Majesco Game Gear "Updated"

[HercTNT]

Finally got my hands on a Majesco made game gear. They came out around 2000 and supposedly have better audio and video then sega made game gears. I'm gonna recap cap it and do a led backlight mod.

Edit:  Steve already recapped the gamegear for me and I finally got the parts to back light it. The original inspiration for the mod came from here: http://www.smspower.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13132. The method I used was the DS top screen backlight and the gameboy power inverter. The DS needs 15 volts to power the backlight and the gameboy inverter does the job nicely. The article mentions removing the plastic around the gamegear screen to make it brighter and have everything fit. I do not recommend this as its easy to damage the GG screen. Instead i used a small pair of wire snips to remove the bottom plastic edge from the GG screen allowing it to fit without further modification. I have 4 pics to share. As usual, sorry my camera is junk. The first three pics show various states of testing and wiring, the last is the screen when on. Sorry the picture is blurry, but you will notice the backlight is even all the way across with no hot spots.

Sorry folks, will add other two pics to post at end of thread. man i suck at this.

[turbokon]

Never seen one of those. Got pics?

[SignOfZeta]

Why recap something from 2000? Are they that badly made?

[Tatsujin]

Llolyeah, same thoughts .

[HercTNT]

its my understanding that the majesco game gears had superior screens but cheap caps. numerous threads talk about recapping them for max performance. I'm going to recap mine just to be on the safe side. It will still need the led mod anyways to get a better backlit screen and max battery life.

[Lilgrafx]

Why would anyone want a game Gear in 2000? Great Idea Majesco 

[roflmao]

If I could get a Game Gear now with a better screen for a reasonable price, I would.  I love being able to play my SMS games on the go, but my current Game Gear has a horribly washed out screen (probably cap related though, because it's ancient). 

I wonder if Steve's Express screen mod would also work on a Game Gear.  Didn't I just see something about that being done to a Nomad?

[HercTNT]

Lil, it was a very successful idea. there are some high quality gamegear games. The majesco game gear improved the lcd screen and battery life. considering i got the whole thing for $17 i would say it was a great deal.

[Lilgrafx]

Lil, it was a very successful idea. there are some high quality gamegear games. The majesco game gear improved the lcd screen and battery life. considering i got the whole thing for $17 i would say it was a great deal.

That's an awesome deal, but with the Advance and the NGPC on the market did it do well?

[PunkicCyborg]

Keep in mind, the game gear and SMS was very popular in europe and south america where majesco held a lot of licensing from sega. So in the US it probably wasn't too profitable, they had other markets though to make up for it.

[SuperDeadite]

I remember getting my Majesco GG in 2000.  I only had a Gameboy as a kid, but then one day in the Kmart ad it listed GameGears for $20 and games for $5 each.  Went out and got one and the 3 games they had.  Good times, all boxed up in the USA at this point though.

[HercTNT]

Pretty much my thoughts on it. It may not have the library of some other systems, but more than worthwhile to play. I"m gonna get a flash cart for it and play some of the japanese translations.

[DragonmasterDan]

I've brought my Majesco Game Gear to system repairer extraordinaire Chop5, it didn't seem to have any cap issues like the Sega units. However, mine only worked off of an AC adapter, not battery power. Chop was able to fix that. It definitely has a better screen than the Sega made units, with less blur in fast motion and a slight improvement with sharpness.

[HercTNT]

thats what i'm hoping for. i already modded up a few game gears but could not get over the blurry screen.

[Duo_R]

Yes, but little different process. RGB signals need to be converted to video. Here is some pics:

http://www.smspower.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=70261

If I could get a Game Gear now with a better screen for a reasonable price, I would.  I love being able to play my SMS games on the go, but my current Game Gear has a horribly washed out screen (probably cap related though, because it's ancient). 

I wonder if Steve's Express screen mod would also work on a Game Gear.  Didn't I just see something about that being done to a Nomad?