The Different between Real and Fake games

[Amiga Forever]

I do notice when come selling on Megadrive or Snes games. The boxed itself look the same but when you look inside carts and you will be able tell the different between the real carts that you got and other fake carts you bought off someone else without knowing that it was fake!:wooha:

here is perfect example

http://www.denofgeek.com/games/dodg...-internets-dodgiest-fake-videogame-cartridges

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here another good one

http://www.racketboy.com/journal/game-collecting/how-to-spot-fake-sealed-classic-video-games

 

[Harrison]

I wouldn't say fake. More like unofficial fan port.

Fan made ports are pretty cool though, and fun to explore to see what they managed to do. The Angry Birds one is a great example, plus many other unofficial ports to older systems like the original NES actually show how good the hardware was.

Still, remember to only try this using an emulator because it is illegal to buy and sell them, especially on Amibay.

Regarding true fakes, yes this can be an issue and there are loads of examples of this found on eBay, especially for the rarer games on older systems like RPGs on the SNES. There are also a lot of fake Nintendo DS games floating around. Normally they work fine if you are not bothered about owning the original, but remember it isn't legal to buy and sell them.

 

[slk486]

Not to mention that even whispering Angry Birds at all, should be illegal and frowned upon

 

[NinjaRabbit]

I wouldn't say fake. More like unofficial fan port.

Fan made ports are pretty cool though, and fun to explore to see what they managed to do. The Angry Birds one is a great example, plus many other unofficial ports to older systems like the original NES actually show how good the hardware was.

I think counterfeit's the correct term. These are actually cobbled together and sold, thus infringing on the rights of the actual owners of these properties - there is still a market for these, and they're very often bundled with those computer-keyboard style Famiclones, for which there's a very big market in emerging economies.

There are also a lot of fake Nintendo DS games floating around. Normally they work fine if you are not bothered about owning the original, but remember it isn't legal to buy and sell them.

My understanding is that a lot of them actually don't work fine - typically they're based around the technology of very cheap flash-carts, and use either a poor battery for saving, or have nothing at all to facilitate such, whereas genuine games were mandated to have a certain amount of flash memory on-board for saves.

This was also an issue for fake Game Boy Advance games, which are many and varied. My favourites were always the ones labelled as "NIntondo", since it just sounds so delightfully absurd when said aloud (identifying those was remarkably easy, of course );

I saw one of these in person once, when someone I knew got burned buying a game on eBay...