Can my favorite Game Boy gadget tell fake cartridges from real?

The GB Operator. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge

The $50 Epilogue GB Operator has a brand-new instrumentality up its sleeve. In summation to backing up Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges and saves to a PC, it tin present plug into your telephone with a brand-new Retrace app for Android and iOS. The idea: cheque if cartridges are legit, and however overmuch they're worth, earlier you bargain oregon merchantability them.

Is it reliable? I plugged astir 50 cartridges into the app, and… it could usage immoderate work. While astir of my English and Japanese room was detected without a hitch, it besides called a fewer counterfeit cartridges "authentic," a fig of authentic cartridges "counterfeit" oregon "possible counterfeit," an …

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