DS Lite seems to have some flaws :(

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DS Lite seems to have some flaws :( - Jul 05, 2006 23:15
I' ve been reading about DS lite for ages, but today I' ve encountered a large thread on Lik-Sang forum dedicated to D-Pad problems.

http://forum.lik-sang.com/showthread.php?t=14021

It seems that a lot of people have trouble with it being totally unresponsive in diagonal directions.


I got my black DS Lite on Friday. In the first few hours I noticed the problem. I took it back and got another one. This also had the same problem. By the time I took that one back the clerk started giving me dodgy looks. In the end I settled for the 3rd one which also has the problem. I' ve tried to ignore it but after a week my thumb is really sore and i' m starting to admit that it really does bother me. How do we go about complaining to Nintendo?


and another goes:


On the same day i bought a white DS Lite for my partner. In comparison the white one is alot more responsive in the diagonal directions. there is definatly something wrong with the black ones. I rang Nintendo europe this morning after my post and they said that there was prbably a dodgy batch


The thing is that most people say they have this problem on both white and black DS lite systems.It' s hard to say what explanation is good, but it really is confusing a bit.

Still that design...





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RE: DS Lite seems to have some flaws :( - Jul 05, 2006 23:19
Mine is fine. It' s black and has ZERO problems -- the d-pad is perfect (just like the GB Micro' s)

This...


I rang Nintendo europe this morning after my post and they said that there was prbably a dodgy batch


Is bullshit!

No Nintendo representative would say anything like that. For all they know it' s the press calling them.

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RE: DS Lite seems to have some flaws :( - Jul 05, 2006 23:33
The thing is it won' t be that abvious until you play games like metroid and other that make u use diagonal directions.


No Nintendo representative would say anything like that. For all they know it' s the press calling them.


Yeah you' re right - I Wasn' t thinking I guess, but so many people complain...

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RE: DS Lite seems to have some flaws :( - Jul 05, 2006 23:34

It seems that a lot of people have trouble with it being totally unresponsive in diagonal directions.


You must' ve been reading the PSP section

Either that or Nintendo decided to emulate the PSP d-pad as closely as possible
Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

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RE: DS Lite seems to have some flaws :( - Jul 05, 2006 23:35
Gangsta bddy, have you noticed this yourself? I' m slightly worried now as i know you love the Lite...

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RE: DS Lite seems to have some flaws :( - Jul 05, 2006 23:36


ORIGINAL: Terry Bogard


It seems that a lot of people have trouble with it being totally unresponsive in diagonal directions.


You must' ve been reading the PSP section

Either that or Nintendo decided to emulate the PSP d-pad as closely as possible


Payback maybe?

" Hey, you Shony guys, look what we have.. A bad d-pad, yeah that' s right! Steal
our technologies b!tches.."

Terry, me gets the feeling you have yet to be...


*Web BAHLL*' ed
There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

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RE: DS Lite seems to have some flaws :( - Jul 05, 2006 23:38

" Hey, you Shony guys, look what we have.. A bad d-pad, yeah that' s right! Steal
our technologies b!tches.."


LMAO

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RE: DS Lite seems to have some flaws :( - Jul 05, 2006 23:39
Nintendo is da crap!

Why buy a DS when you can have ridgeeeeee raccceeeeerrr on a PSP?
Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

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RE: DS Lite seems to have some flaws :( - Jul 06, 2006 01:00

Why buy a DS when you can have ridgeeeeee raccceeeeerrr on a PSP?


Why play ridge racer on a PSP when you can have it now on your PC
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RE: DS Lite seems to have some flaws :( - Jul 06, 2006 02:13


ORIGINAL: QuezcatoL

Nintendo is da crap!

Why buy a DS when you can have ridgeeeeee raccceeeeerrr on a PSP?


Why buy a PSP when you can play Ridge Racer on your PS1?

You buy a DS for touch screen Wario Warez and online Mario Kart, Quez!

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RE: DS Lite seems to have some flaws :( - Jul 06, 2006 02:48
MAYBE they left these problems in so they have room for another redsign,

the DS Really Lite .
Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

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RE: DS Lite seems to have some flaws :( - Jul 06, 2006 03:21

ORIGINAL: Silentbomber

MAYBE they left these problems in so they have room for another redsign,

the DS Really Lite .


A Weight Watchers edition?!

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RE: DS Lite seems to have some flaws :( - Jul 06, 2006 04:41
To end this thread all I can say is
" The DS sucks! It' s a fact, look it up."
(does anyone even remember that guy?)

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RE: DS Lite seems to have some flaws :( - Jul 06, 2006 09:43
yeah, it was you I believe.


Just look at your post. I got pictures.
Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

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RE: DS Lite seems to have some flaws :( - Jul 06, 2006 22:55

Gangsta bddy, have you noticed this yourself? I' m slightly worried now as i know you love the Lite...


No not myself - I' ve just orderd Enamel Navy from Lik sang (yeah!!) - it seems that this problem is mostly european - guys at IGN reviewing black DS lite (at the end of this review) say that it' s got fucked up D-pad.

I was very worried when I heard this just before I was supposed to get DS LITE, but I guess I' ll get it anyway and maybe mine will be fine since it' s japanese.

one thing is for sure - not all of them are bad, this issue appeared among european DS Lite mostly but even euromodels can be good or bad.

You don' t need to worry majik since you got yours at retail and can replace it if something is wrong.

I hope my enamel won' t have bad pixels (my fisrt pure white DS from japan had 3,I exchanged it for another one and it had 1 but it was located in a corner so I could live with that)
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