First off do not post some qq about me not spending 20 minutes plus of my life looking for a saturn post with this specific inquiry…if u post the link to help me out thanks but the negative remarks or “you’re welcome” smug comments are really not necessary.
With that being said my problem with the pad. I got the thing off ebay some 3 months ago if that. The pad itself, according to pictures and reading I have done, is genuine. My problem however, is the inputs began to register incorrectly. I would get diagonals instead of a straight direction. The supplier had a lame 20 day return policy(I wonder why that is…) so I just opened up the damned thing myself. When I took a peak I saw the problem pretty quick. The rubber piece that rests over the dpad has 4 black rubberish pieces that are on a rubber pad. When you press any of the 4 directions the black part presses up against the circuit to give the given input. When the direction is released the black part responsible for registering the input pops back down on it’s own due to how it was designed. My issue is that the rubber around the black pieces began to rip. The rips would cause the black part to not pop back into the resting place so the result would be a double input when you only want a standard direction. I would often open the controller up, pop it back and get it fine for a few hours. Over time it got worse and it is now to the point where I super glue it but after a while the same happens.
Now what I am looking for is a place to order this rubber piece that rests over the dpad. I opened up an old school genesis 6 button controller however, the 2 rubber pieces as similar as they may be, are actually slightly different in size and will not fit properly. I have been trolling ebay looking for what I want but no success. If anybody could point me in a direction to these parts I will have their cyber babies.
On a final note if you are thinking of getting a saturn pad do not order one unless the supplier has a very long return policy…which will probably never happen. I played sf 2 hyper fighting on genesis for 4 years like the cure for cancer…and the 6 button controller I opened up after that much abuse still did not look as warn on that dpad rubber piece as the saturn pad did after 2 months of play. Furthermore the time I spent per day when I was younger FAR exceeded the time I spend per day playing sf4.
Thank you for reading this long post and for any positive help I thank you again for that as well.