Is this game original?
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Hi! Well, first of all I'm not sure if this topic should go in this sub-forum, sorry if it doesn't.
I recently bought a copy of Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals from another collector. The game looked pretty good so I bought it without a doubt. I checked for the usual things I check when I buy a SNES game to avoid getting a fake copy: the seal of quality was golden and shiny when exposed to light as any other original game in good shape, the shape of the connectors was right, the quality of the label printing was also OK, it had that number in the back label and the "Made in Mexico" was both in the front and back labels, also the texture of the cart felt right. I figured everything was OK and I bought the game.
Lately, when I came home and looked at it with more detail, something seemed odd.. you know, the original SNES games have a circle-shaped stamp in the center-lower area of the front label, some kind of a mark.. but this copy hasn't. I sort of remembered reading somewhere that Lufia II is one of the few SNES games that doesn't have that mark, but I'm not pretty sure if I actually read it or just made that up xD. So I wanted to ask here ir anyone knows if it is normal that a SNES game doesn't have that 'mark' thingy (checking my other games, I also found out that my copy of ALttP didn't have it either).
I don't upload pictures of the game because it looks fine and the only thing missing is that mark.
That's all, thanks in advance (oh, and excuse me if the english isn't pretty good). Thanks !
I recently bought a copy of Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals from another collector. The game looked pretty good so I bought it without a doubt. I checked for the usual things I check when I buy a SNES game to avoid getting a fake copy: the seal of quality was golden and shiny when exposed to light as any other original game in good shape, the shape of the connectors was right, the quality of the label printing was also OK, it had that number in the back label and the "Made in Mexico" was both in the front and back labels, also the texture of the cart felt right. I figured everything was OK and I bought the game.
Lately, when I came home and looked at it with more detail, something seemed odd.. you know, the original SNES games have a circle-shaped stamp in the center-lower area of the front label, some kind of a mark.. but this copy hasn't. I sort of remembered reading somewhere that Lufia II is one of the few SNES games that doesn't have that mark, but I'm not pretty sure if I actually read it or just made that up xD. So I wanted to ask here ir anyone knows if it is normal that a SNES game doesn't have that 'mark' thingy (checking my other games, I also found out that my copy of ALttP didn't have it either).
I don't upload pictures of the game because it looks fine and the only thing missing is that mark.
That's all, thanks in advance (oh, and excuse me if the english isn't pretty good). Thanks !
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What exactly it is your suppose to see I dont know yet.
Hope that at least helps a tiny bit.
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I also heard that opening up a cart and checking for the Nintendo logo on the circuit board is kind of the 'decisive' thing to determine if the game is fake or not. Sadly, I don't own a GameBit yet and I don't wanna try that pencil trick on my cart xD.
I think I'm going to get a gamebit to deal with these issues and also to replace cart batteries. Thank you for your answer
If you havent changed batteries before and want to practice I would recommend getting a couple MADDEN sports titles for the SNES and swapping one battery from game A to game B and game B to game A.
For 3 bucks you get two practice runs and dont even have to buy a new battery.