#16119 - indianoz - Mon Feb 09, 2004 12:29 am
Hi all, i'm new here and have something for who would like to create his own game and run a little production. Me and my friends are planning to make cartridge cases for GBA so that anyone of you who is going or thinking to make games for GBA and needs some cases, can ask to us.
Right now it's only an idea but if anyone is interested we can discuss about that. We have a great experience in creating all sort of objects with resins, fybers and particular materials. If you got informed about having cartridge cases produced you surely know that you can spend 5/10 thousand dollars just to have a factory create the mold. We would be able to create cartridge cases which looks like the original one for few euros each and also for little quantity. Should anyone be interested just let me know!
Indy
#16124 - tepples - Mon Feb 09, 2004 2:31 am
Cool. Now we just have to find somebody willing to make interface ASICs and PCBs and stick a couple OTP memory chips on them, and we're set.
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#16136 - indianoz - Mon Feb 09, 2004 5:18 pm
ok, i know it's not all you need, and surely not the most important to create games, but i can do this, so if you are interested just let me know, ok? :D
#16138 - SimonB - Mon Feb 09, 2004 6:31 pm
a few euro's each? just for the plastic casing?
some 'people' will give you a complete pcb with 64mbit rom, casing, manual and box for 3.5$ each if you order 1000.
Simon
#16140 - indianoz - Mon Feb 09, 2004 7:36 pm
hi Simon, thanks for the reply, could you please tell me where is possible to buy this kind of "complete package", if you have a link maybe. Thanks!
#16155 - crossraleigh - Tue Feb 10, 2004 12:01 am
FreeLancer-games.com has been looking for cases for a good while now.
#16208 - SimonB - Tue Feb 10, 2004 5:27 pm
Sorry I do not have any links. You should look for 'people' in china that manufacture pirate gba carts or gba flash carts.
Simon
#16214 - indianoz - Tue Feb 10, 2004 7:33 pm
thanks for your answers!
crossraleigh, i've already contacted them, thanks, i'm waiting to know if they are interested, but maybe not, i didn't thought a cartridge was as cheap as 3.5$ :)
#16223 - SmileyDude - Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:03 pm
it would be really nice if a website would be able to step up and take on something like this. I think that http://www.atariage.com/ does something similar for the Atari homebrew scene. But, 2600 carts are usually a bit simpler than a GBA cart :)
I wonder if gbadev (or some other GBA oriented site) would be willing to do something like this? Maybe even offer homebrew carts on demand for a price, or just stockpile copies of various titles (of course, all with the developer's approval) and sell as orders come in.
I know there are a few homebrew titles that I wouldn't mind paying to have in a more permanent format -- plus, it would allow smaller developers to get a little more than recognition (but, not much more -- no one's gonna get rich off this :D)
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#16262 - FluBBa - Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:51 am
Lik Sang may be interested in selling it, they have been selling Dreamcast homebrew stuff before.
How about checking if people are interested to contribute to a compilation cart containing multiboot games and demos, maybe even a competition again =)
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#16276 - SimonB - Wed Feb 11, 2004 3:13 pm
The problem is that the minimum order is 1000 carts. And I think the minimum for the boxes and manuals were 2000.
If one managed to get the carts to a reseller (probably internet stores) at ~7$usd per cart, said reseller would prolly want 5ish $usd to sell each cart.
Would it be easy to sell 1000-2000 copies of a multi-game compilation for 12$? Would also be nice if the people making the games would get
a small profit on the carts too, so it would probably be more like 15$+shipping for anyone interested in the game.
#16310 - sgeos - Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:50 am
| SimonB wrote: |
| The problem is that the minimum order is 1000 carts. ... it would probably be more like 15$+shipping for anyone interested in the game. |
Depending on the games in the compilation, I'd be willing to pay $15 for a cart. Do these carts have SRAM? If so, how reliable is it. My brother picked up some pirate gameboy games on ebay a while back (without knowing that the carts were fake) and the SRAM stopped working almost right away.
-Brendan
#16312 - tepples - Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:02 am
I'd be willing to write for such a compilation.
Would it be cheaper to use Atmel flash than SRAM?
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#16317 - SimonB - Thu Feb 12, 2004 9:37 am
| sgeos wrote: |
| I'd be willing to pay $15 for a cart |
Great. Just 999 to go! =)
#16318 - ampz - Thu Feb 12, 2004 10:49 am
Is not datel doing just that? (A compilation cart)
#16325 - FluBBa - Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:16 pm
I thought were going to use them together with their GBA emulator for Gamecube...
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#16403 - SimonB - Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:52 pm
erm checking closer my quote was from a 32mbit cart and not 64mbit.
I cant imagine a 64mbit would be much more expensive though