Hey Elliot, just letting you know that an instant giveaway that it's a reshell is that on a real one you should NOT be able to see the speakers through the plastic. Which I think in the video you actually point out. So unfortunately yes, it is a reshell and a common thing I'm tired of seeing people do
@@megamix5403Nothing's wrong with reshelling, however there's everything wrong with reshelling something and then basically scamming people by saying it's the real deal.
@@megamix5403Nintendo has quality protection, and that's why they put their seal of quality on their products (which this one even went as far as faking that. For one, they sold a used DS as a new product. And secondly, the shell is not official and it's a copy of a giveaway, raising the price it could sell for significantly. Nothing wrong with reshells if you sell it as a reshell. But it's definitely a scam to dress an old ds up as a new and rare version just to hike up the price.
I actually had this!! I bought it off eBay back in the day, think maybe around 2011 or so for around $140 USD. I think I still have it in storage somewhere. It was definitely a bootleg cause the serial was scratched off and I had the "American" box. Didn't come with headphones as you suspected.
I actually watched the video before commenting, I can say I enjoyed this video. It was short, informational, and most importantly entertaining. Thank you for the video, Elliot.
I believe it might be one of the Dream World artworks from Generation V. Most to all of the Pokémon up to Gen V have simplistic artwork for Dream World.
Another giveaway in my opinion, is that it was listed as an American console yet in all the menus they had Japanese text along side the English text, even in the games
Since the DS was meant to be Japanese, it being Japanese was the closest thing, which almost made it real, but yes - it claiming to be American at the same time was not right.
on any ds you can change the language no matter the region, he also put in a japanese copy of new super mario bros so thats why it was in japanese (neat thing the original DS models arent region locked, they were only region locked starting with the DSi)
@@Pixtrix_ Depends on the DS, for example, Japanese DSi models do not have the language settings available for the system menu and require modding to change it. Also: DSis also aren't region locked, outside of downloadable titles.
its a old knock off that logo on the front on the real one were impression not printed on the surface. A real pikachu ds is selling for around 1,000 to 1500 quid
Yea as others said it's a de facto fake, I got a real one (no box) for $150 USD around 2 weeks ago and it has 0 see through plastic and Pikachu has a nose on the front symbol of him
I love that you're uploading so much recently! A shame you got scammed but I think it's interesting how much wear the console has on it. Keep up the great videos Elliot!
Great video Elliot !! A shame the Ds lite shell and box were a fake, but thanks for the reminder to keep a close eye on any old consoles being bought online That reference to DK oldies had me smiling like a Cheshire Cat 😂
I have one of these from 2010. I bought it off ebay. It was shiny pink lid, matte black body- not a real combination nintendo ever sold, but kid me didnt know that and thought it was a special edition from Hong Kong (where the ebay listing said it was located). Its a reshelled DS made to look legit. the back of the box had warped text, like they tried to scanned an authentic box at a slight angle.
I think it's really interesting to see how far some console forgeries go. Going in for a penny, in for a pound with a box and information. In some ways I think these forgery videos can be more fun, it feels like you're on a treasure hunt!
Was about to say, I thought that DS was only released in Japan, but then again I thought the Pikachu GBA SP was only released in Japan, and was surprised to hear in your other video that there was English versions of it. ... and yeah I could confirm it was a fake one, even if it was being sold as an English one but actually Japanese, I still own my yellow Pikachu edition DS lite, and still have the box for it too (the box being square in width and length, not rectangular) Also as some comments said, as soon as you opened it, the speakers definitely are not able to be seen through plastic on a real one too.
Bro as soon as he opened the DS my jaw actually dropped. That plastic is insanely thin, I could clearly see the speakers surrounding the speaker grills
It’s not that it’s thin (I bought the same shell to use for myself), it’s the same thickness as an OEM shell. The difference is there’s not enough pigment additive in the plastic to make it opaque, leaving it translucent. I ‘fixed’ mine by adding paper against all the visible surfaces on the inside.
That's just new nontendo products from the ds lites and up. Nintendo is now trash. I could beat you into the ground with a gameboy, GBA, or GameCube. A ds light's buttons feel like they're falling out just using it normally. Quality has fallen into the ground and I would be careful giving such things to kids. The cheap plastic they use now is absolute trash. Glad I stopped at the original ds. Even the original ds was made like a hummer.
I don't think the box is faded. It just looks that horrible. It obviously also doesn't follow Nintendo's own DS lite box style/template, and is missing a lot of logos and markings a real device would have.
Maybe the original box they scanned in order to make this crappy replica box was faded. I don't remember the box looking this bad in the pictures when they were originally being sold though. The box clearly looked fake, but at least it didn't look faded. It almost looks to me like the faded part was not printed at the same time as the rest of it, or using the same type of ink. I have no idea why they would do it like that but maybe they had a reason. Maybe the reason it looks faded is because they used a black DS Lite for the picture but in order to make it yellow, they just removed the red and green color channels from the image, so essentially the red and green all faded away.
The highlighter yellow color looks so off on that one haha I got a loose one, used, on the way from Sendico in the next few weeks. Pictures looked authentic and serial number checks out, so fingers crossed it isn't a reshell.
My guy. That version would be thousands of dollars... You can see the scams of the pikachu ds lites right on Google from those "retro game" websites pretending to be legit. You got phucked
As soon as you found the Philips head screw the first thing I thought was DKoldies. Whoever reshelled it did an ok job (and just OK) of cleaning it but were sloppy in other aspects. I guess if it works and isn't exorbitantly expensive though it's not too bad.
My first NDS was quite similar. Noticed the similar philips screws on the back which as far as I remember should be triangle. I loved the games but I hated the poor quality thing itself. It was a birthday gift and I hated the fact that the full price was paid for it. And yeah, I hate seeing American NDS boxes because of that xD
You should review the Tomodachi Collection: New Life Nintendo 3DS LL. It was a limited edition Japanese only model that released with Tomodachi Life. I gor it recently and it's so smooth and nice!
I actually owned this model, back sometime around 2007-2011. I'm not sure if it was a boot, because my mom would sometimes buy stuff off of ebay for me. I definitely don't remember pikachu headphones with mine (though may be misremembering). Main thing that stuck out to me was the color of this bootleg. My model was a much more rich golden color, not this highlighter yellow. The color is a dead giveaway, especially because the original model's logo was visible even with the yellow-on-yellow.
I WAS ALSO DUPED BY THE SAME TYPE OF PIKACHU DS LITE!!!! Had the same screws and chinese warranty sticker. What is funny was that my motherboard had some wires running through it, so it was a repaired system.
hey elliot I would like to know what you do with these scammed products you bought? I know Sendico doesn’t refund, so do you just keep it in a scam pile somewhere?
I got a fake like this many many years ago. I'm not sure what it was that tipped me off (it's been eons) - but it turned out to be just a re shelled pink ds lite. I remember the weird shoddy buttons and screen bezels - the external shell itself looked fine. I guess they made a whole lot of them if they're still pulling up on ebay.
I have the exact same console and box, this was my first Nintendo ds lite and I bought it off eBay in 2007 I believe. I had no idea mine was fake until now. My console didn’t come with those headphones and my charger was the correct color. I also did buy another pikachu ds lite about a year ago and it’s a horrible fake console where my 07 version seems pretty legit.
I literally bought one of these once on eBay. It was obviously a reshell and the D-pad was sunk into the plastic to where I had no idea how to get it out. It felt very cheap so I eventually sold it to a local game store. They thought it was real and they gave me more cash than I payed for it
It looks like they took artwork for an orange DS, then only printed the yellow ink to make it look like a yellow DS. Then just pasted the Pikachu logo on top, which is much more clear than the DS.
you have a fake battery capicator on the mother board. its stposed to have a red wire on it but its the bricky midevil looking one. this is a super easy way to tell if you have fake or reshell. you can also see the speakers through the plastic which indicates that this is a 3rd party reshell. and think to yourself... if this was only sold in japan and has a USA box and start up, do you think that is a fake or not?
it being an old ripoff is a funny idea, but i don't think the practice of selling re-shelled mimic special editions is old enough to have that much natural wear, right? they def went out of their way to make it seem well--used and aged. or they just had a bad printer
China put these out all the time. First off, the special editions box was bigger. Chinese sellers would put refurbed units in a new shell, print off a box for the thing and sell it as new. There is a good likleyhood that the screens were aftermarket as well. It was the difference between them selling the units for $120 - $140 vs $50 - $80. They could sell the special editions for a little bit more on top of those figures as well.
GBA, it's a better deal. You're not going to find a GITD Pocket for less than ~350 You can make the GBA good for less than that (New shell, backlit screen, USBC battery).
@@Zark-Muckerberg yeah thats what I was thinking too gba is still the best I think too!! 👍👍 I really see anything crazy about the analogue pocket really.
@@MCVAMP666 The Analogue Pocket is a beast on its own. It's a hardware emulator(FPGA) that can play cartridges as well as roms, use Nintendo GB/C/A Link cables, and has a dock [which offers hdmi video out and controller support[Wired/wireless}].
Hey Elliot. The designer of the Tetris Logo for gameboy Roger Dean (Yes band artist) is touring the UK this year. A signed gameboy cartrage is possible....
Hey Elliot, just letting you know that an instant giveaway that it's a reshell is that on a real one you should NOT be able to see the speakers through the plastic. Which I think in the video you actually point out. So unfortunately yes, it is a reshell and a common thing I'm tired of seeing people do
Heck you can see the back of the top screen through the shell as soon as he pulled it out of the bag.
What's wrong with reshelling?
@@megamix5403For one's self, nothing. The problem is reshelling and then trying to pass it off as an original for sale.
@@megamix5403Nothing's wrong with reshelling, however there's everything wrong with reshelling something and then basically scamming people by saying it's the real deal.
@@megamix5403Nintendo has quality protection, and that's why they put their seal of quality on their products (which this one even went as far as faking that. For one, they sold a used DS as a new product. And secondly, the shell is not official and it's a copy of a giveaway, raising the price it could sell for significantly. Nothing wrong with reshells if you sell it as a reshell. But it's definitely a scam to dress an old ds up as a new and rare version just to hike up the price.
North American DS Lite chargers are dark gray. DSi and 3ds chargers are lighter.
Same with PAL region
My original chunky DS came with a black one
I've never seen an og chunky ds charger, so thats probably normal.@@kevlarvest7375
@@kevlarvest7375that's a gba sp charger
@@kevlarvest7375 Yeah, but the OP didn’t mention the original DS.
I find it interesting that the DS print on the box is scuffed, but the shiny coating is intact. I think they printed a new box to look old.
Wow, they left the blasted springs out? I've refurbished and sold a ton of DS lites... and I would NEVER do that. Talk about CHEAP AS!
They probably sent them flying across the room trying to take it apart.
@@cujoedaman If they were completely inexperienced, I suppose.
I actually had this!! I bought it off eBay back in the day, think maybe around 2011 or so for around $140 USD. I think I still have it in storage somewhere. It was definitely a bootleg cause the serial was scratched off and I had the "American" box. Didn't come with headphones as you suspected.
"Only came out in 2006" MY BROTHER IN CHRIST THAT WAS ALMOST TWO DECADES AGO
Came here to say this lmao, mans thinking it's 2011 😭
Stop that right now
HUH... NO WAY
As soon as I saw the speakers through the top I knew it was a reshell
I actually watched the video before commenting, I can say I enjoyed this video. It was short, informational, and most importantly entertaining. Thank you for the video, Elliot.
Thank you so much!
The pikachu on the bottom left on the box looks like a sticker
I believe it might be one of the Dream World artworks from Generation V. Most to all of the Pokémon up to Gen V have simplistic artwork for Dream World.
Another giveaway in my opinion, is that it was listed as an American console yet in all the menus they had Japanese text along side the English text, even in the games
Since the DS was meant to be Japanese, it being Japanese was the closest thing, which almost made it real, but yes - it claiming to be American at the same time was not right.
on any ds you can change the language no matter the region, he also put in a japanese copy of new super mario bros so thats why it was in japanese (neat thing the original DS models arent region locked, they were only region locked starting with the DSi)
@@Pixtrix_ Depends on the DS, for example, Japanese DSi models do not have the language settings available for the system menu and require modding to change it. Also: DSis also aren't region locked, outside of downloadable titles.
@5:40 "DK Oldies?" 😂
its a old knock off that logo on the front on the real one were impression not printed on the surface. A real pikachu ds is selling for around 1,000 to 1500 quid
Yea as others said it's a de facto fake, I got a real one (no box) for $150 USD around 2 weeks ago and it has 0 see through plastic and Pikachu has a nose on the front symbol of him
I love that you're uploading so much recently! A shame you got scammed but I think it's interesting how much wear the console has on it. Keep up the great videos Elliot!
Great video Elliot !!
A shame the Ds lite shell and box were a fake, but thanks for the reminder to keep a close eye on any old consoles being bought online
That reference to DK oldies had me smiling like a Cheshire Cat 😂
I have one of these from 2010. I bought it off ebay. It was shiny pink lid, matte black body- not a real combination nintendo ever sold, but kid me didnt know that and thought it was a special edition from Hong Kong (where the ebay listing said it was located). Its a reshelled DS made to look legit. the back of the box had warped text, like they tried to scanned an authentic box at a slight angle.
❗️My Timestamps:
1:46 The Original GameBoy came with earphones.
(I'm old enough to remember)
I think it's really interesting to see how far some console forgeries go.
Going in for a penny, in for a pound with a box and information.
In some ways I think these forgery videos can be more fun, it feels like you're on a treasure hunt!
Was about to say, I thought that DS was only released in Japan, but then again I thought the Pikachu GBA SP was only released in Japan, and was surprised to hear in your other video that there was English versions of it.
... and yeah I could confirm it was a fake one, even if it was being sold as an English one but actually Japanese, I still own my yellow Pikachu edition DS lite, and still have the box for it too (the box being square in width and length, not rectangular)
Also as some comments said, as soon as you opened it, the speakers definitely are not able to be seen through plastic on a real one too.
Hahahaha, I'm always here for some DK Oldies shade!
Bro as soon as he opened the DS my jaw actually dropped. That plastic is insanely thin, I could clearly see the speakers surrounding the speaker grills
It’s not that it’s thin (I bought the same shell to use for myself), it’s the same thickness as an OEM shell. The difference is there’s not enough pigment additive in the plastic to make it opaque, leaving it translucent. I ‘fixed’ mine by adding paper against all the visible surfaces on the inside.
HAPPY DAYS bro you keep uploading so much I can't keep up xdddddddd
The "glow" of the DS lite on the box looks horrible. I don't understand why they did that, no other ds lite boxes had a glow like that.
It may be the lighting and camera, but the housing does look a little "thin"
That's just new nontendo products from the ds lites and up. Nintendo is now trash. I could beat you into the ground with a gameboy, GBA, or GameCube. A ds light's buttons feel like they're falling out just using it normally. Quality has fallen into the ground and I would be careful giving such things to kids. The cheap plastic they use now is absolute trash. Glad I stopped at the original ds. Even the original ds was made like a hummer.
Ds's lite did not come with headphones. Just a charger and the ds, I, or lite.
Elliot, I would love to see you review handhelds like the R36S & XU10!
I 2nd this
I don't think the box is faded. It just looks that horrible. It obviously also doesn't follow Nintendo's own DS lite box style/template, and is missing a lot of logos and markings a real device would have.
If the box was faded, the Pikachu and the writing would also be faded, not looking crisp as these ones do.
Maybe the original box they scanned in order to make this crappy replica box was faded. I don't remember the box looking this bad in the pictures when they were originally being sold though. The box clearly looked fake, but at least it didn't look faded.
It almost looks to me like the faded part was not printed at the same time as the rest of it, or using the same type of ink. I have no idea why they would do it like that but maybe they had a reason.
Maybe the reason it looks faded is because they used a black DS Lite for the picture but in order to make it yellow, they just removed the red and green color channels from the image, so essentially the red and green all faded away.
@@Jdbye Nah, it’s all custom. A real Nintendo box wouldn’t have completely random artwork on it’s sides, with zero copyright marks or logos.
Damn, I was just watching this video during my trip to coincidentally, the country you live in.
The highlighter yellow color looks so off on that one haha
I got a loose one, used, on the way from Sendico in the next few weeks. Pictures looked authentic and serial number checks out, so fingers crossed it isn't a reshell.
My guy. That version would be thousands of dollars... You can see the scams of the pikachu ds lites right on Google from those "retro game" websites pretending to be legit. You got phucked
The nintendo logo font was a major giveaway
Um, looks really concerning. Cool, but suspicious
I’m also concerned that I can see the speakers’s silhouette through the shell
Yup it was a reshell
called it!
@@DreamDaddie you might have just watched the whole video before commenting
and then you would have known.
haha that DK oldies joke cracked me up xD
As soon as you found the Philips head screw the first thing I thought was DKoldies. Whoever reshelled it did an ok job (and just OK) of cleaning it but were sloppy in other aspects. I guess if it works and isn't exorbitantly expensive though it's not too bad.
5:41 DK Oldies!!?? hahahha
I love it and I love this channel. With best from Australia.
Is there any buyer protection through Sendico? Or are you just screwed if you buy something fake?
Love me an excuse to use 'bung'
Well after watching this on lunch someone needs to stop me from bringing my DS to work to grind some pokemon.
For being a Pikachu variant, it’s definitely in that SpongeBob yellow
My first NDS was quite similar. Noticed the similar philips screws on the back which as far as I remember should be triangle. I loved the games but I hated the poor quality thing itself. It was a birthday gift and I hated the fact that the full price was paid for it. And yeah, I hate seeing American NDS boxes because of that xD
my brother. 2006 was almost 20 years ago
You should review the Tomodachi Collection: New Life Nintendo 3DS LL. It was a limited edition Japanese only model that released with Tomodachi Life. I gor it recently and it's so smooth and nice!
ive seen a bootleg DBZ nintendo DS that had a similar box to this one, not from japan tho so idk how this one got there
I actually owned this model, back sometime around 2007-2011. I'm not sure if it was a boot, because my mom would sometimes buy stuff off of ebay for me. I definitely don't remember pikachu headphones with mine (though may be misremembering). Main thing that stuck out to me was the color of this bootleg. My model was a much more rich golden color, not this highlighter yellow. The color is a dead giveaway, especially because the original model's logo was visible even with the yellow-on-yellow.
Indeed, that's sus.
An instant giveaway is beinh able to see the speakers. The real ones dont look bad like that one
Takin away from the fact that this is a reshell. I really hoped it was real.
Mate! Thanks for the mention ❤
I WAS ALSO DUPED BY THE SAME TYPE OF PIKACHU DS LITE!!!!
Had the same screws and chinese warranty sticker.
What is funny was that my motherboard had some wires running through it, so it was a repaired system.
hey elliot I would like to know what you do with these scammed products you bought? I know Sendico doesn’t refund, so do you just keep it in a scam pile somewhere?
Hey, but still, it's cool addition to your colection..
Your on a streak Eliot
I got a fake like this many many years ago. I'm not sure what it was that tipped me off (it's been eons) - but it turned out to be just a re shelled pink ds lite.
I remember the weird shoddy buttons and screen bezels - the external shell itself looked fine. I guess they made a whole lot of them if they're still pulling up on ebay.
I remember the box being just like that too. Pretty sure i still have it.
I have the exact same console and box, this was my first Nintendo ds lite and I bought it off eBay in 2007 I believe. I had no idea mine was fake until now. My console didn’t come with those headphones and my charger was the correct color. I also did buy another pikachu ds lite about a year ago and it’s a horrible fake console where my 07 version seems pretty legit.
I don’t think you’re supposed to see the speakers through the shell
Yo man yo are my favorite youtuber, and i just wanna say your content is amazing, i watch your videos every single day ❤
This reminds me of my cooking mama ds lite
Can you get your money back in this case?
If you resell the heqdphones, will that make you a craic dealer?
Instantly knew this was a fake become the casing was too transparent.
I have one of these...only the headphones are not included. Looks real imo
The printing on the buttons is horrendous.
Those bungs were a dead giveaway. That's really crappy.
I literally bought one of these once on eBay. It was obviously a reshell and the D-pad was sunk into the plastic to where I had no idea how to get it out. It felt very cheap so I eventually sold it to a local game store. They thought it was real and they gave me more cash than I payed for it
You, are the issue. Eat the loss, amd learn that people are animals. Don't join the phucking animals in what makes everyone including you miserable.
Did you get a refund as its a fake? I would be mad 😳
The back should be in Japanese as normal Japanese versions.
It looks like they took artwork for an orange DS, then only printed the yellow ink to make it look like a yellow DS. Then just pasted the Pikachu logo on top, which is much more clear than the DS.
No joke but I really wanted a yellow DS lite as a kid even though I had a black one, didn't actually know the Pikachu one was Japan only though
That sucks, I just got a real Japanese one in a steal of an auction for $110.
By suspicious.. You mean Pikachu's back?
the og/lite are region free.
you have a fake battery capicator on the mother board. its stposed to have a red wire on it but its the bricky midevil looking one. this is a super easy way to tell if you have fake or reshell. you can also see the speakers through the plastic which indicates that this is a 3rd party reshell. and think to yourself... if this was only sold in japan and has a USA box and start up, do you think that is a fake or not?
This Real I have one of these and thats how it is my box has faded alot and the pikachu ds lite came with pikachu headphones as a pre order bonus
Hey dude! You could have checked if it existed on console variations before purchasing :P
DS chargers use to be darker waaay back in the day.
still nice to own some bootleg history which might actually be valuable some day.
it being an old ripoff is a funny idea, but i don't think the practice of selling re-shelled mimic special editions is old enough to have that much natural wear, right? they def went out of their way to make it seem well--used and aged. or they just had a bad printer
Bruh Pikachu theme suits good because after you realize its a reshell then you will have a surprised pikachu face 😮⚡
Even though it's fake it's really cute, except for the thin plastic where you can see the speakers. Paint those red to keep up the Pikachu theme!
I got one of these from a anime con bring and buy like £10 ago the preson who sold it to me said it was a reshell
I met a girl who had a yellow DS at the airport as a kid! We pictochatted but didn't interact face-to-face, lol. I remember being amazed at the color.
I wanted this to be real so bad!! 😂
Which Japanese auction site do you use?? I want to buy some Japanese games but I don't know which sites are safe??
I know he mentioned in a different video that he uses Sendico.
He uses Sendico.
How much did you pay for shipping and taxes from Japan to yhe UK?
usually around £20 for just a DS.
@@lolcat thank you!
@FijiFlowerNope, Sendico.
That Pikachu on the front is a big red flag.
I loved this video Elliot Coll!
China put these out all the time. First off, the special editions box was bigger. Chinese sellers would put refurbed units in a new shell, print off a box for the thing and sell it as new. There is a good likleyhood that the screens were aftermarket as well. It was the difference between them selling the units for $120 - $140 vs $50 - $80. They could sell the special editions for a little bit more on top of those figures as well.
Those letter buttons are hella blurry.
Also, let us never forget that DKO are dogshit.
Mr Elliot I was recommend to you I need your help sir please Should I get a analogue pocket glow edition or a Gameboy advance??? Please help!!!
GBA, it's a better deal. You're not going to find a GITD Pocket for less than ~350 You can make the GBA good for less than that (New shell, backlit screen, USBC battery).
@@Zark-Muckerberg yeah thats what I was thinking too gba is still the best I think too!! 👍👍 I really see anything crazy about the analogue pocket really.
@@MCVAMP666 The Analogue Pocket is a beast on its own. It's a hardware emulator(FPGA) that can play cartridges as well as roms, use Nintendo GB/C/A Link cables, and has a dock [which offers hdmi video out and controller support[Wired/wireless}].
@@Zark-Muckerberg that's beautiful man
3:23 - It's an invalid serial number
can you get money back?
I had this model but it was stolen at school :(
Elliot said " for the craic". You have Irish family?
I have the same ds I picked up from a charity shop on the Isle of Wight in the UK.
I want one… 😢
Hey Elliot. The designer of the Tetris Logo for gameboy Roger Dean (Yes band artist) is touring the UK this year. A signed gameboy cartrage is possible....
SUS! 🤨
the console may be fake but at least the headphones are cool.
Honestly a really cool looking system that I would love to get my hands on too bad it’s fake tho
I reshelled two DS Lites I know you have too amd I could tell that it was a reshell from the video quality lol.
Horrible firehazard battery aside, i'd be perfectly happy to own that DS. You probably paid far more than its worth though.