Can my favorite Game Boy gadget tell fake cartridges from real?
The $50 Epilogue GB Operator has a brand-new trick up its sleeve. In addition to backing up Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges and saves to a PC (and writing saves back to carts again!), it can now plug into your phone with a brand-new Retrace app for Android and iOS. The idea: check if cartridges are legit, and how much they're worth, before you buy or sell them.
Is it reliable? I plugged around 50 cartridges into the app, and… it could use some work. While most of my English and Japanese library was detected without a hitch, it also called a few counterfeit cartridges "authentic," a number of authentic cartridges "c …