Retro Nintendo

I just moved in to my dorm room for the coming school year and I was excited to hook up the Super Nintendo that my brother and I grew up with. When I started to play, however, I realized that both of the controllers I brought aren't fully functional. One of them has a d-pad that doesn't always respond to left and hardly ever responds to up, and the buttons on the right side of the controller don't always respond either.

The other controller (which is third party) is completely random in deciding when it wants to work. Sometimes it responds, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes when I would turn the system on, it wouldn't work at all!

The first controller might be screwed up because I tried to fix it a while ago by swapping the button pad (the rubber thing that is pressed down on when the button is pushed) with another one that was pretty new, because the \"B\" part of the original pad was broken. I don't know why the second one is so screwed up though – I never took it apart.

It sucks to see the controllers for one of the greatest consoles from my childhood die. It's a reminder that sometimes your childhood joys must fade away. ** you don't have permission to see this link **

Eltanin said:

Try taking them apart and cleaning the carbon contacts, and the contacts on the PCB. If the cloth turns black, you know they were pretty dirty. Also clean around your buttons. sometimes the buttons get stuck to the shell, and don't respond well.

Ok I'll do that. What are the carbon contacts and the PCB? Sorry, but I'm a newbie when it comes to gaming electronics…

Thanks for the tip!