SEGA Game Gear CleanScreen - V3.1 - RetroSix
RetroSix
SEGA Game Gear CleanScreen - V3.1 - RetroSix
519 Davisville Rd.
519 Davisville Road
Willow Grove PA 19090
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Upgrade your SEGA Game Gear with the CleanScreen for the Game Gear. Developed by Retrosix.
FEATURES:
- Easier install, better battery life, and power efficient. Low power (just over 1watt at medium brightness), giving around 15+ hours of gaming on a set of 2.5Ah Eneloop batteries.
- Adjustable brightness using contrast wheel
- OSD Menu
- Scaling options for full size, original size, stretched.
- Scanline emulation, Pixel Grids (Horizontal, Vertical and Grid)
- True Motion (frame blending)
- Color Modes (Unaltered, Natural, Black and White, and STN Green)
- VGA Output
- Purchase IPS LCD and wire free flex cables separately.
- V3.1 (White) PCB is compatible with V2/V3 (White) Flex Cables.
- Compatible with 3.5" IPS LCD only.
- Only compatible with VA1 (1 chip) and (2 chip) motherboards - VA0/1/2.
INCLUDED:
- 1x CleanScreen board V3.1
- 1x set of mounting brackets
PAIRS WELL WITH:
- SEGA Game Gear CleanScreen Wire-Free Flex Cables V2/V3 - RetroSix
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SEGA Game Gear 3.5" CleanScreen IPS LCD - RetroSix
- SEGA Game Gear Prestige Replacement Shell - RetroSix
DOCUMENTATION:
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Install Guide for V3.1 and V3.0 (V3.0 scroll towards bottom of guide)
NOTES:
- Created by RetroSix.
- Current version of boards is V3.1.4 - 5/6/25
- There are no longer the two large capacitors on the bottom left of the board.
To use OSD controls:
- Hold Start + 2 + Left to get into the menu.
- Left and 2 move the menu left and right.
- Start goes in and out of menu.
WARNINGS:
- LCD may break if put under too much pressure or dropped. Please exercise extreme caution when installing.
- Test before installation! When you receive a backlight/LCD kit, you should perform a dry run before installing to assure that nothing has been damaged in transit. A dry run or test fit means the kit is not installed in the shell. This includes the use of adhesives, brackets, and any performed soldering. However, soldering is required to test the CleanScreen Game Gear mod. You may solder any wires necessary to test for basic functionality of the CleanScreen. If you are unsure how to perform a dry run, please contact our support team and we will be happy to help. Backlight kits that have been installed fully in shells are not eligible for replacement or return.
Install is much cleaner than the V1 board, IPS panel looks great with it, major issues being the incompatibility with SMS games and certain GG games when using an everdrive. You will be forced to modifiy your everdrive if you want this board to work completely, or modify the cleanscreen board and open up a potential for frying the GG ASIC. If you're happy with your V1 board I would stick with it until this issue is resolved with a proper board revision instead of a mostly untested, hacky, circuit.
This was an extremely easy install I strongly recommend picking up the wire free ribbons. I have done many Sega Game Gears and would guess it takes about an hour to do the old way of soldering wires every where, maybe 45 minutes no issue. First time doing this kit and it took me literally 15 minutes. Extremely impressed!
Awesome
I've bought about a dozen of these from Handheld Legend and weather you install them into an original Game Gear or put them on a new SYF Mainboard, they are easy to install, look fantastic. They are brighter then the BennVenn and fit the screen better right out of the box, I would highly recommend this.
The entire kit is easy enough to install. This review is or the 3.1.2 version. The board screws in with no issues. The ribbon cables are very fiddly and don't 100% line up. You might have just the slightest bend/hump on them, but it doesn't interfere with anything. There are a lot of solder points on this mod. More so than other CleanScreen mods, and it requires removing things off the board.
This is not for beginners. You need to be able to solder around tiny SMD resistors and pads that are the size of pinholes. If that isn't an issue then then you should be fine. You will also need some wire to hook up to the Hsync and Vsync which the store page does not tell you. This needs to be cut and trimmed so you may also need some wire strippers.
I personally love having the test switches on the board so I can see if everything works before closing it all up. It's wonderfully engineered. You get what you pay for. That's the best aftermarket screen mod on the market today.
I ordered a clean screen. Well I got one not programmed. After I installed it and then I was trying to troubleshoot it when I went to discord. Here u guys had to know your boards were not programmed. The guy from retrosix said u got bad boards and u keep selling them. From what it looked like nobody wanted to do there job. You had bad boards for weeks. A good company would have saw that there was a problem and took it off your website. I was doing this job for someone and they paid extra to get the parts quicker. With your mess up, I have to pay money out of my pocket now. This is why people don’t trust half the websites out there. You lost my business. I’ll order from retrosix directly.
Thanks for your feedback! We were not aware that the boards RetroSix sent us directly were not programmed until they let us know last week. We trust the suppliers to perform their own tests and ensure their product works accordingly before we receive them, so we had no way of knowing until R6 informed us. We immediately took the product out of stock and have been offering refunds to every customer who has reached out regarding the issue. If you have not reached out to us already to receieve your refund, please contact us at support@handheldlegend.com.