Realizing I came off as a jerk, I need to add that I'm just playing along.
If you're into printing out the artwork that's cool and all, I was a CIB guy for the artwork back when. But it wasn't just the art but also the exclusivity of the rarity of some stuff (which is why I was only after the rare stuff back then)
The proper way to do this is to load up a flash drive floppy disk with each individual ROM and throw it inside the box. Bonus points for including NESticle in there too.
The proper way to do this is to load up a flash drive floppy disk with each individual ROM and throw it inside the box. Bonus points for including NESticle in there too.
There, now it's authentic!
I'd still love to get an old school SNES copier and do this for "repros".
I can't find the thread but yeeeeaaaars ago there was an epic thread on Digitpress about a guy showing off his massive game collection, and then he revealed he didn't own any games. He did it on the cheap by just getting the empty boxes.
The cheapest way would be buying an everdrive and then visualing in your mind that you have all the art and boxes. Look at pics on the internet and commit them to memory.*
Yet another time where visiting this forum feels like some kind of pro-anorexia group validating each others mental illnesses.
Except the part that causes permenent bodily damage and possible death. People can be addicted to things with out being classified as addicts. But Im sure you already know that, along with the signs and definitions because youre clearly better than everyone else on this forum. So good for you. You're so funny and cool. Wow. Hopefully I can be just like you when I grow up. XD
If you really like the box art and want to print it out, go for it. But instead of putting the art inside empty UGCs that will take up a huge amount of space, put the print outs into some type of binder or book that you can go through. A print out of the entire NES library on one sheet of paper per game would probably fit in a 1 or 2 inch binder.
UGCs take up a lot of space. Believe me, every cart based game that I own is in some type of custom case. It also costs a lot of money. I've printed well over 1,000 game covers and I can tell you that an empty UGC with high quality cover art on high quality paper will cost you around a grand just for the licensed set of NES games.
But at the end of the day, do whatever makes you happy.
I don't get why people act like it's unusual to decorate one's home with whatever you like, even if it isn't functional. I have family members who are obsessed with cows or pigs, and when I visit their house, it's covered in dumb looking knickknacks that probably cost anywhere between 4 and 50 dollars. They didn't buy them because they can plug them into an NES and play them, they're just there to gather dust and say something about their personality to their houseguests. You know, the houseguests who, if they stay long enough to look at your shit, already know that you're a cow obsessed maniac and you don't really need to prove it to them, but you do it anyway. If OP wants to litter his walls with printout boxes, that's fine. Personally, I wouldn't go for the plastic clamshells, though, too expensive. Just print out the box itself and make repro boxes. Obviously you don't have to go hard and print it on the brown cardboard, just regular paper or some of the thicker stuff would do fine. Fold it up and there you go - a box.
Then go the extra mile and print off NES cartridges with the proper decal on them for each game. Papercraft those bad boys together and put them in the box, but only once you've printed off foam blocks to go at the bottom of your printed boxes. Shit, while we're at it, we might as well make the dust sleeve and the manual, too. Can you imagine when your buddies come over and they're like "bwoah shit look at all these damn games", just so they can open them up and find the game inside, take it out... and it's paper. It's all paper.
Guess I'm just not thorough enough. But! He could go out and buy the PCBs and make actual repro boards but keep the paper everything else. Do you think a functioning papercraft repro would be a hit with the kids? At that point he could probably sell it off to someone who enjoys the novelty of it and buy the actual games.
I don't get why people act like it's unusual to decorate one's home with whatever you like, even if it isn't functional. I have family members who are obsessed with cows or pigs, and when I visit their house, it's covered in dumb looking knickknacks that probably cost anywhere between 4 and 50 dollars. They didn't buy them because they can plug them into an NES and play them, they're just there to gather dust and say something about their personality to their houseguests. You know, the houseguests who, if they stay long enough to look at your shit, already know that you're a cow obsessed maniac and you don't really need to prove it to them, but you do it anyway. If OP wants to litter his walls with printout boxes, that's fine. Personally, I wouldn't go for the plastic clamshells, though, too expensive. Just print out the box itself and make repro boxes. Obviously you don't have to go hard and print it on the brown cardboard, just regular paper or some of the thicker stuff would do fine. Fold it up and there you go - a box.
Then go the extra mile and print off NES cartridges with the proper decal on them for each game. Papercraft those bad boys together and put them in the box, but only once you've printed off foam blocks to go at the bottom of your printed boxes. Shit, while we're at it, we might as well make the dust sleeve and the manual, too. Can you imagine when your buddies come over and they're like "bwoah shit look at all these damn games", just so they can open them up and find the game inside, take it out... and it's paper. It's all paper.
Now what if instead of all those pig knick knacks, it was printed out pictures of the knick knacks, each in a protective case?
If you like the artwork, here's a suggestion: choose some of your favorites, have posters made, and hang them somewhere on display. Surely even you feel that the NES artwork is not all created equally, right?!?
I mean, what is the point of having empty boxes or fake boxes or whatever, it just feels to me like you want to show off that you have shit, despite it all being a fraud, a scam. It seems sensless, and at the same time, I doubt something like that would make anyone happy after the initial bragging wore off. so what exactly is the point?
I don't get why people act like it's unusual to decorate one's home with whatever you like, even if it isn't functional. I have family members who are obsessed with cows or pigs, and when I visit their house, it's covered in dumb looking knickknacks that probably cost anywhere between 4 and 50 dollars. They didn't buy them because they can plug them into an NES and play them, they're just there to gather dust and say something about their personality to their houseguests. You know, the houseguests who, if they stay long enough to look at your shit, already know that you're a cow obsessed maniac and you don't really need to prove it to them, but you do it anyway. If OP wants to litter his walls with printout boxes, that's fine. Personally, I wouldn't go for the plastic clamshells, though, too expensive. Just print out the box itself and make repro boxes. Obviously you don't have to go hard and print it on the brown cardboard, just regular paper or some of the thicker stuff would do fine. Fold it up and there you go - a box.
Then go the extra mile and print off NES cartridges with the proper decal on them for each game. Papercraft those bad boys together and put them in the box, but only once you've printed off foam blocks to go at the bottom of your printed boxes. Shit, while we're at it, we might as well make the dust sleeve and the manual, too. Can you imagine when your buddies come over and they're like "bwoah shit look at all these damn games", just so they can open them up and find the game inside, take it out... and it's paper. It's all paper.
Now what if instead of all those pig knick knacks, it was printed out pictures of the knick knacks, each in a protective case?
Sounds reasonable. At least when the kids are over they can run around and roughhouse all they want and when the damn thing falls off the shelf it won't break, and now that it's in a protective case, it won't tear either.
Seriously though you can get Office Depot to print you off a nice glossy picture for like 86 cents or something on good stock. 86 cents for a worthless knicknack or 24 dollars at Pier One. If this were a pig knicknack collecting forum and OP wanted to save money on pig knicknacks, it's what I would have suggested.
If you like the artwork, here's a suggestion: choose some of your favorites, have posters made, and hang them somewhere on display. Surely even you feel that the NES artwork is not all created equally, right?!?
I mean, what is the point of having empty boxes or fake boxes or whatever, it just feels to me like you want to show off that you have shit, despite it all being a fraud, a scam. It seems sensless, and at the same time, I doubt something like that would make anyone happy after the initial bragging wore off. so what exactly is the point?
I dunno, if I had friends who were super hardcore collectors I think it would be a fun way to get under their skin...
Don't forget to borrow a shrink wrapper and seal all your boxes so no one can open them and see that they are empty
If you like the artwork, here's a suggestion: choose some of your favorites, have posters made, and hang them somewhere on display. Surely even you feel that the NES artwork is not all created equally, right?!?
I mean, what is the point of having empty boxes or fake boxes or whatever, it just feels to me like you want to show off that you have shit, despite it all being a fraud, a scam. It seems sensless, and at the same time, I doubt something like that would make anyone happy after the initial bragging wore off. so what exactly is the point?
I dunno, if I had friends who were super hardcore collectors I think it would be a fun way to get under their skin...
Don't forget to borrow a shrink wrapper and seal all your boxes so no one can open them and see that they are empty
Don't forget to top each box up with the correct amount of ballast, so that it feels right in the hand... Weigh each out carefully and spread the load just right and you'd never know the difference!
Just a thought -- and stepping aside from the thread a bit -- if one really enjoys game box art and wants to a potential way to display it, then a couple of digital wall frames that cycle through a JPG slideshow consisting of a collection of game box art would be an option. It's relatively affordable (a couple hundred bucks for the digital frames), it's immediately expandable (add new images whenever you want), and programmable (cycle speed, arrangement, matting, transitions, etc.). Maybe one frame for each game system platform. I could see having an NES frame and a SNES frame for example. It would solve the OPs conundrum, but would also be kind of a neat option for hardcore collectors to enjoy the art as well.
This is actually a really cool idea and I'm surprised more people don't do something like this.
I can't find the thread but yeeeeaaaars ago there was an epic thread on Digitpress about a guy showing off his massive game collection, and then he revealed he didn't own any games. He did it on the cheap by just getting the empty boxes.
Interesting.
There's got to be more to the story. Did he buy empty box lots from former video rental stores?
Had he been back-purchasing cart-onlys with the longterm goal of filling them all?
Or was he just seeing what kind of reaction he'd get and trying to prove a point that the box alone means nothing? Does he believe collectors have to prove there's a box and manual present? Etc?
P.S. @all -- I lol'd hard at the idea of paper repro boards.
I'd probably buy an origami repro of Super Paper Mario!
I can't find the thread but yeeeeaaaars ago there was an epic thread on Digitpress about a guy showing off his massive game collection, and then he revealed he didn't own any games. He did it on the cheap by just getting the empty boxes.
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If you're into printing out the artwork that's cool and all, I was a CIB guy for the artwork back when. But it wasn't just the art but also the exclusivity of the rarity of some stuff (which is why I was only after the rare stuff back then)
Sorry OP, but you're an idiot.
The proper way to do this is to load up a flash drive floppy disk with each individual ROM and throw it inside the box. Bonus points for including NESticle in there too.
There, now it's authentic!
Sorry OP, but you're an idiot.
The proper way to do this is to load up a flash drive floppy disk with each individual ROM and throw it inside the box. Bonus points for including NESticle in there too.
There, now it's authentic!
I'd still love to get an old school SNES copier and do this for "repros".
Could probably do it for $50.
Whatever a frying pan, burlap sack and a cinder block costs.
The cheapest way would be buying an everdrive and then visualing in your mind that you have all the art and boxes. Look at pics on the internet and commit them to memory.*
*Requires photogenic memory.
Oh you could just find someone with a complete set and kill them?
Could probably do it for $50.
Whatever a frying pan, burlap sack and a cinder block costs.
Wait... is that your rate?
PM me later. >.>
Actually, I have just had a legit idea... Game collection wallpaper!
Damn, OptOut stole my idea. OP, just take this photo:
Print out a few 6'x3' prints of it, and hang it up along your walls.
BONUS: With those prints, you would qualify to become a Youtube retro-gaming "celebrity".
Actually, I have just had a legit idea... Game collection wallpaper!
Damn, OptOut stole my idea. OP, just take this photo:
Print out a few 6'x3' prints of it, and hang it up along your walls.
BONUS: With those prints, you would qualify to become a Youtube retro-gaming "celebrity".
or just use a green screen. You only want this to be YouTube famous right? 0
Actually, I have just had a legit idea... Game collection wallpaper!
Damn, OptOut stole my idea. OP, just take this photo:
Print out a few 6'x3' prints of it, and hang it up along your walls.
BONUS: With those prints, you would qualify to become a Youtube retro-gaming "celebrity".
or just use a green screen. You only want this to be YouTube famous right? 0
....
You and your logic can GTFO of this thread.
Actually, I have just had a legit idea... Game collection wallpaper!
Damn, OptOut stole my idea. OP, just take this photo:
Print out a few 6'x3' prints of it, and hang it up along your walls.
BONUS: With those prints, you would qualify to become a Youtube retro-gaming "celebrity".
or just use a green screen. You only want this to be YouTube famous right? 0
....
You and your logic can GTFO of this thread.
I've got a great idea! OP can do pickup videos every time he gets home from the printer. "I got a pretty good lot today! 2 bucks a piece"
Yet another time where visiting this forum feels like some kind of pro-anorexia group validating each others mental illnesses.
Except the part that causes permenent bodily damage and possible death. People can be addicted to things with out being classified as addicts. But Im sure you already know that, along with the signs and definitions because youre clearly better than everyone else on this forum. So good for you. You're so funny and cool. Wow. Hopefully I can be just like you when I grow up. XD
OP if you really dig the cover art just buy one of the 8000 NES info guide books that has come out over the past few years.
That or make a nice copy table book with high res scans, it would actually be kind of neat.
But 700 empty boxes? That is rather silly.
UGCs take up a lot of space. Believe me, every cart based game that I own is in some type of custom case. It also costs a lot of money. I've printed well over 1,000 game covers and I can tell you that an empty UGC with high quality cover art on high quality paper will cost you around a grand just for the licensed set of NES games.
But at the end of the day, do whatever makes you happy.
Then go the extra mile and print off NES cartridges with the proper decal on them for each game. Papercraft those bad boys together and put them in the box, but only once you've printed off foam blocks to go at the bottom of your printed boxes. Shit, while we're at it, we might as well make the dust sleeve and the manual, too. Can you imagine when your buddies come over and they're like "bwoah shit look at all these damn games", just so they can open them up and find the game inside, take it out... and it's paper. It's all paper.
Oh you could just find someone with a complete set and kill them?
Could probably do it for $50.
Whatever a frying pan, burlap sack and a cinder block costs.
Wait... is that your rate?
PM me later. >.>
For you.....$45
^^^ you forgot paper repro boards.
Guess I'm just not thorough enough. But! He could go out and buy the PCBs and make actual repro boards but keep the paper everything else. Do you think a functioning papercraft repro would be a hit with the kids? At that point he could probably sell it off to someone who enjoys the novelty of it and buy the actual games.
Makes you think.
I don't get why people act like it's unusual to decorate one's home with whatever you like, even if it isn't functional. I have family members who are obsessed with cows or pigs, and when I visit their house, it's covered in dumb looking knickknacks that probably cost anywhere between 4 and 50 dollars. They didn't buy them because they can plug them into an NES and play them, they're just there to gather dust and say something about their personality to their houseguests. You know, the houseguests who, if they stay long enough to look at your shit, already know that you're a cow obsessed maniac and you don't really need to prove it to them, but you do it anyway. If OP wants to litter his walls with printout boxes, that's fine. Personally, I wouldn't go for the plastic clamshells, though, too expensive. Just print out the box itself and make repro boxes. Obviously you don't have to go hard and print it on the brown cardboard, just regular paper or some of the thicker stuff would do fine. Fold it up and there you go - a box.
Then go the extra mile and print off NES cartridges with the proper decal on them for each game. Papercraft those bad boys together and put them in the box, but only once you've printed off foam blocks to go at the bottom of your printed boxes. Shit, while we're at it, we might as well make the dust sleeve and the manual, too. Can you imagine when your buddies come over and they're like "bwoah shit look at all these damn games", just so they can open them up and find the game inside, take it out... and it's paper. It's all paper.
Now what if instead of all those pig knick knacks, it was printed out pictures of the knick knacks, each in a protective case?
If you like the artwork, here's a suggestion: choose some of your favorites, have posters made, and hang them somewhere on display. Surely even you feel that the NES artwork is not all created equally, right?!?
I mean, what is the point of having empty boxes or fake boxes or whatever, it just feels to me like you want to show off that you have shit, despite it all being a fraud, a scam. It seems sensless, and at the same time, I doubt something like that would make anyone happy after the initial bragging wore off. so what exactly is the point?
I don't get why people act like it's unusual to decorate one's home with whatever you like, even if it isn't functional. I have family members who are obsessed with cows or pigs, and when I visit their house, it's covered in dumb looking knickknacks that probably cost anywhere between 4 and 50 dollars. They didn't buy them because they can plug them into an NES and play them, they're just there to gather dust and say something about their personality to their houseguests. You know, the houseguests who, if they stay long enough to look at your shit, already know that you're a cow obsessed maniac and you don't really need to prove it to them, but you do it anyway. If OP wants to litter his walls with printout boxes, that's fine. Personally, I wouldn't go for the plastic clamshells, though, too expensive. Just print out the box itself and make repro boxes. Obviously you don't have to go hard and print it on the brown cardboard, just regular paper or some of the thicker stuff would do fine. Fold it up and there you go - a box.
Then go the extra mile and print off NES cartridges with the proper decal on them for each game. Papercraft those bad boys together and put them in the box, but only once you've printed off foam blocks to go at the bottom of your printed boxes. Shit, while we're at it, we might as well make the dust sleeve and the manual, too. Can you imagine when your buddies come over and they're like "bwoah shit look at all these damn games", just so they can open them up and find the game inside, take it out... and it's paper. It's all paper.
Now what if instead of all those pig knick knacks, it was printed out pictures of the knick knacks, each in a protective case?
Sounds reasonable. At least when the kids are over they can run around and roughhouse all they want and when the damn thing falls off the shelf it won't break, and now that it's in a protective case, it won't tear either.
Seriously though you can get Office Depot to print you off a nice glossy picture for like 86 cents or something on good stock. 86 cents for a worthless knicknack or 24 dollars at Pier One. If this were a pig knicknack collecting forum and OP wanted to save money on pig knicknacks, it's what I would have suggested.
Oh you could just find someone with a complete set and kill them?
Could probably do it for $50.
Whatever a frying pan, burlap sack and a cinder block costs.
Wait... is that your rate?
PM me later. >.>
For you.....$45
Should nirvana be worried?
Wow, sometimes I just don't understand.
If you like the artwork, here's a suggestion: choose some of your favorites, have posters made, and hang them somewhere on display. Surely even you feel that the NES artwork is not all created equally, right?!?
I mean, what is the point of having empty boxes or fake boxes or whatever, it just feels to me like you want to show off that you have shit, despite it all being a fraud, a scam. It seems sensless, and at the same time, I doubt something like that would make anyone happy after the initial bragging wore off. so what exactly is the point?
I dunno, if I had friends who were super hardcore collectors I think it would be a fun way to get under their skin...
Don't forget to borrow a shrink wrapper and seal all your boxes so no one can open them and see that they are empty
Wow, sometimes I just don't understand.
If you like the artwork, here's a suggestion: choose some of your favorites, have posters made, and hang them somewhere on display. Surely even you feel that the NES artwork is not all created equally, right?!?
I mean, what is the point of having empty boxes or fake boxes or whatever, it just feels to me like you want to show off that you have shit, despite it all being a fraud, a scam. It seems sensless, and at the same time, I doubt something like that would make anyone happy after the initial bragging wore off. so what exactly is the point?
I dunno, if I had friends who were super hardcore collectors I think it would be a fun way to get under their skin...
Don't forget to borrow a shrink wrapper and seal all your boxes so no one can open them and see that they are empty
Don't forget to top each box up with the correct amount of ballast, so that it feels right in the hand... Weigh each out carefully and spread the load just right and you'd never know the difference!
Just a thought -- and stepping aside from the thread a bit -- if one really enjoys game box art and wants to a potential way to display it, then a couple of digital wall frames that cycle through a JPG slideshow consisting of a collection of game box art would be an option. It's relatively affordable (a couple hundred bucks for the digital frames), it's immediately expandable (add new images whenever you want), and programmable (cycle speed, arrangement, matting, transitions, etc.). Maybe one frame for each game system platform. I could see having an NES frame and a SNES frame for example. It would solve the OPs conundrum, but would also be kind of a neat option for hardcore collectors to enjoy the art as well.
This is actually a really cool idea and I'm surprised more people don't do something like this.
I can't find the thread but yeeeeaaaars ago there was an epic thread on Digitpress about a guy showing off his massive game collection, and then he revealed he didn't own any games. He did it on the cheap by just getting the empty boxes.
Interesting.
There's got to be more to the story. Did he buy empty box lots from former video rental stores?
Had he been back-purchasing cart-onlys with the longterm goal of filling them all?
Or was he just seeing what kind of reaction he'd get and trying to prove a point that the box alone means nothing? Does he believe collectors have to prove there's a box and manual present? Etc?
P.S. @all -- I lol'd hard at the idea of paper repro boards.
I'd probably buy an origami repro of Super Paper Mario!
I can't find the thread but yeeeeaaaars ago there was an epic thread on Digitpress about a guy showing off his massive game collection, and then he revealed he didn't own any games. He did it on the cheap by just getting the empty boxes.
How did people respond?