[VBrulez]

I stumbled across a website recently that sells reproductions of mostly NES games. I looked at everything that they had, and saw a really nice reproduction of EarthBound. I was wanting to add it to my christmas list.

Then a thought hit me, is it legal to own one of these? I’ve since then been doing countless searches, reading forum and blog posts about the subject. With no real results, they all seem to be written by people that really don’t know what they are talking about.

Is it legal to own/buy a reproduction cart of the unreleased NES version of EarthBound? It seems like it would be since it was never released in all, but I really don’t have any clue. So thats what brought me here, to finally clear things up once and for all. Any answers would be greatly appreciated.

The pictures below is what the repro carts look like, incase anyone was curious.

• This topic was modified 12 years, 11 months ago by VBrulez.

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VBrulez wrote:
It didn’t seem like it was real anyway.

Thanks for liking my new avatar. That big Nesters Funky Bowling display box is pretty awesome.

Yeah, it’s pretty awesome if you have a place for it! lol
It screws up my entire VB display, at least 1/3 bigger than a console box.

VirtualJockey wrote:

VBrulez wrote:
It didn’t seem like it was real anyway.

Thanks for liking my new avatar. That big Nesters Funky Bowling display box is pretty awesome.

Yeah, it’s pretty awesome if you have a place for it! lol

In the pictures of your collection. You have it along with with your other VB games on that bookshelf, thats a pretty awesome setup.

VBrulez wrote:
Maybe you will find a bootleg cart to add to your collection one day, they might end up on ebay eventully. It’s suprising how they haven’t already, because of the current prices on many of the games. With the physical architecture, it could probably be reproduced very cheaply now, if game pirates know what they are doing.

If it seems to you like game pirates could make bootleg versions of Virtual Boy games because you think it could be very cheap and easy now to make carts, why do we still require to use donor carts to make a Flashboy or Bound High cart? 😛

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:

VBrulez wrote:
Maybe you will find a bootleg cart to add to your collection one day, they might end up on ebay eventully. It’s suprising how they haven’t already, because of the current prices on many of the games. With the physical architecture, it could probably be reproduced very cheaply now, if game pirates know what they are doing.

If it seems to you like game pirates could make bootleg versions of Virtual Boy games because you think it could be very cheap and easy now to make carts, why do we still require to use donor carts to make a Flashboy or Bound High cart? 😛

Because there arn’t any bootleg VB carts.

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:

VBrulez wrote:
Maybe you will find a bootleg cart to add to your collection one day, they might end up on ebay eventully. It’s suprising how they haven’t already, because of the current prices on many of the games. With the physical architecture, it could probably be reproduced very cheaply now, if game pirates know what they are doing.

If it seems to you like game pirates could make bootleg versions of Virtual Boy games because you think it could be very cheap and easy now to make carts, why do we still require to use donor carts to make a Flashboy or Bound High cart? 😛

WHOA WHOA I accidently posted twice, didn’t mean to make that dumb mistake.

VBrulez wrote:

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:

VBrulez wrote:
Maybe you will find a bootleg cart to add to your collection one day, they might end up on ebay eventully. It’s suprising how they haven’t already, because of the current prices on many of the games. With the physical architecture, it could probably be reproduced very cheaply now, if game pirates know what they are doing.

If it seems to you like game pirates could make bootleg versions of Virtual Boy games because you think it could be very cheap and easy now to make carts, why do we still require to use donor carts to make a Flashboy or Bound High cart? 😛

Because there arn’t any bootleg VB carts.

Unless the Hong Kong Unit or the unknown Filipino poker game exists, there are no bootlegs. The VB simply didn’t live long enough for HK bootleggers to even have a chance at a “SUPER 60-in-1!” release. :p

If a vintage bootleg exists and surfaced, I’d probably bid up to 1k on it.
(technically speaking, something has to be at least 20 years old to be categorized as vintage, but you get my drift)