mcwill lcd screen pricelist

Breathe new life into your classic Sega Game Gear hand held with this cutting edge LCD replacement. Replacing the dated original LCD with this new, vibrant model will make playing Game Gear games a lot more fun, thanks to increased brightness, contrast, picture sharpness and improved battery life. Just look at this comparison picture to see the difference.

What’s more, these kits provide a VGA output option, allowing you to play your Game Gear games on your monitor or HDTV (VGA input or a suitable adapter, such as an OSSC, is required). Now, when you are home you can enjoy your favourite classic Game Gear games on the big screen too!

These replacement LCDs are the best on the market and have been specifically engineered for the Game Gear. While not retaining the native resolution of the original Game Gear screen, they offer several versatile scaling modes, these modes can be selected at any time by holding buttons 1, 2 and Start on the Game Gear. The modes are as follows.

3 – Doubled Horizontal, Scaled Vertical Resolution – An alternative scaling mode that doubles the consoles 160 horizontal pixels to 320. When scaled to the 320 pixels of the LCD screen, the horizontal resolution is upscaled perfectly, while the vertical resolution is stretched to fit.

7 – Native Resolution – This mode displays the native 160×144 resolution centred in the 320×240 resolution of the screen with black borders around the edges.

Please make sure your Game Gear is in good working order before installing this mod. If the existing LCD is faint or can only be seen at an angle, you must replace the systems capacitors, otherwise performance from the replacement LCD will not be satisfactory. There are various guides on-line on how to do this or we can perform the repair for you here.

Breathe new life into your classic Atari Lynx hand held with this cutting edge LCD replacement. Replacing the dated original LCD with this new, vibrant model will make playing Lynx games a lot more fun, thanks to increased brightness, contrast, picture sharpness and improved battery life. Check out the picture below to see the difference the mod makes (click on the picture to see a bigger version).

What’s more, these kits provide a VGA output option, allowing you to play your Lynx games on your monitor or HDTV (VGA input or a suitable adapter, such as an OSSC, is required). Now, when you are home you can enjoy your favourite classic Atari Lynx games on the big screen too!

These replacement LCDs are the best on the market and have been specifically engineered for the Atari Lynx. Both Lynx I and Lynx II are supported. Unlike the Game Gear, the native resolution of the Lynx is a great fit for these new screens and no complex scaling is required. Apart from a tiny change in the pixel aspect ratio, the screens are a perfect replacement. You can even add an authentic scanline overlay by pressing the backlight button on the Lynx II or by turning the backlight thumbwheel on the Lynx I.

We"ve designed the V1 GG lcd kit to give the absolute best image quality for the price. We use IPS panels with an amazing viewing angle, deep blacks, rich colors and bright whites. IPS is the technology used in smart phones - vs TFT which was the standard used in the 2000"s. The V1 kit does not provide VGA out.

Note: PCB images are of the prototype, production board will be smaller and attached to the LCD.  Shell modification is required. Soldering is required.

I"m not sure, to be honest. There seems to be a lot of different GG screen mods out there, and I"m not sure what each one is like/what they do. I only know McWill because it gets a lot of good publicity around the net.

I am curious if anybody knows a resource on the different kinds of Game Gear screen mods out there. It would help me to pick out models for future mod work.

I just got word from Console5 that to combat other LCD tech and the new clones that have popped up on Aliexpress lately, that McWill has lowered the costs of his LCD kits for the GameGear and Lynx. Console5 now carries these LCD kits on hand for $89.95 as opposed to the $119.95 the were previously priced at. So if you"ve been wanting to get an LCD upgrade for your Lynx or GG, now seems as good a time as any.

Also, I didn"t check today, but yesterday BennVenn did have his JPN assembled LCD kits back in stock for the Lynx 2 as well. I"ve ordered a pair to have on hand!

NOTE: You really need new capacitors in the console for this mod to work, so you can select that service from the dropdown menu. If your console has already had a recap, then just order the LCD supply & install.

I"ve had my upgraded GG for a few weeks now, enough time to put it through its paces and I"ve not been let down yet. My GG was upgraded with 4 additional PCB"s, in addition to the McWill LCD, and this upgrade is able to supply them all. This gives me approximately 5 hours of playtime with the VGA output and 3 hours of playtime with the LCD and speakers on. One of the truly great things about this upgrade is that the GG will no longer reset when a power source is plugged in! When using a GG with AA batteries, plugging in a power supply would cause the GG to reset which is no fun for anyone when in the middle of a game. This is also compatible with those easy to find power banks, so you can now have a seemingly limitless portable power supply. The LED indicators are an easy way to know the charge state of the batteries and when you should start recharging them. This in my eyes is the perfect solution to the GG"s power hogging issues and makes the GG much more enjoyable to use now that portability is feasible.

It’s my personal opinion that the Game Gear’s screen has not aged well. Unlike the Game Boy systems, there was only one revision of the Game Gear made by Majesco, which didn’t offer much improvement. Some people have modded the GG’s backlight with a newer one which saved battery life, but it didn’t improve the overall picture enough to make a drastic difference. Other people had even installed newer LCD screens into their Game Gear’s, but you’d either be forced to play them in half-screen, or stretched. Luckily, McWill, creator of the excellent Atari Lynx mods has also created a kit for the Game Gear, marking the first time someone’s truly been able to improve the Game Gear’s portable experience.  His LCD kit offers scaling effects and scanlines without creating any lag, all while having the pixels stay in their right positions. This is because the pixels are captured digitally into ram, instead of being an analog conversion.

Let’s first take a look at how McWill’s screen compares to the original and Majesco Game Gear screens. Keep in mind that while people claim the Majesco screen’s are generally slightly better quality, the condition of the Game Gear makes the biggest difference. While my Majesco GG is in excellent condition, it’s unmodified and my original Game Gear has had a full capacitor replacement. I can still see slightly more detail in the Majesco screen, however if both had brand new capacitors, it would be a bit more noticeable. More importantly though, even a perfect condition Majesco screen pales in comparison to the replacement LCD (click for full-sized):

The LCD screen mod has seven different modes that can be scrolled through by holding buttons 1, 2 and Start at the same time.  Here’s a description of each:

2 – Scaled Resolution with Scanlines:  This mode ads vertical scanlines, emulating the look of the original screen.  It’s very hard to capture in pictures, but in person I really enjoyed the effect it created.

3 – Doubled Horizontal Resolution, Scaled Vertical resolution:  This mode doubles the GG’s 160 horizontal pixels to 320, so when stretched to the 320 pixels of the LCD screen, the horizontal resolution eds up scaled perfectly, while the vertical resolution is stretched.

Here are screenshots of each mode, listed in the order described above.  It’s very hard taking pictures of LCD screens, but I did my best.  Keep in mind that it actually looks much better in person:

Master System on Game Gear:Unlike when using the original screen, SMS games on a Game Gear with a screen replacement look great!  Also, McWill added the same scaling options as for Game Gear games:  They can either be played in their original resolution of 256×192 to preserve the aspect ratio, or that resolution can be stretched to 320×192 to fill the screen horizontally.  Both modes also offer vertical scanlines, which I think is a great effect:  It still feels like you’re playing an SMS game on a Game Gear…but you can actually see what’s on the screen!  Click below for a full-sized pic:

In a perfect world, we’d be able to find modern LCD’s that match the exact size, resolution, refresh rate and aspect ratio of the original handhelds. Since that’s impossible to find, McWill has done the next best thing by digitally scaling the original Game Gear video signal onto a newer, high-quality screen. While it doesn’t exactly match the look of the original Game Gear, I find the second mode “Scaled Resolution with Scanlines” to be great for most games.  Some games such as Fantasy Star have weird vertical effects in that mode, so for those games I just switched to doubled mode and it looked fine.

As a kid, I owned a Game Gear and while I really loved it, I was always annoyed and distracted by the terrible look of the screen;  Even back then I felt it took away from the gameplay.  I can honestly say that playing Mega Man on my Game Gear with McWill’s LCD screen absolutely blew me away and it was like experiencing the Game Gear again for the first time.  Unfortunately, the kit is extremely expensive, but truly worth it for any serious Game Gear fan.

McWill’s website is currently being finished, but if you’re interested in this mod, you can reach him on the Atari Age forum, or email him directly:  order-lynx-lcd@online.de

I suggest checking out the Game Gear TV-Out page for details on McWill’s VGA / RGB out mod, otherwise please head back to the main Game Gear page for more information.

Japan"s Canon said today it had found problems with equipment for making liquid crystal displays (LCDs), boosting shares in LG.Philips and other LCD makers as fears of a supply glut eased.

Any shortage of equipment for making LCDs could slow the start of new factories already under construction, easing a surplus of supplies caused by consumer reluctance to buy expensive flat-screen televisions.

Shares in LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd., the world"s number two maker of LCDs, jumped 3.9 per cent to close at 37,400 won after Merrill Lynch said Canon was having technical problems with new steppers, critical machinery for making LCDs.

It was unclear how many of the steppers, which etch circuit patterns onto LCDs, are troubled and whether problems came to light in tests of equipment or after customer complaints, he said, declining to disclose the buyers of the equipment.

Canon"s stock dropped 1 per cent in Tokyo trading to close at 5,110 yen, but shares of Nikon Corp., the other major supplier of LCD steppers, rose 4 per cent to 1,160 yen.

Merrill Lynch said any significant pushback in 2005 capacity increases could help LCD panel prices bottom out earlier than its current forecast of the second quarter.

In September alone, prices for 20-inch LCD TVs fell 3.8 per cent to $857 in the United States, according to an industry study prepared for Reuters and published on Tuesday.

"But the expected delay in shipments of new equipment for a few months may add to worries over its already slowing LCD equipment operation and cause some negative impact on Canon"s earnings next year," he said.

There"s little chance of Canon"s customers switching to Nikon as the machines were huge and take a while to set up, Moriyama said. The problem would hurt supply of LCDs and could jack up their price, though, he added.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the top LCD producer and the world"s biggest memory chip maker, added 0.34 percent. Merrill said Samsung was one of the companies most vulnerable to the development as its new plant was largely dependent on Canon.