Just bought a fake Pokemon Platinum. Fuck. I know I can get

>>27992071
>>27992081
>>27992108
>>27992138
>Hahahahahahahahhahahahaha

Seriously though return it, get your money back & just pay the 10$ extra dollars

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Here is the biggest tell aside from the unstamped gameboard, the images in the manual are shitty low quality jpgs. They fucked up on the template pdf and didn't embed high quality images.

>>27992162
How did you fall for this?

>>27992209
Online order and it was for $30, just a few under the normal asking price.

Looks pretty real to me.

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>>27992229
This is what real game boards inside the carts look like.

It's clearly a fake.

What game was it then ?

>>27992270
Don't know. I'm at work and haven't been home to try it out on a DS yet.

>>27992229
Also another dead giveaway is the boxart. Look at how much thinner the E for everyone is compared to the real thing.

>>27992341
I'm reeled into the thought that maybe a English/French copy looks a little different, but I guess that's how they get you

>>27992071
i unknowingly bought a fake diamond cart, but it doesn't bother me. i just needed something to fill the void until november. the game is exactly the same as the original, minus some weird lighting glitch where the screen will be slightly brighter each time A is pressed during dialogue.

i'll probably invest in a real copy after SM lol

>>27992071
At least you aren't my old classmate - he bought what he thought was Pokemon Sapphire on Ebay and got a fucking incomplete spanish romhack called 'Pokemon Naranja'

>>27992930
>Pokemon Naranja
tfw i've played this rom
tfw incomplete

Why

>>27992953
Man, I've bought it too, though it was on purpose. I wish it was a more complete version, it stopped progressing after the part where you should get lapras.

I got another Pokemon game coming in the mail, this time a Soulsilver. It's 95% going to be a fake. I'll be sending a spoon back to the seller in place of the game cart,

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>>27992201
Jeez, the real manual looks like shit but not that shit.
Image for comparison

>>27993420
Ty anon

>>27992263
yeah the gloptop is a dead giveaway of a fake

>>27992071
Don't buy Pokémon DS/GBA games unless the seller opens up the game and lets you see the circuit board first. Ebay is absolutely full of Chinese bootlegs.

Just realized my Platinum is probably bootleg.
Other than from a collectors standpoint, is there any reason I should give a shit?

>>27993763
No problem

>>27993881
Naw. Im only making a fuss about it because I want to trade mons between legit copies.

>>27993828
Or you could just buy them factory sealed.

>>27995441
Yeah because it's so hard to replicate packaging

>>27995475
It is if you're trying to do it as cheaply as possible to make a quick buck

>>27995718
Packaging something is an extremely easy and cheap job in and of itself.