Dualshock 3 repairs
Originally published at Lunar Shards. You can comment here or there.
Who would have guessed that i’d screw up the L2 of one of my Dualshock 3 controllers playing Neptunia. I guess the L2 skip may have been a bad choice on the developers part. Tired of having an overly sensitive left trigger forced me to open the controller up to see what was going on. Initially I was thinking something had come loose and just had to get repositioned but when I opened it up, I came to find that what was causing the push back on the button was a rather flimsy piece of spring. In my initial searchings people had run into this problem and used a pen spring to fix their controller but alas, I’m really not that good bending wires. After a bit of reading someone suggested using a spring from a 3.5″ floppy disk. Yup, that piece of plastic sitting in my closet since I don’t have computers with that kind of drive anymore. Sure enough after dismantling the disk, I found a spring similar to the one i the PS3 controller and a bit more sturdy. I had to shorten the ends a little and straighten them but it worked like a charm, if not better. I’m really not sure why Sony used such a cheap and unreliable spring in the controller. My guess is someone in the production line cut corners to save on costs and no one realized it but its rather annoying. Funny how a disk so old that few computers have drives anymore saved my relatively new controller.