[Cyrax9]

The Instruction booklet that comes with the GCN tells you how to "reset" the controller if you screw it up, I skimmed it once but it didn't help me although it's worth a try.

I have two "Jet Black" GCN controllers that go with my Black GCN and they each have an "odd" problem that I thought for sure was a calibration thing.

I was playing MK: Deadly Alliance with my brother and a friend (If you're an MK fan and haven't bought this game yet, fork out your $50.00 to Midway, this one is worth it, unlike MK 4 and MK Advancwe *Shudders* which were about as much "fun" as watching grass grow), and my Controller, for the life of me, would NOT respond ot the "B" button, my buddy tried it, no go.

"Ok" he said followed by "Power off and swap controllers, lets try that." Since we were playing "Konquest Mode" which is a 1P thing taking turns there was no need for the second controller. Well we powered down the GCN< swapped controlelrs, got through every "B Button" combo for one character and then got to the "Switch Fighting Styles" combos which were doen with the "L" button to switch and the "R" button for the beggining of the move in the new fighting style. Only now, the "R" button wouldn't work!

I was fumed beyond belief, it was too late to call NOA, and I thought it might just be MK: DA or we were just "sucking" at the game.

My buddy goes home and I eat dinner while pondering my "Controller Complex", I decide to test the GCN with antoher game, "Star Wars: Rouge Squadron" is my victim this time.

I take the little GCN Disc, plug it in, and enter the "Training Mode", there's plenty of uses for those two buttons there, right?

Ok, controller #1 "Chokes" on the "R" Button again making it so I have to attempt a "Speed Boost" roughly 14 times. That was a bit of a drag, but I didn't test controller #2.

I opwer down, switch controllers and power up again, once more opening "Training Mode", at least the background is different since it's switched from "Dusk" to "Night", and I attempt to use the "Proton Bombs", the "Proton Torpedoes" and all the toher fun weapons under the "B" button.

It takes me a good five mintues to get the darn thing to fire a lousy Proton Torpedo! Clearly I'm now space debris if this was the "Trench Run" mission, so I am not happy.

Now that I'm outraged (and everyone on the block can hearit too), thinking of pulling a CamFu (NES, or in this case GCN, through a Window), I storm into my Bedroom where I have my nice "Platinum GameCube" which only I can play, because I don't like annoying "brats" *cough little brother cough* touching my nicer things, such as a Platinum GCN, plug the system in, stick "Rouge Leader" in the console and pwoer up.

I open the dreaded "Training MOde" again and play thorugh, doing "Speed Boosts" and firing torpedoes until my luancher is empty, apparently it's not "Rouge Leader", OR MK: DA, which I tried next.

I open up "Conquest" mode again, play as whoever I was playing as on my "Jet Black" GCN, and the combos fly right on by as if nothing was wrong, I should've saved it, btu I was lazy, oh well...

Case and point: I ahve three GCN Cpontrollers 2 Black, one Silver, the Silver one works, the black ones both have problem one has a "mashed" "B" Button and the other has troubel "Sensing" the "R" button. This is a pain because I STILL have to call NOA and see how much they're gonna rob me ot fix the dang controllers, but if I wantr to play Zelda soon, those GCN Controlelrs are gonna need to be in tip-top shape, and I ain't paying $30.00 for another controller when I already paid for two thata r ebalck and one with a Platinum GCN.