Advice for Game Transportation

Putting the games in the slipcovers is a good idea (I'm assuming it's some sort of CD wallet you're talking about). I would then head down to Best Buy and buy a set of CD cases and leave teh actually case that came with the game at home. You can always replace the from plastic cover on the PS1 cases with a plastic cover from pretty much any CD case. The back case and the disc holder are a bit harder to replace as they are clear plastic and for whatever reason, no one seems to sell clear CD cases. Anyway, for transport I'd just get the regular old CD cases. I'd also leave all the manuals at home (unless you absolutely must have them with you). You don't even really need to get the CD cases. You could just leave all the cases and manuals at home and bring the games in a big CD wallet (I have one that hold 120 discs) and leave it at that. If you want the manuals, the disc holders in the CD wallets usually fit the game manuals quite nicely.

I'd leave whatever you can at home, (secured if you have siblings that are still at home).

When I travel I go portable exclusively (DS, PSP and GBA) and use cases intended to carry multiple games (leaving the cases at home).

But for your sitch I agree with everyone else, CD case and leave the rest at home.

Putting the games in the slipcovers is a good idea (I'm assuming it's some sort of CD wallet you're talking about). I would then head down to Best Buy and buy a set of CD cases and leave teh actually case that came with the game at home. You can always replace the from plastic cover on the PS1 cases with a plastic cover from pretty much any CD case. The back case and the disc holder are a bit harder to replace as they are clear plastic and for whatever reason, no one seems to sell clear CD cases. Anyway, for transport I'd just get the regular old CD cases. I'd also leave all the manuals at home (unless you absolutely must have them with you). You don't even really need to get the CD cases. You could just leave all the cases and manuals at home and bring the games in a big CD wallet (I have one that hold 120 discs) and leave it at that. If you want the manuals, the disc holders in the CD wallets usually fit the game manuals quite nicely.

duncanr2n

I have a 300 CD wallet/binder, and that's where I store my games since most of the cases are currently in storage. I don't have any problems with them as I made sure that the binder zip shut but the sleeves are a little loose. This is because I've found that tight sleeves tend to scratch discs when even the slightest amount of dirt or grit gets in them.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a case that holds a LOT of DS games (as in more than 9)? I only need the cards, not the cases or instructions.

I have a 300 CD wallet/binder, and that's where I store my games since most of the cases are currently in storage. I don't have any problems with them as I made sure that the binder zip shut but the sleeves are a little loose. This is because I've found that tight sleeves tend to scratch discs when even the slightest amount of dirt or grit gets in them.

CodingGenius

This is an excellent point. I have rendered some audio CD's inoperable by storing them in a tightly packed CD case inside a car that got over 100 degrees hot (several, several days in a row). They kind of got a weird ghostly smudge all over them.

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I have a 300 CD wallet/binder, and that's where I store my games since most of the cases are currently in storage. I don't have any problems with them as I made sure that the binder zip shut but the sleeves are a little loose. This is because I've found that tight sleeves tend to scratch discs when even the slightest amount of dirt or grit gets in them.

aspro73

This is an excellent point. I have rendered some audio CD's inoperable by storing them in a tightly packed CD case inside a car that got over 100 degrees hot (several, several days in a row). They kind of got a weird ghostly smudge all over them.

CG: A business card organizer page would probably work. They have the same binder holes as a CD wallet page, as far as I know, and they will hold a DS card easily. Mine have the open side toward the middle of each page, so it would limit the cards falling out of the sleeves.

Aspro: The ghostly smudge is likely either phthalate esters used as plasticizing agents from the car interior being volatized in the heat and condensing on the discs, or from the plastic in the CD being partially melted and rendered non-transparent from the heat. It's probably the first one, since that has been shown to happen to the inside of my (and everyone else's) windshield. You can probably remove it with a lot of 70% isopropyl alcohol.

CG: A business card organizer page would probably work. They have the same binder holes as a CD wallet page, as far as I know, and they will hold a DS card easily. Mine have the open side toward the middle of each page, so it would limit the cards falling out of the sleeves.

gmsnpr

Another great suggestion (for transporting DS carts). I have a few of those business card holders lying around unused.

CG: A business card organizer page would probably work. They have the same binder holes as a CD wallet page, as far as I know, and they will hold a DS card easily. Mine have the open side toward the middle of each page, so it would limit the cards falling out of the sleeves.

gmsnpr

That's an excellent idea. I will make that happen, post-haste!

I'm transporting stuff to and from my parent's house all the time. For me, anything in regular CD/DVD cases I generally just transport as is - those cases can be easily replaced and I'm generally careful with packing so there's rarely any harm done. PS1 games I switch into either plastic wallets or regular jewel cases (PAL-land PS1 cases are thick chunky officially branded buggers that are insanely difficult to replace and are notoriously fragile to boot). Cartridges I remove from the game boxes and carry around in a shoebox lined with bubblewrap. Really.

Space isn't really an issue since usually I'm travelling by car, but if I had to limit luggage for air travel I guess I'd leave the cartridge games and switch everything I wanted disc-wise into a couple of CD wallets.

Oh, and nothing remotely rare or overly expensive enters Bradford. Not with this crime rate.