Pirates cut costs on Wii-labeled GC games with compilation discs, crappier covers

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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.

[Thanks, Jepoy!]

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