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?
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?
