Inside a SNES pad

[Vertigo]

Not the contact pads
Where you have the 5-wire connector that goes out to the console, inside the pad on the component side where the middle three wires attach to, between that and the controller chip there are 3 black strips.
What is the purpose of these? Are they some sort of covert resistor, or what? If they're a resistor, what's the value? Any way to find out?
Cheers.

[NFG]

I think they're resistors.  Those carbon pads have a definite resistance.  Typically I just ignore them.  You can too!

[phreak97]

afaik theyre all 10k resistors.

[viletim!]

If they're a resistor, what's the value? Any way to find out?

No multimeter?