Foreign Monkey Island logos

[Didero]

Originally Posted by avistew

I have one, but I don't like it. It's all small and has room for the DS and to cram some games (just the games, mind you, no room for the manuals). Then there are the briefcase-like ones that I like better but they tend to look like they're made to hold one game per square meter (and still no room for the manuals. Do people throw their manuals away or something?).

I think most people don't take their manuals with them all the time. Most games have a tutorial anyway, so you don't always need the manual. But for some games it's useful, yeah.
I don't think I've ever seen a DS case large enough to store manuals in.

Originally Posted by avistew

(And I have a DS Lite. I don't think I'll buy a DSi, it looks too much like "we took the DS, added useless stuff and took out important stuff" to me.)

The DSi's screen is slightly larger, but the screen of the DS Lite is by no means too small, so it's not really a necessary upgrade. And the removal of the GBA port means, among other things, that the memory pack I mentioned doesn't work with it. So I'm gonna stick to my trusty DS Lite too.

[Avistew]

Yeah, although I keep my GBA on hand to play gameboy games, I like being able to play GBA games on my DS. It's easier to handle, being bigger and stuff.

I don't want the manuals to use them :P But I'm looking for storage to keep the games in at home, not for traveling. And I don't want to throw the manuals away.
As it is I keep the original boxes and all, but I just feel there has to be a better way to use the space. As it is the boxes are much too big for just one game. And while they leave a GBA slot for a game, they don't have room on the cover to add the name of the game so how do you know what's inside? It's annoying having to open every boxes before you can find the GBA game you were looking for.

But I can be very weird about how I want stuff organised. That's why I'm saying if I had the money I'd have some kind of big case designed especially for that. I guess it could double as a carrying case if I wanted to take all of my games with me but really I mostly want storage that's more space-efficient.

[TheHutt]

The German logos have just the standard English titles; however, on "Curse of Monkey Island" they added a monkey with a sign "Monkey Island 3" on it. And they suddenly translated "Escape from Monkey Island" to "Flucht von Monkey Island".

[Didero]

Originally Posted by avistew

Yeah, although I keep my GBA on hand to play gameboy games, I like being able to play GBA games on my DS. It's easier to handle, being bigger and stuff.

I don't own any GBA games, so I don't have any experience with that. It does explain why I didn't think of them though

Originally Posted by avistew

I don't want the manuals to use them :P But I'm looking for storage to keep the games in at home, not for traveling. And I don't want to throw the manuals away.
As it is I keep the original boxes and all, but I just feel there has to be a better way to use the space. As it is the boxes are much too big for just one game. And while they leave a GBA slot for a game, they don't have room on the cover to add the name of the game so how do you know what's inside? It's annoying having to open every boxes before you can find the GBA game you were looking for.

Oh, I misunderstood you then, I thought you wanted a travelling case.
Yeah, the DS boxes are rather big for such a small cartridge. I don't have too many DS games though, so it's not that much of a problem for me, but I can see how it can become one with a sizeable collection. I didn't know you could store GBA games in DS boxes though, interesting.
I don't think there are cases specifically designed to store a large collection of games and manuals, especially not GBA games. Sounds like a good idea though.


On topic, I'm glad covers here are kept in English. I'm not entirely sure about manuals though, but I'm pretty sure they never dubbed the games to Dutch, luckily.

[Avistew]

Originally Posted by Didero

Oh, I misunderstood you then, I thought you wanted a travelling case.
Yeah, the DS boxes are rather big for such a small cartridge. I don't have too many DS games though, so it's not that much of a problem for me, but I can see how it can become one with a sizeable collection. I didn't know you could store GBA games in DS boxes though, interesting.

If you look at the case, over where you put the DS game there is room which is perfect for a GBA game. I really liked the idea since GBA boxes are made of carboard and tend to get smashed so I don't have many left.

I don't have that many games, especially now that I've moved to Canada and took the "bare minimum" along with me. But I can be a bit weird about waste. I'd be fine with going to a fancy restaurant a spending a fortune, but if I spend 10 cents on ramen, but am sick and throw it up, I'll feel bad for days, and not eat anything for the rest of the day to make up for it.

To some extent I'm the same with room. If things were more compact there would be more room for other things, or, better yet, I could live in a smaller place and there would be more room for the outside.

You know the cases for CDs that have pockets with room for a CD and its booklet? I'd really like something of the same kind, but with room for a DS manual and a smaller pocket for the DS game or something. Or you'd have a manual, two games in the middle vertically, and another manual. Something like that. It would also allow you to turn the pages to select a game, which I think would be more practical than looking at a shelf, especially since the European version of DS games tend to have no picture on the side of the case so you can't tell at a glance which game is which.

The case wouldn't need to have room for GBA games. A similar case with room for games and manuals, but GBA instead of DS, would work fine too.

[Grulien]

Originally Posted by Little Writer

There you go buying a game with English titles and everything (had this experience with "The Longest Journey" and "Experience 112") only to find out all the voices are dubbed! That's what you get for not reading the fine print on the box.

I agree, I always prefer to play games in their original language if availaible (with appropriate subtitles if I don't understand it). Anyway, "Experience 112" is a french game with a french title (the english localization title is "The Experiment") and original french dubbing.

[Avistew]

Originally Posted by Grulien

I agree, I always prefer to play games in their original language if availaible (with appropriate subtitles if I don't understand it). Anyway, "Experience 112" is a french game with a french title (the english localization title is "The Experiment") and original french dubbing.

I think "Beyond Good and Evil" is another one that has an English sounding name but was originally made in French.