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.
Very good video! Thanks! 🙏🏽 One thing I'm not sure I get correctly : the motherboard you show in the end is a motherboard with everything capacitors installed on it, so all we have to do is mount power, sound and battery on it and it's ready to go?
: New Sub Detroit, Mich. Well Done Sir, i have a Nice Subject, I havent ReCapped it yet due to the fact I know I should and want to do more Upgrades and thats $$$. For now its a Nice Shelf Display.
Great video, thank you! Just recapped my game gear successfully and I was doing a bit of research for the IPS screen and the rechargeable batteries when I came across your channel 😁 Left a comment for the algorithm.
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.
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.
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?
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.
@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 RU-vid.
