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Continue ShoppingGame Gear Capacitor Kit | All Versions
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:
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
https://support.retrosix.co.uk/support/solutions/articles/77000468065-game-gear-recapping
Replace all I OuF and 4.7uF capacitors with lOuF surface mount capacitors.
Replace all l uF and 0.47uF capacitors with l uF surface mount capacitors.
Way cleaner looking that a traditional through hole re-cap. You wont have to worry about bending the legs of traditional caps. You won't have to worry about clearances when orienting capacitors on the sound board.
After a dozen or so GG recaps I'm switching to SMDs. Just make sure to get some sort of conical tip because there are a few tight spaces to solder on the GG.
Installed easy and works great with no issues. I like this kit much better than the other electrolytic kits you see. These aren’t polarized and will last twice as long! Great deal for 8 bucks.
These are SMD or Surface Mount Capacitors (except the ones for the power board) so they are very small comparative to regular capacitors. The great thing is these are gonna last forever and once you get the hang of soldering them on they are not too difficult to work with. I fixed the sound board and the screen which had degraded to the point that it was only showing black and white lines moving vertically. Sound has a slight pitched feedback to it but I think I might've f-ed one of the traces on the sound board up so that is my fault. Best deal you are going to find on Game Gear Capacitors and I didn't even need to use them all so I still have some for backup in case the 3 I didn't replace go out or they go out on my other Game Gear. Thanks Guys!
Awesome kit with all the capacitors needed for main, sound and power board plus a few extras just in case. Love how clean SMD capacitors look and not having to worry about future electrolytic leakage problems.
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