Merz wrote:A kid in elementary school told me if you save data on a cartridge it gets heavier. Also, the further you get in the game the heavier the save data becomes.
So you might want to take that into consideration and edit that chart hobie.
You are trolling I hope.
So to save on postage, delete game saves?
So can I lower the weight of a password saving game by burning my password sheet? Or do they get irredeemably heavy once you get far into the game?
Oh, and I have something to add. The weight of N64 carts can vary greatly. LoZ: OoT is my heaviest N64 game. Starfox 64, for example weighs a lot less. And they aren't bootlegs, either. It's kinda weird. Maybe the savegame battery adds a lot of weight or something. Or maybe OoT comes with special protective inner cartridge armor.
prfsnl_gmr wrote:There is nothing feigned about it. What I wrote is a display of actual moral superiority.
BoringSupreez wrote:
Oh, and I have something to add. The weight of N64 carts can vary greatly. LoZ: OoT is my heaviest N64 game. Starfox 64, for example weighs a lot less. And they aren't bootlegs, either. It's kinda weird. Maybe the savegame battery adds a lot of weight or something. Or maybe OoT comes with special protective inner cartridge armor.
Yeah, it was OOT or Majora that I went with for the N64 weight. The Zelda games have a board that's twice as big inside as lots of other N64 games. I purposefully used the heaviest game that I had for each example so that they could be used as a rough guide for figuring postage. Probably better to overestimate a little on the postage when figuring prices and any slight overage can just be counted as time and gas. I already spent a lot of time making the chart and I didn't want to make it all crazy with RPG versus non RPG titles. But it's not like any of them are suddenly going to double the shipping cost. If you have a simpler cart game or a disc game with a thinner manual, maybe knock 10% off the weight on the chart as a guess.
Added some DVD weights per vlame's suggestion since they don't really have much in the way of booklets. I don't want to spend all weighing the different kinds of DVD box sets and things though so just just a few common examples.
N64 games - No Mercy is the Heaviest, followed by Pstadium 2, then Zelda OOT, the motherboards in those games fill nearly the entire cart vs. about 1/3 to 1/2 on many games. There is no set rule, there are gamecube manuals that weigh up to 3 oz on their own and some that weigh under an ounce.
I have a kitchen scale (for ingredients) that sits on my fridge, costs $10 and is small, sleek and accurate as heck up to 9lbs. I would invest in one if you plan on mailing more than just a few packages, not worth either guessing high and overpaying or guessing low and having it come back to your door.
mjmjr25 wrote:I have a kitchen scale (for ingredients) that sits on my fridge, costs $10 and is small, sleek and accurate as heck up to 9lbs. I would invest in one if you plan on mailing more than just a few packages, not worth either guessing high and overpaying or guessing low and having it come back to your door.
Yeah, I just bought a small digital scale. Obviously this is just to get an idea on what to charge for shipping. If you don't have a scale yourself so you can print your own postage, you'd then need to go stand in line or use the DIY post machine with its scale.
