Hello Mr. Onion 
Just a note on your NES cases. Do you have a price point yet? (say for a case of 100). Also, the manufacture that owns the mold for the UGC case is releasing a NES version of that case in the fall.
Also, is anyone interested in a foam insert for the UGC case that would allow you to place GameBoy,Gameboy Color, Game Gear and Game Boy Advance carts securly in the case? I have priced these to use in my retail store since i really hate those cheapy DS knock off cases. If there is interest then i would be willing to fund a project to make them.
I'm new hear and this was my first post. I have been using the artwork here for about six months for my retail store as it looks much nicer to display carts in these cases then just placing them on the shelf.
Tom
Video Game Trader
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I don't have a price point just yet, but will soon.
Earlier today I finally finished perfecting all of my game case designs for NES, Famicom, SNES, SFC, n64, Sega Master System, Genesis, Mega Drive, and Atari Jaguar.
I will start meeting with the prototypers on Monday, so we can start converting my 2D into 3D, make the prototypes, and get price quotes.
Would you mind waiting a week or two before investing in Foam Inserts?
I should have my case designs fully tested within that timeframe, and will be able to give you accurate dimensions, and pricing, for them at that time.
I am also going to get pricing for the tooling, and/or mold fees, for a totally blank cart side version of my cases; it would be a lot easier for you to support more things with your foam inserts, and not have to deal with cutting any plastic.
As for my Cases for Game for Handheld
Systems...
It is going to be
at least a year before I can release them, so you don't have to worry about losing $ on your foam insert investment.
This is mainly because I don't have enough warehouse space, yet, to house a wide variety of game cases.
It will most likely take at least a year's worth of sales, of the aforementioned game cases in this post, to fund the construction of the larger warehouse.
I'll let you all know when that is happening, so there will be plenty of time (during construction) to sell off your stock of some of the foam designs.
What would be really nice is if you could also look into making foam inserts for Handheld Systems, as well as memory cards, controllers, and other such accessories.
Many people have expressed great interest in that, in this thread.
That way I could bear the brunt of the costs (injection molds for the cases themselves are in the 10's of thousands)
and you could focus on making specialized foam inserts.
Oh, and Wiggy; you might want to hold off on mass producing a lot of paperboard inserts, and buying a lot of UGCs, to double-up for your cool pre-mod w/backlight GBA Cases, until I finish my prototyping phase, because several of my Case Designs are thick enough to comfortably fit a GBA, and the positioning of some of the cart walls is such that you won't have to cut the case at all.
WolfAlmighty;Small NES Manuals will not come into contact with any Manual Clips.
I designed a special, protected and shielded area, under the cart area, for those.
The left side of my cases with all have manual clips, for large manuals.
However, they can be removed, without the aid of any power tools, if you would rather them not be there.
I planned ahead, and made sure that my cases will support a Soft Large Pocket on the Left, to be released at a later date, for those of you who don't want any pinching of your manuals to happen. At all.
About the Atari Jaguar Case...
As far as I can tell, NO ONE is currently making, or plans to make, Cart Shells for Homebrew Atari Jaguar Games.
If I am wrong, please let me know ASAP.From what I've read, a while back some guys bought the rights to the Jaguar and made it an open system for homebrewers.
That's great and all, but it gets to be rather expensive, and time consuming, for homebrewers, to buy up a bunch of old games to cannibalize.
Since there wasn't many games made for the Jaguar, I plan to incorporate Jaguar Cart Shells into the same Mold as the Jaguar Game Case.
My hope is that in doing so, it will increase the marketability of my Jaguar Game Cases, since each one would have a nice empty Cart Shell, and a set of Screws, included with it.
Due to the large # of games released for other systems (unlike the Jaguar),
I'll need separate molds for each of their cart shells, as it wouldn't be a good idea to incorporate their cart shell design into the same molds as their game cases.
Empty Cart Shells for other systems are on my To Do List, but it is going to be a while for that.
