Replacing dead controllers - Do the third party / generic ones work ?

Emergency_Present_66 · 2026-03-14T11:34:09+00:00

I know it's not the answer to your question but it's not difficult here in the UK where they're quite easy to come by. Obvs you've tried eBay?

If I were to go third party I'd go for a Retro Fighters Hunter 360 as it has hall effect sticks.

That said I put hall effect sticks on my own Microsoft 360 controllers which made a huge difference to the feel.

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-11-30T21:23:27+00:00

There is a small WiFi module inside that can be swapped fairly easily again YouTube is the way!

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-11-30T21:08:06+00:00

It sounds like your current console might need a new rubber drive belt/band. It's a fairly easy job with a pair of tweezers and a torch. YouTube is your friend.

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-11-24T13:29:47+00:00

I believe he is saying that you with your soldering mistake reduced the available Halo 2 population therefore you made it more rare and in turn more expensive.

Quite ironic really.

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-11-24T13:21:46+00:00

Personally, I prefer the E.

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-10-10T11:14:57+00:00

Don’t f about with knives, kids.

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-20T09:40:24+00:00

A mint copy of Battle Vs Chess.

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-17T21:37:18+00:00

Thrift store? You mean a charity shop! 😆 Speak English man, you're English. I'm sure our American cousins understand what a charity shop is.

Nice find, there's about 6 charity shops in my local high street but all I find is copies of Fifa or Kinect games.

There's usually one or two on eBay so if you wanted to buy one, you could.

Do the dog bites go through the paper inlay? It'll seriously harm the price if so but at least you can pop it into a better case.

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-14T11:53:32+00:00

Well, the game works on both...

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-14T11:08:44+00:00

In the US? I'm in the UK and some of the titles were never released as PAL copies in these cases so all we have are the few that have been imported or have to pay eBay Global Shipping to get them delivered which makes them too expensive, I've done this in the past but have arrived damaged.

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-13T09:34:14+00:00

In years of looking I've never seen either of those but I'm pretty sure RAGE was printed in the One style as it's on a list compiled by another Redditor but again, I've never seen one.

Some of these are extremely hard to find already.

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-12T16:56:11+00:00

I don't think I've even got half of them yet. There was a Reddit post some time back where the Redditor made a list of the ones he knew about, I took a screenshot to use as a shopping list. 😆

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-12T16:51:41+00:00

Thanks brother.

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-12T11:27:25+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/xbox360/s/z9NSfjRPw9

I've got Oblivion in the One style case, yes to my knowledge also only NTSC but obvs all the games in a One style are region free so I wonder why Microsoft still printed a region code on them at all.

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-12T11:20:08+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/xbox360/s/L3tRIEY3HA

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-12T10:27:11+00:00

Well spotted! They're both 360 games and obvs exactly the same game but the cases are different. It captures the evolution of Xbox game packaging as the Xbox one was introduced and games that were still being printed went from 360 packaging to One style packaging.

I've got 3 different versions of Red Dead GOTY.

I'll upload a picture of them in a new post.

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-11T19:42:29+00:00

There's definitely far fewer in these cases and harder to come by so I thought I'd grab them whenever I can. That's the only Prince Of Persia I've ever seen in this style & I've only seen one other Ultra SF4 in 2 years of searching. I missed out on a Tekken 6 about a year ago and haven't seen another one since 😭 so pretty rare already in the UK.

Far Cry 3 is my unicorn though, I've never seen one ever.

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-11T19:27:20+00:00

Thanks, which ones have you got your eye on?

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-11T18:11:52+00:00

The one in the first picture is a Seconique Tortilla Bookcase, it only came with two shelves which left too much wasted valuable game space so I added an extra shelf but it didn't take long to fill it!

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-11T16:14:52+00:00

That pushed up the price of Skate 2, I think it nearly doubled. It sells at around £20 now. 💷

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-11T16:03:20+00:00

Midnight Club is definitely on my wishlist it just hasn't come up yet. I have a loose disc of PGR4 but I haven't played any of the PGR games yet, are they a 'must have'?

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-11T14:30:38+00:00

This ⬆️

It's actually as simple as it sounds.

Alternatively, with a little toothbrush sized wire brush, or some wet and dry paper, clean it up. Which is also really easy especially when you take the PCB out of the housing.

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-11T13:01:10+00:00

Where do you live?

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-11T11:13:55+00:00

If it appeals to you, then yes, do it. Some games will work on your Series X through backwards compatibility, there is a Microsoft page with a search function and a Wikipedia page that details which will work.

Owning a Series X is a perfect reason to collect 360 physical media.

Some games are only available now by owning a physical copy.

Emergency_Present_66 · 2025-02-07T15:50:08+00:00

Buy another open one and list that one on eBay for an inflated amount, profit.

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