Reviving Our Favorite Controller | The OG Xbox Duke Controller

Duke Controller > Any other controller in console history

Your soldering skills are absolutely beautiful friend!

all the buttons are keyed to specific holes. but yes cleaning all the plastics while its apart would be great. I ususally soak in warm dawn-water while doing the repairs.

When you take old controllers apart, if they’ve not broken any screw posts it will be a good idea to submerge them in really hot nearly boiling water and leave them in there till the water is cold. You will find the plastic less prone to cracking/breaking, that’s a fact my friend. Great video as usual and your dry sense of humour cracks me up. Great job.

Another great video. I hate it when people rol up the cables around the controllers :( The Duke was a great controller, still have mine in woking condition, Used it for mabey a year and got a S controller. They are indeed very fragile.

11:11 Парень, у тебя такое замечательное оборудование hakko. Я не поверю, что у тебя нет демонтажной станции😅 Upd: Она позади тебя стоит, скучает в одиночестве

I had repaired some of the broken plastic post with epoxy. Great video, I just picked up one of thodr duke controllers

LONG LIVE THE DUKE

i was just 8bitdoing an n64 controller with three broken screw posts. i used the two part epoxy. i screwed the broken posts to the top half of the shell so they would surely line up, and tried to align the breaks so they would mesh properly. i also was generous with the epoxy to kind of encase the break. it came out nicely. i really dislike creaky, flappy controllers

I got a Duke a little under 10 years ago, since I didn't buy my Xbox until after the S controller was already the standard pack-in controller. Just like that one, the cord is totally twisted inside the sheath. Does that happen to a lot of those? I'm definitely going to get a replacement cord to fix that. While it's a shame you can't get them in the original translucent green, it's kind of a blessing in disguise - I purchased a pair of "Japanese" S controllers that were briefly sold here in the US back in the day - unlike the standard S controller that was sold here, the cord is that same translucent green, a bit shorter than a standard US S controller, and features a green Xbox badge instead of the black one. Although I've taken great care of them over the years, the surface of the cord got this sticky residue on them, while my regular S controllers never did.

Would you mind sharing where you sourced the replacement analog sticks and replacement cord?

Did you have calibration issues? I used a similar stick but it drifts initially. However, it fixes itself after a full rotation.

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