Quote Originally Posted by Esquire Fox View Post
They can be very lucrative if you resell on Amazon or eBay. Most of them go for $20 or more and sell very quickly regardless of condition. Reselling can keep your collecting hobby from cutting too much into your savings. So knowing what a fake Pokemon cart looks like is very useful when you're out hunting for games, especially at flea markets.
Meh, 20 bucks minus whatever I bought it for MINUS ebay/paypal fees = not worth it for me. If I'm going to resell anything, I need to make 100+ to give a crap.

Quote Originally Posted by Gameguy View Post
I actually came across a bootleg Firered cart like the one pictured above, it worked and saved fine while I had it. They stop saving when the cheap batteries die, those can be replaced if someone wants to do that. With older console bootlegs from the 90's most games don't save because they didn't bother to make the carts capable of saving, it's not just a dead battery or something else that's fixable.
Man, you got lucky then. I've heard so many horror stories, not to mention my neighbors who've bought many bootleg Pokemans games in the last 6 months that have all been total shite. Some save, but then the file corrupts, others don't save and all, and some just run out of data once you hit a certain point in the game.