@timixretroplays@digipres.club
Post #2893830
2026-05-13 09:02 UTC
The gamepad in question was made in China and they absolutely spared every expense possible. It has a slot in it to store a USB dongle but they never made a wireless version of it. There are other buttons that are completely ignored by the manual and appear to do nothing at all but might have done something if they'd implemented more features. So I would not be terribly surprised to learn these are offcuts from some random manufacturing process stickytaped onto a cheap PCB.
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@timixretroplays@digipres.club 2026-05-13 09:30
One other observation - it's possible to press the button and make the thing buckle and make the clicky noise, but still not actually make electrical contact - it's easy to get a false-positive out of pressing one of these buttons. That I think lends credence to the possibility of these being some weird DIY thing, like it's possible to buckle the metal but not press hard enough to make it bridge contacts underneath.