Authentic Pokemon FireRed - How to Tell the DIFFERENCE between FAKE vs REAL? Close Comparison Video
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2021
- This is a close up comparison of Fake Pokemon Fire Red Copy and an Authentic one to help you identify the difference between them and avoid overpaying for a FAKE COPY of this game. The fake game costs about 5-15$ depending on where you are getting for and as of today, an Authentic Pokemon FireRed costs about $80 in average.
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Also as far as i know And have tested it myself fake copies aren’t compatible with pal park (the DPPT/HGSS cartridge won’t recognize the fake)
Thank you! I'll pin this comment!
@@pokeboy14a I can’t 100% confidently say it will work for FRLG but I tested it with Emerald and Ruby fakes and real ones so there it definitely doesn’t work if it’s fake
@@Kronos327 I see that, I haven't played through the fake gba games so I don't know.
@@Kronos327 Correct. When you try to migrate to DPPlHGSS from a 3rd gen fake game, the option to migrate doesn't appear. I found this the hard way, I didn't know I had a fake FR, luckily I bought two of each 3rd gen game before prices skyrocketed.
@@pokemonoruns ah I figured; thanks for the confirmation!
Dude I appreciate your videos so much. You’re the best person to go to for this
thank you! i try my best!
From stated authentic cartridges I’ve seen they can come with or without the circle around Nintendo.
yup you are right! ill have to update this video. Thank you!
@@pokeboy14a Thank you!! had a mini heart attack lmao
The Cartridge with the 2001 is Version 1.0. The one with the circle around Nintendo with no 2001 is Version 1.1
I'm starting to think that my LeafGreen copy with a Deoxys and a lvl. 50 Pikachu in a master ball before badge 3 may not be authentic
unless they were traded in
could be an authentic copy, just gamesharked in
I've seen original carts that don't have the circle around, instead it says "2001 Nintendo©"
Really? Does it check out the rest of the characteristics of the cart?
@@pokeboy14a yeah, it doesn't have the black circle, the board looks ok.
Ok now I have more info, the boards have 2 variants, AGB-E02-20 (Nintendo without circle) and AGB-E02-30 (Nintendo with circle). I hope that helps.
@@Ludanc0 thank you! That's awesome information!
@@Ludanc0 got it! I’ll update this information with my leaf green review. I found the 2 variants!
Thank you! I have a few of these and have always suspected some were fake (and your video showed me which were), so thank you!
Anyone see that also the card shapes are different too like by the pins the corners the real had rounded edges while the fake is pointed
Thanks me and my dad are getting fire red and leaf green soon so this will help us
good luck pokemon hunting!
thank you so much. I've just gotten the idea that my copy that I bought used a few years ago could be repro and decided to check using your video.
Gladly mine is real. :)
I have one I bought right when the game was released and so must be authentic. However, inside the cartridge, there is no circle around 'Nintendo' and to the left it says copyright 2001. Also the is no manufacturing number on the front. The back is a completely different story. It looks exactly like the authentic one you showed. 4 windows on the left side, thinner text for 'Made in Japan' and none of the large dots.
That should be a version 1.0 Fire Red. I have one too.
I have a copy that has the yellowish red color but the inside looks exacly like the authentic and plays like an authentic too. My best guess is the original shell was replaced with a fake.
most likely, or the sticker was repro.
inside mine is agb e02 20 and the nintendo logo is not circled. My stamp is 12 and it says 2001 near nintendo. I know it's a real copy though because I purchased this in the pokemon center in ny the first day it came out. The line was crazy! Any idea on how much i can sell it for? It's in very good shape
Everything seems fine with mine, im curious about the nintendo seal though because it has a green coloring to it. Internally is fine and trades with other carts as well.
Mine looks legit when you open it but the back of the green shell says 2001 before the Nintendo and the back has a little gold circle with a line so is it fake ?
Ok so far the only thing that your videos tells me about mine is the sticker is a yellow ish red and it doesn’t have those designs on the front in the foreign letters but everything else is the same as authentic the 4 windows on the back and circle around the Nintendo inside the cartridge
So mine looks the exact same as your real one but the black square thing on the right is smaller on mine? Could that just mean it’s been fixed before?
perfect video for buying old games much thanks !
How much can you get for an authentic firered game? I mean only the cartridged, also second hand as I have been playing on it since like 2010
What happens if the game fits 2 of the requirements? Does that mean it’s real or fake?
Mine passed everything but the cover numbers 🤨
Dude thank you!
Damn I got a fake one from eBay and just now know. Oh well... for 15 bucks it played like the real one and provided me some entertainment. Anyone know if the fakes ones can trade pokemon, hunt shinies, etc...?
So is (the save file is ok) the universal way of knowong if the game is fake. Are there any fake versions that dont say that and just load straight through?
Was looking at a copy of fire red online and noticed the motherboard looked slightly different from other gba Pokémon carts. Main thing I noticed was there was no battery so I was quite skeptical. But this video confirms that it’s really real
Ok so I opened up my gba cartage and there was a year (2001) and the Nintendo logo on the board but it has no circle around it. The rest of the board looks like the authentic but could I have some help?
you can send it on my insta, but it is most likely legit if everything checks out. there were 2 variants.
Any chance a real one has the Nintendo logo that ISNT circled when you look down the cart? Everything else about mine looks real but isn’t circled on the Nintendo
yes I missed that but it still could be legit. I covered it on my leafgreen i believe.
@@pokeboy14a thanks!
where could i buy one? do you have any suggestions beside amazon?
check ebay and look for the characteristics ive pointed out on the video. maybe ill have some for sale def check out my insta and ebay at pokeboy14. thank you!
Hey thanks for your video, you just saved me $20 cash !
First second of rhe video
Me: Do he like pokemon??Hmmm
(extra sarcasm)
For real, good vid. Thanks for the help.👍
So you can't use pal park with fakes but can you trade?
Does it matter if it isn’t authentic? Like, does it still play the same or is it like messed up in gameplay??
Everything checks out on mine except on the front it has the year, your authentic one doesn’t. I’ve also looked at several real ones and they all have the year on the front too “2001 Nintendo”
yup apparently there were 2 versions, so yes still authentic as long as everything else checks out! :)
Same with mine although mine didnt have the year, I was super worried that it would be a fake and I got scammed but apparently not! Thank you so much guys!
For the record, there are authentic FireRed cartridges without the circle around “Nintendo” on the bottom. However, the font on the fake in this video is all wrong.
Welp game store thought they had a fake fire red. They wasnt told about how to spot a real one. The label was peeled off. Scored Fire Red for $20 today.
Thats really luck especially considering the average price of the real one
Gg 👍
i didn’t open mine up but besides that everything is like the authentic but the only thing is on the front it doesn’t have a letter and number is only has the number “11” is that still authentic ?
Yes.
I bought one and everything checks out except it doesn’t have the numbers carved on top the Nintendo seal. The motherboard looks exactly like the authentic one. Should I be worried?
i think it should be dine as long as the rest looks the same. there were 2 versions of these. i have to remake one showing both i think.
@@pokeboy14a Thanks for the reply, great video btw.
@@codeA7Xjuan14 thank you for your support!
Good to know mines real
Glad to hear! Thank you for your support!
I ended up buying a bootleg shell with a genuine card inside.
as long as its genuine, it should be safe for gameplay :)
Mine looks the same as the authentic it just doesn’t have a manufacturing number, is it still authentic?
I know my emerald is authentic but I question my firered because of the lack of manu number.
hhmmm not sure, maybe someone replaced the sticker if all the inside looks the same.
@@pokeboy14a It otherwise might be a new shell?
@@SharkBytesss possibly if inside are all the same with my carts.
I recently purchase Fire/Red from a local retro shop and it has the message: “The Internal Battery Has Run Dry. The game can still be played, however clock-based events will no longer occur.”
This message comes up as soon as you start up the game. Everything looked good, the shop sold it as genuine, I just thought it needed a new battery.
But it turns out the game doesn’t use a battery, it saves to internal flash memory and has no time based events either.
So if that message is present in Fire/Red, does that mean the game is a bootleg copy?!
It does use a battery though, that is a real thing... Not sure in your case, but yeah the battery thing is actually used
You are telling me I got a shiny charizard in a fake?,
My copy seems to have 00 for the ingraved logo, I don’t see no letters or any other ingraved numbers besides those 2 “00” and on the inside it has the 2001 Nintendo with no circle E02-20 everything else seems okay. Is it authentic?
it should be authentic, some get two digits, some has letter and digits.
@@pokeboy14a mines located by the Nintendo logo on the bottom right corner. It seems legit, I was simply checking it again because today I bought a gameboy with sapphire and right off the bat it didn’t have any markings at all and the official Nintendo logo looked slightly blurry and the back panel didn’t look right. I ended up buying it thinking maybe it was like that but I knew then something was wrong because there was no engraved numbers or letters. I took an L today. So sad. Thank you for the quick reply you’re awesome
Does the 2001 version not have the circle around the nintendo on the motherboard?
i think so, theres 2 variants
@@pokeboy14a mines doesn't but it's legit. I believe the players choice is the one with the circle around it and the 2001 doesn't.
So how do they comparing in gameplay?
Pretty much the same gameplay. Some reports of problem w trades but it doesn't crash the game.
With the fake ones, can you still transfer your Pokémon to gen 4?
im no so sure, ive seen reports that it can but it can mess up both the fake and the legit gen 4 games
Conclusión - 4 rectangles on the back and no weird solder marks🤣
Omg my fire red i had for years is fake... this is a terrible realization 😭
im sorry to hear that!
Would a fake one have the 4 squares in the back?
nope it should be
1:01 The one on the far right looks authentic to me.
You got it! Good luck pokemon hunting! Thank you for your support!
For real ones, the Nintendo doesn't necessarily have the circle around it.
Mine is real apparently! Lets go! Haha
my cartridge is genuine thank fuck. i was so worried it was a fake. didn’t even know about the Nintendo logo on the motherboard!! (fire red if anyone asks what cartridge)
glad to hear that!
Im here because gamestop is selling fake carts
So there are gba pokemon games that are legitimate AND dont have a battery?
yup only for leafgreen and firered. There are no emerald, ruby, or sapphire without battery. thank you for your support!
Just so you know, the GBA Pokemon games only needed batteries to count the time / day cycles for in-game events; the saves were tied to flash memory.
Fire Red and Leaf Green do not require the use of time or day cycles so batteries were not required and saves were still being saved to memory.
Every game before that (RBGY/GSC) for the Gameboy used an internal battery for saving as it was before the use of flash memory.
I recently purchase Fire/Red from a local retro shop and it has the message: “The Internal Battery Has Run Dry. The game can still be played, however clock-based events will no longer occur.”
This message comes up as soon as you start up the game. Everything looked good, the shop sold it as genuine, I just thought it needed a new battery.
But it turns out the game doesn’t use a battery, it saves to internal flash memory and has no time based events either.
So if that message is present in Fire/Red, does that mean the game is a bootleg copy?!
yes, it means they put the game on a chip incapable of holding data without power however the official chips had no batteries nor crystals to maintain time.@@AddcamDX
theres also other tell tales of chips that are pretty obvious without playing the game, like the nintendo "windows" and the stamped serial on the cartridges and often times (unless cart swapped) they are hard to read but theres an embossed 3digit number on the face usually on the right, right above the official product seal, repros are fine if you just want to play the game but if saves dont work at all then even those are useless
dont be afraid to call out scammers or uninformed people because a lot of people dont know they arent official.
The copy I have shows everything is legit. Even the Nintendo 2002 on the inside. But the game chip components themselves look different. The annoying part is that CZcamsrs keep showing different variations of “Legit” copies.
what specifically is different? does it have the 4 square window and the 3 circles on the back?
I found out it is fake because of the “Save file is ok” message.
@@lord_beethoven1169 sorry to hear that.
Sold mine for 3 bucks smh did my research on how much they're worth after the fact
firered loose is $100 now. tough lesson to learn man! good luck on your other ventures!
can you still trade with fakes and transfer pokemons to banks?
Mines fake
oh no im sorry to hear that! good luck on your next pokemon hunt! Hope these videos help. Thank you for your support!
@@pokeboy14a Hi. Where can I order a real fire red or emerald? PLEASE SEND A LINK.
@@𝓟𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓙𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭𝓙 unfortunately cant send a link through comments and only ebay sells them now hence me posting these videos to help you identify. good luck!
I've heard from multiple different sources that the insides are different, their should be a battery
Just got a fake one and I’m gutted
Sorry to hear that! hope you check out the rest of my vids to avoid gettin a fake pokemon stuff! Thank you for your support!
Based off of what YugioTube shows, there are 2 authentic releases of Pokémon FireFed: The Players choice, near the contact pins the “i” has a circle around it, Nintendo has a oval around it; E02-30 and the original release shows 2001 Nintendo E02-20:
czcams.com/video/wIk6F7ilnZc/video.html
Yup! I sort of went through the versions on for leafgreen.
Thank you! I’ll make sure to review that.
These are mostly reproduction cartridges not "fakes". It's not like it's a different game inside or it doesn't work.
If it’s not original, it’s fake. any copyrighted product that is not made by their owner are fake. Repros are the cool word used by sellers to charge more for their fake stuff bought cheaply for a dollar or two from other countries.
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