Atari 2600 starting the repairs

[rubber_jonnie]

It is sounding like the CTIA, though have you cleaned the contacts in the cartridge port and checked the fingers are not pressed down?

[Tomswork]

@rubber_jonnie

I cleaned the contacts with a mix of ipa and windex on a micro fiber cloth with a piece of spare pcb. I never thought to look into the cartridge slot for pushed contacts I will look at that in the morning

Tom

[rubber_jonnie]

@rubber_jonnie

I cleaned the contacts with a mix of ipa and windex on a micro fiber cloth with a piece of spare pcb. I never thought to look into the cartridge slot for pushed contacts I will look at that in the morning

Tom

Good luck, I hope you find something, or I think it's going to be the CTIA.

[Tomswork]

@rubber_jonnie


Some progress now does anyone know were i can find those aftermarket pcbs for the joysticks that use the micro switches and are drop in ready

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Tom

[rubber_jonnie]

Some progress now does anyone know were i can find those aftermarket pcbs for the joysticks that use the micro switches and are drop in ready

That's good news!! Looking much better :)

CTIA or something else?

[Tomswork]

@rubber_jonnie

Bad address trace and a weak clock transistor

Now to make the joysticks work better

Tom

[rubber_jonnie]

@rubber_jonnie

Bad address trace and a weak clock transistor

Now to make the joysticks work better

Nice find, good luck with the joysticks :)