Game Gear LED Mod?

ssnik992 · Post by **ssnik992** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:23 pm

I have a Game Gear. I've taken it apart many times, and am quite confident that with some help from people more experienced with electronics, I could install a LED backlight and lower its battery consumption by a lot. I will add pictures of the Game Gear and how I think the backlight would work.

THON · Post by **THON** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:18 pm

To my knowledge this mod is impossible. I believe it's only possible to front light a game gear, or any of the older hand-helds. See the Gameboy backlight thread in the technical questions and answers forum.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:38 pm

Game Gear is already back lit, THON, he wants to replace the power hungry one it came with with LEDs.

It should be possible to replace the florescent tube with LEDs, just depends on the way the LCD's lightbox is.

THON · Post by **THON** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:28 pm

vskid wrote:Game Gear is already back lit, THON, he wants to replace the power hungry one it came with with LEDs.

It should be possible to replace the florescent tube with LEDs, just depends on the way the LCD's lightbox is.

Already back lit? When did this happen!? Damn Sega. Always trying to screw me over.

Website · Post by **Life of Brian** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:28 pm

THON wrote:
vskid wrote:Game Gear is already back lit, THON, he wants to replace the power hungry one it came with with LEDs.

It should be possible to replace the florescent tube with LEDs, just depends on the way the LCD's lightbox is.
Already back lit? When did this happen!? Damn Sega. Always trying to screw me over.

What? To my knowledge the Game Gear has always been backlit. That was one of their big selling points over the GameBoy back in the day. (Nevermind the fact that it was a power hungry battery munching machine)

THON · Post by **THON** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:34 pm

joedog86 wrote:
THON wrote:
vskid wrote:Game Gear is already back lit, THON, he wants to replace the power hungry one it came with with LEDs.

It should be possible to replace the florescent tube with LEDs, just depends on the way the LCD's lightbox is.
Already back lit? When did this happen!? Damn Sega. Always trying to screw me over.
What? To my knowledge the Game Gear has always been backlit. That was one of their big selling points over the GameBoy back in the day. (Nevermind the fact that it was a power hungry battery munching machine)

Just a joke. I didn't realize it was back lit. Although that still doesn't justify the 6 AA's it ran on.

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:11 pm

joedog86 wrote:
THON wrote:
vskid wrote:Game Gear is already back lit, THON, he wants to replace the power hungry one it came with with LEDs.

It should be possible to replace the florescent tube with LEDs, just depends on the way the LCD's lightbox is.
Already back lit? When did this happen!? Damn Sega. Always trying to screw me over.
What? To my knowledge the Game Gear has always been backlit. That was one of their big selling points over the GameBoy back in the day. (Nevermind the fact that it was a power hungry battery munching machine)

plus it was in color and not mocochrome green.