Are there any console adapters to play Game Gear games?

[STICH666]

My Game Gear just went bust today and I would rather play my games on the perfect clarity of a TV than on the blur machine the Game Gear is. I know they made a Genesis and Game Gear adapter to play Master system games but is there something that does the opposite. BTW I know the Master System has too low of a color palette to accurately play Game Gear games but the Genesis is high enough AFAIK.

[Vectorman]

No.

[STICH666]

No.

[nathanallan]

There are technical difficulties behind it. Lots of people have tried and I will be one of them, but it won't be for a console, but for a C128.

 

Anyway, none exist, and I'm not really sure why but I know it's quite technical. We have talked it over several times at sega-16.

[DeathAdderSF]

I would rather play my games on the perfect clarity of a TV than on the blur machine the Game Gear is.

 

Here's your only option:

 

Chris Covell's Game Gear RGB Video Hack

 

However, it's not an easy project, and it still requires you to have a working Game Gear machine.

[Video]

I swear I used to have such a device, but it's long since dissappeared (probably one of my "friends" helped themselves to it) but everybody tells me it couldn't exist cause blah blah blah...I remember the thing though, and other than a few games, it looked really fucky...though I'm not sure why, other than something to do with the GG supporting more colors than the Genesis. (64vs16 IIRC)

 

Anyhow, maybe I just imagined the thing....but that would be one in a fairly long line of things I have/had that people say don't exist...

 

That Video hack for the GG looks cool though, I may look into that.. I got lots of broken GG's that have minor fixable problems, I'll have to look into it.

[MagitekAngel]

Perhaps Ottawa is some sort of mysterious spacial anomaly to which all Game Gears are intrinsically drawn, but the little buggers tend to show up by the truckload in Pawn Shops, Value Villages, and classic gaming stores all over the place here. They're never more than 5 bucks, so blurry screen aside, it doesn't sound terribly difficult to replace a broken one. And I hope you've got an AC adapter or something; I'm pretty sure the Game Gear caused a catastrophic battery shortage in Brazil in the mid nineties or something.

[STICH666]

Perhaps Ottawa is some sort of mysterious spacial anomaly to which all Game Gears are intrinsically drawn, but the little buggers tend to show up by the truckload in Pawn Shops, Value Villages, and classic gaming stores all over the place here. They're never more than 5 bucks, so blurry screen aside, it doesn't sound terribly difficult to replace a broken one. And I hope you've got an AC adapter or something; I'm pretty sure the Game Gear caused a catastrophic battery shortage in Brazil in the mid nineties or something.

Don't forget. I'm on Long Island. Nothing but popular consoles and dev items out here.

[shadow460]

Perhaps Ottawa is some sort of mysterious spacial anomaly to which all Game Gears are intrinsically drawn, but the little buggers tend to show up by the truckload in Pawn Shops, Value Villages, and classic gaming stores all over the place here. They're never more than 5 bucks, so blurry screen aside, it doesn't sound terribly difficult to replace a broken one. And I hope you've got an AC adapter or something; I'm pretty sure the Game Gear caused a catastrophic battery shortage in Brazil in the mid nineties or something.

 

Nah, battery technology has come a long way. Anything 2000 mAh and above will run a Game Gear until the apocalypse. Wal*Mart sells plenty of "photo" batteries that are rechargeable that will work. Also, the "kidney pack" can be rebuilt with the same sub C cells they use to make batteries for cordless tools. I've seen NiCd run up to 2400 mAh in sub C size. They have to be Nickel Cadmium for the kidney pack, though, NiMH cells will not charge correctly in it. Plus, today's NiCd cells are very tough compared to those of the mid '90's, and they do not have a memory effect.

[nathanallan]

shadow, I just rebuilt one of those kidney packs (never heard it called that before) and the original cells were nimh's and not nicd's. I used six 1800mah cells from a generic drill battery. I made a video from it,

. Next time I rebuild one I'll try to use the high capacity AA's that are around, but really I go cheap most times cause they don't go for much if I was to resell it.

 

Big Lots has been having a bunch of decent nimh batteries, too, and $5 for a pack of four is a pretty good deal.

[Seob]

"Video" is right there was a device that enabled you to play gamegear on a tv and use a genesis pad as controller. Called the Wide Gear. However it was a development tool and would cost serious money.

* Another odd hardware is the Wide Gear, a device that let's you connect

your Game Gear to a TV and plug even a Genesis controller for playing !?!

This thing is huge but at least it does work (and how !!) but it's too

expensive to buy (more than a 1,000$). Many of you contacted me to ask me

where you can find a Wide Gear, Sorry to say i don't know !!! PLEASE don't

ask me this question anymore. I read the story of this gadget in one of

the Electronic Gaming Magazines which had a picture. Better ask SEGA or

EGM, maybe they know ? And good luck in your search !

Game gear faq

A guide to build it yourself:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/eviltim/ggrgb/ggrgb.html

Edited August 20, 2009 by Seob

[SRGilbert]

"Video" is right there was a device that enabled you to play gamegear on a tv and use a genesis pad as controller. Called the Wide Gear. However it was a development tool and would cost serious money.

* Another odd hardware is the Wide Gear, a device that let's you connect

your Game Gear to a TV and plug even a Genesis controller for playing !?!

This thing is huge but at least it does work (and how !!) but it's too

expensive to buy (more than a 1,000$). Many of you contacted me to ask me

where you can find a Wide Gear, Sorry to say i don't know !!! PLEASE don't

ask me this question anymore. I read the story of this gadget in one of

the Electronic Gaming Magazines which had a picture. Better ask SEGA or

EGM, maybe they know ? And good luck in your search !

Game gear faq

 

A guide to build it yourself:

http://members.optus...grgb/ggrgb.html

 

Pretty cool how they predicted the Nomad at the end of the article, a 16bit handheld with AV outs!

[Greg2600]

I've clamored for a Game Gear alternative for awhile as well. The main problem with playing the games on a Master System is that the Game Gear has a larger color palette and is not possible. I suppose playing on a Genesis is possible, but no one's ever done it.

[SRGilbert]

I know emulation isn't always popular, but you can play GG games on a modded Xbox if nothing else. I haven't tried yet myself, so I'm not sure what you can expect as far as scaling. At best, I'd think it would be like playing GBA games on the Gamecube adapter, which is not that great in my opinion.