Restoring a broken Game Gear with Raspberry Pi

Thanks to Zarcade and sponsor Grid Studio for helping me with this project! Links to both of them below, and I hope you have a wonderful Christmas this year! Mentioned in this video: - Grid Studio's Game Gear: https://gridstudio.cc/products/game-gear?utm_source=JeffGeerling - Zega Mame Gear: https://www.zegamamegear.uk/zega-mame-gear - Mame Gear CM4 Adapter: https://www.zegamamegear.uk/product/ZMGCM4A001 - Handheld Legend: https://handheldlegend.com - Brady Electronics Repair: https://bradyrepairs.com - RetroPie: https://retropie.org.uk Videos referenced in this video: - Mame Gear assembly videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_UQzDre3Zc - How I almost ruined MrBeast's 1-100 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsV_C9cMf8A - Sega Game Gear 'color' commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwl6WDR1_8c - Sega Game Gear 'airplane' commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTt0N2gzSqQ Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/geerlingguy Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/geerlingguy Merch: https://redshirtjeff.com 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GeerlingEngineering Contents: 00:00 - Christmas came early! 00:17 - Childhood dreams 01:09 - Nintendo vs Sega 02:31 - Rescuing e-waste 03:31 - Electronic art 04:33 - Gathering parts 05:44 - Build 08:01 - Will it boot? 08:39 - Hackerman 09:21 - Emulation performance 10:01 - Some issues 11:22 - Merry Christmas