SilverspoonGaming | 334 Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 I have been sorting thru about 200 PS1 games that I bought from a closed down rental store a couple of months ago, and my wife asked how I can tell which disc onlys are Black Label vs the Greatest Hits variety when Im checking my inventory, so I figured Id refresh everyones memories here to save them time. Black Label Discs - Full color Greatest Hits Discs - Reflective disc with all black text and no color Examples below vvv 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverspoonGaming | 334 Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 I just found an exception which is Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase in which the GH disc is white with black text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDIRunner | 2,780 Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 I know there are a few exceptions to that, but I don't remember any titles off the top of my head. However, in general you are correct. Also, nice pickup. I'm curious what all you found. I would love to fall into a bunch of clearance PS1 games. Were they mostly CIB or disc only? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverspoonGaming | 334 Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, TDIRunner said: I know there are a few exceptions to that, but I don't remember any titles off the top of my head. However, in general you are correct. Also, nice pickup. I'm curious what all you found. I would love to fall into a bunch of clearance PS1 games. Were they mostly CIB or disc only? Edited March 30, 2021 by SilverspoonGaming 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDIRunner | 2,780 Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 12 minutes ago, SilverspoonGaming said: Nice. If you decide to let go of some doubles, shoot me a PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverspoonGaming | 334 Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 8 minutes ago, TDIRunner said: Nice. If you decide to let go of some doubles, shoot me a PM. Will do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid | 429 Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Be careful with the castlevania symphony of the night it might be elmo's number journey 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdDogGaming | 218 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 There’s another very inconsistent way to tell — the GH at the end of the disc’s code. You can see it here on my Greatest Hits copy of Spider-Man, but there are so many that don’t follow that rule. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonemesis | 44 Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 I wonder who had the idea to make this GH label so ugly, I hate them ever since I first laid eyes on it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuppy44 | 56 Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 Compared to the ones on Wii and Xbox where they actually added a big ugly border around the cover art other greatest hits cases seem classy by comparison. Even so, I still don't want any of them for the sake of consistency. I assume that's always been the main reason collectors avoid the GH games though I feel like otherwise I wouldn't mind having them, with Wii/3DS/Xbox being the exceptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDIRunner | 2,780 Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 I was never a huge fan of the green styling of the PS1 GH, but I also didn't hate it as much as some people. It's too bad they didn't decide to go with the red label on the GH discs because they have always been red since the PS2 era, and I think that the red looks a lot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaStu | 47 Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 On 4/4/2021 at 6:52 PM, leonemesis said: I wonder who had the idea to make this GH label so ugly, I hate them ever since I first laid eyes on it. Everything to do with cost. Removing a full cover label and going to a simple black (or white) screen as 99% of GH games have and you've got the simple answer. When the game has a top price of $20 bucks everything is going to be cost stripped when at all possible. It may not be much per disc, but that adds up when it's a large run of them. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,954 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Other than the ugly green spine/edge I didn’t mind the PS1 cheapie discs without color. The only time I put up with the green was the absence of better. Had doom and aliens for awhile like that. Got rid of alien and the other a mind blowing miss stickering at half price put 15 bucks on the black label jewel doom. Couldn’t get in line fast enough for that. Beautiful disc on that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonemesis | 44 Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 On 4/11/2021 at 1:10 AM, PapaStu said: Everything to do with cost. Removing a full cover label and going to a simple black (or white) screen as 99% of GH games have and you've got the simple answer. When the game has a top price of $20 bucks everything is going to be cost stripped when at all possible. It may not be much per disc, but that adds up when it's a large run of them. I meant the green label in the front cover, but my fault for not making it clear. The label on the disc I can understand, don´t like it but makes sense as a cost cutting measure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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