SNES Classic Controller Issues

[farjo08]

I just ran into a problem with both of my SNES classic controllers. The first happened last week, the second yesterday (and it was not until earlier this week I realized the issue was with the actual controller).

So more background. It's a US/NTSC SNES Classic with the original OEM controllers. It's hacked with hakchi2 ce (although that's not the problem). I was using a controller extender when the problem happened both times.

I'm not quite sure what happened with the first controller, but I experience a slight shock through the left bumper when the second controller started having problems.

The controllers appear to work fine on the menu selection screen, but it does not respond properly in games. The shortcut to reset the controller (down+select) no longer works and was the first problem I noticed which I though might have been a problem with the hack (although it worked fine for months). In Yoshi's Island, when you actually try to select a course, only the A button responds, but everything works fine in game (but you can never change the stage). In Kirby's Dream Course you can't get past the name creation screen. One controller causes icons to constantly spin left, the other spins right.

Plugging in a NES classic controller works fine (minus not having the bumper and X/Y buttons). The down+select shortcut works as well. Using the SNES controllers in the NES classic have the same issues so it's definitely the controllers, almost like they both somehow shorted out. I removed hakchi, and of course that made no difference. I opened both controllers and they look just fine (no obvious shorts, all wires, connected, the pads are clean, etc.

I'm curious if anyone has run into this issue and has any ideas of how to fix it aside from buying new controllers? Since it happened to both within a week, perhaps it is the console itself that is causing it thus my concern that if I buy new controllers the same thing will continue to happen.

Thoughts?

 

[farjo08]

I have narrowed the problem down after stripping both controllers down just their respective circuit boards again. Since Kirby uses the shoulder buttons to select the icon during the name creation, one controller thinks the left bumper is pressed and the other things the right bumper is pressed. Even when nothing is making contact on the circuit board both controllers behave the same way and I don't see a way to fix it. Since both seem to be toast I might just clip the wires on one of them to see if that stops the button press which at least might make the controller work again, minus said button.

I'm guessing my only real recourse is to just get a wireless controller since if there is an issue with the port (or the extension cord I was using) it can't short a wireless controller.

Still seeing if anyone else has run into this or has any other suggestions. And if I do get a wireless controller, recommendations? Was thinking the 8bitdo one and trying to put it in the SNES classic controller case but the port is different with a usb port for charging on the wireless vs. the actual cable on the SNES classic (although it still might work if everything else aligns).