my L button stopped... for a while...

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my phat has a super cracked hinge but thats cause my sister dropped it a few times.
My lite has a stuck pixel i plan on fixing when i get a supercard and all that and my left trigger button only works every once and a while.

Still playable so no biggy.

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My L button kinda stopped working so well on the original DS, like a lot of people seem to have said already.

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I got a White DSL exactly one week after launch along with my brother. We have sequential serial numbers even. His had the hinge crack, and his L button stopped working. Mine has been perfect until recently, when the L button wasn't registering sometimes. Called up the big N the other day, and the label is on it's way!

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My polar white ds lite has had a cracked hinge, the L shoulder button go out and 2 stuck pixels. Nintendo is fixing them now all under warranty. But I've heard of some homebrew that can unstick frozen pixel.

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The L Shoulder button on my DS Phat stopped working after 11 months. I am very surprised by this. I've never had a problem with any Nintendo system before.

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Bought my DS Lite at the North American launch and ended up with a cracked hinge just like everybody else.

Haven't sent it in for repairs since I don't want to pay for that and I'm pretty sure I'm not eligible for a free replacement.

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my dark blue Japanese light has a dead pixel on the top screen and the right shoulder button dosen't respond unless i press very hard =[ anyone know how i can fix the shoulder button?

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I have a white DS lite that I bought about a week after launch and it lasted almost 6 months before its hinge cracked (it fell out of my pocket onto the pavement and developed after that). I would replace it, but I'm too lazy and since nothing else is wrong with it, I don't really care enough to bother.

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I have two ds's one lite i got at launch and one phat I got a couple of month's after launch the lite has a cracked hinge and the phat has a broken hinge on the right side the screen wobbles and I can see the brown ribbon cable. One of my friends also has a broken hinge so i am surprised they aren't more common. It does effect gameplay because the top screen doesn't stop it only stops at 180º so the light glares off of it, and is very awkward.

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I have a GBA SP with both shoulder buttons unresponsive (they need to be pressed very hard so can't be used in normal play) due to more than two years of heavy use. However as it is only used for playing GB/GBC games it is not a problem.

Last week my black DS lite also started having the left shoulder button be unresponsive but it is back to normal for now so I will see how it goes.

But the real kicker is that last weekend, after finally managing to go to world 4 of NSMB (didn't bother trying hard to go there before finishing the game) the DS totally stopped, like it would if the battery ran out of juice except that:

1. The light is green, not red.
2. It does it both when playing off the battery and when recharging.
3. So far it only does it with NSMB.
4. It only does it in a world, not in the map screen (so far).

I haven't played any other games extensively but I recently started Metroid Prime Hunters so I will see if it happens there too but I guess I will send it back for them to see what is wrong but I am waiting until I go on holiday to France as I lent my cousin my old DS phat that way I can still play while it gets repaired (though I'm gonna miss the lite's brightness).

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I have a white DS light with the hinge crack and yellowing touch screen.

I bought my boyfriend a black DS LIte for christmas and it has a dead pixel on the top screen.

:(

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Use my DSlite quite heavily...no problems here. Neither on the hinges nor on the shoulder buttons!

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got my ds lite the first day it came out, got the hinge crack, called nintendo and they said that since it didn't affect the performance that it wasn't covered and they would not replace it. how did you guys get around this???

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Well.... my DS phat has broken sholder buttons, and my DS lite had broken hinge untill I got it fixed for free from Nintendo.

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I have 2 DS Lite on hand, I have the first batch of white one and my girlfriend has the first batch of the pink ones. My white one has a crack on one of the hinge already and the power button spring must of have popped off because I can't power it on and off with a single simple flip, but having to need to lift the power switch up and down everytime I power it on and off. My girlfriend's pink DS Lite is in great shape except the bottom screen is starting to look kind of yellow.

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My DS lite is fine except for the cracked hinge. Emailed Nintendo (Europe) about it twice and had no reply, and there's no support on their website for it, so I'm not impressed

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"got my ds lite the first day it came out, got the hinge crack, called nintendo and they said that since it didn't affect the performance that it wasn't covered and they would not replace it. how did you guys get around this???"

When did you call them? They didn't cover it when it first blew up, but I'm quite sure they do now.

I keep trying to convince my friends to send it for repair before it gets any worse. The plastic beneath the crack of mine eventually broke off, leaving wires in between the screens to be exposed. Now a horizontal crack if forming near the R button.

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I have also fallen victim of the hinge crack, I was on vacation with it only one week new and I found it with a crack and was so upset that I had all ready broken the hinge... Then I got on the internet and found this was a very common thing growing among the DS Lites... Everbody says it won't matter, but when the DS 2 comes out and I want to sell my lite and get the new one it won't have the best re-sell value... I want to send it it and get it repaired or whatever they will do but I don't feel it is worth the time, effort and money...

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Launch day DS Lite. It has the hinge crack, just like everyone else that I know that has a DS Lite.

There's another problem, and I'm waiting for it to get in stock so I can replace it. If I play awhile (sometimes 5 minutes, sometimes an hour or longer), the upper screen starts flickering and you can see portions of the image doubled, and it becomes unplayable. If I close the DS and reopen it, the flickering will go away for a while.

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