xdaniel Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 im·pos·si·bil·i·ty: The attempt to record a Sega Game Gear's video output using a digital camera. So there's this kinda stupid idea a friend of mine had a few days ago: recording my Wii outputting its video signal to my recently acquired Game Gear TV Tuner's A/V input, titling the result on YouTube something like "Super Mario Galaxy on Game Gear!". In addition, I had the idea of recording some footage of this weird pirate multicart I got with that GG lot, to be exact of this SMB clone on it called "Super Boy II" by Zemina (originally made for MSX in South Korea, then ported to Master System, here running on Game Gear via its SMS mode). Now, yeah, the "impossibility". It's FREAKING IMPOSSIBLE to get anything that resembles a viewable picture from the Game Gear's shitty screen! Look at the images above! That's what still photos of the GG's screen, taken with a pretty good 10.2 Megapixel camera, look like. Now imagine a 640x480 VGA video of this mess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeth Ryder Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 Yeah I always had to tilt my gear game to a sweet spot to get it to load games correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forecast Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 Now we know one of the reasons why the Game Gear failed....-.- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaniel Posted May 22, 2011 Author Share Posted May 22, 2011 Well, two friends visited me yesterday, and we did manage to record, uh... something, but the result is as I suspected: It's enough to bring across the point of the video - the GG TV Tuner still being capable of recieving TV by holding a RF cable to its antenna - but for recording actual gameplay footage? Forget it. However, there are various mods out there that allow the GG to output RGB signals that can be displayed on a television, and one the guys, who's skilled with electronics, soldering and stuff, said he should be able to do one of those mods (to be exact, RGB+Audio-to-SCART). So, who knows, maybe that stupid "Wii-on-GG" idea might end up being possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forecast Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 Well, two friends visited me yesterday, and we did manage to record, uh... something, but the result is as I suspected: -video- It's enough to bring across the point of the video - the GG TV Tuner still being capable of recieving TV by holding a RF cable to its antenna - but for recording actual gameplay footage? Forget it. However, there are various mods out there that allow the GG to output RGB signals that can be displayed on a television, and one the guys, who's skilled with electronics, soldering and stuff, said he should be able to do one of those mods (to be exact, RGB+Audio-to-SCART). So, who knows, maybe that stupid "Wii-on-GG" idea might end up being possible Well, I was referring to the screen of the GG but, that's a pretty cool video there dude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaniel Posted May 22, 2011 Author Share Posted May 22, 2011 The screen is junk, basically, yeah. Not to mention Sega didn't make the Game Gear to last, apparently, considering all the known defects those things have nowadays - no sound via speaker, no sound via headphones, very dim video output, lines going through the picture, etc., etc. It's a nice little system, but has way too many faults for its own good, be it those defects or, say, that it takes 6 AA batteries and barely lasts a few hours with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forecast Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 The screen is junk, basically, yeah. Not to mention Sega didn't make the Game Gear to last, apparently, considering all the known defects those things have nowadays - no sound via speaker, no sound via headphones, very dim video output, lines going through the picture, etc., etc. It's a nice little system, but has way too many faults for its own good, be it those defects or, say, that it takes 6 AA batteries and barely lasts a few hours with them. Well, to admit, I think a few games for the system are good, but not the system itself, oh no. Maybe why they made the system was because the Genesis fame blinded them and they attempted to tackle the handheld fame too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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