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Green Game Gear prototype console (France)
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 2:03 pm
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Recent auction (missed it, but I think rg010803 got it):
https://www.ebay.fr/itm/CONSOLE-SEGA-GAME-GEAR-VERTE-ORIGINAL-LIRE-DESCRIPTION-/... Description (French) CONSOLE GAME GEAR IMAGE TOP . son TOP OCCASION ORIGINAL M A ETE DONNEE PAR UN DIRECTEUR DE CHEZ SEGA A L EPOQUE SUREMENT UN PROTOTYPE JAMAIS VU SUR INTERNET (English translation~) Was given to me by a director from Sega (France) a while ago.. probably a prototype, never seen before on the internet. |
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 3:24 pm |
A little clarification, as someone pointed out that: "Voltage inverter board near the cartridge slot and LED backlight panel taken from a Ni****do DS LCD screen"
Apparently the seller pointed to the buyer than the screen has been modded. |
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 3:07 pm |
I'm sure you already noticed this if you care, but the IC date codes suggest late-1992 manufacture | |
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 4:35 pm |
Isn't that plastic imprint pointing to December 1993? | |
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 5:03 pm |
You're right! That's pretty odd then — possibly a shell swap back in the day to test the color? |
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:22 am |
An in-house prototype for evaluation by different market would most probably be a shell swap, so I'm not surprised of that.
To clarify a few things: This color wasn't used in any retail Game Gear. I haven't verified but some people are saying that no other GG released in JP/US have a Grey start button. Some Game Gear such as the Smoke Game Gear have Grey d-pad and 1-2 buttons (not sure if it is the same tint of grey) but no start button. Another feedback: "Eudald Salarich: I don't know if real or not but... Many years ago I was talking with a guy who worked for Sega distribution in Spain and he told me about a green, orange and a pink prototypes were made but never released" |
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:07 pm |
It is the original power board inside, I'm sure 100%, guys who repaired it said me that it was never opened before to do backlight mod | |
Revo
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 1:20 am Last edited by Revo on Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:02 pm; edited 1 time in total |
What a shame that this unique piece was modded :/ | |
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 8:20 am |
It's not too bad since essentially the board wasn't a unique thing in the first place. It's the casing that is unique. They probably even scrapped a board from an old GG or from the factory to prepare this test prototype internally. |
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Revo
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:05 pm |
Well it's difficult to know for sure now.
@rg010803: Le vendeur c'est le mec qui fait des mods McWill GG de console ''rare'' sur le forum Gamopat? |
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 6:48 pm |
Non Révo ce n'est pas lui | |