Posted: 3/23/2010 5:17 PM
Post subject: Fake Pokemon Heart Gold copies in circulation
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http://www.insidegamer.nl/nintendods/pokmonheartgold/nieuws/29248/Intertoys-Pokmon-HeartGold-uitgesteld-vanwege-bug.html Translated from Dutch:
News | March 23, 2010 - The release of Pokemon Gold Heart is under an employee of Inter Toys indefinitely postponed by an error somewhere. According Intertoys appears a bluescreen while playing. This makes it impossible for the game at all for the first time to start without error in the following image. We can confirm that from my own research Heart Gold indeed an error on startup. The error message displayed stored data can not be read to the Nintendo DS and restart, the same message back into view. Soul Silver is doing as far as we have to test it properly. We have contacted Nintendo Benelux, but they can not yet confirm this bug. At present there is still no confirmation from Nintendo on the postponement of Pokemon Gold Heart. We hope as soon as possible to get clarification from Nintendo.
This is quite scary, how quickly fake DS copies of Heart Gold have reached circulation. I know from experience how prevalent fake GBA Pokemon games, and it seems the DS has not escaped this trade. I am posting to bring this to people's attention, and to be careful where you buy your games - fake games use an imported ROM of the game which eventually breaks down and become impossible to use, the GBA fakes seem to last a few weeks to a month, this might work even less well.