[quote name='Nephilim']I agree with a few of the posts here. Pirated GBA games do NOT come sealed and do NOT have manuals ever. If it was re-sealed by someone, it would not have the crease in the shrink wrap either.
Shrinkwrapped Gamecube games come in two types, from a Nintendo factory with the crease or folded corners, and resealed by a reseller. On occasion I have seen re-sealed games for sale at Best Buy and others. These games have a new UPC sticker over the old UPC on the box art. They need to take off the seal to get the new UPC sticker on them for whatever reason. These are not pirated games either.
As for the GBA games, I have never seen a pirate GBA game with a seal or manual. If you bought it at a US retail chain, then there is almost no way it is pirated.
In case someone wants to know, the fastest way to tell for sure if a game is authentic is to look for the words '200X Nintendo' printed in white on the circuit board just above the gold contacts where the cart goes into the system. You can see it with a flashlight without taking the cart apart.[/QUOTE]
What you've said about GC shrinkwrap is true although i have been noticiing a lot more games coming with the reseal looking shrinkwrap, I wonder if there aren't certain companies who shrinkwrap there own game at a different company and have that instead.
As for GBA games, not all of them should have the horizontal seal. If you ever notice when you open up a GBA game the game will be in one of two places. Either there will be two pieces of cardboard in the corner in which two drop the game in, also seen with many N64 games. And then there is this big piece of cardboard which takes up the whole box and the game is in the center of this on top. This second kind should always be the one with horizontal seal, this goes for all first party Nintendo products like Mario, Pokemon and LOZ. All Atlus games to. All those cheap crappy Majesco games that never sell at Toyrus like Monster Trucks should just have seal points on the sides or occasionally on top. If you squeeze the box a little and it feels hollow, like you could crush the box then it should NOT have the line across the back. If however if feels like the box is full then it has the second kind of holder and should have this line.
This game being a Atlus game, does have the big holder and does have the line, thereby making it authentic. All atlus games come with a NP ad and a registration card in addition to the usual stuff, the card is specific to each game, not a generic one.
It's true as far as i've seen that all bootlegs are almost always cart only. And you can instantly tell there fake in a number of ways. Rarely do they come with a box, which is always flattened, and if so the box never matches the American box. Finally not even the cleaverst bootlegs would be sealed with the approriate shrinkwrap. I have no doubt that if my copy was genuine that the one that was right behind it at my kmart wouldn't have gone all mission impossible to make a fake one, but i will make an offer if anyone still is not convinced. I will not open the game you send me for one week while you check out this game and then...
I WILL TAKE RETURNS ON THIS GAME, EVEN IF ITS OPEN IF THIS DOES TURN OUT TO BE A FAKE.
