11th June 2010, 8:11 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Huh, so that's what that thing is for. I though it was for JUST audio input since that's what it looks like, but I guess it's set up to carry an RF signal.
Yup, it's actually an audio/video input port. It just uses a weird plug for it, for space I'm sure.
Quote:It doesn't matter much though. I had to get a new Game Gear as my old one's transistors burnt out (a common problem in the early GG models it seems). The new one seems to have some big issues with the TV adapter. After looking it up, it seems my current one is one of the Majesco systems re-released when the Gameboy Advance was going strong. While it has much higher quality parts (so it shouldn't burn out the transistors), they apparently cut out a circuit that directly linked the cartridge port to the display. No games used it, but apparently that's exactly how the TV adapter functioned, and so that explains why when I use it, I get audio only with just a solid white screen to accompany it. I don't mind though, as "surfing the stations" I confirmed that EVERY TV station around me has turned off their analog broadcasts (static in every direction), except apparently for a very far away spanish station somewhere.
My Game Gear is a Majesco Game Gear as well... it's easy to tell the difference really, since the Majesco model has a black shell instead of grey, purple Start button instead of blue white logo ovals instead of red, blue, and green and, perhaps, no actual screw hole for the Master System adapter's screw and such... and, yes, no TV Tuner support.
It is the better system overall, though. Majesco's Game Gears are newer, from 2000, and I've never heard of a Majesco GG having bad capacitors, unlike the Sega (1990-1997) model systems. I'm pretty sure that the Majesco system also has a better screen, with a higher refresh rate and thus less blur.