HammR25

The closest I could come to is I hated all forms of Defender until I played the Atari 2600 "Chopper Command". I love Chopper Command and hate all Defender games.

I got it taken apart and cleaned. It seems to work too....then again it worked the other day for awhile as well so we'll see. Thanks for the help guys.

Ok, got the 7800 open but I'm not sure exactly how to get the housing off without breaking anything. I took a pic of the button with my webcam if someone would be kind enough to draw on it to show me what to do. It looks like the 4 dots hold the plastic down which sounds a little different than it was described although I always do a lot better with pictures anyway. I'm just afraid I'll mess up something next to the button.

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I guess I just don't understand why people say the 7800 controllers were good. When the 7800 first came out the controllers came with a 90 day warranty. I went through 3 or 4 sets before that warranty went out and mailed them all back. I finally gave up and bought third party controllers. If the 5200 controllers were worse then they REALLY sucked.

It works intermittently right now. Apparently I was reading the maintenance stuff at atari7800.com. How would I go about replacing the inner workings of the button? Apparently I left it at the parents house this weekend when I visited. I'll have to look at it this weekend or something. Thanks for the replies.

I recently got my 7800 modded for the S-video and composite outputs. I hadn't played my machine for a long while before that. When I got it back and tried playing I noticed the select button doesnt' always work. It did this before I sent it off to OSG but I'd just forgotten about it. If I'd noticed I would have had the dude at OSG look at that too while he had it. What can I do to fix it? I don't particularly feel like opening the thing up without a clear plan lined out. I saw a website that had a tutorial on cleaning your 7800 and it mentions what to do with the buttons but I'd rather get more specific than that if possible. Thanks