![]() ![]() Quite frankly, I find absolutely nothing wrong with a repro, under certain conditions. Maybe it’s me, but it feels like there sure is a lot of heavily implied bashing of reproduction here. Especially if someone’s asking for a lot of money. I won’t argue about the legality of selling these reproduction carts here, just know what you’re getting into if you’re thinking of buying a reproduction on eBay. Reproduction carts can go faulty very easily and will suffer from bit rot in as little as five years, making the games unplayable and completely worthless before long. Whoever bought this, they spent over $400 on a cart that’s been tampered with. ![]() The problem in this case is that the game was never released outside of North America. Here’s one a PAL version of EarthBound that sold recently: Fake/pirated Super NES EarthBound carts have been on the rise. Don’t fall for it!īelieve it or not, EarthBound Zero isn’t the only game that’s been getting this treatment lately, either. Sometimes they don’t, and pretend that it’s one of the actual prototype carts. If you read the item descriptions carefully, sometimes they’ll even say so. Never mind the fact that that Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo aren’t in the game whatsoever.īasically, if a cart has a label, looks like an actually-released game, and isn’t mentioned on any of the big EarthBound sites, it’s almost definitely just a reproduction. The second one uses artwork stolen from our good friend emilio, which you can see here. The first one gets it wrong – the game is called “Earth Bound”. Reproduction makers tend to use a bunch of the same fake labels for their EB0 carts, here are two of the most common: If you come across an EarthBound zero cart with any sort of label or label art, it’s definitely not one of the prototypes. ![]() Only a handful of prototypes are known to exist, and I’ve tried to document their whereabouts in this article, though admittedly it’s not 100% up-to-date (don’t worry Roo, I’ll update it sometime □ )Īlso, the prototype carts actually look like prototypes. Probably 95% of the EB0 carts on eBay are reproductions, not the actual prototypes. Generally, if it hasn’t been posted about here or on the front page of Starmen.Net, then it’s almost definitely not one of the actual prototype cartridges. I get this question so often that I thought it’d be a good idea to make a post about it for people to reference. Hey, I found this on eBay, I think it’s one of the EarthBound Zero prototypes! Can you tell me if it’s legit or not? January 12th, 2011 | EarthBound, Merchandise, MOTHER 1, Uncommon KnowledgeĪ really common e-mail I get is something like this: ![]()
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