I'm glad to share the pictures. I obviously made many mistakes along the way as I'm an occasional modder. Here's why I chose the Brawler 64: I have big hands for the original controller and both hands touch each other when holding middle and right prongs, plus the analog stick as we all know...sucks (However I bought a Gamecube-style joystick and replaced it, now it's much better)

For me, the Hori-style controllers are too small, so I DO own the Admiral 64, but the Brawler is much more ergonomic for me. I wish retrofighters had made a wireless version for the console. If anyone knows how to make mine wireless that be EPIC!!



Here's a list of mistakes I made, and suggestions for anyone interested:



-again, choosing the brawler for THIS mod was harder than the original controller. I guess the PCB is a different shape, button layout, etc, so when you pull off the back shell, the PAK port is stuck somehow, until you pry it loose, a little hard to work with if you ask me. So I chose to desolder the port.



-Next time, and for all of us, I think it's better to FIRST solder all wires to the controller's circuit board, run the cables through available crevices, and THEN solder them to the rumble pak PCB, this way you'll have some slack and orient the rumble pak pcb to where it should be mounted.



-NEVER, NEVER use non-flexible cables!! I don't know what it's called, but I made the stupid decision to use some cable that was so hard, like barb-wire, that it was giving me a hard time closing the controller. I recommend using ribbon cable, flexible. that way you wont run into having to tape and number all wires, you'd just have to mark a "1" and the rest should be all other consecutive pin numbers.



-If you choose to mod the Brawler, before glueing the rumble motors, place them on the controller, grab a pen, and mark the lines where it sits, THEN glue a bit in the center only, then place the rumble motors firmly and add hot glue on top and along the sides.



-for the Brawler, before closing the controller, you might want to file down those two poles sticking out where two screws go in, if you don't they might end up touching the rumble motors.

