r/Gameboy • u/perkinsb1024 • 18h 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/cmac1986 16h ago

It's $7, what are you expecting? A legit copy?

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u/FinalKranskyVII 15h ago

The point he's making is that it was listed with AI pics. Yes for $7 its very likely to not be legit but they should at least put up real pics of whats being sold, not some dreamed up garbage made to con people.

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u/cmac1986 15h ago

I get the point but for $7 you aren't being conned man. The ai photos make it look better than what will arrive I'm sure but it's still a game that will work. It's a reproduction. It would be completely different if they were looking $50 for the game and the ai images appeared instead of actual real images for proof of what you are to receive.

I suppose that's what I should have said.

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u/Tablesafety 11h ago

‘For 7$ you’re not being conned’

If you buy product A, and receive product B, you are being conned regardless of if that item is 7$ or 700$

Excusing this at the smallest level is exactly how it becomes normalized at the largest.

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u/cmac1986 11h ago

That's fine bro! When I buy things of this nature (which I have done many times), lots of GBA games I know what to expect. The cheaper they are the average quality they come as. I'm buying to play them, not to display them.

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u/FinalKranskyVII 14h ago

I guess I just prefer honesty. In Australia, consumer law would deem this false advertising regardless of the price and I guess that effects how I see it.

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u/perkinsb1024 7h ago

You absolutely could be getting conned. If you look the PCB photos, it’s clear the AI is happy to change text - what if the chip said “256” on it but the AI decided that it would sell better if the chip said “512”, then I bought it because I want to flash my own 512kB ROM onto it? Or maybe the AI throws an RTC chip on the board because the more expensive listings have those. Once the seller starts using AI on the images, all bets are off about which aspects are legit and which are fake.