Game Gear Capacitor Kit - Retro Six

Price
$7.99 USD
In stock! Usually ships within 1-2 business days.
SKU: SGG1809
Pickup available at 519 Davisville Rd.

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Developed under the name "Project Mercury", the Game Gear was the primary competition to the Game Boy, the Atari Lynx and the TurboExpress.

It shared much of its hardware with the Master System, and can play Master System games by use of an adapter. Sega positioned the Game Gear, which had a full-color backlit screen with a landscape format, as a technologically superior handheld to the Game Boy.

The Game Gear was notorious for bad capacitors, which means almost no Game Gears exist in the wild that work without repair.

9/12/23 - It has come to our attention that for VA4 models, when doing a recap of motherboard, power board, and audio board, three more 100uF caps are needed than this kit currently contains. Please plan accordingly for these three missing caps.

This kit comes with all the capacitors needed to fix most versions of your Game Gear:

  • VA1
  • VA4 (missing three 100uF caps for complete cap replacement)
  • VA5

Soldering skills required, small components may be difficult for beginners. Simply remove all old aluminium capacitors from the board, and install the same value capacitors in their place.

Installation instructions can be found for this kit below:

RetroSix Sega Game Gear capacitor kit - All versions

Replace all 10uF and 4.7uF capacitors with 10uF surface mount capacitors.

NOTE: This kit now comes with 1000uF instead of 820uF.

Shipping Information

Our on-line store is open 24/7 and we ship Monday through Friday, excluding some holidays. Most products ship within 1 business day from our warehouse in Pennsylvania USA. Orders will be shipped in the order they are received. Please select a shipping speed according to your needs.

About Us

Hand Held Legend is committed to keeping retro gaming alive and better than ever. Upgrade your childhood consoles with modern tech. We strive for excellence in all that we do and aim to serve our customers well.

Customer Reviews

Based on 110 reviews
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K
Kirkland

Working great
Thank you

N
Niko K.
Game Gear recap

GAME GEAR CAPACITOR KIT Worked out great and brought back this Time Machine back to life!

H
Henry Colli
Great product overall

A truly remarkable product, this repair kit is designed for those with some soldering experience. The compact capacitors may pose a challenge initially, making it an excellent opportunity for those seeking to enhance their skills. With a touch more practice, this kit has the potential to seamlessly revive your game gear, turning it into a fully restored masterpiece.

R
Ray
Excellent

Very nice kit that completely fixed my screen and sound issues.

m
manuel

Worked great

m
manuel mercado

Works great had extra to use on another project.

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