I personally don't have anything against reproductions especially when it allowes people to have physical copies for otherwise expensive old games that are hard to get as original but sellers should be upfront when they sell a repro
@@agentred8732 if i made a game decade(s) ago that isn't even sold officially for that platform anymore, no I wouldn't have a problem, in fact I'd probably be flattered people like it enough to make stuff like this all those years later
@@agentred8732 If I was still making/selling the game, yes, but as far as I know Nintendo is no longer manufacturing cartridges for these systems, so they need to fuck off!
If Nintendo still made and sold all their old games it would both be expensive for them, probably not make all that much money, and eat into the sales of their current-gen systems and Nintendo Switch Online. The one area I do think they're really missing a big market is with a re-release of the Wii. The generation that grew up with Wii are now adults, motion control has been out of favor for over 10 years now. Re-releasing the Wii with upscaled graphics and modern ports (HDMI!) for today's kids would make a lot of sense, in my opinion.
@@SongOfStorms411 No offence but half the people wanting NES games and SNES arent the same crowd buying 80% of the junk games coming out on switch. Ive thought about buying one a few times for 1-3 exclusives
Wow. Got some great engineering going on on those repro carts. Those guys are serious. Kudos to them. Making retro games available to all. What a business, man.
The Sonic game is a sprite-swap of Speedy Gonzales. Definitely doesn't feel like a Sonic game. I rented it once or twice as a kid. I remember enjoying it back then, but not so much when I tried it again on an emulator years later.
It's indeed a bizarre game, and the Sonic hack was one of the first ROM Hacks I downloaded back in the late 90's to play on ZSNES, and SNES9X emulators.
Fun fact: This SNES Sonic rom hack was done by a relatively well known Peruvian group called TEG Peru who are also the folks behind the infamous Ronaldinho Soccer 64 rom hack.
As an Amazon Employee, seeing these, feeling the packaging, you can just tell they aren't authentic. I've held a few authentic tho, they're packaged carefully, and put into grade cases most of the time.
That SNES cart is actually really well-made judging from the chipset and game library... no random sprite swaps filling up slots. Still better to get a flashcart so you have control over said library among a bunch of deluxe features, but fun to see that bootleggers have been stepping up their standards as of recently.
Honestly I think these are really cool because even though they're fake they're still physical copies of the game for pretty cheap and honestly if they had been upfront it'd be a great deal
Its super awesome that they make those games because re sellers and collectors ask way too high price for people that want just play games on real console.
@@jp4361 and that's why they're so hated by the community, these repro carts get in the way of collectors and scalpers since somebody who just wants to play the game doesn't care if it's legitimate, they care if it works. They aren't willing to pay the extortionate amount of money that is being asked for an actual legitimate copy versus one that is a repro and works just as good if not better (if an original has SRAM save but the repro has FRAM save the repro will have better longevity compared to the original).
As a normal person, who just like to play these games. I really don't care if they're real or not. I just want to play the game. If it works 100% fine, im really ok with it. And it cost 1/10 of the price.
Those are good points my only issue is when they go out of their way to make it as hard to tell if it's real or fake as possible. That's a line I think that should never be crossed if it's super obviously a clear yellow obvious bootleg cart then I'm all for it purple or just weird colors that's great. But when it's a gray cart doing everything it can to look legit and they don't say anything about it not being legit that's where I draw the line. The world is not need any more repos floating around being easily passed off is legit stuff or at least initially.
While I agree with this, the risk you have is if the battery is shitty on a bad repo you can lose all your progress. It's why I only buy repos from places that specifically advertise the fact it's a repo and not from these shady amazon sellers trying to pretend their repo is real.
@@BassForever That's a very good point. It's best to get a repo that says it's a repo because then you're getting something that hopefully is built halfway decent. The deceptive ones are the problem. People should know by now you can't get real ones for the prices they're offering these fakes at.
@@BassForever It seems to me that that the N64 one uses flash. Your save will be safe I think. The product seems to be of good quality, the company that produces them went for a modular design. They must provide service to multiple clients that program whatever they want to sell it on Amazon. Probably using open-source emulators in this case.
John, another easy tell on the counterfeit Pokémon GBA carts, is the lack of the 4 Gold Squares on the back of the cartridge. 4 gold squares on top left of the back = genuine. Flip the cart over, or view images of the back, and you’ll see what I mean.
I love those hidden anti-piracy measures. 2 of my faves back in the day were by Datasoft for the C64 versions of the RPGs Alternate Reality the City and the Dungeon respectively. In the City if you were using a detected copy, your character's alignment would start plummeting down right from the start, soon stores would throw you out if you entered them, taverns started requiring 'membership dues' before they let you in which were far more then you could afford at that point (and then throw you out even if you payed them LOL) and city guards would attack you on sight etc. Basically no chance at all to live. The Dungeon was a little more subtle, it let you get further before taking it all away as suddenly a special monster the "FBI agent" would appear regularly calling you a thief. Even if you were strong enough to keep killing the spawns every few feet, The Devourer (originally created to prevent players from accidentally crashing the game with too many items) would spawn and start sucking up your gear, and eventually you are helpless against the FBI agents, and die. Sorry for the wall of text, but I love both those games and the mention of anti-piracy in Earthbound just brought this all back. Excellent video though, thank you for sharing it with us!
Alladin for the SNES would have the very first boss not stop his "retaliation attack" of swinging his sword for 3-5 seconds thereby NEVER giving you another opening to attack him by jumping on his head. Practically soft locked the game and you could never progress when the game wasn't a legit copy.
As long as people are selling the copies as reproductions I think this is a great way to have a physical copy of an otherwise very rare and very expensive game
Honestly, I’d be happy to get my hands on repros if it means I can play games that I used to love. As for piracy concerns, what is the issue with buying copies of games on platforms no longer manufactured? It’s not like they get paid even if you bought used
I agree but Devs still own the name and the games which means they own the ip and its license so that's why it's still illegal regardless if they are outdated games but I still agree with you but that's just not how it works. What if u had a product that you owned and even though it's old people took your old products which made you millions in the past and decide to sell them and make money, potential money that you could be making how would you fele? Get my drift?
@@redcrimson1028 I get what you are saying. I can’t speak for a lot of companies as most have turned greedy, but it really wouldn’t make too much sense to worry about an abandoned product/project being replicated. I personally like to think business wise so here is my logic on it regarding classic games, which will be my focus. A lot of repros out there are games and consoles that were popular on a mass market scale at one time but is now just popular amongst collectors and nostalgia fans, being a much smaller market. If I once produced a game that once produced millions and flew off the shelves, but now is abandoned due to time and obsolescence, then I truly feel like it should be something that I no longer worry about. The system would be generations behind, and the game would only make money occasionally rather than millions from its prime. The many resources needed to produce it, from system boards, storage space for files, down to the case and screws would no longer be readily available or cost more to get my hands on. There would also be marketing involved to keep it known and relevant to newer generations of gamers. At that point, I would be allocating resources to and working on a new project for a new generation of games where I would hopefully have a great financial takeoff upon release and keeping up with the times. Current or more recent products, yeah I would be upset. Older, outdated products, I would personally just be happy people are enjoying my older work that I no longer desire to maintain. That is just me, and probably other smaller companies that are actually in it for the passion rather than money. My point is, classic games no longer supported by the mass market or the companies themselves should be allowed to be in the hands of collectors to where they can still be enjoyed rather than just be lost because it becomes a financial burden to the company.
@@DanielStalnakerII I respect your opinion, but as far as classic games not being supported by the masses that's a big lie🤣🤣 first of all those classic games which paved the way for these new games could never be niche! Ever. Thats just like saying Nintendo is irrelevant today and the industry would be where they are now if Nintendo never existed 🤣 these new games still build off the old games blueprint are you series lmao? Nostalgia may play a small part, a very small part but it was more so the creativity and the passion devs had for games at the time. Speaking of classics, the beginning of the xboxone and ps4 era were all remasters of classic games that was on the 360. Speaking of classics, we still have games like final fantasy, street fighter, mortal kombat, you got copycat games like those so called Metroidvania from the Legendary game Castlevania which inspired thr whole Metroidvania craze, the new Metroid game which Won Game of the Year over games like Ratchet and Clank and all these new school Generation Games you probably prefer to play over the better classic games lmao. Well I could go on but I'll end it there. You can never forget your history and the Golden Era of Video games was the 90's. 2000 Era was great with the 360 and ps3 being the last good generation we'll ever have. Nintendo is the only company to me right now that's actually sticking to its roots on how good gaming use to be and that is why they are winning, they are crushing even the os5 and series x right now and it has nothing to do with shortages either, thats a cop-out lmao. Peace. I've been playing games since the 80's, 90's so basically I was there to experience how great gaming was and how it evolved into the bullshit that it is now,, same readon why thr xbox brand been a dying brand after the 360 and isn't selling.. anyway,, Never forget your History Son lol.
@@redcrimson1028 Always a tough area to grapple with. In my eyes they abandoned these games. Yeah they own the licenses and all that, so they could make limited runs from time to time to keep collectors happy, or license to someone else who would like to dabble with retro systems.
I wish more folks would be up front with their repros. Hell, I have a repop of Turtles 3 for gameboy, just so I could have a physical version to complete my TMNT gb carts. Also have Resident Evil Gaiden repop and cart version of the never finished Resident Evil 1 for GBC. Nothing wrong with fakes, as long as folks are up front with it.
@@lukesmeby if it's works. Like mentioned with the Pokemon Game here, you have no day/night circle or sometimes you can not save at all. I don't call this "accessible" if parts of the Game is missing or you lose your progress after turning of the Console/Handheld.
Anyone else notice that at 4:00 you can clearly see that the fake board has printed "N1ntendo" rather than "Nintendo"? Looks like a clever way for them to claim they never printed Nintendo's logo on the board.
Holy crap!! Gotta be honest I did not notice that. I'm watching this on a phone screen so I totally missed that little detail. Wow and I was impressed there for a second. I guess I still am considering they not only bootlegged it but also bootlegged in a way they can still legally say they didn't use Nintendo.
I did notice that. Also on the backside of the Mario cartridge it says: POWER MUST BE OFF BEFORE *"LOADENG"* OR REMOVING A GAME PAK. In the last line of the text in the top right it says: MORE PATENTS ISSUED AND *"PENDINGSEE"* BOOKLET.
I agree, particularly for hard to find stuff. If Nintendo (or any other company) doesn't want to re-issue the games or work with a third party to re-issue them, let the repro scene take over. With that said, my issue is when repro sellers base the price on the value of the actual cart, not how much it costs to make. For example, an unofficial repro of Earthbound should not cost more than a repro of Super Mario World. The work and materials involved with both is literally the same. Also, speaking of repros and making content available, one of the things I like about the movie industry is how many studios are willing to work with companies like Criterion, Shout Factory and Mill Creek to release catalog titles that they themselves do not have interest in releasing. I wish game companies would consider the same for the retro scene.
I agree but I think an issue with advertising as a reproduction is that it could/will cause Nintendo to at the very least block the listing. It is technically piracy and they'll go after it. Of course Nintendo could solve the problem by reprinting their 1st party titles themselves but their money allergies seem to prevent a lot of good ideas from happening.
They never do admit to being repos then again amazon doesn’t care thats why they make it almost impossible to report bootlegs. These games arent hard to find its just the sellers that are manipulating the prices by buying all copies and selling at inflated prices. I like Tetris but im not willing to pay $30 for it.
If you have an old Wii laying around you can find game ISO’s for all retro system and run off an SD card or hard drive. I’ve got GameCube, N64, Attarii, Sega Genesis, GameBoy & GameBoy Advance, NES games and more running via my Wii.
Something I’ve learned about authentic GBA games is that they have a very faint number imprinted into the label of the game. That’s usually a giveaway whether the game is authentic.
Thanks for this, I think I just clocked the fact that my Harvest Moon for GBA is a fake because of this comment 😢😅 9 month old comment but I appreciate it!
Nintendo need to make a gen 3-5 collection on the switch so people can have the real games without spending $150+ or buying a reproduction cart (I don't see the issue)
They really should ds and gba prices keep getting crazy back in 2015 was able to get pokemon pearl authentic with the box for 20$ now it is like 50-70$
@@birdfish86 true my target had a pokemon diamond in the case for $40 but I think the reproduction ds pokemon are fine. It the gba one that are cautious about in my Opinion
last week i somehow managed to find a non repo real cart of pokemon crystal on ebay, idk if this good karma from the time i stupidly bought a bundle of all 5 gen 3 pokemon games years ago or i just hit the jackpot
i liked how some of these cartridges for the DS and gameboys, were being selled as "99 in one" games, but in fact you were getting a sd-card adapter and emulator which makes it possible to download and play all the other games yourself
Or you were the correct size that fits. Just cause someone looks great dosent mean it’s the wrong size. He can buy an over sized shirt snd look terrible
I got caught up on that Pokémon Ruby reproduction cart when I was looking to buy another copy of the game (mine died completely). The second I opened it up, there was something about it that was strikingly off, especially when I looked at the back. Was having problems telling if there was a battery inside and, lo and behold, there wasn't. I kept it because it still runs like a normal version of the game, and basically use it for messing around in and cheating since I don't care about it. I did wind up finding an actual proper cart for a good deal since the battery was dead. Took me all of a minute to get it fixed up. Edit: Almost forgot about the time I was looking for another copy of Pokémon Platinum due to my copy dying (for a short time, works just fine now and now have two copies.) Was looking more thoroughly on Ebay for one and found one guy selling a copy, it was a legit cart, that he tore open and had in 3 pieces for some of the images. Just immediately noped right past that listing. Not only was the value of the game destroyed, even though they were asking for what was roughly full-price, but would anyone trust a game sold by someone who *tears open a glued-shut cart*? At least the games up through the GBA had screws in them and were made to be opened.
The Quality of these vary wildly. I have one that saves all games individually on nonvolatile memory and where the antipiracy doesn't trigger at all. All without a battery on the SNES. It had a yellow cart and I was surprised that it had that kinda quality considering it was a repro. I expected junk.
Literally not all repos are created equal. There are definitely some that seem to be made either by accident or somehow on purpose pretty well. Do I have to say horrible janky bootlegs are still pretty prevalent to this very day. Though they've gotten way way better at fooling people then they used to.
@@Blernster From Ebay. It has a see through Yellow cart and was called 68 in one. Sorry I got my Copy of SMT V early (Thanks Amazon) and have been offline haha
To future headphones users and listeners in general, 10:46 starts a high-pitched screech sound briefly before Spawnwave muted the console. It’s very painful.
I have one of the reproduction Mario Kart 64 carts from Amazon. It doesn’t use a save battery so I didn’t mind so much. I definitely noticed the label was off. Not to mention the PCB in the reproduction carts are usually white where the authentic ones appear yellow around the pins.
I have noticed that with the Nintendo logo on the back of the N64 cart, the "i" is dotted with a round dot on reproductions. On any authentic cartridge I have seen, the "i" is dotted with more of a square. Not sure if this is a fail-safe method, but it would at least save you the time of opening the cart if it has a round "i"
Legit carts are usually stamped with a number on the back label, gba has a stamp on the front label usually says "01" or any other combo but its actually stamped in the label, also the Nintendo seal of quality is the big giveaway, if its discolored, blurry or the wrong size its definitely fake. When you search for retro games at goodwills you start to find fakes all the time, hard to find legit anymore
@@theCRACKERBOMB Hey thanks for the stamp reminder I got a handful of pokémon Gameboy games that I got in a couple places (probably like five maybe even closer to 10 years ago now) and it definitely has the stamp so they're all real. Totally agree with you as far as goodwills I haven't seen any super obvious fakes but places like flea markets definitely aren't checking and won't let you usually unless you really put up a big stink. To make it worse they charge really absorbitant prices for that kind of stuff at these boutique type goodwills. There was a Goodwill that I hadn't gone to in a while and they just remodeled extensively including putting in a bunch of clear plastic lockable shelves/cabinets l that you have to ask to get stuff out of. They had something like 20 N64 games for like $75 for the whole collection. I probably should have asked to look at it but it was such a pain in the ass I didn't even want to bother. Plus I had no way of checking to see if there were legit because I forgot some of these tricks but now I probably regret it because the market has absolutely gotten ridiculous.
gamestop if a pretty good place to buy these games, most of the workers there are also video game connoisseur and will notice if a game is fake. although, it is better to buy it in person so that making the return is a lot easier in case something does turn out to be fake.
@@DARKENINGTIMES The problem is a) the actual physical stores have been disappearing at an alarming rate. (the one just a half mile or so from my house closed last year and that was the closest one within 20 miles or more) And b) I have yet to find one of these stores that sells retro stuff. It's pretty much easier to just get it from the website and quickly decide if it's a fake and send it back.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu really? i mean, idk if its just because i live in LA but there are full gamestops EVERYWHERE. i guess ordering them online is fine too, id just rather go directly to the source. the nearest one from me is only about 5 minutes away without traffic, but im from LA so theres ALWAYS traffic.
There are some ways to figure out if it’s authentic from the outside more than just the Nintendo logo on the bottom. There is normally an indented stamp of a number on the right side of the cart label in the center. Also looking at the back, the fake ones have metal looking circles throughout in a line.
I bought a repro super smash for the 64 for like 10 bucks and man im more than happy with it. Not a single problem with it! $10 compared to like $50+ for an authentic one, and it works exactly the same. Ill stick with my repro all day!!
Personally, the problem that I have with reproductions is the possibility of non complete games pawned off as complete games ( you know copyrights and all that ). What I would really like to see is a split - screen walkthrough of Side 1 : Original game and Side 2 : Reproduction game ... so ppl could see if there are any discrepancies in the two ( versions ) of the game. If you could pull this off it would be great .
Amazing... Use to remember having these multiple games in one cartridges as a young kid. Parents didn't want to buy expensive games... When I finally got a job, I now want authentic. But watching this video does bring back good memories....
I would get 200$ for Christmas about 300$ with birthday money for a couple years that's why I got used unless I knew the games were good I would save my money. played about 200 ps2 games and 40 gba ones from when I was 7 to 15
Those multicarts always are weird to me since if a person wants to play a ton of SNES or N64 games just get an Everdrive which, while more expensive, gives you access to any ROM you want. Also in pretty sure the Sonic game was a ROM hack of Speedy Gonzalez
my concern has always been that a bootleg game or a bootleg compilation will brick my system... the main takeaway Im sensing is at worst, it will either be an untranslated edition, or it will not have a save battery
Very informative! I've been thinking about buying the odd N64 games and others that I never got to play/own as a kid. And every time I scrolled through Amazon, one thing always popped into my head "what if these listings I'm looking at are fake? They can be faked, right?" Since I don't buy anything until I've done my research, I held off then this video pops up to me on RUclips. Learned a lot here and the lesson I really learned is shop for these retro games in person.
Yeah I absolutely hate selective punishment like how Nintendo let's a lot of stuff go but will go very hard on other things. Plus the things they take down are usually the things that they SHOULD do like gba and ds rom modding and letting other people play the mods like Minecraft does! They could make a lot of money and keep interest in their older games
If I remember correctly, Earthbound WOULD tell you the game cartridge was invalid if the check of a straight rip failed, but the things in the game were to keep hackers at bay trying to take out the anti-piracy checks of cracked versions.
I like the flash carts. I sold all my SNES game carts and got a SD2SNES cart. My nostalgic connection is with playing the games, not really collecting the cartridges so I did not feel bad unloading them. I did keep what instruction manuals I had.
I bought the 5 pack of Pokemon games he is talking about and I knew they were fake but they pretty much are the exact thing as the real game when it comes to the gameplay. It saves and you don't have to worry about changing that battery for the clock time in the game. So I was pretty happy about that.
I remember having the Gameboy color 40 games in one when I was much younger. I had red, blue, yellow crystal, gold and silver versions of pokemon lol. It was fantastic
As long as it's listed as a reproduction cart, I'm totally cool with it. You really can't beat spending $15 and having a working copy of Emerald that plays on a legit GBA. That's the only feasible way the average person is ever gonna be able to play something like Earthbound on legit hardware these days.
I'm curious, do those multi-carts actually retain save data when you swap to a different game? A lot of those carts don't bother backing up the SRAM, so you lose your saves whenever you load a new game.
13:46 a cart full of pirated games, the board has a claim of copyright on the back. yeah, its probably just a blank board that someone used to make the cart, but i still find it comedic.
I don't hate the SNES one. It has a battery backup included and many games one might want to play without going to the trouble of pulling them off a shelf. Not the best Menu though.
I remember getting a micro SD card for a great price on Amazon back in the wii u era and I bought one to upgrade the wii u memory, popped it in the pc and it read 128 Gb, so I was like fuck yeah and tried to transfer over all my onboard games and saves..... turns out it was an overpriced 8Gb card someone messed with and due to that I have never finished xcx after losing my 200 hour save file.
@@mattwolf7698 if I'm not mistaken it was supposed to be a SanDisk, I'm guessing they probably just used a different variation to avoid copyright maybe. Either way I learned my lesson
I've even found those fake Pokemon carts for 2-3 USD each on eBay. Luckily i own most of the original games. But there's way too many people selling copies as original products for the same price you would pay for an original copy.
The repos just have the ROM game files on them. They've been available to download from the Internet since the late 90's. Play on PC or tablets with a simple emulator program, or send to your smart TV. No need to buy a fake cheap Chinese cartridge.
i think a lot of youtubers have one, its kinda expensive and mebbe not a huge amount of people bother to do it or pay to have it done since if you really want backlight you can get the sp, so mebbe some of the modders send 'em to youtubers as subtle advertising. it do be lookin nice backlight tho
The retro future actually has a video of how to install the mod. If you don't get a 3D printed shell for the screen you have to modify your existing shell to install it. There's other mods that exist for these as well. A rechargeable battery mod and an amplified speaker mod. May or may not be other mods out there. Those are just the ones I know about. I'll be honest and say I don't know if spawn wave has a video on the GBA backlight mod.
The thing with the anti piracy being delayed was also to fight the people that actually created the pirated version. Because it's a prestige thing, which hacker/group can get it out first. You see that the game runs and you push it out. If the game only later and in an unforeseeable way gets impossible to beat they won't notice it early.
Ebay, thankfully, has images usually of the cart, so I tend to just have another tab up to compare front labels. I noticed a lot of the fake games use labels that are off in different ways (like having the wrong product number, or incorrect art for the region). But yeah, some are really good and you likely won't even know for potentially years unless you take it apart when you get it.
You're a humble dude... But could you do even a small series about how you got into such good shape? So many people would watch as the fitness community is growing and overlapping with streamers and gamers... Thanks!
Im working on being a personal trainer and I have suggested to people to buy ring fit as a beginner course . it's not a replacement to the gym really imo but it's great to have and some people have stuck with it makes workouts less boring.
The Altera chip is a FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) - which allows you to simulate a whole hardware in software, and then burn it to the chip. Then it acts like - exactly - like the hardware you designed.
I definitely don’t have a problem with these if you are strictly a game player like myself. If you are a collector it would suck to be ripped off. I own a bunch of these for all my different systems along with some original copies. I keep the nice originals in mint condition and play the repo carts all the time.
I can imagine the anti piracy on Earthbound might have made Nintendo a significant sum via the Nintendo Powerline. $1.50/minute for tips and tricks on a game that is hard because it's a bootleg? Nintendo laughing all the way to the bank.
I'd like to have those clear, colored shells just so I can make my carts stand out. That means I would never sell them to anyone, because people would rather have the og stock shells, but at the end of the day, I think I can do whatever I want with my collection, and I want it to look "prettier", so I most definitely would swap shells like that.
i ended up with a fake emerald, but it still played fine besides the clock features not working. oh and every time you saved the sound effects from button presses would disappear unless you restarted the game haha
I learned so much in this video, I always wondered how they get away with selling these copies and I always wondered how is it you can't buy conkers bad fur day and go to the local classic games store and sell it for 100$ but now nobody can get away XD This guy earned a sub for sure, very professional
The only reproduction games that I own that I knew were reproduction when I bought them are Mario 64 and Smash 64. The only real copies I found on eBay and in some second-hand stores were trashed (I mean yellowed beyond belief, unbelievably grimey and dirty, labels peeled off, faded as hell) and they were still charging $80 for some of them, so I grabbed both games on Amazon for $20 total because I was done messing with the ones I found lmao. And what’s funny is that they play just fine and I haven’t had any problems with them. Still wish I could find official ones in good condition, though.
@@spooky4892 I know but regardless I would end up paying for something that wasn’t worth the money. On top of that, I’d have to pay for reproduction shells and at THAT point, I might as well have spent the money on official clean games.
@@spooky4892 don't the official ones also have the battery in them versus the repro cartridges that have flash memory? Personally I think that's probably much better then going for an original which will probably have a dead battery, and even if you replace that battery it'll die later and you'll lose the save data. Doesn't really seem worth it to me.
Used to love these as a kid, like you could just buy them in game stores over here in the 90's they were usually cheaper than legit games and you got like dozens of (s)nes games at once.
Amazon keeps recommending these multigame carts to me on FB. So that means to me at least, Amazon supports piracy (unless they made it. Then I'm sure they'd have a fit.)
I personally don't have anything against reproductions especially when it allowes people to have physical copies for otherwise expensive old games that are hard to get as original but sellers should be upfront when they sell a repro
not to mention Nintendo doesn't make money off of resales
Would you have a problem with it if YOU were the creator of the game?
@@agentred8732 if i made a game decade(s) ago that isn't even sold officially for that platform anymore, no I wouldn't have a problem, in fact I'd probably be flattered people like it enough to make stuff like this all those years later
@@agentred8732 Nintendo is rich AF, it's not personal anymore man
I get to relive my childhood thanks to these reproductions
@@agentred8732 If I was still making/selling the game, yes, but as far as I know Nintendo is no longer manufacturing cartridges for these systems, so they need to fuck off!
“You know it’s NES cuz I’m already dead.” Classic.
Dude that was money lmao
@@cturner9884 TMNT on NES is notoriously hard to play. That's why he said "Ya know it NES, cuz I'm already dead"
@@ChonkUm oooh true true..my bad lol
Dude I laughed too hard at that. I never played the game myself but I’ve heard stories.
Best line ever haha
With the retro gaming market what it is, I’m shocked at how much profit legit gaming companies just choose to absolutely ignore
cough nintendo cough sony cough
If Nintendo still made and sold all their old games it would both be expensive for them, probably not make all that much money, and eat into the sales of their current-gen systems and Nintendo Switch Online.
The one area I do think they're really missing a big market is with a re-release of the Wii. The generation that grew up with Wii are now adults, motion control has been out of favor for over 10 years now. Re-releasing the Wii with upscaled graphics and modern ports (HDMI!) for today's kids would make a lot of sense, in my opinion.
@@SongOfStorms411 No offence but half the people wanting NES games and SNES arent the same crowd buying 80% of the junk games coming out on switch. Ive thought about buying one a few times for 1-3 exclusives
Nintendo deserves it for taking so long to release retro games on their newer hardware.
Well said mate 😌 now even i k curious why they just ignore retro and try to remake/ remaster and makes it overpriced flopped 😭
Wow. Got some great engineering going on on those repro carts. Those guys are serious. Kudos to them. Making retro games available to all. What a business, man.
if its so clearly repros, awesome! 99% arent tho
@C real gamers that own the systems and dont care for pc gamers
@@benjamincat666 There are flashcarts like EverDrive. 1 cart, 1 SD card, and hundreds of ROMs loaded. Still using real hardware too.
@@ZX3000GT1 well I wouldn't get fun if all my games are on a flash cart. Collecting games is fun.
@@stewbanker Collecting games is fun, until you realize how much money you need to even get some of the more interesting stuff.
As a big fan of the game "Turtle", I'm excited about that 18-in-1 cart! Now if only it included the game "Monkey", or even "Sword Kid"...
Plumber
Grow up, kid, stop playing games and grow up already.
@@whitehawk7128 Why?
@@whitehawk7128 "grow up" how ironic coming from someone acting childish telling other people what to do with their time
@@whitehawk7128 says the person wasting their life on the RUclips comment section telling people to grow up.
The Sonic game is a sprite-swap of Speedy Gonzales. Definitely doesn't feel like a Sonic game. I rented it once or twice as a kid. I remember enjoying it back then, but not so much when I tried it again on an emulator years later.
I had it on my gameboy man I was so dissappointed
I had Speedy Gonzales as a kid, what a bizarre platformer.
It's indeed a bizarre game, and the Sonic hack was one of the first ROM Hacks I downloaded back in the late 90's to play on ZSNES, and SNES9X emulators.
Fun fact: This SNES Sonic rom hack was done by a relatively well known Peruvian group called TEG Peru who are also the folks behind the infamous Ronaldinho Soccer 64 rom hack.
ty king came here to say this thought i was going crazy!
“It’s on the nes. You can tell because I’m already dead”
😂
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As an Amazon Employee, seeing these, feeling the packaging, you can just tell they aren't authentic. I've held a few authentic tho, they're packaged carefully, and put into grade cases most of the time.
You're not supposed to waste time feeling the cartridges, hurry up and make sure you fullfil your quota!
Bro stop feeling up my package.
@@0boro xD
Amazon is now the American version of Wish or Alibaba....Full of cheap Chinese junk.
No pee breaks that ruins time efficiency
That SNES cart is actually really well-made judging from the chipset and game library... no random sprite swaps filling up slots. Still better to get a flashcart so you have control over said library among a bunch of deluxe features, but fun to see that bootleggers have been stepping up their standards as of recently.
I was going to say, it looks very nice. Might have to pick one up myself
Honestly I think these are really cool because even though they're fake they're still physical copies of the game for pretty cheap and honestly if they had been upfront it'd be a great deal
I agree but it is annoying when they market it as official carts.
Its super awesome that they make those games because re sellers and collectors ask way too high price for people that want just play games on real console.
@@jp4361 and that's why they're so hated by the community, these repro carts get in the way of collectors and scalpers since somebody who just wants to play the game doesn't care if it's legitimate, they care if it works. They aren't willing to pay the extortionate amount of money that is being asked for an actual legitimate copy versus one that is a repro and works just as good if not better (if an original has SRAM save but the repro has FRAM save the repro will have better longevity compared to the original).
yeah but they often dont work and can corrupt your saves or just have no save option at all
As a normal person, who just like to play these games. I really don't care if they're real or not. I just want to play the game. If it works 100% fine, im really ok with it. And it cost 1/10 of the price.
Those are good points my only issue is when they go out of their way to make it as hard to tell if it's real or fake as possible. That's a line I think that should never be crossed if it's super obviously a clear yellow obvious bootleg cart then I'm all for it purple or just weird colors that's great. But when it's a gray cart doing everything it can to look legit and they don't say anything about it not being legit that's where I draw the line. The world is not need any more repos floating around being easily passed off is legit stuff or at least initially.
While I agree with this, the risk you have is if the battery is shitty on a bad repo you can lose all your progress. It's why I only buy repos from places that specifically advertise the fact it's a repo and not from these shady amazon sellers trying to pretend their repo is real.
@@BassForever
That's a very good point.
It's best to get a repo that says it's a repo because then you're getting something that hopefully is built halfway decent. The deceptive ones are the problem. People should know by now you can't get real ones for the prices they're offering these fakes at.
I agree. As long as I get the game, plays fine, who cares what it's made from ? I'm paying for the game, not the ownership of rare hardware.
@@BassForever It seems to me that that the N64 one uses flash. Your save will be safe I think. The product seems to be of good quality, the company that produces them went for a modular design. They must provide service to multiple clients that program whatever they want to sell it on Amazon. Probably using open-source emulators in this case.
John, another easy tell on the counterfeit Pokémon GBA carts, is the lack of the 4 Gold Squares on the back of the cartridge. 4 gold squares on top left of the back = genuine. Flip the cart over, or view images of the back, and you’ll see what I mean.
I love those hidden anti-piracy measures. 2 of my faves back in the day were by Datasoft for the C64 versions of the RPGs Alternate Reality the City and the Dungeon respectively. In the City if you were using a detected copy, your character's alignment would start plummeting down right from the start, soon stores would throw you out if you entered them, taverns started requiring 'membership dues' before they let you in which were far more then you could afford at that point (and then throw you out even if you payed them LOL) and city guards would attack you on sight etc. Basically no chance at all to live. The Dungeon was a little more subtle, it let you get further before taking it all away as suddenly a special monster the "FBI agent" would appear regularly calling you a thief. Even if you were strong enough to keep killing the spawns every few feet, The Devourer (originally created to prevent players from accidentally crashing the game with too many items) would spawn and start sucking up your gear, and eventually you are helpless against the FBI agents, and die.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I love both those games and the mention of anti-piracy in Earthbound just brought this all back. Excellent video though, thank you for sharing it with us!
Alladin for the SNES would have the very first boss not stop his "retaliation attack" of swinging his sword for 3-5 seconds thereby NEVER giving you another opening to attack him by jumping on his head.
Practically soft locked the game and you could never progress when the game wasn't a legit copy.
@@theguywhowentthere3346 nice one! and cart copying at that time was commercial piracy, so good on em.
Cool stuff. Wish nintendo helped us out in playing the fucking games and not cock blocking everything. Rather by a repo than get scammed by someone
As long as people are selling the copies as reproductions I think this is a great way to have a physical copy of an otherwise very rare and very expensive game
Honestly, I’d be happy to get my hands on repros if it means I can play games that I used to love. As for piracy concerns, what is the issue with buying copies of games on platforms no longer manufactured? It’s not like they get paid even if you bought used
I agree but Devs still own the name and the games which means they own the ip and its license so that's why it's still illegal regardless if they are outdated games but I still agree with you but that's just not how it works.
What if u had a product that you owned and even though it's old people took your old products which made you millions in the past and decide to sell them and make money, potential money that you could be making how would you fele? Get my drift?
@@redcrimson1028 I get what you are saying. I can’t speak for a lot of companies as most have turned greedy, but it really wouldn’t make too much sense to worry about an abandoned product/project being replicated. I personally like to think business wise so here is my logic on it regarding classic games, which will be my focus. A lot of repros out there are games and consoles that were popular on a mass market scale at one time but is now just popular amongst collectors and nostalgia fans, being a much smaller market. If I once produced a game that once produced millions and flew off the shelves, but now is abandoned due to time and obsolescence, then I truly feel like it should be something that I no longer worry about. The system would be generations behind, and the game would only make money occasionally rather than millions from its prime. The many resources needed to produce it, from system boards, storage space for files, down to the case and screws would no longer be readily available or cost more to get my hands on. There would also be marketing involved to keep it known and relevant to newer generations of gamers. At that point, I would be allocating resources to and working on a new project for a new generation of games where I would hopefully have a great financial takeoff upon release and keeping up with the times. Current or more recent products, yeah I would be upset. Older, outdated products, I would personally just be happy people are enjoying my older work that I no longer desire to maintain. That is just me, and probably other smaller companies that are actually in it for the passion rather than money.
My point is, classic games no longer supported by the mass market or the companies themselves should be allowed to be in the hands of collectors to where they can still be enjoyed rather than just be lost because it becomes a financial burden to the company.
@@DanielStalnakerII I respect your opinion, but as far as classic games not being supported by the masses that's a big lie🤣🤣 first of all those classic games which paved the way for these new games could never be niche! Ever. Thats just like saying Nintendo is irrelevant today and the industry would be where they are now if Nintendo never existed 🤣 these new games still build off the old games blueprint are you series lmao? Nostalgia may play a small part, a very small part but it was more so the creativity and the passion devs had for games at the time. Speaking of classics, the beginning of the xboxone and ps4 era were all remasters of classic games that was on the 360.
Speaking of classics, we still have games like final fantasy, street fighter, mortal kombat, you got copycat games like those so called Metroidvania from the Legendary game Castlevania which inspired thr whole Metroidvania craze, the new Metroid game which Won Game of the Year over games like Ratchet and Clank and all these new school Generation Games you probably prefer to play over the better classic games lmao.
Well I could go on but I'll end it there. You can never forget your history and the Golden Era of Video games was the 90's. 2000 Era was great with the 360 and ps3 being the last good generation we'll ever have.
Nintendo is the only company to me right now that's actually sticking to its roots on how good gaming use to be and that is why they are winning, they are crushing even the os5 and series x right now and it has nothing to do with shortages either, thats a cop-out lmao. Peace. I've been playing games since the 80's, 90's so basically I was there to experience how great gaming was and how it evolved into the bullshit that it is now,, same readon why thr xbox brand been a dying brand after the 360 and isn't selling.. anyway,, Never forget your History Son lol.
@@redcrimson1028 Always a tough area to grapple with. In my eyes they abandoned these games. Yeah they own the licenses and all that, so they could make limited runs from time to time to keep collectors happy, or license to someone else who would like to dabble with retro systems.
@@redcrimson1028 yeah I think Nintendo will be just fine bud
I wish more folks would be up front with their repros. Hell, I have a repop of Turtles 3 for gameboy, just so I could have a physical version to complete my TMNT gb carts. Also have Resident Evil Gaiden repop and cart version of the never finished Resident Evil 1 for GBC. Nothing wrong with fakes, as long as folks are up front with it.
It helps make games more accessible on original hardware.
I have Fire Emblem 4 on Snes thanks to repros. The super famicom fe games are only in Japanese so this is the only way to get english physical copies.
I have a repro of Link's Awakening DX that actually is a GBA cartridge.
The problem is shady dealers like those in the video use cheap parts that can damage your hardware, you have to be very careful who you buy from.
@@lukesmeby if it's works. Like mentioned with the Pokemon Game here, you have no day/night circle or sometimes you can not save at all. I don't call this "accessible" if parts of the Game is missing or you lose your progress after turning of the Console/Handheld.
10:45 (**Sound Warning**) Welp, that got me lol
Same lol thought my computer was bout to blow up.
Same my ears were raped
Anyone else notice that at 4:00 you can clearly see that the fake board has printed "N1ntendo" rather than "Nintendo"? Looks like a clever way for them to claim they never printed Nintendo's logo on the board.
Holy crap!! Gotta be honest I did not notice that. I'm watching this on a phone screen so I totally missed that little detail. Wow and I was impressed there for a second.
I guess I still am considering they not only bootlegged it but also bootlegged in a way they can still legally say they didn't use Nintendo.
I did notice that. Also on the backside of the Mario cartridge it says:
POWER MUST BE OFF BEFORE *"LOADENG"* OR REMOVING A GAME PAK.
In the last line of the text in the top right it says:
MORE PATENTS ISSUED AND *"PENDINGSEE"* BOOKLET.
Gotta get through customs
Nintendo isn't doing anything about it because they are too busy going after 5 year old kids who are fans that drew a picture of Mario......
Why would they do anything ? It doesn't affect their market, it's an old console ! 😂
@@Absolutely_puck_fakestinethey’ve been taking down rom sites that exclusively have games for their “old consoles”.
@@Absolutely_puck_fakestine nintendo sues companies hosting super nintendo games for emulation.
@@Absolutely_puck_fakestineNot true. Mario 64 was remastered in HD for the PC. Guess what? Nintendo filed a copyright claim
@@Madbomber2024 Super mario 64 is still being sold. I'm talking about cartridges.
I once found a city of bugs living in an old N64 cartridge of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.
As long as they advertise as REPRO, I don’t have a problem with this, Nintendo has long made there money years ago, sometimes they run ok.
I agree, particularly for hard to find stuff. If Nintendo (or any other company) doesn't want to re-issue the games or work with a third party to re-issue them, let the repro scene take over. With that said, my issue is when repro sellers base the price on the value of the actual cart, not how much it costs to make. For example, an unofficial repro of Earthbound should not cost more than a repro of Super Mario World. The work and materials involved with both is literally the same.
Also, speaking of repros and making content available, one of the things I like about the movie industry is how many studios are willing to work with companies like Criterion, Shout Factory and Mill Creek to release catalog titles that they themselves do not have interest in releasing. I wish game companies would consider the same for the retro scene.
I agree but I think an issue with advertising as a reproduction is that it could/will cause Nintendo to at the very least block the listing. It is technically piracy and they'll go after it. Of course Nintendo could solve the problem by reprinting their 1st party titles themselves but their money allergies seem to prevent a lot of good ideas from happening.
They never do admit to being repos then again amazon doesn’t care thats why they make it almost impossible to report bootlegs. These games arent hard to find its just the sellers that are manipulating the prices by buying all copies and selling at inflated prices. I like Tetris but im not willing to pay $30 for it.
@UCYlY5QY6A2ZWp6NvowUGTWg yep fuck off scalpers
If you have an old Wii laying around you can find game ISO’s for all retro system and run off an SD card or hard drive. I’ve got GameCube, N64, Attarii, Sega Genesis, GameBoy & GameBoy Advance, NES games and more running via my Wii.
Something I’ve learned about authentic GBA games is that they have a very faint number imprinted into the label of the game. That’s usually a giveaway whether the game is authentic.
Same with the rear label of n64 games
You need to be careful with those too now. China is starting to put fake number imprints on GBA carts.
Thanks for this, I think I just clocked the fact that my Harvest Moon for GBA is a fake because of this comment 😢😅 9 month old comment but I appreciate it!
Nintendo need to make a gen 3-5 collection on the switch so people can have the real games without spending $150+ or buying a reproduction cart (I don't see the issue)
They really should ds and gba prices keep getting crazy back in 2015 was able to get pokemon pearl authentic with the box for 20$ now it is like 50-70$
@@birdfish86 true my target had a pokemon diamond in the case for $40 but I think the reproduction ds pokemon are fine. It the gba one that are cautious about in my
Opinion
last week i somehow managed to find a non repo real cart of pokemon crystal on ebay, idk if this good karma from the time i stupidly bought a bundle of all 5 gen 3 pokemon games years ago or i just hit the jackpot
@@SoraIndigo yes good luck I guess
I'm not sure how you'd neatly squeeze the two screens of the DS games onto the Switch screen, but the GBA games would be easy enough to do.
i liked how some of these cartridges for the DS and gameboys, were being selled as "99 in one" games, but in fact you were getting a sd-card adapter and emulator which makes it possible to download and play all the other games yourself
"This is Ninja Turtles from the NES--you can tell because I'm already dead"
lmao, fell outta my chair... that game was a b!@#$ as a child.
"You can tell this is turles on the NES because I am already dead" Very true
"I think this is the good translation"
*Screen shows "Kakaloto."*
L doesn't exist in the japanese language, so it might be spelled that way in homage to the original pronunciation
Spawn looking stacked in that Spiderman shirt.
That's what happens when you buy the wrong size.
Or you were the correct size that fits. Just cause someone looks great dosent mean it’s the wrong size. He can buy an over sized shirt snd look terrible
I got caught up on that Pokémon Ruby reproduction cart when I was looking to buy another copy of the game (mine died completely). The second I opened it up, there was something about it that was strikingly off, especially when I looked at the back. Was having problems telling if there was a battery inside and, lo and behold, there wasn't. I kept it because it still runs like a normal version of the game, and basically use it for messing around in and cheating since I don't care about it. I did wind up finding an actual proper cart for a good deal since the battery was dead. Took me all of a minute to get it fixed up.
Edit: Almost forgot about the time I was looking for another copy of Pokémon Platinum due to my copy dying (for a short time, works just fine now and now have two copies.) Was looking more thoroughly on Ebay for one and found one guy selling a copy, it was a legit cart, that he tore open and had in 3 pieces for some of the images. Just immediately noped right past that listing. Not only was the value of the game destroyed, even though they were asking for what was roughly full-price, but would anyone trust a game sold by someone who *tears open a glued-shut cart*? At least the games up through the GBA had screws in them and were made to be opened.
I always loved the "X in 1" type cartridges. I remember owning one of those for my GBA SP and it was a total banger
Lmao I was playing mine just up till like a few weeks ago
The Quality of these vary wildly. I have one that saves all games individually on nonvolatile memory and where the antipiracy doesn't trigger at all. All without a battery on the SNES. It had a yellow cart and I was surprised that it had that kinda quality considering it was a repro. I expected junk.
Literally not all repos are created equal. There are definitely some that seem to be made either by accident or somehow on purpose pretty well.
Do I have to say horrible janky bootlegs are still pretty prevalent to this very day. Though they've gotten way way better at fooling people then they used to.
Where did you get it?
Where from?
@@Blernster From Ebay. It has a see through Yellow cart and was called 68 in one. Sorry I got my Copy of SMT V early (Thanks Amazon) and have been offline haha
To future headphones users and listeners in general, 10:46 starts a high-pitched screech sound briefly before Spawnwave muted the console. It’s very painful.
I was wearing my Raycon earbuds when I 1st heard this lmao! RIP to future me hearing down the road.
@@Shinru61 Raycons are overpriced trash
@@random_archivist So are airpods lol!
@@Shinru61 Yep
I was listening through my factory speakers, and my ears were still triggered by that.
I was going through your old videos and I just want to say you look a lot different than you did a few years ago. You're lookin good man!
Yeah how come no one talks about it? He needs a diet/workout video
He literally only got new glasses
@@mob8502 he lost a lot of weight and got in decent shape
You should check out his Twitter. He is JACKED
@@JM06261996 idk I don't see it, he seems like he changed barber tho
I have one of the reproduction Mario Kart 64 carts from Amazon. It doesn’t use a save battery so I didn’t mind so much. I definitely noticed the label was off. Not to mention the PCB in the reproduction carts are usually white where the authentic ones appear yellow around the pins.
Ooooh, I just had an idea. Imagine having one of the odd-color N64s, and a library of repro game carts to match. Its kinda tempting actually!
I have noticed that with the Nintendo logo on the back of the N64 cart, the "i" is dotted with a round dot on reproductions. On any authentic cartridge I have seen, the "i" is dotted with more of a square. Not sure if this is a fail-safe method, but it would at least save you the time of opening the cart if it has a round "i"
Legit carts are usually stamped with a number on the back label, gba has a stamp on the front label usually says "01" or any other combo but its actually stamped in the label, also the Nintendo seal of quality is the big giveaway, if its discolored, blurry or the wrong size its definitely fake. When you search for retro games at goodwills you start to find fakes all the time, hard to find legit anymore
@@theCRACKERBOMB
Hey thanks for the stamp reminder I got a handful of pokémon Gameboy games that I got in a couple places (probably like five maybe even closer to 10 years ago now) and it definitely has the stamp so they're all real. Totally agree with you as far as goodwills I haven't seen any super obvious fakes but places like flea markets definitely aren't checking and won't let you usually unless you really put up a big stink.
To make it worse they charge really absorbitant prices for that kind of stuff at these boutique type goodwills. There was a Goodwill that I hadn't gone to in a while and they just remodeled extensively including putting in a bunch of clear plastic lockable shelves/cabinets l that you have to ask to get stuff out of. They had something like 20 N64 games for like $75 for the whole collection. I probably should have asked to look at it but it was such a pain in the ass I didn't even want to bother. Plus I had no way of checking to see if there were legit because I forgot some of these tricks but now I probably regret it because the market has absolutely gotten ridiculous.
gamestop if a pretty good place to buy these games, most of the workers there are also video game connoisseur and will notice if a game is fake. although, it is better to buy it in person so that making the return is a lot easier in case something does turn out to be fake.
@@DARKENINGTIMES
The problem is a) the actual physical stores have been disappearing at an alarming rate. (the one just a half mile or so from my house closed last year and that was the closest one within 20 miles or more)
And b) I have yet to find one of these stores that sells retro stuff. It's pretty much easier to just get it from the website and quickly decide if it's a fake and send it back.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu really? i mean, idk if its just because i live in LA but there are full gamestops EVERYWHERE. i guess ordering them online is fine too, id just rather go directly to the source. the nearest one from me is only about 5 minutes away without traffic, but im from LA so theres ALWAYS traffic.
I’ve had one of those fake MarioKart 64 carts. It got really warm while playing. Way more then the original cart. other than that it worked ok
Pirate carts usually run a few volts higher
Can’t be good for your console😬
Incorrect voltage which may shave a few years off of your console’s life
@@RdCrestdBreegull good thing n64 lives for like longer than the average person lmao
@@willyjf6193 finally i can flex that N64 is better than karen's "little angle"!
There are some ways to figure out if it’s authentic from the outside more than just the Nintendo logo on the bottom. There is normally an indented stamp of a number on the right side of the cart label in the center. Also looking at the back, the fake ones have metal looking circles throughout in a line.
The criminals thank you for your information -_-
I bought a repro super smash for the 64 for like 10 bucks and man im more than happy with it. Not a single problem with it! $10 compared to like $50+ for an authentic one, and it works exactly the same. Ill stick with my repro all day!!
Personally, the problem that I have with reproductions is the possibility of non complete games pawned off as complete games ( you know copyrights and all that ). What I would really like to see is a split - screen walkthrough of Side 1 : Original game and Side 2 : Reproduction game ... so ppl could see if there are any discrepancies in the two ( versions ) of the game. If you could pull this off it would be great .
Amazing... Use to remember having these multiple games in one cartridges as a young kid.
Parents didn't want to buy expensive games... When I finally got a job, I now want authentic. But watching this video does bring back good memories....
I would get 200$ for Christmas about 300$ with birthday money for a couple years that's why I got used unless I knew the games were good I would save my money. played about 200 ps2 games and 40 gba ones from when I was 7 to 15
I got a fake ds game with like 420 games
@@durge2810 did it function
@@declinedyt5565 yeah,it did.Every single game did,and it even included cheats and stuff and the cheats worked too.
10:45 I didn’t expect to be jump scared by a n64 bootleg lol
I jumped out of my skin dude 🤣🤣🤣
I love Spawn Wave. I gather my 6 kids and we all watch every new video.
I like spaghetti.
He did it so we never had to. What a legend.
Those multicarts always are weird to me since if a person wants to play a ton of SNES or N64 games just get an Everdrive which, while more expensive, gives you access to any ROM you want.
Also in pretty sure the Sonic game was a ROM hack of Speedy Gonzalez
I almost bought that very multi-cart for N64. Very cool to see these repros with labels that actually look ok. Great informative video.
Gotta love those flash boards.
No you don't gotta. I can love whatever I want. No is forcing you to love those flash boards.
@@normanozwald literally the stupidest reply in history.
@@normanozwald good one!
JohnRiggs what ya working on lol
You gotta love em quick because they die quick too! :P
The Dragonball Z game, is still one of my all time favorite RPGs to play, it's such a good game, I wish they did an HD remake of an RPG like it.
Atari isn't that creative anymore.n
On the DS there is dragon ball Z harknaeru densetsu which seems like ikt.
my concern has always been that a bootleg game or a bootleg compilation will brick my system... the main takeaway Im sensing is at worst, it will either be an untranslated edition, or it will not have a save battery
Very informative!
I've been thinking about buying the odd N64 games and others that I never got to play/own as a kid. And every time I scrolled through Amazon, one thing always popped into my head "what if these listings I'm looking at are fake? They can be faked, right?"
Since I don't buy anything until I've done my research, I held off then this video pops up to me on RUclips. Learned a lot here and the lesson I really learned is shop for these retro games in person.
1 more lesson - just buy a flashcart, load hundreds of ROMs, and forget paying scalper prices for old games.
Yeah I absolutely hate selective punishment like how Nintendo let's a lot of stuff go but will go very hard on other things. Plus the things they take down are usually the things that they SHOULD do like gba and ds rom modding and letting other people play the mods like Minecraft does! They could make a lot of money and keep interest in their older games
If I remember correctly, Earthbound WOULD tell you the game cartridge was invalid if the check of a straight rip failed, but the things in the game were to keep hackers at bay trying to take out the anti-piracy checks of cracked versions.
Got to love those N1ntendo classics!
I like the flash carts. I sold all my SNES game carts and got a SD2SNES cart. My nostalgic connection is with playing the games, not really collecting the cartridges so I did not feel bad unloading them. I did keep what instruction manuals I had.
I bought the 5 pack of Pokemon games he is talking about and I knew they were fake but they pretty much are the exact thing as the real game when it comes to the gameplay. It saves and you don't have to worry about changing that battery for the clock time in the game. So I was pretty happy about that.
That sonic hedgehog game on snes was a rom hack of Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos
I remember having the Gameboy color 40 games in one when I was much younger. I had red, blue, yellow crystal, gold and silver versions of pokemon lol. It was fantastic
As long as it's listed as a reproduction cart, I'm totally cool with it. You really can't beat spending $15 and having a working copy of Emerald that plays on a legit GBA.
That's the only feasible way the average person is ever gonna be able to play something like Earthbound on legit hardware these days.
Only way to play Mother 3 in English at all.
I'm curious, do those multi-carts actually retain save data when you swap to a different game? A lot of those carts don't bother backing up the SRAM, so you lose your saves whenever you load a new game.
13:46 a cart full of pirated games, the board has a claim of copyright on the back. yeah, its probably just a blank board that someone used to make the cart, but i still find it comedic.
I don't hate the SNES one. It has a battery backup included and many games one might want to play without going to the trouble of pulling them off a shelf. Not the best Menu though.
I don't see the point of a repro multi cart. It's better to just by a everdrive.
@@jumpbeatshoot I believe these reproduction multicarts are more for the casual retro gamers who don't want to go for broke with an everdrive.
@@jumpbeatshoot well people are buying them so they are making them.
Spawn wave really out here looking like THEE spider-man. I knew you were ripped but I'm still surprised everytime I see it
I remember getting a micro SD card for a great price on Amazon back in the wii u era and I bought one to upgrade the wii u memory, popped it in the pc and it read 128 Gb, so I was like fuck yeah and tried to transfer over all my onboard games and saves..... turns out it was an overpriced 8Gb card someone messed with and due to that I have never finished xcx after losing my 200 hour save file.
I hate those things. I got a usb stick like that one time.
This is why I only buy name brand stuff from the actual brand when it comes to stuff like this and if a price is too good to be true, it is.
@@mattwolf7698 if I'm not mistaken it was supposed to be a SanDisk, I'm guessing they probably just used a different variation to avoid copyright maybe. Either way I learned my lesson
WTF is xcx
@@scorcoz Xenoblade Chronicles X
I've even found those fake Pokemon carts for 2-3 USD each on eBay. Luckily i own most of the original games. But there's way too many people selling copies as original products for the same price you would pay for an original copy.
The repos just have the ROM game files on them. They've been available to download from the Internet since the late 90's. Play on PC or tablets with a simple emulator program, or send to your smart TV. No need to buy a fake cheap Chinese cartridge.
Spawn; How do you have a backlit version of the OG GBA? Custom mod?
i think a lot of youtubers have one, its kinda expensive and mebbe not a huge amount of people bother to do it or pay to have it done since if you really want backlight you can get the sp, so mebbe some of the modders send 'em to youtubers as subtle advertising. it do be lookin nice backlight tho
The retro future actually has a video of how to install the mod. If you don't get a 3D printed shell for the screen you have to modify your existing shell to install it.
There's other mods that exist for these as well. A rechargeable battery mod and an amplified speaker mod. May or may not be other mods out there. Those are just the ones I know about.
I'll be honest and say I don't know if spawn wave has a video on the GBA backlight mod.
dude, all 90s we had 9999 games on one cartridge on the holy Dendy console. welcome to the world of Russian childhood.
4:12 ah yes N1ntendo, my favorite company. 🤣
Nwuntendo
"So this is Ninja Turtles...."
- Tank Splashesh My boy. -
"You know it, because i'm already death..."
I love it xD
The thing with the anti piracy being delayed was also to fight the people that actually created the pirated version.
Because it's a prestige thing, which hacker/group can get it out first. You see that the game runs and you push it out. If the game only later and in an unforeseeable way gets impossible to beat they won't notice it early.
Those multi game cartridges remind me of Sega Channel back in the day, having access to so many games at once in a giant list like that.
I bought one of those 200 games in one cart for the sega genesis. Most of the good games that I bought it for were broken and unplayable.
Ebay, thankfully, has images usually of the cart, so I tend to just have another tab up to compare front labels. I noticed a lot of the fake games use labels that are off in different ways (like having the wrong product number, or incorrect art for the region). But yeah, some are really good and you likely won't even know for potentially years unless you take it apart when you get it.
You're a humble dude... But could you do even a small series about how you got into such good shape? So many people would watch as the fitness community is growing and overlapping with streamers and gamers... Thanks!
Im working on being a personal trainer and I have suggested to people to buy ring fit as a beginner course . it's not a replacement to the gym really imo but it's great to have and some people have stuck with it makes workouts less boring.
Lol, idk if anyone caught that at 3:57. Nintendo on the fake game is spelled, "N1ntendo".
18:00 the game they used for the "Sonic game" was Speedy González 'Los gatos bandidos'
Spawn wave is such a cool dude!
Spawn wave more like spawn epic
More like sex freak
The Altera chip is a FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) - which allows you to simulate a whole hardware in software, and then burn it to the chip. Then it acts like - exactly - like the hardware you designed.
It's basically a software defined circuit.
The MAX II is a CPLD which is much lower density than an FPGA. Still Im surprised they used that. Those are $13 dollar chips all by themselves.
@@NScherdin exactly. If they want to cheap out, they would go lower on that.
Giving money to aliexpress scalpers is a tad more dignified than giving it to used video game scalpers
I definitely don’t have a problem with these if you are strictly a game player like myself. If you are a collector it would suck to be ripped off. I own a bunch of these for all my different systems along with some original copies. I keep the nice originals in mint condition and play the repo carts all the time.
Spawn wave workout routine please 🙏
I agree, posted the same thing! 🤙💪
I bought a legit copy of ruby for like $20 like 6 or 7 years ago. Guess I dodged a scalper shaped bullet on that one lmao.
Got one a few years ago at toomany games for not that bad a price. It was use so that's how I could tell it was real.
Still got my childhood copy of ruby:) its a treasure! Cherish it
I still have all my old Gameboy and GBA pokemons but half of them need battery replacements I'm sure. I just emulate on my 3ds now anyway.
Had a good earthbound anti piracy playing a rom. Got to end boss, halfway thru, hard reset of the game, all saves wiped. 🤣
I laughed out loud at this.. "It just says.. Turtle.." LOL
"Mario Kart 1, 2, 3" then rereads it as Mario Party. Gotta love bloopers.
I can imagine the anti piracy on Earthbound might have made Nintendo a significant sum via the Nintendo Powerline. $1.50/minute for tips and tricks on a game that is hard because it's a bootleg? Nintendo laughing all the way to the bank.
I'd like to have those clear, colored shells just so I can make my carts stand out.
That means I would never sell them to anyone, because people would rather have the og stock shells, but at the end of the day, I think I can do whatever I want with my collection, and I want it to look "prettier", so I most definitely would swap shells like that.
I had the exact same thought. I would love to have a rainbow of n64 games on my shelf.
i ended up with a fake emerald, but it still played fine besides the clock features not working. oh and every time you saved the sound effects from button presses would disappear unless you restarted the game haha
4:04 - On the bootleg copy it says "N1ntendo" (with a "1" instead with an "i"), a big revealing typo there on the part of the bootlegger.
Copies are the best weapon against scalpers, high prices for nothing and unreleased stuff
I learned so much in this video, I always wondered how they get away with selling these copies and I always wondered how is it you can't buy conkers bad fur day and go to the local classic games store and sell it for 100$ but now nobody can get away XD This guy earned a sub for sure, very professional
The only reproduction games that I own that I knew were reproduction when I bought them are Mario 64 and Smash 64. The only real copies I found on eBay and in some second-hand stores were trashed (I mean yellowed beyond belief, unbelievably grimey and dirty, labels peeled off, faded as hell) and they were still charging $80 for some of them, so I grabbed both games on Amazon for $20 total because I was done messing with the ones I found lmao. And what’s funny is that they play just fine and I haven’t had any problems with them. Still wish I could find official ones in good condition, though.
You can reshell them with the fake shells
@@spooky4892 I know but regardless I would end up paying for something that wasn’t worth the money. On top of that, I’d have to pay for reproduction shells and at THAT point, I might as well have spent the money on official clean games.
@@spooky4892 don't the official ones also have the battery in them versus the repro cartridges that have flash memory? Personally I think that's probably much better then going for an original which will probably have a dead battery, and even if you replace that battery it'll die later and you'll lose the save data. Doesn't really seem worth it to me.
Used to love these as a kid, like you could just buy them in game stores over here in the 90's they were usually cheaper than legit games and you got like dozens of (s)nes games at once.
They wouldn’t have this problem if companies like Nintendo just remade these games in physical media and sold them in limited quantities.
Can you do this with one of the all in one POKÉMON games
Amazon keeps recommending these multigame carts to me on FB. So that means to me at least, Amazon supports piracy (unless they made it. Then I'm sure they'd have a fit.)
Yes it's really bewildering, why they don't also have thumbdrives full of 100 movies or something
Today I saw these,e specially the N64 one, on AliExpress for cheap. But shipping is what kills the deal.
It usually does.
There's a lot of wasted space in the N64 carts.
Thought the same thing!
It's beautiful to see how much light and contrast is needed for we to clearly see the gameboy advance screen.
Man I wish nintendo would focus more on these repros compared to rom sites.
I hope they don't unless they actually start production up.