Originally posted by: Khromak
Update: I'm an idiot.
I cleaned off the controller etc. as I said above, but after some more testing I think the issue was....I wasn't pressing start hard enough. I can get start to work every time now if I really purposefully press the button down, but if I just tap it, it doesn't register. I think all my tests before, I was just pressing the button lightly and THOUGHT it was broken.
Can't be 100% sure without a time machine, but I'm 99% sure the whole controller ordeal was just me being a dumby.
3 of my 6 SNES controllers were like that. Problem was, that I never made a point to mark them until recently. Thus, I always thought I was having phantom issues. Infuriating for sure.