Post by: bsmith on March 24, 2011, 01:06:57 pm
I'm looking to shelve them in a way that each cart is separated, so that removing one to play won't make the entire stack fall or lean. Aligning them horizontally or vertically doesn't really matter to me. I'm thinking along the lines of those old plastic molded CD jewel case shelves with the small divider slats for each case, only NES cart-sized.
Suggestions? Thanks!
Post by: matt on March 24, 2011, 01:58:05 pm
(http://tinyurl.com/25rpwtv)
I've also been looking into something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Storage-Rails-for-Cassettes-DVD/dp/B00097BVBQ/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1293472043&sr=8-8
Possibly mod them into an existing shelf system.
Post by: bsmith on March 24, 2011, 02:09:00 pm
Those cassette rails might work. Are tapes about the same width as NES carts? If that's the case I bet there are plenty of options in thrift stores. Hmm...
Post by: scott on March 24, 2011, 02:35:44 pm
Those rails might work nicely for either
Post by: pceslayer on March 24, 2011, 05:09:42 pm
pic looks familiar.... you frequent NeoGaf? also what is the model # of those sterilite bins?
I dig this setup (below), but I can't seem to find it on target.com anymore.
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showpost.php?p=965883&postcount=8
Atlantic 3533-5009 Elf Jr. Multimedia Rack
Post by: scott on March 24, 2011, 10:38:22 pm
Post by: scott on March 24, 2011, 10:44:21 pm
Post by: pceslayer on March 25, 2011, 01:16:12 am
> @pceslayer found this on Amazon... not the same part number though. http://www.amazon.com/Atlantic-63135237-Maxsteel-BluRay-12-Tier/dp/B000A0FXCK/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301020938&sr=8-1-fkmr1
Not the same, but I like how its adjustable. Hmm need to find it in black...
but that price hurts :/
Post by: tpugmire on March 25, 2011, 09:23:58 am
Post by: bsmith on March 25, 2011, 10:12:08 am
Post by: jobocan on March 25, 2011, 10:33:32 am
(http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/2711/46398489681408956781308.jpg)
Post by: scott on March 25, 2011, 10:34:09 am
Post by: bsmith on March 25, 2011, 10:51:56 am
Post by: pceslayer on March 25, 2011, 11:05:59 am
Here is my current setup lol
3 Sterilite 1806's (which I can't find anymore :/)
(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k13/pceslayer/IMG_20110325_005121.jpg)
The rest... which used to be packed in a 17" monitor box...
(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k13/pceslayer/IMG_20110325_005023.jpg)
Post by: bsmith on March 27, 2011, 10:33:48 pm
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1301/4670093733_395951dc59_d.jpg)
Think I'll head to the store tomorrow and check one out. Here's the product page: http://www.biglots.com/browseItem/bookcases-towers-1/1129#
Oh and here's a link to the thread: http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?StartRow=1&catid=5&threadid=33512
Post by: scott on March 27, 2011, 10:54:17 pm
Post by: bsmith on April 03, 2011, 12:09:34 am
Post by: scott on April 03, 2011, 01:25:53 am
Post by: pceslayer on April 03, 2011, 11:01:44 pm
Saturn cases are HUUUGE! Just like Sega CD's were.. I dunno what people were thinking back in the 90's lol
Post by: scott on April 04, 2011, 08:42:03 am
Post by: jobocan on April 04, 2011, 09:20:37 am
Post by: lady00rose on May 19, 2011, 12:34:36 am
Post by: pceslayer on June 04, 2011, 07:23:07 pm
I did some more hunting on the NintendoAge forums and found this picture of some shelves from Big Lots:
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1301/4670093733_395951dc59_d.jpg)
Think I'll head to the store tomorrow and check one out. Here's the product page: http://www.biglots.com/browseItem/bookcases-towers-1/1129#
Oh and here's a link to the thread: http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?StartRow=1&catid=5&threadid=33512
I bought one of these from biglots today to see how they look and it's simply fantastic!!! It holds 322 loose NES games.
They sell them in black and wood grain, so I got it in black.
I have to get another for the rest of my NES games :)
Post by: katough on June 05, 2011, 03:11:19 pm
Post by: bsmith on July 28, 2011, 01:28:08 pm
Post by: pceslayer on July 29, 2011, 09:59:34 am
Hey pceslayer, how are you keeping your shelves so straight? Maybe it's the angle of your photo, but mine are bowing a bit in the center.
Mine don't bow... and if they do It isn't very noticeable.
Can you take a pic?
Post by: bsmith on July 29, 2011, 10:11:52 am
Post by: pceslayer on July 29, 2011, 04:48:24 pm
Yep, I'll snap a photo over the weekend. Been meaning to anyway. It's not bowing really badly, but enough to notice.
I'll snap some from the front to compare as I actually have 2 of these shelves now.
Post by: pceslayer on August 01, 2011, 12:48:39 am
And I re-purposed my first shelf for Sega Master System games...
I think the difference in my Turbografx-16 collection between this and the first photo I took is more amazing than the shelf itself. lol
img linking broken??
Post by: scott on August 01, 2011, 08:50:00 am
Post by: scott on August 01, 2011, 08:54:32 am
Post by: bsmith on August 01, 2011, 09:10:11 am
Post by: darko on August 01, 2011, 12:55:00 pm
I have four of them (two on top of two). The only downside is that I have a lot of my games doubled up in the shelves, but it's great for a space saver.
Post by: darko on August 01, 2011, 01:09:38 pm
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Post by: desocietas on August 01, 2011, 01:36:35 pm
Here's what it looks like so far.
Nice work with the console display... what do you all do in re: to dust?
Post by: scott on August 01, 2011, 01:39:15 pm
Nice work with the console display... what do you all do in re: to dust?
I agree. I may need to steal this idea one day.
Post by: darko on August 01, 2011, 02:08:43 pm
Here's what it looks like so far.
Nice work with the console display... what do you all do in re: to dust?
Thanks. I actually managed to add one more shelf on the bottom since I took that picture to handle all of my handhelds. It's been working really well. Plus, they're cheap. I think the 4 shelves and the track cost about $50-65 all together. Be sure you use some really, really good anchors if you're putting consoles on them. I think the anchors I used can handle up to 100 or 200 lbs a piece.
To manage dust I use a swiffer hand held duster thing. It's great for cleaning off my plasmas as well since you can't really use much on the screen without messing up the anti-glare film.
If I can remember I'll post a pic of my whole game room sometime. That's about half of it. It's a good sized space for what I need but I have an old SDTV to the left of the Panny that I to hook up anything pre-hdmi (other than the Wii) which takes up a lot of potential shelf space. Eventually I'm going have a built-in made to house everything.
Post by: darko on August 01, 2011, 02:19:29 pm
Yep, looks the same as mine. I still need to take a picture, but one solution I came up with was to wedge one of those plastic transparent NES cart cases with the red Nintendo logo on it into the middle of the shelf below a full shelf of carts. It's the perfect height to hold it up straight. I've got my Gameboy collection sitting in the cubby it forms. Photo will help...
If you guys using that cd rack from Big Lots put on the back piece you could just tack a few nails across the back along the shelves. That should fix the bowing issue. I know that backing stuff isn't that strong but as long as you have say, 4 nails across each shelve the weight distribution should be enough to keep them from bowing/the nails ripping out.
The bowing issue is one reason why I went with the shelving I did.
Post by: pceslayer on August 01, 2011, 02:53:34 pm
If not I'm just gonna go to home depot this weekend and make one! lol
Thanks. I actually managed to add one more shelf on the bottom since I took that picture to handle all of my handhelds. It's been working really well. Plus, they're cheap. I think the 4 shelves and the track cost about $50-65 all together. Be sure you use some really, really good anchors if you're putting consoles on them. I think the anchors I used can handle up to 100 or 200 lbs a piece.
To manage dust I use a swiffer hand held duster thing. It's great for cleaning off my plasmas as well since you can't really use much on the screen without messing up the anti-glare film.
If I can remember I'll post a pic of my whole game room sometime. That's about half of it. It's a good sized space for what I need but I have an old SDTV to the left of the Panny that I to hook up anything pre-hdmi (other than the Wii) which takes up a lot of potential shelf space. Eventually I'm going have a built-in made to house everything.
Post by: darko on August 01, 2011, 03:05:59 pm
Can you tell us where you got the shelves with the consoles on it? The shelf I'm using for my consoles is too damn tall as its a old ass bookshelf.
If not I'm just gonna go to home depot this weekend and make one! lol
Sure.
Funny you mentioned Home Depot...
4 of these: http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-100118601/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
8 of these: http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-100067997/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053&superSkuId=202858029
2 of these: http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-100048156/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
All in black of course.
I'm actually considering mounting my TV on the wall (already have an extra wall mount) and running the same thing below the TV so it looks like a nice custom tv unit. The one I have now is nice but it's glass and that kind of kills the all black wood vibe I have going on.
Post by: bsmith on August 01, 2011, 03:25:37 pm
If you guys using that cd rack from Big Lots put on the back piece you could just tack a few nails across the back along the shelves. That should fix the bowing issue. I know that backing stuff isn't that strong but as long as you have say, 4 nails across each shelve the weight distribution should be enough to keep them from bowing/the nails ripping out.
The bowing issue is one reason why I went with the shelving I did.
Thought about doing that, but yes the weak backing board made me weary. I'll give it a shot on one of the shelves and see how it goes.
Post by: darko on August 02, 2011, 09:19:38 am
Thought about doing that, but yes the weak backing board made me weary. I'll give it a shot on one of the shelves and see how it goes.
Cool. Let me know how it goes. I was going to pick one up to store DVDs.
Post by: scott on August 02, 2011, 09:27:38 am
Post by: darko on August 02, 2011, 11:58:11 am
I must be OCD, but if I did that shelving idea for my consoles, I'd have to paint the rail as close to the wall color as possible. ha
Oh, I'm pretty OCD about that stuff too. If I wasn't going for all black shelving it would have probably required some paint.
Post by: scott on August 03, 2011, 01:00:24 pm
If you guys using that cd rack from Big Lots put on the back piece you could just tack a few nails across the back along the shelves. That should fix the bowing issue. I know that backing stuff isn't that strong but as long as you have say, 4 nails across each shelve the weight distribution should be enough to keep them from bowing/the nails ripping out.
The bowing issue is one reason why I went with the shelving I did.
Thought about doing that, but yes the weak backing board made me weary. I'll give it a shot on one of the shelves and see how it goes.
If that doesn't work, you might have to make some strips of thin wood and nail through that. But I think going through the backer should suffice.
Post by: darko on August 03, 2011, 01:24:11 pm
Post by: darko on August 03, 2011, 11:48:36 pm
Post by: pceslayer on August 06, 2011, 06:29:34 pm
Did some re-arranging... Don't know where to put my SMS games now. lol
Post by: darko on August 06, 2011, 10:02:16 pm
Post by: madmax on August 07, 2011, 12:49:13 am
@darko thanks man!
-SNIP-
Did some re-arranging... Don't know where to put my SMS games now. lol
Thats...beautiful *tear*
Post by: godnightshade on August 26, 2011, 12:32:46 pm
I want another one of those storage matrices for the NES games.
Post by: pceslayer on August 26, 2011, 07:51:34 pm
Having a finished/furnished basement must be awesome! If I only had all that space!
Post by: darko on August 27, 2011, 01:40:05 am
Post by: godnightshade on August 28, 2011, 10:46:55 pm
Post by: madmax on August 29, 2011, 01:04:11 am
Speaking of shelves, I ran out of room for games :/ My collection is kept safe but the games I play. and the games for different consoles don't have room anymore. *Sigh*
Post by: scott on August 29, 2011, 01:20:13 am
Post by: pceslayer on September 26, 2011, 08:48:44 pm
I tried to do something different :/ lol
Post by: madmax on September 26, 2011, 11:33:48 pm
That looks bad ass!
Post by: hexen on September 29, 2011, 02:55:17 am
Each regular unit contains 19 NES games, and the bigger, horizontally stacked ones have 27 games. On the second shelf, you can see that almost any system's games, boxed or otherwise, fits very nicley inside. CD shelves really are the best for display in my opinion.
Post by: urbanchaos on September 30, 2011, 12:02:04 am
Post by: scott on September 30, 2011, 12:05:21 am
Post by: hexen on September 30, 2011, 12:58:17 am
Post by: desocietas on September 30, 2011, 01:04:54 am
@scott Here's a Nintendo Power add for it. It's basically a controller for use by those disabled from the neck down. You use it by blowing into straws. Understandably I have never used it, and am glad I myself received it unused ;)
That reminds me of an interesting article on the subject of accessible-video game controllers that I read a few months back: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43365521/ns/technology_and_science-games/t/man-builds-years-quadriplegic-gaming/
Props to that dedicated engineer for all his selfless work.
Post by: scott on September 30, 2011, 01:16:57 am
Post by: madmax on September 30, 2011, 02:08:00 pm
I remember seeing an article on the hands free controller. Unfortunately I don't think they had used it for the article though. looks interesting, I wonder how well it works.
Post by: scott on September 30, 2011, 03:06:44 pm
Those shelves look good! I still need a cabinet with a lock on it. gotta keep the games safe and out of the sun
I want a nice shelving unit for my Castlevania stuff. I like having things on display, so it would need to have a glass front on it. Window shades in my gaming area are always closed anyway, so I'm not worried about direct sunlight.
Post by: crix on February 07, 2012, 09:49:41 am
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40102105/
They're really tall, and with extra shelves, you can get something like 8 rows of DVD cases, or 6 rows of DVDs and 3 rows of jewel cases or cartridges. If I recall, each row holds like 37 DVDs, and they're only 2 feet wide, so I don't think I'll ever have bowing issues with the shelves.
The depth is perfect to avoid the normal 'games in a bookshelf' issue, too.
I can get some pictures later, if anyone cares.