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5883327 No.5883327 [Reply] [Original]

i bought a game gear what am i in for

>> No.5883334

>>5883327
High priced gaming

>> No.5883349

>>5883327
significant expenses in making it usable

>> No.5883358

Invest in either an AC kit or rechargeable batteries too.

>> No.5883389

>>5883358
I will indeed

>> No.5883390

>>5883327
bad ports of SMS games and some great exclusives if you can ignore the screen issues

>> No.5883405

>>5883327
Sonic Triple Trouble is pretty good. That's about it really.

>> No.5883419

>>5883327
One of the few consoles /vr/ is 100% on board with saying emualting is fine.

>> No.5883425

Tails Adventure is dang fun Metroidlike gameplay. Wish they'd made more of them.

>> No.5883426

I'd argue you'd need to mod it for some sort of video out capacity to enjoy it.

Sega didn't subscribe to the same quality of parts which Nintendo did.

Also, watch those capacitors.

>> No.5883456
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5883456

>>5883327
How are the caps? You'll probably need to replace the caps to make it playable, and even then, it's not great.

If you're willing to invest some time and money into caps, mcwill screen, and an everdrive, the library has a ton to offer and I would totally recommend it. It's a fantastic system.

>> No.5883461

>>5883327
no you are not done with your quest. you need sonic and knuckles AND a 32X AAAANNND a game genie on that thing. then you can go to that tron world and fuck the brunette after playing some frisbe golf with some faggots

>> No.5883538

>>5883425
That game has a lot of items that were completely useless and Tails' walking animation looked like shit.
A sequel could have fixed all of that, though.

>> No.5883582

>>5883327
Leaky capacitors and rotted traces.

>> No.5884148

>>5883456
the one i bought has refurbished caps, but the screen doesn't look as clear as yours tho. Comes with sonic 2, and i bought psycho world as lwell

>> No.5884150

>>5883327
Nigga just get an SMS or powerbase converter and a flash cart

>> No.5884151

>>5883419
>One of the few consoles /vr/ is 100% on board with saying emualting is fine.
this...

if you like shinobi the two gg games are great and I don't think they're expensive

>> No.5884153

>>5883327
The battery running out by the time you made that post.

>> No.5884212

>>5883327
Performing a RGB/SCART mod to play it on a big screen

>> No.5884224
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5884224

>>5883419
No, original console with flash cart. You can use a modern lcd if you have to zoom.

>> No.5884229

>>5883327
Shitty screen
Bad capacitors
Inferior Master System ports
Loose d-pad
Absolute misery

>> No.5884230

>>5883327
You're in for a shitload of batteries.

>> No.5884241
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>>5884224
Nah, the GG is a bulky, battery eating piece of garbage.

>> No.5884242

GG Aleste is so good man, it has that synthwave vaporware aesthetic that millennials think is cool.

>> No.5884259

>>5884242
[cont]
Specifically the sequel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YwUYstadWk

>> No.5884282
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5884282

>>5883327
Do a HDMI mod on it. Took me one failed attempt but it looks great in action.

>> No.5884508

>>5884241
>Modern lcd screen with led back lighting.
OH what a battery hog.

>> No.5884805

>>5883327
A pretty good chance of having to replace the original capacitors, if the previous owner didn't already do that.
There's some decent and good games on the thing, though the library is much smaller than the Gameboy's.

>> No.5884817

>>5884508
I remember I got many hours out of my charged SP back in the day, and the rechargable battery was such an incredible upgrade over all the previous models eating AA and AAA batteries.
I really think the GBA SP is one of the best things Nintendo ever did, it even played all my old GB and GBC games, the lit screen was an amazing addition for the latter especially, and arguably necessary for many GBA games. All while fitting very snugly in my pocket.

Sega had a good idea with a color screen and backlighting, that is an upgrade over the Gameboy's monochrome, but they were a decade too early on it, and the resulting handheld is bulky and not very power efficient, not to talk about expensive, on top of their rotten luck with the capacitor plague going on at the time.

>> No.5884825

>>5884805
The previous owner replaced the capacitors and it comes with sonic 2

>> No.5884828

>>5883456
Stock screen is fine; it's the library that isn't.

>> No.5884829

>>5884224
There's enough potential hardware to worry about that I wouldn't hold it against anyone to look at other options for playing its games.
If OP isn't technically minded or don't want to spend a lot of money, emulation is a pretty good way to go.

>> No.5884830

>>5884241
Lag.

>> No.5884832

>>5884282
>looks great in action.
Unless you're outputting to a 5" screen, no it doesn't.

>> No.5884836

>>5884825
Alright, that's pretty good then, if nothing is wrong with your screen you could just play the thing.

>>5884828
It has enough good games that it's worth checking out.

>>5884830
Lag?

>> No.5884839

>>5884282
Like, frankensteining a HDMI output to display it on a TV? I've never thought of that.

>>5884832
How so?

>> No.5884841

Burnt screen. I had two back in the 90s and both had screens that burnt. And >>5883358 is right.

>> No.5884849

>>5884832
Nope, it's great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3H5QTYwrig

>> No.5884861

>>5884849
Pretty cool. That joystick looks bulky as fuck though, I'd go with a normal gamepad.

>> No.5884863

>>5884841
I will get an AC kit and rechargeable batteries

>> No.5884983

>>5884861
You can connect regular Master System controllers

>> No.5885337

a capcacitor kit. if not that, then a mcwill screen. that bitch is a real diva to get in a usable state.

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5885395

>>5883327
Must have.

>> No.5885415

play Sonic Triple Trouble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-EQDoTvb2k

>> No.5886664

>>5884241
Call me a retard, but how do i do that? I have a standard GBA here

>> No.5886681

>>5886664
It's probably a model 101 SP, which is naturally backlit.

>> No.5886685

>>5886681
I mean playing game gear games on the gba

>> No.5886698

>>5886685
Are you sure that's just not Sonic Advance?

>> No.5886709

>>5886698
It's Tails Adventures
Great game, been wanting to play that on an actual console for a long time

>> No.5886712

>>5886709
in that case it's probably flash cart shenanigans.

>> No.5886901

>>5886685
Flashcart and emulator software probably. There's for instance lots of bootleg stuff from China (naturally), which is just old Famicom games stuffed on GBA flashcarts with an emulator frontend, and often these are fucky roms and shit emulator software, but it goes to show you can do it.

>> No.5886917

>>5883327
disappointment

>> No.5887370

>>5884241
How good is Game Gear emulation on the GBA? The battery on my old DS no longer holds a charge for long and I don't feel like playing the Chinese battery roulette so I'm considering bringing out my old GBA where batteries will never be an issue.

>> No.5887407

Get the TV tuner

>> No.5887706

>>5887370
You could always do it /k/ style, ergo "This gun may be unsafe to fire, clamp it in a vice, get behind a tree, and yank the string you tied to the trigger to see what happens"
Rig up a charger cable to the battery and see how it holds up before putting it in your GBA.

>> No.5887710

>>5887407
I thought those stopped working long ago

>> No.5887938

>>5887710
>I thought
10/troll

>> No.5888147

>>5887938
I mean don't they depend on analog signals to work? They don't broadcast those anymore, not where I live.

>> No.5888214

>>5887706
The issue with Chinese batteries isn't that they might explode, it's that you have a good chance of getting one that won't last much longer than an old battery. The last Chinese battery I bought was for an old MP3 player of mine, and it would only last about 6 hours vs a large portion of a day when the original battery was new.

>> No.5888335

>>5888214
They're so cheap, just buy a few. It's a non issue. Else get a branded power bank and mod it to work with it

>> No.5888351

>>5887407
>>5887710
>>5888147
IIRC you can send the RF signal from a console into the tunner. Back in the late 00s I got a composite to RF converter and sent the signal from my PS1 and PS2 to a portable TV. Granted it looked like ass but with a long enough cable you could play console games in bed, it was like a really ghetto PSP

>> No.5888458

>>5888351
Yep, fundamentally the same signal, just traveling over a wire instead of the air.

I wonder what a composite to RF broadcasting thing would be like:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wireless-TV-Transmitter-Audio-Video-Transmitter-VHF-UHF-For-Home-Broadcast/264306613067?hash=item3d89e6db4b:g:HdoAAOSwrQ5b34gE

>> No.5888478

>>5883327
Master System ports.

>> No.5888770

>>5888335
Or I could just opt for a different device instead of buying several batteries in hopes that one isn't shit or rigging up some sort of power umbilical just to keep my old DS in service for this task. If NES/SMS/GG emulation on the GBA is decent, then I'd honestly prefer it to the DS due to other factors.

>> No.5888780

Wouldn't it be possible to like, adapt something like a phone battery or something and make it power a GBA SP?

>> No.5888795

>>5888458
>I wonder what a composite to RF broadcasting thing would be like:
>https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wireless-TV-Transmitter-Audio-Video-Transmitter-VHF-UHF-For-Home-Broadcast/264306613067?hash=item3d89e6db4b:g:HdoAAOSwrQ5b34gE
Not much point in those nowadays, I doubt there's many being sold. I had a FM transmitter to play music on my old car's stereo, that had no USB port.

>> No.5890508

>>5888147
They do. And "they" don't have to broadcast an analog signal for an analog device to work. Note the millions of old TVs that use analog signals. Also note that there are "They"s that still broadcast analog TV that aren't where you live. Just because you don't have a use for something in your little world doesn't mean it doesn't work.

>>5888351
Yes. There are even consoles that broadcast analog TV signals short distances. Mostly old famiclones. I have a few.

>>5888458
I haven't used that particular one but years ago I had similar things. I used them to get various signals to a bunch of TVs in large building. The quality wasn't great and I got a lot of random interference but it worked reasonably well.

>>5888795
Nearly every electronics shop in the 3rd world sells these things. I doubt there are millions of them sitting on shelves when they aren't selling.