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    Default SNES Bootlegs...or legit?

    So I sold the vast majority of my SNES library with the exception of a few titles that I'm going to sell soon. However, when I was selling my carts, I found out that some of the games in my library were bootlegs that I bought at flea markets. Sure enough, I opened up the carts, took one look at the boards and could tell instantly that they were not legit. My copies of Secret of Mana, Lufia, and Marvel Super Heroes - War of the Gems were fakes .

    I checked the remaining games and separated out any obvious fakes from real ones, but there's 3 games I'm not sure of. Can anyone help me?

    SUPER MARIO RPG

    I'm pretty sure this one is legit. The only thing I find suspicious is that the front of the cart says 'Made in Mexico' instead of 'Assembled in Mexico.'

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    Jurassic Park

    Another Mexico reprint. I think it's legit cause the Nintendo logo is on the board, but I'm not sure.

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    Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

    The discoloration on the back and the lack of the nintendo logo on the board leads me to believe this is fake.

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    Any help is appreciated.

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    If you think those might be bootlegs, maaaay be the ones that you judged as bootlegs, weren't bootlegs at all.

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    All three are legit.

    The code on the Mortal Kombat board is listed at http://cgfm2.emuviews.com/txt/snestech.txt .
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    I second that, they're all real. I've never seen a fake SA1 chip so Mario is fine. The second one is a reissue by Majesco of a game that had been out before already. The third is just a standard board, they weren't all the same color of green. MX is a chip maker Nintendo still uses for their handheld games. The greening of that sticker I think UV or something else got onto it and wrecked it is all. Also on that JP cart, made in mexico is another tell for a majesco game too or just something later issue in the SNES life as earlier things were done out of Japan.

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    Awesome, thanks for the help guys, and thanks for the descriptions Tanooki.


    Quote Originally Posted by Pikointeractive View Post
    If you think those might be bootlegs, maaaay be the ones that you judged as bootlegs, weren't bootlegs at all.
    Yeah, I considered that, but I had sold Lufia and it was returned as a fake. My Secret of Mana cart got flagged as a fake immediately on eBay and I took the auction down before anyone bought it. My War of the Gems cart has almost the same board as my Mana and Lufia cart, the label looks like it was printed with an inkjet printer, and the color of the cart is wrong.

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    Do SNES bootlegs even use anything other than glop tops?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zthun View Post
    Yeah, I considered that, but I had sold Lufia and it was returned as a fake. My Secret of Mana cart got flagged as a fake immediately on eBay and I took the auction down before anyone bought it. My War of the Gems cart has almost the same board as my Mana and Lufia cart, the label looks like it was printed with an inkjet printer, and the color of the cart is wrong.
    I'm curious to see what those looked like, if you still have them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gameguy View Post
    I'm curious to see what those looked like, if you still have them.
    I have glob top pirates, eprom pirates and flash memories pirates. All of them are the oldschool pirates.

    Mind a pic of the boards of your Mana, lufia and Ware of gems!?

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    Pirate SNES games with flash memory?

    Wouldn't that have been too expensive to produce at the time?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pikointeractive View Post
    I have glob top pirates, eprom pirates and flash memories pirates. All of them are the oldschool pirates.

    Mind a pic of the boards of your Mana, lufia and Ware of gems!?
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    Those are definitely pirates. The poor quality of labels and the non-Nintendo PCB boards are clear giveaways.
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    Quote Originally Posted by badinsults View Post
    Those are definitely pirates. The poor quality of labels and the non-Nintendo PCB boards are clear giveaways.
    If someone is buying online I don't see how knowing what the PCB's look like is going to help. As for the labels, those all look correct to me when comparing to other pictures online or ebay. What EXACTLY makes those labels a dead giveaway, they don't like poor to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Atarileaf View Post
    If someone is buying online I don't see how knowing what the PCB's look like is going to help. As for the labels, those all look correct to me when comparing to other pictures online or ebay. What EXACTLY makes those labels a dead giveaway, they don't like poor to me.
    The Secret of Mana is the most obvious. The placement of the text is the giveaway. Look at the bottom of the label, the Super Nintendo Logo is cut off and everything is shifted down.

    I don't know what gives the Lufia cart away. It looked legit to me before I had it returned to me, but I didn't open it up.

    The War of the Gems label is not obvious mostly because you're looking at a digital photo. The actual label feels like it was printed on an inkjet sticker and the quality is as such.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zthun View Post
    The Secret of Mana is the most obvious. The placement of the text is the giveaway. Look at the bottom of the label, the Super Nintendo Logo is cut off and everything is shifted down.

    I don't know what gives the Lufia cart away. It looked legit to me before I had it returned to me, but I didn't open it up.

    The War of the Gems label is not obvious mostly because you're looking at a digital photo. The actual label feels like it was printed on an inkjet sticker and the quality is as such.
    Actually, I'd say the biggest giveaway is the cart design; all three of those games were issued with the later "ramp" design as opposed to the "slot" design that the ones you pictured have. Though some games have had both, i'm quite sure those three were ramp-only.

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    ^^^ that, and the shell design is off ever-so-slightly. The lock slot is the giveaway. I'll have to post a comparison shot when not on my phone...

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    Yes, I'm fairly certain the "ramp" design came into use around the spring of 1993.
    I can remember renting Yoshi's Cookie right after it came out (definitely before the summer), and I can remember I just thought it looked strange the first time I saw it.
    Excluding Majesco re-releases (primarily kid/family stuff like Monopoly, Disney/Warner/Nickelodeon) and Player's Choice, the only games I can recall getting released in both were Super Mario World and StarFox. Maybe SimCity, but I don't know if later copies were just PC and ESRB-rated variants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SparTonberry View Post
    Yes, I'm fairly certain the "ramp" design came into use around the spring of 1993.
    I can remember renting Yoshi's Cookie right after it came out (definitely before the summer), and I can remember I just thought it looked strange the first time I saw it.
    Excluding Majesco re-releases (primarily kid/family stuff like Monopoly, Disney/Warner/Nickelodeon) and Player's Choice, the only games I can recall getting released in both were Super Mario World and StarFox. Maybe SimCity, but I don't know if later copies were just PC and ESRB-rated variants.
    There's also Super Scope 6, I'm sure the carts came in both versions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MoxManiac View Post
    Actually, I'd say the biggest giveaway is the cart design; all three of those games were issued with the later "ramp" design as opposed to the "slot" design that the ones you pictured have. Though some games have had both, i'm quite sure those three were ramp-only.
    Yeah, that was my thing. I have Secret of Mana myself and it, too, is ramped. Definitely fake, I can tell by the labels too, they look very thin and cheap, unlike the normal legit stickers.
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    So how prevelant are counterfeit SNES games? I'd really never heard of or thought about this, ever. Now I'm concerned if I have legit games or not. Granted I don't have many and my two rarest games are Space megaforce and Mr. Do and based on what I'm seeing, here and other sites that list/show what to look for, from the outside everything looks correct. Are there certain games that people are counterfeiting or is this across the board?

    I can't imagine people counterfeiting ms pacman or super off road but who knows.

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    The MK3 must have had a rear shell swap if it is legit. Any "assembled in Mexico", aka Majesco re-releases, had the embossed plastic rear shell instead of a sticker label.

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