Probably bad/dirty microswitches.


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Posted by Antos on 1, 2002 at 11:24 PM:

In Reply to: hotrod SE posted by aaron on 1, 2002 at 1:20 PM:

Whenever I've seen this happen, it's *always* because the microswitch is dirty.

even on the old leaf-style non-microswitch lever joysticks (used in many older games, such as Gauntlet and Gauntlet 2, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, for instance), this was always a problem with dirty contacts.

The easiest way to fix this is just to throw on a new microswitch, if the switches aren't sautered.

However you can also fix the microswitch manually by *opening* it carefully, and cleaning the "plunger" metal part, close to the spring. It's nasty but it works, and if it doesn't, just replace it anyway :)

It's also possible that one of the tiny plastic clips will break when you do this, but it should still hold together.

This "trick" works *BEST* for joystick microswitches (acutally, they're all the same, unless you have the "lever" type ones). Because if you happen to break one of the plastic clips that help to keep the switch together, the screw on the joystick can easily take its place.


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