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How to repair unresponsive Mega Drive/Genesis d-pad? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming
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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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[–] MrJameGumb 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've never tried this personally, but I've seen a lot of articles and videos where they say the conductive coating under the buttons can wear out and cause them to become unresponsive and they were able to fix it by applying some graphite dry lubricant

Again though, I've never tried it myself so you may want to do your own research first

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I ended up applying something called Liquiwire, which seems to work well so far! I can finally play The Lion King properly again ^_^.

[–] MrJameGumb 1 points 2 days 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