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Today I bought a pirated/fake version of FireRed at GameStop.
.... the sad news is, is that it won't even play. I've tried it in my DS, my GBA, my GBASP, my Dad's GBASP, hell, I even put it in my ARGBA to see if I could load it, but nothing happens. It acts like there's no GBA game inside.
Which sucks. I knew it looked odd, so I was hoping I'd get a sucky foreign remake of the game. Well, it doesn't even work. The cartridge is a little weird. Even the employee noticed that even though it says FireRed on it, it looks like a Ruby game cartridge. But side-by-side with Ruby, it's not even the exact color of that. Uh, here's the cartridges side by side. You can tell by my markings which of the two games are real, and which one is the fake. Here's fake FireRed and real FiredRed side by side, but there's some glare on it. Here's one without glare. It's interesting to note that the fake has Ruby's Nintendo seal. Let's compare on the inside.... You can immediately tell something's different or even wrong on the fake one. There's a .. what looks like a cut out place at the top, and the connectors just don't seem right.. Another version of the picture above Third version of the picture above. This is fake FR and real FR side by side, btw. It's interesting.... but a letdown because the fake doesn't start at all. Tomorrow I'm taking it back to GameStop and getting my money back or swapping it out with a real FireRed, because at $30 it doesn't come cheap. (Seems high but the Pokemon games are still hot and are starting to get hard to find new) And no, they didn't pick this game out for me, so don't rag on the employees or whatever. I picked it out myself, but didn't think it wouldn't work at all. GameStop has been very, very good to me. I don't know why people complain about them so much. It was sorta my own fault on this too, but hey, I wanted to see what it was like! And it was like.... Nothing. :( It's a fake, arrrrrrr!!!!....... Someone wanted to make about a $15 credit. No fair, especially since it doesn't play at all! :( Anything anyone out there can tell me about this thing before I give it back? |
I have never heard of such a thing happening, well, okay, maybe I have before, but I do not know anything about it.
I would not have bought it, as the sticker with the title on it is not reflective, and the cartridge is neither Ruby's nor FireRed's. Just return it and hope for the best. |
Return it and ask them for a refund... and tell them it's a fake that won't work and give them the evidence.
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Why did you buy in the first place if you knew that it was way too different to be legal?
Oh well, if you are lucky, they should take it back and maybe sue the seller. |
Wow, that's pretty fake.
I know, people keep on ranting on about GameStop, they're awesome people, if you hung out with them for about two years, and they call me by my name and i call em' by there names. Damn, i miss Richard,Stupid Egyptian Pr*ck, why'd ya' have to leave GameStop!. :'( |
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GameStop will take it back, because one of the employees that has been there ever since I started going there told me a couple months ago that if I ever got a used game that didn't work or that if I even beat the game I could return it within 7 days and get a full refund. |
That really sucks that some one would sell a fake game to gamestop.
I myself have gotten pirated games but not form there, only off of ebay. |
I have heard of games that are like made for japan that were misprinted in english an distributed out here and they never work on our GBA DS ect because we lack the translator chip or something like that.....this might be one of those games.......
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Wow when I took it to GameStop, I knew they wouldn't say anything about it. I didn't expect someone to buy it and that someone be a fellow PC member and that member post a thread on it.
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I saw a bootleg Emerald version at the nearby EB. I'm on a good enough level with these guys, so I told them about it. The only thing the cashier told me was that as long as it worked and someone bought it, they didn't care. :sleeping:
It didn't even have a green casing. It looked like a regular, grey GBA game with a plain, non-metallic label. |
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What did you do to it maaan? Bad hacking gone wrong or something?? lol wow this is weird and awkward, I dunno what to say or are you just pulling my leg or putting it in context of what someone WOULD say? :P |
It should work. What are you trying to play it on? SP?
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edit: Oh my gosh. You're never gonna believe this! (Except TheAbsol) I tried blowing on it a little, popped it in, and got a scrambled Nintendo symbol. Popped it in again, it recognizes it, and it works. It just says that the save file has been deleted. Wow. I guess it wasn't a fake after all. |
From the pictures of the game someone did some custom work on their GBA and did some work on the cartridge to make it work....or the other thing I put....
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It's a shame that the "Save file was deleted..."... and I'd still like to know why this game cartridge is in this condition. :P It works though, so, uh, there goes my claim to GameStop but I don't have to return it now I guess..... My Mom was wanting to go back to the mall though. =P |
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Since then I've got my Pokemon, saved, took the game out multiple times and tried it and it works... But there IS something different about this game: It keeps telling me "The save file is ok." when I go from the title screen to the Continue screen. In the same fashion as it told me "The save file has been deleted...", only this time "The save file is ok". And it keeps saying that. That's gonna get old after a while and I have owned TWO different FireReds not counting this one and one LeafGreen and I've never received this message over and over... I'm still puzzled with this.. edit: Took it out of my GBA SP and then put it into my regular GBA... It doesn't give me "The save file is ok." or "The save file has been deleted..." It just starts a new game. Maybe I think I know what's going on here. There's something wrong with the save battery, isn't there? Did you try to fix it or something? |
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Basically, this message is the game reporting that the wrong save memory is installed. Instead of the proper 128KB flash memory, your bootleg only has 64KB. Try turning off the system mid-save. Instead of loading the previous data, your save will be erased. It will probably also erase itself after you beat the Elite Four, if I remember correctly. |
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There's not a smiley in the world to depict the way I feel about you right now. P.S. They said Carolina, not California. But maybe you've never lived there anyway. Quote:
Definitely going back to GameStop tomorrow, so TheAbsol if you want it back you can go get it buddy. |
lol, just lol.
Also, MetalMario, you are my hero <3. |
I recently Aquired Brand New working copies of Fire Red, Leaf Green, Emerald and Sapphire. And know where I can get at least one more of each except Fire Red.
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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 |
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 |
pirated games, I got them from amazon all the time (emerald 2x)...
it always gives that opening message: The game can be played. at the bottom, there's a hole/crack that you mentioned it doesn't shine/ wrong color cartridge/ kinda rough cartridge/mine were almost too thick to fit in the consoles it doesn't have: Nintendo 2003 or w/e on the exposed chip that makes contact with the console it has a circular battery in the back, which real games don't have(they use a chip). it erases the data when trying communicate with D/P(DS games)- all DS games need to do to communicate with the GBA slot is have a GBA game in there: that's how you find specific pokemon in specific places with GBA games inside(i.e. fire red + D/P = elekid at the Valley Windworks) - the migrate option in the beginning is absent completely as well. so easy way to erase data in fake pokemon game; put GBA/DS games in, play DS game(D/P) and then just walk or do nothing and save the game, shut off, turn on and select GBA- it deletes itself. |
You could download an Emulator and Game of it.
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It's not even mine. If it was it would still be in my possession because I don't get rid of games I don't play.
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*Reports to authorities*
You got robbed,dude.I am surprised that nobody at the store noticed beforehand that it was fake.Very strange. |
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".
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Mine took it back. Details further below. Quote:
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. Quote:
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. |
Why didn't you sue!!!?
Oh well, Good Luck with your new game, I think... But sue next time, Ok? ;) |
Good outcome I guess, Emerald is an awsome game! And a bit off topic, I bought a copy of Pokémon Blue from my local games store and it was 100% and everything, but that wasn't the thing that got me. It was the name of the the file. It was my name!
Anyway, congrats. Your problem has been solved and I hope you find a copy of Fire Red in the future... That WORKS |
FR and LG, by what I know, do not have Real-time feature, so there shouldn't be a battery.
RS might have, and Emerald has one, for sure. Maybe it's a remake of RS on another coloured cartridge? Find any errors ingame and report them. I already told Nintendo about this. |
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since this is a fire-red you dont have to worry about the clock, but i doubt youll be able to retain a save file for any more than 2 days. its because it uses a dodgy battery. if you manage to replace it (there are guides out there) with a slightly better one, you should be able to play it fine. itll still be fake though. edit: i read the 2nd page and realised you swapped it. well, if you ever get a fake game like that in future, just swap the battery and itll be as good as a real one. my fake emerald still traded fine, it just didnt have a clock or good save retention. |
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Yeah, I got a fake Emerald once. It looked like someone only translated it half way (and that half wasn't well done, either). All the attack names were different, too. Mine was from EBay though. I still have it, but I gave up playing it. It was too difficult to figure out what people were saying, and what attacks/items I had. Glad you got yours resolved though.
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Can I see a few pictures? I just want to see the sucky translation.
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Nice find DDD'SSCEPTILE, I would had done the exact same thing you did. Just return it and get your money back.
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The translation mostly looks like someone who didn't know English well tried to translate it (or they used a bad online translator). So all the translations are at best awkward an at worst look like people put random words together (some not in English...). All the attack names are different too. "Bump" for Tackle, "Fire" for Quick Attack, Mud Slap is "Conf", Focus Energy is "Air", and so on. For items, "Dehypnot" is Awakening, "Valid" is Super Potion, and "Cheese" is Rare Candy. And names are much shorter, so I know its a Japanese game that someone tried to translate and pass off as English. An example of text: "Some leaders are doing strange things! What interesting things can't forget!" Or: "Can use communication station to stay with friends in Shanmu Town!" Here's what it says when you press start at the menu (Which says Pocket Monsters instead of Pokemon): "read the record! line Can play by yourself." I didn't have time to find any really bad ones, since my battery is dieing, but I'm sure you get the idea. I'm fairly early on in this one (second badge, I think), but I was much farther before I restarted, and it only got worse. |
Sounds like an interesting story DDDSceptile. I'm glad you got Emerald instead. But if you want a really good Manglish/fake game, go look up Pokemon Diamond and Jade. I know it's off-topic, but they're wonderful examples of how desperate pirates can get (then again, botching a cart ranks pretty highly on my list...).
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They're poorly translated hacks of 2 Japanese games, Diamond and Jade.
Anyway, thanks. Since when is Cheese a Rare Candy? |
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Will it be possible to at least get a video or something like that? I find it really funny. Hey! What is Pikachu named? Mouse? Rtfce? Pikoo? *****?
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What's in your PokeDEX? Just asking, because this is a pirated game.
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Haha, $30? That's way too much. I saw a $20 one for FireRed/LeafGreen at Wal*Mart over a year ago. I shoplifted it, it was a terrific game. You know, I actually sold the game on ebay after finishing it and selling it for funds for a PSP. Sold it for $22.50 SHIPPED.
The things people on ebay will do.... |
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Easier said, it's 100% fake. I thought it was a FireRed game that you have... but it's Emerald now that I look at it. So many pirates... I saw ShinyGold in a store that I go to buy games in. I LOL'd at the kid who bought it and it was not ShinyGold, it was a p---- game! I really don't understand pirates.
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