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So I bought a 2nd Tournament Stick from a member here a few months back because I wanted to hack around with it... I eventually decided that despite the exposed electronics it wasn't a very good platform for hacking (if you're into controller hacking: it's not common-ground style
)
So it sat and collected dust for a while.
I decided a couple of weeks ago to call up a bunch of friends and plan a Mortal Kombat Tournament (to be held this Saturday)... I figured I had 2 Tournament Sticks so it'd be good fun.
Monday night I was going to teach my wife some basic MK techniques and to my surprised the Fight stick that came in my original TE (the one that had never been used) was completely DOA
(led flashed on then back off and the controller is completely dead, as if it were unplugged)
PDP was awesome on the phone but basically told me they probably wont have the parts to fix it and they don't have any in stock to send a replacement... they offered a Klassic style stick in return but IMO they're quite ugly, and they don't even open up for storage either...
I ended up ordering another TE from Gamestop.com it was $90 with overnight shipping and I'm sending the broken one back to PDP, worst case they can't fix it and are going to give me a full refund.