DS broke! shoulder button problem - help?

[blastre]

I got Mario Kart yesterday - within three hours the right shoulder button on the DS has stopped working (no jumping, no more powerslides, boo ...). It was working fine, working intermittantly and, after a night on charge, I get up today and it doesn't work at all.

My technical know-how is limited to:
1) putting it in warm, soapy water
2) rubbing butter on it

Before I resort to such inane measures, can anyone suggest what I could try? I probably need to get in it - how do you do this? Anyone else had this problem?

[Renny]

My left shoulder button was broken enough to malfunction intermittently. I had applied moderate sideways pressure to the button while putting it into my pocket. A few weeks of playing fixed it. You might try that through the holidays if you can't seperate yourself from it just yet.

[Il Postino]

Buy new DS from Smiths', do the old switcheroo, etc.

Later... enter local branch of Smiths', locate middle-aged female member of staff, return product asking for full refund, stating the twin screens gave your son Epilepsy/AIDS/Cancer. If she starts saying "no" (and "no" does mean "no" for you students out there), shout for Mr Manager and he'll buckle like a belt. End result you get a nice shiny new DS and your money back.

But we all new this anyway, right?

I do funerals, but not weddings.

[EvilBoris]

or you could not commit fruad and just ring up nintendo or take it back where you bought it from

[Il Postino]

Originally posted by: evilboris
or you could not commit fruad and just ring up nintendo or take it back where you bought it from

but, but, but it's all about the principle, isn't it? Isn't it?

Okay, you're right I guess.

Maybe my advice was a little, 'off message', just say no kids.

But didn't you ever swap price tags on game cases before the days of barcodes? You heartless bastard.

I "stitched up" the Swindon branch of Boots (Yes, Boots, was once a hotspot for the latest titles) and got Spectrum Guerrilla Wars for the knockdown price of ?2.99, we ripped the tag from some Codemasters ****e of the day (possibly, The Last V8, old stock).

Thieves never prosper of course and it turned out that Imagine's/Ocean's conversion of Guerrilla Wars was one of the worst things ever, in the history of things that are bad. Needless to say, the Swindon branch of Boots/Imagine/Ocean Software had the last laugh and I want my ?2.99 back.

Did I ever tell you people about how me and my chums made thousands of pounds from certain stores that gave customers non-itemised receipts. Well, gather round the fire and let us begin... oh and it was my idea.

[eretsua]

just return it to the shop you got it from or give Nintendo a call and send it back to them. you are well within Nintendo's warranty-period so they won't give you any trouble. You're just without your DS for a while.

[blastre]

As Renny said - this problem seems to have now been sorted purely through a weekend of playing - it's all very odd. Shoulder button back functioning fine. From not even registering on Saturday to no problem at all today!

Il Postino's posts cracked me up. I was trying to block the "switcheroo" out of my mind - much of a misspent youth doing the same. Typing PEEKs into the onshow Spectrums in Smiths to get them to crash. Robbing the cassette inlays for Penetrator, etc. I try and behave now! Cheers for the comments everyone - I'll be online sometime soon for some Karting action! Who-hoo!

[Dirty Sanchez]

What? No hysteria about poor build quality?

Tut tut, missed an opportunity here me thinks :-)