NES/Famicom Appreciation Thread

Does anyone here have experience buying flattened NES boxes from eBay or elsewhere online? I'm curious about how well they pop back into shape. If they've been stored flat for years do they have a tendency to want to retain that shape? I prefer to store (and eventually display) mine in box form.

Rydeen said:
Really awesome one I enjoy a lot that I'm amazed didn't get released here is Ai Senshi Nicol / Love Warrior Nicol from Konami. Really great top-down adventure game with a sci-fi theme. Plays like a more polished version of the top-down areas from Blaster Master. Colorful graphics and a trademark quality Konami soundtrack.

Plus, dat intro
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Damn, I really need to get an FDS, don't I?
 
Rydeen said:
Really awesome one I enjoy a lot that I'm amazed didn't get released here is Ai Senshi Nicol / Love Warrior Nicol from Konami. Really great top-down adventure game with a sci-fi theme. Plays like a more polished version of the top-down areas from Blaster Master. Colorful graphics and a trademark quality Konami soundtrack.

Plus, dat intro
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Why is it FDS and not Famicom cart :(
 
Polioliolio said:
Sweet, thanks guys.

You've helped me realize the futility in going after CIB.


I mean, I've been waiting 6 months or a year on some of these CIB, hoping for a good deal on games I really wanted, to come along. Eff dat. I'm going to just get a nice looking cart already and enrich my collection at lower costs.. For the price of one CIB, I could get four to five or more good looking carts.

And then if I happen to come across an irresistible deal on a CIB of a much wanted game, nothing's stopping me from getting it.


Excellent.
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That's a great way of looking at it. If you get the CIB later, resell the naked cart probably for more than what you paid originally. Or hell, maybe you get lucky and find a cheap box and manual and can piece it together for less than insane BINs.

If not, nbd. It's so easy to fall into this weird collector mentality, but I think it hurts the hobby. You will never own every single game you want, so don't sweat it. You will never win at collecting, so have fun with it.

That aside, the community needs to step up with a pricing guide that is not eBay based. I need to research how comics handled this.
 
Do you guys have an opinion on which method is the best for putting your games in boxes? If the actual boxes aren't an option, would you use universal cases, bitboxes or something like this? Or if they are any other options other than those, what do you feel is best? I've been fine without them, and I feel like it's still convenient to be able to just find my game quickly, pull it out and play it but it also wouldn't hurt to have it look nice when I finish said game or take a break from playing it to play another.
 
UGCs are the cheap DIY method. They require extra work to accomodate NES cartridges. You'll need a dremel and some spare time. And you will have to print your own cover art. But they are pretty cheap so are better if you are on a budget.

BitBoxes are higher quality and are less fuss, but you'll pay like 2-3 times more. You won't have to modify the cases and they can print out the covers for you.

CustomGameCases.com is basically just UGCs with prints resold for a profit. You should probably just spend the extra buck or two getting BitBoxes if you are considering that route .
 
ZealousD said:
UGCs are the cheap DIY method. They require extra work to accomodate NES cartridges. You'll need a dremel and some spare time. And you will have to print your own cover art. But they are pretty cheap so are better if you are on a budget.

BitBoxes are higher quality and are less fuss, but you'll pay like 2-3 times more. You won't have to modify the cases and they can print out the covers for you.

CustomGameCases.com is basically just UGCs with prints resold for a profit. You should probably just spend the extra buck or two getting BitBoxes if you are considering that route .
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I feel that a perk with CustomGameCases is that their cases accommodate manuals (and so do bitboxes). With Custom, I was only referring to the NES cases in development and the already completed GB/GBA/GBC cases, not the generic UGC ones that are also offered for snes/64. I ordered a few GBA cases to test it out, and if they're good I might just wait for them to finish the new NES cases and go with those.
 
Teknoman said:
So when you guys order bit boxes, do you go one at a time or say a set with covers every so often?
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You save money when you bulk order. No reason to go onesy-twosy if you can avoid it. I also tend to wait for a sale before buying, too. Usually major holidays.
 
I swear by CustomGameCases for my GB/GBC/GBA collection, always felt the quality was very good. Not the cheapest in the world (in general, no idea how they compare to other cases) but always worked for me. Don't have any of the NES ones tho, I personally prefer displaying my NES games naked on the shelf, I love the way they look stacked sideways and how you can just slide one out. One day I need to make a rack for them or something within my bookshelf though so the pile doesn't shift every time I grab a game.
 
I posted that I had finally tracked down a sealed copy of the PAL version of The Guardian Legend a few pages back. To celebrate my long overdue victory, I decided to also track down a CIB copy of The Goardic Gaiden (Japanese version) and it finally arrived today. Here's the whole gang together:

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The two NES version are still sealed and the Famicom game is complete and in very nice condition. These are definitely a centerpiece of my collection!
 
v1perz53 said:
I swear by CustomGameCases for my GB/GBC/GBA collection, always felt the quality was very good. Not the cheapest in the world (in general, no idea how they compare to other cases) but always worked for me. Don't have any of the NES ones tho, I personally prefer displaying my NES games naked on the shelf, I love the way they look stacked sideways and how you can just slide one out. One day I need to make a rack for them or something within my bookshelf though so the pile doesn't shift every time I grab a game.
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That's good to hear about the GBA since I bought a few and I'm waiting for them. I also think displaying nes games naked looks nice and is more convenient but I've decided to get manuals for my games now since it's cool to have and also provides good reading material whilst taking a shit. Since the GBA cases are great I'd imagine the new NES cases would be of the same quality.
 
OnPoint said:
That doesn't help me in 2015 lol
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Well yes, it's basically almost a different system, like PCE CD or Mega CD.

Just get an FDS, 1/4 of the best of the Famicom library are inaccessible without it, and flash carts can't run most of the games acceptably so the only option is the real deal.
 
D.Lo said:
Well yes, it's basically almost a different system, like PCE CD or Mega CD.

Just get an FDS, 1/4 of the best of the Famicom library are inaccessible without it, and flash carts can't run most of the games acceptably so the only option is the real deal.
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God I want one. I really worry about the hassle of the games though. I wish there was some sort of flash cart for it; but I haven't been able to dig anything up. Was there something in Japan?
 
I almost feel like we need a retro game boxes OT, the topic comes up often enough.
 
So that pretty much conclusively proves that av fami + cart >>> all?

Akumajou Densetsu sounded amazing...

Well I guess I need to get me one of those then....at some point. And then mod it. Fuck.

I tried Akumajou Dracula and SMB FDS versions though and they sounded exactly the same as the NES versions I thought.
 
I'm definitely not getting expansion audio out of this - I wonder if the sound mod thing has been done correctly? I'm going to have to open her up I think
 
I believe this might be interesting for some. I was digging through my end table drawers, and I found this old 1999 Funcoland newspaper ad that list the prices of used NES & SNES carts for that time.
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Bucky O'hare was just $3.99!

Man, I wish the prices would go back down like it was at that time. :(
 
Eraser_Arcade said:
I believe this might be interesting for some. I was digging through my end table drawers, and I found this old 1999 Funcoland newspaper ad that list the prices of used NES & SNES carts for that time.

Bucky O'hare was just $3.99!

Man, I wish the prices would go back down like it was at that time. :(
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The good old days. I miss FuncoLand.
 
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