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After Show: Game Gear Glory

🕑 Added 2020-12-10 21:38:30 +0000 UTC

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Makes me appreciate how good I have it

Boys: Xbox, Playstation, PC Men: this

I played Impossible mission on the c64 back in the day. Sad the voice lines arnt in this version "another visitor ! Stay awhile, staaaay FOREVER". Its all still stuck in my head.

Hebonky

The Genesis is a cooler name than the master system because it makes it sound like the pinnacle of game consoles

those capacitors are shot man... game gears are notorious for this

Oh man, I know the screen is piss-poor by today's standards but in mid 90s I wanted one of these SO BADLY! My cousin had one and sometimes he'd let me play Sonic or Batman, and at the time I didn't have any kind of console (handheld or station) or a computer so his Sega Genesis was my only chance to play video games. Thank you for the trip down memory lane!

Your friend James could probably fix this up or even mod it with a different screen.

i really like the video game stuff

KingsNJenssons

you have a bad screen, my one is much easier to see

at 2:18 "what pixel am i" I laughed way more than I should've been.

You should recap that mother and install a modern lcd ! :D

That scream at 2:01. Oh my God lmfao

I know this is a month old but I feel it’s important to say that with the TV Tuner and the right cables, it is possible to watch films on it. Shrek has never looked so good.

What is that screen? Like, back then most displays were cathode ray tubes, how the hell would they fit one in that? Then again, I suppose they did fit them in old camcorders as the viewfinder, so small CRTs do exist I guess.

Ezra

i mean, good luck soldering to a game gear

Came here to say exactly this!

yeah you might have a few bad capaciters

That thing is going to explode at some point

Try the McWill screen mod. It's pretty expensive but worth it.

Haha I never had a GameGear or a Sega System but it has it's charm.

Aloehart

Definitely just needs to be recapped. They have really nice bright screens normally

MerkinMcGee

Game Gears are pretty notorious for rotting away. Probably needs capacitor replacements. There are replacement screens that you can actually see on as well. The GG screens were a blurry mess when they came out.

I've always wanted a game gear.

Oh, I had two of these. I had a normal one that I sold, I then had a majesco branded game gear, but that one released the magic smoke if you know what I mean, and burned up. And that’s why I stick with emulation handhelds.

The Lumens

Yeah that's got some bad capacitors lol Not the easiest fix but not very hard if you know soldering

thats enough of that for my poor eyes

Me: Mom can we get a Nintendo Switch? Mom: We have a Nintendo Switch at home. The Nintendo Switch at home:

FritzTheWolf

That Game Gear’s got some bad capacitors. Very common for them, but if it’s not fixed eventually thing just won’t work.

This had old john tron vibes and I quite enjoyed it. THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE EXTRA CONTENT MATE!<3

I have a great idea for you, try the Boocosa Vr-001 Multifunctional voice recorder ( Multifunctional means MP3 player and so much more) this " Amazing product costs only 25 bucks on ebay right now.

Hey! You gotta try the wyze headphones they’re 50 bucks and they have noise canceling and amazing sound I think it would be a good video

AirPods Max video when?

Well, I did the only thing he did was blackmail my friend

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuzrmyaQdNaFQPBohHdWkXw please someone report this channel, he is reposting free all the After show episodes

man, have you reported evelyn yet?

If i see 1 more guy that is reposting his vids for free i am going to lose faith in humanity

Lily Shults

Do not buy the McWill mod, the mcwill mod is shit.

@DankPods FYI you know you've hit the big time when people are commenting about you on other obscure YouTube channels https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DaXjlOswxcfo&ved=2ahUKEwiZwPj48srtAhWBxzgGHVabCKcQjjgwAnoECAMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0pSVH6AimZsUwJ2oDibwZa

While the gamegear's screen was never good, it wasn't originally this horrible. The capacitors go bad with age and make everything even worse. It's a pain in the ass to replace all of em, though I'd bet your mate james knows how to do it. There's also the McWill screen mod, which replaces it with a proper modern LCD.

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MagnaLynx21

Yeah, Rocky is good, but George Foreman's KO Boxing is the best 8 bit Sega boxing game by farrrrr

God I love the Game Gear, got one recently and it's the single jankiest console I own. Luckily it had been recapped by the place selling it, because looking inside after getting it I noticed that one of the caps blew up hard enough to scorch the CPB and required wires to replace the dead traces. Beautiful console I tell you!

Hey, would love to get your opinion on (Maby even a video) “apple’s” beats flex earphones. I’m finding them pretty dam good for everyday “Fun” wireless earphones that don’t brake the bank at $80 Aussie bucks

dm him

Vraeryn, Da Wigglin' Dragon

I'll bet he knows a certain bird rescuer that can do that just fine...

Vraeryn, Da Wigglin' Dragon

If you're careful about your volume, you don't need to worry about headphone user alerts. A tip from me: play the loudest audio you have on you, then slowly raise the volume to the loudest point that it is still comfortable. That is your ideal volume level, sudden sounds may scare you but they won't hurt your ears.

Hey man, love your work ,love your videos,love Frank hahah. Look,im designing a live music production rig and would love to have a chat with you about it. Can we get in touch?

Only DankPods would spend an entire Game Gear episode playing Master System games...

The jerk of suprise had me rolling. Rewatched it 3 times worth the dollarydoo a month.

Error1355

The GameGear was fantastic.

I've been impressed with the sounds coming from the New 2DS XL I got my partner for Christmas compared to our older models, something tells me the headphone jack is a little better

Blow it up with the mojo even though you cant

Andreas Macho

I found some AKG K240 Monitor 600Ω headphone. What is your opinon of these.

Asaf Sagi

"Old mate's gold" brought me to the floor.

Man, I still remember the blood code for Mortal Kombat for Game Gear, takes me back. 2,1,2, down, up any case anyone is wondering.

I had one of these when I was tiny! Loved using it in the backseat in car rides until I'd get sick everywhere.

You should check out the screen replacements they have out for them now. Super clear horrible games :)

I had a Game gear as a kid, pretty sure the screen looked nicer when it was new.. I didn't have the master system adapter though, would have loved that lol.

So it looks like your SEGA Portable has a corrupted screen issue, I had one not to long ago with the same issue, a simple fix to see it again would be to lower the frame rate at which your camera on your phone (or other camera) is recording at and do some lighting changes. Also great extra video man!

This closeup gameplay f'd with my eyes pretty intensively. :D

I’m not sure

Is Dankpods gonna review the airpods max??

At first I sort of expected it to be taken apart, maybe fixed up.. but then I heard that Shinobi music and just lapsed into nostalgia

Game Gear has issues with the capacitors going bad and they need to be replaced. Did that for a friend of mine a while back. Result of bad capacitors is just that it turns the terrible color screen into an abysmal color screen.

Tomyotas

I'd pay a whole 2nd subscription for a dankpods games channel lol

Karen Sykora

Impossible Mission is legit great but god, as someone who owned and loved a Master System (and still has one now) the Game Gear was such a pile. All the Master System games you love but hella zoomed in to the point of being unplayable. Like the ports of the Master System Sonic 1+2 are hella bad because you can barely see ahead of you. At least someone's working on porting Sonic Chaos into the Sonic Advance engine.

Larry Knicks

I want do dig up my game gear now!!! I used to lose days to NBA JAM Tournament Edition!

Me dad drive us to Walmart in year, where mom and him went in and I opted to stay in the car. They cake back, and dad had bought a game gear, case, and several games. They were on sale. It was the first time he said it was his system. Still, he let me play it under his supervision. The screen worked amazing. He still has it.

This was not the after show to put in an earbud and listen without watching while I make food. Mistakes have been made.

AIRPODIOUS MAXIMUS

airpod max. you know you have to do it

RiskiVR

I completely lost it at "Rooockyyy- AH BLEEEHHH"

are you talking about “Walk in the park” by TrackTribe?

Iris Baez

Dank should have the caps replaced as well as the screen.

Digital Phoenix

If you have the time and the patients there is a mod for the game gear that will replace the screen with an LCD. It’ll give you better battery life and while you’re at it do replace the capacitors.

totally unrelated but who else hopes he does a review of the new Apple airpod max

Oh wow, you've got some system-ception going on there! Playing a commodore 64 game ported to the master system, shrunken down with a new pinout, adapted to the old pinout. Absolutely bonkers.

Man that is so janky.. its incredible how inacceptable that screen but am amazed by that whole console attached to it in the back hahah

Oh god it get's worse when it zooms onto the screen

I still have my GameGear from when I was a kid, and yeah the sound is blown on it, but I had and still have the greatest accessory ever: the giant attachable magnifying lens screen adapter. Probably the only reason my eyesight is still passible. Also, I had the Tassie Devil game, which in like 30 years I’ve never been able to get past the first level. Terrible.

I would love to see more Danks Gaming Adventures

Absquatula

Maaaaaaaaate. Games are my first passion with music being a close second. If dank is music first and games second, this is officially the best patreon page in existence.

I just got one of these recently. I was greatly disappointed😂

old hardware is fun to work on, i got my start on futzing with og Gameboys and gbcolors, suddenly now dabbling with ipods based on this channel. Dont make me buy game gears to mod Please lmao

As others have mentioned I'd suggest getting a capacitor replacement kit and even a new modern screen fitted since those will make the unit feel like new.

SwissArmyTin

The Game Gear is notorious for capacitor problems, and yours is no exception. I'm surprised the sound still works as well as it does, but the screen...oof. Normally, GameGear screens look really vibrant and crisp, though a bit laggy because of slow refresh rates, but when the pesky caps start to go bad, the image just fades out into oblivion.

wade. it is genesis does what nintendon't. not mega drive does what nintendon't.

Manuel Uribe

best after show to date, I think. "rockyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy" * music * "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

I remember having Impossible Mission on some Commodore 64 compilation Joystick thingy. I never knew what to do but it was fun and the death noise when you fall down a hole is legendary

Soy_Messenger

- D A N K - P L A Y S -

Wasn't that Guile's theme?

DankPods Let’s Plays when?

CobaltTJ

It's defo be cool to see more casual vids like this mixed in with the nugs and the audiophile gubbins. Nice to chill with a crappy game and a awesome dude 👌

As has been said, that Game Gear needs a recap! It'll look so much better, and you won't have to deal with it turning off randomly like it did during Rocky. Only problem: recapping it is an absolute nightmare, because the caps are SURFACE MOUNT. It's even more annoying than opening a 3rd gen nano.

More Dank gaming please.

Oh i just love your content but I can’t enjoy playing with old consoles. I’m sad now because this is the first video from you that I didn’t enjoy.😔

The Game Gear has a stinky old screen with a shite response time that uses an ACTUAL FLUORESCENT TUBE as backlight, those things burn out and become really dim after enough time so most people do LCD mods on this absolute unit of a nugg. improves visual fidelity AND battery life.

Zack Schmiesing

Ah yes thanks for uploading this in 4K60. Makes the pain even more real.

Yeah! The Game Gear. The portable console on with you can play 4 min max on battery.

I would LOVE to see a DankPods let's play. I wanna see our boy Wade rage to dark souls

Tyler AKA Giggs

The Game Gear was one of the first gaming things I ever had, certainly the first mobile gaming experience I had. I got it from my older brother. Still works after all these years, and I even got a whole case.

Cat Charlie

Nice! I recently replaced the capacitors in my Game Gear but the screen is still messed up, I want to replace it but the Benn Venn LCD replacement screen is too much for me at the moment. I wish there were some IPS Game Gear screens available for the GG, as there is a bunch for the various GameBoys!

Chriatopher Vitito

We need a reaction on the new AirPods max

Devin McIntyre

You can get a good replacement screen these days! Might be right up your alley to install! Check out /r/gamegear for info :)

I love my game Gear, really wanna play it again but it's also kinda trash lol

Stay awhile, STAY FOREVER!

OzRetrocomp

This. Stinky old mate Game Gear needs a resto!

you should make a sticker that says "stinky base"

Holy crap that screen is absolutely trashed.

Just found out Dank singing deja vu is something i would be willing to die for

BGB_CA

Awesome game. Remember playing that and Impossible Mission 2 on the commodore all the time. And get your Game Gear Fixed.

Chewie

There's definitely something wrong with your Gamegear there Dank, I used one back in the oldey-days and the screens were remarkably crisp and bright for the era!

"this actually looks better on the camera" dear lord I thought the screen was broken

Christian Lyle

Fantastic vid!

Matthew Galvin

I swear I could see the screen better when further away.

Everything about this was a treasure DEJA VU "Let's all sing the Rocky theme!!" *Sings Guile's theme* What a treasure, I want more Dank gaming.

CodyB.

Best vid ever

unusual post! still fun tho

Theallknowingsause

yo the capacitors in the system are starting to fail, you should replace them before they leak everywhere! (that's why the screen was so horrible looking, that's an early sign)

Hey maybe it can play Cyberpunk

You NEED to replace the capacitors inside this Game Gear! It will look AND sound better!

gurl id love more gaming videos from you

Question: what's the name of the jazzy tunes in the aftershow and Hears