No turntable buttons

[killermonkeys]

Hi,

I have the renegade edition for the Wii, bought in the UK. I have only played for about 5 hours or so in total, enough to just start on medium, and today the turntable buttons died. They have completely failed, I have taken the controller apart, tried both the left and right side ports. The mixer portion of the controller still works, because I can use the joystick and effects knob to move through menus.

So that means it's either the turntable buttons or the connection between the turntable and mixer. The controller is so simple, I don't see how it could be the buttons or wiring, particularly given I hadn't taken it apart. Nor could it be the buttons themselves since all buttons failed simultaneously and after only 5 hours.

I can't verify if the scratch function still works without the buttons.

Has anyone else had any problems like this? It seems like I'm alone, but I don't want to send it back to activision unless I have to because it will be a major pain.

[killermonkeys]

I think I have it fixed.

The problem was a faulty ground connection on the crossfader PCB in the mixer. As you know if you have taken it apart, there are three major boards in the mixer (on the Wii, anyway): the Euphoria/effects board, which also has the main CPU and connection to the controller, a d-pad board, and the crossfader board. They chose to route the connections to the left and right connectors for the turntables through the crossfader. There is a flat 4 wire cable running from the eurphoria board to the crossfader and then it runs left and right from either end of the cross fader.

For some reason, the ground (labelled G) trace on the crossfader had been scratched off as it left the connector. This is probably unique, and probably because these are hand-soldered, and not very well. To fix it, I installed a jumper wire between the ground connector from the main board to the cross fader's right side turntable connector. I meant to take pictures but I already sealed up the board. If someone really wants them I can take them.

The problem is basically scratched PCB, and the solve was to run a jumper wire, anyway.

This was after messing with the turntable for a long time so glad to have it fixed. (The evidence that the problem was electrical and probably in the mixer was that I could jam around the crossfader and sometimes get the buttons to work and then stop working).

No I guess I just wait for the directional scratch to fail

[SteveAdmin]

Hi killermonkeys

Thanks for posting and sorry I did not have time to come on and reply before you had worked it out for yourself, not that I would have suggested anything that would have led you to the answer you found on your own. Quite a genius fix I must say I would love some pictures if it is not too much trouble, I would then be able to write it up as a repair case study for others to share.

Thanks for coming and sharing this with the community anyway!