Fake Pokemon Heart Gold copies in circulation

[Toothache]

http://www.insidegamer.nl/nintendods/pok...e-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.

[DacoTaco]

scary?
the US rom was released a few days before US release date

[DacoTaco]

Don't know what I would do if I bought a game and found out it was fake, oh boy I sure wouldn't go easy on them in the first place

But then again, I have only heard this kind of stories regarding the Pokémon series, they seem quite popular to make fakes of, glad I don't like that kind of games at all.

im sorry but if you bought a fake copy you bought from a crappy shop who has crappy shipping ppl/warehouse

[JADS]

Fake copies? The article states that Pokemon Gold has been delayed according to an Intertoys employee. The reason why it has been delayed is because there is a save game bug , according to the article, in the gold version of the game. The article doesn't mention anything about counterfeited copies and its not even sure if there really is a bug.

[James333]

IF that were a fake copy the game wouldn't even turn on

http://hackmii.com/2010/02/lawsuit-coming-in-3-2-1/

Code:

The integrity checking is there to ensure that the cartridge booted is a genuine licensed game cartridge. There is a whitelist stored in the DSi’s NAND, that has an entry for every DS game released, consisting of multiple SHA1 (How these hashes are constructed exactly hasn’t been confirmed) checksums for the cart header, ARM9 binary and ARM7 binary.

I hear you thinking, what about newly released DS games? How will they ever boot on a DSi without an update to the whitelist? Newer DS games come with a RSA signature in the header and so don’t need to be explicitly whitelisted.

[DacoTaco]

IF that were a fake copy the game wouldn't even turn on

http://hackmii.com/2010/02/lawsuit-coming-in-3-2-1/

Code:

The integrity checking is there to ensure that the cartridge booted is a genuine licensed game cartridge. There is a whitelist stored in the DSi’s NAND, that has an entry for every DS game released, consisting of multiple SHA1 (How these hashes are constructed exactly hasn’t been confirmed) checksums for the cart header, ARM9 binary and ARM7 binary.

I hear you thinking, what about newly released DS games? How will they ever boot on a DSi without an update to the whitelist? Newer DS games come with a RSA signature in the header and so don’t need to be explicitly whitelisted.

that is for DSi only and mind you that is pretty much bypassable