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Date Posted: 21:04:21 03/08/01 Thu
Author: BaronVR
Subject: Re: asteroid76
In reply to: asteroid76 's message, "asteroid76" on 14:35:04 03/04/01 Sun

In rec.games.vectrex there's no shortage of folks who have knowledge about repairing controllers, although I don't have tech info like that. If you need a newsserver to get to the Vectrex newsgroup then let me know...

BaronVR

>argh! my Vectrex's controller is giving problems,
>usually after playing the machine for 10 minutes, the
>left and right movement stops working, although moving
>up seems to move right instead, giving the controller
>a slap makes it work ok.
>
>I've cleaned the potentiometers with alcohol and
>resolder some points on the joystick's PCB, nothings
>changed. I was wondering wether the DB9 socket might
>have a bad connection.
>
>Anyone repaired their controller at all??

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