17th July 2008, 11:04 PM
The special screws are available somewheres online... I forget where, but they are cheap. The way it works, if it's like the original GBA (and pretty much all controllers I've ever dismantelled) is a little piece of rubber shaped like a suction cup (minus suction) with a conductive part on the inside roof makes contact with two points when pressed "in". That could need cleaning, or the rubber is worn out, or perhaps it's been pushed out of place. Use some very light cleaner (nothing corrosive) and it should be fine if that's the issue.
Metroid Fusion's got the most awkward way of launching missiles. Japan is SO weird for calling that a "challenge mode" in their control systems by the way. I'm not sure I see how that's a challenge beyond hurting my fingers from holding down the button instead of "toggling" the button.
Metroid Fusion's got the most awkward way of launching missiles. Japan is SO weird for calling that a "challenge mode" in their control systems by the way. I'm not sure I see how that's a challenge beyond hurting my fingers from holding down the button instead of "toggling" the button.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)