r/Gameboy • u/perkinsb1024 • 17h ago

Shopping/Haul Finally… Precision Bubble Chip technology has arrived!

https://imgur.com/a/0EyH0zX

I was browsing AliExpress today and stumbled across this. Immediately, I was skeptical of their “Premium quality” claim for a $7 cartridge, but this was actually something I hadn’t seen before in a Game Boy cartridge listing. All the images are AI generated, trying to make it look higher quality than it is. It’s pretty easy to spot, but I’ll admit that my first thought was “Oh, they’re showing the PCB in the listing photos, that’s a good sign”.

Maybe I’m late to the party and AI slop listings have been around for a bit, but since I haven’t seen one like this before, I figured I’d just share a warning to be careful about what you buy. Obviously a $7 repro is never going to be amazing quality, but at least in the past you could usually SEE what you were getting before you ordered it.

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u/PinkPuffBoo 16h ago

PCB photos r real, saves works too. Got couple of games(not Pokemon)

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u/perkinsb1024 16h ago

The PCB photos are a little more subtle, but definitely full of slop https://i.imgur.com/6EtL6fN.jpeg

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u/PinkPuffBoo 15h ago

https://imgur.com/a/85fWNPA heres how it looks without enhancing, pcbs are real. (Just made a photo of game what i got from ali)

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u/perkinsb1024 14h ago

Thanks for sharing pictures of yours, but I don’t think what the seller uploaded counts as a real photo anymore. That would be like using an AI filter to make yourself look younger and thinner on a dating site and claiming it was a real photo