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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2021
- I FOUND BOXED POKEMON GBA GAMES AT A VIDEO GAME STORE WHAAAAAAT!
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i got a real pokemon leaf green at a garage sale for $5 i was so excited!!
I got leaf green from my friend for free ☺️
leaf green is expensive now?? damn i used to have it when i was like 6 but my mom sent it to her home country for some other kids
I downloaded from romsmania😂💓
@@hellroids leafgreen is actually one of the cheaper pokemon titles, goes for about £20
@@Internazionale2010 thats 27 usd? pretty expensive for an old ass game tbh
I'll never forget going to the shop (this was 2 years after Diamond and Pearl released) and I found Pokemon Emerald brand new in a bargin bin for $5. Still have it to this day. (Obviously opened and played with) it was crazy for me at the time because that was when GBA games were no longer on the shelves of my game stores
That’s actually such an awesome find! Well done for spotting it and recognising its true value 😃
All i remember is selling my pokemon gen 1 and 2 games to gamestop for $4 rip :(
@@shangerdanger that's a big rip...
"you are.. my fireeeee... the one... desireeeeee" " DONT WANNA HEAR YOU SAAAAAY" haha. i was jamming watching the old pokemon score. that's awesome.
Right??
The best way to find out, usually is there's some sort of punch on the label of the games. It's either numbers/letters or a combination of the two. Sometimes there's two set on a cartridge. It's the best tell I have ever had in order to make sure about these GBA games.
On every official cartridge (except some special carts, like Yoshi’s Topsy-Turvy), a two digit number is mechanically pressed into the paper. This number is usually only visible in the correct lighting, or if it’s an old cart that’s collected enough dirt over the years to fill the indentation. Bootleg games almost never have this number, and even when they do, it’s printed in ink rather than pressed
Nowadays repros look very authentic they even add the little details too like the production patch numbers. Best way to tell if a game is fake or not is the "game boy advanced" logo on the cartridge. On a real one the "Game boy" should be thick while on repros the font is much thinner.
Pokemon games with seethrough casing are simple. If in the back theres 4 golden squares its probably real motherboard at least. On firered and leafgrean (on pal at least) you can see on the top right of the sticker there should be a spot that looks like its cracked but its just an inset for the battery that can be seen from outside. On fake ones you wont see it because they are too lazy to add that detail on their mass produced shells.
Tony hawks ps 4 for gba has no number stamps as well.
The back of the board tells all. Pokemon games have 4 pins on the back upper left corner reproductions can't replicate
Another great video man! I don’t think you realize how much joy these videos bring some people . I’ve been stuck in the house and off work due to a medical condition . Thanks for making my day again
Glad you’re enjoying!
@@PhoenixResale thanks man youre awesome !!! It’s cool how this is your job and you get to make people happy with your hood charisma !
Just a heads up on GBA games. People have been reflashing other official carts so some fakes still show the nintendo logo on the board.
Yeah my latest clones were on offical Nintendo boards 🤔
@@videogamepolak0 at a glance without dismantling I look for the punched code on the cartridge sticker.
Look for 4 golden squares at the back of the cartridge. Imprinted numbers on the front.
No you guys look for the Pikachu wearing sunglasses holding a sparkler,
it's the only way to know if the cart's real.
@@JosephLedbetter lol
One of the reasons they don’t charge as much a lot of the time is if they had those higher prices they’d never sell anything because people would just complain and say they could find it cheaper online. I also thought it was interesting you didn’t get that 4 swords Zelda because I picked that up a couple months ago really cheap and traded way up with someone because of its value online.
that bit about the "nintendo" being printed on the pins confirming its legitimacy is a lie, i have many known-repros that still have that on the cart
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Very true. The easiest way to tell is to look at the chip on the back.
I agree, I’ve seen repos with that Nintendo written right above the pins. For me it’s been the 4 gold plates rectangles on the back side of they game the confirmed authenticity.
Same one way to know your cart is a reproduction is by looking at the print and color its not noticeable by say like camera but if you have the real deal and a reproduction put them side by side you will notice the words are kinda hazy and the color around the case/art/cart is kinda faded or some what bland the reason for this is because it was likely printed out by a google image or something so the paper is weaker and the art is normally smeared or discolored in someway
Yup I've never seen a fake with that chip on the back. That's how I tell, some fakes also have that stamp on the front
Catching up on a bunch of videos this morning as I’m behind. Another great one full of info. Thanks Caleb 🔥
Haha thanks for tuning in Brad!
"Jeanne D'Arc, I dunno if that's supposed to be a play on Joan of Arc"... bruh
+Chris Stone if anything, "Joan of Arc" is a play on Jeanne d'Arc, as that is her actual name and English speakers, Americans particularly, don't seem cognitively capable of pronouncing, reading, speaking, writing or understanding any other language.
Smh
It is yea but it is a very good game on psp.
yeah lol thought the same thing
I sold my copy of Jeanne D'Arc for $7 around 10 years ago lol
Whoa, he’s keeping some expensive games. Look out, his collector side is showing.
Ha
@Ancient Rights trying
SWEET finds! Hard work and due diligence pays off!
Damn, congrats on the big score. Way to keep your composure, I also have to calm my self and step away when I am about to get a huge deal, as I feel like my face is going to give it away.
Thats how i felt when i got a gameboy advance and pokemon gold for 50cents haha
When that emerald came out it literally brought me right back to coming home from kb toys with my mom starting to play the game and my dad screaming at me and i had to stop. Still emerald was my ultimate favorite game. Hands down number 1
Congratz bro, I'm happy for you. I could tell you were excited when you said DUDE!
The Ledgend Of Dragoon was my JAM! Ugh, so much fun! So many late nights! "oh shit the school bus"...ha
wow I was literally just scrolling through your channel looking for videos to watch and a new one popped up :D
Haha glad it worked out, thanks for the support Justin!
I remember Emerald was supposed to be the most difficult Pokémon game up until that point since most of gym leaders you fought had higher level Pokémon and better ones than they would in Ruby or Sapphire. I’m getting nostalgic just thinking about battling Steven as the “secret” final boss battle.
Pokemon Yellow was made in a similar was. Elite Four, and Gym Leaders had some different pokemon, with much higher levels. You did get all starters in Yellow though.
1st off, the music in this video is pure 🔥🔥. I picked up alot of tips from this video. Thanks for sharing, much appreciated 👍🏾🔥🔥
Such an awesome channel man, great quality as always. 💯
On the old gameboy games real ones have a small stamp indentation above all nintendo logos. Like small like size of half a grain of rice. And it's always on the front cover art.
So reproduction companies have got so ballsy that they have started putting the nintendo logo on the chip along with the date. So that method won’t always work
Pretty much all of the fakes have nintendo logo on the board. Its just in different font. The best way to tell if they are real is the 2 number imprints on the bottom right of the label.
Best way I’ve noticed is to flip to the back side of the cartridge. You can usually see the circuit board on authentic carts and notice a gold rectangle on the left. Left top right for ruby/saphire/emerald and left middleish on leafgreen and firered. The repros I’ve seen are missing those rectangles and have noticeably different circuit boards
Maybe if scalpers and the Internet didn't make these games so sought after then repos wouldn't exist not their fault they they're making money because people decided to take kids games and make them "rare".
@@subzero308 wouldn’t call them scalpers. Its just the market. These games are getting older and harder to find. Its just something that happens with the older games. Also the repro companies make hardly any money off of them. You can get repros for 10 dollars. Sure some people will buy them but the vast majority of people want the legit cartridges. Its just the demand for games that haven’t been in print for a decade driving the price up.
nintendo alone on the cartridge is not enough, only sure way is to open them up. some good fakes have nintendo there too
yes you are right. too many fake games out there
Yes always have a Triwing screwdriver on you if you go GBA game hunting.
Yes sir! Your 100% righr! Thet only way to be sure 100% is open it up and match the rom board and chips what they used back when they first made the game.
Not true, the best sure way to tell it’s not a fake game is to look at the “O” on Nintendo. On authentic cartridges no matter what it is the “O” will be more of an ellipse or oval but on reproduction cartridges it’s literally just an o
@@chasewilliams3128 Years ago I would agree that O was reliable way if you can see the game in person and tell what type of paper they use, but with a high quality printer its became fairly easy to reputate the original Nintendo logo and you can print old art work on old game cover paper that has had the original image removed - its not easy to remove but still possible. Most reliable way would be to open GBA cartridge.
Didn't realize these were so expensive I have all my old games in awesome condition 😅
My cousin stole my Emerald cart 11 years ago.
I still have all inserts and box though... so yeah I knew I never wanted to get rid of it lol.
My fire red was stolen
@@sniperpaintcorrection6790 my fire red red was just found while my basement flooded =/ wonder if it works
my soulsilver got lost or stolen
I swear i feel bro is raising the prices himself with these videos 🤣
First video I watch on this channel instant subscribe! I love watching this type of content.
Awesome finds!!!! You have been crushing it!!!!
Hey man, this video came up on my recommendations and I'm glad it did! Definitely worth a like and a subscribe for that Pokemon pickup
Thanks for keeping the videos Family Friendly!
Wow great find on the Pokémon!!!! I was shaking when I was watching the video
This is starting to become one of my favorite channels
Dude my room mate and I about freaked the other day at this store we went to. They had Original Blue AND Red in box WITH manuals, complete, emerald, sapphire, omfg my heart was POUNDING dude, I almost grabbed The Legend Of Zelda Links Awakening complete in box too! OH another trick with Advance + games, theyll have a number etched into the front face on the label, usually a two digit code like E6 or something. It helps a ton! They do the same on N64 cartridges!
The Legend of Dragoon is an awesome game. Doesn't get the credit it deserve. Great find👍
Bought a "broken" cannon sx740 out of the glass case for 35$. The previous owner bought a 3rd party lense and it wouldn't focus. I literally use this camera all the time.
I had a repro that had Nintendo on the pins. I think the best way to tell is that really subtle number stamp on the cart art...outside of unscrewing it and comparing the motherboard that is
Dang I didn’t know they go for that much, I seen a “Pokémon Leafgreen” in the box with everything never opened and a local game shop for $250 and I thought that was to much to buy it for and last week when I went there it’s was gone😭 I Wish I would’ve know I would bought it smh
yeah and sealed condition goes for way more than just complete. especially if graded.
Factory sealed? If so that would've been a steal
A few years back I was lucky enough to purchase FireRed, Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald in great condition without the box or manual for a total of 25 euro. Still think it's a decent deal, and after replacing some batteries I was off to the races.
I use to have R/B/Y/G/C/S/Leafgreen along with my Ruby and Action Replay until they all got stolen. Luckily enough the only game that didn't get stolen was my Ruby which I have today.
I still watch this every once and a while for background sound and watch the Pokemon Game haul. Do you still have them, man what a sweet pick up!
I have Emerald sealed. I never got around to opening it and I found out recently that it's worth money lol
Daaaang good for you! You should get it graded or sell it to me!
grade it, worth tens of thousands graded and sealed
@@mackinmall what’s a good website to get it graded?
Its not worth much but congrats I guess
@@A_78939 do some research, I think wata is the main one people use.
I’m so jealous of the stores around you lol
Awesome video good sir and man find those two gems is like priceless
This prompted me to go and check my old game collection and out of the 20 GBC cartridges I still own the only two boxes I kept are Pokemon Gold and Pokemon Silver with really good condition manuals (but no other inserts). Still pretty cool to look through all my old stuff.
I’m pretty sure I still have the fire red manual around somewhere.
That music in the video. Literally sounds like a dog growling in the background. I thought it was my dog growling. But then remembered I don't have a dog. 1:03 to 2:30
That's some good stuff you been smoking what strain was it?
@@dracesgaminghistory884 ligma
I like how you kept going, Very realistic big hit and just keep going.
Great find!! I hope to have a CIB Collection of Gen 1 + 2 someday, awesome video
I've just randomly stumbled across this channel and I'm sure this has been asked before and being this video is quiet old but have you taken the time to hunt down manuals online to complete the set? But perhaps that's more for collectors than resellers.
That jittery adrenaline rush is what I love about reselling. Nothing matches finding something that you know is killer. Do store managers ever give you a hard time for scanning? I see you do it even at the counter when they are showing you things. Some stores here act really harsh towards resellers so it is always hit or miss it seems, I have no idea why honestly, my money moves their products but people are weird.
No I’ve never had a hard time of it
I think it could be because there are sometimes very rude resellers and then after those experiences they think all resellers are jerks probably
Also, you need to check for the number indention on the right of the label and open it up to check to ensure that the chips are the right chips that nintendo uses. In repros they can have that nintendo logo on the board.
Keep it up bro! Thanks for the content.
can't believe people are cheering you on, resellers ruin everything. its disgusting
Amen
Some repros do have NINTENDO written on the inside best way to check is to buy a triwing screwdriver and see if there is a blob chip
Man legend of legaia. One of my all time favorite jprgs.
Great trip. Thanks for all that you do.
You should source the crossville/Cookeville TN area. I always have great finds at the pawn shops. Especially cash n go in crossville and the 127 yard sale goes through there
I haven't been to the new crossville store yet been to the Cookeville and McMinnville and got good pokemon card hits as well as some rare older games
Is $155 for a pokemon firered without manual really considered a "great finding"? Wow, I think I was really lucky when I got mine complete, mint condition even with the wireless thing for $115 last year. And I though I had overpaid for it.
lol here in Philippines, all items which are old are being lowballed and most of people here just care bout new stuffs specially smartphones
@@Wakaweakweak7474 Sell me some old goodies ;)
Ah man the NBA Street Volume 2 was iconic, also I saw Pokémon Ruby just the cartridge at this local pawn shop. Went back the next day and it was gone.
I would buy those 2 Pokémon games for sure 👍 cool find!!!
He was wrong on how to tell if it a reproduction
Awesome finds! Keep doing your thing bro!
The shakes! Hahah love that feeling.
10:03 oh boy. Mvp baseball and Nascar thunder 03. Ohhhh my childhood
Congrats on the scores!
Checking that “Nintendo” is printed on the chipboard is an ok authenticity check, but I’ve seen that faked.
Better to look for the two digits stamped into the label somewhere on the right side. I’ve never seen that faked. A small amount of games never came with it, but it’s a quick, easy check.
Just recently found a fake copy of fire red locally with Nintendo above pins. Definitely look for stamp first.
I saw a post on offer up selling a ds lite with a copy of heartgold and asked how much for the game only and they told me $10.00 game only. I woke my ass up as fast as I could and headed there right away. When I got to the place of interest it was a yard sale with a couple of middle aged folks. That day I learned a lesson to keep an eye out on yard sales. They could be holding precious vintage item like pokemon heart gold. Took heartgold for $10 only and yes it is authentic and working. Crazy
I recommend to always stop by a yard sale if you can. It only takes a couple minute or just seconds to ask them for games.
I do feel kind of bad for buying heartgold for only $10 when i know it could have easily gone for $120 but I knew knew if I didn't get it somebody else would have. And by the time I got there they told me somebody else was asking about the post too. So yeah I was lucky. I really don't wish harm upon the couple who sold the game to me, but I didn't want to spend $120+ for a game I could have if I paid $10
Don’t feel bad, it’s really easy to just look up the price of a game you own and they decided not to, middle aged or not everyone knows what Pokémon is and they should have kept their eye on the price.
Hey man just wanted to let you know I love your videos and they always make my day better!!! Great find in this video too.
Thanks a bunch, glad you enjoyed!
You can't tell if it's real or fake by the Nintendo logo. Even fakes have that. The best way to tell is actually the punched in letters/numbers on the front label. I bought a real Pokemon Ruby from a pawn shop for $7 USD about 8 years ago. It's fun finding massive bargains haha
HUGE find. Not jealous... not at all 🤣 as they are collection worthy best complete oaks challenge! 👀
Yeah
Next up: How to spot a good deal, from a scam deal.
There are so many Reproductions out there man.
Especially on eBay, Amazon, etc. etc.
Garage sales, yard sales, city wide garage sales, swap meets, pawn shops, and thrift stores are your friends.
Thank you for always telling us how much is the margin! It makes me wanna keep going as I’m doing the same.
Mega Replay in Bloomington IL sells Pokemon Soulsilver and Heartgold for the price they go for just in the plastic case, WITH the cardboard box.
PLEASE SELL ME FREEKSTYLE! I’ve been looking for that game on GameCube!!!! 🥺💕
At my pawn shop I found a legit ogre tactics the Knight of Lodis for 8$ with its box in good condition and Booklets/papers. Complete in box like I found oh that’s a 350$ game
Keep up the great vids!
Pokemon gameboy advance games should have numbers stamped on the label which you should be able to see. The board has 4 gold squares on the PCB which you can see through the back of the cases without opening them. Fakes do not have those 4 gold squares on the top left on the back of the PCB.
I will take that pokemon emerald off your hands ;)
I got one for you $800. 100% completed with poster as well
@@miladanki8380 pain
The Nintendo trick is legit! I just checked my copy of Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald and they have the Nintendo in it
Or you just have higher quality fakes
Sadly in this day and age that isn't enough
My pokemon games are all japanese and have at least 160+ hrs of game play when I bought it 2nd hand... Would that also be fake by any chance?
@@ShinobiToyz you’re probably fine, pre existing save data is always good.
The way to actually tell is with the gold squares, and traces on the back of the mother board. Some fakes have Nintendo on them, I have seen them
Insane find especially the firered, im pretty sure thats a first print. Not a players choice or wireless compatible one, thats big money.
Baiten Kaitos Origins (prequel to Baiten Kaitos but released second) I got on clearance a decade ago at TRU for $10.
Great card based JRPG exclusive to GC, along with the Lost Kingdom’s games on GC.
As a point of interest, the Repro GBA cartridges have had “Nintendo” on their boards.
The only reliable points are:
- Any “Goop” on the cartridge’s internal board
- Whether the cart fits flush in a GBA (I’ve never had a fake cart sit flush).
- The stickers on the cartridge have devised numbering to indicate their production number. Usually has to be held on an angle to see.
Everything else has been cloned perfectly and will likely only get better as original games get more valuable and harder to find, especially boxed.
The code on the sticker is like ingrave number and a letter
Nowadays the ingraves are there too. You really just need watch out for the gameboy advanced text font on the cartridge and if you are still in doubt the you need to see the mobo to confirm its authenticity
Lol this is the exact reason scalpers and counterfeits exist... Awesome finds but its sad that others who actually wanna play these games will never be able to because people r buying and reselling them literally just to own and grade and put behind plastic smh sad. Thank god I have all the OG pokemon games... I won't ever sell them.
You realize sellers don’t determine prices right? The fact that buyers are willing to pay premium for these games is the reason people do this. Not the other way around.
I’ve never been so glad to own a disc until I saw how far the Gameboy Startup Disc was going for. Video games is the kinda thing where you’re best off experiencing it as it happens, because chances are you’d end up getting the shitter end of the stick trying to revisit
Good. They are literal treasures
Technically yeah.. however the buyers are the cause of prices increasing. Someone like this just resells. Qnd obviously has to give a deal from the going rate, to get it sold. Say a game is 100 bucks online. They buy for 50.. well you factor in cost to get to ship and the fees etc lets say its abother 20, so the person is in it for 70, they stand to make 30 max. However, you think they want to SIT on it and wait? People that sit on max prices and wait are the ones artificially creating the prices and keeping things insanely high too. He has to sell for maybe 90, that way it appeals to more buyers and he can get his $70 investment out of it and make his 20 bucks right? So he helped the market go down a bit for that game bcz people will say oh the selling price is actually 90 qt times for this game.. so Technically,,doing all this may LOWER the cost of games. And because theres more out in the wold to buy online due to reseller, the price has to drop for the douchebags holding out for that 100.
Yes it can go both ways at times too. But ive only done such a thing a handful of times and thats how i saw it. Only way to sell is tp sell for less than going rate that others are holding for. And if its his JOB... he has to get his money back out asap. He wants the profit asap. Counterfeits are a whole other segment. Its been going on for years. Thats noones fault here except china. However its up to the buyer to know not to get ripped off.
@@inlinechris that goes both ways then. They're exploiting the demand of it and raising the price.
legends of dragoon is probably one of the best playstation 1 games ever haha. Also that emerald manual was dinged up on the back, gotta vocalize the flaws when you see em ;)
I still have my childhood boxed Fire Red. Don't forget it came with a GBA Adapter piece too. I also have my Emerald with manual, but the box must have got tossed at some point. Both of my brothers have their CIB in Leaf Green. We have a CIB Ruby but the box got mildew on it, and we have the box for Sapphire and Crystal but they both got crushed over the years.
I've been checking out your videos for a while and decided to check game prices while at some local video game stores. I bought a copy of a mint robotrek for the snes for $40 after I looked it up on ebay selling for 130! But first I will play through the game.
Great come-up!
I'll be honest watching this a year later you kinda scared me because I thought you were going to flip them but I definitely forgot that you are a pokemon fan through and through, hopefully they are still in the collection. I personally hope I find pretty good deals myself soon.
Nice haul! I picked up Freekstyle myself today
This is the channel that inspired me to get out there searching
emerald and fire red were way over priced
People like these are killing retro collecting. Cant afford new prices. Sadq
Prices fluctuate all the time, it'll go back down when the hype dies down
Awesome find!!
Sweet score my friend!
Keep up the hunt
And love the collab. With rero Rick
You're the reason used games are so expensive.
You could be doing the same thing … put in the work instead of complaining
I’m ADDICTED to your videos now…
i am subbed now and i liked the video, first time i see your channel, im going to bingewatch it after this video, thanks for the vids en keep up the good work
Thanks for the support, hope you enjoy!
Omg i think its funny watching this and back street boys is in the back round but contrates on the amazing find bro :) i love emerald
Bro Joan of Arc is the English name of the French Jeanne D'Arc lmfaoooo
I got gold and silver for my Christmas when they released, and red for my birthday when it came out and I still have them and the gameboy color I got the same year as my g/s versions.
This was so awesome 😳🔥🤘🔥
yeah those pokemon finds were so great. nice!
I need to start doing this 😂 love the videos 🙏