When you're opening them up, they just slide off. First off, all official carts fit like a glove.Study the attached photos and you cannot miss this. The printed circuit board of a cart is the greatest giveaway. Also, it is not a tri-wing screwdriver, as they're often called, because tri-wing is another type of screw drive. after reading this post If you are not sure you can do it, or don't have the right tools - a Y0 (1.5 mm) tri-point screwdriver - do not attempt to open up your cartridge. It's unmissable.ĭISCLAIMER : I do not take any responsibility for cartridges damaged by opening them up. If you decide to open up your cart, the insides give it away like nothing else, because all repro carts use non-Nintendo parts. Unofficial ones are usually just part of a millimeter thicker, enough that you can notice a slight "doorstep" effect when you try to insert it into the console. Official carts just slide into your GBA's cart port.Pend., Made in Japan", when compared to an official cart. Slightly different font of the back-of-the-cart text "Nintendo, Model No.Very hard to notice, but use your senses of sight and touch, combined with mild-sunlight. The label, as well-made as it is, is still a bit different.Best conditions to see this is to compare them under mild sunlight. This is hard to notice, even when comparing to an official cart. The plastic is a lightly different shade and texture.It is thinner, easily noticeable when compared to any official Nintendo cart
The Game Boy Advance logo uses a slightly different font.All official Nintendo carts have this imprinted on the front label. Series/lot number (the imprinted numbers on the label) is missing.But, a few things give this one away.įirst, let's cover the outside of the cart: Most older copies used the more common Cross or Phillips screw drives. It's an amazingly well done copy, they even use the tri-point screws now. I got the same cart off of a local e-commerce store. But very easy if you have a cart in your hand.
Sadly (or luckily, depends on how you look at it) eBay and other e-commerce sites are flooded with repro carts that are, by the year, harder and harder to distinguish just by looking at the photo.
I can still make this a dedicated thread if you guys wish, even upload more detailed photos, but for now I'll leave this here. Hahaha, I was about to make a thread about recognizing fake GBA carts and I bump into this thread
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