Where to buy cheap repair parts

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http://www.rewind-bits.co.uk/controller-repair.html

Conductors get overworked after a few years of retro gaming. Hopefully you guys know where to get conductors for any Sega Controllers.

[3GenGames]

NES ones $7? Haha...but all others seam reasonable.

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considering you can frankenstein a snes to work on nes.

[3GenGames]

For a DPad, not the buttons.

http://cgi.ebay.com/10-LOT-REPAIR-KIT-8 ... 899wt_1635

Although I may be buying some of those 360 kits, that's a good deal for those....although I need to get analog sticks too.

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iirc, the nes and snes use the same wire pin out just a different end-lead, so theoretically, you can solder the nes wire to an snes controller and use it on an nes, that is what i meant.

[3GenGames]

Yes, and they even read off the NES buttons the same too, but who wants to do that? Especially with Y/B being better than A/B on the SNES controller when NES games weren't made support the SNES controller.

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i think i would play better that way, with Y as B and B as A. the snes controller is comfy compared to the nes rectangle.

When using the SNES controller to play NES games, the D-pad, Start and Select
buttons function as you would expect. SNES button Y is equivalent to NES
button B, and SNES button B is equivalent to NES button A. The other buttons
(A, X, L and R) have no function on the NES.

I have an extra sfc pad i had to take a button out of, so this mod would work well for me.

[3GenGames]

I agree, but it doesn't work unless the game has an option for it, which no NES game released to my knowledge has an option for that. So you're gonna be stuck using awkward controls if you just use a SNES pad.

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button change option? or the option to use an snes pad on nes? the snes pad will work if you switch the wires. no other thing needed.

[3GenGames]

Yeah, the NES connector is the exact same as the SNES, but the SNES buttons are weird and would require about 4 wires and some cut traces. Not worth it. Especially when the NES and SNES controllers are great designs.