ever heard about faked SID chips ?

[e-toy]

http://kevtris.org/Projects/sid/remarked_sids.html

well, I wonder if someone have made such experience with "old new stock" chips ?

may it's a common 6581 problem with dead voices and filters, but what about a faked print on the chip?

quiet a bit much work to fake such a chip just to sell it as "new"...

[nILS]

This has been an issue quite a lot. Just do a forum search for "relabeled".