The RAREST Sega Game Gear | Repair and Restoration

Today we repair the rarest Sega Game Gear which has ever been seen in real life. It needs to have its capacitors replaced before they leak everywhere and ruin the motherboard beyond repair.

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[dotmatrixmoe]

Why this is my favorite channel:
• Relaxing
• Inspiring (Don't lie to me, I know you've been on E-bay looking for parts of your own.)
•Entertaining
•Weird

[heyitshunter]

This reminded me of the channel “Odd Tinkering” in fact, so much I forgot I was even watching a “The Retro Future” video

[mkatwood]

Awesome stuff!! It's awesome that you're working hard to keep people entertained while we're on lockdown!! I hope you find some time to relax in this stressful time too, though!! 😄

[mailouww]

i love this, giving me “odd tinkering” vibes. looks lovely!

[utubechannel]

to anybody reading this: when installing new through hole capacitors, pre- bend and pre-cut the capacitor legs BEFORE soldering them to the board. DO NOT install the caps then bend the legs over. it stresses the pads and can detach them from the pcb, particularly if electrolyte leakage has been a problem. don't copy bad practices from this video.

[mr.skeltal]

Be careful ripping up surface mount caps like that, you’ll end up pulling a pad. heat one leg and lift that side, then you can just do the bendy trick like with the others.

[ProjectZro]

I love it. The realization that you forgot the Screen foam speaks to my very soul lol.

[littlebottleofink]

Family: there goes Eliot cleaning his game cases in the shower again.

[partypiggaming]

TO ANYONE WANTING TO REPLACE THE CAPACITORS ON THEIR GAME GEAR: Check what board revision you have before you order new capacitors

[blazikenfanftw]

Is this the start to your "the asmr future" channel? LMAO

[tophi]

i like watching your videos in the background when i am doing something like playing video games and i keep glancing over and thinking why isn't he talking but then i remember you said you weren't going to be talking

[jzxakuma]

Man I am loving the style of this vid and I hope you will be making more of this

[buckettlikestrucks]

Yay I love when you do different things

[mikec]

Man the way you remove the surface mounted capacitors make me tense cause I tried that once on one of GG's and I tore a few solder pads off had to scratch up the trace leading to it to get a good solder point. I desolder each and every cap individually. Awesome you got the smoked clear GG. I wish the GG had a aftermarket shell so I could put my fully modded GG in.

[wardrich]

It's not bad, but I'm not big on the ASMR thing. Personally, I would have enjoyed some relaxing music and some commentary on what's going on in the video. But to each their own

[cas]

Like others have said, this does remind me of ‘Odd Tinkering’, but I enjoy that channel, too, so, win-win. 👍🏻

[BakiX]

Game Gear + Relaxation Audio = Heavenly 👍

[randynovick]

Never figured you for the ASMR type. We are forever in the process of becoming. This was an interesting new side to your presentation. I enjoyed it, but don't feel like you have to do it all the time. Many thanks.

[LSFprepper]

I don't know why but watching soldering is very relaxing

[paulrippcord]

I prefer the way you normally do your videos. They helped me out when I first started repairing my old Gameboys.