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Paul Cawley - 23 Jul 2003 13:38 GMT

I am amazed at the amount of pirate carts now on eBay, mainly from sellers
in Hong Kong, but also in the US!
I had my GBA collection stolen a month back, and have been buying
replacements, so far I have had the following sent, all pirate carts from
eBay sellers...
Mario Advance 3 : Yoshi's Island, Final Fight One, Mr Driller 2, Mr Driller
Ace.
These are full colour knock-offs complete with manuals and boxes, the only
way to tell them apart is the slight blurriness on the colour photocopying
on the cart label, manual and box, and the fact the PCB just above the edge
connector should have (C) 2001 Nintendo, which none of them do.
I am pretty pissed at trying to recreate my all original collection, and
getting sent this crap.
Any ideas or opinions - I realise if you are only a player, it does not
matter, but for a collector, these aresholes should make it clearer on their
auctions if they are up to this - e.g. don't buy if you are a collector.
Cheers,
Paul

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SweetFA - 23 Jul 2003 20:45 GMT

Paul Cawley had this to say

> I am amazed at the amount of pirate carts now on eBay, mainly from
> sellers in Hong Kong, but also in the US!
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> you are a collector. Cheers,
> Paul

Leave negative feedback, report to Ebay.

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Skor Grimm - 24 Jul 2003 00:22 GMT

> I am amazed at the amount of pirate carts now on eBay, mainly from sellers
> in Hong Kong, but also in the US!
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
> Cheers,
> Paul

I got burned by this, too. I was pretty peeved. See my earlier posts
here: http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm
=c5b79f65.0306190939.3409689e%40posting.google.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%2
6hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dalt.games.video.nintendo.ga
meboy.advance%26selm%3Dc5b79f65.0306190939.3409689e%2540posting.google.com
Do everything you can to shut these punks down. I really don't care
about people copying games and playing them for their own use, but
selling me a fraud is crossing the line. Report them to Nintendo.
And eBay. And the Feds.

Report it to the Feds at the Internet Fraud Complaint Center here:
http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp

Send your info to Nintendo here:
auctionpiracy@noa.nintendo.com

They will ask for the following information:
1. Seller's Screen name
2. Auction numbers
3. Payment address
4. Ship-from address
5. Game(s) and/or pictures of the integrated circuit (IC) board and
packaging.
- To open your game, unscrew the back and push/slide the front part
of your cartridge.
- Take your pictures as shown on this page.
http://ap.nintendo.com/tab_06.html
- Use a white background (e.g. sheet of white paper).
- Ensure that the area is well lit.
- Please, do not use a flash.
If you would like to send us your games to help with our
investigation, you can mail them to:

Nintendo of America Inc.
Anti Piracy Group/Legal Department
4820 150th Ave NE
Redmond, WA 98052
USA

Note: We do not return nor exchange cartridges sent to us for
investigation purposes.

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DeepThought - 25 Jul 2003 01:30 GMT

Skor Grimm whipped out his/her/its Personal Electronic Thing, summoned
a BellBot to c5b79f65.0307231522.627ebc71@posting.google.com , leaving
his/her/its contact info (NOgoogleSPAM@timandjeni.com) with the
deskbot, and proceeded to say:
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> - Take your pictures as shown on this page.
> http://ap.nintendo.com/tab_06.html

<SNIP>

Off the subject here, but judging by those pictures, am I to understand that
(in that list) battery-saves are a minority?

Games w/o visible batteries: SMA, SMW (SMA2), Spider-Man, Mario Kart, LOTR
(1 + 2), Golden Sun...

But for some reason, Wario Land 4, Pokemon R/S, Metroid, and F-Zero have
battery saves.

Is there an FAQ on battery-saves on GBA game carts, the
advantages/disadvantages for each? It seems a bit odd that, say, Mario has
no battery, while Wario does. Same for Pokemon and Golden Sun. Is there some
reason why certain games have battery saves?

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percuno - 25 Jul 2003 12:59 GMT

Also off-topic, but doesn't it seem odd that the counterfeit carts on the
nintendo anti-piracy site seem to be made of higher quality, higher tech
components than the originals?

8D

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DeepThought - 25 Jul 2003 13:04 GMT

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BellBot to l09Ua.218$T7.26203@read1.cgocable.net , leaving his/her/its
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> Also off-topic, but doesn't it seem odd that the counterfeit carts on
> the nintendo anti-piracy site seem to be made of higher quality,
> higher tech components than the originals?

It certainly does appear that way, but obviously you can't judge it by
having, say, more chips or a battery. Though the originals look "low tech",
it's definite that they have higher-quality chips, and the inclusion of
batteries in non-bat-save games lead to eventual battery (and thus save)
death. Looks can be deceiving.

And, plus, just LOOK at the cart casing + sticker... BLEAH. SMA2 even has a
morphed version of the game box on a sticker!

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DeepThought - 25 Jul 2003 13:05 GMT

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Though looking at it now... I think I like the pirate Metroid sticker more
than the official.

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