What to do/How to deal with the crappy cardboard sega boxes?? Help!

What to do/How to deal with the crappy cardboard sega boxes? Any ideas?

Alright, I've got a problem to solve here and I haven't figured a way to deal with it. Maybe some of you have a solution, if not, maybe we can all band together and come up with something.

As hard core of a Sega fan as I am, there is one thing that really pissed me off that they did back in the mid 90's. They stopped using the plastic hard cases for their games and switched to cheap cardboard like everyone else. Now, 12 or so years later (yesterday to be exact) I am browsing through my box of lesser played Genesis games I have and notice that most of my cardboard box games are starting to get a little beat up. As I sure it would for most on here, it made me pretty mad. All my plastic box games are in tip top shape, but my cardboard box ones definitely show their age.

My question here is, has anyone figured out a good way of protecting these boxes? I'm a sucker for both having the original casing/manual in good condition, plus some of the art work on the game boxes is really fantastic. I'd like to keep them this way, especially with the practically mint condition copy of Phantasy Star IV I just picked up this week, I don't want it to see the fate of my other cardboard box games. Does anyone on here have any methods they use or ideas?

 

I just have to take extra special care with mine. I so hated the cardboard switch that sega made.

 

luckly, around here the only game to have such boxes was Sonic & Knuckles. The version I've picked up is badly beaten up, and lacks the inner tray (which I'll try to bootleg, eventually. At this point, vectorizing both Strider and VF2 covers was too much of an hassle). But at least, I finally have it.

From experience dealing with PC game boxes, the best way to avoid damage is to fill the insides of the box as much as possible without deforming the box, so that they won't bend if pressure is applied to the corners or the middle. While I can't remember how loose the space for the tray is, you can try to use thick paper (80g, should be enough, I think) to create a hidden sleeve tight with the outer case. This reinforces the box against squatting.

Finally, if you are really determined on protecting them, while at the same time keeping an healthy display, I suggest pulling up a art museum move - print and use the outside part of the boxes, and store the originals in an hermetic bag, far away from sunlight.

 

Thats not too bad of an idea. I could do really high-res scans of my boxes, get some empty Sega Boxes (plastic) and goto Kinkos and print out quality labels for the hard boxes, then just keep the old ones stored away in bags. Not a bad idea at all, thanks for the suggestion.

 

I wonder if the boxes would fit in the Neo Geo MVS shockboxes Then you could print out a thing so you know whats in what

 

I hate those boxes. I'd say just leave the games outside of their boxes (in a safe place of course...or in another empty case) and never touch the boxes. Ever.

 

Im heading down to ebgames, so ill see if they have any games with boxes there to try it out

 

I saw some high resolution scans of covers for most genesis games. I think printing those on glossy photopaper and using plastic carts from stupid sports titles that are sold for 1$ a piece in local second hand videogame stores is a way to go.

I only have two games with cardboard cases: Beyond Oasis and Phantasy Star IV. Both are in horrible condition.

 

what i do is that i put every cartrige outside their boxes, and store the boxes in a secure area, like a drawer or something, specificly for that.

 

Well I threw the original box (Phantasy Star IV) on my scanner and scanned at ultra-high resolution (1200 dpi) and reassembled the front and back into one whole image. Then I resized and manipulated it so that it is just the perfect size. Printed it out at 1200 dpi on my HP Photoprinter on ultra bright white high quality paper. Cut it out and inserted it into a spare case I had laying around. Looks aboslutely fantastic... if you didn't know that this game came in a carboard box normally, you would swear this was the original one. If anyone wants, I can upload the image I put together, its all ready to go, all you have to do is print it out on a high quality printer.

 

Hmm, not a bad idea for keeping the carboard box itself safe from being crushed. I'll check to see if the sega box will fit and get back to you on that one.

 

i had the same problem with my n64 games....went down to the local dollar store, and they happened to have these cases, that resembled a vcr cassete case, but on the inside had holders built in for n64,snes,genisis games...i just modified the boxes somewhat ands slapped them on.,...looks very nice i think...

 

No cardboard Genesis boxes at eb

 

Are those card boxes for the US only? In the UK all our boxes were plastic as in Japan. The only Japanese game in a card box is the unofficial Divine Sealing hentai shooter. Might pick that up actually tomorrow if I can get the sods to drop the price. 11'000 yen they want for a mint one !! Too much.

Yakumo

 

Nope the uk had a few of those horrible card boxes.

My uk sonic & knuckles was in a cardboard box.

 

Just about all the U.S. release games came in the nice hard plastic boxes, but sometime towards the two years or so of the Genesis's life, you started seeing games released in cardboard slide boxes instead. The games that I have in cardboard box are Earthworm Jim, Light Crusader, Phantasy Star IV, Sonic & Knuckles, and some helicopter game I forget the name of. Really pissed me off when they started using the cardboard boxes, they are just about the easiest things to crush in the world.

 

Other than the early unlicensed Ballistic/Accolade games, Sonic & Knuckles is the only PAL game with a cardboard box.

 

Store games away and just use some flashcard/or another cheap copy to play That's what I do with all my high-value originals anyway.

 

And the unoffical game Pirated Sexy Mahjong or whatever it is called. And the Pro Striker Perfect MultiTap Boxset, and Doraemon Boxset too.

And don't get Divine Sealing unless its cheap as it is really really bad indeed(and cheaper on yahoo from what I've seen)