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| Dravenae:
Hey guys! When printing out covers for my SNES and N64 games, I always used the vertical custom covers, just to keep my collection looking universal on my shelves, however, lately I'm being drawn to the idea of printing out the retail box art for all my SNES and N64 games, to go along with my NES, Master System and Mega Drive games, all of which use the retail box art. So I guess the point of this post is, to; 1, Ask you what you guys use? and 2, Why did you choose one over the other? I would just be interested to see what your guys thoughts and opinions are! Another thing I would be interested to see your opinion on, is reproduction box's and manuals. I have a few games that are boxed and complete, but some of those games are either missing manuals, the manuals are missing pages, and/or the box is held together with sellotape. The vast majority of my boxed games, are nigh pristine bar a few stuffs here and there. I'm just wondering, is it worth buying reproduction boxes and manuals for these games? Will it affect the value of my game if I make the switch from the original messed up box and manual? Regards, Drav. |
| segamer:
I decided vertical for N64 and SNES because they are visually appealing to me. |
| sniperlobster:
I had all my SNES Vertical and my N64 Horizontal but I decided to buy better paper and reprint everything (ugh) and I went all vertical this time and they look amazing. My pet peeve with the N64 Retail was that some spines were green and some were blue and it was driving me crazy |
| Arseen:
--- Quote from: Dravenae on March 15, 2013, 09:58:18 AM --- 1, Ask you what you guys use? --- End quote --- Black Euro Verticals for N64, US Verticals for SNES. --- Quote from: Dravenae on March 15, 2013, 09:58:18 AM --- 2, Why did you choose one over the other? --- End quote --- Verticals as covers in this format are easier to do as you don't need all the pieces in retail looking condition thus giving you bit more wiggle room, I mean you just need good front image, few screenshots and to know what the back text says. I know you can do Horizontals this way too but, Verticals still give bit more freedom. I also like that I don't have to spin the cover when checking front image and back, but both are orientated sameway (I guess this was actually my main point when choosing the style). On N64 I prefer the black over red, and on SNES I preferred the US gray bars over the PAL 4 color circles on back's background. --- Quote from: Dravenae on March 15, 2013, 09:58:18 AM ---Another thing I would be interested to see your opinion on, is reproduction box's and manuals. I have a few games that are boxed and complete, but some of those games are either missing manuals, the manuals are missing pages, and/or the box is held together with sellotape. The vast majority of my boxed games, are nigh pristine bar a few stuffs here and there. I'm just wondering, is it worth buying reproduction boxes and manuals for these games? Will it affect the value of my game if I make the switch from the original messed up box and manual? --- End quote --- Repro boxes don't interest me that much, but repro manuals are OK for games that I can't locate genuine one at reasonable price or easyness. I guess I'd value game with pristine repro box and manual just bit higher than game with really crappy genuine box and manual. |
| wiggy:
Well I make all of my own covers at this point and they're all non-retail except for my N64 covers (did those first, don't have the desire to go back and start over). I started with retail because it was easy to rip the N64 verticals from the site and plop them into my own template. But, I eventually came across a game or two who's covers weren't on the site or were really poor quality (Mario Golf 64 and Beast Wars). That's when I made my first two customs and was sorta hooked after that. I still do retail on my N64 carts that I pick up. Everything else is 95% custom at this point. About the only things I use from the retail covers are the barcode and the title graphic, and I don't even use that a large portion of the time since I often build the titles in vector form from scratch. Retail SNES looks terrible cased up IMO. There's no consistency whatsoever. If you're gonna take the time to print and cut covers in order to case games and put them on a shelf, then I don't see why anyone would want them looking all hodge-podge. It's one thing if they're actual retail boxes (since they're rare and stuff), but for UGC casing it makes no sense in my world of OCD, clean and tidy shelf appearance needs. N64 retail is pretty damned consistent, I just can't stand the purple and green spines with the busy-ass graphics behind the game's title. Ick. As far as repro boxes/manuals go, that's not at all my thing. I keep my original boxes in boxes, in other boxes because I want to keep them nice and because they're fragile. Repro boxes are just as fragile, and I don't want to fiddle with them while tying to access my games. They don't ad value like retail boxes do, so there's no interest from me. I don't care about manuals at all. Retail or repro. I don't collect as a financial investment, and I can use the web to figure out which button makes Mario jump if I can't figure it out on my own for some reason. |
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