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I just bought a whole n64 lot from my local retro store with 4 games, 2 controllers, and it’s the n64 jungle variant for $200 and I had no worries if anything was fake but it’s good to know these signs for fakes, thank you!
Damn dude I didnt get any games from my local shop but I only paid 55 for the system and a brand new 3rd party controller since the first 2 OEMs got stick drift within a couple days of speed running super mario 64
@@eljames4741 idk if their country wide but a local place called disc traders is where I found it...I was surprised when they said that price...gamecube are only I think 80 there with cables and controller lol if your that big of an enthusiast it may or may not be worth the drive
I bought a jap version with 2 controllers.. off market place for $5 homeboy brought it my house. I tried to give him $8 Bing Bing's he would not except it. Gave me a nice computer bag with it. The av plug was bent down but I have a extra one. I sold it for $45.00 since I only paid a Abraham for it 😋🍭
There are some interesting things you mention here that I wasn't aware of but ultimately the following 3 are all anyone really needs to do to test and see if it's real 1) The double digit back label stamp (you mentioned), 2) check the black cartridge guard in the slot for a short serial number stamp, if it's there it's real, if it isn't it's not (not mentioned in vid) 3) Open up the cartridge with the 3.8 mm gamebit BUT forget checking the inside of the case for serials and just simply check the gameboard itself to see if it has the Nintendo logo on it. No fake has the Nintendo logo on the board and this test ultimately proves whether or not the heart of the game itself is real. The last one is the one that IMHO makes all others irrelevant, but I use the other 2 for a quick test in situations where cracking open the cartridge is not practical.
Just a heads up, there are several authentic games like mortal kombat, offroad challenge or rush 2, that were published by midway or a 3rd party publisher that have the white border around the ESRB label, but are still authentic.
There are dozens and dozens of games that have a white boarder around the ESRB label. The video is wrong about using that as a way to identify fake games.
Everything mentioned here is great advice *except* for the labels being off-center. My copies of DK 64 and Tonic Trouble are authentic, but over time (likely from a warmer environment) they've shifted slightly to the left. To anyone using this video as a way of spotting fakes, I recommend not focusing on the labels and only on the other tips.
I agree I have originals that pass the authenticity test right down to the Nintendo logo on the Gameboard itself, but the labels are just slightly off center. The "i" dot has also proven to be unreliable as well. I have a fake of Diddy Kong Racing that has a square above the "i".
Similar thing with my XG2 cartridge - one of the two games I got with my console around '99 or so. It has everything else legit such as the physical number stamps, but both the labels are off-center, with the front label being almost all the way to the side of the label area. And apparently the top edge of one of the halves of that cart is starting to turn yellow like the outside of my old SNES!
Lmfao. I bought my $20 repro well knowing it was a repro, but I just wanted to practice bomb clip. Btw, your Owless tutorial is absolutely amazing, thank you.
@@baigandinel7956Well, no. In Spanish you use «e» instead of «y» if the word starts with an “i” sound in Spanish (just like the word «y»). You can notice it a little at 2:11 how both versions have the e.
Thanks to this video, I was able to figure out if the cartridge I wanted to buy was fake or real. Good news it’s an authentic cartridge! Which are so hard to find on eBay these days.
not all the labels are perfectly aligned the machine used had 1 to 2mm variance in the factory. i know i have seen one operate. also you need to remove the shield to check pbc to be sure if it a real or fake.
Thanks! I found out my copies of Yoshi’s Story and the Banjo games were fake. At least games like Ms Pac-Man Maze Madness aren’t in high demand, so fakes are practically impossible to find
ended up getting a copy of Pokémon stadium 2 for like $50 and wanted to double check i didn't get finessed considering this game sells for about $80 or more at the shops.
Good tips but I think the label centering is a bit questionable. They were hit & miss with the centering originally, some you see an off-center label but it's real.
@@Drogie you helped me BIG time I thought I knew Nintendo 64 games . I sell on ebay and had a customer to ask about some cartridges I have for sale. whether they are fake or authentic. Straight up repros 😂
@@syxxpoppin8830 lmfao well if you ever need more specific help, hmu on discord drogie#5170 . Either way I am really glad you care about your sales on ebay. Ebay needs more good sellers like you 🔥
One thing to note, opening the cartridge is the best way to know for sure. I have run across real cartridges but the front label had been replaced with an aftermarket repro because the original was damaged or peeled off. So would you count that as a fake or real?
Now i need to control my Mario 64 copy... but honestly, if it would turn out to be fake, I don't think that would be such a problem considering the Nintendo 64 reads it perfectly
so I have a cartridge of MM and there is a slightly thicker boarder around the everything logo, the I on the nintendo logo is circular, the text on the back is smaller and the font is different, and the stickers are placed perfectly. but the back sticker and the nintendo seal of quality colors are fine. its also a gold cartridge that has glitter for some reason.
@Drogie's N64 Videos: Since I don't have my N64, and neither my copy of Super mario 64 I don't remember if it did have does problem, I Remember that my Super mario 64 came out of an official Super mario 64 box, but that does not mean the cartridge was not fake, and at the time if you just play the game it does not really matter as long it was still the real Super mario 64, and not just a modified game version of Super mario 64. It only matter if your a collector that want to re-sell the collected copy, or just a collecter, for the purpose of collecting cartridge without selling them, it is prefered to have the legit copy. If you just want to play it it does not matter from what I said before and also it also does not matter since back then Super mario 64 can't play online, since their was no online conectivity so it was impossible to get banned from the online services because of using a fake copy of Super mario 64, even thought their was no diffrence in the game play then the original game. this is also why it was not a big deal to used Game shark, to used hack in the game compare to the modern area.
BEST way to check is cartridge is real: Look at the bottom letters on the bottom of the front label, the authentic circuit board will have the EXACT same letters. Ex: NUS-NTEE-USA is for 1080° and the circuit board will also have NTEE to match! Can't find any videos explaining this fact anywhere...
Seems like it could be a reasonable pronunction of semicolon but whenever we have semi or demi it's like reading two different words and the stress goes there. SEmi colon. People are sort of forgetting what they are anyway.
Oh the dot on the i on Nintendo for my copy of Mario 64 is sqare but all other signs indicate it's fake. I think the people making these are also catching up to us just as we are catching up to them.
My parents got me a reproduction cart by accident on my birthday but like I knew it was fake because it didn't even have a sticker on the back. It's still the game though so I don't really mind that much
Thanks for the vid! I just found out my sm64 cartridge was fake using this video lol. Where do these cartridges actually come from? I got mine on eBay but who is actually making them? Also would using these cartridges for runs make those runs invalid for submissions? Just wondering if I need to buy a real cartridge or not now. Thanks!
Lol, sorry you had to find that out 😆 They are mostly made in China from what I know. It doesn't make a difference for speedrunning though, so don't worry 😉
Dkoldies told me that one way to check if mine was a fake is if the dot on the “i” was a square it would be real, but i see that the nintendo logo is a bit off and the seal of quality isnt gold
I checked all my cartridges every thing looked legit on my Mario kart 64 but the stickers are kinda misplaced It is my uncles so I hope that was just aging, I also found out one of my 007s are fake. 😖
Thanks it turned out my cartage of SM64 is fake and checked off 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and i did not check the inside of the cartage but thanks a lot!
Thanks for tip.....Been playing "reproduction" games for some time...all work 100%, not sure I want to pay twice the amount for a real game, since the repros seem to work fine.
this made me realize i had a very old copy of super Mario 64 it passed all the checks as real but it said 1996 as copyright and no -1 after NUS-USA/CAN it also said patent issued a pending see booklet without the U.S.PATENTS i assume this means my copy is a very old copy made in 1996
Thanks, now I annoyingly notice almost all legit cartridges misspell the french words "Manuel" and "À" It's supposed to be an accent grave (`) Nintendo, YOU MISSPELT A ONE LETTER WORD
Bruh, today i buy a SM64 Cartridge, and when i get home i see that the i of the nintendo was circle and not square, thanks for give me the information Man, next time i will be carefully with this things
I have a copy of banjo tooie where it seems everything is authentic except the label stickers. The lettering under the red nintento logo on the front is black, most of of the lettering on the front is pretty blurry and the picture looks too clean. Back label has no stamp and no accent on the "A" in the french sentence... but the cart has a square for the "i" in nintendo and after opening up both the cart and board look legit. I wonder if repro's are just getting better or if it's just the labels.
My copy of Tooie also has black text on front label where it says NUS-006 (USA) with everything else being legit. The back label may have simply worn out over time. The À or Á (I've seen both) is very small and sometimes hard to see
Yeah but is there original stickers people selling on eBay might sell some people can just maybe buy them at the original sticker is it for sale on eBay and make them look new but look like not the reproduction cartridge
Hey my sister got me a copy of Pokemon snap for my b day and the sticker on the back is not perfectly laid but everything else cheks out should I be worried none of my cards have the sticker laid perfectly on the back except one. Some of them were my mom's from when she was a kid and some of them were my dad's from when he was I doubt there would have been that many fakes going around at the time but the Pokemon snap copy was sold to my sister at phan ex. factory error or fake?
It'd be really difficult (and probably expensive) to fake them well enough so that no one would notice, especially because they'd look "too new" anyway.
ok so my cousins gave me a n64 ok and i was having alot of fun, i saw a video of a guy buying fake n64 games on amazon and he said that to tell if they were fake the picture would be blurry and it wouldnt fit perfectly in the space the picture is supposed to go so then i checked a few videos to see if my copy of sm64 was real or fake, im pretty sure its fake because everything you said in this video was like my copy, i would open it but i dont have the screwdriver for the job. I am now pretty sad to know this information. But i just have 1 question, since my game is fake, then are there any in-game differences? it would really help if you responded quickly.
Hey Drogie I know that with the N64 Console you are able to save your games through a Memory PAK Card that does on the back of your controller but I was just wondering.. Are you able to save your Game Data on the Fake Reproduction cartridges ? I plan on buying Mario Party 2
Wow I just realized the only N64 game that is fake is Mario 64. I bought it on eBay. But honestly, as long as it works from start to finish, I don't really mind. I got a small collection going but I'm in no way planning to have a full library. That would cost too much, plus demand a lot of space. Do you guys think this fake copy of Mario 64 will last me long?
I found a Mario 64 cartridge on eBay everything looks good except I think the bottom text is red but the image is to blurry to make sure should I buy it?
So I got a game recently that I thought was fake I opened it and matched it to my 2 copy and the circuit board was identical but the outside of the game look too new can it be fake
i assume you got it on ebay? i could imagine the cart was dirty or something, so he put the game into a 3rd party cartridge case. which is a good solution imo
Hey, I have got to fake games that I was hoping to b real games, they r Super Mario 64 & Mario Kart 64 but they won't save, I replaced all the cards & they still don't work, I heard that it's cause their copied versions of the game, I bought them from eBay.
Yeah, I makes me mad & sad cause I wanna play far n the games but I can't when I'm done cause their not saving & I'd love to find the real copies of the games so I can play them & them save.
The biggest issue with the mass produced reproductions coming out of China is that they are consistently inconsistent for quality control standards. You can get some games that will perform just like the original and last years and you can get others that freeze up mid game, lose game saves, etc. all within the first year of purchase. Among the variables: 1) How much testing was done on them? 2) What ROM did they use for the flash? (there are a lot of hacked and beta versions out there 3) What type of game save do they use? (ie Memory Pak/Rumble Pak, EPROM, EEPROM, SRAM, Flash RAM or RTC). S-RAM and Flash RAM/RTC are the "blink and it's gone" type memory saves and Flash RAM was well known for being expensive and difficult to implement. Definitely not something I would trust a cheaply made flashboard to hold for any length of time. Bottom line AVOID REPROS OF FLASH RAM OR RTC GAMES like Paper Mario, Pokemon Stadium 2, Megaman 64 as there are definitely cases of these Repros ending up with wiped game saves within a year of purchase. The cheaper plastic that the cases are made out of, the fact that they don't even bother screwing the metal plating or the fact that the cheaper cases are often machined slightly off (don't line up right when you try to put them back together) don't inspire one with confidence either. Look into cosmetically flawed originals, Japanese versions (some are very English friendly and much cheaper than their US Counterparts) or invest in an Everdrive or make your own Repros (ie Retro Stage Blaster) as the quality of the board is significantly better and you can source the ROM for yourself. All of the aforementioned are better alternatives to the mass produced Repros.
I need your help bro so I recently bought a few Nintendo 64 games including 2 Conker's bad fur.... previous owner told me one is fake the other is legit... I open them up and both of them look legit. I asked him which is fake he said I really can't tell which one is which .
@@Drogie I will send some tomorrow after work I will like to sell on eBay but. If they fake I am trying to screw no one over ... Thank you for responding!
Thanks for posting this, my brother and I have been playing Banjo-Kazooie for the first time and we just realized our copy of the first game is fake :/ Now we know, we had suspicions because the chip was white instead of the yellow/gold of the others
damn both my pokemon stadium 2 and mario 64 are fake. i was gonna try to fix my stadium 2 cause it stopped working but theyre fakes so there isnt any reason to fix it just buy a real one
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