mikejmoffitt wrote:
I've had Famicom controllers be stiff like this, while others are nicer, flexible rubber. His description of solid-core cat5 is not far off. They certainly aren't designed like that nor common, but I have found controllers that have become like that.
Thanks. I knew it couldn't be just me!
infiniteneslives wrote:
your cords are weathered and old. They probably got left somewhere that they saw a lot of sunlight or something. If you're good with a soldering iron you could get a replacement cord and swap it out. Dog-bone top loader controllers have a special connector inside similar to SNES controllers. Original rectangle NES controllers don't have that connector, that's why you'd have to use a soldering iron. The other option is just replace the controller with one that doesn't have such a weathered cord. They weren't stiff like that originally.
Yeah, my Top Loader (broken now due to my stupidity when I was 14, but i still have it) was bought from some guy in florida on ebay. Thus, it came to me, looking like this on the outside:
But, when I opened it up...
So, my first thought was: "Son of a bitch! Done in by Ebay again!"
And the condition of the toploader and the high level of rust on the screws makes me think it was sitting in a junkyard or something. It came from florida, so it could just be sun, but the system obviously wasn't that yellow, but I don't think that it was retrobrighted.
blargg wrote:
So far I've found no good close-ups of the special wire it uses, or discussion about it (good luck trying to find "copper ribbon" wire without getting ribbon cable, or "copper strip" without getting hits about stripping wire, ugh). On a side note, it's amazing how many pictures there are of
NES controller modifications/insides!
It wouldn't happen to be like the ribbon that the GBA SP uses between its screen and its 'board, would it?