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more than half of the controllers somewhat work after cleaning the contacts. What I mean by that is I can get them to function, but a common theme with all these controllers is they fit very loose in the socket as compared to the other hpi controllers I have. When they wiggle in the socket the game will come up and say insert controller 1. Maybe this batch of connectors was not completely up to specs. Also I found the contact cleaner does not help very much. rubbing them clean until they are shiny works much better but you have to be careful not for file too much off the pin. what I found that works pretty well other than the torch cleaner is the tie wrap that the cords were tied up with. you can get it in there and its not stiff enuff to hurt the pins. once I got some of them working I found a few more that had problems with the thumbsticks. another one that is wired backwards that makes 3 now and one the thumbstick does not work at all. I would be willing to bet many of the ones you have left will work if you clean up the contacts. you just have to be careful not to move the connector around a whole lot when playing a game. Which means thank god they have fairly long cords. another thing is these controllers don't like being plugged in while the system is on. for some reason. they will work a lot more often if you plug them in and let it boot up.