Ebay hall of shame

The battery was replaced...

 

You bring forth a good point. The sticker on the cartridge looks wrong anyway. I've never seen a pokemon cartridge with the large 'CE' nor one without the E ESRB rating either (in the GBA era). Also, isn't the nintendo seal on the other side? I've never owned ruby personally so I'm not entirely sure.

It's possible that it's legit and the battery has been replaced, just looks dodgy to me.

 

The CE is on games that are from other regions like PAL compared to NTSC games that you are used to seeing that don't have a CE on them. If you read the model number of the games the last 3 characters denote what region they are from. (USA/EUR/AUS/JPN) I have not seen any replacement batteries for sale that aren't yellow so I'm sure that's all it is. You should be happy it has a new battery :friendly_wink:

Here are pictures comparing the 4 different GENUINE copies of Ruby





EDIT: It is also normal for the Nintendo seal to be shaped differently on games from other regions. You can usually spot genuine games by looking for the imprinted number on the right side of the label and the holographic/reflective sticker it is printed on. Here is a list of all legit releases: [TABLE="class: contrib, width: 760"]
[TR="bgcolor: #E6E6E6"]
[TD="class: ctitle"]Pocket Monsters Ruby Version[/TD]
[TD="class: datacompany"]Nintendo[/TD]
[TD="class: datapid"]AGB-AXVJ-JPN[/TD]
[TD="class: cdate"]11/21/02[/TD]
[TD="class: cregion"]JP[/TD]
[TD="class: datarating"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: ctitle"]Pokemon Ruby Version[/TD]
[TD="class: datacompany"]Nintendo[/TD]
[TD="class: datapid"]AGB-AXVE-USA[/TD]
[TD="class: cdate"]03/19/03[/TD]
[TD="class: cregion"]US[/TD]
[TD="class: datarating"]E[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="bgcolor: #E6E6E6"]
[TD="class: ctitle"]Pokemon Ruby Version[/TD]
[TD="class: datacompany"]Nintendo[/TD]
[TD="class: datapid"]AGB-AXVP-AUS[/TD]
[TD="class: cdate"]04/03/03[/TD]
[TD="class: cregion"]AU[/TD]
[TD="class: datarating"]PG[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: ctitle"]Pokemon Ruby Version[/TD]
[TD="class: datacompany"]Nintendo[/TD]
[TD="class: datapid"]AGB-AXVP-EUR[/TD]
[TD="class: cdate"]07/25/03[/TD]
[TD="class: cregion"]EU[/TD]
[TD="class: datarating"]3+[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
I say all of this in a nice way, not to shit on you for posting something legit. No hard feelings :sneakiness:

 

My copy of Ruby had the CE logo on it, and come to think of it I believe my Fire Red does.

Most bootleg copies have the ESRB rating on them, with dodgy print. It's super rare to find a bootleg with PAL labels.

Excellent post kylethedude, by your chart it appears it was a European release. Which makes sense since many stores here sell European versions

 

Yup, European it is. I have never seen a bootleg PAL cart in real life before. I haven't even seen one on ebay before and that's practically bootleg heaven. And yes, just about every pokemon bootleg ever has the ESRB rating on it, but as you said most of them look funny since they're fake mock-ups.

 

There's more than 4 genuine types of Pokemon R/S cartridges, same for Fire Red/Leaf Green, etc., the others being the localized European versions. The games aren't multi-language, so each European country the game was localized for got their own specific builds and cartridges. The German Sapphire cart, for example, looks identical to the EUR cartridge, excluding the game's logo ("Pokemon Saphir-Edition") and the ID (AGB-AXPD-NOE).

Granted, I don't think I've seen bootlegs of ex. the German or French versions before.

 

Wow, I didn't know that! I did a bit of research and found some pictures as proof for everyone else. Thanks for the info

 

ohhh, at from a distance I though this was real..



Then I looked at Ryu's face.




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Holy cow, that's a disturbing face!

 

LOL. Dat face.

 

I guess you could put the price on the opinion that it's... art... but $1000 for shipping? Does it come wrapped in gold-plated bubble wrap??

 

HOLY FUCKING SHIT DUDE!!! $1000 for shipping??? Lame...

 

lol

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-Rare-B...0295?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item3383ff79f7

 

If this is for a Sega Genesis, then why is an Atari 2600 pictured too? In addition, there are only 2 controllers...

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Wii-RVTR-Blank-Disc-RARE-For-the-Dev-Developer-Tool-/300942352324
not sure if trolling or dumbass

 

Seems like ever since I have listed mine and got $40/disc, everyone is coming out of the woodwork trying to sell theirs too!

This guy has a ton of stuff to sell, I'm thinking he was or still is a developer but is unloading the old stuff. I scored a GCN Memory Card Emulator off of him the other day for a somewhat reasonable price.

 

Speechless...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/super-ninte...3182?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item2a2fafbe9e

 

So much is wrong with this listing, can you find them all? LOL

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Microsof...6-GAMES-Bundle-Bulk-Pack-AS-NEW-/300943465228

 

I wasn't really trying hard to find all of the faults but there are some obvious ones.
Everything is either "like new" or "as new" even though everything has clearly been used. He also has a kinect sensor and xbox live access, four of the games can even be played on xbox live.

 

so YOUR the guy that overpriced his blank wii games asking $1500 for them