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Pokemon: BlueSea Edition Manual (Bootleg)
GAME FOR ADVANCE AGB-BBXE-USA
Health and Safety Warnings Part 1
Made in China
GAME FOR ADVANCE AGB-BBXE-USA
Pokemon: Quartz Version Manual (Bootleg)
GAME FOR ADVANCE AGB-BSXE-USA
Introduction and Main Features
Made in China
GAME FOR ADVANCE AGB-BSXE-USA
150 in 1 Multicart (Bootleg)
150 in 1 A.K.A. 150 UAY 06 is a GBA Multicart featuring 150 NES games. Some of the more notable games on offer include: Aladdin (Hummer Team), Duck Tales, Bombsweeper (Homebrew) and Facemaker (Unlicensed) as well as many graphical hacks and sprite swaps of early Famicom titles.
Harvest Moon: More Friends of Minearal Town(Bootleg)
This Harvest Moon bootleg is one of the more prolific and convincing fakes for the system. All the easy to spot signs of a bootleg are absent. In this case knowledge of what an official cart looks like is required.
Asside from obvious background differences the cart designation is also different between the two.
Real: AGB-BFGE-USA
Bootleg: AGB-BJKE-USA
Pulse Line Excitebike(Bootleg)
This cart tries to mimic the design of the first run of Famicom games which featured the so called "Pulse Line" design. This particular cart is the only one of it's kind that I've ever encountered. When I created the banner for this site I didn't actually own the cart yet and was just using an image I found on a forum because I liked the design so much. It just so happened that the exact cart went up on ebay shortly afterward and my girlfriend snagged it for me as Valentines gift. So far I haven't been able to find anything indicating who released it but it seems to be part of a series as is evidenced by this very low resolution image of a similar looking cart.
As far as the game goes it's exactly the same as
the official release even leaving the copyright
intact. One interesting part is that the game is
weirdly heavy, even more than a normal Famicom
game would be, perhaps because the game is stored on EPROM (Erasable programmable Read-Only Memory) chips rather than the types of more conventional ROM chips.
Unbeatable Program AKA Fist of the North Star(Bootleg)
This one like the last attempts to mimic a somewhat popular cart design, in this case the early Hudson Soft "HUD" look, but it does so with a much higher degree of success. The carts ID: HFC-GR is new but it falls in line with the naming convention Hudson was using at the time and (if you didn't know what game was inside) the fact that it claims to be under license from Broderbund Software would make sense given Hudson's other releases early into their development for the system. What ultimately gives it away is the 87' copyright which places it a full two years after Hudson had stopped using this label. The game itself is also a dead giveaway not even having been developed by Hudson. I'm not fully sure whowas behind this release but my guess is that it was NTDEC ("Nintendo Electronic Company") who were notorious for their legal trouble with Nintendo. The label used here was also used by them for their NES NTSC release of Adventure Island.
Wario Ware, inc.(Bootleg)
This is a fairly standard bootleg and it doesn't look half bad. Something that gives it away though is how it says "Licensed by Nintendo" when Nintendo was actually the publisher. The colors are washed out and the label is not the same. The cart ID is also slightly different.
Official ID: AGB-AZWE-USA
Bootleg ID: AGB-AWWE-USA
