SFC/SNES Floppy Disk Labels

Hello everyone,
I've recently gotten a Game Doctor 6 and I'll be backing up games to 3.5" disks.
I'd like for my disks to look nice (maybe not too nice, but presentable) and I've seen
pictures online of labeled disks. I was wondering how I would go about making floppy
disk labels for SFC games? Thank you very much.

 

Grab some artwork (eg boxart) and print them, I guess?

If you can't find printable floppy label sheets any more (because it's 2016 and all that), look for ones that are (or can be cut down to) ~55x70mm (for just the front) or 70x70mm (if you want the label to wrap around the edge).

 

You can still buy printable floppy disk labels. Expect to pay £15 - £20 for a pack though.. but that pack would probably be enough to be honest. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Avery-L76...290286?hash=item33ae5751ee:g:zmoAAOSwWTRW1JlO

 

Appreciate the replies. I'm trying to do something like this. I guess only way is to just photoshop box/label art into a square and print on a label. Need to figure out label printing too. http://i.imgur.com/49wq7.jpg

 

I'm just curious - why back up to floppies if you own the original cartridges? The carts will probably last another 100 years, the floppies probably won't even last 1 year.

 

When I'm away from home (like at university) I would rather have small, cheap disks than all my expensive SNES carts.

 

So you actually intend to use this thing on a regular basis? If you add up all the things like the cost of floppies, labels, and time spent, besides the copier itself, you probably could've almost bought a Super Everdrive - and not have any hassle with slow, loud, fragile floppies. Just sayin'. You wouldn't have been able to transfer the saves from the carts, but that's a small price to pay imho. Oh well, what's done is done.

 

Yeah, if I were you I'd just invest in a Retrode and one of the several kinds of SNES flashcarts out there. You can back up your carts (and even the savegame RAM on them), play them on the flashcart when you're away, and then even upload your progress back to the original carts when you come home.

 

I already have a Game Doctor and many, many floppies. All I need to buy are labels. Floppies have a special appeal to me, aha. It's for the　experience I suppose.

 

Well, to each his own, I guess. I never bothered with floppies on my GD, just used the parallel port... And while I basically grew up on floppies, I don't miss them one bit. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR DRRRRRRRRRRRRR CLICK CLICK WRRRRR CLICK "Read error on drive A:, (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)gnore"... Good riddance.

 

I understand why you wanna do this. Same reason for me wanting to build a Windows 98 Gaming PC. Same reason why I'm not using "NO-CD" cracks on the games. Putting the cd's in to play the games is all part of the experience.

On that note, I think you might just be best off printing to paper and cutting them out. If you have a decent printer that can print to photo paper, then use that for a glossy look. You can buy sticky paper for printing on as well, which cuts out the need for glue. Also means you dont have to line up the picture to print into the floppy disk label's space. This is probably what I would do.

In terms of actually designing the images.. well, its entirely up to you. I personally would make it fit in with the default artwork on the carts. Having that black outline with snes logo on and all that.

 

I guess what the matter really is is designing the labels, as SFC box art is portrait and disk labels are a lot wider.

 

For my cart labels I use a plastic based thin double sided tape used for linoleum flooring.. Sticks well to most plastics and paper and is a fraction of a mm thick, also is wider than a SNES label so wont have any lines..

For paper I use gloss 135GSM 170CIE with full color laser printer. This paper is a little lower GSM to whats used in DVD inserts but looks amazing!
100 ish GSM would be perfect for floppy labels, glossy paper tends to produce better colours imo..

 

Floppy Disks actually last a very long time. Toward the end of the floppy disk lifespan they cut quality in order to cut cost and so the later production diskettes may not be so good. Another thing to keep in mind is drives can get out of alignment or need to be re-calibrated and may have trouble reading disks from another drive without the disk itself being bad.

I understand the appeal of playing old games off Disks and having nice labels. I remember having a disk caddy full of SNES games for my Game Doctor SFIII. I never did fancy labels but you can find "sticker paper" or label paper that you can print on and then cut out in the proper shape with a template and razor blade.

 

other option is getting a flash cart and buying 100's of 256mb SD cards and printing labels for them.. 1 rom per SD card!

 

That may be a good idea. It seems impossible to resize SFC box art though to fit nicely on a full label...

 

Right, but where are you going to find a supply of old high-quality floppy disks now?
... If you do know where, I'd be interested in picking up a few myself.

 

There's tons of new floppies on ebay.

 

It may be hard to track down a source for higher quality disks unless you know which ones you are looking for. You might have to buy a lot of disks and just see which ones work out best. Even cheaper disks should work for a good while if you treat them well and your drives are calibrated. I'm sure a dust free room helps too. Though maybe there are borderline junk disks out there too.

 

you could get a floppy emulator and store all your disks on a single usb stick