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RandyT:

--- Quote from: pbj on November 05, 2024, 11:40:06 am ---Fully working but my god that screen.  Apparently sometimes this is as good as you can get them.  At this time of year, it's time to put this back together and tuck it away until the holidays stop raping my wallet.  But it was a foolish waste of money to get a worthless completely dead system 'playable' again!

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When the GameGear came out, it's competition was the original GameBoy.  Compared to the horrible mono-green screen of that, the GameGear was amazing.  I have many fond memories of playing Sonic on it.  It's amazing how nostalgia and the lack of other options can make something seem so much better than it was.  Even when brand new, the display was dim and had terrible viewing angles.  FWIW, the Nomad isn't much better...display technology just wasn't far along at that point.

The only reason to restore one would be for hardware archival/collection reasons.  Those early handhelds are so well-emulated, you'll never have a better experience than running your games on almost any cheap handheld device with a modern display.  Even the ones with the worst displays today, will offer a better experience and battery-life than the original hardware. 

The pics are interesting.  After seeing them, I'm scared to even look in mine now.

pbj:
Did you come into one of my "buy some dumb console, fix it, make a bunch of repro cartridges for no reason" threads and seriously ask, "have you considered a pi?"

 :whap :hissy :whap :hissy

 :bat

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: pbj on November 14, 2024, 06:12:07 pm ---Did you come into one of my "buy some dumb console, fix it, make a bunch of repro cartridges for no reason" threads and seriously ask, "have you considered a pi?"

 :whap :hissy :whap :hissy

 :bat

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shitoken:
I have one lying here. At first screen was working but very dim cannot see the game clearly. I replaced power board caps. Now it won't turn on at all. Not sure what went wrongs. Caps was exactly the same but new. Very frustrating and put it on the side.

Tapatalk を使用して私の SM-N9860 から送信

pbj:
Voltages good on your power board?  You can test that without plugging in the motherboard.  You also have to clean the pads under the old capacitors.  I had to go back and rework a few of them.

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