How to repair unresponsive Mega Drive/Genesis d-pad? (lemmy.sdf.org)

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I have the Mega Drive gamepad variation pictured in this article, where the d-pad is connected to a plastic circular piece on the back of the PCB where it triggers 4 rubber buttons.

But the down direction is very unresponsive. I've cleaned it well in the hopes that sticky plastic was the cause, but it wasn't.

Any tips? Replacement rubbers, a piece of padding maybe?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's awesome! I'm glad it worked! I should look into some vintage controllers right now I'm playing everything on a retropie with a PS4 controller and it's just not the same lol

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