Most bootlegged MVS games

[TheIronSheik]

I've seen lots of copies of Blazing Star on eBay that appear to be bootlegs. My general assumption is that if the label doesn't look right, it's most likely a bootleg.

 

[shadowkn55]

I've seen lots of copies of Blazing Star on eBay that appear to be bootlegs. My general assumption is that if the label doesn't look right, it's most likely a bootleg.

There is nothing further from the truth than that. Carts get relabled for various reasons. The only definitive way to know is to look at the boards.

 

[TheIronSheik]

That's what I meant to say. If I can't see the boards, I go by the label. For whatever reason I don't trust if the label isn't right, but then even if it is, someone can always swap out legit boards with bogus ones, but luckily I have never encountered that.

 

[SNKorSWM]

A lot of people swap out Japanese labels for repro English ones.

 

[Westcb]

I've seen lots of copies of Blazing Star on eBay that appear to be bootlegs. My general assumption is that if the label doesn't look right, it's most likely a bootleg.

I have seen several that are original mask Roms but they are soldered to a different board. Like they gutted a aes blazing star to use for a mvs to aes conversion and they transplant those chips to the mvs board that was left over. Kingsley was selling lots of these about a year ago for about 45 bucks on eBay. Game plays fine and has no EPROMs but I suppose it's still a bootleg.