Magma_Dragoon
Reploid
- Joined
- May 10, 2008
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My brother is getting back from a year long trip overseas soon, and I thought getting the remakes of RBY on gba would be some good nostalgia powered good time fuel. Turns these are the most pirated games of the most pirated franchise ever, so now I'm concerned. There is alot of conflicting information as to what a real FRLG cartridge should look like, apparently there were several production runs with different components.
LG
Front has imprinted into the sticker
00A
E4
correct seal and product code
above the pins
VDD circled 1 circled Nintendo AGB-E02-30 GND
FR
sticker has come off which is very suspicious, but I've had games where the sticker sloughs off a bit and I just have to ocd scrape the rest off
above pins is
VDD (MB) circled Nintendo AGB-E02-30 GND
Otherwise both appear identical. The battery in both is black or very dark blue rectangle. Circuitry visible through the back is identical that of a legit copy. Casings are the correct color, transparency, and have correct markings.
Both games came with a save with 0:00 time, full pokedex, full inventory, and boxes filled with shiny versions of all the non legendary pokemon, plus a shiny celebi and mew. I've read there was a way in Emerald to get a celebi that could be legit shiny and it was cloned out the wazoo. Nearly every pokemon has the id 19874. Some have an ot of 10 ANIV, which I know is the name on the 10th anniversary promo distributions.
Those saves make me very uneasy, but then again, why hack in a shiny mew and celebi but not a shiny zapdos? Maybe this is someone who was way into this and knew some cloners 10 years ago and now his mom sold his old junk?
LG
Front has imprinted into the sticker
00A
E4
correct seal and product code
above the pins
VDD circled 1 circled Nintendo AGB-E02-30 GND
FR
sticker has come off which is very suspicious, but I've had games where the sticker sloughs off a bit and I just have to ocd scrape the rest off
above pins is
VDD (MB) circled Nintendo AGB-E02-30 GND
Otherwise both appear identical. The battery in both is black or very dark blue rectangle. Circuitry visible through the back is identical that of a legit copy. Casings are the correct color, transparency, and have correct markings.
Both games came with a save with 0:00 time, full pokedex, full inventory, and boxes filled with shiny versions of all the non legendary pokemon, plus a shiny celebi and mew. I've read there was a way in Emerald to get a celebi that could be legit shiny and it was cloned out the wazoo. Nearly every pokemon has the id 19874. Some have an ot of 10 ANIV, which I know is the name on the 10th anniversary promo distributions.
Those saves make me very uneasy, but then again, why hack in a shiny mew and celebi but not a shiny zapdos? Maybe this is someone who was way into this and knew some cloners 10 years ago and now his mom sold his old junk?
