A clean one and a disgusting, malfunctioning, yellow one.
Hopefully we will be able to repair the gross one and clean it up a bit.
The d-pad only responds if you press very hard. That's annoying.
Let's start with the clean one!
Flip the controller over and remove the six screws holding it together.
Find something to put your screws in. Like a Game Boy game case.
This is the inside of the controller.
Take out the board and have a look.
These are the contacts for the buttons.
Take out the rubber button contacts and the buttons.
Check out this wicked picture of all the components!
Let's open that gross one!
Same thing, flip it and take out all the screws.
Yuck, see that? That grime makes me puke in my mouth a bit.
I have paper towels, glass cleaner and alcohol. Let's clean off that filth!
Take out the board and clean the carbon contacts with a Q-tip soaked in alcohol. Be careful not to erase the whole contact. Clean it so there is no gunk between the contacts.
Clean the pads on the rubber buttons too.
Oh gad, that's gross! This is what years of sweaty, unwashed finger grime looks like.
I cleaned it. Don't worry. Let me put it back together real quick and test the d-pad. Brb.
Yessssss! It works! It's still yellow but I can run and duck easily.
Let's put the clean one back together!
Put the A, B and d-pad buttons back in.
Place the rubber button contacts on top of them and put the start select buttons back in.
Fit the board in and wrap the wire around all the pegs.
Pop the back on and screw it together.
Yeah!
Don't throw out your old controllers just because they don't respond very well.
Clean them.
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