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Not much info here but I wonder if these were some sort of fake NES/SNES/Mega Drive minis or just handheld emulation devices in general

I was wondering if shipping SD cards full of ROMs would ever come to bite the manufacturers in the ass and I guess it might have. Will this be a one-off thing or a sign of a wider EU crackdown? I think there was a warning earlier issued by some agency this month about how the solder in one of the Anbernic devices exceeded EU's maximum lead levels

Edit: There's a video of the Italian cops' raid on the warehouse where the devices were being held, looks like a large variety of different devices

https://youtu.be/U4lYIzijJSU?si=mmvXSsipSaMEnaOv

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[-] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago

Why crack down on people traffickers when you can take down some video game smugglers instead

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

People aren't eating counterfeit Sega Saturns before they board a plane from China, some Italians were presumably just ordering retro emulation devices in bulk from China

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