Breath Of Fire III pirate ?

Discussion in 'Rare and Obscure Gaming' started by MoockyLoock, Jul 4, 2016 at 3:07 PM.

  1. MoockyLoock

    MoockyLoock Spirited Member

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    Hello here !
    I remembered today that i had this laying around, and never tried to search 'bout this weird copy.
    So I post here a few pics, if any of you could give some informations.

    This is the "upper cover" :
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    It's somehow photo quality paper, glossy, but the printing is very average, and grainy.
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    The text is not very sharp. You can even see more the grainy effect in the Capcom logo :
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    Colors seem a bit washed.

    This is the "back cover" :
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    Same as upper, grainy and washed.
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    The edge of the PlayStation logo is fading in black.

    Now the disc itself :
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    the print is quite good, even grainy anyway. By good, i mean the ink seems good, the printing is not that sharp, but some legit PS1 games look like this.
    You must have noticed those two chinese (?) ideograms :
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    I'm not sure, but i would say there are stamped, and not printed.

    So, this is the beast. I hope you'll have some informations.
    See ya, thank you for reading :)
     
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  2. arnoldlayne

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    Looks like a standard Chinese bootleg - I've certainly seen better efforts.
     
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  3. TriMesh

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    Yeah, that looks like a pretty standard bootleg to me - the Chinese text is "美元" - which normally means "US Dollar", but in this case possibly indicates that it's a US version rather than NTSC:J

    Incidentally, it was normally only the export versions of the bootlegs that got bleed printed discs like that - the local HK ones just had the game name on them - like this:
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  4. MoockyLoock

    MoockyLoock Spirited Member

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    Thank you for your explanations :)
     
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  5. StriderVM

    StriderVM Robust Member

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    Yep. It's a typical PS1 bootleg. Especially the disc labeling. =)
     
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  6. MoockyLoock

    MoockyLoock Spirited Member

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    So one of my very few pirate game. CoOol :)
     
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  7. Rig

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    How does it play though? Any issues?
    At least they were nice enough to print you out a cover! :p
     
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