View Full Version : No more bootleg Hong Kong GBA games?
encendido5
10-10-2005, 05:11 PM
While searching for some GBA games, I noticed there wasn't a slew of auctions from Hong Kong or China like there was before. Is Ebay finally cracking down on these?
Chacrana
10-10-2005, 05:28 PM
It'd be nice... It's been a pain in the ass to wade through all the bootlegs and find some legit copies of games for the GBA.
Strell
10-10-2005, 05:29 PM
I do hope so. I really, really want Mario Brothes Deluxe complete someday, and eBay seems to be my only recourse.
omegaweapon7
10-10-2005, 05:32 PM
lolz fools, hongkong have moved on to DS!
plus for like 30 bucks, you can get a cheap flash card and bootleg it yourself!
Blade
10-11-2005, 12:46 PM
Hong Kong bootlegged ebay. The whole site. Then they changed their locations so you'll buy their stuff.
TRICKY CHINESESES!
DreamSymphony
10-11-2005, 12:51 PM
There are still plenty of bootleg gba games up there... just look for the rarer ones...
piscian18
10-11-2005, 01:40 PM
lolz fools, hongkong have moved on to DS!
plus for like 30 bucks, you can get a cheap flash card and bootleg it yourself!
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SilverPaw750
10-11-2005, 05:48 PM
I doubt it.
bostonfrontier
10-11-2005, 05:53 PM
How do bootleg GBA games work? do you need a chip in your GBA?
encendido5
10-11-2005, 05:59 PM
I tried searching for Aria of Sorrow and none of the ones that came up were from Hong Kong. There was one or two from Malaysia though.
Bootleg games work in the same way real ones do. They're basically cheap flash carts. I think I remember somebody saying you can use them as flash carts if you buy a pc linker.
I tried searching for Aria of Sorrow and none of the ones that came up were from Hong Kong. There was one or two from Malaysia though.
Bootleg games work in the same way real ones do. They're basically cheap flash carts. I think I remember somebody saying you can use them as flash carts if you buy a pc linker.
You probably know this but you can choose 'United States only' for the item location on your eBay search and it filters out most of the bootlegs.
Altered Beast Returns
10-11-2005, 06:15 PM
What sucks is when bootlegs filter into the united states, and other gamers don't realize it! I recall someone on here got a bootleg Castelvania game for GBA, from a Gamestop.
Parents buy the games on ebay, the kid plays it, doesn't realize it doesn't fit right, then eventually sells it to gamestop, or resells it on ebay.
encendido5
10-11-2005, 06:21 PM
You probably know this but you can choose 'United States only' for the item location on your eBay search and it filters out most of the bootlegs.
hehe, yeah, I know, but it's not the default search so I always do a worldwide search. After that, I'm too lazy to check US only and re-run the search.
smalien1
10-11-2005, 06:22 PM
Now the show up with GBP next to the listing
racthamp
10-11-2005, 06:26 PM
yeah.. i remember seeing Dragonball Z bootleg from Gamerush.. i was like WTF? didn't eh employee catch it or something?
SevereTireDamage
10-11-2005, 06:28 PM
This is interesting, though. There are far, far fewer obviously bootleg listings than there usually are. My searches for Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance usually produce at least a dozen obvious HK bootlegs, but not so much anymore.