Thank you! Your video helped me spot a fake Demon’s Crest cart I bought off eBay. It didn’t have the serial numbers on the insides of the cart and did not have the number imprint on the back label. Cant believe I paid for this piece of crap. Issuing a return and refund. Thank you!
Pretty sure i just caught my local pawn shop slippin. They had a "fake" copy of donkey kong country 1 on snes and it was $2 so i took a chance on it. Im 99% sure its actually a real legit copy tho lmao
As far as I have ever heard, so long as they are of decent quality, repro carts generally play just as well as the original counterparts, they just are more prone failure (failing to save, or just not booting at all). I don’t have any fakes in my collection, but from what I’ve heard, when they work, they work fine. If you just want to play the games on original hardware and don’t care if they are reproductions, then that or something like an Everdrive would probably be the way to go. It would be easier infinitely cheaper than trying to track down and buy all original stuff.
@@TheCartCollector i have original SNES and Dokey Kong Country 1 ,2 Starfox 2, F-zero , ect and i gave them for free with the console to my cousin and now i want them again for myself :( it was before many years and now nostalgia is hard for me. I probably will go with Everdrive all in one solution but i would buy Donkey Kong games because i love them so much.
SNES game boards went through several revisions over the life of the system. It’s not uncommon for legitimate games to have multiple different board designs depending on when they were manufactured. I found a website a while back that actually shows the different PCBs that each game could have come with: snescentral.com/gameindex.php It’s a great resource to compare your games to when looking at SNES games specifically.
Hopefully the video author or anyone else can answer. Bought several games, coincidentally DKC2 was among them. I had dkc1, dkc2 & superfami dkc3. I got dkc1, dkc2, dkc3 in better condition. Heres why im confused, the boards dont match. Some differences are: The ones i got recently had toshiba, goldstar chips instead of the MX branding. There where difference in the chip amounts speficially the small ones. The new ones had less small ones & a slighly bigger one. The new DKC1 had a taller pcb like the one in the video, the older one had one less taller. Whats weird is that the boards of the new games had all the gold text with nintendo branding and corresponding dates yet they were of an slightly brighter green. The old ones had a more dark green. Also the capacitors & resistors were almost identical. Was there so much variation between boards? Or i got very well done replicas?
So I actually found this really good resource for PCB comparison a few months back that I used to help someone else: snescentral.com/gameindex.php It shows you all the different PCB layouts that you can expect to find in most (if not all) of the Super Nintendo games. I looked at DKC1 specifically and it looks like there were four different PCBs used in that game over the years of its production, with varying chip quantities, sizes, and placements. DKC2 had a few different boards as well. Id recommend going to that website and comparing your game internals with what’s there to make sure everything is good with your games.
@@TheCartCollector This would had saved me lots of time. Last time i searched for a website with this type of information i couldnt find it. Thank you for pointing it out to me & the useful quick reply. 😃
Hi thanks for this video. Recently I have bought a Japanese Rock man x3 cartridge for snes. I am European. I am not sure this is original because…when I look the bar code under the Pal version (European) has the middle line plus two on sides… Japanese usually have only the central barcodes… guess what? This one has barcodes in the middle and in the sides but all It’s written in Japanese… what should I think?
Oh that! Okay. I can work with that. I found a website that actually shows photos of how the circuit boards look in different games for the SNES/SFC. And the Megaman/Rockman X3 circuit board is specific to that game. It is different than the boards used in other games and that same board is used in all the different regions. So all regions will have the 3 sets of contacts. So if that’s the only thing that concerns you about having a real copy, then I think you are good! If you’re still unsure, then you can open up the cartridge and check to make sure the board is correct. I’ll link it here: snescentral.com/pcbboards.php?chip=SHVC-1DC0N-01 I hope that eases your concern!
You’re welcome. Glad I could be of help! And yes, the entire green board is called a circuit board, and the “teeth”, as you called them, are called contacts.
Can you make a video on Snes Majesco Reprints these are licensed games but are reprints they dont even have the sticker on the back its molded in the plastic PCBs are also changed on these they dont have the stamp on the back sticker because there is none there also made in Mexico on it as well I ask this because there is info on this but not much in video form so people might think there fake
I never knew about the Majesco releases of some of the games. There’s an interesting bit of history wrapped around those that I’m excited to look into. I’ll do some more digging and see what I can come up with. Might very well be worth a whole video! Thanks for the tip.
@@TheCartCollector Yea I bought pac man 2 the new adventures thought it was a fake but was just a Majesco release still has Nintendo on it on the pcb and all the markings but is a different layout of pcb
@CitrusDruidxCDx after looking into it a bit, I want to say that either my copy of Megaman X or the OG Clayfighter might be a Majesco print. I vaguely remember one of them having the printed back. I’ll need to check on that when I get home.
Sorry that I’m only now getting to respond to this. There are plenty of legitimate SNES games have silver screw screws instead of the bronze looking ones. The important thing is that they are GameBit drive screws. If you have some with a Phillips drive, then those are for sure fake.
Thank you! Your video helped me spot a fake Demon’s Crest cart I bought off eBay. It didn’t have the serial numbers on the insides of the cart and did not have the number imprint on the back label. Cant believe I paid for this piece of crap. Issuing a return and refund. Thank you!
Honestly, good video to get the gist of spotting this stuff. I knew none of this and now I feel more confident in buying. Thanks mate!
A video for this about Pal Region / EU Cartridges would be great as well.
And most authentic SNES cartridges have silver screws too!
So even all authentic SNES cartridges have to have metal screws!
1:20 I didn´t Know about this. Great video!
Glad to be able to help!
Pretty sure i just caught my local pawn shop slippin. They had a "fake" copy of donkey kong country 1 on snes and it was $2 so i took a chance on it. Im 99% sure its actually a real legit copy tho lmao
I got a legit copy of pokemon fire red in lot of fake games. Dude said that they all were reproductions, but that one turned out to be real haha.
Thanks for posting
My question is are they playing different from the original cartridges or just the same. Any slow downs ? Graphical glithes?
As far as I have ever heard, so long as they are of decent quality, repro carts generally play just as well as the original counterparts, they just are more prone failure (failing to save, or just not booting at all). I don’t have any fakes in my collection, but from what I’ve heard, when they work, they work fine.
If you just want to play the games on original hardware and don’t care if they are reproductions, then that or something like an Everdrive would probably be the way to go. It would be easier infinitely cheaper than trying to track down and buy all original stuff.
@@TheCartCollector i have original SNES and Dokey Kong Country 1 ,2 Starfox 2, F-zero , ect and i gave them for free with the console to my cousin and now i want them again for myself :( it was before many years and now nostalgia is hard for me. I probably will go with Everdrive all in one solution but i would buy Donkey Kong games because i love them so much.
Well mine definitely from what I saw looked good but my chip looks way way smaller than what I saw
SNES game boards went through several revisions over the life of the system. It’s not uncommon for legitimate games to have multiple different board designs depending on when they were manufactured. I found a website a while back that actually shows the different PCBs that each game could have come with:
snescentral.com/gameindex.php
It’s a great resource to compare your games to when looking at SNES games specifically.
Hopefully the video author or anyone else can answer. Bought several games, coincidentally DKC2 was among them. I had dkc1, dkc2 & superfami dkc3. I got dkc1, dkc2, dkc3 in better condition. Heres why im confused, the boards dont match. Some differences are: The ones i got recently had toshiba, goldstar chips instead of the MX branding. There where difference in the chip amounts speficially the small ones. The new ones had less small ones & a slighly bigger one. The new DKC1 had a taller pcb like the one in the video, the older one had one less taller.
Whats weird is that the boards of the new games had all the gold text with nintendo branding and corresponding dates yet they were of an slightly brighter green. The old ones had a more dark green.
Also the capacitors & resistors were almost identical.
Was there so much variation between boards? Or i got very well done replicas?
So I actually found this really good resource for PCB comparison a few months back that I used to help someone else:
snescentral.com/gameindex.php
It shows you all the different PCB layouts that you can expect to find in most (if not all) of the Super Nintendo games.
I looked at DKC1 specifically and it looks like there were four different PCBs used in that game over the years of its production, with varying chip quantities, sizes, and placements. DKC2 had a few different boards as well. Id recommend going to that website and comparing your game internals with what’s there to make sure everything is good with your games.
@@TheCartCollector This would had saved me lots of time. Last time i searched for a website with this type of information i couldnt find it.
Thank you for pointing it out to me & the useful quick reply. 😃
You are very welcome. It’s what I’m here for haha.
Can you do one one the consoles themselves? I wanna buy one but dont wanna get scammed
Hi thanks for this video. Recently I have bought a Japanese Rock man x3 cartridge for snes.
I am European. I am not sure this is original because…when I look the bar code under the Pal version (European) has the middle line plus two on sides… Japanese usually have only the central barcodes… guess what? This one has barcodes in the middle and in the sides but all
It’s written in Japanese… what should I think?
So I’ve tried to look into this but I’m coming up blank. What barcode are you talking about?
@@TheCartCollector I don’t know what to call it in English so… it’s the part in gold that Enter the console. Like teeth.
Oh that! Okay. I can work with that.
I found a website that actually shows photos of how the circuit boards look in different games for the SNES/SFC. And the Megaman/Rockman X3 circuit board is specific to that game. It is different than the boards used in other games and that same board is used in all the different regions. So all regions will have the 3 sets of contacts. So if that’s the only thing that concerns you about having a real copy, then I think you are good!
If you’re still unsure, then you can open up the cartridge and check to make sure the board is correct. I’ll link it here:
snescentral.com/pcbboards.php?chip=SHVC-1DC0N-01
I hope that eases your concern!
@@TheCartCollector thanks a lot! Honestly ☺️ so it’s called circuit board.
You’re welcome. Glad I could be of help!
And yes, the entire green board is called a circuit board, and the “teeth”, as you called them, are called contacts.
Can you make a video on Snes Majesco Reprints these are licensed games but are reprints they dont even have the sticker on the back its molded in the plastic PCBs are also changed on these they dont have the stamp on the back sticker because there is none there also made in Mexico on it as well I ask this because there is info on this but not much in video form so people might think there fake
I never knew about the Majesco releases of some of the games. There’s an interesting bit of history wrapped around those that I’m excited to look into. I’ll do some more digging and see what I can come up with. Might very well be worth a whole video! Thanks for the tip.
@@TheCartCollector Yea I bought pac man 2 the new adventures thought it was a fake but was just a Majesco release still has Nintendo on it on the pcb and all the markings but is a different layout of pcb
@CitrusDruidxCDx after looking into it a bit, I want to say that either my copy of Megaman X or the OG Clayfighter might be a Majesco print. I vaguely remember one of them having the printed back. I’ll need to check on that when I get home.
@@TheCartCollector Yea feel like not may people know about Majesco prints some might but if people dont they might think there fakes
What if the screws are silver and not gold/bronze??
Sorry that I’m only now getting to respond to this.
There are plenty of legitimate SNES games have silver screw screws instead of the bronze looking ones. The important thing is that they are GameBit drive screws. If you have some with a Phillips drive, then those are for sure fake.
Just checked!! Think my copy of Super Empire is a FUGAZI!!