Bootleg Pokémon and silent PS1 games on Slope's Game Room
DJ Slope's piracy retrospective draws a fast early audience, while viewers bring their own cartridge discoveries and technical corrections.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 52,461 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (5,211).
4 Times Video Game Piracy Completely BACKFIRED
Pokémon saves and PlayStation soundtracks are at the center of DJ Slope's latest gaming-history detour: what happens when getting a cheaper copy comes with something missing?
"4 Times Video Game Piracy Completely BACKFIRED" drew about 35,000 views in its first 11 hours, already well beyond the channel's usual full-day audience. It moves from the origins of Gears of War, the subject of his previous upload, to the compromises and failures associated with bootleg games.
Daniel Ibbertson, better known as DJ Slope, opens with the Nintendo DS R4 card's date-triggered "timebomb," then turns to Sonic Adventure 2's missing-floor glitch. The description also promises an examination of PlayStation copies stripped of music to make downloads smaller, controversy surrounding StarForce copy protection, and cheap Game Boy Advance cartridges that could lose Pokémon saves.
Those are subjects with technically minded viewers ready to check the details. Some commenters discuss resetting the DS clock to get an R4 card working again; others challenge parts of the audio and Pokémon explanations. A mistaken "Fire Gold" name gets several mentions, too.
The memories are just as specific as the corrections. One viewer recalls playing a ripped GTA III without its radio, then discovering Vice City's soundtrack. Another says they owned Pokémon Ruby for about a decade before opening the cartridge to check its battery and discovering it was a bootleg.
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What viewers say
I had a copy of Pokemon Ruby for about 10 years, before I opened it up to try and check the battery in it, just to find out it was a bootleg version. Lol. I had no idea haha.
@KasonixElectronicsRepairSee it on YouTubeI remember playing GTA III from a CD Rip copy and until this day I've never listened to the in-game radio, but at least I got a definitely normal full copy of Vice City with a complete Radio playlist, which help me build my taste in music.
@abdelali9279See it on YouTube"A cheap SD card..."
Oh, better days.@Chad_ThundercockSee it on YouTube
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None of the R4 cartridges actually stopped working, you just turned the date and time back on your DS and they worked fine, fooling the cart into working again.
@garrynorth6269See it on YouTube“A very naughty piracy device” the good kids stuck with the M3 simply 😂
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- Channel
- Slope's Game Room
- Subscribers
- 214,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 67,020
- Channel views, pace per day
- 8,433 (on a normal day: 16,517)
- Video published
- October 11, 2026
- Video views so far
- 34,522 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 52,461
The numbers
The piracy retrospective has already passed the audience a regular Slope's Game Room upload usually reaches in a full first day.
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