Question about weird controller activity

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So I've been using an xbox 360 controller to play ps2 games. This is fine, but my controller wire is a little worse for wear and it disconnects and reconnects really fast sometimes. This causes a problem because it switches to player 2 or player 3, and when I can get it back to player 1 the PCSX still doesn't recognize it anymore. Can anyone help me with settings here or is it just better to get a new one?

[nosisab Ken Keleh]

No doubt you should have gotten a new one long ago

Unless it is a high quality, high price controller, of course. Then you should take it to a maintenance shop and try and get the cable replaced.

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Old habits die hard man, this thing has been with me since about 2007. It took a beating from UFC 09

[Blyss Sarania]

Is it not possible to repair the wire?

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If you can invision a wired, it's loose and not functioning properly at the base of the controller where it connects into it.

[Blyss Sarania]

So either the wires inside the main wire are frayed and thus they could be spliced and repaired; or the solder joints are breaking inside the controller and could be resoldered. If you have the skill anyway. I can't solder well myself.

[KrossX]

I had to fix mine in that same spot... wasn't easy. It ended up neat though, and I added the spring of a old guitar cable to make it less bendy.

Pokopom has hot plug/unplug but it's still mapped to the same pad number. Though there's a toggle to switch pads which might help for when it reconnects as pad2.