www.figureitoutproductions.com In this video I clean and restore a Sega 32X (and a Game Gear...sort of) that was sent to me for free by a user named Thisithis. Wooooooooo.
Don't forget those two white ribbon cables! They are very easy to wiggle out and wiggle back in. I bought a labelled 'broken' 32x online a few years ago. I cleaned the ribbon cable's pins with rubbing alcohol and the 32x started working!
Thank you! My filthy Game Gear can stop being the dirtiest thing in my sega collection now! Now if it would just stop eating all my batteries it would be perfect.
I have a solution just buy a Sega Genesis model 2 ac adapter and it will work with the Sega game gear also it's backwards compatible with the Sega nomad Sega 32x and sega cd
Hi Adam koralik gamerade your video helped me save 2 original sega game gear 2110g systems I cleaned fixed inspected refurbished repaired restored and sanitized and they both work excellent
Hi gamerade your video helped me save another sega game gear its the original 2110 launch system i cleaned fixed inspected refurbished repaired restored and sanitized now the sega game gear works excellent
My 32x I found locally after a few years of searching ,the fr shield had a lot of rust spots ..I’m considering using a dremel at low speed to buff them out
Hey Adam, I have a 32x and all it does is so the licensing screen and after that no Sega logo. Also when I put my regular genesis games in it just does a black screen. Any help would be fantastic!
You are not aware (or maybe you are) how lucky you are that the Game Gear actually works. I have a few...ALL needed recapping. I learned how to do that myself....not very hard. You may bork the first one (I almost did...but didn't) and you'll be a pro by the third :) I would HIGHLY suggest opening it and just looking at those caps though. It might be working, but they also might be leaking their very destructive fluid as well. I know it has been over five years since this video...so if you haven't you really should now!
AdamKoralik How did your TV detect a source as RGB Scart in the US? You obviously have a scart cable, but didn't it run through some sort of upscaler and output with a different type of cable like HDMI? Thanks!
Good video and very lucky with that Game Gear :) (my first handheld, probably worked for only two years whereas the almost as old Game Boy still boots up today)
Nice job Adam koralic that sega 32x and sega game gear found the right owner to help them I do the same thing when I buy abused neglected unloved retro videogames
Adam, I have tape residue on my 32x I just got and I took the lid off (that's where it is). Any suggestions to get it off? I've already washed it w/ soap and water.
I found my old Game Gear in the attic and want to clean it up a bit, but it's missing both of the plastic battery doors on the back. Is there an easy way to buy replacement doors? I think I saw on ebay the entire handheld was going for around 20 bucks, but I don't want to buy a whole Game Gear just for its damn battery doors.
Nice job saving that Sega 32x and original Sega game gear Adam koralic they found the right owner to take care of them every time I shop on eBay for old school retro videogames systems controllers cardtridges and CD cased games before I test the system and controllers I clean fix inspect refurbish repair I and sanitize the less dust the more likely it will work
Depends, if you keep it exposed and out it won't last long, if you keep locked in a cabinet or something it'll last much longer. Pledge helps to keep it dust resistant, so it's easier to swipe dust off of it, so that's a nice bonus.
You may have addressed it in a different video but is there any reason why you use Windex to clean the game ports? It's been a long time since I had to do that but for some reason I thought it was alcohol that you would generally use to do that.
hey Adam, I have a Sega Genesis model 2 and I just recently got a power cable and video cable for it, the system works fine the only problem is that the first controller port doesn't work. what do you recommend I do to fix it?
Love your vids, if you hate the battery life of the Game gear you could get the battery pack and do a Lithium ion battery mod for it. Also are you going to the Midwest Classic Gaming Con in Milwaukee?
Another good suggestion would be to replace the old back lights with before led's ones. They will astronomically extend the battery life and if you mod the battery pack to a lithium ion like you said...WOW!!!!
Very minor suggestion, but I always find it good practice to use like an xacto knife (dull) to check (and if necessary remove) if there is any larger pieces of generic filth prior to cleaning with the credit card or whatever cause that may run the risk of smashing it down deeper and it getting stuck in there. My famicom had a piece of fabric in the cart slot for whatever reason and I didn't notice until way after cleaning trying to put a cartridge in. Anyway, good video.
I just opened up my old 32x for the first time a couple weeks ago. I wound up undoing the two huge ribbon cables for no reason and had a pain of a time putting them back lol
Hey Adam thanks for this vid! IM having this strange issue with my 32X.. It was working fine up until a few days ago. It will boot the first initial screen of PRODUCED BY OR UNDER LICENSE FROM SEGA LTD. But then goes black.. Sometimes if i hit reset it will allow it to boot past that and even allow me to play a game.. Very rarely tho. This is with 32X games only. All genesis and megadrive games are booting up fine through the 32x. What could this be?
AdamKoralik Hey Adam.. Thanks for the reply mate… I opened it up and it was spotless.. So I basically just re seated the cables and its now working perfectly! I finally get to play Kolibri after owning it for over ten years! hehehe
I wonder if that is what caused Knuckles Chaotix to not work so perfectly when it did, even with all the right hookups. I tried running it on the 32X when I had to use it with a PSP AC Adapter. The game worked, despite visual issues, but now, I'm lucky if I even get it to the Character Select screen. And I recently cleaned the game!
Those flat white cables can be removed, and sometimes need cleaning. I've gotten a few 32x consoles working by removing them, cleaning them with alcohol, and putting them back in.
I recently bought a Sega Game Gear for $5 from Goodwill that didn't have a power supply with it. I put new batteries in it, but it didn't work. Is there any hope if I buy a power supply for it that it will work without doing anything else to it? It also had Sonic 2 in it.
Possibly could be corroded battery terminals or bad power board there was three models of the sega game gear the 2110 had va1 motherboard also has 2 acis chips the 2110k had a va4 motherboard and the 2110g had a va5 motherboard I cleaned fixed inspected refurbished repaired restored and sanitized two sega game gear systems and they both work excellent
From what I've read Jupiter was what the the 32X was originally going to be which was a whole new console but SOA basically told SOJ that with the Saturn on the way releasing a transitional console was a stupid idea. Unfortunately they suggested making it an add on instead of just axing it altogether.
Hi gamerade i bought a original sega game gear 2110g off ebay it cost me $75.75 it had a bottom left corroded battery terminal i put a new bottom left battery terminal and new rubber pad to fit over the d pad now the game gear works excellent
Hey Adam, I Bought A Sega 32x And The Power Supply It Came With Doesn't Fit. Any Suggestions? My Power Supply Has 2 Plugs Coming Off Of It One Larger Than The Other.
Are you talking about the dual power supply for the Genesis and 32X combo? If so, and you have one that's big and one that's small, it means it's designed for a Genesis Model 1 and a 32X.
Speaking of shows like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers did you also watch shows like Dragon Ball Z,Pokemon,Yugioh (original),Mario Bros Super Show and TMNT (1987).
Hi Adam koralic I finally did the ultimate challenge I cleaned fixed inspected refurbished repaired restored and sanitized a yellow original Nintendo game boy dmg-01 play it loud system and a original Sega game gear and they both work excellent
Hi gamerade Adam koralik figure it out i just obtained a original sega genesis model 1 high definition graphics console and sega game gear 2110 it came bundled with a naki rechargeable battery pack with mortal kombat and streets of rage 2
+Greg _ That's demonstrably false. I have tons of them. Problem is they can't really be fixed by a simple cleaning. Sure, you could wipe it down, maybe clean the cartridge slot, but that's about it. Beyond that, any issues are going to require way more.
the sega mercury was the game gear the venus was the nomad earth was unused mars was obviously the 32x the jupiter was going to be a stand alone cart based 32 bit system that with the purchase of a cd drive could run saturn games as well as its own cart based "jupiter games" saturn was the saturn uranus was unused neptune was the 32x genesis combo and pluto was a saturn with a built in modem
Hi gamerade o g Adam koralik figure it out I like saving original nintendo entertainment systems original nintendo gameboys sega master systems sega genesis sega game gears super Nintendo entertainment system game boy color nintendo 64 gba game cube nintendo wii original microsoft xbox original xbox 360
