There is already an affordable board which fully consolizes your Game Gear.
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There is already an affordable board which fully consolizes your Game Gear.
Show me that consolized Game Gear. I will pay top dollar for it. It is about the only game system I still wish I could have.
Since there is a device that allows you to play Master System games on your Game Gear (Master Gear I think it's called), could not that technology be reversed to allow Game Gear games on your Master System? I'm not a techie. Is it that the Master System hardware is already present in the Game Gear like the Genesis, and the Master Gear is simply a pass through device like the Power Base Converter?
No, it doesn't really work the other way around. The SMS and Game Gear hardware are practically identical, to my knowledge, but the GG master palette is way bigger (something like 4,096 colors versus 64), so an SMS game will display with no problem on a GG, but if you try to do the reverse, you'll get color values that the hardware can't display properly. This is also why there was never a "Super Game Gear" for the Genesis (the Genesis master palette is only 512 colors, so you'd need a separate video output on the device).Quote:
Originally Posted by profholt82
After that, you also have the problem of the start button, which functions completely different from the SMS pause button, and the difference in resolution, which would generally end with excess graphical garbage that was meant to be obscured by the GG's smaller viewing area. There are actually some people out there who have hacked a number of GG-exclusive games to get them fully playable on SMS/Genesis -- excess graphical garbage and all --though, so not all hope is lost.
^That.
Too many colors on the GG. More, even, than on the Genesis. So no chance of getting a "Super Game Gear" either.
I've always wondered about that, why Sega didn't just aim to make the Game Gear compatible with the Genesis as the SMS was. Was the expanded palette implemented due to the TV Tuner? That's the only reason I can of the machine needing more variety, because the Genesis did fine with 512 and the Game Gear was certainly in no position to top it graphically. I suppose it could have been added to compete with the Lynx palette, too, but that's hardly a concern with the Lynx only supporting 16 colors at a time which was never enough to really show that off.
I think Sega kind of shot themselves in the foot by giving the gamegear such a wide color palette. A 'mega game gear' adapter for the genesis would have been an amazing back in the dayQuote:
Originally Posted by Assman
http://www.otakus-store.net/en/moddi...connector.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by QuickSciFi
I just bought a refurbished Game Gear with it already installed off of eBay.
Thanks. Looks like it's designed for a Pal system via 220 Volts. Don't know how to backtrack from RGB to regular component (unless it's the same cable as the one for the Model 2 Genesis). Either way, I noticed they're also selling one PAL consolized GG. I am very interested. Too bad it runs off of 220 Volts. I wonder if they're willing to mod my US NTSC GG. The shop looks closed now (don't know what that means). Will see again in the am.
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Services only for French customers.
Damn!
Hon Hon Hon, you are merde out of luck mon ami!Quote:
Originally Posted by QuickSciFi
You are in the merde up to the neck would be more Frenglish :)
OK, this isn't as good looking, but couldn't you just transfer the "guts" into a SMS case? I'm assuming he is using the mod that was mentioned above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiJL27Jy-rI
I recently bought a Game Gear link to SMS pad cable, so my system is fully consolized now. :)
Not sure if anyone has seen this but it's pretty badass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQLIq6mjjCk
I've been trying to get in contact with this guy. I have all the materials needed for this and i'd pay top dollar to have my SMS modded with a GG slot.
Just felt the need to give some quick input on this. The Game Gear's cartridge slot had dedicated pins for 4-bit digital RGB lines, and Stereo Analog Input. While a game could use these pins for displaying video generated on-cart, the only device I know to actually use these pins are the TV Tuner.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benjamin
So, presumably, the internal LCD screens run by accepting accepting 4-bit digital RGB from the VDP in some way, and since this would fit just as elegantly into the CRAM as 3-bit RGB anyway, I presume the thought process went something like "Well, it costs us virtually nothing to support 4-bit RGB, so let's support 4-bit RGB".
Incidentally, later Majesco Game Gears actually removed these lines from the cart slot. Presumably to cut costs.
Anyone with more in-depth hardware knowledge, feel free to correct me. But I can near guarantee that having just a 512 colour master palette would've looked bad when watching TV. :)