Awesome work! The IPS screen looks incredible 👍

@TheBasementChannel

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Good luck with your project, looking forward to your video.

Quite an endeavor you took upon yourself and just an amazing outcome.Cheers to you!

@TheBasementChannel

Жыл бұрын

Why thank you for your kind comment! Cheers back to you!

Wow! Seriously impressive. So close with that heat on the screen ribbon and then no. Roller coaster ride 😂.

@TheBasementChannel

Жыл бұрын

It’s about as exciting as my life gets 😆

I'm seriously impressed mate! That was a seriously high tech repair 🤯

@TheBasementChannel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Humph! Almost as impressive as circling wedgetail eagles! 😉

Really impressive results, and nice video as always!

@TheBasementChannel

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks so much for the encouraging feedback!

The rotten pads are an absolute soul destroyer. Ive bought many Game Gears and it's hit or if they are fixable. Ive had several where the capacitors have melted too much away to even save the board. Im glad you got through it, and those screens with a new lens make all the hard work worth it.

@TheBasementChannel

9 ай бұрын

Yes I’m super happy with the result. Sometime you have to roll the dice on these things, I’m glad it worked out for me this time around. Cheers for the comment!

Excellent job!

@TheBasementChannel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Garth! I’m just happy I didn’t make it worse 😅

Great restoration! I have a few Game Gears I need to restore, I need to install one of those screens. It looks great!

@TheBasementChannel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve! The screen is amazing! Transforms the whole game gear.

Seega *commence eye twitch*. Awesome video as usual. The quality of these just get better and better.

@TheBasementChannel

Жыл бұрын

Seeeeeega.

That ribbon cables looks like it makes it a lot easier than having to do all the individual wires like I had to when I got the really early prototype years ago.

@TheBasementChannel

Жыл бұрын

Yes, although it would have been even easier if there were some sort of instructions 😅 but I do love the neat finish it provides.

Nice work mate. I've also played with heating up the drivers in the original screens and found it never fully revived them. Good choice with the Benn Venn screen.

@TheBasementChannel

Жыл бұрын

Yes in hindsight I should have gone straight to the screen replacement, I didn’t realise it was so much better than the original. And they are quite reasonably priced.

Very nice! Great job for the first time with surface mount. Totally agree - only way to get better is to do it! Just remember… flux is your friend :)

@TheBasementChannel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate! I get lazy cause I don’t want to have to clean up the flux 😅

Sooo clever!!!

@TheBasementChannel

Жыл бұрын

You are!

Awesome! Wish I had your skillz👍👍

@TheBasementChannel

10 ай бұрын

If I can do it, so can you! Thanks for the comment!!

Nice rebuild. If you were soldering those surface mount components by eye then you did pretty good. By watching Bruce from Branchus Creations' videos, he added a little flux to the pads to allow the solder to flow real easily. Just watch any of his videos and you will get an idea on how he does it. I'm not keen on soldering surface mount components yet, but I may give it a go one day.. maybe...

@TheBasementChannel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment! Yes I’ve watched Bruce’s soldering tutorial, it’s very good. I might need to get a microscope if I do much more of this sort of work!

I replaced the original power board with USB-C board that utilise rechargable batteries. Weight a bit less and more run time. SMD soldering is not so hard, my first try was on the Sega Gamegear as well.

@TheBasementChannel

Жыл бұрын

Yes that’s the other mod I’m considering. Still wondering how much money I want to spend on it 😂

One thing I've seen done by other KZreadrs is snipping the 34v wire from the power ribbon cable. I don't know if it's required but it would suck to be powering stuff you no longer need since you're not using all the circuitry for the CFL.

@TheBasementChannel

4 ай бұрын

Good info, I haven’t heard about this but I guess it makes sense?

Great work! Why not adding a modern rechargeable battery too? :)

@TheBasementChannel

Жыл бұрын

On the future to-do list 😉

@mygarart2764

Жыл бұрын

@@TheBasementChannel waiting for it!

Nice work. How long does the battery last with this lcd screen?

@TheBasementChannel

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I’ve only used it connected to the power adapter, but I imagine it should last a bit longer than before without the huge power hungry backlight array.

I have GG with same symptoms as you present here. Where can I get capacitors changed out? Would you do it for me??

@TheBasementChannel

6 ай бұрын

Do it yourself Brian! If I can do it, anyone can!

Where is the best place to get game gear parts?

@TheBasementChannel

8 ай бұрын

Just google around, that’s what I did.

Someone told me some game gear screen cannot be changed by a new lcd one. Do you know anything about it?

@TheBasementChannel

10 ай бұрын

You just have to buy the right screen for your model of GameGear.

@leandrograziosi

10 ай бұрын

@@TheBasementChannel a friend of mine told me he can't use a new chinese lcd display on VA4, VA5 or taiwan hardware... Do you know anything about it?