My fellow tempers,
I just came across a very amusing offer over on ebay:
https://www.ebay.de/itm/13501375517...VRdgf3JTeu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
The description states "--- Very very rare --- You can't find anything about it on the Internet".
Now, I guess we all know it's just a bootleg copy of Super Mario Advance 2, maybe bundled with or injected into an emulator. To my knowledge this is actually a rarity, just not in the sense the seller suggests, but as a relic of early 2000's bootleg culture (whatever that is). Since I have never seen a GBA game bootleg CD for PC usage like that I wanted to ask if any of you guys know something about it. Back in the day my parents took me to a giant market at the German-Polish border. There they definitely sold bootleg games (for example copies of "Pokémon Diamond" for GBC, way before the DS game of the same name came out). However, I never saw anyone there sell CD games with a single ROM on it.
So, what do you guys think? Could this be a CD that was sold to some unsuspecting gamer over 20 years ago or could it be that the seller himself made it just to mess with wannabe-collectors?
And furthermore, if it turned out to be an old bootleg, would you personally assign it any historical value?
I just came across a very amusing offer over on ebay:
https://www.ebay.de/itm/13501375517...VRdgf3JTeu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
The description states "--- Very very rare --- You can't find anything about it on the Internet".
Now, I guess we all know it's just a bootleg copy of Super Mario Advance 2, maybe bundled with or injected into an emulator. To my knowledge this is actually a rarity, just not in the sense the seller suggests, but as a relic of early 2000's bootleg culture (whatever that is). Since I have never seen a GBA game bootleg CD for PC usage like that I wanted to ask if any of you guys know something about it. Back in the day my parents took me to a giant market at the German-Polish border. There they definitely sold bootleg games (for example copies of "Pokémon Diamond" for GBC, way before the DS game of the same name came out). However, I never saw anyone there sell CD games with a single ROM on it.
So, what do you guys think? Could this be a CD that was sold to some unsuspecting gamer over 20 years ago or could it be that the seller himself made it just to mess with wannabe-collectors?
And furthermore, if it turned out to be an old bootleg, would you personally assign it any historical value?