Anyone willing to give up worn out or broken controllers?
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 12:59 pm
I'd pay for them, of course. I'm not begging. I looked at the forum rules and they specifically say no to advertising ebay auctions. But couldn't find anything about "want to buy" type threads. If I am doing something wrong here, please by all means lock this thread. I don't want to cause any trouble.
So. I want a controller that I can hack to hell and back. I've become quite fond of the 3DO, and while I know I can get a used (or even brand new) controller on ebay for pretty cheap, I don't think I could bring myself to hack a fully-functional one. They feel like priceless artifacts to me now. Even crappy 3rd party ones. Perhaps I've lost my friggin' mind, but I guess I've drank the 3DO koolaid and I'm all in.
The types of broken controllers I'm looking for:
* Controllers with weak/ripped/damaged wiring.
* Controllers with worn out rubber bits (that go below the buttons).
* Controllers missing parts like the rubber bits or the plastic buttons.
* Controllers with physically broken outer shells, but intact PCBs.
* Controllers that are missing everything EXCEPT the inner PCB with all its chips intact.
* 3rd Party controllers broken in and of the manners listed above, just so long as they work(ed) on an FZ-1.
The types of broken controllers I'm NOT looking for:
* Controllers that have been shorted out or otherwise been electronically fried.
* Controllers with broken/cracked PCBs, unless the break is somewhere that is only a few traces that could be resoldered or jumped with wires (as in, near the outer edges, not directly on or beside major components/ICs).
Exceptions being the CH Flightstick Pro, Light Gun (Gamegun), or Mouse. I would take them no matter how terribly damaged they might be, just to get a good look at them inside. I'm interested in possibly reverse-engineering them. Imagine figuring out how the flight stick works, and modding in a controller with a precise, modern analog stick for games that support it. Or adapt other flight sticks to work on 3DO. Imagine an adapter to make, say, a Konami Justifier work on the 3DO in place of the Gamegun. Or a PS/2 to 3DO mouse converter. Etc. I'm not saying any of these things are necessarily going to happen, or are even possible. But I'm saying I want to give them a look-see, and experiment.
I realize some of you may be against that sort of thing, because it would lower the "value" of the original items (flightstick and mouse in particular), so I won't feel offended if no one is into it.
At the very least, with just a broken (but electronically sound) standard controller I can wire it up to my arcade stick and get my Street Fighter/Samurai Showdown/etc. on. And possibly in the future offer a modding service of the same (though that one is particularly easy if you've ever even held a soldering iron before).
I would also like to note that I don't have a ton of money right now. So if everyone comes out of the woodwork with broken controllers, I can't buy them all. I can probably buy ONE right now. And in the future, more. Consider this sort of a standing request. If you've got something, and I've got the money at that time, I might buy it.
So. I want a controller that I can hack to hell and back. I've become quite fond of the 3DO, and while I know I can get a used (or even brand new) controller on ebay for pretty cheap, I don't think I could bring myself to hack a fully-functional one. They feel like priceless artifacts to me now. Even crappy 3rd party ones. Perhaps I've lost my friggin' mind, but I guess I've drank the 3DO koolaid and I'm all in.
The types of broken controllers I'm looking for:
* Controllers with weak/ripped/damaged wiring.
* Controllers with worn out rubber bits (that go below the buttons).
* Controllers missing parts like the rubber bits or the plastic buttons.
* Controllers with physically broken outer shells, but intact PCBs.
* Controllers that are missing everything EXCEPT the inner PCB with all its chips intact.
* 3rd Party controllers broken in and of the manners listed above, just so long as they work(ed) on an FZ-1.
The types of broken controllers I'm NOT looking for:
* Controllers that have been shorted out or otherwise been electronically fried.
* Controllers with broken/cracked PCBs, unless the break is somewhere that is only a few traces that could be resoldered or jumped with wires (as in, near the outer edges, not directly on or beside major components/ICs).
Exceptions being the CH Flightstick Pro, Light Gun (Gamegun), or Mouse. I would take them no matter how terribly damaged they might be, just to get a good look at them inside. I'm interested in possibly reverse-engineering them. Imagine figuring out how the flight stick works, and modding in a controller with a precise, modern analog stick for games that support it. Or adapt other flight sticks to work on 3DO. Imagine an adapter to make, say, a Konami Justifier work on the 3DO in place of the Gamegun. Or a PS/2 to 3DO mouse converter. Etc. I'm not saying any of these things are necessarily going to happen, or are even possible. But I'm saying I want to give them a look-see, and experiment.
I realize some of you may be against that sort of thing, because it would lower the "value" of the original items (flightstick and mouse in particular), so I won't feel offended if no one is into it.
At the very least, with just a broken (but electronically sound) standard controller I can wire it up to my arcade stick and get my Street Fighter/Samurai Showdown/etc. on. And possibly in the future offer a modding service of the same (though that one is particularly easy if you've ever even held a soldering iron before).
I would also like to note that I don't have a ton of money right now. So if everyone comes out of the woodwork with broken controllers, I can't buy them all. I can probably buy ONE right now. And in the future, more. Consider this sort of a standing request. If you've got something, and I've got the money at that time, I might buy it.