You'd think the purpose of that metalized tape over the switches would be to prevent EMI leakage, but it's actually installed to prevent ESD damage to the sensitive ICs inside. The Atari field service manual for the 2600 talks about how they were specifically having problems with ESD coming in via the metal toggles of the switches and zapping ICs. The tape was supposed to short to ground any electrostatic fields or charges that came in from a user's hand actuating the switches.
What size bit did you use to drill the holes for the composite plugs? I'm doing this mod right now and I want to get the holes a perfect fit like yours.
I told my buddy's son that he had to get 100,000 points on Missile Command before he could play Fortnite again. He was like sure no problem and fired up his Xbox 1 and handed me the controller. I said wait just a minute and went to grab the softmod OG Xbox running 2600 ROMS. He lost by Wave 3 and said it was impossible.
Playing the games on any device will always bring back memories. But we must all agree that there’s nothing like playing them on the original console. #Knowyourroots!
I love the "Wooden Age of Gaming." My first console was an ATARI 5200. I wish the controllers worked better... There is this tank battle game for it that is awesome.
