Totally non-political post - PS2 controller question

[docwebster]

My Dual Shock 2 controller has recently started acting very strangely. To be exact, it acts as though the right hand analog stick is constantly being pushed down and to the right even though I'm not touching it. This makes it nearly impossible to do anything. Any ideas?

Comments

[josette.livejournal.com]

Controllers that are used a lot eventually get weak in the toggle.
We go thru them quite frequently, as the OEM equipment is not a good size for the hands. At some point, the plastic will wear and the toggle will go floppy-broke. My dual-shocks last 6-8 months with about 15 hours a week use. Although kids tend to be harder on these than adults...

[j0fo.livejournal.com]

Sometimes they do that if it is pushed to the left when the PS2 is turned on... then when you go into the game... it thinks that "center" is off to the left... so when it is centered... voila! You're going right.

If it does it everytime... well, it might just be an internal problem (in the controller) and I would suggest a new one.

[odanu.livejournal.com]

Buy a new one. We go through them pretty regularly...they aren't worth fixing...on the other hand, we have three working ps2s now because it took us 2 years to find a way to make "broken" ones work.

[bassbone.livejournal.com]

My original DualShock went weak in the left analog stick and I ended up just buying a new one. They're fairly cheap, especially if you get a 3rd party one. A wanring about the 3rd party controllers, though, sometimes the pressure sensing is not the greatest.