lol I have a pirated fire red from China before it even came out in the US (possibly even Japan)....It works, but I haven't played it in forever...problem is it deletes the whole game data if you put the wifi adapter or whatever on it (I've never tried with colosseum/XD) but you can trade with legit r/s/e/fl/lg games. I won't even try pal parking to avoid deletion on my diamond pearl games.
Other differences is the island parts are clearly not completed properly (battle tower is 4 floors and that's it...you don't even get a prize)...dialogues are completely cut short and don't make sense 80% of the time....Some pokemon are ridiculously high (like the scientist who steals the sapphire plate from you fights you both times instead of once....first time he has a lv. 100 mewtwo that kicks your ass and second time he just sucks.) Names are only allowed to be 5 characters long (same for pokemon names e.g. Charmander = CHARM) Move names are weird.
Anyways, I could rant, but that's a pirated game for you XD
Now, see, this is what I was actually hoping to get, but mine was pretty much the same game. I didn't bother playing into it, I didn't want to mess with it much since it went back today.
Ha! A similar thing happened to my cousin. We were in Chinatown and there was a Leafgreen in a Firered coloured cartridge. We bought it out of curiousity. :P
It also had that save file is ok thing, I was a little annoyed at that popping up every single time. >.<'
Well, the people at Gamestop are really nice. I couldn't sell it to Gamestop, so I gave it to some kid for a Christmas present. xD
Yeah, the reason I got this one was because I was curious. (I'm no cat so I'm not dead. =P More like lucky)
Mine took it back. Details further below.
*Reports to authorities*
You got robbed,dude.I am surprised that nobody at the store noticed beforehand that it was fake.Very strange.
Well, it depends on who checked it. As I mentioned, the clerk who got it out for me noticed it looked different than a normal FireRed game.
Just putting it in a GBA and testing it (and if it came on at that time) and seeing the title screen pretty much means it works ok to someone who doesn't know what to look for.
No person at such stores really cares if it's fake. I bought a Pokemon TCG game that turned out to be fake. I asked to see that game, they say "Give me the 15$ cost and it's yours", so what can I say? I was robbed for a game that freezes and kills the data. It says GAME BOY and then Nintondo and a copyright symbol. I found it's fake, went to report it, they test it and say "it works- you play it".
Sounds more like a pawn shop than GameStop, although I always fear what you just mentioned, especially after I got the cartridge to work last night.
Alright, here's the conclusion to this 2 day story.
I took the game and the receipt back to GameStop and waited for them to open. I go in and there's this cute girl I've never seen before at the counter, and the manager guy that was around yesterday was walking around checking things to make sure everything was in order and in place.
So I tell the girl I got it yesterday but it doesn't work. She asks for my receipt, no questions. She tells me that since I got the sale discount for 2 other games, that I'd have to pick another out to swap FakeRed out with.
So I go and look.... the two real FireRed games that were yesterday are gone! They must've sold them which means the GBA Pokemon games are still very hot (no pun intended).
So I had to settle for Emerald, which is fine. It cost more but she said that I could pay the monetary difference, which was about $5. Ok, there were more customers, so the guy who got the FakeRed game yesterday got my Emerald out, and I told him that the FakeRed game didn't work too, so maybe they'll check it out later.
Either way, it went extremely smooth, no problems whatsoever, and the new Emerald works....
And has a LOAD of player data on it. The guy's name is "Landon" and he's beat the E4 and got a bunch of Pokemon and the 3 Legends of RSE (Rayquaza, Groudon,Kyogre).
Problem is is that he also must've cheated a little or something cuz he has 5 Bad Eggs. =P On two of them the settable icons (heart, circle, etc.) is glitched. When I go to the "Move Items" menu, those two have a '?' item that's like a little image of MissingNo. lol.
I tried to view the status of one of the BAD Bad Eggs, and the game froze and made that weird crackling noise that you've probably heard when playing around with Action Replay..
He's got a bunch of stuff on here. I'm gonna look around some more, MAYBE trade some of his Pokemon off onto my game as a memento, then I'm gonna start a new game and try SRing for shiny starters.
So, that ends the adventures of the bootleg FireRed, AKA "FakeRed". Maybe they'll call the person who originally turned it in and see what happens.
