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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Are you sure it's actually broken? Loads of joysticks didn't use all the pins. Most didn't. 

Gameport is bidirectional (for ffb) and shares an interface with midi, so most controllers don't need all those connections.
gpt
Thanks, in that case I’m not certain it’s broken, but I can’t find the joystick online to check