hello, play sonic megadrive console me in my music is slower than normal and the timer is more lento.me also like to know what is that? could be for television or the hertz? not get to know ... I hope that answer, thanks
on the sound board & main board the surface mounted Capacitors are faulty ive replaced all & it fixed my sound & screen problems, not had a problem with the power supply board, im now going to check out if thats a common fault as well, i know of 2 add on bigger power packs, i have one ( both rechargable ), i think repraying scruffy ones is a great idea, i have the mastersystem adaptor & tv adaptor,
if you threw out the other game gear that would be a shame considering if you change the capacitors it would be perfect.i fixec mine which had no sound and the screen problem.i cost me $7 for the capacitors,3 hours labour and it works perfect and im only 14.
I just got a game gear, and it has a problem... the sound dosnt work. it wont work from the speaker or the headphone jack. is there an easy way to fix this with out having to take it to someone?
I have a tv tuner for sega, the problem with it, is that when i start the console, the screen lights up for o few seconds and then turns off. Sometime i can here in my headphones a channel, but that only in the short period in which it's on. any solutions?
Can you help me? I am having a problem with my Game Gear always acting like I'm pressing down the Right Arrow even though I'm not pressing the button at all. I took off that black plastic arrow pieces, and their is the rubber pieces. I picked up the rubber piece to not even touch the contact gold thing, and it's still pressing down right arrow even though I'm not doing it. Do you know what I can do?
Can you give us a Step by Step Tutorial on how you spray painted your Game gear or another console? i Really want to try it but im scared of mistakes - or can you direct me to a How to Video?
I've had my game gear since around 93 or 94. It's a great handheld but I havent played it in years so I decided to take it out and enjoy it but I was very saddened to notice that it would briefly turn on and then just turn off. I think mine is also suffering from a power supply problem. Luckily there is a store less than five minutes from where I live that sells defective gaming hardware. Everytime I come in they always have about 12 or so broken game gears collecting dust. I'll fix it.
Oh no they are quite a bit bigger than a GBA! They have 6x AA batteries in them! They are pretty big. Even bigger than the original Game Boy on its size.
I heard that the Game Gears with a bad screen is actually bad capacitors on the Mainboard. Just test each one with a multi-meter. Make sure that when you replace them, the new capacitors have the same uF rating. Probably the Power Board has bad capacitors too, since the Game Gear doesn't power on, as you said. You should probably test those with a multi-meter too.
connect your game gear to a stereo using a mono to stereo adapter. It's just a simple wire with a one-channel end, which plugs into a headphone input, and a two-channel end, which plugs into the auxilliary input in your stereo. Just make sure the colours match.
Hi-fi quality sound for your slightly dated console!
yeah except the Game Gear is capable of Stereo sound via the headphone jack so don't use a "mono to stereo" jack. Its a "Stereo 3.5mm to Stereo RCA's" you want.
hey! not sure if you can help me out with this one, but my sega game gear has a problem with its start and 2 button(the "b" button). The start button works but i have to press it really hard and the 2 button doesnt work at all no matter how hard i press it, do you have any idea on how i can fix this?
Yeah I had a Game Boy like that and I opened it up. The circuit board and rubber for the button has like some dirt/sticky residue on them and I just cleaned them up and it works great.
The sound goes bad on Game Gears due to bad capacitors that are dead after the years pass. Lukemorse1 did a video on repairing the sound on the Game Gear so you should check that out.
i dont get why the game gear failed... it wasnt huge like the lynx and u could actually see the screen, it was in colr ad had a back light, i know its battery life wasnt that great but it had an ac adapter, and its called rechargable batteries....
Interesting vid matey - I've got x3 Game Gears now.. x1 working and x2 faulty ones so I may well look to try and get one of the faulty ones working by swapping around parts.. :)
my gamegear when i turn it on, the screen gets all messed up, all white, theres no sound, no video, just white, i tried changing the light options but it didnt work. I tried a friend of mines gamegear and it had the same problem. Is it a problem all gamegears have? that after i dont know how many years they get broken?
anyone know what is wrong with mine? i got another game gear and it turns on and works but screen messes up f it gets tapped or moved wrong. if you push on where ihe screen is with thumps it kinda fixes it but still messed up. is there something in the video that messes up on these too? should i just put the power thing in this one in the old one with messed up power thing? how did you get the screw out that is on the top in the middle? i have a hard time with that.
Not bad, nice and blue my favorite color. another thing with the game gear is that it ran on 6 AA batteries and you only got 15 to 20 minutes of play time it would eat through batteries like nothing. That why I got rid of mine I had the power adaptore for it but I want something the was realy portable and that would not require so muc battery changing. Good job in fixing it up though.
Dang,you should of just gotten a rechargable battery-pack off of amazon,i see an aftermarket one for 12 bucks,but nevermind if you ment before amazon.
I just use regular rechargeable batteries. I know you're not supposed to but oh well. Maybe that's why my GameGear's screen sometimes goes too dark to see.
ok now that is a big lie. ther is no way batteries lasted only that long. sure it is not the best on them but it is no where that bad now. you can get around 5 hours maybe 6 if you have sound down and brightness turned down. don't believe me look on wikipdeia or other places. stop making this look worse then it really is now.
that is a really great looking paint job, good to see someone who knows what they are doing when it comes to painting electronics. I think I should mention to anyone wanted to paint something like this, in addition to doing what was said(scuff up plastic), paint your case in many thin coats, not a few thick coats, a lot better in the long run. I know way too many people who screwed stuff up with thick coats of paint on their electronics.
Found one at a shop in Toronto but the sales guy refused to sell it. He said it's too rare... I was like WTF. Then he proceeded to play paperboy on it. =/
guessing you can play with he plug right? or does the battery need to work to do that too? just replace the battery. shouldn't be that much for it. is it still under warranty? not sure if that covers the battery.
i had a gamegear i g ot from a friend that worked except after a while the screen broke and only 1/3 of the screen worked the rest was just blank. it was really wierd
i have a game gear but the sound is really low,the only way i can hear it is thru headphones and thats really low volume i can barely hear it so yea it does have issues with the sound board,i wish i could fix it
when i was a kid i had a game gear at one time with with aload of games, an adaptor base that could play master system games directly in the back & a tv tuner & a former friend of mine lost the lot on holiday,, BASTARD
thats pretty cool actually to take two crappy game gears and turn them into one fully functional blue one! you could probably sell that on ebay for a higher price than usuall... althoung I would keep it for myself. It's a shame that you didn't mod it with a rechargeble battery of some sort.
i had to swap the audio board on my old game gear, and the reason that they fail was a lot of game gears were made with a bad batch of capacitors, happened to alot of electronics back in the early 90s
Do you sell off any of this stuff after repairing it? Why is it the the audio boards fail in these units? Do I get the feeling that the Game Gear wasn't a very durable device?
I just remembered I have a Game Gear... and the screen is all green. Never thought to pop it up and check for busted caps, etc. Hopefully it'll be something simple and not the screen itself.
I was never a big fan of the game gear. Games on it looked and sounded just fine. It was the fact that it was so freakin big. A friend of mine let me use his a few times. Great video as always. Keep them coming!
what are you talking about? i bet you are reading the few comments under the video. click on all comments at the bottom to see what i am commenting on maybe? i was talking about the Game Gear Rapid curmos was talking abut.
I'm often the person who has to tell people to click the "show all comments" button. He was having you on dude, 720p didn't even exist back then, let alone 1080p, and THX hasn't certified any SEGA products. I can't believe you took that seriously :)
The sound capacitors are the first ones to usually go in a Game Gear, but the video ones often follow it... all of the capacitors in the GG are likely to go bad, not just the sound ones.
I'd recommend the Majesco Game Gear (has white bars where the Sega one has the blue/red/green bars, and somewhat blacker shell color) -- they're newer, likely don't have the capacitor problems, and definitely have a somewhat better screen.
No the screen cover part just pops off so I didn't have to mask it off or anything. The backlight was actually fine on the other one it was the LCD panel itself that was to dark.
my game gear does that too turn on a sec and then nothing. guess it is the power supply too. i looked at it and can't really see what could be wrong though really don't know what i am looking at anyways. oh and turn that brightness down already. black looks like bluish and stuff. and you get better battery life if you turn the brightness down as much as you can and still see picture.
Mine did that and I also couldn't tell by looking at the PSU as to why. But changing the PSU fixed it so it must have been something. Not so sure about the battery life claim. Most older LCD's have a constant backlight that is always on. They use more power to make black as the LCD shutters are turned on to block the white backlight. Displaying a pure white screen uses less energy unlike a CRT witch would do the opposite. Newer LCD's usually can adjust the actual backlight brightness.
correct me if i am wrong but don't the light get brighter when you turn the brightness up and dimmer when you turn it down? i just assumed that the dimmer the light the less power it used.
No the backlight on the Game Gear is always on the same level of brightness. To make it darker you are just making the LCD in front of the light darker so less light comes through. It sucks but most old LCD's are like that. Newer ones like the PSP will adjust the actual brightness of the backlight tube and most newer LCDs use LED backlight instead of a CCFL tube.
I'm pretty impressed, been watching your vids for ages, awesome when you manage to fix these things, i've been doing the same for computers, i found a computer which was water damaged in a heap outside for a week, when i decided to take a look and found it was a reasonably powerful computer, perfect for a server pc..
Replaced a few components, and even a spilled capacitor :S
The computer had a 2.8ghz Pentium 4 cpu haha..
Now its my Dns, proxy, backup, firewall, game hosting beast of a friend=D
dude, way to improvise. I tried to soldering a gba sp screen into my original fat one, and almost succeeded :(. It would turn on and display the bootup screen but wouldn't turn the light on cuz the original didn't have the brains to turn the light on, I even welded the light wire to the power supply and no avail
Cathode or fluorescent backlights need inverters to turn on, even small sized ones (the gas inside needs 200-400 AC volts to be sparked). The inverter was probably built into the GBA SP, or attached some other how. It's likely that a missing inverter was the culprit, otherwise ignore this message :P
how did you get the plastic screen lens out? is it just glued in?
ivjonesyvi 2 weeks ago
i wish i dont throw way my i bet you cold fix it
TheBj145 2 months ago
Great video man, I really enjoyed watching. I subbed ya too ^_^
TheFriburg 2 months ago
i like this game
beautyfashiontrend 3 months ago
Hey thats a cool idea to paint one maybe i'll try that on a broken gamegear and fix it like in this video! Awesome
DoctorJ1337 1 year ago
my blue game gear powers up and has sound but the screen is green..i need
and i have to do that weird angle. :/
DURAMATRIX112 1 year ago
hello, play sonic megadrive console me in my music is slower than normal and the timer is more lento.me also like to know what is that? could be for television or the hertz? not get to know ... I hope that answer, thanks
salapibe1 1 year ago
on the sound board & main board the surface mounted Capacitors are faulty ive replaced all & it fixed my sound & screen problems, not had a problem with the power supply board, im now going to check out if thats a common fault as well, i know of 2 add on bigger power packs, i have one ( both rechargable ), i think repraying scruffy ones is a great idea, i have the mastersystem adaptor & tv adaptor,
doubledragonuk 1 year ago
Cool
Ryanr75rc 1 year ago
if you threw out the other game gear that would be a shame considering if you change the capacitors it would be perfect.i fixec mine which had no sound and the screen problem.i cost me $7 for the capacitors,3 hours labour and it works perfect and im only 14.
awsomemustang 1 year ago
I just got a game gear, and it has a problem... the sound dosnt work. it wont work from the speaker or the headphone jack. is there an easy way to fix this with out having to take it to someone?
Toastman2295 1 year ago
I have a tv tuner for sega, the problem with it, is that when i start the console, the screen lights up for o few seconds and then turns off. Sometime i can here in my headphones a channel, but that only in the short period in which it's on. any solutions?
ZeroET 1 year ago
do you know if the problem with the power supply is also a bad capacitor? because mine now turns on for a second or 2 before shutting off.
DAChosen1 1 year ago
@DAChosen1 I would imagine it's bad caps too. I've seen a few that do this turn on for a second or two then shut off.
MN12BIRD 1 year ago
@MN12BIRD My LED don't work. Only see Sonic at one angle
6000NoobTube 3 months ago
Your painting idea is fantastic, looks really amazing, thanks for the video!
Niloctronic 1 year ago
Excellent stuff!!!
TheGebs24 1 year ago
Can you help me? I am having a problem with my Game Gear always acting like I'm pressing down the Right Arrow even though I'm not pressing the button at all. I took off that black plastic arrow pieces, and their is the rubber pieces. I picked up the rubber piece to not even touch the contact gold thing, and it's still pressing down right arrow even though I'm not doing it. Do you know what I can do?
Predatorocks 1 year ago
Could you fix mine? It has the 90 degree to view problem.
crazykiddo9 1 year ago
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fuck off!!! just get a psp go now!!!
jonathanchuah 2 years ago
I have a PSP and PSP go sucks.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago 12
@MN12BIRD Yeah PSP Go Really Sucks And PSP go is better. why PSP go sucks? it cant play disks!1!!!!!
rescuehero942 1 year ago
hey MN1BIRD, ive seen a few of your vids now and there interesting, are you a video repairer by trade or just side work or u just do it for a hobby?.
tom3999 1 year ago
@MN12BIRD ur right i would pefer the psp anyway
because of the game issue and memory issue...
JAYWALKERS3000 1 year ago
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jonathanchuah 1 year ago
Can you give us a Step by Step Tutorial on how you spray painted your Game gear or another console? i Really want to try it but im scared of mistakes - or can you direct me to a How to Video?
edwardjoe89 2 years ago
THANX !! MAN !! I fix one of my Game Gear today :-)
Nightpower 2 years ago
The speaker on my Game Gear doesn't work no more?
Can it be fixed?
Riddler95 2 years ago
yes Riddler95 it can be fixed just watch this vid. 2-Bit Gaming - 022 - Sega Game Gear Repair (LCD Screen Fix)
wescoolya 2 years ago
yes, 2 bit gaming show will show how to fix it
macbookfan33 2 years ago
i can only see my game gear's screen if i angle it down. any way to fix it?
coryraystover 2 years ago
I've had my game gear since around 93 or 94. It's a great handheld but I havent played it in years so I decided to take it out and enjoy it but I was very saddened to notice that it would briefly turn on and then just turn off. I think mine is also suffering from a power supply problem. Luckily there is a store less than five minutes from where I live that sells defective gaming hardware. Everytime I come in they always have about 12 or so broken game gears collecting dust. I'll fix it.
TrueGamer512 2 years ago
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mine is 20 years old !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xCriSsAnGelxIsXhOt 2 years ago
There was a cost-reduced majesco version that came out in 2000 i think that was smaller.
gamerkyle123 2 years ago
how big is your game gear? I remember seeing one in a pawn shop the was about the same size as a game boy advance.
gamerkyle123 2 years ago
Oh no they are quite a bit bigger than a GBA! They have 6x AA batteries in them! They are pretty big. Even bigger than the original Game Boy on its size.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago 2
@gamerkyle123 They are slightly bigger than the GBA
TheGebs24 1 year ago
Great repair job. Do you know the tip polarity for the game gear car adapter?? I need to set the polarity on a universal adapter.
Tonyspamony 2 years ago
I heard there was a red Coca-Cola themed Game Gear
and a The blue Game Gear sports edition.
zztopis 2 years ago
Yeah I think I've seen the blue one here but the red one was a Japanese exclusive.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
dude! can you fix mine?
CursingSasuke 2 years ago
Damn, Dude...that's some Pro- job you did on that Game Gear....
Kingnothing8585 2 years ago 3
Awesome stuff, as an ex-game gear owner this was a good bit of nostalgia
Mikez4 2 years ago
Wow, that's awesome!
Lostoyannaya 2 years ago
I heard that the Game Gears with a bad screen is actually bad capacitors on the Mainboard. Just test each one with a multi-meter. Make sure that when you replace them, the new capacitors have the same uF rating. Probably the Power Board has bad capacitors too, since the Game Gear doesn't power on, as you said. You should probably test those with a multi-meter too.
BooperGrandson 2 years ago
REAL EASY TIP TO IMPROVE SOUND QUALITY:
connect your game gear to a stereo using a mono to stereo adapter. It's just a simple wire with a one-channel end, which plugs into a headphone input, and a two-channel end, which plugs into the auxilliary input in your stereo. Just make sure the colours match.
Hi-fi quality sound for your slightly dated console!
EroicaFuneral 2 years ago
yeah except the Game Gear is capable of Stereo sound via the headphone jack so don't use a "mono to stereo" jack. Its a "Stereo 3.5mm to Stereo RCA's" you want.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
How were you able to take it apart? Would you recommend taking it apart if you don't really know what you're doing?
EroicaFuneral 2 years ago
Awesome video, I did something similar some weeks ago, too - and now I have a G.G. that runs like new, too :-)
Atarix777 2 years ago
Ok cool thanks!
And last question, do you know what the "security" tool is called to open up my game gear?
BArelyGamerTV 2 years ago
hey! not sure if you can help me out with this one, but my sega game gear has a problem with its start and 2 button(the "b" button). The start button works but i have to press it really hard and the 2 button doesnt work at all no matter how hard i press it, do you have any idea on how i can fix this?
BArelyGamerTV 2 years ago
Yeah I had a Game Boy like that and I opened it up. The circuit board and rubber for the button has like some dirt/sticky residue on them and I just cleaned them up and it works great.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
can you do video on how you can fix the sound because it does not work when i pick one up and when the head phones were in it only work a littil bit
plz help me
battagamer 2 years ago
The sound goes bad on Game Gears due to bad capacitors that are dead after the years pass. Lukemorse1 did a video on repairing the sound on the Game Gear so you should check that out.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
thx a lot
battagamer 2 years ago
i dont get why the game gear failed... it wasnt huge like the lynx and u could actually see the screen, it was in colr ad had a back light, i know its battery life wasnt that great but it had an ac adapter, and its called rechargable batteries....
awesomepivots 2 years ago
it was just not a practical item. very expensive.
MusclzLive 2 years ago
Interesting vid matey - I've got x3 Game Gears now.. x1 working and x2 faulty ones so I may well look to try and get one of the faulty ones working by swapping around parts.. :)
XFile2708 2 years ago
hey im geting a nomad
Taybell10 2 years ago
Sweet I always wanted one. They are really expensive now.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
my gamegear when i turn it on, the screen gets all messed up, all white, theres no sound, no video, just white, i tried changing the light options but it didnt work. I tried a friend of mines gamegear and it had the same problem. Is it a problem all gamegears have? that after i dont know how many years they get broken?
ravelicious 2 years ago
I don't have experience with fixing these, but generically speaking, when an LCD is bright white it usually means it's not getting a video signal.
So your problem probably lies in the video output from the mainboard. LCD itself is probably fine.
And since there's also no sound, I would guess your mainboard is totally dead, as it's apparently not running the game.
gdement 2 years ago
anyone know what is wrong with mine? i got another game gear and it turns on and works but screen messes up f it gets tapped or moved wrong. if you push on where ihe screen is with thumps it kinda fixes it but still messed up. is there something in the video that messes up on these too? should i just put the power thing in this one in the old one with messed up power thing? how did you get the screw out that is on the top in the middle? i have a hard time with that.
james42519 2 years ago
this video was awesome, you should do more vids about repairing games and systems.
johndouglas187 2 years ago
Great fix and even greater paint job. I work as a commercial painter and that is a mighty fine job there. Thumbs Up!
EricDaNerd 2 years ago
Not bad, nice and blue my favorite color. another thing with the game gear is that it ran on 6 AA batteries and you only got 15 to 20 minutes of play time it would eat through batteries like nothing. That why I got rid of mine I had the power adaptore for it but I want something the was realy portable and that would not require so muc battery changing. Good job in fixing it up though.
bluetech7753 2 years ago
Dang,you should of just gotten a rechargable battery-pack off of amazon,i see an aftermarket one for 12 bucks,but nevermind if you ment before amazon.
ThatRunescaper 2 years ago
I could have but this was back in 1997 before I had a computer or internet.
bluetech7753 2 years ago
oh okay
ThatRunescaper 2 years ago
I just use regular rechargeable batteries. I know you're not supposed to but oh well. Maybe that's why my GameGear's screen sometimes goes too dark to see.
EasyGoProducts 2 years ago
ok now that is a big lie. ther is no way batteries lasted only that long. sure it is not the best on them but it is no where that bad now. you can get around 5 hours maybe 6 if you have sound down and brightness turned down. don't believe me look on wikipdeia or other places. stop making this look worse then it really is now.
james42519 2 years ago
5 maybe 6 hours*
james42519 2 years ago
It's alive!!! :D
Davedude1230 2 years ago
nice game gear dude!
TyTazzyTiger64 2 years ago
that is a really great looking paint job, good to see someone who knows what they are doing when it comes to painting electronics. I think I should mention to anyone wanted to paint something like this, in addition to doing what was said(scuff up plastic), paint your case in many thin coats, not a few thick coats, a lot better in the long run. I know way too many people who screwed stuff up with thick coats of paint on their electronics.
cartmandude14 2 years ago
The finish looks really nice on it, bit like a limited edition! A sparkly Gold one would be cool :)
oldgamingfart 2 years ago
Looking really nice, good job on that one!!
nathanallan1 2 years ago
nice job man!!! :D 5/5
37474748 2 years ago
Turn my gamegear red jake , would not mind haveing my nintendo ds orignal pimped out , what can you do man
MNC122703 2 years ago
speaking of gamegears, you should look into getting a gamegear master system converter if you don't already have it.
zeldajunkielol2 2 years ago
Oh I know I've been wanting one of those for awhile. So cool they made those!
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
Found one at a shop in Toronto but the sales guy refused to sell it. He said it's too rare... I was like WTF. Then he proceeded to play paperboy on it. =/
valkiris 2 years ago
good job man
flaminglight 2 years ago
Wow the game gear looks great! nice
G1BB3RZ 2 years ago
cool.
superCds64 2 years ago
Nice. I need to do this.
pepsiru1es92 2 years ago
handhelds usualy have the least problems but holy shit that gamegear looked beat up.
yoda2355 2 years ago
Your one of the very few people that does this kind of stuff.I would consider that a achievment.
crazzer123 2 years ago
Dont spose you know any DS repairs? Mine wont charge and i just got GTA China Town Wars so pissed! Ninty best fix it for me!
davetate1155 2 years ago
No other than the obvious try replacing the battery?
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
guessing you can play with he plug right? or does the battery need to work to do that too? just replace the battery. shouldn't be that much for it. is it still under warranty? not sure if that covers the battery.
james42519 2 years ago
i had a gamegear i g ot from a friend that worked except after a while the screen broke and only 1/3 of the screen worked the rest was just blank. it was really wierd
eviljoebob 2 years ago
this is cool good job
NightroRetro 2 years ago
i have a game gear but the sound is really low,the only way i can hear it is thru headphones and thats really low volume i can barely hear it so yea it does have issues with the sound board,i wish i could fix it
vipor29 2 years ago
Really common on these now with age. The sound caps for the amplified speaker fail and you only get sound out of the headphone.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
yea thats very unfortunate cuz the game gear is a really good handheld
vipor29 2 years ago
The new color looks beautiful! Great work!
Enfeeblement 2 years ago 2
when i was a kid i had a game gear at one time with with aload of games, an adaptor base that could play master system games directly in the back & a tv tuner & a former friend of mine lost the lot on holiday,, BASTARD
elmo23househead 2 years ago
Yeah I want one of those Master System adapters.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
thats pretty cool actually to take two crappy game gears and turn them into one fully functional blue one! you could probably sell that on ebay for a higher price than usuall... althoung I would keep it for myself. It's a shame that you didn't mod it with a rechargeble battery of some sort.
PearlSWEDEN 2 years ago
ur new gamegear look kick ass!!
atari94 2 years ago
Dang, I really like the paint job!!!
tots45 2 years ago
its beautiful!!!!!!!!!
Leethellama 2 years ago
pretty cool jake i probably wouldnt even attempt to fix these things lol nice paint job btw
Pootie88 2 years ago
i had to swap the audio board on my old game gear, and the reason that they fail was a lot of game gears were made with a bad batch of capacitors, happened to alot of electronics back in the early 90s
shugo21 2 years ago
you should custom make a system of your like the SMS or SNES...nic vid
renegado105 2 years ago
Game Gear 1.5!
Suprisingly easy to combine them isn't it Jake?
SuperDan88 2 years ago
Do you sell off any of this stuff after repairing it? Why is it the the audio boards fail in these units? Do I get the feeling that the Game Gear wasn't a very durable device?
Lachlant1984 2 years ago
They were during their lifetime but Sega used bad Capacitors in these and thats what is starting to go on these now after so many years.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
I just remembered I have a Game Gear... and the screen is all green. Never thought to pop it up and check for busted caps, etc. Hopefully it'll be something simple and not the screen itself.
alecjahn 2 years ago
Awesome video. My favorite videos by you involve opening up a system to either clean or fix it. Great work on the Game Gear!
DemonicBliss 2 years ago
Cool color choice!
bagelghost 2 years ago
I was never a big fan of the game gear. Games on it looked and sounded just fine. It was the fact that it was so freakin big. A friend of mine let me use his a few times. Great video as always. Keep them coming!
PearlJammer07 2 years ago
In Hiberia, we had the Game Gear Rapid. 1080p graphics were on tap through the lcd screen and sound was produced via THX
curmos 2 years ago
haha thats funny!
PearlJammer07 2 years ago
i naver heard of that. any pics or something? i can't find anything on it.
james42519 2 years ago
It was only released in Hiberia. I guess you can say we are the lucky country!
curmos 2 years ago
James, get real!
ThisIs2009 2 years ago
what are you talking about? i bet you are reading the few comments under the video. click on all comments at the bottom to see what i am commenting on maybe? i was talking about the Game Gear Rapid curmos was talking abut.
james42519 2 years ago
I'm often the person who has to tell people to click the "show all comments" button. He was having you on dude, 720p didn't even exist back then, let alone 1080p, and THX hasn't certified any SEGA products. I can't believe you took that seriously :)
ThisIs2009 2 years ago
HAHAHA I know!
curmos 2 years ago
THANKS!
ThisIs2009 2 years ago
The sound capacitors are the first ones to usually go in a Game Gear, but the video ones often follow it... all of the capacitors in the GG are likely to go bad, not just the sound ones.
I'd recommend the Majesco Game Gear (has white bars where the Sega one has the blue/red/green bars, and somewhat blacker shell color) -- they're newer, likely don't have the capacitor problems, and definitely have a somewhat better screen.
ABlackFalcon 2 years ago
Oh I know I've had my eye out for a Majesco Game Gear but they are rare!
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
It's crazy that sega gave Majesco, (A company that makes learning games) the rights to make/re release gamegears.
zeldajunkielol2 2 years ago
Was it you who made a video o how to fic the audio on a game gear?
ScrewAttackEurope 2 years ago
Wasn't me. Probably Luke if I had to guess!
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
Your thinking of kainkusanagi.
sinistermoon 2 years ago
NO.....you are
curmos 2 years ago
Ha?
sinistermoon 2 years ago
That's some primo work on the case! Did you mask off the inner plastic part or does it pop off for painting?
Also, I wonder if the dim screen on the other one is just a back light issue? I'm pretty sure you'd have figured that out though.
Great vids!
youtubasoarus 2 years ago
No the screen cover part just pops off so I didn't have to mask it off or anything. The backlight was actually fine on the other one it was the LCD panel itself that was to dark.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
my game gear does that too turn on a sec and then nothing. guess it is the power supply too. i looked at it and can't really see what could be wrong though really don't know what i am looking at anyways. oh and turn that brightness down already. black looks like bluish and stuff. and you get better battery life if you turn the brightness down as much as you can and still see picture.
james42519 2 years ago
Mine did that and I also couldn't tell by looking at the PSU as to why. But changing the PSU fixed it so it must have been something. Not so sure about the battery life claim. Most older LCD's have a constant backlight that is always on. They use more power to make black as the LCD shutters are turned on to block the white backlight. Displaying a pure white screen uses less energy unlike a CRT witch would do the opposite. Newer LCD's usually can adjust the actual backlight brightness.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
it could possibly be a capacitor on the power supply, that would be my guess as to the flickering power problem, great fix and love the paint job!
anothervgcollector 2 years ago
correct me if i am wrong but don't the light get brighter when you turn the brightness up and dimmer when you turn it down? i just assumed that the dimmer the light the less power it used.
james42519 2 years ago
No the backlight on the Game Gear is always on the same level of brightness. To make it darker you are just making the LCD in front of the light darker so less light comes through. It sucks but most old LCD's are like that. Newer ones like the PSP will adjust the actual brightness of the backlight tube and most newer LCDs use LED backlight instead of a CCFL tube.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
you relally love ure gamegears and sega, don't you. lol it's all good though.
nathanr2389 2 years ago
Nice!!
Padoca85 2 years ago
I'm pretty impressed, been watching your vids for ages, awesome when you manage to fix these things, i've been doing the same for computers, i found a computer which was water damaged in a heap outside for a week, when i decided to take a look and found it was a reasonably powerful computer, perfect for a server pc..
Replaced a few components, and even a spilled capacitor :S
The computer had a 2.8ghz Pentium 4 cpu haha..
Now its my Dns, proxy, backup, firewall, game hosting beast of a friend=D
Laserlight30 2 years ago
dude, way to improvise. I tried to soldering a gba sp screen into my original fat one, and almost succeeded :(. It would turn on and display the bootup screen but wouldn't turn the light on cuz the original didn't have the brains to turn the light on, I even welded the light wire to the power supply and no avail
VideoGamer945 2 years ago
that's a shame. you can buy a backlight kit for the original GBA though.
ThisIs2009 2 years ago
the sp was broken, the power supply was ruined cuz I dropped it in a pool :P. My GBA worked but I never used it and it wasn't in great condition
VideoGamer945 2 years ago
Cathode or fluorescent backlights need inverters to turn on, even small sized ones (the gas inside needs 200-400 AC volts to be sparked). The inverter was probably built into the GBA SP, or attached some other how. It's likely that a missing inverter was the culprit, otherwise ignore this message :P
valkiris 2 years ago
hmmm, good call that was probably it.
VideoGamer945 2 years ago
game gear woooo
anv94 2 years ago
Dude, your videos are porn for geeks... ok, that made no sense, but keep those vids coming ;)
jiminboo 2 years ago 2
lol yeah
jchaytor 2 years ago
cool
stewie17 2 years ago