Sega Saturn Original Cases or Print?

[Einhander]

I've noticed that some Saturn games can be harder to get cases for unless you're willing to spend. How do you think these compare to the real game long box cases?

[ges311]

If you are talking DVD case with a printed insert vs. a long jewel box...there is no comparison.  There is nothing better then a minty long box game.

[the7k]

Saturn cases take up too much room, are highly fragile, and oftentimes too expensive. Heck, a lot of times they broke just from ordinary use.

While I still have a lot of my cases, as soon as I get a Saturn game I take them out the original case and put them in a DVD case, then put the original in a box and store them somewhere where they are 'safe'.

My JP games:

My US games:


There's no way I could have all my Saturn games in the limited amount of space my room has without using DVD cases.

[gam3rz3r0]

I'm in the same boat. I'm slowly transfer all Sega CD and Saturn Games to DVD cases and I've already made a ton of room for other games. It's a bit annoying that my manuals wont fit though  

[TDIRunner]

I'm in the same boat. I'm slowly transfer all Sega CD and Saturn Games to DVD cases and I've already made a ton of room for other games. It's a bit annoying that my manuals wont fit though  

That's funny.  I'm in the opposite boat.  I'm slowly buying up spare long box cases so that I can transfer all of my Sega CD and Saturn games from DVD to their original cases.  It's not easy. but I'm almost there.

[segamer]

All my Sega Saturn games are complete in their original cases. I never buy loose Saturn Games.

[SegaNomadman]

I try to buy CIB, but sometimes if I get a deal, I'll get lose games.

[Gutling]

I decided at the start of my collection which systems I would go for boxes and which I would not. its so much easier finding incomplete sega cd/saturn and boxing them in dvd. plus look nice and flow good on a shelf with other dvd sized games

[TDIRunner]

All my Sega Saturn games are complete in their original cases. I never buy loose Saturn Games.

I've made this decision as well, but I didn't make it until after I had a decent amount of Saturn games without their boxes.  In fact, at this point, for any disc based system, I only buy CIB unless it's a crazy good deal.  But with cart based games, I'm good with game only.

[the7k]

I only go out of my way to buy CIB if there's no US cover for download here - just so that I can make the cover myself.

... which I guess means I'll have to buy Dragon Force CIB... ugh. That game is so expensive...

But yeah, I couldn't give a hoot whether it's CIB or disc only or disc + manual or whatever - as long as there's a disc. I'm getting these games with every intention of actually playing them and nothing else.

Well, that and I'm broke as hell.

[Einhander]

I guess both have their benefits. The long boxes are fragile, but have that distinctive classic look. But hey the DVD ones look pretty good and perhaps should have been designed that way from the start. Sure, the long boxes give Saturn games that distinctive look, but I don't know if I'd want my other systems to have long boxes.

[palmer6strings]

My Saturn collection is all CIB. Not that I really tried to do it like that, just got lucky I guess.
Same thing with my Sega CD for the most part except for like 1 or 2 games that's disc only.

[larryinc64]

@the7k. I have a Dragon Force cover in my box.net

I have 2 Saturn games, one in a DVD case (Dragon Force) and one in a long box (Tomb Raider)

I'm in the middle. I'm leaning to the DVD case, Saturn games are expensive and buying loose CDs can save me some money, and shelf space, though I do like the long boxes.

Hmmm

[ges311]

I think the art looks amazing in those long jewel box cases. But CIB Saturn collecting is quite a challenge to do on the cheap. I pretty much stopped buying Saturn games about 6 months ago.  Luckily I snagged a lot of the key titles over the past few years.

Kind of re-thinking keeping my collection out on display with a 1 1/2 year old at home.  Might just burn everything, put it in DVD cases and hide the real games.  My son ejected one of my PS3 games from the system and had the game for like 2 minutes.  It looked like it was put through a meat grinder.  I could only imagine the horror that would happen to my 40 cib saturn games if he was left to his own devices with them.

[gam3rz3r0]

I'm in the same boat. I'm slowly transfer all Sega CD and Saturn Games to DVD cases and I've already made a ton of room for other games. It's a bit annoying that my manuals wont fit though  

That's funny.  I'm in the opposite boat.  I'm slowly buying up spare long box cases so that I can transfer all of my Sega CD and Saturn games from DVD to their original cases.  It's not easy. but I'm almost there.

I was going to stick with the long boxes but they're so fragile. I think out of all of them only 2 are in good condition.