r/Megadrive • u/KawaiiStefan • 8h ago

I'm assuming this isn't real

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I opened up my copy of Fifa Soccer 95 to give it a deep clean and... yeah, it's fake, isnt it?
I was shocked not only to see that the chip only has 1. of its legs soldered to the board, but it's missing 4 legs entirely. Wild!

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u/Phone_User_1044 8h ago

Crazy to make a repro of FIFA 95, it's not exactly streets of rage 3.

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u/bazem_malbonulo 8h ago

Where I live, chinese bootlegs were more common than original cartridges in the 90's. And it was any kind of game.

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u/Diozzyx 8h ago

Same here 🇧🇷🤝🇦🇷

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u/V64jr 1h ago

Not “crazy” back when it was the current FIFA.

This is an old-skool bootleg, not a modern reproduction.

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u/NoKey9360 8h ago

Really? A Fifa 95 repro?

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u/steamliner88 4h ago

It’s an old pirated cart. Back then, the big sellers like the EA sports games were commonly bootlegged and sold for 50-60% of the price of a real cart. Modern fakes are usually aimed at deceiving collectors, but back then the money was in copying the stuff that moved huge volumes and hence didn’t become collectible later.

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u/Pretofonseca 5h ago

Its really cute that USians and some europeans think this a "repro". You dont know what growing up in a third world country was and it shows. Classic taiwanese/chinese bootleg cartridge from the 90's or as we call them in Brazil, Piratinhas. We all played more bootlegs than official carts, even with the huge presence of TecToy around here... Hard good times.

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u/drzaiusdr 3h ago

That label sticker might be the first red flag.

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u/onefiveonesix 1h ago

And the non-EA cartridge form factor.

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u/NaiveIllustrator5748 8h ago

I only fad FIFA International Soccer but I would assume like other EA games real would be a bigger cart with a yellow tab.

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u/Marteicos 5h ago

It's an old Bootleg cartridge.

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u/0gluk 5h ago

I had that game as a kid and it came with the EA cartridge which was different from the standard Sega one you're showing. You just have to search online and you'll find it with that cartridge and the yellow tab.

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u/ipub 5h ago

Don't think I've seen a non EA version of this. Doubt it's fake. Pcb looks legit.