So since this game recently got an English translation I decided to start practicing speed running it for fun, However sometimes when I duel Tristan he will just randomly bust out a blue eyes and destroy me.

According to the wiki I thought Tristan's deck only consisted of the same 3 weak monsters. But at least 4 times now he's summoned a Blue eyes on me (once he summoned 2 within his first two turns)

Is this normal or could my rom be bugged? I can't seem to find anything online about this.

Nevermind I figured it out...

Apparently this game actually has anti-piracy measures! if the game detects you pirating it then it throws blue eyes white dragons in EVERYONES decks! lol

I was playing on an old version of Visual boy advance which was the problem. After switching to bgb Kaiba tore up all Tristans fake Blue eyes ^ . ^

Yep! If you play on certain emulators, you will have stuff like people playing BEWDs plenty, though I havent heard of this being anti piracy as much as it being poor emulation (since the player also tends to win Blue-eyes from everyone when it has this issue, which seems contrary to the goal of stopping the player when pirating). Its a good idea to refer to the allowed emulators on the leaderboard, so far we haven't seen these kinda issues with those emulators. Good luck on the practice!

Oh sorry, I found an old Japanese forum that claimed it to be anti piracy but I used google translate so I may have misread it. Thanks for the response! :D