Is this glob top Gameboy bootleg, repaired, or legit original?

[85Collector | 8]

Sold a working w/ lines in the screen original Gameboy on eBay, the buyer says that the motherboard is tampered with and sent this picture. The globs are supposed to be chips. Is this is a known variant of the Gameboy board as Nintendo manufactured it?

Edited March 11, 2021 by 85Collector

[yZoneFox | 18]

Legit. I looked up the board variant DMG-CPU-07 on the Game Boy hardware database and found a lot of pics of boards that look like this:

https://gbhwdb.gekkio.fi/consoles/dmg/GH1906308.html

[Tyree_Cooper | 741]

There's this persisting idea that anything with a glop top on it is fake or modified.

Previous message shows examples of this not being true. If the buyer insists, show him more proof that late Game Boy hardware used glop tops. If he doesn't accept it, he's either very ignorant or just wants a free Game Boy. He can also be very ignorant and want a free Game Boy.

[yZoneFox | 18]

1 hour ago, Tyree_Cooper said:

There's this persisting idea that anything with a glop top on it is fake or modified.

Previous message shows examples of this not being true. If the buyer insists, show him more proof that late Game Boy hardware used glop tops. If he doesn't accept it, he's either very ignorant or just wants a free Game Boy. He can also be very ignorant and want a free Game Boy.

You have no idea how many times I have run across this dilemma. An ignorant buyer insists that something is fake because of lack of research. It made me tense any time I sold something with a glop top like Tetris, Mario, or Splatterhouse 3. No offense to 85Collector, the purpose of the post was to find clarification, so you're doing the right thing.

[Tyree_Cooper | 741]

yeah i see it all the time whenever someone opens up a gb cart or console and asks "for advice"

by this "black or white" reasoning, all multicarts and pirates with a rom chip are legit

i don't think op will be offended, since he's the seller

[guitarzombie | 923]

On 3/10/2021 at 11:38 PM, Tyree_Cooper said:

There's this persisting idea that anything with a glop top on it is fake or modified.

Previous message shows examples of this not being true. If the buyer insists, show him more proof that late Game Boy hardware used glop tops. If he doesn't accept it, he's either very ignorant or just wants a free Game Boy. He can also be very ignorant and want a free Game Boy.

There was some idiot that owned a game store that told me that.  I told him about the glob top Star Foxes and SMB Duck Hunts how they're like that cuz its easier to produce.  He told me he threw those out because they were bootlegs.  Seriously.  I tried to argue with this guy for about a half hour and he was a complete idiot.  Even said he opens and cleans all his games.  Well that same day with the argument my friend bought some cheap NES game and it had an ounce of weed inside of it.  

Actually, he had "Avenging Spirit" for Gameboy for $15 so I bought it out of spite to resell it.  After playing it, I dug GB stuff and that fueled my GB buying haha.  Funny off-story.  

Also he had a lot of debt and his store closed.  He was even selling gift cards to the store after its inventory was sold to another store.  Real stand up guy.