Game Gear Capacitor Kit | All Versions

SKU: SGG1809
Price
$ 140
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Description

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.

This kit comes with all the capacitors needed to fix EVERY VERSION of your Game Gear:

  • VA1
  • VA4
  • 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 91 reviews
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Craig White
Awesom

I'm from the us so i bought one of your kits from Hand Held Legend. But the kit was so easy to install especially with the wiki pages, it worked flawlessly first try I would recommend this kit to anyone wanting to get there old GG back up and working.

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Ray Chapman
Better way to recap

Way easier to install than the traditional caps. No polarity issues.

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NiNTARi
I prefer this set over the Others

Very easy to install, makes for a carry clean board. Is my go to when fixing Game Gears

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John pascucci
Game gear cap kit

It was awesome easy

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Riley McGuire
Recap kit worked great, guide was easy to follow!

The screen is still pretty bad because it’s a 90s portable flat panel, but it’s ~rejuvenated~ bad now and back to original condition. :)

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Jeremy Howe
Capacitor count.

There are enough 100uf to do the main board, but 1 shy of being able to do the sound board. So you can replace the capacitors and get the game running, but you wont be able to hear it.

Thanks for your review. You should have received 13x 100uF capacitors. It is possible that one may have been missing from the kit. Please reach out to us at support@handheldlegend.com so we may get this resolved for you!

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