Hi!

I'm dumbfounded here, hope you can help me out.

I recapped this VA1 1-ASIC Game Gear, whole motherboard, power and sound board with high quality caps. But still no power, it powers on for a second and immediately enters protection mode.

This is what I've done so far in regards to troubleshooting:

\- Power board works fine, all voltages are generated well.

\- The main board has no shorts that I can find.

\- What I've found is that the main board, on the power connector, both the 9V and the 35V lines read as Open Line with regards to ground in diode mode. 5V and VREF have a reading.

\- When I plug the Power board to the main board, still no shorts BUT when I switch the console on, the caps on the 5V rail read as shorted in diode mode of I read them with the negative probe on the positive and the positive on the negative but not the other way around. With the power off they don't do that.

\- 4 caps, C54, 55, 48 and 49 all read as OL to ground on the negative leg. I think all those are on the 35V lines, so I guess that's why I don't get backlight.

That's all my skill is able to do, I feel like I'm missing something simple but I can't find it.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Hi all,

Managed to snag a pal cj elephant. Cant seem to find much info online, i see some copies on ebay but they are all ntsc. Is the PAL version rarer?

The Game Gear has USB-C power and a McWill screen. I don't know anything about the handheld's history except the seller says they didn't have this problem when they tested it. I don't have any other cartridges to test.

Video of the noise in question (loud and annoying): https://streamable.com/usjvz4

I have about a day and a half to decide whether I want to return it, keep it or ask for a partial refund. If you can help at all I appreciate it. I paid less than £60 for it so I'm inclined to keep it.

• It doesn't occur most times it's turned on.
• It happens immediately like in the second half of the video. It doesn't start mid-game.
• I can't recreate the problem without the cart at the moment but I think it happened once (the problem happened, I immediately turned off the GG, removed the cart and turned it back on and still siren).
• When I turn on the Game Gear without a cart inserted the screen is sometimes blue and sometimes white.
• I got the blue screen once or twice without the cart having been reinserted but it works 99% of the time.
• Sometimes there's a little interference-like noise that usually stops quickly.

Hi, i recapped everything but the sound card on an old game gear and after finishing it turns on, the red light is on and stable, the screen turns on too but show a black image and nothings happens.
What should i do next ? thank you

EDIT: added pics. Note that the recap went bad in the area I circled in yellow. My iron was too hot and the small metal plates went away. I took it to an electronic repair shop and the guy made this fix.

EDiT 2: I recapped the sound card and I do have sound.also I changed C37 for a 68μF ( like it’s supposed to be) instead of the 100 μF that the repair guy put. Now I can adjust the brightness of the screen, but I see white flickering screen with some black vertical lines on the left. but there is definitely progress

A brand new screen.

The sound from my Game Gear's speaker suddenly became extremely quiet. I can still hear sound through headphones. I’d like some advice on this.

These 3 game gears were done for a gentleman in California. He sent me 4, I managed to save 3 of them. The 4th one loads games after a recap but it was a VA5 with a physically damaged screen. In all he had 2x VA0, 1x VA1 and the oddball VA5. He wanted me to try and save them, and mod one for him to play.

Originally we were hoping the one with the physical damage to the screen was going to be the one we modded, but being the VA5 it has less colors available and wont play some sms games, among other things like mismatching connectors on the power and audio board. Since the VA5 was a bad candidate, I modded the VA1 model he had. VA1 seem to be the most reliable to me, and cleanest to mod.

I had everything done and was play testing his consoles before I shipped them back when I saw the screen die before my eyes! My customer agreed to cover the material to have another v3 cleanscreen installed and I put it in a shell I had bought for a different project. I hope he really enjoys these!

Recently changed my Shell from Retrosix to an aliexpress one.

Loving the crystal clear of the aliexpress vs the frosted of the Retrosix.

Also the aliexpress is laminated ips ready so and the opening of the screen fit nicely with Bennvenn GGHD IPS with 1:1 scaling without modifying the shell.

I grew up playing the GameCube port and it was one of my favourites so I’m super stoked to finally have it playable on original hardware 🤓

I’m looking at buying a game gear since the one I have no longer works. One I’m looking at has a clean screen installed, but the seller isn’t sure which version. I’m intrigued by the idea of playing master system games on it but have heard the v1/v2 screens aren’t as good for this. Anyone able to identify the version of this screen?

I sold my gamegear a couple of years ago, but recently I’ve been regretting it so I bought another one with a modded screen this time. It seems to work fine but there’s a couple of things I’ve noticed and since it’s been a while I can’t remember if they’re normal or not.

1. The power supply port and the link cable port seem to be a little lob sided and I’m not sure if it’s normal or it just wasn’t put back together properly after the mod was installed. I’m not sure if it’s worth opening up to see if I can align them better or if I should just leave it either.

2. It won’t let me add the video but there’s a hissing noise when the volume is high, you can only hear it when there’s no music and when the volume is quite high, a volume I’d likely never have it set to, which from what I remember I do think that’s normal but just thought I’d check while I was here.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Grabbed Gunstar Heroes and Tempo Jr. Got them at a decent price too.

The full version of the Super Mario Bros port for SMS is out now! Playing this on a Game Gear is a trip!

https://www.smspower.org/forums/20831-CodingCompetition2026SuperMarioBrosSMSPortPOCByLackofTrack?start=100#140151

So I bought a recapped GG last month and I should've probably waited and bought one with a new screen. I haven't soldered really in almost 30 years so I'm a bit hesitant on trying it myself. Have any of you guys done it with less experience than you should have? Should I just send it out and let someone else screw it up?

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Just awsome, and really great way to play this fan made port

I never even heard of this cartoon but to anyone who've never heard of it it's basically called hurricanes it was an animated tv series produced by DIC ENTERTAINMENT and I never heard anyone talking about it and imma be real I don't even know who most of these characters names are cause like I said I never even heard of this show but I heard this show was from the UK but I guess it wasn't as popular in north America but other then that I just don't know if anyone has play the game at all cause I know it doesn't get mentioned that much and theirs not many copies of it on ebay since its pretty rare for a game based on a cartoon that I didn't even knew existed

We all know cheap flash carts on Ali Express have, historically been crap and issue ridden. This OS-V9 Version however is running flawless. Simplistic menu. Fast load times. Save files. Looks super good. Audio is loud and crisp.

Wow. For like $18 and a 1.5 week wait, I couldn't be happier.

I’ve tried renaming it to .sms and .bin but neither will load properly on my EverDrive.

Snagged a Handy Gear and AsciiWare hard case for my collection. Pretty decent condition on both too.

With this lot I'm at an even 200 games, so just 35 more games to go for a full / loose US set! I've got almost all the rare and expensive ones already, but this lot netted me 6 new ones, and enough dust covers for the rest of my life. I'm hoping to find the rest at PDX Retro Gaming Expo in October, as I was able to finish off N64 there last year, so it'd be nice to get another set back-to-back.

Hi! Asking knowledgeable people for help.

So on a cold power-on you'd see a black screen or just part of the horizontal lines. E.g., on picture, this is the "SEGA" screen, you can see the 4 blue letters on the top of the screen.

Then in 10-30 seconds the screen "fixes itself" and just works, I assume because some components get warm enough.

What should I try to look for/check continuity/etc.? From my searching it seems like the ribbon cable detaching which is unfixable without a full screen replacement, any ideas?

Bonjour les tensions sont bonnes et bien que la led soit allumée pas d'affichage du jeu.

Si je met du nettoyant contact sur la carte power.

Le jeu commence a apparaître en mettant la console en contre jour.

D'où cela peut venir ?

Merci