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This will have to do for now. It seems the aftermarket “bubble” lenses that are similar to the originals are not easy to find these days.
Everyone wants the flat glass ones which are nice and better long term, I guess, but lack a big part of what made the Game Gear… Game Gear. In my opinion, anyway.
If anyone happens to know a source for those for a reasonable price these days, let me know. I picked one up from @console5dotcom several years ago for about $4.
I might try my hand at buffing out what I can from one of my originals for the next repair. In this case, the lens was already an old flat plastic aftermarket lens which was cracked so it’s fine as it is.
Regardless, it’s nice to have a working GG again with a killer screen
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Some progress on the Game Gear tonight. @bennvennelectronics LCD installed and seems to be working well. Now I just need to clean things up a bit and replace the lens and I think I can call this one done
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Several years ago now I replaced the capacitors and backlight in the Game Gear I had as a kid. It still doesn’t work completely and I never dove in to figure out what other issues might be present.
At some point I picked up three dead Game Gears for next to nothing hoping that between them all perhaps I could get at least one working.
I’ve since picked up a new LCD from @bennvennelectronics and have been sitting on it for a while knowing I needed to do another cap kit on at least one of these things. And if you’ve ever attempted that, then you know that once is more than enough Well, I finally got around to that tonight.
One of the four would at least power on so I figured that was a good place to start. I swapped in a working audio board and just got done with the cap kit. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a working Game Gear.
Next up: the new LCD!
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Sonic Game Gear titles were all the rave to compete with the Super Mario/Wario Land Train!! Which one was your favorite? I loved Sonic 2!!!
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