Considering buying a Sega Game Gear

[BAD PIXEL]

Hell yeah! The Game Gear is a great system. I'd recommend Mega Man, Battletoads, Shinobi 2, Streets of Rage 2, Vampire: Master of Darkness (it's a cheesy Castlevania rip-off, but I found it hard to put down) and Gunstar Heroes as six platformers that cover six distinctly different genres.

I'd also look at getting some quality rechargeable batteries and a cheap ac adapter - that combination beats any of the "battery pack" solutions, if you ask me. While the battery life isn't great, I think people harp on that aspect of the system too much and blow it out of proportion...

[Original_Name]

The problem with tilting the screen to see it clearly is due to a leaky capacitor, which the GG suffers from a lot. Sega orginal used these funny square surface mounted caps, but there is plent room to replace them with some small thru board caps.

I did mine a year or so ago and the screen is much better, although its still very low resolution and bit fuzzy.

Any tutorials for this?

[Hobie-wan]

Any tutorials for this?

Page with pic and list

Video

I still need to order caps myself so I can do both of mine.

[samsonlonghair]

P.S Sonic 2 scene 1 act 3 is so annoying, where you have to dodge the boulders and if one hits you, you die.

Too true. This level alone made me dislike Sonic 2 for Gamegear.

[Curlypaul]

Thats the exact page that I followed. Good luck.

Love collecting for the Game Gear, I think its because the games can be hard to find complete but when you do it doesnt cost an arm and a leg.

[Weekend_Warrior]

One word: Shinobi