Pirates cut costs on Wii-labeled GC games with compilation discs, crappier covers
by Eric Caoili 
{ Aug 8th 2007 at 3:50PM }
Our undercover brother from another mother, GameOPS, has continued its documentation of video game piracy in the Philippines with more packaging photos taken at a Manila mall. The island nation's counterfeiters aren't content with just purposely mislabeling GameCube titles; they're taking a page from their handheld capers, packing multiple titles into one disc and selling them as unofficial Wii anthologies.
The 4-in-1 Zelda "Collector's Edition" pictured above contains the following GC/Wii releases - Four Swords Adventures, The Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and Ocarina Time [sic] -- all for only 400 pesos (approximately $8.75). Further insulting the series, the offending shop also sells a Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Riders 2-in-1 pack for the same price, suggesting equal worth. That is some straight-up malarkey. Jump past the post break for more examples of this duplicitous practice.
The 4-in-1 Zelda "Collector's Edition" pictured above contains the following GC/Wii releases - Four Swords Adventures, The Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and Ocarina Time [sic] -- all for only 400 pesos (approximately $8.75). Further insulting the series, the offending shop also sells a Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Riders 2-in-1 pack for the same price, suggesting equal worth. That is some straight-up malarkey. Jump past the post break for more examples of this duplicitous practice.
[Thanks, Jepoy!]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mr Khan @ Aug 8th 2007 4:32PM
Sign me up for all three of those, there's a good expression of how much bigger DVD 9 is than Mini DVD
damn
Ghen @ Aug 8th 2007 4:49PM
If I'm going to pirate games, I'll do it right with an emulator.
Covarr @ Aug 8th 2007 4:52PM
DDR Mario Mix for under a hundred USD? That'd be awesome if it weren't tainted by Mario Party 7 and the lack of a dance pad.
Don't you need a modchip to run these pirated games anyway? I wonder how many people bring these things home, only to find that they don't run.
MIKE @ Aug 8th 2007 5:15PM
Anyone know a good import site? :-)
hvnlysoldr @ Aug 8th 2007 5:53PM
Any decent import site won't carry pirated goods. Lik-Sang got sued to death for having legal imports and see what happened. Pirates wore eye patches for night vision.
theLoneYoshi @ Aug 8th 2007 8:30PM
I was pretty sure that in the Philippines, it's spelled Piso... but Wikipedia proves me wrong saying that it can be peso for you english and spanish speaking folks.
I can't believe they fit Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, Four Swords Adventurs, AND Twilight Princess on one Wii-disc. It makes GCN games look amazingly small compared to Wii games.
Heh, I'm pretty sure my girlfriend will be loaded with PS2 games or DS games or something when she gets back from the Philippines.
andres @ Aug 9th 2007 1:10AM
but do they work on the wii ?
Ryan @ Aug 9th 2007 7:24AM
Just so you know, I'm from the Philippines and based on first hand experience:
A: Its "Piso" in Filipino and Peso for anyone else.
B: Your console needs to be modified (except a DS/GBA) to play pirated games and you can easily buy these consoles on ANY mall here in the Philippines.
C: Buying a modified console is usually cheaper than a regular console.
D: Pirated PS2 games costs as little as 50-120 Pesos, just a dollar most of the time and some sell Wii and X360 games for the same price at 100 Pesos as long as they come on one disc.
E: Filipinos are pirates. Just walk across any street and you will find several vendors of bootleg DVDs for 120 (considering Original DVDs can cost as little as 199 PhP... ~_~)
Jamar @ Aug 10th 2007 12:55PM
Just so people know, it's exactly the same over here in China (Shanghai, to be exact). The Wiis here also come premodded and are always in stock, as opposed to America.
Kevin Tse @ Aug 14th 2007 10:39AM
there's actually a DS cartridge that has an SD card. You download the DS games over the net, upload it to the SD card, and it'll play like genuine DS games. Adding to that, they sell 1 GB or more SD cards, meaning it can store tons of games, depending on the size.
These cartridges cost roughly around P2,000 - P4,000 ($60 more or less), there are shops that install games for free, but you can download them yourself over the net.. for free, of course.
But since i'm a nintendo fanboy, i always buy genuine. P4,000 ($80) for a gamecube version of twilight princess. wah. worth it.
I love the Philippines. :)