The Lemonkraken
The Toad Man Shuffle
Nope, not one time.
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Have you ever bought a 3rd gen game that was fake?
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Maybe as it is an fake game, the save thing doesn't "fits" really well with the Pokémon game, and causes data corruption?
Trust me, you don't want Chaos Black. The *meeping* game ain't even finished, and I should know...
ShinyPalkia
Well-Known Member
No I haven't, because I never buy anything from Internet.
Cryptozoologist
Banned
No. Anyone should be smart enough to tell if a game is fake, and if they can't, they deserve a fake.
Forretress Fan
Let's Go
No i have never gottena fake cartridge, but i buy my games from Target, If your buying on ebay check the owner's Star thing it's if he's trustworthy or not.
People buy Chaos Black for two reasons (my opinion):
1. They seriously think it's a real game made by Nintendo and Game Freak.
2. They want to play a "mod".
Anyways, I'm putting a list of fake Pokemon games and toys into my sig and in this post:
Fake Pokemon List
Absol trainer
Hidden Valley...
No, never got a fake cartridge. I always buy my games at truthsworthy gamestores so I don't think I will get a fake one ever.
snowwhiteminx
...but it's wrong!
Yup, used to have a fake Firered cartridge. I knew it was a fake at the moment I bought it - at a market in Turkey - but i didn't really care cause I was bored and didn't have many games with me. I gave it to a friend once I got a legit copy of FireRed.
TheTimeTraveller
Temporal Mastermind
That is a valid point. Many people probably were recommended Pokemon games and looked for a cheap place to buy them second-hand. One of the first places that would spring to mind is eBay. These people would have no idea it wasn't legit until someone who was a little more experienced sees them and tells them that the "auto restart" halfway through the storyline isn't a bonus feature, and is one of the tell-tale signs someone has tried to make an illegal copy, and then sold it cheap for profit.
Dark_Steelix
<~ Yo quiero!!
Lol Just to say Ebay isn't the only place where you can get fake games. On Separate occasions I have seen Fake (Black Cart) pokemon games for sale in the used section at EB Games. Lol I guess the staff are clueless half the time :/
yeah if an ebay auction uses a stock photo for the game picture, or they don't bother to show the catridge, then avoid it. You can easily tell most of the time from the catridge if its fake or not. Apart from the obvious black cart, some fakes also have the cover pokemon on the cart (eg rayquaza), which is BS, and some you can see that the cart isn't shiny like a regular cart, especially with R/S/E. Also don't mean to sound discriminate, but alot of the fake carts originate from China or Korea from what I've seen up for auction.
yeah if an ebay auction uses a stock photo for the game picture, or they don't bother to show the catridge, then avoid it. You can easily tell most of the time from the catridge if its fake or not. Apart from the obvious black cart, some fakes also have the cover pokemon on the cart (eg rayquaza), which is BS, and some you can see that the cart isn't shiny like a regular cart, especially with R/S/E. Also don't mean to sound discriminate, but alot of the fake carts originate from China or Korea from what I've seen up for auction.
That's true...I've also had a college friend from Indonesia give me a bootleg copy of Warcraft III & Warcraft III: Frozen Throne; they worked fine but were missing a music file, so about 15 minutes into playing the game the program would crash.
I got a copy of Emerald once off of eBay, it seemed real enough, and the seller seemed very reliable, but the saving function wouldn't work, every time it was turned off it just wiped. I never worked out if it was fake or just damaged, and the woman who sold it deactivated her account before I could try to return it.
Shiny qwilfish of doom
Back in White
i bought one from ebay,but it was not fake.lucky me!
Indeed, with any of those auction sites you take a chance when buying games. I mean, either the game arrives (and works) perfectly fine...or it's in fair condition and doesn't work so well...
Saanaito-Kun
Gardevoir Fan
Once, I received Shiny Gold X B5 as a gift. While it was nice to have a remake of G/S no matter how much it was a fake, it was still just a fake. 'Sides, it's normally free, no matter how... Unusual the methods can be to obtain it.
In addition, I once stupidly bought my friend a fake Fire Red off of Ebay, which had hacked starters (Moltres, Articuno, Zapdos) and above Pallet Town was a near infinite route, filled with random objects. When you finally got past that into Viridian City, there was a sign blocking the Poke'Mart, and the internal battery ran dry (so, I couldn't save at all without the data deleting itself). Ah well, at least I learned my lesson: Never buy games from Ebay unless you're absolutely sure it's not a stupid ROM hack that is messed up all over.
In addition, I once stupidly bought my friend a fake Fire Red off of Ebay, which had hacked starters (Moltres, Articuno, Zapdos) and above Pallet Town was a near infinite route, filled with random objects. When you finally got past that into Viridian City, there was a sign blocking the Poke'Mart, and the internal battery ran dry (so, I couldn't save at all without the data deleting itself). Ah well, at least I learned my lesson: Never buy games from Ebay unless you're absolutely sure it's not a stupid ROM hack that is messed up all over.
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