Y'day I finally fixed my ds3 controller (original one from 2014!) and spent last night playing all the new homebrews.
Original ds3 controlers are almost indestructable. Though, over time the little rubber spacer that connects the flat-flex to the pcb loses it's rubberyness and gets flat, and pressing on the left thumbstick will cause random button-presses to register - as it slightly pushes the pcb away from the flat-flex, due to the active-low nature of the circuit. A super simple fix involves cutting a business-card into a little rectangle the exact size of the rubber spacer, and placing it underneath it & carefully screwing everything back together. For the last couple weeks, I was worried the thing had become unfixable, and luckily I was wrong.
If this thing has 9 lives like a cat, it has exactly 7 left at this point.
For those that didn't notice, Navabarrone on Megadrive is actually a remake of the arcade game Navarone, one of Namco's super early games from 1980, running on an 8080 processor. Similar HW released a year later runs the amazing classic "Warp & Warp".
Gab75 has been doing an awesome job keeping the homebrew stuff up to date and alive in fbneo, big thanks buddy
bye for now,
- dink
