I've considered it a few times, but since everything still functions properly (with the exception left shoulder button, which is sometimes less than responsive,) I'm holding off on buying a new one.

Oh yeah, and seeing as that money is currently set aside for Metroid Prime 3 and Mario Galaxy certainly has something to do with it too. :)

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My Onyx DS Lite is holding up well so far.

I say get one!

I've never liked white consumer electronics, but that's a personal preference.

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The black shows fingerprints more, but the white shows yellowing from oily fingers more. I think fingerprints are way easier to clean off.

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i had to replace my launch DS Lite about 6 months ago... the top hinge broke and nintendo was kind enough to replace the top half of my system* for free... all i had to do was buy an Envelope...

THANKS AGAIN NINTENDO*

*my system was about 3 months past warranty i belive but their CUSTOMER SERVICE phone staff are very nice as are the rest of the team! thanks

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I'm on my sixth DS Lite now. Got the first one right at launch. Replaced it due to a red hot pixel in the middle of the damn top screen at gamestop in the first week. Second one had a non-working low battery LED. Replaced that one at gamestop again. Number 3 lasted longest until it too was showing hot pixels. Replaced that one through Nintendo. Number 4 came incompletely assembled, with a screw falling out on the get-go as soon as I picked it out of the box and the plastic shell having wiggle-room. Replaced that one through Nintendo for the sake of frikin quality and keeping my warranty. Number 5 came RIDDLED with hot pixels on the touchscreen, over a dozen at least. Called up Nintendo again for replacement. Sent it in DIRECTLY to NoA HQ, got a brand-new one in a box back. Number 6 has had no issues. Now I can look forward to whatever fun I'll have with Wii. Mind you, Nintendo Customer Service is great and to the point, can't look for any better in this business. Totally happy with my current DS. And nobody's perfect. Was my bad luck that I kept getting the weird faulty ones. But that's over now and the system is awesome.

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I'm still rocking my launch day DS, but with the wife playing tetris online on it more and more, i might be inclined to get the two-tone one come august 20th.

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Yeah, I've had to replace my release day white DS lite with a newer, black one. The shoulder buttons were turning that same nasty yellow color and I just hated it.

The new black DS is quite awesome and the screen actually looks to be of better quality. Appears brighter and sharper to me. But hey, maybe it's just the contrast with the black surrounding material instead of the white.

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Not yet, but I may have to sometime.

My touchscreen's responsive is mis-aligned at the bottom center, jumping input a few pixels to the right which makes things difficult, there's a big 1cm scratch on the touchscreen, the right audio speaker seems to be slightly quieter and I've got the infamous hinge crack.

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Launch day DS Phat all the way! I've thought about replacing it because I dropped it once and it got a little scratched up, but I still love it.

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still using that launch day phat.... i'd like to get a lite but i can't justify the high price for a device that does basically the same thing

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My Ds Lite is working fine but I wouldnt mind a new one since my dog has got a hold of it several times. Has several teeth marks on the edges, not too deep but noticeable.

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My original silver phattie is still alive and well (we gave it to my neice). My white Lite is in great shape, except for the mildly discolored shoulder buttons, but it was replaced last year for the hinge crack. The wife's blue phattie is doing very well although it was replaced right after we bought it for 5 or 6 dead/stuck pixels.

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I currently have to send in my white lite for repair because of cracked hinge. It's had cracked hinge since last November but it was still fine until one day after I had finished playing some clubhouse games, closed the top screen and then felt it. A new crack had appeared on the right hinge. This new one is on the top of the hinge unlike the original so now the top screen doesn't close tight. If anyone has information about how to get a cracked hinge ds lite replaced I'd like to know about the process. I've already called customer service but I'm still a bit confused.

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i'm sure i told this before... i had a white one... fell on the toilet... the battery keeps turning off, so i bought a black one. i play with it a lot... and it still looks great (i've made me a cleaning kit with a non-abbrasive cleaning fluid and a special cloth - like the ones you use to clean glasses).

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The shoulder buttons on my Lite are getting that nasty yellowish color, too.

Had the cracked hinge replaced a while back, but other than that, it works just fine.

Would like to get a black or teal one, though. Pretty cool.

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I got my ds lite at Christmas to replace my phat. But it looks mint, I learned from the mistakes of the phat and bought screen protectors right away. Also, to clean those nasty top buttons (and the rest of the lite), use a mr. clean magic eraser. just dip it in a little bit of water, squeeze pretty much all the water out of the sponge and gently rub it on the top. Makes it look brand new. It works really well on ibook's too!

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still beating the heck out of my launch day phat... it's a tough little mother and doesn't show my grease at all.

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Replaced my white DS Lite (which I bought with some trade-in from my silver Phat) a month after I got it through my GS warranty because I dropped it and it had a nasty looking crack in the bottom plastic. Still worked but I figured why not fork over another $20 for a fresh warranty and not have a crack in it. I accidentally ended up keeping my power cable as well (gave them back the DS in box and forgot to put the cable in there, they didn't check), which I would feel bad about if GS didn't screw us all on a regular basis.

Now I just need to fork out the cash for a DS-Lite compatible PassMe so I can run games off of my Supercard SD on it (just plugged into my GB Player on the Cube right now). Before anybody yells PIRATE I primarily use the Supercard as a way to store all the games I own on one cart, saves me lugging a half dozen DS and 3-4 GBA carts around with me when I go out of town or whatever. Once in while I'll run a game I don't own on it, but thats rare because I usually buy games I'm going to spend more than a couple of hours on.

Plus it allows me to have virtually unlimited number of saves in games like FF:Tactics, which is nice.

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Just yesterday I had to buy a new one cause I lost mine over the weekend. I think someone stole it. I just can't live without it.

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The area around the buttons on my Onyx is starting to get nice and dull from it's constant use.

I live in fear (almost to an Anne Frank like extent)of hinge cracks and dying shoulder buttons but if it happens that will be an excuse to track down and Enamel Navy. I'm trying to train a blood hound to sniff one out just in case.

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