What's with my controllers?

Includes but not limited to: SNES, Genesis, Sega CD, PlayStation 1, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, Game Gear and I guess the Virtual Boy.

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What's with my controllers?

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I took off the plastic on one of my SNES controllers, kept all the rubber jargon in place, and extended the shoulder buttons. I have it plugged in with the normal controller port. When I try to play my game, none of the buttons will work... (actually for all I know it could be just the start button :? ).

I tryed my spare controller which is still intact and it works perfectly. I also am 100% positive that the black thing on the rubber is making a connection between the metal on the controller.

This same problem happened to another controller of mine (which I took off the covering to...)

Anyone know what the deal is with my controller?
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Post by Turbo Tax 1.0 »

what game is it, donkey kong country possibly? this happens to my snesp for dkc i think its because i dont have a 200 ohm resistor on one of the lines
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Post by CronoTriggerfan »

Try a few different games. It could also be static electricity, I lost a PSOne screen mobo that way. Other than that, I don't know what else could be wrong :? .

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Post by Insert_Name_Here »

Yea actually I just figured out that the one not working is some awful chinese knockoff. (The grey part around the ABXY buttons is a sticker :lol: )

I got my original controller working with the case off, I don't know what was going on before......

Thanks anyways! :D
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Ok, I wired everything together, its all in the case, and the game is running. I havent touched the controllers since they started working and now they don't work anymore :cry:

I was wondering if maybe a broken capacitor would be the problem, as a couple were broken that caused the game not to work....

If not the capacitors, what do you think is going on?
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Problem solved don't know how though :?
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Post by extremesonic »

Yeah this happened to me, one time the controller just wouldn't respond. Then another time i tried using my SuperGB on my SNESp and the controller was really wonky. Like the B button was every button and all the others didnt work. Then it stayed that way with all games. However a quick controller change(I had 5) and it was good as new.
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