Video Games – Page 7

Oh yeah, I still have a website. It has received so much neglect. Between school and Ad Liberation there is little time for me to do anything else, but I am trying. So, here is a peek into my latest project.

I am fixulating my Sega Game Gear. The problem with mine (and almost all others) is there are many capacitors on the board that are faulty and leak rendering the system unusable. The effects vary from a very dim and faint picture on the screen to downright not staying powered. Mine is the latter. I am going to replace them all, and ordered the replacements today. I am also replacing the caps on the audio board as a precaution.

The whole Game Gear splayed out.

The Game Gear mainboard. The little square things are the surface mount capacitors that I need to replace.

The audio board. The round cans are the caps to replace.

I’ll let you know how this goes and throw up some videos of the finished (and hopefully working) product.

Virtual Boy Power Mod

This is one that has been in the hopper for QUITE a while. I am so glad to have it done now. The Virtual Boy is long considered to be Nintendo’s big flop. I don’t know why I love it so much. The games aren’t great (save Wario land), it is only displays red, even playing it is pretty uncomfortable. Despite all it’s flaws I love the li’l guy. Here is where my project comes in. The virtual boy is powered by 6 AAs out-of-the-box. There is an AC adpater you can buy, but it’s rare-ish and expensive. I decided, hey I am a dude who knows things, I’ll just add my own AC adapter. That is what I did.

I found that it needed to give it 9V DC. I went to my local Radio Shack to purchase the jack and plug and got a universal AC adapter that could output 9V.