In November of 2017 a month after purchasing my first Nintendo 2DS and installing custom firmware on it I wanted to try and get Pokemon that I had on a flash cart into the PokeBank.

Only problem was, I couldn't directly import them from a flash cart to the bank and I couldn't use the poke transfer lab in Pokemon white with a flash cart (because of it using ds download play), so my next best option was to obtain a generation 4 cartridge of Pokemon (Pokemon Diamond to Heart Gold).

So I started asking around, I asked my friends if they had any cartridges they'd be willing to sell me, I called stores like GameStop/EB Games, I even went to some vintage gaming stores, and the only store that was selling a generation 4 game (Pokemon HeartGold in this case) was asking $50 + tax for the game which would've cost me $57, keep in mind it was only the cartridge, no case and no PokeWalker.

Not willing to spend $57 on a used copy with a lot of the items missing, I took to Amazon to try and find a game. Right away I managed to find a copy of Pokemon diamond being sold for $29.97 by a seller named eMerchant3000 from Ontario. Of course, I checked the ratings this seller had, and nothing seemed out of place so I order the

It arrived in a cheap small plastic ziploc bag (as the seller had stated they didn't have the original case for it), I got home booted it up and it worked fine. I could save and play the game without any issues that I could see.

Of course, like always there is something that is different than what meets the eye