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How easy????
TELL ME???
I may have done that on the sound board
The mainboard of the Game Gear is relatively straight forward, just be careful when lifting the cap legs. Be sure to clean up the board with rubbing alcohol or something before adding new caps.
The sound board is a different beast entirely. It uses actual SMD capacitors like on a PC Engine Duo and it's VERY easy to rip pads and traces. More likely, the caps will have leaked and eaten solder pads so you'll have to do trace repair anyway. As you remove caps, clean the board with alcohol, try to reflow any corroded solder pads best you can, then add the new cap. You can definitely use radial through-hole caps on the sound board, you'll just have to arrange them so that they don't get in the way of cables or RF shielding.