This channel will aim to show you how to customise, mod and paint anything from consoles to toys and model kits. Specialising in 90's nostalgia but not neglecting the great things we have now (the future Retro).
It was 1991, I was 9 years old and I was given my first handheld console as a birthday present. To this day I still remember the unboxing of the SEGA Game Gear and Joy it gave me for hours on end for years to come.
Fast forward to today and I wanted to relive that experience and so bought a broken Game Gear and some capacitors and with no soldering experience I managed to fix it.
Straight after I wanted to customise it and make it my own, using skills I learnt from other hobbies I painted my first themed Game Gear in the style of a famous Coke brand. I loved the way it turned out, I wanted to make more.
In short. I want to share with you all my love for retro gaming and I how I celebrate it through customising and modifying.
I hope you enjoy my channel and help me grow.
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Nice Video ! Sub & Big Like ! Love Retro Sega Games !
It shouldve fucken had AV out in the first place! biggest fail on segas part
Hello fron Paraguay my fotografíed in arcade jurasic park games
People do not know how to use sclines in general. Scanlines are for filtering the jag edges and the crt mask wires goingvup down filters our rest jag that is why just using Scanlines will still have some jags because you do not have right size mask but the trick to get rid of all jags on a lot games not all is to prescaling the pixs to the scanlines.i keep my scanlines on lowest setting so you barely see them because it adds depth and 3d look like the crt .pixelcwas pixels but it did not look pixels on right crt in its native every thing states. I do not know why people believe that this games look pixel lated.😅 Yiu need to match your game refresh to your tv refresh do you do not need vsyn or triple buffer. You just using the tv native refresh matched to your game.most emulators can force low refresh games like 30 frames to 60 common old school refresh but not all can do that so you need vsyn.None my games use frame skip eather.real time rendering.
Had no idea Game Gear modding was a thing. Looks amazing! Hopefully there is a rechargeable battery mod too.
Of course there is, this one has 2 x 2500mah batteries and uses Usbc to charge. Gives about 18 hours of gameplay
Do you repair game gears on your website
@@SLICK8116 hiya, I do indeed
It looks so absolutely beautiful. 😍
Youll never have 1😅
Where did you get the shell
I painted it myself
That looks great
Is that game gear custom made
It is indeed 💪
Can't believe they didn't include either of the awesome Game Gear Jurassic Park games in the PS5 collection, both are better than the Gameboy versions
I completely agree! It’s a shame, I’d say the game gear version was the best. True underdog 🤣
That smell is the worst part!
The smell does take some getting use to for sure! The wife absolutely hates it when I work on these 😂
Nice, own the SNES game.
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That is beautiful I never thought any one would make a custom Jurassic Park custom shell you earned yourseof a subscriber!
Is it me or was the vinyl at first correct? It should say 50 and not 05 right?
So the 50 looked fine, but I was going for the 05 from the movie.
Great work :D
Thanks! 😄
This is a work of art, one of the finest pieces of tech I have ever seen and I could not be more appreciative and supportive of your work Andrew! The attention to detail, the craftsmanship and love that went into this is so awesome. Thank you so much and cheers on making a 20 year dream come back alive.
No worries, I love building these consoles and just want to get the underrated console of the 90s out there! Enjoy, it was great fun to build 👍
I love themed builds. I’ve got only one but plan on doing more. Looking forwards to more content!!!
Awesome, I have a lot of theme builds, hopefully I’ll have lots more to come 😃 what have you done already? What are you planning?
I’ve recently bought a game gear and came across your art work which is excellent. These videos are also great, particularly the recapping. Why go to the effort of widening the shell when you could get something like a Retrosix screen and drop it in - is the BV one that much better?
Hi and thank you. The Retrosix screens and the bennvenn SD screen are both great drop in options. The reason I personally prefer the HD is because of the integer scaled pixels. Also the new on screen display with the use of a touch sensor to bring up the menu I prefer. The pixel density is much higher as well, going from 320 to 640. So very clean and crisp.
why did you remove the resistors and wired those cables for the GGFM? is this only needed for Syf board? I have a GGFM on an original board and didnt have to wire anything
Going from the SYF website, there is a section where he suggests this for outrun to work correctly. I’d be interested to whether in your experience you need to do this?
It's for enabling PSG sound mixing, really only needed to SMS Outrun.
@@drivenbyfate does it have any negative effects? or it just adds compatibility for outrun and thats it?
@Blehstor Nope no negative effects, just adds compatibility for outrun is all. Really not needed if you don't plan on playing that one game.
@@drivenbyfate thanks for the info, what about original boards? is it also needed for them?
things to improve in your videos, the music is blasting too loud while I can't make out anything you are saying, a headphone microphone (that also have a foam protection to isolate noise and breath / air blast) could greatly help so we get constant sound of your voice and actually not only hear you but understand you, and yeah the music could be slightly lower gain with slight fade in and out so it doesn't blast our brains and ears out XD
All very good feedback, I have indeed invested in a microphone, just a small one. Hopefully you’ll see, well, hear the difference in the next video 😉 I do struggle with the audio mix for some reason! I’m learning though.
So much passion in your work, looks great!
Thank you, I try my best with ever console I paint or build.
looks really good bro 👍
Thank you 😀
Very interesting. Thanks for all the work you put in making these videos. (Would really enjoy that tool links list.)
I may have forgotten that, I’ll do it now 👍
@@retrogearcustoms Cool, looking forward to the rest of the build!
@@hectorprojectortools are in the description now. Thanks for watching 😀
Curious, do you guys do the Nomad as well? *wink* *wink*
Hi, I’ve not worked on a nomad yet, but in principle they are similar to both the game gear and mega drive.
@@retrogearcustoms awesome! Couldn’t wait.
Subscribed! Because I’m backing an order from you guys in due course!
Thanks for subscribing, what are you thinking of ordering?
@@retrogearcustoms SEGA GAME GEAR - NOSTALGIA NINJA - BennVenn GGHGD
@@riquealfonso lovely choice, I’m honestly not sure how a game gear can better than this lol we must have hit peak by now
@@retrogearcustoms we appreciate custom retro and besides, you guys has magic fingers. It must be the heart and passion 🤩
Are there no new shells premade with this ratio for the screen hole size? (Love the tiny animated bits you put in there. So cool, man.)
There are no shells that I know of that are ready for this. The tiny animated bits took ages lol, glad you like them 😀
Cool, had no idea this was possible. Too bad SYF don't seem to have the PCB in stock anymore. Thanks for a great video.
Might be worth reaching out to him to see if he still has these or can get some ordered.
What screen did you use on the gameboy? That green color is really on point.
Thank you, really integrering to see that. Would love a video of the install and test of the SYF audio board with premium speakers.
Should be easy enough. I’ll get it done 👍
@retrogearcustoms Come to think of it. I haven't seen one video with SYF power board with the Dual LiPo batteries. That would be really cool to see as well. That guy really makes some interesting products and there is not always a lot of information about them on KZread.
You gotta try the hot air method! You can decap a board in 5 minutes! Great work!
Or even the wiggle method. Just bend the caps back and forth until the legs break off, so fast to remove caps like that.
I’m not sure how confident I am putting hot air near caps. I made that mistake once and not too willing to try it again 😂
@@drivenbyfateI’ve torn a couple of pads this way, but it is a way to do it for sure 👍
@@retrogearcustoms 😂😂 that's fair
Nice walkthrough, thank you. Glad to see I'm not the only one to struggle with the power board 😅 What references of capacitors do you use ?
Oh man! The power board.. what is up with them? Worst part of a recap. When you ask for references, what are you asking for?
I'm wondering if you pick a specific brand
@@Smanux I use Rubycon for the mainboard and power board, nichicon for the soundboard.
Neat
Very handy video. It looks like you are taking 2mm off the left and right, and none off the top and bottom, is that correct?
Yes 2mm off each side and none off the bottom 👍
Beautyfull hello fron paraguay my fotografied arcade jurasick park and baby blue toy jurasick world❤❤
Ian Malcom was right...
Is something like this for sale?
Sorry, I missed this comment, yes I do sell these on my site. I’ll need to add the option to increase the screen size.
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So wait do you have 2 DMG game boys that are both Jurassic park theme? So cool.
I do indeed
is this custom model?
This is indeed a custom I made
@@retrogearcustoms respect u bro, nice stuff
Man, with how many pieces there are, I'd go insane trying to paint this thing. Great job dude.
I think it’s over 800 pieces, and yup wasn’t an easy thing to paint lol
essa pcb tem o arquivo gerber ?
Nice build! Enjoyed the video. (:
Thank you for watching, and thanks for the comment. Glad you enjoyed it 😀
That’s cool. I actually like Jurassic Park on the Game Gear much more. That game was my jam.
I agree Jurassic park on the game gear is possibly the best version of the game, very over looked. Better than any Nintendo version and more playable than than the genesis
Nice work bro. Beautiful results
Thanks, it takes time, but worth it
You make soldering the screen pins look so easy 😂 well done! Cracking job, can't believe how different the tech is; that screen is BEAUTIFUL! The touch controls are pretty snazzy too! Stereo speakers as well?! That's crazy! Amazing 😊 Great vid!
Glad you enjoyed it, it’s easy when you know how 😉 this is an absolute beast, it’s my daily player for now.
@@retrogearcustoms I'm not surprised. 100% jealous, even though I already have my own beauties!! 😍🥰
Vallejo FTW haha