Hello everyone. Recently I've been quite some trouble with ye olde DS2. Y'see, shortly after I bought my PS2, I had the return the controller, because the R1 button broke off (which is darn strange, because I press buttons lightly). A couple months later (last week), the same problem occurs. This time the button is jammed in, and when I try to get it back to normal, the button pops out. I tried popping the button back in, but it wouldn't work. Everytime I pressed it, it got stuck. So two days ago, I returned it to Future Shop and got a new one. I didn't try it out until the next day, which is when I found something very wrong with it. Playing MGS, I pushed triangle and the game flickered in and out of first person mode. Being a light button-presser, I pushed harder. It worked, but I shouldn't have had to do that. Also, the d-pad and circle button were unresponsive. I plugged in my brother's controller and tried it out, and even when I was pressing the buttons lightly, it was doing fine. So I tested my pad out on SFAlpha 3. The Super Combos became increasingly hard to pull off and I had no jumping control. Symphony of the Night was the same. I had to pound the buttons to pull off Richter's specials, and Alucard's spells were near impossible. So I returned the pad today and received another replacement. This one had the same problem as the last. I thought that maybe Sony made the controllers pressure-sensitive for PSX games, and played the three games again. Same problems. I then tested it out on PS2 games. First with Vice City, and then on Red Faction 2 in a match against my brother. There was a time when I was shooting off an Uzi and it just stopped firing. I was holding down the R1 button, but nothing was happening (no, I wasn't out of ammo or reloading). I pushed harder. Still nothing. I had to release and fire again, only to encounter the problem again. I guess I'll be paying FutureShop another visit on Boxing Day. This time I won't be too happy about it either.
Has anyone else had similiar problems with DS2 controllers?