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marlowe221 wrote:I think it would be great to have a Game Gear and get some portable Sega gaming going, but GEEZ these things seem to require a lot of maintenance...

I think if you get the caps replaced then you're going to be good for a long time. I'm planning to have (both of) mine worked on.

I also figured our a decent solution for the battery issue. I figure if I get 12 rechargeable AA batteries, then I can always have a set charging and a set in use. Right?

marlowe221 wrote:I think it would be great to have a Game Gear and get some portable Sega gaming going, but GEEZ these things seem to require a lot of maintenance...

Yeah, it's unfortunate that the console is so cheap, but will almost always require a capacitor replacement in order to function at 100%. So you spend ~$10-$20 on a Game Gear, and then the same price again just fixing it. I may either start selling recapped Game Gears, or a recap service here on the forums for a reasonable price. Not sure how much recapping I can personally stand, though, so I guess i'd just have to test the waters.

Marlowe, I have a Game Gear that I recently recapped that I am no longer in need of, so if you're interested in buying a recapped unit that's ready to go, let me know, and I'll give you the details.

noiseredux wrote:I also figured our a decent solution for the battery issue. I figure if I get 12 rechargeable AA batteries, then I can always have a set charging and a set in use. Right?

Yeah, I don't see why this wouldn't work. I don't have much experience with rechargable batteries, though. Someone needs to do a battery pack mod for this similar to what has been done with the Nomad battery pack. I recently got a game gear rechargeable battery pack from a unit I picked up, but not sure how well it works yet. I plan on doing the majority of my GG playing plugged into the wall for now

I do all my Dreamcast gaming on my Gamegear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0APAR3kRhXk

Because of ghudda, I might be joining the game gear family. He's fixing the capiciators on the game gear I got for 3.99 and hopefully he going to restore the Gameboy I got for 1.99.
If all goes well and I get this game gear and it looks and plays beautiful then I guess I'm going to have to give this some love than just place it on the shelf like I intended.
I'll look to see how cheap some carts are. If there dirt cheap like Atari then I might go in. If not then I'll just buy sonic and be happy with that

There used to be a slew of Sega handheld clones that replicated gamegear/master system but smaller with a modern LCD screen and twenty~ish games built in. These went by various names including "SEGA COLECO" (which makes very little sense) "Playpal," "Pocketgear," and "SEGA handheld" (which are generic enough to throw off a google search). They've been called every generic name except for gamegear. I'm thinking this was around 2006~ish. They stopped making these after at@games started making Genesis handhelds.

Anyway, if you should happen to come upon one of these in a drug store, consider it a cheap way to get a reliable gamegear with a modern LCD screen.

samsonlonghair wrote:Anyway, if you should happen to come upon one of these in a drug store, consider it a cheap way to get a reliable gamegear with a modern LCD screen.

do these only play the built in games, or is there a cartridge slot?

noiseredux wrote:

samsonlonghair wrote:Anyway, if you should happen to come upon one of these in a drug store, consider it a cheap way to get a reliable gamegear with a modern LCD screen.

do these only play the built in games, or is there a cartridge slot?

As I recall, there is no cartridge slot. The built-in games are the only games you get.



more info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Sonic

Edit: I seem to recall that these guys only need 2 AAA batteries, not six AA batteries. So, consider that an improvement.

^one of the built in games is Altered Beast?

Pass.



EDIT: According to your link (and links from there), this was actually really released by Coleco. That's really interesting.

mas wrote:I'll look to see how cheap some carts are. If there dirt cheap like Atari then I might go in. If not then I'll just buy sonic and be happy with that

You're in luck, like 90% of the Game Game library is under $10, most loose carts being under $5. The consoles dirt cheap and deserves more attention. I PM'd you about a couple of doubles I have laying around

noiseredux wrote:EDIT: According to your link (and links from there), this was actually really released by Coleco. That's really interesting.

Yeah, wow didn't know Coleco was into that sort of thing. It's even titled the "Coleco Sonic"

EDIT: apparently it would also output to the TV via composite video.