (you get a different message). Hopefully you see this and it helps.
At least while re-shelled it seems like the software is the same, making it an actual DS, and it's in a nice state. At least the touch-screen isn't full of scratches from what I can tell. All in all, could've been a worse buy in my opinion.
@@jrob0021 the thing that most likely to bust is the wifi card. The connector is quite loose if you dropped that DS the chances are the wifi card will be disconnected. My friend had a problem powering on his DS many times because of this so i got it fixed für him.
@@cheekgodplayz4917 I watched "beatemups" he bought one from ali and was like yoo this is cool as it is a real ds just yeah reshelled, only thing he said that felt off was when shaking it there was something inside. But I swear my ah "real" nds use to have something moving itself so thats nothing new
7:00 if it is a re shelled Nintendo DS Lite, don't call it a "FAKE" in the name of the video, just call it re shelled, I mean come on.. Fake is not re shelled. That is not the same thing. If it is re shelled then call it re shelled.
@@SPG685 But I don't really care what he names the video, I said what I said because, if you go to the time stamp, he pretty much says the same thing about the company, how they should call it re shelled if it is really shelled, etc
He knows that it’s not the same thing It’s literally in the title to draw in views but if you care the much about it not being actually fake then it just proves he knows what he’s doing
Technically not a "fake DS", the mainboard is from an actual DS, which makes it a legit Nintendo game console, just with a third party new outer shell. They likely did this because the original DS shell is in bad shape, or its Frankenstein from multiple DS.
As someone who fell down a massive rabbit hole on fake Pokemon game cartridges I can say 100% that is a fake. They did good with the metallic sticker though, that is hard to pull off. I don't see the imprinted 3 digit factory number near the "official nintendo" seal. On the back, I see the motherboard is missing tiny 4 copper squares near the top left. Your damning evidence, no matter what the cartridge looks like, is when you boot the game and it says "File will be loaded. The game can be played." Real cartridges never say this.
The Pokemon cartridge is fake. On the front of the cartridge, the "GAME BOY ADVANCE" text at the top will be wider and textured on the authentic cartridge, and narrower and smooth on the counterfeit cartridge. The cartridge in the video has the narrower text. An authentic Nintendo GBA cartridge will have four rectangles on the PCB on the back side in the upper left corner (with the edge connector fingers pointing down) - visible with a transparent cartridge shell. The cartridge in the video lacks those four rectangles.
Fun fact: The serial number on this DS lite CJF100781731 is actually for a 3DS, not a DS lite. Specifically an original Japanese non-XL. The serial numbers are actually encoded to the model of the console they're assigned to, so it's really obvious to me when they don't match.
honestly i think this is just a really good refurb/reshell. the battery is a nonissue, and in fact, is probably a good thing -- these handhelds were released in June of 2006. A battery that old is a hazard. Also, the fact that the seller took the time to put to protect the screens/top from scratches via film is great. all in all, a decent buy. i do think the pokemon cart is fake, but i'd need a better look at it to be 100% sure. im like 95% there tho
You probably overpaid a bit but it's not bad overall. They sell NDS cards with microSD slots in them. That's probably what would have come with the other bundles.
@Davs_ for real! The R4 was such a godly product. I can’t imagine having to pay $40+ on every ds game I had on that thing. The DS library was way to large to buy each individual game haha
@Davs_ ya me neither! I have never bought one ds game in my life like I was literally gifted a ds lite with an r4 in it from my dad and whenever a new game came out or I wanted a new game I would just ask my dad to download it. Now that I’m actually hearing it I probably shouldn’t be bragging about about this LMAO
@@Tristan02539 it's amazing I remember being so excited to bid on something from eBay for the first time. It was like 20 or 12 dollars I'm not sure but I certainly remember it as I did it on the Xbox 360 web browser in the living room with my parents, I think I was 12 or so at the time. I don't even use it much these last few years but I might pick it back up for a bit just to mess around
the download feature isn't actually downloading stuff, it's a sort of connection that happens when you're right next to someone, and if they just so happen to be playing a game, you can click that button and play with em
If you buy the right third party shells from decent companies they’re way better then the original shells. I love the gba sp modding scene these days. Two companies currently make amazing shells, and the screens they have these days are beautiful. I find the ghosting on the original ags 101 screen to be unplayable after using the high quality IPS kits. I’m not as familiar with the ds lite scene currently. But give it some years and the better companies will start producing them as ds lites get older and more people want to repair them.
not the case for nintendo ds, you can't buy shells that are better than oem original. I've to sellers on aliexpress and there is currently only one company in all of china they can source from.
Yeah just dumb that they call these brand new lol. I mean, I guess if the seller is somehow still manufacturing the motherboards then it's brand new... (Not likely but I wouldn't put anything past those wish sellers...)
The SD card for downloading games probably refers to using an R4 card. It's a DS card that allows you to insert a micro SD card that contains games you have downloaded. It is not really legal, which is why you may not have heard of it. But it definitely works.
It is legal ... being a priate isn't tho ... but u could legally play a game by doing that if u own the game and dump the rom ... or if u made the game ... and no downloading games u own isn't legal. (I do it anyway with games I don't own there's no risk enless your distributing them police don't care even if your caught red handed) the reason why u can't download a game u own is because it's still pirated material even if it's free your benefiting someone not named Nintendo... with ad revenue ..
The easy way to determine if the gba cartridge is fake is to check if there are any numbers stamped into the label on the cartridge. Another way to know is if you see a circular chip through a transparent gba cartridge, that's a battery and not a legit chip.
Fake copies are getting harder to distinguish so the only way to know it's legit is that stamp on the label. Everything else can look authentic and it's still fake.
@@justin_wayne_elrod_jrod there's a really easy way of finding out if its legit or not just look at the back of the cartridge real one has 4 gold squares on back of the motherboard fake just has alot of small little golden dots everywhere
I got a DSi XL for free with a carrying case, and like 20 games from my dads coworker. I had been looking for one for awhile, somehow it came up and my dads friend was like, “hey! I will give you one.”
Definitely a re-purposed re-shelled console from Japanese eWaste (top-right corner definitely shows that this console originated from Japan). Nintendo Lite, like Wii you took, are being sold for junk for litterally 100JPY ( One US Dollar ). It is then easy to make profit years after on storage. Paying more than 20$ for this is a complete rip-off for me.
My story time: in 2010 I bought one of these on ebay without realizing it was fake, it came from Hong Kong. I was replacing my ds that had a broken hinge, well the screen on this hk ds broke within a few days because they just put it in the fake box (that was scanned from a real box) in a bubble mailer and shipped it across the world. In 2018 I sent them both to a friend who's repaired a bunch of ds'es to put the hk ds shell on the original ds since it was still working, except the hinge. He told me this: everything inside the hk ds looked counterfeit except for the motherboard. The battery was fake and after these years had actually puffed up and was dangerous. the speakers had given out, but a screw was stripped (I never touched it) and would be a lot more effort to fix because the amplifier/ headphone port still got music so he left it alone, I never played with the sound on anyway so I didn't care. You could tell the font on the buttons was different as well. And the ds came in a weird color, it was black matte with a glossy pink top, I don't think Nintendo ever made that, but to clueless me I thought it was am overseas exclusive which was why I was drawn to it as a replacement in the first place. If you were to crack open one of these side by side with a real one it'd be interesting stuff. Also the stylus it came with didn't say nintendo, it was like one letter off. Hope yall enjoyed my little personal experience with these.
Yeah, definitely fake pokemon cart, I bought a full set of the GBA games for less than one genuine carts, they play okay, and look fun on the retro shelf.
There is some multi-carts that use the ds slot which have an sd card adaptor with built in games, so that's probably what they were referring to when they said there an sd card included, with some built in games.
Yes, it's not a permanent screen protector. But it is a temporary "screen protector" meant to protect the screen before being opened. Which is why I took it off.
@@sgcs I mean it looks pretty crappy. Any real system I've ever bought that had a protector like that sat in such a way that you could take it off, but also so that it looked uniform to the screen. It looks like someone just used some scissors to cut it then stuck it on
I think you jump to conclusions too fast tbh, I feel you were against the device before you started to unwrap it. They would have sent you a dsr2 card adapter with a sd card to put games on. Overall for the price I feel you had a good deal.
@@jrob0021 well it’s a ds lite and not some insane thing like a ps5 or ps4 or something that would cost a high value. Yes it is a re shelled but in this case it plays ds games, plays gba games and it brings a game, yes the Pokémon isn’t original but it is the game and does what the original does and that is to be played, it also includes an r4 with an sd card which should up the value a bit. Over all not a bad deal for what it is unless your sole purpose is collecting but if it’s to have fun and to play ds and gba this is a good deal. Also it brings the stylus I bought a ds lite cobalt blue and it had scratches and no stylus as well as a huge sticker on the back yes it was original but I payed 45 bucks plus shipping and no games included trust me you got a deal not saying there isn’t other deals out there but compared to what I got this is way better.
Technically, it's brand-new. Since they produce it from the ground up, it's a brand-new console. But, I get what you're saying. And I also enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work, Jacob!
@@Alexander_l322 It wasn't used. And it was sealed. As you could see, Jacob had to remove stickers/screen protectors. The console was essentially brand-new. The seller didn't say brand-new from Nintendo Japan, but a brand-new Nintendo DS.
@@Alexander_l322 You don't understand. It's not USED since it's been built entirely from the ground up as a NEW ITEM. There's no such thing as a FAKE BOX since they NEVER SAID they sell a brand new Nintendo DS made by Nintendo themselves. If you fail to understand this, it's not my problem. Law-wise, they are 100% covered.
@@Alexander_l322 well he is right though. I once had a DS system in this exact color but was built by a sub division of Nintendo. That was 12 years ago and of course device warranty. That's what he means law wise. Insurance. So really you just got schooled noob
I bought a Ds from Aliexpress but they specifically said it was a Refurb so i did expect some weird things here and there. The only problem with the console i had until now was the dpad, it's to register diagonals, other than that, it's fine.
It looked like you were trying really hard to make it seem like both the console and game were fake, and they turned out to be legitimate. The title even says the console is fake when its not. Its just reshelled/refurbished
A good indicator for the real GBA games is the numerical imprint on the label - I've never actually seen any fakes with that - but that's not saying they don't exist.
To collectors it's definitely a big difference but to someone just wanting to enjoy the game, it's the same thing lol. And nowadays, I am more likely to buy a reproduction simply bc of how much they are charging for the original releases.
So its fake like what it's not a real game it's a reproduction cart of a real game so it's like a 10 dollar thing on the repo market legit is like 80 to 100.
Great video pal, love the great videos you are posting every day, hope we can see more fake fishy stuff in the future Saludos desde Costa Rica, pura vida!
One thing I learned ages ago is if you look at the pins area on the cartridge of a gba game you can see on the board there is Nintendo written on it. Something fakes don't have.
Unless the seller has figured out a way to manufacture the motherboards (I know thats unlikely, but I wouldn't put anything past these wish sellers). And honestly, the factory that made the DS is probably the same factory making this one lol
The reason that wish cannot have quality customer service is because they're not as big as eBay, and they don't have the ability to discouraged scams and submission. Hundreds of old types of scams are perfectly viable on wish and other platforms. It originally was a great place to sell wholesale goods for less than other places but that just has a low quality variety that originally gave it a cheap feel, for items that did show up. So hopefully more than half of sellers are good but if pretty much all we should do is remove seller's eventually then your boned if you spend your money on the wrong thing.
To tell if it is real just look through the case in the top right corner of the label and see if it has a battery and if it does and your still not sure, open it up and look for a very small rectangular rtc chip in the top left of the pcb on the front side.
That's because it is real, it just has a aftermarket shell on it. There's like 50 designs you can get from like alibaba. Motherboard is legit Nintendo.
Not a fake console just a reshell, also the box it was put in was the same box aftermarket shells come in. That copy of FireRed is definitely a repro though so that I'll give you for "fake"
How bout no since he’s doing it for clickbait…….”I bought a “FAKE” ds” LMAO. The ds isn’t fake it’s just damaged and had a cover replacement it’s a legitimate thing believe it or not that’s why it’s called REPLACEMENT.
Bought same one with same color as the reviewer use, back in 2010 on ebay (price for like $130 so quite expensive, but believed it was the real deal for a month). I had no reference how a real (an official) DSlite would be and also had no idea it existed DS that worked same as an official DS that early. Anyway, a month of use the small rubber thing around the shell started to fell of which was the first indication something was odd, and like 6 month of use the top screen started to flicker, and later stop working due to the screen cable inside was almost teared apart. Much later when I bought a real DSi and compared DSi with "DSlite", the later had a more thin plastic which make it lighter, but also 'squeezy' when using, like squeeze it to death. But yeah, it work the same as the official DS, but it wont last long. So not recommended.
The wii you got from wish was a real wii, the wii was jailbreaked, reason why games wouldnt work on the wii is because the wii is region locked and you need to get the games set for that region
As I worked on the Nintendo DS lites team to make DS lites !!! The red and black DS is legit and real I can tail and the reason you think the Nintendo logo on the back is a little off is because it was one of the first DS lites And your other DS was a newer one that came out later also it has a serial number on the back of the one that was fake which is legit a new housing shells don’t have serial numbers
This dude getting pressed about the screen protectors and the film to protect from fingerprints has me dead 😂 like bro it’s meant to be taken off it’s not that big a deal
I don't understand how this video got so many views. Clearly this guy has no idea what he is talking about and does not know the marketing price of a ds lite at this time clearly this guy does not know electronics from before his time.
My ds lite is still working except for minor issues there's no cover for the GBA slot (cause I bought it second hand for cheap) and I broke the hinge so yeah still working thou the sound kinda cut off cause probably the broken hinge is messing with the sound I dunno anyways if I use a headset/earphone the sound is fine
It's natural for GBA games to stick out of the DS Lite. I don't know why Nintendo did that as they managed to make them go all the way in on the original DS which was the same size
The Nintendo DS Lite was slightly smaller than the 2004 DS as to appeal to a more casual audience as well as trying to make it more pocketable, whereas the '04 DS looked more like a big toy. But with the smaller form came the limitation of not being able to use certain accessories that require the GBA pak slot due to the Lite being smaller. That's why the GBA games stick out on the Lite.
For fake copies (that I know of) 1. If you have a completed copy or know someone who has a copy of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Heart Gold or Soul Silver then you can find out very fast if it’s real since Fire Red has connection functionality with those games through the migrate feature. 2. If you load up the game and it says the game save can be loaded or something similar to then it’s a fake.
For $70 so you could still make profit on a DS, and if there was still new stock lying around I don't think it would be sold for that price but if it's bounced around quite a bit unopened then the price would go down a bit.
Re-shelled or not, it's still pretty good. I wouldn't complain about it, because even if it's not super legit...God I wish I was lucky enough to get this, I miss this system..gotta get it again sometime
Well, you say it's fake, but it's not. Actually what happens is: This guys on wish and aliexpress takes some NDS boards that isn't working anymore or have some kind of problem, then they fix it and put it on those replacement cases that you can find on aliexpress and wish and then sell the console as "professionally refurbished". It's not fake, it's the real hardware, but the case is rly cheap and sometimes the screen too
Got one preowned in amazing condition, and found a legitimate copy of Pokémon emerald on offer up for a total of 50 bucks. I feel like the luckiest man alive for some reason
@@jrob0021 actually it’s the opposite of what you said.😂. It’s “technically” legit it just has a replacement cover on it. Common sense bud. If you were to personally askNintendo if it’s real that’s exactly what they’d tell you. Its a real ds lite yes, is that the original case? No. But the ds is 100% real.
@@jrob0021 there’s a difference between a gameboy cartridge and a rom a rom is 100% real. A “fake” game as you’re saying would be something that doesn’t work at all.
Is this Nintendo DS Lite brand new like the seller says??
Also, the authentic version of this Pokemon game sells for $90+ on eBay lol
Forget brand new I don't think it's a proper ds
If you're interested in buying three Xbox 360s 100 bucks for all three I'll include three new power bricks and three controllers if you're interested let me know if you are
@@JosephWilliams15 100 for 3 XBOX'S
seems legit
You think it's fake
But yes I can do email
The third party shell does not make it fake imo. It's real alright, just been reshelled. Love the fact they threw in the fake Pokémon though
@Jesk0x I think the point Jacob was making was actually the fact it was labelled 'new' on the Internet. Also, yeah that's true
@Jesk0x
That’s for whoever buys it to decide, lol.
@Meriadoc Brandybuck it's a console that plays stuff, it isn't stocks, if it plays, who cares what the price is?
@@clavicol6875 collectors who want the original shell
@thatweeb555reshelled or not, it's still plays as an original. Try to find one new inbox nowadays, i do have multiple old and console inbox. A reshell is still valuable
Everyone in the comments is saying completely wrong things.
The DS has the internals of a real DS console, but the plastic shell was just replaced with an aftermarket one, just like the Wii you got. Looks like they replaced the digitizer and also maybe the LCD screens.
To tell if GBA pokemon games are real, check the back and look through the opaque plastic. On the top left, real copies have four golden rectangles/squares on the pcb. Looking at 2:28 in the video, you have all these dots you can see through the shell, but no golden squares on top left. Also, the stickers on the front of real copies have a stamped two-digit number that is embossed physically into the paper, slightly off to the right and easily visible with a raking light.
I've seen some comments saying you can tell its real by checking if the PCB says Nintendo above the gold contacts but a lot of fakes nowadays put that there to fool uninformed kids. FireRed and LeafGreen do not have internal batteries, RSE have internal batteries that are easily seen from the front, just behind the sticker.
Most reproduction fake copies also have a weird message when you boot them up. Once you get passed the "PRESS START" menu, you'll get a message saying something along the lines of "the game can now be saved". Real copies never have that message, even in RSE if the battery runs dry (you get a different message). Hopefully you see this and it helps.
Or you could look for the imprinted number on the front.
Lots of good info! Thanks for this.
Or, you can look directly inside the cartridge, it should say 200# inside it. If not, it's fake
(The # is whatever year the game was made in)
Oh snap that means my Leaf Green is legit that’s nice
At least while re-shelled it seems like the software is the same, making it an actual DS, and it's in a nice state. At least the touch-screen isn't full of scratches from what I can tell. All in all, could've been a worse buy in my opinion.
Agreed, i had one of these and the inside has "Nintendo" logo on the board. Gave it to my friends now. The battery is also fake
@@bioskahabinivous9906 battery being fake might be the most concerning part lol. Gonna bust while playinf
@@jrob0021 I replaced it with the legit one and get a little extra play time (like 30 minutes)
@@jrob0021 the thing that most likely to bust is the wifi card. The connector is quite loose if you dropped that DS the chances are the wifi card will be disconnected. My friend had a problem powering on his DS many times because of this so i got it fixed für him.
@@jrob0021 Believe me, you DONT want a battery with 10 years of use behind. You are better off with a cheap new one.
The Console: Reshelled
This guy: Yep it's absolutely fake, absolutely
“It feels kinda janky”
@@cheekgodplayz4917 I watched "beatemups" he bought one from ali and was like yoo this is cool as it is a real ds just yeah reshelled, only thing he said that felt off was when shaking it there was something inside. But I swear my ah "real" nds use to have something moving itself so thats nothing new
7:00 if it is a re shelled Nintendo DS Lite, don't call it a "FAKE" in the name of the video, just call it re shelled, I mean come on.. Fake is not re shelled. That is not the same thing. If it is re shelled then call it re shelled.
Technically, I think it’s just for more views. I think more people would click on “I bought a Fake DS” than “I bought a Reshelled DS”.
@@SPG685 But I don't really care what he names the video, I said what I said because, if you go to the time stamp, he pretty much says the same thing about the company, how they should call it re shelled if it is really shelled, etc
good one haha! 👍
He knows that it’s not the same thing
It’s literally in the title to draw in views but if you care the much about it not being actually fake then it just proves he knows what he’s doing
God comentary
“The B button, nothing is ok”
Technically not a "fake DS", the mainboard is from an actual DS, which makes it a legit Nintendo game console, just with a third party new outer shell.
They likely did this because the original DS shell is in bad shape, or its Frankenstein from multiple DS.
Yeah, you could pretty much say its just modded
Probably because of a broken hindge.
As someone who fell down a massive rabbit hole on fake Pokemon game cartridges I can say 100% that is a fake. They did good with the metallic sticker though, that is hard to pull off. I don't see the imprinted 3 digit factory number near the "official nintendo" seal. On the back, I see the motherboard is missing tiny 4 copper squares near the top left.
Your damning evidence, no matter what the cartridge looks like, is when you boot the game and it says "File will be loaded. The game can be played." Real cartridges never say this.
This guy is literally just finding ways to say the ds is fake for a video
It’s FAKE DID YOU READ THE TITLE?
@@antowoines it’s not fake it’s reshelled, the motherboard is still a ds
@@InsaneokYT bro I have an iPhone 7.
@@InsaneokYT I HAD AN DS WHEN I WAS 6
@@InsaneokYT ITS FAKE
Technically it is a real DS lite just a new shell
The Pokemon cartridge is fake. On the front of the cartridge, the "GAME BOY ADVANCE" text at the top will be wider and textured on the authentic cartridge, and narrower and smooth on the counterfeit cartridge. The cartridge in the video has the narrower text. An authentic Nintendo GBA cartridge will have four rectangles on the PCB on the back side in the upper left corner (with the edge connector fingers pointing down) - visible with a transparent cartridge shell. The cartridge in the video lacks those four rectangles.
*Also the label is missing the foil texture like the original i have a fake Pokémon emerald that has the same thing where its no foil just pure shine*
BORING BE QUIET NERDD
NOO THE LETTER ON THE CARTRIDGE IS NOT RIGHT I CAN'T PLAY THIS HOW COULD THEY
@Turnup *The save chips also are terrible so they either fail to load saves or just flat out forget the saves*
@Turnup *Honestly i don’t feel like fighting with you over this.*
Fun fact: The serial number on this DS lite CJF100781731 is actually for a 3DS, not a DS lite. Specifically an original Japanese non-XL.
The serial numbers are actually encoded to the model of the console they're assigned to, so it's really obvious to me when they don't match.
I don't know if anyone noticed but the mic cut out isn't even a clean rectangle lmao.
honestly i think this is just a really good refurb/reshell. the battery is a nonissue, and in fact, is probably a good thing -- these handhelds were released in June of 2006. A battery that old is a hazard. Also, the fact that the seller took the time to put to protect the screens/top from scratches via film is great.
all in all, a decent buy.
i do think the pokemon cart is fake, but i'd need a better look at it to be 100% sure. im like 95% there tho
You probably overpaid a bit but it's not bad overall. They sell NDS cards with microSD slots in them. That's probably what would have come with the other bundles.
@ I do, it's called the way god intended to be
flash cards?
@Davs_ for real! The R4 was such a godly product. I can’t imagine having to pay $40+ on every ds game I had on that thing. The DS library was way to large to buy each individual game haha
@Davs_ ya me neither! I have never bought one ds game in my life like I was literally gifted a ds lite with an r4 in it from my dad and whenever a new game came out or I wanted a new game I would just ask my dad to download it. Now that I’m actually hearing it I probably shouldn’t be bragging about about this LMAO
@@Tristan02539 it's amazing I remember being so excited to bid on something from eBay for the first time. It was like 20 or 12 dollars I'm not sure but I certainly remember it as I did it on the Xbox 360 web browser in the living room with my parents, I think I was 12 or so at the time. I don't even use it much these last few years but I might pick it back up for a bit just to mess around
the download feature isn't actually downloading stuff, it's a sort of connection that happens when you're right next to someone, and if they just so happen to be playing a game, you can click that button and play with em
Still love that feature
You really are just a surface of a human being
@@okayxdumberx thanks, also I was talking to the guy who posted this video.
It also seems like the top screen is a bit thicker on the fake DS lite.
Definitely
Ye
@@jrob0021 Bro I didn't think you'd actually respond! Cool! :D
Fun fact, if you look above the gold pins on the gba card it will say Nintendo above those pins if it is authentic.
Some fakes try to fake this too tho.
Get a screw driver and open it up it won’t damage anything if you did
This was my first ever DS colour!!! Man the days playing Pokémon for hours 🥺
Which Pokémon game did you play? Just wondering.
@@Hi-ix5bb diamond!! Still my favourite to this day!! Never cried happy tears over a game like I did when I beat Cynthia 🤣 ohh memories 🥺
@@jb0781 you caught me offguard while I was watching cynthia memes.
Mine is Cobalt Blue (official name for metallic blue/black), and as far as I know, the official name for metallic red/black is Crimson Red.
@@aetheralmeowstic2392 still have my cobalt blue. Played SoulSilver for countless hours on it.
If you buy the right third party shells from decent companies they’re way better then the original shells. I love the gba sp modding scene these days. Two companies currently make amazing shells, and the screens they have these days are beautiful. I find the ghosting on the original ags 101 screen to be unplayable after using the high quality IPS kits. I’m not as familiar with the ds lite scene currently. But give it some years and the better companies will start producing them as ds lites get older and more people want to repair them.
not the case for nintendo ds, you can't buy shells that are better than oem original. I've to sellers on aliexpress and there is currently only one company in all of china they can source from.
ExtremeRate ds lite shells look great
You can tell if a Nintendo ads game is fake bc it does not have the Big rectangle on the top right corner
Title: “Fake DS lite”
Actual video: “this was reshelled”
Dawg you could’ve at least put fake in quotations like come on
is FAKE is capitols not good enough?
Relax bruh
@@davidmays7052 bro it's not fake its RE SHELLED
@@ray-may Wow! No sh*t! he was joking.
@@bigroddempsey4082 No he wasn’t lmao
As far as I know those chinese DS are refurb (reshelled) they sell them on Ali Express (properly advertised)
Yeah just dumb that they call these brand new lol. I mean, I guess if the seller is somehow still manufacturing the motherboards then it's brand new... (Not likely but I wouldn't put anything past those wish sellers...)
Yeah they also do this to psp's with the box included but it comes with a bunch of pirated psp games in the memory stick
The SD card for downloading games probably refers to using an R4 card. It's a DS card that allows you to insert a micro SD card that contains games you have downloaded. It is not really legal, which is why you may not have heard of it. But it definitely works.
It is legal ... being a priate isn't tho ... but u could legally play a game by doing that if u own the game and dump the rom ... or if u made the game ... and no downloading games u own isn't legal. (I do it anyway with games I don't own there's no risk enless your distributing them police don't care even if your caught red handed) the reason why u can't download a game u own is because it's still pirated material even if it's free your benefiting someone not named Nintendo... with ad revenue ..
@lilwoodiewood3457 it isnt illegal everywhere 🤣
I know someone who payed $200 for a red ds lite on Amazon with 2 fake pokemon games
The easy way to determine if the gba cartridge is fake is to check if there are any numbers stamped into the label on the cartridge. Another way to know is if you see a circular chip through a transparent gba cartridge, that's a battery and not a legit chip.
Fake copies are getting harder to distinguish so the only way to know it's legit is that stamp on the label. Everything else can look authentic and it's still fake.
Well if that gba game does have the chip in the corner then you know it's a fake
@@justin_wayne_elrod_jrod there's a really easy way of finding out if its legit or not just look at the back of the cartridge real one has 4 gold squares on back of the motherboard fake just has alot of small little golden dots everywhere
Well, that's original DS Lite "guts" in aftermarket shell. This housing, however, looks even cheaper than one you can find on AliExpress.
Yeah, the housing was bad. The top was bulging up some
I got a DSi XL for free with a carrying case, and like 20 games from my dads coworker. I had been looking for one for awhile, somehow it came up and my dads friend was like, “hey! I will give you one.”
Definitely a re-purposed re-shelled console from Japanese eWaste (top-right corner definitely shows that this console originated from Japan). Nintendo Lite, like Wii you took, are being sold for junk for litterally 100JPY ( One US Dollar ). It is then easy to make profit years after on storage.
Paying more than 20$ for this is a complete rip-off for me.
My story time: in 2010 I bought one of these on ebay without realizing it was fake, it came from Hong Kong. I was replacing my ds that had a broken hinge, well the screen on this hk ds broke within a few days because they just put it in the fake box (that was scanned from a real box) in a bubble mailer and shipped it across the world. In 2018 I sent them both to a friend who's repaired a bunch of ds'es to put the hk ds shell on the original ds since it was still working, except the hinge. He told me this: everything inside the hk ds looked counterfeit except for the motherboard. The battery was fake and after these years had actually puffed up and was dangerous. the speakers had given out, but a screw was stripped (I never touched it) and would be a lot more effort to fix because the amplifier/ headphone port still got music so he left it alone, I never played with the sound on anyway so I didn't care. You could tell the font on the buttons was different as well. And the ds came in a weird color, it was black matte with a glossy pink top, I don't think Nintendo ever made that, but to clueless me I thought it was am overseas exclusive which was why I was drawn to it as a replacement in the first place. If you were to crack open one of these side by side with a real one it'd be interesting stuff. Also the stylus it came with didn't say nintendo, it was like one letter off. Hope yall enjoyed my little personal experience with these.
Yeah, definitely fake pokemon cart, I bought a full set of the GBA games for less than one genuine carts, they play okay, and look fun on the retro shelf.
This one is a pretty good replica, it would hold up to casual scrutiny unless you knew what to look for. Most fakes don’t look real at all.
fake ones are usually good tbh
There is some multi-carts that use the ds slot which have an sd card adaptor with built in games, so that's probably what they were referring to when they said there an sd card included, with some built in games.
Ah ok, makes sense
Yep its an r4 card basically its a D's cartridge that has an SD card slot
Not built in. R4 cards are full of games you compile yourself into the card
4:10 its not a screen protector lol, its just some plastic you are meant to take off.
Yes, it's not a permanent screen protector. But it is a temporary "screen protector" meant to protect the screen before being opened. Which is why I took it off.
@@jrob0021 ye but you shouldnt complain that its not perfect with the screen, it would be harder to take it off then.
@@sgcs I mean it looks pretty crappy. Any real system I've ever bought that had a protector like that sat in such a way that you could take it off, but also so that it looked uniform to the screen. It looks like someone just used some scissors to cut it then stuck it on
I think you jump to conclusions too fast tbh, I feel you were against the device before you started to unwrap it.
They would have sent you a dsr2 card adapter with a sd card to put games on.
Overall for the price I feel you had a good deal.
I just assume anything from Wish is going to be bad
@@jrob0021 facts
@@jrob0021 well it’s a ds lite and not some insane thing like a ps5 or ps4 or something that would cost a high value.
Yes it is a re shelled but in this case it plays ds games, plays gba games and it brings a game, yes the Pokémon isn’t original but it is the game and does what the original does and that is to be played, it also includes an r4 with an sd card which should up the value a bit.
Over all not a bad deal for what it is unless your sole purpose is collecting but if it’s to have fun and to play ds and gba this is a good deal.
Also it brings the stylus I bought a ds lite cobalt blue and it had scratches and no stylus as well as a huge sticker on the back yes it was original but I payed 45 bucks plus shipping and no games included trust me you got a deal not saying there isn’t other deals out there but compared to what I got this is way better.
Funny is that, that the DS Lite I have right now and it work perfectly on most of my DS games (included R4) and I still like it so far.
Tip: Never Buy Consoles From stores that have consoles like this DS
Lol
Facts. this ds came out in i think 2006
Eh, if i want it im gonna get it
Just fast forward to the end. Then go back to bypass ads. It's NOT a fake DS lite. Has a new shell kit. NEXT.
Technically, it's brand-new. Since they produce it from the ground up, it's a brand-new console. But, I get what you're saying. And I also enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work, Jacob!
I mean, I guess it depends on what you define as brand new
@@Alexander_l322 It wasn't used. And it was sealed. As you could see, Jacob had to remove stickers/screen protectors. The console was essentially brand-new. The seller didn't say brand-new from Nintendo Japan, but a brand-new Nintendo DS.
@@Alexander_l322 You don't understand. It's not USED since it's been built entirely from the ground up as a NEW ITEM. There's no such thing as a FAKE BOX since they NEVER SAID they sell a brand new Nintendo DS made by Nintendo themselves. If you fail to understand this, it's not my problem.
Law-wise, they are 100% covered.
@@Alexander_l322 well he is right though. I once had a DS system in this exact color but was built by a sub division of Nintendo. That was 12 years ago and of course device warranty. That's what he means law wise. Insurance. So really you just got schooled noob
@@hellofolks6848 its called "refurbished" if you build something from its parts
I bought a Ds from Aliexpress but they specifically said it was a Refurb so i did expect some weird things here and there. The only problem with the console i had until now was the dpad, it's to register diagonals, other than that, it's fine.
getting mine on thursday, hopefully it goes well :)
how was it?
@@itzsmurfyt9421
It looked like you were trying really hard to make it seem like both the console and game were fake, and they turned out to be legitimate. The title even says the console is fake when its not. Its just reshelled/refurbished
6:10 yeah thats normal. In the DS lite gba cartridges stick out, but not in the normal DS
A good indicator for the real GBA games is the numerical imprint on the label - I've never actually seen any fakes with that - but that's not saying they don't exist.
the pokemon was real
the cart was definitely a repro, but the rom was the same
To collectors it's definitely a big difference but to someone just wanting to enjoy the game, it's the same thing lol. And nowadays, I am more likely to buy a reproduction simply bc of how much they are charging for the original releases.
If you don't know what you're talking about, you shouldn't say anything.
So its fake like what it's not a real game it's a reproduction cart of a real game so it's like a 10 dollar thing on the repo market legit is like 80 to 100.
Tip: never buy a console that shows nes on the cover
Wat
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hwhat?
Why? Please explain
You got a hell of a deal. Its refurbed and a free gem of a game
This is great they literally just took a Nintendo DS lite And put all brand new generic and fake parts on it
They refurbished it because it used to be broken , they did a good job
Just like how stangeparts built his s8 and other gadgets by visiting Chinese markets.
watch in the plug of the fire red game and watch if it says nintendo 2002
Great video pal, love the great videos you are posting every day, hope we can see more fake fishy stuff in the future
Saludos desde Costa Rica, pura vida!
Thanks! I enjoy buying fishy stuff haha
@@jrob0021 it’s actually real it’s just re shelled
One thing I learned ages ago is if you look at the pins area on the cartridge of a gba game you can see on the board there is Nintendo written on it. Something fakes don't have.
It's a reshelled DSL. Tech is original, housing is not.
Unless the seller has figured out a way to manufacture the motherboards (I know thats unlikely, but I wouldn't put anything past these wish sellers). And honestly, the factory that made the DS is probably the same factory making this one lol
The fire red cartridge was real
The ds and the dsi have always been my favorite Nintendo console
It's clearly just a refurbished DS. Nothing fake about it. The game it came with probably is fake, tho.
The reason that wish cannot have quality customer service is because they're not as big as eBay, and they don't have the ability to discouraged scams and submission. Hundreds of old types of scams are perfectly viable on wish and other platforms.
It originally was a great place to sell wholesale goods for less than other places but that just has a low quality variety that originally gave it a cheap feel, for items that did show up. So hopefully more than half of sellers are good but if pretty much all we should do is remove seller's eventually then your boned if you spend your money on the wrong thing.
you can tell the fake font on the "o" from Nintendo at the back of the DS, that's one good way to tell fake repros from Nintendo, hope it helps.
To tell if it is real just look through the case in the top right corner of the label and see if it has a battery and if it does and your still not sure, open it up and look for a very small rectangular rtc chip in the top left of the pcb on the front side.
$60 for a refurbished Nintendo DS with power adapter is actually pretty awesome. I sell them for $80 without a power adapter, $90 with one included.
That Nintendo ds is the one I have at home in Italy, it's literally the same exact thing and I always thought it was real
That's because it is real, it just has a aftermarket shell on it. There's like 50 designs you can get from like alibaba. Motherboard is legit Nintendo.
Its real
This guy is trying to find every minor issue to say so he can say it’s fake
The sd card slot thing is most likely referring to an R4 which uses SD cards to store .nds files to then play on the DS properly
Not a fake console just a reshell, also the box it was put in was the same box aftermarket shells come in. That copy of FireRed is definitely a repro though so that I'll give you for "fake"
Keep doing vids like this
How bout no since he’s doing it for clickbait…….”I bought a “FAKE” ds” LMAO. The ds isn’t fake it’s just damaged and had a cover replacement it’s a legitimate thing believe it or not that’s why it’s called REPLACEMENT.
Did you watch the video? I talked multiple times about it being a reshelled DS
@@jrob0021 then change your title……😂😂😂😂
@@jrob0021 I watch all of your videos
You should take these apart and see if they used real hardware or something different
You should have tried downloadplay and pictochat rooms to see if it connect with real DS
Cool video man keep up the good work man.
Bought same one with same color as the reviewer use, back in 2010 on ebay (price for like $130 so quite expensive, but believed it was the real deal for a month). I had no reference how a real (an official) DSlite would be and also had no idea it existed DS that worked same as an official DS that early. Anyway, a month of use the small rubber thing around the shell started to fell of which was the first indication something was odd, and like 6 month of use the top screen started to flicker, and later stop working due to the screen cable inside was almost teared apart. Much later when I bought a real DSi and compared DSi with "DSlite", the later had a more thin plastic which make it lighter, but also 'squeezy' when using, like squeeze it to death. But yeah, it work the same as the official DS, but it wont last long. So not recommended.
the dsi is not the dslite
sounds like a refurbished product to me, that's most likely the reason why it didn't last as long as a product fresh from the factory would have.
The wii you got from wish was a real wii, the wii was jailbreaked, reason why games wouldnt work on the wii is because the wii is region locked and you need to get the games set for that region
I have my DS lite here with me. EVERY INCH OF THIS THING IS THE SAME!!!!
Imagine not having a clue about consoles yet have a RUclips channel based on it
As I worked on the Nintendo DS lites team to make DS lites !!!
The red and black DS is legit and real I can tail and the reason you think the Nintendo logo on the back is a little off is because it was one of the first DS lites And your other DS was a newer one that came out later also it has a serial number on the back of the one that was fake which is legit a new housing shells don’t have serial numbers
This dude getting pressed about the screen protectors and the film to protect from fingerprints has me dead 😂 like bro it’s meant to be taken off it’s not that big a deal
The SD card on some Nintendo handled games are inside the console, under the bottom backshell of the console, so in any case now you know!
Just for the New 3DS upwards
I don't understand how this video got so many views. Clearly this guy has no idea what he is talking about and does not know the marketing price of a ds lite at this time clearly this guy does not know electronics from before his time.
It does look bad, but I can respect these sort of refurb has the protectors on it for shipping is rather nice in general.
It really doesn't look bad.
I paid for worse shells..
The way you determine a fake pokemon gameboy game is if it has the RTC battery in it, if it doesn't have one it's fake.
He gives me duesh chills
that looks like they just shipped it with clear packing tape instead of protective film
*Wish my DS Lite still worked…i turned it into a GBA and i use my 3DS for DS games*
My ds lite is still working except for minor issues there's no cover for the GBA slot (cause I bought it second hand for cheap) and I broke the hinge so yeah still working thou the sound kinda cut off cause probably the broken hinge is messing with the sound I dunno anyways if I use a headset/earphone the sound is fine
I Can confirm the game and the console are real, the DS Lite is reshelled
Nah that firered isn’t real. A legit copy doesn’t have all the dots on the back of the PCB.
Lol you don't know what you're talking about... sit down
It's natural for GBA games to stick out of the DS Lite. I don't know why Nintendo did that as they managed to make them go all the way in on the original DS which was the same size
The Nintendo DS Lite was slightly smaller than the 2004 DS as to appeal to a more casual audience as well as trying to make it more pocketable, whereas the '04 DS looked more like a big toy. But with the smaller form came the limitation of not being able to use certain accessories that require the GBA pak slot due to the Lite being smaller. That's why the GBA games stick out on the Lite.
For fake copies (that I know of)
1. If you have a completed copy or know someone who has a copy of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Heart Gold or Soul Silver then you can find out very fast if it’s real since Fire Red has connection functionality with those games through the migrate feature.
2. If you load up the game and it says the game save can be loaded or something similar to then it’s a fake.
This is a great reshell for the price, if you link the wish post you bought it from I'll subscribe
It's not allowed to link wish stuff on RUclips, back from when wish videos were extremely popular and wish started sponsoring everyone.
Dont know about the switch lite, but the Pokemon game is definitely a fake one, that dot on cartridge back so messy. I can show mine (the real one)
seems kinda good to me actually man gg
Bro, dont complain, just enjoy, makes videos 10 times more fun
When I saw the thumbnail and title I thought it was a dummy DS, like it looked like a DS but completely unusable, it was never sold in stores.
It's definitely just a refurbished ds lite.
For $70 so you could still make profit on a DS, and if there was still new stock lying around I don't think it would be sold for that price but if it's bounced around quite a bit unopened then the price would go down a bit.
Not brand new but idk if you can say it's fake, to me a fake would be an entirely fake device passing off as a DS
Re-shelled or not, it's still pretty good. I wouldn't complain about it, because even if it's not super legit...God I wish I was lucky enough to get this, I miss this system..gotta get it again sometime
That fake DS looks like my old sister DS li- ooooohh wait a minute?!?!????!!!!
Open the game card, if the board has a nintendo logo it, it will be real
I can See the Nintendo logo inside that DS so its not fake. The fake one are mostly a DS + chinese menu + Emulators.
Well, you say it's fake, but it's not.
Actually what happens is:
This guys on wish and aliexpress takes some NDS boards that isn't working anymore or have some kind of problem, then they fix it and put it on those replacement cases that you can find on aliexpress and wish and then sell the console as "professionally refurbished".
It's not fake, it's the real hardware, but the case is rly cheap and sometimes the screen too
Sounds like the dude started the video already determined to hate the device. The console works fine, do more research before buying.
Got one preowned in amazing condition, and found a legitimate copy of Pokémon emerald on offer up for a total of 50 bucks. I feel like the luckiest man alive for some reason
3:18 Its not a fake Ds lite. its actually a real DS.
It's a reshell. This guy did very little research and never owned a DS and it shows.
Did you not hear the multiple times in the video when I said it's probably a reshell?
@@jrob0021 I heared that and i know that is still real
@@jrob0021 Dont forget to update firmware
@@jrob0021 I have one for 60€with r4 anyone interested
Looks like a refurbished ds lite with the cheapest top/bottom shell
Idk I think that fire red is legit. That is how the game starts.
Not legit, you can tell it's off. They literally rip the roms so they'll play just like the real thing.
It plays the real thing but it's technically not legit. If it was legit, this package would've cost a whole lot more
@@jrob0021 actually it’s the opposite of what you said.😂. It’s “technically” legit it just has a replacement cover on it. Common sense bud. If you were to personally askNintendo if it’s real that’s exactly what they’d tell you. Its a real ds lite yes, is that the original case? No. But the ds is 100% real.
@@psychopat4402 The game is 100% not legit in anyway. There are fake pokemon games all over the internet. Both the internals and externals are not OEM
@@jrob0021 there’s a difference between a gameboy cartridge and a rom a rom is 100% real. A “fake” game as you’re saying would be something that doesn’t work at all.
In 2023, we dont know the difference of reshelled and fake. This is reshelled, some vendors refurbished old consoles and it is legal.