Earlier this week I found a Game Gear Soft Check cart at a thrift store. Supposedly this cart can check/test various things in the Game Gear like the speakers, contrast, buttons, V-RAM, etc. However, I’m unable to get it to pass the first test which appears to be a COMM Port check since I don’t have a Game Gear Link cable (I think Sega called them Gear-to-Gear cables). Not that I’m really in a rush to get one at this moment though; the Game Gear was never really a console I had much interest in due to its size, capacitor leaking issue, and that Sega never made a Super Game Boy equivalent for the Game Gear.
I kinda wonder how this cartridge got to my neck of the woods. Maybe someone in my area used to work at Sega or something? I’m not sure if it’s just a coincidence or maybe from the same person, but the same thrift store had a Genesis 2 in box the other week too that was still in pretty good condition.
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I don’t have any prototypes but I did manage to find an old Nintendo Roulette game from the mid 60s and a trophy for selling SNES/Genesis copies of Primal Rage. Other than those two items, I have a Mattel Microvision, the rumble pak version of Super Mario 64, and a Chinese bootleg version of Dragon Ball Z: Goku Hishoden for the Game Boy.
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Finished making the rest of the boxes. Posted a video of them on my twitter
Got my handheld games shelf all organized now. Just need to finish making boxes for a few VB games and find a place to stow the Gane Gear games. pic.twitter.com/EZhmaF1rE7
— MegaSilverX1 (@MegaSilverX1) January 13, 2018
Was a fun little project to do and I like it a little more than how I was storing my handhelds carts earlier; in a binder.
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Bought some card stock paper and printed color versions. Since I didn’t have a laminate machine thingy I used a bit of packaging tape as a substitute. Got 8 done so far and they turned out nicely 
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Made a test version. Couldn’t really find any GB box scans so I went to CoverProject and fit scans made for DS cases onto a GB box template. It’s made of standard printer paper so the box is flimsy, but the cartridge and case fit nicely into it. Although I want to fix some things like how the spines look, I like how it turned out. Not sure if I’d want to make roughly 70 of these boxes for my games though as that’d be a lot of time and printer ink.
Youtube 3D unfortunetly sucks since it was last “updated” – for me (firefox v.54 on windows) it only works with red/green glasses and I also have to flip them. It doesn’t support my 3D monitor any longer
Luckily, it still works on the Nintendo 3DS! Not in the official YouTube app though (that also sucks) but in the 3DS’ built-in internet browser (you probably have to adjust the 3D settings).
Looks awesome! Unfortunately I couldn’t watch the video on my New 3DS (clicked on the large parallax version along with the others, but all of them said “this video is not available.”)
I like your idea for storing Virtual Boy games. It’s not as fancy but I keep mine in an old Game Boy binder along with Game Gear games.
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I was initally fooled by this too. Was going to post this a few weeks ago, but noticed that the date of the review was April 1… 