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Family Computer => Technical & Repair Assistance => Topic started by: Arkanix38 on April 25, 2016, 04:20:03 pm

Title: Guide: Fix 'broken' Hori N64 Pad
Post by: Arkanix38 on April 25, 2016, 04:20:03 pm
I managed to get a 'Junk' N64 Hori Pad from ebay recently for a decent price, and it took roughly 2 minutes to fix.

If the C-Stick won't return to center, this is most likely your problem... (http://imgur.com/W1J9j6L)

Carefully bend it back to center with a pair of straight nose or round nose pliers like this (http://imgur.com/POa7FjX)

And boom, you have a fully working version of possibly the best N64 controller out there
Title: Re: Guide: Fix 'broken' Hori N64 Pad
Post by: P on April 25, 2016, 11:57:30 pm
So the metal core of the joystick was just bent? Good find, what did you give for it?

Quote from: Arkanix38 on April 25, 2016, 04:20:03 pm
the C-Stick

You mean the 3D-stick ;)
Title: Re: Guide: Fix 'broken' Hori N64 Pad
Post by: Arkanix38 on April 27, 2016, 04:33:52 am
Sorry mate, localisation and all that. Over in Australia we refer to it as the Control Stick or C-Stick
Title: Re: Guide: Fix 'broken' Hori N64 Pad
Post by: P on April 28, 2016, 12:41:39 am
Oh I see. Now that you mention it I think it was called Control Stick in Europe too (but I never heard C-stick), and also all subsequent analogue joysticks from Nintendo have been Control Stick. But in all my 64 games they always say 3D-stick and in the Japanese 64 manuals it's also 3D-stick.

When you say C-stick I think of the Gamecube's yellow C-stick (C as in C-buttons). So what do you call the Gamecube's leftmost joystick in Australia to not confuse it with the rightmost C-stick?