How to tell if you have a pirated 3ds game or not?


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So I found a game online which I had been looking for, but it was priced EXCESSIVELY LOW comparatively to the current pricing models. I grabbed it up, but it wasn't until after that where I started wondering how it was priced so low. Even more so, after I saw that multiple copies were available for that price. (and if it's legit, I laud the person for selling it at that price and trying to bring down the cost of the game, in all honesty).

At which point I wondered if people pirated DS games that look like normal, and how you would tell if a DS cartridge you bought was a pirated copy or not?

Does anyone know how you tell?


Some help with determining if it was original or not.


Wow! Awesome. Thanks!


I am not sure how accurate this advice is, though. Never had a DS myself...


Well, checking out my other DS games, some of the box stuff doesn't apply to the newer releases these days, but everything they said about the cartridge seems to apply to the ones I have.

Good stuff.


One easy way: if the art on the label is hand-drawn or obviously Xeroxed. :P


Scythia wrote:
One easy way: if the art on the label is hand-drawn or obviously Xeroxed. :P

We are living in times of relatively cheap high quality home printers.


Drejk wrote:
Scythia wrote:
One easy way: if the art on the label is hand-drawn or obviously Xeroxed. :P
We are living in times of relatively cheap high quality home printers.

I didn't say likely, I said easy.

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