just buy a uk mini and use the 3 button pad and if the missing blue rubber on the start button bothers you just open the japanese pad up and swap out the rubbers in the uk one.
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I’d already thought of that.
But then I have the hassle of selling the UK Mini on. And I looked at a tear down of a mini pad and a genuine Japanese MD pad, the start buttons looked different shaped so not sure if they could be swapped. You should fully get this, you get as obsessive about stuff as I do!
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Originally posted by Colin View PostI’d already thought of that.
But then I have the hassle of selling the UK Mini on. And I looked at a tear down of a mini pad and a genuine Japanese MD pad, the start buttons looked different shaped so not sure if they could be swapped. You should fully get this, you get as obsessive about stuff as I do!
There might be one way to do it though and thats just swap the start button from a proper megadrive pad as it should be the same size as the 3 button mini pad would still mean buying a uk mini to get the pad or seeing if someone wants to sell their second uk pad from their uk md mini. Don't have a real japanese md pad on hand to test out though.
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Grabbed a three button pad on eBay, going to take it to bits when it arrives so if anyone here could take a genuine pad to bits to compare the start buttons you’d be a star. If it’s not a straight swap for a Japanese blue button then it’s mod time. Yes, I’m that OCD that I need that blue button!
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Slightly off topic but official Nintendo UK Store has the SNES Mini back in stock. They're still silly prices on eBay, I'm tempted to buy one for my Son for Christmas but most of these games are on Nintendo Switch Online now.
The Mega Drive mini is such a great package. A lot of care and attention gone in to it.
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