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Unless I am the one who missed something, I think that newer comments are from people who only skimmed the first page of the thread. This is only a hobby project that someone did one time for themself and is not mass produced. Nothing is for sale. They'd likely have to charge $1000 to begin to make it worthwhile.
Rather ironic that you can hardly tell the difference on average GG screens though (on emulators or TVs, it's obvious for sure). Hell, even the MD's 9-bit RGB palette would probably be overkill for the screens used at the time. (for that matter, the GBC and GBA's 15-bit RGB palette was really overkill on those unlit screens . . . even with the gains in quality in the early 2000s, and it was still probably overkill to a lesser extent on the front-lit screens)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamahl
OTOH, if Sega had simply used the SMS hardware directly, they potentially could have added the gimmick of playing GG games on your SMS or MD via a simple passive adapter. ;)
And as for resolution/screen size, there's definitely a number of GG games that would have been much better off in SMS mode, especially the Sonic games (even with the scaling artifacts on the GG's limited screen).
the gamegear console system looks awesome, i'd buy one for sure if they were ever made for sale. I wonder if some of the modders around here could make something like that?
You know I made a thread about just that a while ago, and got a bunch of pissy responses for some reason. I even offered to pay for someone to make the damn thing and no one seemed to like the idea very much. I still think it's an awesome idea. Although to make it really cool it would have to go into some sort of console shell, not just a GG with TV connection and a controller port. I wonder if it would be possible to gut one of those crappy firecore systems and put the modded GG board into that shell, or a broken model 3 or 2, though the model 2 might be unnecessarily large, but whatever, it would still be cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hidden_Darkness
I have been considering doing another consolised GG using a SMS1 case. SMS games plug in to the normal cart slot and GG go where the card games would have gone. It would need the card slot widened, is the only real work the case would need.
The SMS case, allthough being to big it would be a good base for simple things like how the controller ports are screwed down (ie either side of the controller ports). It also has acres of room for AV fitting, s-video etc.
The SMS2 case would be nice but I don't have a spare one lol!
I'm not letting this die
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/show...=1#post1904518
It got posted on DP
Is MarioMania a user here on Sega-16?
That would be Knight warriorQuote:
Originally Posted by Baloo
Yep, That's me..I only have 2 username on couple gaming forums
As stated before the GameGear had a bunch of great games, but given that the screen isn't the best at times and that the battery life on a unmodified unit isn't that long either,
it would be nice to have a console equivilant so one can use it with a proper screen (read 28" CRT monitor).
Without trying your hand on heavily modifying a GG yourself that is. :)
I'll take 5, please!
Um, how do I buy one?
Geez that console is a thing of beauty... That guy has to make a kit out of it and offer completed units, he could eventually make a tidy profit on it... Just like this:
http://arcadeworks.net/
I would very much like one of those :( Useful and so cute next to the SMS :)
Links are down... :( Anyone still have them? Any other NEWS about this thing ?
It's a hobby project. Nothing is for sale.Quote:
Originally Posted by schmutzbrust
It looks like a mini SMS and the same person made it a mini Mark III SMS style box and docs for it.
It's such a waste of the cash spent on that plastic mold... What could have been one of the best contributions to the gaming world is now just a deceiving yet drool-worthy collection of pictures...
Very sad... At least, has someone the pics ?
... They're still on the first post of this thread, they work fine for me.
Yeah, now it works... Maybe because i was not logged in...
Wow, great system idea. This needs to be made in large quantity's asap.
Rise from your grave! Such a shame this thing is a farce... Being a born-again Game Gear nympho, I find it tragic that such a system hasn't been made for mass production.
A farce? What happened?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeckidy
I meant, of course, that it was designed to look like a professional marketed product and was just a fancy homebrew. Kind of like plastic fruit bowls. :\
Retro Freak is supposedly going to offer Game Gear support in the future.
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. :)