3D Printed Leisure Vision Box Inserts

This is going to be a big print, no way around it.

Printed at 20% rectilinear infill, 3 walls, no top or bottom shells. Took about 6 hours.


There are two strips of support material that need to be removed. This is for a space for the box tabs, and there's no way to avoid using supports. Luckily they're very easy to remove.


Having no top layers does cause some minor defects in the spherical thumb cutouts - there might be some slicer setting or modelling trick to avoid that. It might also be possible to reduce the print time by having less infill in the thicker outer wall section as the limiting factor for strength is the thinner back plate.

I designed the inserts to have a very tight fit. This does cause the front flap to hold itself open very slightly. However, if I make the insert thinner, it doesn't fully support the main body of the box and prevent it from crushing. I can't tell if this is the way the boxes were originally designed or if the cardboard has worn out and stretched over time. All of my boxes are in pretty bad condition, so I went for maximum support.

There are at least 4 different types of Leisure Vision game boxes. I made solutions for all of them.

Long cartridge with no insert (includes tabs for holding the cart):
Long cartridge with a paper insert:
Short cartridge with a plastic insert:
Short cartridge with a paper insert (requires two additional pieces):
I also have a weird copy of Space Attack with no box and the cartridge is ever so slightly a different size:
But that can just live in the console for now.

The important part is they don't get crushed on the shelf, where they will spend 99.99% of their time.

Contains STL files and Solvespace CAD files for all 4 variants.


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