What do you guys use to store your loose cartridges? Most of my cartridges are loose due to the fact that I have few games that I've kept since I was a kid, and for most of those I've thrown away the boxes (because I was a kid). Boxed cartridge-based games also seem exorbitantly priced compared to loose ones. Anyway, back to my question. What do you use? At home I kept all my cartridges in a drawer, which worked pretty well, except that very often they would slide around. Currently, in my apartment, I'm forced to keep my cartridges in a cardboard box, which is not very attractive. They have/had storage bins for cartridges, but the ones I've seen are all system-specific. It would be nice if I could consolidate my cartridges in one place. It seems like most cartridges are about the same thickness, so theoretically you could make a storage box with equally thick slots and slightly raised/lowered notches for different sized cartridges. I don't think such a thing exists, though. Anyway, what do you think?
Get a self assembly book shelf (as they have metal pegs to hold shelves up rather than being glued) and then use a dremel etc to put holes in at the appropriate height. Only problem is many carts don't have labels on the sides/tops.
I keep them on a shelf or in a caddy for the SNES games except that I have too many so the excess go on the shelf or in something else. The AVGN has a crazy amount of games on big shelves.
I keep them inside an enclosed bookshelf, with my other games (disc and boxed ones). The ideal thing though, would be to store them in these babies: http://www.mediashelving.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=W&Product_Code=USCG Too bad they are out of stock now, and they only ship within the US.
Book shelf with holes drilled into the back in order to have my systems on the shelf too be able to the thread av cords to couplers and then to av selector boxes connecting to two assorted c.r.t tvs and a lcd.
If you can try and get the ones I mentioned (http://www.mediashelving.com/Merchan...duct_Code=USCG) you might be better off, as those fit for SNES, Genesis, and N64 iirc. They're out of stock but you sure can find them on eBay or Amazon.
Do you know if you can put a N64 boxed cart in them? It would be a great way to keep them in great shape. I'm thinking the answer is no, but I thought I would ask anyways. =hugh
Definitely not. There are solid plastic protector cases for sale on ebay though that serve exactly that purpose. Personally I don't see the point in buying those shockbox things. It seems like an absolute waste of money considering that they have no resale value and that it requires an additional investment that is not to be underestimated (ink costs a lot for so many coloured inserts, plus $$$ for the cases & delivery). I have seem some collection on Youtube with ridiculous amounts of that plastic stuff to hold some loose GB carts. Seriously, if you want boxes and have money in addition to that you spend on games, get a fucking boxed copy. Everything else is just binning money for fugly selfmade crap. Now for arcade games, that's another story. There have been efforts to produce shockboxes for all kinds of cartridge-based systems like Atomiswave, PGM, MVS, but also even for SH3 PCB's. It makes sense since on the one hand it is hard to find kits of most of the games nowadays (or extremely expensive if you're going for SH3) and on the other hand arcade-kits are such fragile collectibles that it's preferable to have a shockbox if you tend to switch games frequently rather than having to open those poor MVS kit cartons all the time.
Ever since I started collecting (mostly) loose or loose with manual games I just put them all in plastic zip-lock bags that fit either just the cart or the cart/manual perfectly and then kept them on a bookshelf facing to the side. Its the best way ive found to do it so far. I need a bigger shelf though, as I have 7 consoles on the shelf as well, and it is getting hard to fit all the games.
I pack most of mine away in a box. I use flash carts and optical drive emulators when I can. Anything that cant be hardware/cart emu'd I keep on hand. Atari- Harmony NES- Powerpak SNES- Waiting for a better solution (I keep super mario world/allstars in at all times) Genesis/MD/MS- MegaDrive N64- 64 Drive Dreamcast- A cd case of games (and utopia boot disc for backups) Wii/Gamecube- Wode Explanation: I really hate having clutter, and I don't "need" to eye my collection, or put excessive wear/tear on it. Whenever friends come over do they go "wow you have a super cool jdm pretty stickered game"....no there like "cool you still have a nes".. "lets play". I have a 2yo daughter and don't want her messing up my originals. I also prefer not to use pc emu whenever possible. Additionally, I mostly don't backup what I don't own, with a few rare exceptions.
I store my games in bags that can be sealed just to keep the dust out of the contacts. I always worry about moisture getting into the bags on very hot days. For NES games the dust sleeves should be enough, you can also get plastic cases that close over the top of them. Been meaning to get a few of those cases but I think they're pretty rare to come by.
8track and VHA drawers are perfect for storing loose games SNES games fit dame near perfect in VHS drawers and megadrive/gen games fit well too
Stored within plastic tubs with clip on plastic lids. Ideally I'd just have them on a shelf if I had space..
