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It's possible the switch is broken but it looks to me like the entire PCB got moved out of place and it's not lining up anymore.

Looks like it suffered some shipping damage. I had one that was in worse shape. Take it apart and see how bad it is. I bet the board is loose and some of the mounting posts are busted. I had one in worse condition that I fixed using M.E.K. and melted it back together. Before After

You can use the gold plated rubber Aux pad button and the gold plated number pads on the CX53, they are the same parts. Also I replaced my switches on mine with these dome replacements from console5 (awesome seller) https://console5.com/store/self-adhesive-dome-switches-10mm-quad-4-leg.html

I've got this trak-ball that is erratic. When moving the ball slowly, the cursor jitters around the screen. See video for proof. This is an older unit. It's got some brass rollers. I've replaced the bearings, and all of the ICs except for the one at A1. Still is jittery. Not sure why. It looks like it's had some rework done to it. One of the ICs was soldered right to the board while the others were socketed. I've unsoldered that IC and installed a socket and replaced the IC. Anyone know what's going on? https://youtu.be/D553md3WgII

Here's a couple more. Before I could play, and watching someone play Pac-Man.

Here's a picture of me getting Dig Dug for my birthday. I loved this system.

How so?

That command center is really cool. I never knew such a thing existed. I was throwing ideas around in my head of something similar but I didn't realize such a product was already produced.

The Intellivision Centipede was even better than the 5200?? Yeah I was not a fan of the Colecovision controllers. Although, I first played that machine after it was well past it's prime.

The rev 7 weren’t working anymore?

Single controller. I really need to rig something up for dual controllers. 67350

What about the best electronics replacement Mylar for the controllers and s video mods?

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Im starting to really enjoy this game

I grew up with the 5200 also. I was born in 82 so I was pretty little when we had it. My parents mainly bought it for my sister, but I did wind up playing it more than the rest of my family later on. My parents say I was even better than them and my sister when I was that little, but they must have really been bad, haha. Anyway, I did love the machine and I'm glad it was my first system. I didn't mind the controllers back then, except for when they stopped working and my dad had to always fix them. I have pictures of my opening my birthday present and it's Dig Dug. My favorites were Dig Dug, and Keystone Kapers. We gave it to my cousins when I got a NES which I regret. They say they spilled soda on it and threw it away. Kinda pisses me off. I got the Atari bug again in the mid 90's and started going to thrift shops. Lots of 2600 stuff but it took YEARS until I found any 5200 stuff. It's a lot more rare to find in the wild. I remember when I first saw the controller again at a garage sale back then and got nostalgic over it haha. Now, I've rebuilt my controllers with Best's gold kit. I also A/V modded one of my 5200's and the picture is pretty awesome. It's a shame there aren't more native games for it, and more original games.

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2253 Having trouble with those white blobby guys.... Not impressive at all. I stink.

I wouldn't mind one. Where did you get yours?

Another thing I plugged the 850 into the computer and then the floppy into the 850 and then the Atari wouldnt boot from disk. When I have the floppy connected to the Atari and the 850 connected to the floppy the computer boots from floppy. I even swapped cables out. Is that normal?

So I got an 850 off ebay. I can't seem to get it to work. I've been trying to get it to work with my wimodem232 wifi modem. I had built a cable, but couldn't get it working so I purchased both the Atari Modem cable and the Atari Terminal cable. I have my wimodem plugged into the Atari Terminal cable which is plugged into Serial port 1. When I go into terminal mode in bobterm at try a ATI command, nothing ever appears. I also tried the Modem cable and go no results. I do notice the screen makes a high pitched noise which changes tone when I change the baud rate. I switched all different baud rates and terminal modes and I get nothing. When I use the chameloen terminal I try the 850 with generic modem and it detects something and goes to terminal mode but no response back there either. Is there any software to determine if the 850 is working correctly?

Best advertises them as lifetime controllers. Not sure how he defines lifetime. Seems to last longer than the stocks. I remember my dad always cleaning them in the 80s

OK, good. I did.

I bought some parts to restore the controller last year. I picked them up just now and they worked great.

2020. Whats the OE mean? Original Equipment? I've been playing this game wrong my whole life. Still weak, but further than I've ever gotten. I sucked at this as a little kid.