I've been watching your vids for a while now and they inspired me to get into electronics repair. I've actually gotten quite handy with this sort of thing and it's a really fun hobby. So, thanks!

To help clarify: This controller was produced by Hori under license to Sega. The controller was also developed for the Famicom, under the Commander name. Interestingly enough, the styling is identical except for the branding. I suspect they utilized the same boards and modified them for use on the master system.

I just took apart and cleaned a disgustingly filthy GBA and restored it back to working order, and I owe it all to this video. Thanks a bunch for a the wisdom!

It's made by Hori then!!! Interesting, they make all the third party controllers for Nintendo now.

Fascinating find, Martin! I enjoyed the sleuthing and reporting you did on the origins of the piece, especially after seeing that start/select molding hidden away inside the controller. Wonderful tip, too, on the bit with cleaning off the membranes using a scrap of parchment. I'm grateful you shared that! It's a testament to the quality and pride of craftsmanship in that era that with a little bit of TLC (and WD-40), the controller so easily breathed life again. Keep up the fine artisanship, and bless us with another video sometime soon! :)

I am always delighted to see new repair videos from you :)

M8. Your awesome at repairing/refurbishing stuff. Very impressive. I love the Scottish. Keep up the good work!

Everytime I watch your videos, whether they be new or old, I always learn something. Thanks for the contact pad on the paper tip!

Just wanted to give you compliments on your videos. In particular, I enjoy the repair videos. Originally came across your channel because I was looking at installing a Region Free BIOS in a Saturn, which then spiraled into watching your various eBay repairs. Very fun and interesting to watch. I love to tinker with stuff, including repairing and cleaning my consoles and controllers, and you inspired and instilled me with enough motivation that I went and ordered some broken stuff off eBay (for what I hope is a deal lol) and am excited by the challenge of fixing them. Most of my own hardware is in great shape as I typically get all my hardware new when they come out and have taken pretty good care of them, so I had to resort to finding other peoples broken stuff! Thanks again. It's a shame you don't do more videos ;)

Loving your videos! I've been watching them for the last hour or two. Just subscribed as your 40k sub! Congrats! Looking forward to watching more of your problem solving repair/refurbish videos! :)

Great find, it cleaned up really nicely!

Always enjoy these videos. Keep up the great work. Hope to see more soon.

great video man love watching ur refurb videos

Love the videos retro... I'm quite the electronics geek myself... Just wish I had more time to do projects like this.. Keep the vids coming. Thanks.

Excellent repair video, I have learnt a lot. I am now very tempted and pretty confident to clean all my retro pads. I know how to solder too so if I have an accident..... :-S. Going to look up videos for specific consoles so I know to watch out for tricky components. Awesome and thanks.

You inspired my friend and I to pick up a broken genesis and attempt to fix it. We managed to get it working :) Love your videos!

He is back!!! :) awesome video Martin! Missed your repair videos!

Thanks lad I love looking at you videos really good and learn alot

Very nice find. Interesting controller design.

Great video and channel, this is my 3rd video I've seen and I just subbed. Cheers!

I had one of these 30 years ago. Thanks for reminding me! :)

Excellent project as always!

Great video buddy that controller was a really good find.

man where was this when I needed an auto-fire pad for Astro Warrior?! And so that WAS what happened, they just recycled the design for a HORI Famicom controller but for the SMS/SG 3000. I thought something was up when they hid the slots for start/select under the plastic like that...

I need to get one of them! Nice video!

Dude! Glad to see another video!

That's a beautiful controller. Must be a dream to play with. Never liked the original master system d-pad, so this is excellent. Great find!

great video! i love your ebay junk videos, it makes me wanna start buying stuff off ebay to fix.

This is so satisfying to watch.

That's amazing I had one for my master system as a kid, had no idea it was also made for the Famicom.

Glad your making videos again. Keep it up!

Hey Martin. Thanks for the video, I had no idea bout cleaning the black part of the rubber contact before, just managed to save myself a few old Megadrive controllers I was ready to throw out :D

you are saver for my psp, your method with paper really work!

Love your repair vids!

Those button contacts look just like what you would find in an NES controller!

Some great tips for cleaning, nice to see another video. Always love the rare sega stuff :-)

Nice find and great refurb work! I just finished bringing a Master System back from the dead, so this is relevant to my interests! :) It's a shame that the SEGA/Hori SG Commander controllers aren't more common.

Whoa! I had no idea Hori had been in the controller game this long! I have a really nice fight stick made by them!

Very informative, thanks!

So happy when I see a new video from you! Collection update anytime soon??

another great vid Victor Frankenstein of gaming

I love your videos man :D Please do more refurbish stuff ! You are definitely a pro and know your way around hardware, I recently got a GameBoy Advance SP AGS 101 cheaply from ebay and its carcass is pretty beat so I decided to move it into a new one :) and some of your vids gave me great inspiration, thanks !

Awesome video!

Dude thank you for this video . i purchased one of these today at a carboot sale just outside of Liverpool for 50 pence. i didnt recognise it apart from the Sega , and as a collector i thought "ooooo official and unrecognisable". i am gonna clean her up and stick her in my collection. Cool video i have now subscribed :)

Another great video keep it up!

great video....love it....

That's a pretty cool looking controller. I've never seen one like it. Hori is top tier controllers.

Man, I love your Scottish accent :) Been to Edinburgh this summer. Really nice countryside in the Highlands

LOL this video comes up on my watch again all the time, taunting me with the controller I would love to have :P

I enjoyed watching that thanks

great find!

Awesome vid man, was wondering where ya went

Well done. Very nice that.

It'd be cool if this was just a really well done modification of a Hori NES controller. A 'make my Nintendo controller a Sega controller' mod.

That D-pad had some real gunk.

Awesome video bro,looks sick.I have been watching alot of your videos lately and since you buy almost everything from ebay,I would like to ask some advice on buying a used ps3 console(finding a bargain) since the ps4 came out,I thought that this would be a great period of buying its predecessor,I would gladly appreciate any comments,thanks in advance!

WD40 is fine to use also 3 in 1 oil (bicycle oil) works also, the only thing to note is WD40 will mess with some adhesives / glues so can lead to labels lifting(not all but some) cool controller, I assume Hori made it for SEGA as a licensed product, and probably made a similar one for the NES / Famicom hence the start/select spaces

*SEGA's Nintendo controller!* ⭐️

I was curious about how to refurbish those rubber pads. I had tried using rubbing alcohol and q-tips in the past but it didn't work very well. I'll try the paper method next time I disassemble a wonky controller.

That really looks like the plastic mouldings were planned for the NES originally!

great vid, thanks

WD-40 stands for Water-Displacement (Formula) #40. If anything, it would help the plastic and PCB by keeping moisture off it. The only downside is that it would make it a tad bit more flammable, but if your console/controller is on fire, I think you have bigger problems than how it's going to look.

Love your vids

I miss you Videos, hope to see new stuff :) Greetings from germany

Great refurb job and very interesting. When will someone invent a magnetic ice cube tray :)

Use Meguiars dash and trim restorer for sega stuff (glossy surface) or scratch X for ps1, nes, snes (Couse or ruff surface) Don't use water dispersant (WD-40) you might as well be using silicone spray or shampoo Just a suggestion I really like the controller and video, that A,B thing was really interesting

sweet video man

I have missed your videos!

Wow. I have one of those, and it works!

When are you coming back to uploading videos, I loved all these eBay junk and fixing videos

You make some great videos, really enjoying your content. I hope you come back to your channel soon.

Pledge works better for getting plastic to shine. It dries faster, smells better, and works better.

Sega licensed out a lot of their controllers (like the 6 button UK megadrive controllers) this master system controller is obviously made by Hori, and shares a mold with a NES controller. Interesting though, as that dpad was copyrighted by Nintendo at the time.

15:21 that Trillian message sound in the background

Do you forward through reassembly every video? I'm look forward to that part the most

Any chance on making any more videos any time soon? I totally understand though if things are going on in other aspects in life that take priority though, just miss seeing your vids regularly is all.

need more video of you doing stuff ! D:

Looked great after you had finished. But imagine how it would have looked, and smelled, if the original owner was a smoker. I'm generally lucky when buying used stuff, but I once got a DVD where the white cover had yellowed and it just stunk. Kept the disc and had to just bin the rest.

You might want to try a product like Pledge instead of WD40. WD40 is primarily a lubricant and penetrating oil which can damage stickers and labels. I use Pledge in the exact same way as WD40 was used in this video but with better results.

They did back then, too. By the looks of it they probably made the same controller for a lot of systems, as evidenced by the Famicom/PC engine style Start and Select/Select and run button holes on the backside of the shell, and indeed a little big of googling reveals a PC Engine "Commander" pad that looks very much like this.

Looks like a bit of a hidden treasure.

I forget how old HORI is, wasn't expecting to see HORI printed on the pcb.

Cool controller I'd like to find one to go with my master system stuff and for cleaning old controllers and consoles I usually clean them with with windex on the plastic buttons and shells and then shine the plastic with pledge makes them look new again

please keep making videos dude, i've been inspired to try this myself

It does look very NESsy, and the color of the buttons and D-pad reminds my of the Famicom. What I find most interesting is that there are not only the unpopulated holes on the front hidden by the label, you can see that often on TV remotes, since they use the same mold for different units, and it is not worth it to redesign the mold, but matching contacts on the PCB with no traces leading to them! So they took the effort to remove the traces from the design but not the contacts!?

great vid dude, keep it up :)

I have more half-completed projects than I can count at the moment. I thought I had seen that design somewhere before.

Keep up these videos love watching them :)

never seen one of those controllers before, weird

Have you ever used superfine grit sandpaper, like 1200 or so, to clean those membrane contacts?

What's weird is that there were button contacts on the pcb for start and select, but they weren't wired up. If they had bought surplus boards from the famicom controller manufacturer, the contacts would be wired to something. So the boards were obviously made specifically for the master system, yet still included hardware for the start and select. I'm really curious at why this is the case.

i have one of these, had no idea it was rare, might do the same to mine and put it up on eBay :D, i always preferred the normal controller anyway myself

Yeah, i always found WD40 too greasy & more attractive to dust, especially on controllers. Furniture polish does a good job & has the bonus of being anti-static.

I cleaned a controller with paint thinner from my model paint set (all I had on hand at the time) and it works like the WD40.

Surely this would have been produced by Hori (not Sega) under licence?

Hope you kept that pad if you liked it. Just checked ebay and running over $80 used ! In the UK maybe a bit more reasonable but on the US site just ridiculous! For some one looking for a more comfortable controller for your Master system than the standard rectangular thing however like me you can't afford this nice looking pad there is a great option out there. Sega has you covered the Genesis/Megadrive pads work on the machine.

That controller was made by Hori 4:43, a big producer of high end Fighting sticks and Fight pads. or the nes one was recycled products are always neat.

I've been doing some projects lately and started noticing that I hate my soldering iron!!! It's a plug in one and I got it for about 20$. The soldering tips have been melting away and I think that's because of a sponge I was using. What do you recommend I get as far as soldering irons go?

paper trick, i like it!

I usually use my ice cube tray but its full of...you know, ice cubes...and stuff.