Below is a list of the signs that players can look for to determine if a cartridge is fake or real. The same cartridge design would be used throughout the generation for games such as the Kanto remake FireRed and LeafGreen as well as the Pokémon Emerald edition. The groundbreaking Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Hoenn Region games also marked the debut of a new translucent cartridge design for the Game Freak series. Two years after the debut of the Game Boy Advance, players were treated to the launch of the Pokémon franchise's third generation. Below is a complete breakdown of how fans can tell whether their game cartridges are fake or not.
With the tightened security of the Nintendo 3Ds and Nintendo Switch, the vast majority of the counterfeit Pokémon games tend to be titles for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS consoles. Because of this, scammers eventually began to pass off cartridges that looked nearly identical to the real thing. Related: Most Important Changes In Pokémon Game Historyįake Pokémon cartridges started to become harder to detect in the 2000s though as Nintendo started adopting a more uniform look for their games. Even the beloved Pokémon Yellow Special Pikachu edition re-release of the Gen 1 RPGs featured a special yellow cartridge. When Gen 2 launched in 2000, Nintendo continued this design trend by shipping the Johto Pokémon games in silver and gold cartridges to match the title's name. One of the earliest examples of this was fraudulent Kanto region games with gray cartridges, instead of their iconic red and blue colored plastic. Even when the series made its debut on the Nintendo Game Boy handheld console in the 90s, fake cartridges existed in online stores such as eBay.
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