I bought 9 PS3 controllers for $40... how bad could they be?

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• DR

  @DrPepperone · 3 years ago

  The dualshock 3 situation is so tragic. It’s really hard to find genuine ones that aren’t in poor conditions.<br>I wish somebody like 8bitdo would come up with a suitable replacement

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• UN

  @unhip911 · 1 year ago

  I watched this on a PS3.

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• RE

  @rebindfpv800 · 3 years ago (edited)

  The replacement thumb stick that was crazy sensitive may have different max resistance values on its pots. Resulting in hitting the max value the controller expects before hitting the physical limits

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• MO

  @monkeysniperx · 3 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH42doiwjsA&amp;t=132">2:12</a> the person who tested that controller probably tried using a wall charger (which the official dualshock 3 controllers do not support charging from) and that&apos;s why they thought it was not turning on

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• LU

  @LucaBlightOfHighland · 3 years ago

  Actually with the dualshock 1, 2 and 3 the thumbsticks become sticky and oily by themselves due to the chemical deterioration of the rubber, usually after a light cleaning and a few minutes of use they turn out ok again, but if you leave them for months in a drawer they come back sticky again.

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• FA

  @Fail2Fail-twitch-streams · 3 years ago

  Keep in mind if you will have problems with any ps3 controllers that randomly starts sending random inputs to your ps3 is because the sponge that holds the circuit foil lost it&apos;s &quot;spongeness&quot;. You can fix that with a piece of paper under the sponge. Just in case you encounter this problem.

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• CY

  @CyanDumBell_Main · 3 years ago

  you always need to do some re-calibration after a joystick swap since every joystick made differently

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• PO

  @polarsbear668 · 3 years ago

  Challenge: Play something with the DoubleShock 3&apos;s wrongly mapped controls

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• RI

  @RichHomieBodhi · 3 years ago

  I noticed from the used ds3s I&apos;ve refurbished, a lot of them have this ghost button press issue and that is because the foam used to add pressure to the contacts deteriorates. Adding a layer of tape or paper fixes that issue. <br><br>It&apos;s crazy how hard it is these days to find genuine ds3s.

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• LO

  @lookitskazzy · 3 years ago

  The 2.4 GHz controller probably doesn&apos;t use BT to avoid license fees, but 2.4 GHz is in many cases more performant than a BT controller (less input lag).

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• NU

  @nukelauncher95 · 3 years ago (edited)

  They made some very convincing knock off DualShock 3s. I have a knockoff that is a nearly perfect copy inside and out, and the plastic casting and silkscreening is flawless, however it doesn&apos;t work in the PS3&apos;s safe mode. &nbsp;I&apos;ve actually never come across any counterfeit DS3 that works in safe mode, so maybe you can test the supposedly genuine controllers to see if they&apos;re actually legit.

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• AQ

  @aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH42doiwjsA&amp;t=1087">18:07</a> The issue with the analog sticks here is that because they&apos;re Third Party replacements, the potentiometers (the green gear on the sides) is lower quality than the official Sony potentiometers<br><br>The reason for that still mystifies me, as this is an issue NO ONE talks about online (outside of stick drift repair videos, I wanted to improve the analog sticks on a 3rd party bootleg controller) , and I&apos;ve suffered a lot myself to solve it, and to this day I&apos;m still not wholly sure<br><br>BUT BASICALY<br><br>A potentiometer has a little copper piece with a ridge that rubs against a graphite &quot;arc&quot; inside the green piece that increases the voltage between the pins on the left and the right, stick drift happens either because the graphite in the arc wore out, or if the voltage suddenly changed between the pins. Official controllers have a lot more material on the &quot;arc&quot; which makes it so they&apos;re way more precise than third party alternatives<br><br>THE SOLUTION (thankfully)<br><br>I&apos;ve tested it myself using a bootleg PS2 controller. Basicaly, I have a bunch of dead PS2 H controllers I couldn&apos;t for the life of me fix, so what I did was quite literally desolder the analog sticks off and snap off the potentiometers and snap them in the bootleg controller, which to my amazement sealed the deal and turned a bootleg controller almost as good as an original.<br><br>If you have some broken official controllers laying around and they had good sticks, I don&apos;t see no reason why you shouldn&apos;t salvage the analog potentiometers off them.

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