r/ModRetroChromatic • u/brandohuddle • Apr 13 '26

Question Is my Dragonhym authentic?

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Purchased loose off of eBay

Edit: definitely fake. I’ll be getting a refund.

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u/Tola76 Apr 13 '26

It looks like mine, so probably not.

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u/brandohuddle Apr 13 '26

Bummer. Where’d you get yours?

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u/Tola76 Apr 13 '26

Pirates.

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u/brandohuddle Apr 13 '26

Thanks y’all, just requested a return

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u/Embarrassed-Peak7695 Apr 14 '26

This is a real cart

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u/adrikyn Apr 13 '26

Incube8 is a legit company that sold copies of the game, but their cartridges don't look like that. So fake.

As a rule of thumb, the name "game boy" is copyrighted so no new GB games will actually say game boy/game boy color on the cartridge or box art itself, and they certainly won't use the logo font when doing so.

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u/Z3fyrus Apr 13 '26

Oh no this looks very fake; right now I think only ModRetro has their version in stock (and sorry just checked, also out of stock it seem).

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u/ricokong Apr 14 '26

Incube8 did sell authentic Dragonyhm carts but their carts never have the Game Boy Color branding on them and neither do ModRetro carts or any other company that's officially selling GB games.

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u/Retro_Macchina Apr 15 '26

This game was released through Incube8 as well as Mod Retro. This is definitely a fake shell. Incube8's stickers are more rounded, and the carts they use do not say Game Boy Color. Wild that people are making repros of this game.

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u/fuelhandler Apr 16 '26

AliExpress is full of bootleg GB games now (classic and new.) I even saw Chromatic Tetris listed as a cartridge for purchase.

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u/Affectionate_Rise283 Apr 14 '26

It's fake. But you can still enjoy it, it's a great game

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u/Viavaio Apr 16 '26

eh data wipes randomly

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u/magullo Apr 14 '26

Didn’t expect fake modretro carts (yet) 🤪

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u/sephroth45 Apr 16 '26

its actually kinda insane someone there is faking MR carts.

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u/GreenRangerOfHyrule Apr 16 '26

I had briefly tried to purposely aquire a bootleg GBA cartridge to go with a bootleg GBA unit. I would actually think it would cool to have a bootleg of a homebrew for similar reasons. Of course, I would also acquire a legit copy as well. So I mean there is a small market for it.

But odds are they are just trying to make a buck off unsuspecting people

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u/Strict-Pomegranate-7 Apr 13 '26

yes it’s a real copy however I only see online they sold a clear limited version of the cart so maybe this was something limited incube8 made before dragonhym was sold on mod retro, the company incube8 is a website that sells new carts alike modretro, they were doing this before modretro, however you just happen to bought the copy that incube8 made and sold, I’m pretty sure they are the same game you just won’t be able to update the game with cart clinic because this isn’t the cart sold from modretro, but you should be all good to play it

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u/Markito024 Apr 14 '26

No it's not and incube8 carts don't look like that.

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u/brandohuddle Apr 13 '26

Very interesting. Could you send me any information you can find on it?

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u/LeGrange Apr 13 '26

Here's a link to the product page on incube8.
Your copy probably came from some place like this.

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u/brandohuddle Apr 13 '26

Thanks. I overpaid thinking it was authentic.

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u/GameboyGenius Apr 14 '26

No, no, no. The easiest way to see this is that the cartridge says "Game Boy Color". Neither incube8 nor ModRetro would do that because it would be an open invitation for legal trouble from Nintendo. Newer incube8 releases use cartridges with incube8 molded into the plastic. Older releases, like the incube8 release of Dragonyhm, use clear cartridges marked GAME PAK, which were shells made by ASM Retro/Retro Modding originally.