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| OmegaDog
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|  "Re(1):So my dc controller port failed......"
, posted Tue 30 Jul 12:55
Heh heh heh -- yeah, this situation has happened to me twice, both involving a DC controller with a slightly frayed cable. Best bet is to get the lowest-ohm resistor that you can find that's not below .39 ohms, and replace it. 10 ohms will start making things wonky when the VMU and Vibration Pack are both working at the same time, 5 ohms occasionally too.
If this situation is the only reason you'll need a soldering iron, though, you might want to avoid the cost of the soldering iron altogether and see if you can just get a spare controller port. Try a small local game store that'll do replacements, or try eBay.
And as a general precaution -- unless you do have a soldering iron and a good number of spare resistors handy, don't try again what you did to break the thing. As soon as I figured out that the controller with the frayed cable was causing my troubles, I put a warning sign on the sucker. Might use it for parts later.
(BTW, in case you need it -- GameFAQs has a DC Controller Port Repair FAQ in the DC Hardware FAQ section, for a step-by-step guide.)
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| Bootation
100th Post
Regular Customer
|  "100 posts~ got it working again."
, posted Tue 30 Jul 15:40
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Heh heh heh -- yeah, this situation has happened to me twice, both involving a DC controller with a slightly frayed cable. Best bet is to get the lowest-ohm resistor that you can find that's not below .39 ohms, and replace it. 10 ohms will start making things wonky when the VMU and Vibration Pack are both working at the same time, 5 ohms occasionally too.
If this situation is the only reason you'll need a soldering iron, though, you might want to avoid the cost of the soldering iron altogether and see if you can just get a spare controller port. Try a small local game store that'll do replacements, or try eBay.
And as a general precaution -- unless you do have a soldering iron and a good number of spare resistors handy, don't try again what you did to break the thing. As soon as I figured out that the controller with the frayed cable was causing my troubles, I put a warning sign on the sucker. Might use it for parts later.
(BTW, in case you need it -- GameFAQs has a DC Controller Port Repair FAQ in the DC Hardware FAQ section, for a step-by-step guide.)
I got a 1 ohm resistor and soldered that bad boy in. Seems to be working good!
Crosses fingers!
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