Pye
Smash Journeyman
Hey everyone.
So here's the story. I got my gamecube on release day, 6 years ago, along with an extra controller (making two total. The purple one that comes with the cube, and the extra black one). I still have these controllers today, which is surprising. They have survived almost 6 years of SSBM abuse, along with quite a bit of Kirby: Air Ride, two Metroid games, Pikmin, two Sonic games and Super Mario Sunshine.
Now, however, they seem to be on their last legs.
The purple controller's joystick is really loose (which isn't that much of a problem right now, since it's not loose enough to affect gameplay, but I'm worried it might get worse), the C-stick sometimes goes completely unresponsive, or gets "stuck" (the C-stick is in neutral position, but every time I grab in SSBM, it auto-throws in a direction, 99% of the time down). I have to mash the c-stick around for about 5 seconds for it to work again :\
The black controller is not nearly as worn down in that the joystick isn't loose, but sometimes the C-stick won't work left and right, but it still registers fine up and down. But what worries me the most is every time this controller is plugged in when the cube is turned on, it comes on as "stuck" scrolling up (so the SSBM menu at the beginning is screwy). I have to reset the cube several times for this to go away (my record so far is 14 times :\ ).
I've opened up the controllers and found the joysticks and C-sticks to be clogged with dust and such, and after cleaning that up, they worked fine for a few months. Now their getting worse again, and the C-sticks are ceaseing to function. I opened them today only to find them unclogged, so the problem is something different this time.
Does anyone have ways to fix these problems?
So here's the story. I got my gamecube on release day, 6 years ago, along with an extra controller (making two total. The purple one that comes with the cube, and the extra black one). I still have these controllers today, which is surprising. They have survived almost 6 years of SSBM abuse, along with quite a bit of Kirby: Air Ride, two Metroid games, Pikmin, two Sonic games and Super Mario Sunshine.
Now, however, they seem to be on their last legs.
The purple controller's joystick is really loose (which isn't that much of a problem right now, since it's not loose enough to affect gameplay, but I'm worried it might get worse), the C-stick sometimes goes completely unresponsive, or gets "stuck" (the C-stick is in neutral position, but every time I grab in SSBM, it auto-throws in a direction, 99% of the time down). I have to mash the c-stick around for about 5 seconds for it to work again :\
The black controller is not nearly as worn down in that the joystick isn't loose, but sometimes the C-stick won't work left and right, but it still registers fine up and down. But what worries me the most is every time this controller is plugged in when the cube is turned on, it comes on as "stuck" scrolling up (so the SSBM menu at the beginning is screwy). I have to reset the cube several times for this to go away (my record so far is 14 times :\ ).
I've opened up the controllers and found the joysticks and C-sticks to be clogged with dust and such, and after cleaning that up, they worked fine for a few months. Now their getting worse again, and the C-sticks are ceaseing to function. I opened them today only to find them unclogged, so the problem is something different this time.
Does anyone have ways to fix these problems?
), so I was hesitant to get new controllers. I guess these ones have bit the dust though. *sigh*