SMS Everdrive on Game Gear

[Guntz]

If you have a SMS Everdrive, a Game Gear console and a Master Gear adapter, is it possible to run Game Gear games with this setup? Or do you need a Game Gear Everdrive to play Game Gear games?

[IrishNinja]

that's a pretty good question actually, i still haven't played that one shining force chapter we never got (think it was fan translated?)

either way shame my GG's screen is damn near dead

[joyeux]

If you have a SMS Everdrive, a Game Gear console and a Master Gear adapter, is it possible to run Game Gear games with this setup? Or do you need a Game Gear Everdrive to play Game Gear games?

Maxim from SMS Power says:

You would have to modify the Master Gear to allow you to force GG mode. This involves cutting a trace and adding a switch. The GG Everdrive is able to do this in software but the SMS one can't.

Topic: http://www.smspower.org/forums/15673...Question#88772

[Guntz]

Sweet, thanks. Now to see if I can find a Master Gear adapter for cheap.

[IrishNinja]

yeah i had one in the day & it worked great, haven't seen one since but figure they should still be fairly cheap?

[Guntz]

From a Canadian perspective, it's not easy to get a cheap Master Gear adapter. Anyone here got one for sale?

[datbuta]

From a Canadian perspective, it's not easy to get a cheap Master Gear adapter. Anyone here got one for sale?

I PM'd you about the master gear converter

[joyeux]

On the Everdrive regard, I was thinking what is worth it:

1) Buy a SMS Everdrive to use in both SMS and GG (with adapted Master Gear) - which seems to be the easier option

or

2) Buy a GG Everdrive to use in both GG and SMS (with some slot adaptation...) - which seems to be a nicer but complicated or unfeasible option, since these adapters likely don't exist. Have anyone tried this?

[GohanX]

The GG Everdrive can run SMS roms directly without modification unless you're rocking a Majesco GG. I used to have both the GG and SMS Everdrives and I'd use the same SD card for both.

[joyeux]

Mine is a Tectoy one, so for SMS games I would be fine going with a GG Everdrive.

What I still don't know is if I could use a GG Everdrive in a SMS using some kind of adapter, or building one.

I just don't want to buy both Everdrives, but I expect to play it in the SMS and in the GG, since I don't like to play SMS games in my Game Gear.

[joyeux]

According to Esrael Neto (Sega-Brasil). the mod is necessary to boot GG games in SMS Everdrive. He kindly answered my question, which I will roughly translate:

In fact, you will need to make a change to the adapter in order for Game Gear to switch between Master System and Game Gear modes. Pin 42 (Signal !GG) of the Cartridge Slot controls this mode. The adapters by default connect this pin to the VCC. The key in question should cause this pin to be grounded, making the signal low and activating Game Gear mode.

Interestingly you can activate the GG mode for any game of Master System and the game will be interpreted as Game Gear with reduced screen and palette in 4096 colors mode, however as the VDP was initialized in Master System mode the result will be The Game Gear resolution with the wrong palettes

Link: https://www.sega-brasil.com.br/forum...p=62872#p62867

[Team Saber Rider]

The GG Everdrive can run SMS roms directly without modification unless you're rocking a Majesco GG. I used to have both the GG and SMS Everdrives and I'd use the same SD card for both.

Whats the difference with a Majesco GG?

[Guntz]

It's a cost reduced Game Gear, everyone says SMS games don't work with it. The screen is supposedly better, but everything else is worse, such as the speaker and overall build quality.

[Team Saber Rider]

Ah okay. Is it possible to take out the screen and put it in a normal GG?

[Guntz]

It's better to re-cap a Majesco GG and take the speaker and buttons out of a parts Sega Game Gear.