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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
The symptom hints that the +5 pin on the joystick port is being overloaded. Has another part been connected to pin 1, and is that other part doing something silly like shorting it to ground?
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Thank you for this information!
Like a good scientist, I decided to change all the variables at once. I took a new connector and new wire and put it together, and it worked!
Then I examined the old connector- between two pins, on the bottom, there was a solder bridge between two pins. Not globby and noticable- less than a hair's thickness. I'm assuming this is what was causing the problem. It was an old crappy connector from past years, and I checked it for bridges before using it, but obviously missed this one. The new ones just as old and just as crappy, but it's a different design and the pins are more visible and farther apart.
Again, thanks for the help!