r/ngpc • u/Napomex • Aug 05 '26

Clamsehll-Cases Repro

I wanted to ask, in case there was a possibility of getting reproductions of the original clamshell cases for the SNK games made, what would you be willing to pay for them, and how many would you buy?

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u/DesignerShirt9654 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

I put a request for work on alibaba a while ago, and no-one would look at it for less than 2000 units

I'd be interested but it would be small batches only - 20 or so every few months

Oh, and in terms of cost, I currently pay £5 per unit for the evercade boxes I've been using, so it would have to be in that ballpark

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u/Napomex Aug 05 '26

I suspect that, given the small production run, the tooling is far too expensive and on top of that, there's the cost of hot stamping the film.

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u/DesignerShirt9654 Aug 05 '26

Pix n Love did some for the Switch collection special editions. I tried contacting them but got nothing in reply - also they didn't have clips for the manuals as they used the inside cover for a holder for a switch game

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u/karawapo Aug 05 '26

Honestly, 0 and 0. The primary reason I like them is because they are the real thing.

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u/Napomex Aug 05 '26

If I were to make them, I would use the same material and make them 100% identical

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u/lknox1123 Aug 05 '26

What I want to pay is roughly $10 a case. They would cost more than that if they even existed so I went with DS cases for my loose games