honestly bootlegs and reproduction cartridges are a great thing as long as they're not being advertised as the real deal. not everyone out there is a collector, some people just wanna play some games on their original hardware without spending tons of money on original games.

I love the fakeout of "we're gonna pull out my original DS here... and use it to prop up my DS lite"

Those “multiple games in 1” DS cartridges were like a treasure as a kid lol

My mom bought one of those 200 in one consoles and it turned out to be a flashcard with a bunch of roms on it. Its actually amazing because I don't have a flashcard and its nice to have one.

I used to buy knockoff DS carts from a flea market when I was a kid, good times.

7:51 In case you don't know, that is definitely NOT a screenshot from Pokémon Pearl. I can tell because the sprite used is Pikachu's sprite from Black and White not Diamond and Pearl. So yeah. Even the screenshots are fakes!

24:21 For the Japanese text right here: In case anyone wants to know, it says "HELP (TA-SU-KE-TE)".

The thing with some of these counterfeit games is that the antipiracy can still trigger. For example the original game programmers have flag checks set in a specific part of the game that won't let you proceed if the game has been suspected to be tampered, and the player won't know until they reach that segment of the game. Sometimes games don't get past the start up screen or title screen.

That leaf green game is pretty impressive. It's actually worth the buy if you just want to play the game without paying the collector price.

My Mom was fooled by this because she wanted to give me pokèmon Diamond as an Birthday gift

I think the '2002' at 5:40 is actually a genius move to make the board look more plausible.

just so everybody knows, the reason you dont want repro carts is because the flash storage the rom is stored on is extremely cheap and if you end up leaving the cartridge alone unplayed long enough the game will die and youre essentially left with a blank game cartridge amd youd have to reflash it to get the game back

They're not changing the names or bluring the images to avoid copyright/trademark infringement. They're doing it to avoid bot detection from Nintendo and their agents.

One of the nice things about rhe flashcarts is that with a microSD card reader and a good source, you can add all the games you want!

$5 for repro LeafGreen didnt look so bad honestly

Ok, so afaik these DS cartridges are actually running the OS of either Supercard DSTwo or Acekard, two very famous Flashcards.