2015/5/2: Game Gear: NBA Jam, NBA Jam Tournament Edition
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2015/5/2: Game Gear: NBA Jam, NBA Jam Tournament Edition
I posted two new Game Gear reviews for both NBA Jam games. Let me know what you think.
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Re: 2015/5/2: Game Gear: NBA Jam, NBA Jam Tournament Edition
Nice set of reviews. Are you going to go back through and play all the NBA Jam games? Including the Genesis, Sega CD, and SNES versions?
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Re: 2015/5/2: Game Gear: NBA Jam, NBA Jam Tournament Edition
I remember playing NBA Jam for hours on the Game Gear. If I could find an outlet, that is.
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Re: 2015/5/2: Game Gear: NBA Jam, NBA Jam Tournament Edition
I'm a huge Sega fan but I just can't get into Game Gear. It's library is either stripped down MegaDrive ports or straight Master System ports.
Apart from the two Shinobi games I can't think of any exclusives or games that you would get the Game Gear version over it's console siblings
Apart from the two Shinobi games I can't think of any exclusives or games that you would get the Game Gear version over it's console siblings
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Re: 2015/5/2: Game Gear: NBA Jam, NBA Jam Tournament Edition
Maybe we can get Dave to do a Game Gear system review. (unless he has and I just couldn't find it).
I hear the screens do not necessarily age well, so the systems are dying off. It was a shame that the GG could play SMS games since I think they are both Z80 systems, but because the portable of all things has a better color palette it does not go the other way. These things are often odd though...why did Nintendo have a SNES adapter to play Gameboy, but not one to play NES games.
I think some SMS emulators can handle GG ROMs, which seems like about the only way most people will ever experience the GG exclusive titles. Even future Retrons, which will probably never have a GG port anyway, would be emulation anyway.
I hear the screens do not necessarily age well, so the systems are dying off. It was a shame that the GG could play SMS games since I think they are both Z80 systems, but because the portable of all things has a better color palette it does not go the other way. These things are often odd though...why did Nintendo have a SNES adapter to play Gameboy, but not one to play NES games.
I think some SMS emulators can handle GG ROMs, which seems like about the only way most people will ever experience the GG exclusive titles. Even future Retrons, which will probably never have a GG port anyway, would be emulation anyway.
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Re: 2015/5/2: Game Gear: NBA Jam, NBA Jam Tournament Edition
scotland wrote:I hear the screens do not necessarily age well, so the systems are dying off.
Many screens can be salvaged by replacing the capacitors. I've done so on two units, and they looked great afterward. This guy sells the cap kits: http://console5.com/store/kits/console- ... evision=47
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Re: 2015/5/2: Game Gear: NBA Jam, NBA Jam Tournament Edition
A lot of people are actually taking their old handhelds to the next level buy modding a new screen onto old handhelds. I know that this has been done with the Sega Nomad and GG and the results are really amazing. I think I would still rather emulate the thing but that is one cool option that people can do.
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Re: 2015/5/2: Game Gear: NBA Jam, NBA Jam Tournament Edition
The reason the Game Gear can display more colors than the Master System is due to the fact the Game Gear displays less than half the pixels (160x144 vs. 256x192), allowing more VRAM to be used for higher color bit depths (up to 12bpp vs. 6bpp).