I've worn out plenty of PS/PSOne/PS2 Official DS/2 PS2 controllers in my time and more than once due to Tekken. Last night it happened again whilst playing Tekken 5 but this time I'm mystified because it was a relatively lightly used pad. There's was no indication anything was wrong beforehand during the two hour session only the last 30 mins of Tekken.
Usually you know pads are wearing out as the feel of whatever the buttons that are most worn changes. This is almost always the square or X caused by the rubberised contact pad underneath splitting or the electrical contact coating wearing away.
Not so this time - I was on the main menu screen and suddenly it started flicking through all the options uncontrollably. I thought the d-pad must have stuck on either the controller I was using or the second in the other port.
But no I eventually traced it down to the pad I was using, and discovered that both the triangle and circle buttons were completely dead. They felt OK they just didn't work, everything else d-pad, sticks, shoulder buttons work etc fine.
Both the PS2 ports work perfectly with the good controller and the bad one displays the same fault when used with my other PS2. So it must be the controller.
I've taken it apart and the contact pads are in very good shape with very little sign of wear. There are no obvious loose connections or anything broken and when I put it back together again it still has the same two dead buttons even though I'd turned the contact pad 180 degrees.
Any theories/suggestions about what can, apparently, suddenly kill two buttons on a PS2 controller?
Usually you know pads are wearing out as the feel of whatever the buttons that are most worn changes. This is almost always the square or X caused by the rubberised contact pad underneath splitting or the electrical contact coating wearing away.
Not so this time - I was on the main menu screen and suddenly it started flicking through all the options uncontrollably. I thought the d-pad must have stuck on either the controller I was using or the second in the other port.
But no I eventually traced it down to the pad I was using, and discovered that both the triangle and circle buttons were completely dead. They felt OK they just didn't work, everything else d-pad, sticks, shoulder buttons work etc fine.
Both the PS2 ports work perfectly with the good controller and the bad one displays the same fault when used with my other PS2. So it must be the controller.
I've taken it apart and the contact pads are in very good shape with very little sign of wear. There are no obvious loose connections or anything broken and when I put it back together again it still has the same two dead buttons even though I'd turned the contact pad 180 degrees.
Any theories/suggestions about what can, apparently, suddenly kill two buttons on a PS2 controller?
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