-
Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!
China is now making fake DS systems.
- Thread starter ReyVGM
- Start date
Metal Gear?!
Member
If bootleg Chinese GBAs are anything to go by, it probably doesn't work fine, at least with all games. We could use some testing, especially of GBA games and DS games with Slot-2 accessories.
Jayayess1190
Member
Wonder how a fake 3DS would work.
sixteen-bit
Member
Wow. So shameless.Confidence Man said:
makingmusic476
Member
I learned long ago to not buy any DS related items on Ebay.
In order to do that you'd need the fake DS to have the power of a good desktop PC, and probably a couple of years worth of emu optimisation targeted at that platform. If a fake DS could do that, (i) it would be a bombshell on every gadget blog and (ii) please take my money.Einherjar said:
Anyway, I'd love to see a teardown too. Considering that every DS part can be bought on DX, it's highly plausible that they're just wrapping old DS mobos in brand new counterfeit packaging as others have suggested. I'm almost tempted to buy one myself, just to find out.
MiniBossman
Member
Wow this is pretty unbelievable. Guess I will have to triple check anything from eBay.
Totobeni said:I remember the NES, SNES,Megadrive clones from years and years ago , I thought this illegal business ended.
^ This NES clone was everywhere in my country and people thought it's the real thing.
That was my very first console, that i bougth with my own money from my very first work as a teenager. I didn't know it was a knockoff then since it was sold even in big stores as a "japanese Nintendo"
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Now I worry about those stuff appearing here =/
Totobeni said:DS clone :/
I remember the NES, SNES,Megadrive clones from years and years ago , I thought this illegal business ended.
^ This NES clone was everywhere in my country and people thought it's the real thing.
What the hell. I think that was my first console. I had NO idea it was a fake :O
Add me to the list of people who got duped into buying that fake Famicom. My parents bought it for me when I was like 6 and the only games I can remember on it were Contra and some tank game with a level editor that was pretty fun. I always thought it was weird that all the games were programmed on it, and didn't figure it out until a couple of years later when I learned about that type of stuff.
I lived in the Middle East at that time though so I'm sure that the real thing was near impossible to find and these things were everywhere.
I lived in the Middle East at that time though so I'm sure that the real thing was near impossible to find and these things were everywhere.
Yeah, it seems like many clones in the old days came into being because the real thing wasn't available everywhere. Like the Spectrum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZX_Spectrum_clones (all 47 of them!)Codeblue said:
Hardware cloning as a concept isn't such a bad thing; if no one had cloned IBMs, I wonder what sort of desktop PCs we would have now? Would Microsoft as we know it exist?
MacGurcules
Member
Select?Takao said:
IchigoSharingan
Member
Drkirby said:
I remember an E3 2004/5 when they had a lot of demonstrations over the Phantom. One of the guys actually spearheading the project was there talking to everyone. Obviously they had their own booth and it all looked pretty neat. I covered it as part of the gaming press I was back then. The peeps were nice and seemed genuinely proud of their progress.
It seemed decent enough at the time.
Can't believe it went absolutely nowhere. I feel like I took footage of a ghost. I suppose in this industry one has to get used to companies/projects/ideas disappearing into thin air more often than in other industries.
It was either Start or Select.Takao said:
The third button was one and the Blue Button on the top was another.
I miss my phantom system. Many hours wasted on Ninja Gaiden and Double Dragon. That controller is not that bad, it's just a Knock Off Genesis controller.
I wonder who the fuck came up with this one tho:
It was another NES Clone controller - it was awful.
KittenMaster
Member
drizzle said:
SatelliteOfLove
Member
drizzle said:It was either Start or Select.
The third button was one and the Blue Button on the top was another.
I miss my phantom system. Many hours wasted on Ninja Gaiden and Double Dragon. That controller is not that bad, it's just a Knock Off Genesis controller.
I wonder who the fuck came up with this one tho:
It was another NES Clone controller - it was awful.
Bwahaha. Is this from the Land of People Who Have Upside Down Hands?
Lupin the Third
Member
Deal Extreme (website based in China) has been selling these "refurbished" DS Lites for over a year or so now. And I think what someone else mentioned makes the most sense: they're likely official Nintendo guts in replacement packaging and casing. That site also sells replacement casing that matches all the various colors of their refurb consoles. Hmmmm. I'm fairly sure that's the origin of many of these "knock-off" DS Lites (or maybe their supplier is). But it's definitely not worth the price compared to buying a still-available new unit at your local retailer.
What's amazing about the fake HDD, is how they went the extra mile and modded the USB firmware. It shows up as a 500gb drive when plugged in and when writing files to the USB drive, it continually rewrites over the oldest set of data, so you never get a "out of disk space" error. Ridiculous!
A massive proportion of the flash memory on ebay (SD cards, USB drives etc) has had the same thing done. 'Bargain' SDHC cards are almost always fake, packaging and all. The sellers tend to have 99% good feedback, because most people don't notice they've been screwed until much later on.spindoc said:
Hydrogen Bluebird
Member
Doesn't China make fakes out of everything?
I bought a supposedly new Japanese vibrant blue PSP-3000 off of eBay a while back. Advertised as brand-new shipping from Japan. When I got it, it came from China, and everything except the PSP was fake... AC adapter, manual, accessories, battery, etc. The PSP itself looked legit and everything worked fine although when I compared it to another PSP-3000, the buttons felt different, like they were looser/used. In hindsight, it probably was similar to this... a refurb dishonestly being sold as new.
I later just bought a plain black PSP-3000 core system. It wasn't the color I wanted, but at least it was guaranteed to be new and legit.
If I was JParish, I'd be pissed too.
I later just bought a plain black PSP-3000 core system. It wasn't the color I wanted, but at least it was guaranteed to be new and legit.
If I was JParish, I'd be pissed too.
skullmuffins
Banned
Grr, don't remind me. I bought one of the Zelda edition DSLs and then lost it when I took it with me on a family trip. Still have the external box, inserts, and all that jazz :-|.Jackano said:
My current DSL is in one of dealextreme's aforementioned replacement shells, since both the hinges on the original case were broken and the top was literally falling off the bottom half. It was originally a white unit - now it's black & cobalt blue with white buttons (because I thought the white buttons looked spiffier than the black ones that were included with the replacement shell.)
I'm with the others who are saying it's probably a "refurb" DS with replacement parts.
RomanticHeroX
Member
Update on the fake DS
Guess that explains why so many bootleg sellers have great feedback.
T-Frog said:
Guess that explains why so many bootleg sellers have great feedback.
The Spoony Hou
Member
Fuck. I was planning on buying a DSLite on eBay.
nephilimdj
Member
Basicly there refurbished units with cheap replacement cases you can buy on hong kong sites like dealxtreme.
Been around for a few years now.
Been around for a few years now.
Joseph Merrick
Member
pretty obvious it's not a knockoff system.
jetsetfluken
Member
Damn, the DS Lite is the only DS I don't have, always wanted one as a slight upgrade to the phat while retaining the GBA BC.
So are these (real ones) getting expensive/hard to find on Ebay now?
Although the reversed A/B buttons on the DS ruins GBA for me many times, I'm probably better off finding one of those "v2 brighter screen" GBA SP's to replace my GBA SP.
So are these (real ones) getting expensive/hard to find on Ebay now?
Although the reversed A/B buttons on the DS ruins GBA for me many times, I'm probably better off finding one of those "v2 brighter screen" GBA SP's to replace my GBA SP.
Confidence Man said:
Brilliant, 128MB Flash instead of proper drive, and, most amazingly, they have also modified firmware of the "drive":
LaserBuddha
Member
It's obviously a real DS with an aftermarket case, something which can be purchased from any number of places for people to convert themselves.
If Parish won't fix his article, at least fix the OP.
If Parish won't fix his article, at least fix the OP.