Onion game Cases

[Seymor Onion]

Thanks for the head's ups / running totals.

~Reasons for this last batch of delays~
My current CAD Guy* is really bad with returning calls and e-mails.
Also, his day job is taking up too much of his time.

I haven't heard from him in over a week.
I haven't even received any 3D models from him, yet.

If I don't hear back from him by Friday, I'm going to call the cops, to get my stuff back from him, and I'm going to go with a different CAD Designer.

I have 3 other cad guys on my short list.
I've spoken with all of them, they assure me it will take less than 2 weeks to do the work, and they're more than happy to put it in writing.

*This post is not directed at Wiggy.
His kid arrived early, and he has to spend what little free time he has left working on order fulfillment, as well as some other stuff. If he can't find the time to do the Sega Main Line 3D Modeling, by the time I'm finished with the Nintendo Main Line Cases, I can have the guys that do the N case modeling do the Sega Case Modeling.  

Edited to add: The unresponsive CAD guy has a selection of my Nintendo Game Carts and Manuals, so he can reference them while doing the 3D Modeling.

[Azarkhel]

Nor trying to sound like a bastard here, but whatever you plan to do to get these going I would do it quickly. With the increasing popularity of retro game collecting, you will see more and more products becoming available that will eat into your territory.

The BitCases will just be the first, fortunately they're produced in a cheap fashion so you can still offer a better product.

[BenG76]

Nor trying to sound like a bastard here, but whatever you plan to do to get these going I would do it quickly. With the increasing popularity of retro game collecting, you will see more and more products becoming available that will eat into your territory.

The BitCases will just be the first, fortunately they're produced in a cheap fashion so you can still offer a better product.

Azarkhel just made a major point here. These things need to get out real soon. People here may wait a bit longer for them. A lot of people may not though. Also they may not be up on which case is made better and some just don't educate themselves or research things before they buy. I only have 20-30 games cased myself so far none of which are NES. I have it in my mind to start on those soon. I as well don't mean to sound like a jerk but if your going to go forward with this I would be making it happen something quick.

[BenG76]

Sorry if this has already been asked. Do you plan to make cases for the different systems carts a uniform size or whatever is needed? If you do ones for carts such as Famicom, Atari 2600/7800, Coleco, etc I was thinking they could possibly be smaller.

[Seymor Onion]

I agree with ya'll 100% about getting the cases out ASAP, and am doing everything I can to make it so.

Sorry if this has already been asked. Do you plan to make cases for the different systems carts a uniform size or whatever is needed? If you do ones for carts such as Famicom, Atari 2600/7800, Coleco, etc I was thinking they could possibly be smaller.

Not all of my Game Cases will be the same size.

The first project is for the The Nintendo Main Line Cases
They are going to be larger than UGCs by at least one dimension (spine width).
Case Height and Width will either be the same as UGC, or a little larger.
They'll support NES, SNES, SFC, and n64 Games and n64 Memory Paks.
Also supported will be the SNES Game Genie (gotta mod the Game Genie tho).
Both versions of the n64 GameShark (the one with a serial port, and the one without) will be supported.
The SNES and SFC Super Gameboys will be supported, as well as the Retro Port and Retro Gen carts for SNES/SFC.

After that will be the The Sega Main Line Cases
These cases will have the same Height and Width as a standard Genesis/Mega Drive Game Case.
However, the spine width will be a little bigger.
They'll support USA Master System Carts, Genesis Carts, Mega Drive Carts, 32X Carts, as well as the EA & Accolade Tall Genesis Carts, the huge Genesis Virtua Racing Cart, and those oddly shaped Codemasters J-Carts for Genesis/Megadrive.
The Genesis Game Genie will also be supported.

Cases for other system's games will be a different size/shape than the above.

Atari 2600/7800 & 5200 Game Cases and ColecoVision and IntelliVision Game Cases are on the back burner for now.
There are some other groups who are looking into making cases for them.
They'll post details about them, once they get far enough along in the R&D, to be able to decide whether or not they want to make them, or give me the go ahead to just make them myself.
I, or they, might wind up making two variants for them,
one barely big enough for just the game carts (possibly a clamshell that is similar to the ones early Gameboy Games came in),
and a larger version that includes Full-Size Manual Support.

[CommunistGamer]

sega 1000-3000 games?

[Seymor Onion]

I'm not too familiar with SG-1000 to 3000 Games, but any Card-Based games that can fit in a HuCard (TurboGrafx 16 / PC Engine) Sleeve will fit in my Sega Card Game Case.
That case will get released sometime after the Sega Main Line game cases are made.

I'm going to need to get a hold of SG 1000 to 3000 Game Carts, Cards and Manuals, before I can say whether or not they'll work with any of my existing Game Case Designs.
If a simple modification won't be enough to add support for them, I can make some special cases just for them.

I own one American SegaCard Game & Manual called Ghost House.

I'm going to use it's Game Card and Manual as a refrence, when designing the Sega Card Game Cases.

Any info and tips you'd like to share about cart and manual shape/size variants for Sega 1000-3000 Games would be much appreciated. 
I'm always on the lookout for gaming stuff to make cases and/or replacement parts for.

[CommunistGamer]

As i am not home to mesure one for you, i shall see what the lord, google, tells us

[Seymor Onion]

I have a meeting with the CAD guy, scheduled for this afternoon, at 4 pm Central Standard Time.
CST is the [-06:00] timezone, for you GMT guys. 

He says the 3D modeling is about 85% complete, for the Nintendo Main Line Cases, and apologized for the lack of communication.
He gave some very good reasons for it, but even so, I'll switch to another CAD guy if he can't commit to getting them finished within a short, but reasonable, time-frame (Days, not Months).

[Polygon]

I can tell you right now Seymor, I've been holding out on printing covers just because I'm waiting for your cases. Mainly I would need the NES/SNES/N64 cases. Would it be possible to get one as a sample when they do finally get released? I've got a couple of hundred UGCs sitting around and I want to make sure these will work for me before buying a ton like I did with the UGCs. If they do, I would be buying at least 300, probably more.

I was speaking in regards to a more dramatic (and hypothetical) overhaul of the template. I can resize images just as well as the next guy.

Well, sure. That would be a huge pain in the ass. Especially when it's so hard just to get a cover uploaded in the first place. The point of my post was more to the face, that there's no point to doing that since we can just resize and it's really not that hard. Perhaps, they could add a category for the Onion cases and we could start uploading those sizes as well. I'm just saying there's no reason to try and do some sort of overhaul on existing covers.

[Seymor Onion]

Before I do the Fundraiser, for Mass Production, I'm gonna send out prototype Cases (that will be dimensionally accurate in every way to the Mass-Produced Cases) to the Admins of this forum, and a number of Cover Artists.

I don't know how many prototype cases I can afford to make, yet, and can't give a yay or nay to your question.
Even if I have to say nay, you could always ask someone who gets a prototype case, to send it to ya, after they're done examining and testing them.  

All existing NES, SNES, SFC and n64 UGC Templates, when it comes to the Front And Back, shouldn't need to be re-sized at all.
The only change that might need to be made, is to the Spine; it may need to be widened a bit.

[e_brugal]

hello, I'm Starting finally my collection of games, i right now have a NES, N64, Wii and a PS1, i'm planning to buy SNES, Gamecube, PS2, PS3 and Dreamcast. i almost bought the UGC for my games until i saw this topic with the Onion game cases.

So i'm going to wait until the cases are made to buy some, i hope that will be soon

[CommunistGamer]

Well i got nothing for size on sega 1000, other that its the same size as sega mk 3 games and sega master system games in japan.

if you want to put down 5 dollars for a copy i found this.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PRO-BASEBALL-Penant-Race-Gold-Sega-Mark-III-3-Japan-Video-Game-Cart-only-m3c-/300867165215?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item460d149c1f

[Seymor Onion]

Well i got nothing for size on sega 1000, other that its the same size as sega mk 3 games and sega master system games in japan.

if you want to put down 5 dollars for a copy i found this.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PRO-BASEBALL-Penant-Race-Gold-Sega-Mark-III-3-Japan-Video-Game-Cart-only-m3c-/300867165215?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item460d149c1f

Thanks for the link; I just bought that sucker! 

The meeting with the CAD guy went really well.
After he makes a few modifications to the 3D Model, of the NES Case, it'll be ready for a 3D-Print test.
He says it'll only take him a day or two, to do the revisions, and will work on it over this weekend.

[mbs357]

Woo!  I've been following this thread for like a year now and I also want to express my support.

I've held off buying UCGs for quite some time and my collection keeps growing.  I've got several hundred to a thousand or so NES, SNES, and Genesis games and can't wait to start casing them but I just can't bring myself to do the modifications that UCGs require.  So here's hoping yours will be fine and pretty without all that.

Question though:  Have you any plans for Famicom Disk System?  I'm thinking about branching out into that soon.
What about newer things?  Like DS and GBA games?  I can't find cases for those anymore.

Your website says Neo Geo--is that the super large cartridges?