@@SIR1U5 right. I just picked pokemon back up and I realized that when I started my last Platinum run, I was closer to the original release dates than I currently am to when I started that run. Insane.
Zaxe 1UP I am glad this video helped you out! And that’s good you got an authentic game! I am going to have to start finding an authentic black and white 2 game for my next nuzlocke series
Kevin Roland I can help! On your cartridge there will be a serial code on the front. For example, in this video, the legit Heart gold version has “NTR-IPKE-USA” Take the middle piece “IPKE” and go to the back of the cartridge and in the serial code there has to be “IPKE” In it somewhere. I hope this helps you. :)
I know this video is 2 years old but I still wanted to say thank you for making this video! I just bought heartgold from online and I was verifying mine was fake or not. Unfortunately it is :(. However after seeing your video, I did notice that there were some red flags in the listing especially that it was a gray cartridge and not a black catridge.
@@DaltonDarkoX I had a fake copy of soul silver and when I tried to play the game with the voltorbs at the game center the game would go black and stop working.
Thank you for mentioning the black pokemon cards, I can't find another video which even mentions that, I have a fake copy of heart gold but I already bought a real copy from a major UK retailer which arrives in a few days
Thank you all for watching this video! If you need to know if fake games are playable, here is a video about that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eyfiPxCjzCA.html
Thank you for helping. Now I know that I got a real and authentic SoulSilver from an eBay seller. Also one thing, the red marks on the cartridge are not glue, they’re actually from inside of the cart because if you flip the cart over and use a flashlight, you would be able to see inside of the cart because the cart itself is a bit transparent
Thank you so much for this. Just started looking to replace my HeartGold game from when I got scammed. This video really helped me to figure out which ones were legit or not! Now I have a genuine copy of HG!
Thanks for this vid! A friend gave me a copy of HeartGold and I was worried it was fake, because of some slight laggyness when walking through Goldenrod City or the music not fading out and just abruptly changing. But the cartridge had all the qualities of a legit game, so I'm good, *few*
Thanks for the video. I bought HeartGold from Offer Up and and it turned out to be fake. The fake on is so perfect that if it wasn't for the infrared light thing I wouldn’t be able to see the difference.
Thank you for this. Sadly I just bought a few repro Pokemon gameboy sp games without knowing what repros were. At least I know better now going forward
This was very useful because I just recently bought Pokémon HeartGold from someone on Ebay for $80 and when it arrived, it was a legit copy because of the black cartridge, but I still wanted to find out more, thank you
@@CJCroen1393 I went to the game corner and my games didn’t crash when I played Voltorb Switch or whatever the Minesweeper game is called. I was also able to trade and transfer between them and my copies of Diamond and into my gen 5 games
Wow, what a lifesaver! I got a new HeartGold for Christmas this year since I have so much progress on SoulSilver that I don't want to wipe, and I got this in my recommendations before I've used it. While watching I noticed my HeartGold looked a lot like the counterfeit, and I pulled out my SoulSilver (which is real) and they did look very different next to each other. The fake had the gray outside, missing sensor, misaligned white letters, and "The Pokemon Company" text was wrong. Gonna be getting a different one of those! Thank you for this video, saved me a lot of trouble before I started! :)
@@prod_JG I have not but when I compared it to my SoulSilver which I've had basically when the games were new, it was easy to tell it wasn't legitimate. I am going to be ripping HeartGold into an emulator on my pc and I would not want to rip a fake one!
The sticker on the fake heartgold honeslty looks better. I got a legit heartgold but was worried is was fake cause the lettering on the sticker looks so grainy
I have a heartgold cartridge I just got from eBay- I can’t tell if it’s real or not cuz when I try to transfer Pokémon it says there’s no compatible cartridge
The texture of the label is a dead giveaway, especially on the GBA games. GBA Pokémon games all have a metallic finish to the label, whereas fakes tend to be a glossy one.
Hey I know I'm pretty late at this but I had a question. I'm not sure if it was because of your camera but the your heartgold had bold white lines around the official Nintendo seal but your soulsilver didn't. Is that normal? I ordered a soulsilver from mercari and everything looks fine except it doesn't have a bold white line around the official Nintendo seal. I'm really paranoid about ordering online.
I would say soul silver would not have the line. Could be a graphic design perspective. But I got my game from target, new in the box. So whatever you see for soul silver is the authentic design.
This video just saved me. Guy on mercari is selling hg and ss for 64$. The offical Nintendo logo is almost exactly like the one on the left, yellow is really dark, and he indeed confirms in his description that there is no red shine under a light
They will definitely go up. Legit pokemon games are very rare and it doesnt seem like Nintendo will put them on a virtual console or NSO. Additionally, theyre making new pokemon games and persons will always feel nostalgic. Youll always find that persons search for earlier versions they played. Heck the price probably jumped because sword and shield is coming out in less than a month
@@JoNoFiSh13 I wouldn't say even then they are rare - just seriously overpriced. I have literally no problem finding copies of Older pokemon games like Heartgold, they're simply a ridiculous price.
I got a fake one from eBay but in its defense the game never crashed and was able to complete the game. The one thing you can’t do it’s trade your Pokémon to gen 5 it’ll say it can’t find a save file. So if you’re just trying to play the game over again a fake copy in my experience it’s pretty good considering the prices of authentic ones
I got a shiny cyndaquil after 2 weeks of hunting on a HeartGold copy I got and it is fake and it keeps going black screened every time I try to get back into the game
Instantly, yes, just from the thumbnail. Anyone who has ever seen a HeartGold dark red translucent cartridge (not actually black). It's made of the same plastic as the windows on TV remotes. It's the same with the Black and White games.
Thanks for the video man! I just recently bought a used copy of heart gold for a hefty amount and thanks to your video I can confirm that I wasn't scammed lol. It was real!
I feel so bad for the people who buy the fake DS games because they would think it is a legit one but it's not I went to a pawn shop and I saw 2 fake Pokemon Sapphire and Ruby and I knew it was fake so I didn't get it I put it in my Gameboy to see if it worked and it did but it had a box and said this game can be played and when that popped up I'm like no not getting it and one time I went again both were gone I know people bought those games and I feel bad for them cause if that happened to me I of course would be mad
Please answer I want to know if this applies to diamond pearl and platinum right? The red casing? I've been scammed twice and after that I'm researching a lot through reddit pokeforums and youtube. I'm not going to buy online again I'm gonna do meet ups or search for it in gamestores
my counterfeit definitely worked on my 3ds however it crashed at the game corner which is pretty common apparently. Really the best way to know is the cart's reddish transparency and the ntr-031 coding. (for hg/ss)
Thank you for this. I’m planning to try and buy a copy of Heartgold tomorrow and I wanna make sure it’s legit. I really wanna shiny hunt, but I’m scared Nintendo might ding me if I move a shiny from a counterfeit game into a more modern game. I’m not sure if they can tell, and I really don’t wanna find out the hard way
I'm currently bidding on a zelda link between worlds cartridge and noticed the CE logo looks weird, like it's been drawn on The horizontal line in the middle of the C extends out beyond the edge of itself if that makes sense
I just checked and my Heart Gold copy is fake but it plays exactly the same (I even got a shiny totodile!) Does this mean there will be negative implications at some point for my game or the cartridge just isn't authentic?
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I got a copy of pokemon heartgold from Amazon and I have a counterfeit version. I speny 100$ on it in 2020. Now I understand why certain functions did not work
There are no real copies that are available for cheaper than 200 or 6000 dollars. Some are even more expensive than that, in fact. Don't even bother looking anymore. It's impossible.
@@lunareclipsegaming2198 same from my bootleg heartgold cart, luckily i could exchange ot at the store i bought it from and they had a copy of soulsilver for 70 euros which thanks to this vid I knew to be true by looking at it and comparing it to the bootleg copy in front of the vendor. He was seething lol.
I believe so. I have it and I got it from Target and Pokemon does not change designs based on retailers. Also, I have a discord channel where you can post photos of your games and we can see if they are real or not
My Pokémon soul silver I bought on launch isn’t faded since I’ve always kept it in a case when I wasn’t playing. It does have lots of small scratches on it though that you can see if you hold it up to the light.
hey so i buy reproduction cards which are basically the actual game inside a fake cartridge so are these technically not counterfeit? they allow me to trade, have every single feature on an official one, they allow me to transfer pokemon up as well.
PokeObsession i don’t own the poke walker but i’ve been able to transfer my pokemon from emerald all the way to my real pokemon black i bought in store
Hey, i was looking for soul silver or heart gold online most seem to be copies do you know any pokemon game sellers online that probably will sell the real game for under 100$?
$50-65. Lately, $100. Here is a video that talks a little bit about fake games and real game cost: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eyfiPxCjzCA.html
Hey, hi, I have a question. My parents brought me Pokemon platinum back a few months ago, and then brought me another one from Gamestop, I think. My old one froze on me before the first gym, and when I poped it in the second time my DS2XL couldn't read it, I tried and tried and it wont go. I'm playing my clean not dirty or the sticker not look like is piling off one but I'm still 98% sure is real. I think I'm overreacting to nothing. Please help if you can.🤔
I just bought Soulsilver off Amazon to avoid getting a fake. I paid around $100 but it was *WORTH IT* since these games are the best of the franchise so I was willing to pay a bit more (normally I wouldn't pay more than $5o).
I know this video is 4 years old now but I wanted to point out another detail that can help people tell if their game is fake or legit. At 2:45 when you showed the back of the cartridges, for some reason a lot of fakes will have a number "13" on the green part on the pins. You can see on your fake cartridge it has the number 13 on the pins while the real cartridge doesn't. Not all fakes have this but for some reason a lot of them do. Edit: Also on the back of the cartridges, the Nintendo logo on the fake is different. On real Nintendo logos, the i is dotted with a square while on fakes, the i is dotted with a circle
My Soulsilver is exactly the same as your real one... but that raises more questions for me. My Soulsilver cartridge is completely undetectable on my 3DS and has a hard time getting detected on my DSi XL. At first I figured it was a fake, but now I'm thinking the cartridge is just in bad condition. Thanks for verifying. It's a shame, though. I might have to find a different way to play. Even on the DSi XL, it's difficult to play without the cartridge detaching, causing me to lose hours of progress...
Not sure if this is across both or my 3DS being old but the one I have is fake and freezes very often. I have cleaned it and the port and it has been less frequent but stil happens a lot.
Maldito Alcaraz I am sorry to hear that! If it’s an old game, either game stop or a reselling store. There is Mercari and eBay, but that’s where the fakes can come from, since those markets are saturated with Ali express products.
Maldito Alcaraz you can find it at GameStop, in the Pre Owned DS Games Display case section, or try to find it on ebay, but make sure you look at the pictures very carefully, and make sure the seller has 100% feedback on their ebay account, and make sure the seller’s item location is located in the United States, and not Hong Kong or China
@@ThisGuyDannyyy sadly game stop also sells fake versions of heart gold and soul silver. Bought mine last week from my local game stop and I just saw this video and realized that the one that I bought was a fake copy.
You can only buy it if 1. You're a millionaire, B. You sell ALL of your worldly possessions, home, game consoles, games, blood, organs, hair and maybe most of your friends and families' possessions, then get 40 different jobs and work every single one of them 24/7 for the next twenty years to eventually get the money necessary to buy it. Can't do any of those things? Then sorry, you'll never be getting a real copy.
hey! i still hope this is active, but i have a question about a certain thing that happened to me today. i decided to play my heartgold once again on my ds lite (the cartridge is authentic, the game itself was very often ran on this ds smoothly) and everything was fine at first - it booted up quickly, there were no problems, everything seemed to work. that was until i selected to continue my save file, but it stayed on two black screens even after a minute. this never happened to me before. the game ran without any problems before and i did nothing to corrupt it. thankfully my 3ds had no problems with booting the save file, so i hope this was just a problem with the ds lite, not with the game. however, i’d like to hear any thoughts on this - if this is just my ancient ds lite finally retiring or maybe it’s possible that the game itself has some problems. thanks in advance!
Got a a copy of black 2 coming in from mercari, seller is confirmed and they have overall good reviews so hopefully it's legit! They weren't hesitant to show signs of it's authenticity and even had on gloves to prevent finger printing the cartridge I presume
I bought my heart gold with the walker for around $35 on eBay. It came with the box and I thought that was a steal, this was back in 2012. I bought white 2 on eBay again brand new with box and it even had the plastic wrap on it back in 2015 for around $40. I bought a platinum on eBay again but for $30 I believe around in 2014 also. Watching this video I somehow knew my platinum was a fake but it plays really well. This video also made realize I bought those games for a good price all those years ago
From what I found, ds fake copies are actually good quality. They’re fake of course, but some sellers actually do a good job reproducing the game and so far I’ve found only one glitch and that was with voltorb coin flip. Of course some copies are crappy and will crash on you. If you’re lucky, you can get a good quality fake for a good price, if you don’t care about purchasing a fake for a cheap price.
@@segunthepikachufan1470 Those are probably fake too. No one sells real copies of the game. They're selling fake ones and trying to scam you out of your money with a game that's just gonna crash on you.
I got a pre-owned pearl and I thought it was real untill I watched this the cartridge was blue black and not black I had to take it back to game stop thanks for the tips!
Wait, so Pokémon Diamond and Pearl had black cartridges too? Because I have both Diamond & Pearl, but they’ve never frozen on me. I even did the Void Glitch and transferred Darkrai and Arceus to Gen 6. The cartridges are not black, they’re gray
@@Foxy_Playz05 Just wanted to add my 2 cent - I was curious and checked against all of my cartridges which were all bought when the games came out (I was a very meticulous child and decided to keep all of my games and cases including the pokewalker stuff) and can confirm that this criteria only fits for HGSS specifically. My cartridges are also gray. Unfortunately, there appears to be some ambiguity floating around in the comment section.
@@jacklyons6174 Yeah I found that out too. The cartridges for Diamond/Pearl and I believe Platinum were gray and when HG/SS and the gen 5 games released, they were changed to Black
CJCroen1393 I called multiple games stops for Either soul silver or heart gold and after about 3 game stops one of them said they had soul silver and they hold on to it till I got there and it was like 40-50 dollars which is a good price
@@regulardudesrankingchannel5871 GameStop's website currently says both games are unavailable, and besides, the Current Event That Shall Not Be Named means I probably can't go to one. Not to mention their copies of HGSS can also turn out to be fake. In all likelihood, if by some miracle the games magically became available, I'd have to waste time and money sifting through fifty+ fakes before finally getting a real one.
Daughter bought a used Heartgold from the mall, complained it didn't fit correctly, its a grey casing, font and font placement on the back looks wrong, no IR sensor, screen goes black at the same spot but the music keeps playing (probably a copy protection check fail).
From what I found, ds fake copies are actually good quality. They’re fake of course, but some sellers actually do a good job reproducing the game and so far I’ve found only one glitch and that was with voltorb coin flip. Of course some copies are crappy and will crash on you. If you’re lucky, you can get a good quality fake for a good price, if you don’t care about purchasing a fake for a cheap price.
Sorry to hear that! Here is a video on transferring Pokemon from fake games to Pokemon Home: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dyz2mufiDy8.html
@@sergentpugsley5137 There are NO good quality fakes of HGSS at all, though! ALL fake copies of HGSS are glitchy and worthless! The only way to get a copy that works is to pay 200+ dollars for it.
Not sure if my Soul Silver is fake but I believe it is, no problems in the game apart from the screen went black randomly a couple of times also the cartridge is a light grey compared to my HG cartridge being black and the SS doesn’t fit in the 3DS properly it’s stiff to get out.
Mines definitely a fake but what are the problems with it as gaming wise? I’ve gotten to the Kanto region and still haven’t had a problem with it? Does it glitch or something?
therer is almost nothing with it of course you can't trade and online funtion is non existing . (which pokemobn is famous for) Does it crash/glitch or not depend on the prices and the quality of the card, if you are lucky, nothing is wrong, if is like $10, expect it to crash at anytime
I bought a fake one that worked completely fine till one day I pressed my save file and both screens where black but there was still music. What weirded me out was that it worked on my 3ds? Is there a way to fix this?
Does the 3ds work without the game? If everything works, Here is a video on how to transfer pokemon from a fake game to Pokemon Home: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dyz2mufiDy8.html
this video helped a lot. thank you! I was hoping if you were going to show the back of the soul silver game so I could compare the numbers on the bottom. But I am sure that my copy is legit since it checked off everything.
Another way to tell is by playing it in a 3ds. At least that's what I overheard a seller explaining to a person that their copy was fake. It wont play in a 3ds
This sucks cuz I got a heart gold copy on EBay for like $30-$40 and it would freeze pretty often and I found out it’s counterfeit ☹️ sucks cuz I’ve never played it before and was really looking forward to it
Another way to tell if a Pokémon game is fake... Look at all of the letters on the bottom right on the front. The four middle letters should match four letters on the back.
hey i know i am a year late but if my game is fake is that bad or can i still play the full game i am considering if im going to buy a fake one cause they are cheaper
Well, I've recently bought a HeartGold cartridge, and I've only found out that it's counterfeit from watching this video... here's hoping I can get my money back now
My Pokemon platinum cartridge is gray, I've checked all the other hints that could lead me to find out whether it's fake or legit and it seems to be legit but idk cause of the cartridge's color
I would say the same principles apply: Same graphic design and logo quality. Cartridge has to be black, never grey (when heartgold/soulsilver and Gen 5 games).
