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Repair a Sega Game Gear - How Hard Can It Be? -- Episode 535


 

Andy grew up with Nintendo consoles, so he recently picked up a Sega Game Gear to see what it's like. Unfortunately for him, it's broken. How hard could it be to repair this faulty device? Will replacing leaky capacitors be enough to revive it, or is more work required? Find out if he's successful in his attempts to save this aging handheld.

 

Bill of Material:

Product Name Manufacturer Quantity Buy Kit
Electrolytic Capacitor, 100 µF, 6.3 V NICHICON 1 Buy Now
Electrolytic Capacitor, 22 µF, 6.3 V MULTICOMP PRO 1 Buy Now
Electrolytic Capacitor, 4.7 µF, 35 V MULTICOMP PRO 1 Buy Now
Electrolytic Capacitor, 0.47 µF, 50 V MULTICOMP PRO 2 Buy Now
Electrolytic Capacitor, 68 µF, 25 V PANASONIC 1 Buy Now
Electrolytic Capacitor, 100 µF, 16 V MULTICOMP PRO 1 Buy Now
Electrolytic Capacitor, 33 µF, 6.3 V NICHICON 1 Buy Now
Electrolytic Capacitor, 10 µF, 16 V MULTICOMP PRO 4 Buy Now
Electrolytic Capacitor, 100 µF, 6.3 V NICHICON 3 Buy Now
Electrolytic Capacitor, 47 µF, 16 V PANASONIC 2 Buy Now
Electrolytic Capacitor, 22 µF, 35 V NICHICON 1 Buy Now
Electrolytic Capacitor, 100 µF, 25 V PANASONIC 1 Buy Now
Electrolytic Capacitor, 820 µF, 6.3 V NICHICON 1 Buy Now
 

Bill of Material:

Product Name Manufacturer Quantity Buy Kit
Raspberry Pi Pico, Microcontroller Board, RP2040, 32 bit, 2MB Flash, ARM Cortex-M0+ RASPBERRY-PI 2 Buy Now
Resistor Kit, 10Ohm To 1MOhm, 610 Pieces, 250mW, Carbon Film, 10 Pieces Per Value, E12 Series VELLEMAN SA 1 Buy Now
LOGIC, BUS TRANSCVR OCTAL, 20DIP TEXAS INSTRUMENTS 1 Buy Now
 

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IMPORTANT NOTE: The above list is only for the single-ASIC, VA1 version of the Game Gear main board. Other versions may vary.

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  • Good episode Andy. For what it is worth, I've been recapping Game Gears with Tantalum polymer capacitors. The 0805 and 1206 equivalent packages fit fairly well on the pads for those "surface-mount" electrolytics.

    I don't know if you've taken those old "surface-mount" electrolytic apart. They're just rectangular plastic around a very tiny electrolytic can! No wonder they leaked so easily. Their deck lid was ridiculously small. The nice thing about using tants as the replacements is that everything fits back together quite easily.

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  • Good episode Andy. For what it is worth, I've been recapping Game Gears with Tantalum polymer capacitors. The 0805 and 1206 equivalent packages fit fairly well on the pads for those "surface-mount" electrolytics.

    I don't know if you've taken those old "surface-mount" electrolytic apart. They're just rectangular plastic around a very tiny electrolytic can! No wonder they leaked so easily. Their deck lid was ridiculously small. The nice thing about using tants as the replacements is that everything fits back together quite easily.

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