Hello everyone. A friend of mine has a couple of NES toploaders, complete with dogbone controllers. Unfortunately, one of the dogbones recently stopped working, for some reason. Best I can tell, none of the button presses register at all. The contacts and pads are clean, and the cable has continuity. Might there be a way to fix it? My guess is that the chip might be to blame; I figured I might try and swap chips between the stricken dogbone controller and a standard brick controller, but the chip used in the dogbone is surface-mount compared to the standard through-hole type in the brick. Is there a known source for the surface mount chip these controllers used? If not, might there be a way to adapt the through-hole version for surface mounting? Thanks in advance!
-Adam