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| Marcus_CA:
I'm curious, how did YOU case your collection? I started not too long ago and your experiences are probably better than mine :D Questions that can help the discussion: Which country do you live in? Which case did you buy? From which provider and for what purpose? Was the shipping expansive? Did your manuals fit, or did you have to mod your case? What about the end-product quality? Any other personal thoughts? -- I live in Canada so I pay an extra 25$ or so for shipping cross borders from media shelving. 69$ for 100 cases doubles after all the expenses but if I think about it, it's not that bad paying ~1.25$ a case. I was thinking on casing my NES, SNES, N64 and Sega(when I get to those) in those UGC. I think I have to mod it so that manuals can fit in the case... even though there's no manual clips to hold them in place. I'll have to deal with them being lose in the case. I haven't received them yet either so I can't share my experiences yet. I'll be getting a multi tool to zip through the plastic too for those NES games and manuals. ;D For GB / GBA games will be have to be reproduction DS cases with GBA slots ... I still haven't decided from where to buy. Many have said the quality sucks so I'm a little bummed and scared to start casing these games. Again, the multi tool to aid GBA games to fit in the case. For PS1 games ... many of the ones I buy come in cheap factory cases that fall apart. For that reason, I'll be getting polly cases to uniform my collection. I still haven't decided from where to buy and how it'll go down. PS2 and current gen cases are simple.. there's reproduction cases everywhere at a reasonable price. I'll update this post with links, pictures and personal experiences as I case my collection. |
| Arseen:
I live in Finland UGCs were out question because of the price, so I went with double-wide DVD cases. The SNES sized manuals fit perfectly, the cases don't have clips to hold the manual, but some more expensive ones do. I get them from Rivierapublishing in UK. Shipping is not that bad, I paid less than 1Euro per case, 80 cent I think. Quality is really good, and UGC sized covers fit fine (for perfect fit they would need 55 more height). Currently I'm waiting for SeymorOnion to finish his cases. |
| e_brugal:
Well, i start my collection recently, think it was a year ago. as some of you know i live in the Dominican Republic (it won't be cheap to buy cases for me :( ), and i haven't buy any cases yet because: 1- I'm waiting for Onion Cases to be for sales (SeymorOnion), onion cases will hold manuals (the waiting is long) 2- Decided not to buy UGC because it can't hold manual and don't like to have the manuals apart from the game. 3- There's other option, Vacuum formed cases that can hold manuals but from my experience with that kind of plastic particularly i don't like them. My collection for now is based only with console games not handheld and think i will stay that way :P So, basically i'm collecting games and manuals and they are right now naked :P ;D , hope to case them soon |
| Megatron:
I started my cases a year ago last month. It has been a very exciting 13 months and I am almost done casing my entire collection (which is only about 700-800 games, so compared to some it is miniscule). For my NES, SNES and N64 I went with the UGCs. I live in the US, so shipping wasn't too bad. I forget what I paid, but 200 cases ran me under $150 shipped. For my Genesis games, 32x and Sega Master System, I opted to use the original black clamshell cases that they came with. This meant augmenting a lot of covers to fit these cases, as well as modding some of the cases to fit 32x games and Sonic & Knuckles In terms of style, for NES I opted for the universal Black Bar logo at the top of the spine. For SNES and N64 I went for the standard vertical format. While I was tempted with the white template for N64, I currently use the red/green template. For my Genesis games I decided to make all of them the red stripe boxes, so as to avoid the black/checkered/multicolor EA spines. Instead there is a smooth red stripe uniform. For all handhelds I opt for the DS cases. I have some official Nintendo ones, but most are the cheap knockoffs. While vastly inferior plastic, they're so cheap that if I screw up I can just grab another without any concern. I also really enjoy collections. So while most of my games use the retail images and spines, some games I prefer to have a cool ensemble cover set, such as Lumberjack's Legend of Zelda and Mega Man series, or the Resident Evil Gamecube collection. |
| FritzWhite:
--- Quote from: e_brugal on October 07, 2013, 02:00:37 PM ---Well, i start my collection recently, think it was a year ago. as some of you know i live in the Dominican Republic (it won't be cheap to buy cases for me :( ), and i haven't buy any cases yet because: 1- I'm waiting for Onion Cases to be for sales (SeymorOnion), onion cases will hold manuals (the waiting is long) 2- Decided not to buy UGC because it can't hold manual and don't like to have the manuals apart from the game. 3- There's other option, Vacuum formed cases that can hold manuals but from my experience with that kind of plastic particularly i don't like them. My collection for now is based only with console games not handheld and think i will stay that way :P So, basically i'm collecting games and manuals and they are right now naked :P ;D , hope to case them soon --- End quote --- My manuals fit in the case just barely. I just set them on top of the cart and the case bulges ever so slightly, but that's because the carts have the dust covers also. It's redundant to have a dust cover on a cased game, but it makes the game fit the case snug, plus it came with the game originally. I don't like it when the cart rattles around in there |
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