Sega Game Gear Home console system ....

[Crackdown]

You know that was me just praising the Game Gear, right?

Anyways, if I were to take your point into question, I'd say it'd be unfair to compare the TG16 with the Game Gear. And, well, wasn't the Lynx 16-bit?

But yes, the Turbo Express is one heck of a handheld. And, to be honest, I think I could fall in love the the Lynx just as easily.

The Lynx is like the PC Engine in the respect that it has an 8-bit CPU (65C02) but it has a 16-bit graphics chip. The Lynx also has a blitter and a bloody good 4-Channel stereo sound chip too.

[xelement5x]

It IS an handheld SMS, it does not exceed SMS in any place whatsoever, besides wider palette and sound LR control, all else is still same and don't make GG any better than SMS...

I was always told that the GG was a beefed up SMS with more colors, but I didn't realize that the resolution was actually lower than the SMS; I'll trust the Epic Estonian when it comes to hardware on this but I'd argue the larger palette is something that does make the GG better than the SMS in one sense. Regardless, thanks for the info

All things being equal though, I'd probably rather have the GG's larger color palette than the larger SMS resolution, it's all about the GRAPHICS!

[Kamahl]

All things being equal though, I'd probably rather have the GG's larger color palette than the larger SMS resolution, it's all about the GRAPHICS!

It makes a surprisingly big difference. Just look at Gunstar Heroes or Power Strike II.

[djshok]

NO FUCKING WAY!!!! I want this - NOW!!!

Dude you rock for posting this.

[otaku]

that is very cool. Price is high but based on labor may be reasonable. Very unique. If I had the money I'd get one!

[Black_Tiger]

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.

[kool kitty89]

It makes a surprisingly big difference. Just look at Gunstar Heroes or Power Strike II.

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)

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).

[Hidden_Darkness]

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?

[djshok]

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.

[omp]

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!

[KnightWarrior]

I'm not letting this die

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/show...=1#post1904518

It got posted on DP

[Baloo]

Is MarioMania a user here on Sega-16?

[TheSonicRetard]

Is MarioMania a user here on Sega-16?

That would be Knight warrior

[KnightWarrior]

Yep, That's me..I only have 2 username on couple gaming forums

[Robotwo]

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.