Gamecube P1 Controller Port Trouble

[nildem]

For some reason, whenever I play a game, the Cube thinks the C-Stick is permanetly being pressed to the left.

Throught the process of elimination, I've concluded that the problem lies within the Player 1 Controller port.

Are there any other reported cases of this happening?

Hopefully there is a way to fix this without buying another Cube.

[omnedon]

Has the cube been dropped on it's face?

You need to replace the controller block inside the GC, if it's damaged.

[nildem]

Heh. The more I read up on this, the more I think the controllers themselves are the problem.

I used this as an excuse to buy a new Wavebird controller ( ) and it seems to work fine. It's really odd that both controllers would crap-out at the same time like that.

[Avatard]

Or it could be a habit you have that wears out the c-stick. Like some people used to have on N64 controllers that would have offbrands' Z button get stuck pressed in. (Because they pressed the devil out of it when the Z button was set as the breaks on some games)