game gear screen

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:07 pm

would it work for a N64p?

Fanboy · Post by **Fanboy** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:14 pm

No, not without an expensive adapter... The thing is virtually useless for portablization... Put has some great games!

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:21 pm

yea, i never use batteries on it, i have an AC adaptor

Fanboy · Post by **Fanboy** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:26 pm

Just to help out, only screens that have composite in work. This means no old portables. No Nomads, Gameboys, Lynxes, etc. without 70+$ adapters... One could say that they're cheap nowadays for a reason...

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:52 pm

Nomads take RGB in. tripoint.com/kevtris you need to use a chroma decoder.

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:44 pm

As I said before:

demonofaj wrote:For the hell of it, I will explain it ALL TO YOU, madness, you owe me in services...no I'm kidding, anyway, here you go. The NOMAD, uses digital RGB, meaning it's a one way signal from the NOMAD board to the screen that cannot be altered, unless you use a special toy called a Chroma Decoder. From here I'll say, the Chroma Decoder will make you cry in a fetile position while you see the virgin mary pitiing you with mighty disgust. It's a damn impossible thing to make, it's like soldering apocalypse. It takes the digital signals, and decodes them to analog for other things to plug into. I haven't tried it, and making it would cost OVER the price of your portable. So in short, NO. The game gear has a special TV TUNER, that is applicable to the version made by Sega, its the one where the ovals next to the screen have colors instead of just gray: gray=Majesco, colors=Sega, got it? So the TV tuner helps you connect your game gear to you TV/get TV signals to your Game GEar, so it bascially gives a spot for Video and Audio (and ground, duh). However, the quality made people throw up and cry, it's crappy, and the screen is NOT passive matrix making it even MORE crappier. Imagine Dreamcast on a Gameboy Color Screen, it's THAT bad at moments. Nevertheless, the TV tuner itself is rare and hard to find in even the greatest antique pileups (EBAY, PAWNSHOP.COM, ETC.). So in short, I'll make a small list for you.

NOMAD: HELLLLLL NO!
Game Gear: Possible, but not worth it.

In short, no, just buy your own screen, better and actually cheaper.

I bid you all aideu.

I think we should sticky this narrative

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:11 pm

I've made a chroma decoder before. I don't have a Nomad to test that screen, but you just have to make a small circuit around an IC. It's not that hard. I have to admit I had to do a lot of reading on the subject beforehand.