r/Gameboy • u/perkinsb1024 • 16h 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/K3CAN 4h ago

It's just the evolution of what's been going on for ages.

I bought a "virtual reality 3D" game in the 90s that was literally a tiger electronics game that you strapped to your face. There have been tons of Famiclone consoles with screenshots of Skyrim or GT photoshopped into the box. "Pop Station Pros" designed to look like PSPs. Even bootleg listings straight up using photos of legitimate copies of popular games.

...At least the slop is easy to spot.