Author Topic: Cases/Boxes for Jamma Boards and Playchoice 10 titles?  (Read 296 times)

February 27, 2014, 06:55:02 PM
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p-r0t

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I've been thinking about ways to preserve my arcade jamma boards instead of just carboard boxes. Obviously jamma boards range in various sizes for various reasons so making a standard UGC box is not really practical unless you're talking about something the size of a pizza box... I'm curious if anyone has come across a common solution that works for them? It would be cool to have the boards cased up with nice labels just like cartridges :)

Also the same for PC-10 boards, I don't have the exact dimensions but I think most would fit inside a UGC ?

Thoughts ?

February 28, 2014, 05:51:29 AM
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Dr.Agon

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PC-10 carts are basically NES games, so id be surprised if they DIDN'T fit in a UGC

as for JAMMA boards, some boards are huge, double layered etc. there's just too much variety to have a "universal" case, for storage just use some antistatic bubble wrap...

if you were crazy, you could make DVD covers for the games, that way you'd have something to display...

February 28, 2014, 01:28:14 PM
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Exactly this is what always put me off when I thought about collecting PCBs as well.

How to store and present them?
2 + 3 = 23

February 28, 2014, 05:27:37 PM
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Exactly this is what always put me off when I thought about collecting PCBs as well.

How to store and present them?

that's why when I made an arcade cab, I purposely decided to collect neo geo mvs games, can be put on shelf nicely and even cased,

February 28, 2014, 05:41:24 PM
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Exactly this is what always put me off when I thought about collecting PCBs as well.

How to store and present them?

The 2 mentioned things ( wrapped in antistatic bubblewrap and inside logoless strurdy "pizza box") combined seem the best.
Just add nice end labels to the box and clear coat for protection of the label.

February 28, 2014, 07:53:09 PM
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...if you were crazy, you could make DVD covers for the games, that way you'd have something to display...

still think this is a good idea, knocked this up in a few minutes...


February 28, 2014, 11:10:53 PM
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PC-10 carts are basically NES games, so id be surprised if they DIDN'T fit in a UGC
Most won't, PC-10 "carts" are actually PCBs and some of them are huge (Mega Man 3 and SMB 3 come to mind).