GoKawiilis a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget.
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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, 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 “counterfeit” or “possible counterfeit,” and about a tenth of my cartridges required multiple scans to detect anything at all. One legit cartridge never managed to scan.
You don’t have to take my word for it, because I took quite a few photos along the way! Here’s a gallery with captions:
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