Game Boy Pirate Single Carts

Kirby's Dream Land 2

Manufacturer	Additional Info/Scans
Unknown	None

Just like the Tamagotchi below, this cart is damn close to the real thing, very much unlike NES/FC pirate carts out there. This is designed to fool consumers. You can tell this is a pirate by the fact the color of the cart is blue (the real is grey, like most GB carts), and the printing on the label is blurry, as is the box, and the game only came with a manual (also blurry); real carts come with ads and other promo material as well

Info and pic ripped from EAGB

Pocket Monster Green II

Manufacturer	Additional Info/Scans
Unknown	Box

There is no Pocket Monster (Pokemon in the US) Green version II! This is a pirate of PMG, with changed colors on the cart and box (yellow instead of silver). Again, a pirate made to deceive

Info and pic ripped from EAGB

Pokemon Diamond

Manufacturer	Additional Info/Scans
Unknown	None

Like all the pirate singles here, this looks somewhat close to a legitimate original, except for two details. One, unlike the other pirates on this page, the cartridge is missing the "Nintendo Game Boy" verbiage abobe the label. Second, there was no "Diamond Version" of Pokemon. The game on the cart is not a Pokemon game, but probably a Digimon game, but I cannot be sure. This gmne has 48 different monsters, and starts off wih the character entering a large tree which supposedly leads to the "electric monster world". If anyone can verify this is a Digimon game, let me know. This pirate is probably from China, as all the characters have names like "Cheung" and "Sung".

Info and pic courtsey Brent McDonald

Tamagotchi

Manufacturer	Additional Info/Scans
Unknown	Printed Circuit Board Scan (Front) Printed Circuit Board Scan (Back)

Yes folks, this *is* a pirate cart. This is truly one of the finest pirate carts, for any system, I have ever seen. The cart has a few flaws, such as the poorly printed "N" on the cart next to in the oval area above the label, and the black print to the left of "Ban Dai" is a little blurry, and, the biggest giveaway for those in the know, the real Japanese Tamagotchi carts come in white and pink (pink bundled with a pink Pocket GB), not in grey (click here to see the real whiteJapanese Tamagotchi cart). But I'll tell you folks, it sure could have fooled me! Aside from the obvious cartridge color difference, there are other clues: Some instruction books are "missing pages". Others have the page layout messed up, all have shoddy/blurry/faint printing that would make you swear it was printed on a color photocopier. Some boxes are printed improperly, some not. The proper box has the white flap on *top*, while one version of the pirate cartridge has the white flap on the bottom. Of course, if you open the cart up, you'll see even more differences (see PCB scans above), it does not use the standard style circuit board used in licensed GB carts. Especially of note is the fact it uses a socketed EPROM instead of a ROM chip! GB hardware hackers could probably have fun with that :) Finally, what I think makes this even more unique, is the fact that this has a battery backup.

Info and pic from Robert Worne's Classic Computer/Video Game Museum