Saturn Naki Wireless controller broken :( help if possible?

[Chamillinator]

Here's what happened to my controller after excessive use over the summer and into October. I was playing Mr Bones when this finally broke lol. I'm on the level where you control his head bouncing around on top of a huge head and you only use the d-pad. I think I was pressing it too hard as you can see the d-pad is only held in by 4 small tabs on the 4 directions of the d-pad. Not a very sturdy setup for a d-pad with old school hard pressing games lol. Any ideas on what I can do? Anyone have a 3D printer?

[Chamillinator]

No ideas? I guess I'm S.O.L. lol

[lanhilb89]

Feb 16, 2017 21:45:50 GMT Chamillinator said:

No ideas? I guess I'm S.O.L. lol

Where did u get this my man never seen it before no idea it was in existence. How much are they?

[dj898]

It was poor(?) attempt by Naki for Saturn. I played with this one as well as Saturn Japan's cordless pad and even both were using the IR the Sega one worked much better.

[nevermind]

Can't you glue it back down to the pads?

[Chamillinator]

Yea wireless pads are expensive for Saturn no matter what brand you get. I luckily got mine a while ago right before they started to really jump in price.

As far as gluing goes, I doubt it, how would that work exactly? It stays in place by 4 small notches at each direction of the d-pad and only 1 is still intact as shown in the picture.

[nevermind]

Ah I didn't see that..

Well you could attach a metal cross piece and glue it to the back and manoeuvre it back into place. The only other thing is to perhaps actually glue the centre of the D pad to the actual switches. It may change the way the controller feels though.

[Chamillinator]

Hmm, that kinds of gives me some ideas to work with. I'll have to try out a few things this weekend if I have time.