Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Zelda Minish Cap Reproductions

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap for the Nintendo Gameboy Advance; is, one of the Most Bootlegged or Reproduced GBA Game Titles these days. You have to be really weary of a Bootleg or Reproduction Cartridge from China. These games usually have Problems with Saving the Game or ship with Save or two either "Hardcoded" or "Softcoded" with the Name "AAAAA" to the Game Cart; or wouldn't save correctly because the Cart has a Physical SRAM Save system being tricked as an EEPROM save format. It's also known that a Genuine Game won't have a Save Battery. Some carts will also use a cheap plastic shell with the Model No. AGB-004, the Genuine Cart shell is Model No. AGB-002; in theory a Save Battery may still work well, until it runs dry.  Games using either a Flash or EEPROM chip, will save indefinitely. If the Reproduction Carts work great for you then Good Gaming. Reproductions are useful for people that want to Play the Game for a cheap price. (If you can wait approx. 3 weeks for it to arrive from China) My Copy seems to work fine so far. (I shall update this Post if the Save system fails; as well as when it failed.)

Misc. Images:
Reproduction Game Label (USA Design)

Official Nintendo Game Shell (Model No. AGB-002)

Reproduction Circuit Board (With Save Battery?)

Perhaps the Saves will hold up? (Newly created Save file "Rocky" after System Restart)
In Game Menu (Inventory Screen)
Saving my Progress In-Game



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