Received broken ps2 mouse from friend. It's broken cos he seriously twisted up the 6 ps2 pins, don't know how. It's got a very nice scroll wheel, so figured it's worth fixing.
Removed the entire mouse cord and replaced with a working cord scrapped from an old ps2 keyboard. The color code on the internal wires were different, so it took some funny/annoying trial and error to determine which wires controlled the horizontal and vertical movements as well as left/right click.
Soldered the right wires together, used electrical tape to tape off the exposed wiring. Works great, although mouse now has purple ps2 connector, like a keyboard, lol.
PS - for April fool's joke, switch the wires inside a friend's mouse.
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