View Full Version : Interest in a new Game Gear?
Leo_A
10-09-2011, 01:21 AM
Going off your measurements then, that puts the Game Gear at approximately a 1.65:1 aspect ratio.
A Black Falcon
10-09-2011, 03:10 AM
Um, that is 2 9/16" x 1 15/16" for the GG, not 1 9/16"... Obviously it is wider than it is tall. Whoops. :)
SpaceHarrier
10-09-2011, 04:40 AM
I would be interested in a new Game Gear, provided it is more microwave-safe than the original model.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2-SUTN3SR4
Edmond Dantes
10-09-2011, 08:01 AM
I saw a guy in the Marketplace once selling a GG that had all the caps replaced (meaning it shouldn't need to be sent in for repairs ever again unless you break it).
I wish I had bought it when it was being offered. Now it's too late.
savageone
10-10-2011, 02:02 AM
Replacing the caps doesn't fix all the other flaws GG systems have. They're clunky, practically need to be played with the AC adapter, have bad D-pads (though later models had a slightly improved pad), and the screens are awful by today's standards.
Mentioned this plenty of times on here but really this is one of the few systems that I think actually needs to be redesigned.
It's sad to see hardware companies making portable versions of systems as novelty items when the opportunity exists to create something that could actually be considered an improvement over the original.
I'd also like to see a Super Game Boy type peripheral for GG games on the Genesis. But if a portable system was designed with TV out and a control port that'd be fine too.
Here's to dreaming..
Leo_A
10-10-2011, 04:43 AM
Um, that is 2 9/16" x 1 15/16" for the GG, not 1 9/16"... Obviously it is wider than it is tall. Whoops. :)
That puts us at a 4:3 aspect ratio then, for anyone that doesn't want to do the division to see for themselves.
A Game Boy/Game Gear hybrid is never going to happen, but it looked going off screen resolution like a screen could be a perfect fit between the two. Anything that wants to do both is going to have to do some scaling then or distort one of the systems if it doesn't take into account the differences in the shapes of the pixels between the two.