Got a couple of atomic purple N64 controllers that were not in great condition. One I cleaned up reasonably well but the second had a messed up cord and a really wonky joystick. I cleaned out the joystick and it's not great, but better than most 3rd party ones somehow.
The cable, I decided to try to put a removable connector (2mm JST style) on it since I couldn't find a ferrule setup like the original had and I think it fits? I did the crimping by hand and it was kinda jank, but it seems OK. I went to try to assemble it but somehow the pivot pin for one of the shoulder buttons broke so... now I need to figure out how to fix that. :T
Did wind up having to trim the plug housing but it works! If I was going to do it again I'd probably look into moving the capacitor and having the socket point in the opposite direction. This specific controller is real jank already (cracks, stick is mediocre, corrosion on the memory pak port shielding...) so I don't really care but hey, it works now. That brings me up to 3 working OEM controllers (of varying quality (plus various 3rd party ones...))
