It's definitely a SMS game on cart, but it's not the same ROM. The graphics for treasure chests were changed and the font was changed. Probably to make them more visible, but this video makes me wonder why SEGA even bothered changing the font since the original font looks just fine on the GG.
I have got that exact adapter and the power base converter when I was younger after my master system burnt up. I always wished it played the card games to cause Ghost House was my favorite. nice vid.
I remember the local game shop here wanting to charge $200 for one of these adapters a few years back. It was the only one they had and they weren't even sure it was for sale... I'm surprised they're so cheap on ebay.
I thought about it but I've got no room to start on another system collection. I probably wouldn't have gotten it anyway. The ad was deleted shortly after it was posted, suggesting someone bought it the second it came up. I don't see many SMS systems on Kijiji here in Windsor.
Very cool. I've never heard of this before. There was a SMS on Kijiji yesterday - system, gun, controls, all hookups and 14 CIB games for $35. I didn't bother since I'm not a big SMS fan but it was a great deal.
@reesercliff Not officially but I think there are a few hack jobs. Some Game Gear games support a higher color count than what the SMS can display so not all games would work but I think some can be done.
I had this set up on my gamegear back in the early 90's. I never had a master system but master system games were cheap as hell. so I got the adapter then a bunch of master system games.
Exactly like a TMSS and non-TMSS Genesis: the Produced by or Under License from Sega Enterprises LTD. boot screen. Non-BIOS Game Gears don't show that screen; they just boot straight to the game. I will make note of this: even though your Game Gear plays Game Gear games without flickering, it doesn't mean it will behave the same way with Master System games. It is IMPERATIVE that you replace ALL the capacitors on the Game Gear's motherboard and sound board, as they will leak.
Indeed, my fine chap, I can remember it as if it were yesterday...There I was, a dashing young lad of three-and twenty years, steering my newly purchased horseless carriage with one hand while thrilling to the high-speed action of Outrun in the other, waving to all the young lasses as I passed them by on the cobbled streets of London. Oh, to be young again! Alas, this "Mickey the Mouse" game of which he speaks will not be available for another century or so... :(
I am debating which of my 2 Game Gears to do the mod on. I have a European non-BIOS Game Gear whose capacitors have been replaced and a North American BIOS-equipped Game Gear whose stock capacitors are still intact(all of them), but which I eventually intend on replacing for the sake of keeping electrolyte from leaking onto the motherboard. Speaking of leaky capacitors, I think that's the reason why the screen flickers the way it does. You may want to replace the caps on the Game Gear's mobo.
Wow, I am SO jealous of this(I want to play my Master System games on the go, damn it!)! I guess I'll take things one step further and actually INTEGRATE a 50-pin cartridge slot into one of my Game Gears for Master System compatibility(I once tried to modify a Game Gear game I don't care about with a 50-pin cartridge slot, but managed to ruin the contact points for the slot on the cartridge's board).
Jake, I freaking love the sms converter for the master system now I don't need to buy gamegear games. And, when I was little I also thought about an nes converter.
The flicker could be due to bad capacitors if you haven't replaced them yet. I had flicker and poor contrast like yours when I accidentally missed two of them.
I wonder... the power base converter for the genesis model 1 had a card slot on it allowing it to use the master system's 3d glasses. Could an adaptor be made to let the game gear use them too?
If I had a game gear with this adapter as well as a master system, that is if I were alive back then. Id use my game gear to play my master system games on the go, and the only game gear games id buy were game gear exclusives
It was a great concept, but the picture quality was so horrible, that I couldn't play most games. It hurt just trying to look at it. And you couldn't even read text on certain games.
Interesting thing about this product. Game Gear games looked much better than Master games did through this converter. Therefore, several Sega Master games were 100% identical to the Game Gear versions. The Game Gear version of Castle of Illusion is the same, so you were better off buying the Game Gear version of this than playing the Master version through a converter.
I had this, but the resolution of each game was really awful. At least with the converter I was using. I am thankful we have the gp2x Wiz today. Probably the best way to play Sega Master games on the road now.
Wow, the quality of this video is so much better than your other videos, at least the introduction to this video is better in quality, did you get a new camera?
it would be cool if someone will invent an adaptor to play nes games on the gameboy,the simpliest way is just to render it's picture and sound trough the gameboy. also since the gameboy has 1 ext soundpin input they can use that pin to stream the audio,(they can stream it digitally at 4bit but will require more cpu power. now i do have a gamegear with a master system convertor but oh man i got really tired after 5 minutes,i just gably playing sonic chaos for a while with it,you know.
The big question is: when? Like I said, my North American Game Gear has no leaky capacitors, but my European Game Gear had MANY that leaked their electrolyte. Replace all capacitors on the motherboard and sound board on all your Game Gears ASAP.
i have 4 diferent Mastersystem convertors for the game gear, BEESHU GAME MASTER , NUBY , MASTER GEAR CONVERTOR 1 , MASTER GEAR CONVERTOR 2, only the Nuby & the Master gear convertor 2 work when the SUPER WIDE GEAR is fitted, i personally would avoid the MASTER GEAR CONVERTOR 1 & try to pick up a MASTER GEAR CONVERTOR 2
It's definitely a SMS game on cart, but it's not the same ROM. The graphics for treasure chests were changed and the font was changed. Probably to make them more visible, but this video makes me wonder why SEGA even bothered changing the font since the original font looks just fine on the GG.
I had the exact same setup as that back in the day. The converter was definetely a cool thing to have.
I had a sega game gear with a sega master gear converter with it, and it works!
I have got that exact adapter and the power base converter when I was younger after my master system burnt up.
I always wished it played the card games to cause Ghost House was my favorite. nice vid.
Yep the Everdrive GG supports SMS games too.
MN12BIRD dats amazing,but does it come out with fm emulation?
the flicker on the screen is probably due to a fault in the converter, or maybe the connections are dirty.
but its a cool idea, definetly saves money
I remember the local game shop here wanting to charge $200 for one of these adapters a few years back. It was the only one they had and they weren't even sure it was for sale...
I'm surprised they're so cheap on ebay.
I thought about it but I've got no room to start on another system collection. I probably wouldn't have gotten it anyway. The ad was deleted shortly after it was posted, suggesting someone bought it the second it came up. I don't see many SMS systems on Kijiji here in Windsor.
Very cool. I've never heard of this before. There was a SMS on Kijiji yesterday - system, gun, controls, all hookups and 14 CIB games for $35. I didn't bother since I'm not a big SMS fan but it was a great deal.
Nice stuff! Didn't know the Game Gear and the Master System were that identical.
It's a fantasic piece of kit, same with the master converter for the Megadrive/Genesis.
@reesercliff Not officially but I think there are a few hack jobs. Some Game Gear games support a higher color count than what the SMS can display so not all games would work but I think some can be done.
I had this set up on my gamegear back in the early 90's. I never had a master system but master system games were cheap as hell. so I got the adapter then a bunch of master system games.
Exactly like a TMSS and non-TMSS Genesis: the Produced by or Under License from Sega Enterprises LTD. boot screen. Non-BIOS Game Gears don't show that screen; they just boot straight to the game.
I will make note of this: even though your Game Gear plays Game Gear games without flickering, it doesn't mean it will behave the same way with Master System games. It is IMPERATIVE that you replace ALL the capacitors on the Game Gear's motherboard and sound board, as they will leak.
Indeed, my fine chap, I can remember it as if it were yesterday...There I was, a dashing young lad of three-and twenty years, steering my newly purchased horseless carriage with one hand while thrilling to the high-speed action of Outrun in the other, waving to all the young lasses as I passed them by on the cobbled streets of London. Oh, to be young again! Alas, this "Mickey the Mouse" game of which he speaks will not be available for another century or so... :(
I am debating which of my 2 Game Gears to do the mod on. I have a European non-BIOS Game Gear whose capacitors have been replaced and a North American BIOS-equipped Game Gear whose stock capacitors are still intact(all of them), but which I eventually intend on replacing for the sake of keeping electrolyte from leaking onto the motherboard.
Speaking of leaky capacitors, I think that's the reason why the screen flickers the way it does. You may want to replace the caps on the Game Gear's mobo.
Wow, I am SO jealous of this(I want to play my Master System games on the go, damn it!)! I guess I'll take things one step further and actually INTEGRATE a 50-pin cartridge slot into one of my Game Gears for Master System compatibility(I once tried to modify a Game Gear game I don't care about with a 50-pin cartridge slot, but managed to ruin the contact points for the slot on the cartridge's board).
Jake, I freaking love the sms converter for the master system now I don't need to buy gamegear games. And, when I was little I also thought about an nes converter.
I have two Master System Converters and they both flicker. Any new information as to why some do and some don't?
The flicker could be due to bad capacitors if you haven't replaced them yet. I had flicker and poor contrast like yours when I accidentally missed two of them.
I wonder... the power base converter for the genesis model 1 had a card slot on it allowing it to use the master system's 3d glasses. Could an adaptor be made to let the game gear use them too?
If I had a game gear with this adapter as well as a master system, that is if I were alive back then. Id use my game gear to play my master system games on the go, and the only game gear games id buy were game gear exclusives
really gotta get my hands on one of those... have u got one of the converters for ur genesis to play master system games?
try taking the speaker out of the one that dont turn on, and put it in the one with no sound.
It was a great concept, but the picture quality was so horrible, that I couldn't play most games. It hurt just trying to look at it.
And you couldn't even read text on certain games.
Interesting thing about this product. Game Gear games looked much better than Master games did through this converter. Therefore, several Sega Master games were 100% identical to the Game Gear versions. The Game Gear version of Castle of Illusion is the same, so you were better off buying the Game Gear version of this than playing the Master version through a converter.
@lschlachter1 but if you play long rpgs or platies, you usualy get codes.
Now all they need to make is an addon for the Game Gear that lets it play Game Boy games!
Very cool video as always man :-D
But do u know what is cooler then MD games on the GG? GG Games on TV :-D
I had this, but the resolution of each game was really awful. At least with the converter I was using. I am thankful we have the gp2x Wiz today. Probably the best way to play Sega Master games on the road now.
Wow, the quality of this video is so much better than your other videos, at least the introduction to this video is better in quality, did you get a new camera?
it would be cool if someone will invent an adaptor to play nes games on the gameboy,the simpliest way is just to render it's picture and sound trough the gameboy.
also since the gameboy has 1 ext soundpin input they can use that pin to stream the audio,(they can stream it digitally at 4bit but will require more cpu power.
now i do have a gamegear with a master system convertor but oh man i got really tired after 5 minutes,i just gably playing sonic chaos for a while with it,you know.
Hey i have a question if i put pal games on the game gear they will show in 50 hz?
The big question is: when? Like I said, my North American Game Gear has no leaky capacitors, but my European Game Gear had MANY that leaked their electrolyte. Replace all capacitors on the motherboard and sound board on all your Game Gears ASAP.
I think the GG Mickey cartridge is just the same ROM as the SMS one...
i have always wanted one of these!!!
I never had any flicker on mine.
But then again mine was PAL.
i didn't even know this existed nice vid
i got a friend who has this. works really good.
great vid never knew about this one
a lot of the screen problems could be coming from that third party adaptor you are using... actually i'd put my money on that being the reason
now is there a way to play game gear games on a master system?
So will it support the FM sound then?
i have 4 diferent Mastersystem convertors for the game gear, BEESHU GAME MASTER , NUBY , MASTER GEAR CONVERTOR 1 , MASTER GEAR CONVERTOR 2, only the Nuby & the Master gear convertor 2 work when the SUPER WIDE GEAR is fitted, i personally would avoid the MASTER GEAR CONVERTOR 1 & try to pick up a MASTER GEAR CONVERTOR 2
u know there is a portable nes system, its called the retro mini.
doyou have to take it out to play game gear games again?
You can mod your system if you want to go that far.
Very cool man.
coll, i will get one of these eventually
Some versions of gamegear games are worse then the sms versions of it so with this adaptor now you can play those suppirior sms games on it😁
Maybe because we PAL gamers are used to the flicker ;P
hey jake...where did u find that converter at?
i dont like how the light is so bright
cool, i have 2 game gear one dont star up and the other have no sound
I was gonna get one of these, but it was too expensive.
I have the unlicensed NES game The Ultimate Stuntman
does it drain batterys faster?
awesomeness!
cool!
where did you get it!?
the game gear has poor battery life on its own,
imagine how much battery that thing sucks out lol
lol! alright, you want me to have your Dreamcast right? XD jk man
the game gear sucks with super hard games and no save feature