Fixing a Game Gear with NO Sound with NO Soldering - Quick Fix it Friday
61In today's Quick Fix It Friday, I'm looking at Game Gear that has no sound.. I'd looked at it in a previous video, and after a bit of fiddling, it's working well - BUT the sound is missing. This is usually down to bad capacitors on the sound board, however, this sound board had been recapped, so I think there must have been a deeper fault..
So I took the opportunity to do a very quick fix that anyone with a screwdriver set can attempt! In this case I used a brand new, replacement sound board from @RetroSix which was this one here - https://retrosix.co.uk/Game-Gear-Clea...
They do a 'stereo' version too - https://retrosix.co.uk/Game-Gear-Clea...
Can this slot in replacement fix the sound?
Watch and see!!
Oh I used this spare from Retrosix too - https://retrosix.co.uk/Game-Gear-Meta...
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00:00 Titles
00:11 Introduction
01:03 IT WORKS!! Sort of!
01:15 But there's no sound..
01:47 Introducing the Game Gear Clean Amp
03:31 Dissembling the Game Gear
04:50 What are the PCBs?
05:19 What have I tried already to troubleshoot?
05:53 Replacing the Cartridge Shield.
07:05 More Game Gear content soon...
08:16 The orginal (faulty?) soundboard
08:42 A closer look at the new Game Gear Clean Amp
09:33 Getting everything back together..
10:05 Have I fixed it?!