Only 1000 of these GameBoys were made
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ธ.ค. 2023
- Don't buy a GameBoy until you've watched this! Chinese FAKE GameBoys are everywhere...
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The quickest way of telling when buying online is to look at the speaker holes. Have a look at 5:38, the fake shells always have terrible and wrong sized holes.
Not only the holes don’t match the 4 inner ones are bigger… and it’s cricket… de DK one is real the Pokémon is fake
Speaker holes are a good one, and the fonts on the action buttons and serial number on this reshell are also very different from the authentic fonts.
I was going to say that also.
That "sticker" is just the protective film that often comes on some products to protect from scratches during shipping and whatnot. My original SP had this on the Nintendo logo, as I'm sure most if not all did when brand new and I'm guessing some people just never took it off because they didn't know it was there to begin with.
Ssshhhhhh
yep, my pink authentic sp still has the sticker on there aswell
About the sticker on the Nintendo logo: I am pretty sure that my SPs (silver with decal & blue) both had a sticker on the Nintendo logo and i freaked out when the sticker peeled off on the first one after a while because I thought that the logo is broken.
My childhood SP (the only one I have) came with this sticker when it was brand new. I also freaked out when it fell off!
I still have the sticker though (I was a strange kid). I kept it inside a yo-yo.
Yeah it's a clear sticker to cover the shiny logo when it's still in the box? They probably did come with that, to prevent it from getting too scratched up. I don't really remember, it's been quite a while lol. It would make sense though, a lot of electronics are packaged like that, even now.
Yes, it’s smudge/scratch film. Nintendo DS had it too. I remember people on Penny Arcade being blown away when I pointed it out since they had been playing for years and never noticed.
The Retro Future is a real life hero, saving us all 300$
fools are quickly parted with their money....
who even would buy that
As someone who does gaming repairs and sells on ebay I hate this kind of scam in particular, scams are bad in any stretch but these make me worry they're going to crack down on people who use aftermarket shells to repair damaged consoles and just try to sell them for fair market value of the console and not trying to scam people into thinking it's actually a special edition.
The DK one looks real to me. The sticker on the Nintendo logo is something that new SPs have and some people don't bother peel off. I remember peeling mine off back in ~2005 when I bought my SP brand new!
Yea mine also had a sticker on the Nintendo logo
Yeah i kept the plastic on my SP for years because I didn't realise it was there, totally possible someone left it on intentionally
Now I gotta check my real (totally not fake) Gameboy, hope it's not fake (prob will be fake)
Did you check it?
Time to see what he has to say
God speed.
is it real
LET US KNOW
Fun fact about Donkey Kong Limited Edition handhelds. There's never been any at retail. This GBA PS was a Japanese exclusive sweepstakes, and there was a DK Nintendo DS that Nintendo used as gifts for important industry people and celebrities as a marketing stunt (its even more rare than the SP).
And to get even more technical, there's never been a DK themed home console either. Just console bundles.
I prefer buying an old one, but only because I love modding them. Got myself a classic GBA recently for that.
Those Limited edition ones certainly look nice and I'd like to have some as well for my collection, but sometimes they are either really expensive or most likely a fake.
Thanks for telling and showing how to spot a fake!
I had the protective sticker on my DS phat for like 4 years after I bought it and used it almost daily, so it still having that protective sticker isn't unheard of.
I‘m not thinking of buying a Game Boy but I still need to watch this video.
I guess it's nice that the fake Pika GBA is actual Nintendo PCB and Li-ion because you can use it to do your own, better mod. That's hardly a consolation for paying 300 smackers for it, though.
The DK GBA is sick af. Good job.
I wonder how translucent the plastic is fake vs real. The real one looks much more solid and a flashlight wouldn't be as visible through it.
I Work for a firm which sells retro consoles and the Thing about those Gameboys is that the cases are the cheapest cases one can get, working with them is a real pain because there arent molded right and most of time the hinges dont do that snaping sound
Merry Christmas to you, Elliot! I hope it's absolutely fantastic
I re-shelled and sold one of those Pikachu ones in the past. But I DID explicitly say it's an aftermarket AliExpress shell (because I know the original is worth a lot of money). I also didn't ask a really high price for it either. I fix and sell stuff all the time, but I'd like to be honest about it.
Really love your channel because you cover older systems that just kick all kinds of ass.
This is fantastic and I really appreciate it. More people need to know about these scams. They’re getting too good these days!
I remember either the SP I had when I was younger or a genuine one I bought in 2020 had the sticker over the Nintendo logo. I think a lot of people just missed taking it off.
Merry Christmas Elliot! For me it’s good that they only really try to scam you if it’s an expensive gameboy, (I have no money so I never have to worry about having to buy a fake rare gameboy)
The "sticker" on the DK Gameboy might be some sort of peeling clear coat.
I think we need to clarify, these are not necessarily "Fake" Gameboys but they are reshelled. They are usually official screens, mother boards and other parts put into a new shell. They are "Fake" special edition Gameboys because most use regular 001's to swap them but I don't think we can call them "Fake" Gameboys as they are original authentic Nintendo parts inside and not a knock off.
Youre so cool mate, thanks for this vid, just about to buy my second sp to be able to trade between my pokemon games, will defo take your warnings to heart! Happy Christmas🎉
Merry Christmas! Elliot
Happy Christmas Elliot!!! Thank you for your videos!
Happy holidays!
Finally Elliot, you're starting to get away from clickbait, we're so proud of you! You just reearned a sub!
I've had a couple of original SP's and they still had the protector on the Nintendo logo. They are really good quality!
The dk Nintendo logo has one of those protective films on it to keep it from getting scratched. It looks like the original owner didn't peel it off.
Did anyone else notice at 1:48, when Elliot mentioned there's "no way to tell if something is real or if something is fake", that the fake 'GAME BOY' text is all kinds of wonky?
Wait that was the damn joke wasn't it
I blame christmas
I mean... It's technically not fake. But, if you're paying 300 dollars, it should be modded and enhanced or something, not just a shell swap.
Even with a lot of mods it's not worth 300 bones. It can only achieve that kind of value, if it's a genuine rare special edition.
And since the only thing that separates a special edition GameBoy from a common one is the shell and buttons, a re-shelled GameBoy is as good as a fake GameBoy to a collector. At this point it doesn't matter that the insides are genuine, it was promised to be a rare collector's item, but the only thing that would genuinely make it one is fake, therefore it's 100% appropriate to call the whole thing a fake!
If they sold it for the price of a normal GameBoy plus 10 - 15 bucks and clearly communicated the repro shell, it would be fine for those who want that special design but don't care about collector's value or exclusivity. Heck, I'd be tempted, if those repro shells weren't that bad.
However, this is a shameless scam aimed at those who are looking for the real McCoy and ready to spend accordingly.
Another good hint is the font of the serial number on the back of the unit.. The font on the real ones is called OCRB and the numbers 3, 6, 7 and 9 look very different from the one ls in th4 fake ones.
Dude, you create amazing content. 👏
When I reshell a console, I list it as such and price it appropriately.
I think the GBASP I had back in the day had a bit of plastic over the Nintendo logo like that.
Yeah, that's ringing a bell. I want to know for certain now.
Mine did too. That's the pull plastic. People almost never noticed it was on the logo.
Please can I just have the 'this gameboy is sick... its the donkey kong sp' on loop, a youtube short please!!
The protective sticker on the Nintendo logo is very real. My NES edition GBA SP had the same thing.
When my SP was new, it had a clear protective sticker over the Nintendo logo. Bought my AGS-001 in April 2002.
Elliot, as you probably already found out, that clear sticker is factory. All GB SP's had that protective clear sticker on the Nintendo badge. Looks legit to me...
Thanks for making this video, I'll keep all this in mind while I hunt for a Groudon GBA.
I remember my DS and my SP both had little stickers on the Nintendo logo and both were bought new from GameStop.
One of the easiest way to tell a fake shell is checking the speaker holes. The 4 center hole are always a tiny bit bigger than the others
Brand new, the SP and DS had a clear sticker over the Nintendo logo. I left mine on my SP when I was in middle school because I didn't want the logo to be scratched.
Yup that’s definitely a sticker on the Nintendo logo can’t be the standard plastic they put to protect it.
the easiest solution to have one is just buy one from the official store (if they still sell them.)
Still have my Pikachu GBA SP from the 2000's I got online before there ever was "fakes" I'd say... and it was *definitely* expensive back then (... it was around that sticker date saying 2005, it still has the sticker on it but I put a clear piece of tape on it so the sticker stopped getting peeled little by little and... it was irritating to play with the sticker's piece falling off too)
Sucks a little that the "face" has been a little scratched up due to "being in a pocket" when much younger, but at the same time I do even still have the original "almost cube" box to go with it lol (wish there was a restoration service for paint jobs as otherwise it's one of my favorite SPs... although the backlight sucks in comparison to the custom GBA I got some years back lmao)
Also no idea if it's just the camera or not but seeing the zoom in on the fake at 1:20, my Pikachu SP when shined with light like that, even if it's scratched, the paint job looks "flat" in comparison to the "rigid" look the fake one has in the video. Even taking a second look, yeah no mine doesn't have that rigid paint look like the one in the video does. (which felt like a red flag to me as well when seeing the video)
I love the flex at the end. “This gameboy’s sick, It’s the donkey Kong sp” 😂
@5:35 the speaker holes aren't straight on the Pikachu one, but straight on the DK one
I remember i had a sticker on the Nintendo logo as well on my SP it’s a protective sticker for the logo.
My OG cobalt blue SP had a protective sticker on the Nintendo logo!
If your buying any Nintendo handheld console special edition, ask the seller to send a picture of the console with a flashlight behind it. The knockoff ones always have a slight transparency that real ones don’t.
Some materials can cause plastic to melt. If they stay in contact and the room is warm enough. I have these shelfs that go on tv screens. They have this anti skid rubber bit. It melted into my clock. It just sat on this for over 6 years.
Cheap electronic usually come with a polystyrene shell/case and it reacts with PVC softeners. That's why it gets packaged into plastic bags/sleeves and then into Styrofoam.
I do know having seen an original pikachu sp in person they are a lot more brighter and have a glossier finish compared to the reshells very similar to that dk sp...another way to tell is the print quality of pikachu's eyes and red cheeks...you really need to have a photo of an original to compare to see the diffrences in quality but they are there.....
Nice video! Yeah, faking a high-dollar GBA, or any Game Boy, is really slimy. I did buy a GBA SP that had a very messed up shell and reshelled it. I wouldn't call it fake because all of the internals are still OEM, even the 101 screen, but I would sell it as a refurb/reshell. The screen does have some fade in the corners, so maybe I'll replace it with an IPS.
Edit: Just saw the part about the screws on the battery covers. So no one's replacing their 20-year-old batteries? That's not a good indicator.
I happen to have a kyogre edition one that has a ton off wear and the seller also gave me a replacement kyogre edition shell that is fake… The shell on the gba does look authentic
I had an NES edition and it also had that little sticker on the front nintendo logo
Man I am glad I decided to buy a new shell and ips screen for my gba sp and installing it myself instead of risking it and buying a prebuilt
Hey Elliot I have bought two gba sp one, graphite, and one pearl pink. The pink one is in excellent condition but has scratches on the buttons and top shell, the graphite one needs a new screen and scratches on top shell as well . Got a new video ideas for you fixing a viewers gba.
I do remember my original SP having the protective sticker on the Nintendo logo.
with the pikachu one, before you could tell it was fake cuz the buttons would be red, and yet now they even got the brown buttons, the only way you can tell now from sale pictures is that you can see the insides of it, and that can be avoided if the seller has a certain angle of the gameboy, this is getting ridiculous
Well, it’s a good thing I bought a custom reshell SP using OEM parts from a reputable seller instead of going for a fake random reshell of an SP using after market parts trying to claim it’s an original
My brand new SP definitely came with a logo protector.
About 6 years ago I bought a Triforce Gold Minish Cap SP, pretty sure its a reshell but only paid 70 for it.
Every Nintendo handheld I purchased as a kid has a clear sticker on the Nintendo logo. They just didn't want it getting scratched.
I always remember having to peel the sticker off the Nintendo logo on new SP's.
I got legit gane bots for years but decided to reshell them with aftermarket pokemon ones for design to put for display xD
I have an SP pikachu edition, it's not in great condition, because the shell has scratches but it's genuine, I bought it years before bootlegs coming up.
The guts of mine are real, but the shell isn't because my cat knocked it off my bookcase and broke the original graphite shell and I had to buy a new one.
"GameBoys feel good." If that isn't a slogan for your channel it should be. I agree so much they do.
My sp back in 2003 had the plastic over the nintendo chrome logo
those stickers on the nintendo logo are legit in my mind
my original cobalt GBA SP had plastic on top of the Nintendo logo on the outside. i feel like Nintendo does this inconsistently because N64 Rumble Paks also have this plastic seal sticker on their N64 logo
You need to make a video showing off every GameBoy you own. I am creating overlays for emulation and I need decent images of all these.
Clear film on the Nintendo badge is normal. I have a blue SP from new and I peeled it off.
...both my GBA SP came with the Nintendo logo sticker, in 2003
Mine had the sticker on the Nintendo logo until last year when it fell off (mine is just a basic black one)
best way I know how to tell a gba is real is by looking at the barcode
authentic japanese consoles have specific codes
authentic american consoles have a specific code
and Ive found that the tags on the fake ones are different from the authentic ones. I also never buy reshelled gbas because they look hidious😅
I mean it says fake boy right there in the thumbnail, that's on you bro
Just remembered the best bits videos
It's not a fake gameboy, it's a real gameboy with an aftermarket shell. And honestly, if you buy a "new" gameboy these days... it's always either going to have a new shell or a cleaned one. I recently bought an modded GBC (with IPS + backlight + new shell) of course it's not the same quality as the original shell. But it allows me to play GameBoy games on original hardware again. (also that GBC was 180 euro, but it was professionally cleaned and has a new screen + shell, and ofcourse the company that sells those is very upfront about that as well. )
It's still a massive ripoff considering the enormous price for such a low-quality shell. Keepers should still keep an eye out for that.
It is a fake GameBoy if you sell it as a genuine rare special edition for a collector's price. The only thing that sets special editions apart from normal ones - and thus creates their collector's value - is the shell. So, if that is fake, the whole collector's item is fake!
Doesn't matter at this point that the internals are genuine, it's not the value that was promised!
If it was sold as a modded console with a repro shell and priced accordingly, it would be genuine.
But these scammer's greed wouldn't allow that! They'd rather throw away a perfectly fine original shell and replace it with a crappy repro to scam collectors out of their money! 🤢
Why are we not talking about the lack of protective rubber bits on the upper screen?
Buying any sort of used video game console, controller, cartridge or accessory online is a huge risk because there are so many crappy Chinese reproductions out there, or they've put an authentic motherboard into a reproduction shell. In some situations, the preview images are not great quality or they've just stolen images from somewhere online.
What if the shell was replaced as you often did on the channel ?
And what if there are no boxes ? Who keeps them around ?
Then hardware wise, if the chips are essentially the same then aren't these basically off brand GBA' like how the CDI was manufactured and rebadged by different companies?
My take is that these conaoles shouldn't cost as much official or not as they're obviously still in production even if they're of a crappy quality.
I mean, it sucks for collectors and I'm not saying you brought this on yourselves, but all you've done is drive the prices high.
Thoughts ?
Oops, I purchased a gameboy without watching this video and there were literally 0 consequences. Who'd a thought
Still bargains to be had out there, to add to the working £17 Nintendo Switch, this last month I bought a £4 Xbox One "phat", like the Switch listed on ebay as not working, spares or repairs etc and it came without a controller, cables or power brick, got the missing bits in and well... I dunno who checks these tings but it powered up like a champion. I paid more for a broken elite controller than the machine hehehe
I like you can reshell old game boys but using shells of rare gameboys I never liked for this reason. Hard to tell if they are real if they aren't seen in person.
The speaker grill looked different on the fake one too. The holes not as good.
7:42 there are differences in the bottom left , bottom right and top right
I also have a GBA SP with a sticker on the Nintendo logo, it's a normal GBA SP so I suppose is totally normal. I think it is a protection for the logo
I bought a classic purple gameboy colour for £40 and...yea, it's a good one. Even came with a copy of game and watch gallery and 2 good energizer batteries
Oh, and I got it from cash converters
You should not buy collectors editions online. I’ve seen earlier listings of a lot of the pikachu one going for full price but the buttons were red 😂😂😂
i sold my spongebob gameboy for little than $20 and it was still working. to my surprise it was so expensive on ebay.
i have a full in box Japanese donkey Kong country 2 and it has the postcard for the donkey kong gba in it in like perfect condition wish i could still send it in to get the gameboy
Fake gameboys don't exist. Fake gameboy shells however do.
If you put a real GameBoy in a fake shell and sell it as "genuine" rare collector's item, it IS a fake GameBoy!
If the one thing that justifies the asking price (the rare special edition shell) is fake, it's only fair to call the whole thing fake, for it is not what it promised to be!
If it had simply been sold as a re-shelled GBA sp and priced accordingly, I would have agreed.
But that's not what these sellers chose to do. They chose to throw away a perfectly fine original shell, replace it with a crappy reproduction one and scam people who were looking for a collector's value, because of their immeasurable, uninhibited greed! 🤮
@@LRM12o8 I know, I'm just saying that the actual electronic hardware can't be faked really but the shell can, which is just the color of the plastic.
At 5:38 idk if it's just me but, the size and font of the A and B button also seems different.
1:42 I won't say what that mark looks like...
Speaker grill is also crooked on the Pikachu one.
Have you ever seen the oizzie oizzie oizze green and gold gameboy it's a limited edition gameboy that was released in Australia only
So that film on the label came on brand new game boy sp's. Have you never bought a sealed official SP before?
I have 3 gba sps, my own from back in the day, then my little sister and nephew gave me theirs after they 'grew out' of them. I know for sure mine and my sisters are legit, but my nephews has always been...suspicious to me.
Could never spend that much on a gba. Crazy how much these cost now even modded