I remember when I was a teenager constantly repairing joysticks for my C64. The cable got damaged on one of them so I salvaged the cable off a scrap joystick which was different, and soon discovered that none of the wire colours matched each other either. I had to trace each pin of the 9 pin D plug with a multimeter and write down the corresponding wire colours. I had no soldering equipment. My dad was a telephone engineer at BT and he gave me some grease filled wire connecting crimps. I cut the damaged cable off, leaving the tails soldered to the PCB. I crimped all the wires together and luckily there was plenty of space within the joystick casing to house the crimps. It worked a treat. Where there’s a will there’s a way!
a fascinating video again , you should have invented your tester 30 year ago you would have made a fortune , the only joystick I repaired Was one someone took apart and dressed all the cables wrong and cut them all😮 1990s i think , thanks again😊
Wow, blast from the past! Don’t remember them sounding as cheap and plasticky though. Recall Mastertronic having the first one of that style of handheld stick, was it the Magnum or something? Black handle, blue faceplate and red stick and button IIRC.
Another great video Doz, and now youve got me adding more to my ever extending "to do" list - a joystick tester.....
I remember when I was a teenager constantly repairing joysticks for my C64. The cable got damaged on one of them so I salvaged the cable off a scrap joystick which was different, and soon discovered that none of the wire colours matched each other either. I had to trace each pin of the 9 pin D plug with a multimeter and write down the corresponding wire colours. I had no soldering equipment. My dad was a telephone engineer at BT and he gave me some grease filled wire connecting crimps. I cut the damaged cable off, leaving the tails soldered to the PCB. I crimped all the wires together and luckily there was plenty of space within the joystick casing to house the crimps. It worked a treat. Where there’s a will there’s a way!
Brilliant! My dad had a soldering iron bought with green shield stamps. I think I could solder before I could read!
@ A useful skill. No doubt about that! Green Shield stamps which is now of course Argos.
a fascinating video again , you should have invented your tester 30 year ago you would have made a fortune , the only joystick I repaired Was one someone took apart and dressed all the cables wrong and cut them all😮 1990s i think , thanks again😊
Wow, blast from the past! Don’t remember them sounding as cheap and plasticky though. Recall Mastertronic having the first one of that style of handheld stick, was it the Magnum or something? Black handle, blue faceplate and red stick and button IIRC.