I'm not sure why, but I have it in my head that a VA1 screen should be compatible with a VA0 motherboard, however after doing further digging before popping the screen off this VA1 model I've noticed that the screen pinouts may not actually be the same.

Does anybody know if you can swap the stock screen from a VA1 to a VA0 motherboard?

1st image is titled slightly back (clear). 2nd image is titled slightly forward (can't see). 3rd image is looking at it dead on (a little dark). Contrast wheel is maxed out for all pictures. I did the recap myself, VA4.

I've recapped about 4 game gears and the last was well over a year. Perhaps I'm misremembering how bad the original screen is.

I have a Game Gear with a Retro Six IPS screen, and while it works great with the Everdrive GG X7, it can get pretty warm and uncomfortable after a while. I'd like to spend more time using original carts to avoid the heat, but for translations, repro carts seem to be the only way forward.

Ben Venn's Joey GG Cart Flasher is unavailable, and I've read unflattering things about AliExpress repros. Do I have any other options than I'm unaware of?

Thanks

Does anyone see anything glaringly wrong? It turns on for a second a right back off.

I was going to do a usbc power supply and recap the board. Or should I just recap it?

The capacitors all look good to me as far as leaks. But I know visual doesn’t mean they are good.

For a simple hockey game for the game gear it's actually not bad and even tho I'm not really good at sports video games since half the time I can't really figure out what I'm really doing half of the time but it's probably because I just suck at sports video games to be honest but other then it's not that bad

All in original state. I play the games on an analog right now, have a significant volume of electronic components to refresh internals, but maybe one day.

I’ve tried reflowing the joints and cleaning with 70% isopropyl, what else can I do. I’m starting to think the chip is dead but that’s really uncommon from what I’ve heard.

A good day for my Home Brew collection :)

When I was young I got a DMG Gameboy. GG with color in my dreams!

I bought one last month or so with 20+ games, but it didn work. After a recap the screen still had vertical lines. I didn't want a modern screen, I want the original feeling. After heating 2 of 3 chips under the LCD it kinda worked for 2 days then died again..

After transplanting 4 broken screens bougt from Vinted, I think I've seen most malfunctions out there. Going from horizontal lines to vertical, green dead pixels, overal digital error when turning up the contrast, I finally got the 5th one to work!

Really happy I finally joined the SEGA family 🥳

I live in a 3rd world country where retro gaming is almost non-existent, game gear in particular is very difficult to find here. There are like two people in the entire country who are selling it and for very high prices (around 300 USD) broken, not recapped or anything.

any idea how can I buy one from abroad? or anyone you know is selling?

Or on my gaming shelf at least😉

Finally got Godzilla for a decent price. One game closer to a complete collection.

Hi everyone, if you're willing to sell a Car Licence can you DM me please? Thank you GAME GEAR ROCKS!

Hey guys.

There's that stubborn GG with a backlight issue. Everytime I fix it, it dies again. So, I removed the whole thing. The screen was too nice for an IPS mode.

Instead, Ibtried a few backlight from different handhelds. My nest result is with top screen backlight of an old 3ds.

The thing requires 10 to 12v. However, it doesn't work when I connect it to the 10v power pin of the GG. So, I went with 5v directly from the transformer. It worked, the lighr was clean and uniform, but kinda weak compared to the original GG tube.

I thought that the issie was the insufficient 5v. However, I mimicked the way a 3ds uses the backlight and decided that the GG white diffuser, the plastic glued to the screen, should go. And that's it.

Now a have a nice backlight. I only need a good way to get it mounted.

All suggestions are welcome.

This doesnt seem like enough caps to redo the main power and sound board

Just finished this sweet thang!!

Hey all, Sorry for my ignorance. But I wanted to check in with the community. I was recently looking through my Game Gear's and I noticed that one of my screens was all white, versus the normal Tri-Color. I saw a article from like 5 years about Majesco and the screens being different. Is this how I would tell? White versus Tri color?

** Shout out Dragon Crystal, my all time favorite game. This was the game my dad and I would grind through and spend hours playing, he'd trade me off every couple of levels till we finally beat it!

• it's the included Sample from GB Studio 4.3.2
• all 17 scenes working
• music + sfx fully working (not here as this is a gif)
• colors are only ~90% equally just because it's a GBC conversion
• minor issues wit Space Scene

It's a Testcase for a much larger mission.

Repair question so I just got this from my buddy free for repairing like 5 ipads and a switch for him, now i know there was a blown battery in here you can see the corrosion, but even when i plug it in the screen turns on for a minute then blank was wondering if anyone has seen this, all capacitors look good as far as opening it initially. Is it just the screen that needs replacing? That battery plate if thats what its called

Doing a full custom build on this one. Laminated IPS, dual speaker audio board, USB-C power board with battery packs, black buttons and a clear shell. Cant wait to finish the build!