🎮 Am I bad at video games, or is it the controller? ... Well, the buttons are sticking, so it's the controller.
🈹 It's a Rock-Candy Xbox-style wired USB from 2012, so it's had some miles on it. I've dismantled it once before, when the buttons were sticking in Dark Souls 2.
💥One of the hard-molded risers around a screw had broken at an irregular shear. I epoxied it back into place, but that's a bad sign. All other plastic bits were intact.
🫧 Scrubbed the plastic, blew out the dust, resealed the contacts.
🪛 Put the thing back together. Praise to Rock Candy for making each button have its own unique fitting, so you can't put them back in the wrong place.
🖥️ Plugged it back into the computer and got ... a green circle and no connection. There's no drivers to download, so no clue why this doesn't work.
🤷 Found out that Steam includes native support for PS4 controllers, if you plug them in over a USB line, so that's what I'm using now. I did my due-diligence on this 11 year old controller, now it's time to get on with my life.


