With all the news about the upcoming handheld, the Gizmondo, I became reminded of the old handheld from eight years ago, the Tiger Game.com. It's appearently not the same Tiger developing it, but I'm not sure if that's the only reason it reminds me of it, heh. Anyway, with this recent reminder, I decided to take a little time to dig into the little known handheld and have whipped together some pages with my findings. Of the findings include details on how the LCD and video signal work, along with pinouts. As a bonus, with my new video capture device adaptor, I've taken nearly a hundred screen shots of Game.com games. Have a look and see what games you could have been playing eight years ago :smt043 ! http://www.bripro.com/low/gamecom/index.php Busy with work, and Grand Theftendo, I don't really have the time, nor plan to do any further reverse engineering or such with the Game.com, at least anytime in the near future. However, I thought I'd post my current findings, as it might spark other's interest in digging into it more.
Incredible work, you're an impressive electronic engineer. So what's the framerate like once you're playing it on video capture? Do the games become playable? If so is there any chance whatever of a screen replacement to sort out the problems the original one has?
wow great job indeed, maybe it is an nice challenge to see if its able to replace the lcd screen with an better one? :smt045
Wow, pretty cool. The Game.com is one of the systems with the least known hardware spec, but I do remember some very fanatic people on the Game.com newsgroup (calling it the best handheld ever :smt043 ) bugging Tiger on releasing the SDK and beta games, but after that it died. Post your stuff there and become a subculture hero! :smt033
Game.Com Castlevania The one Game.com proto cart I'd love to get my hands on is the rolling demo of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. It never got playable, but shit, they were trying to port it when the system died. -hl718
Thanks all! As for the framerate, as it can't real while the data is written, the framerate is maximum half of the original, but believe me, it still looks much better than the real screen! I have plans to do a new video capture device that can do full framerate, and even display to a standalone monitor without a PC, but when I get time (which I don't have at the moment, heh). I'd sure love to see what Castlevania looked like on it too. Big fan of the series.
I know this is an ancient thread (but it was still the first google result for "replace game.com screen") but I wanted to know if you've got any idea on where to get a replacement screen for it? Mine has a nice crack down the side.
