Posted in Uncategorized on May 23rd, 2010 by admin
First off, free things don’t always mean they work right away, this is a reason I like free electronics ^_^ fun to play with! I recently came into possession of a Sega Game Gear, a video game relic! Came with three games, a case and the gear itself (thanks heather for your donation). First time turning it on was a disaster, the Gear didn’t even make a sound, no Sega sound or anything! Well like any cartridge system you have to pull that shitty cartridge out and blow in both the cartridge and the systems slot to clean out dust! So do that, put everything back together and turn it on… it speaks to you! “SEEEGA!” yay! It worked, but little or no video, huge lines streaming across the screen and everything, now its time for some fun! FIX IT!!
Now I’m more of the type to look things up and research crap before I dive into it and start put-sing around on the inside of an electronic device. I know my way around a computer and I have a few tricks up my sleeve so I just kinda… opened it up and took a look around, nothing looked broken or busted or damaged. Couldn’t figure anything out so I automatically assumed something was broken, maybe some capacitors or something. This website I found
http://members.optusnet.com.au/eviltim/index.htm
Click on Sega Game Gear Repair. The owner of the site basically says any problem you have with these bastards, is a bad capacitor, and if one is dead, change them all! So thats what I did on the motherboard at least. Ill be writing a full tutorial later just thoght an actual post on here would be nice!
Also check out the pictures I took!
