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    The Nintendo DS is a handheld featuring two screens, one of which is a resistive touchscreen. Four different models are available: the original DS, the DS Lite, the DSi, the DSi XL.

    How many times have your Nintendo DS died?

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    #1  Edited By oldschool

    We all know about the 360 dropping off prematurely, but what about the DS.  The system has been around for a number of years now and surely some of us have had to replace a dead one.  So is your system still alive a playing well, or have you had to replace it?


    Importantly, how or why did it die?  Natural causes or handheld abuse?

    I had one die of natural causes on me.  In fact, it is the very first time in a long life of owning systems, that one of them died.  The touch screen no longer worked and it turned out that the most expensive part of the machine was dead (sort of like a motherboard - I'm not technical).  It was 1 month out of warranty and Nintendo told me that they wouldn't cover it.

    The machine was $200 to buy and it was going to cost $130 to repair.  Being very annoyed and not allowing the repair department to be the end of it, I got the name of the senior manager of Nintendo Australia.  I wrote a compelling letter as to why they should repair it for free (well, I thought that it was).  End of story, they called me and decided to repair it for free.

    A Nintendo system was the last machine I thought would be the only system to die on me.

    So what is your DS death count?
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    #2  Edited By ishotmrburns

    Zero.

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    #3  Edited By Kou_Leifoh

    I still have the original model from 2005 and it still works fine.

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    #4  Edited By Meowayne

    Never. And it's been transported heavily, dropped often, and taken completely apart. Bought in 05.

    It did break a hinge, though.

      


    I am very fond of my DS.
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    #5  Edited By Endogene

    Wait what they can break?

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    #6  Edited By oldschool
    Endogene said:
    "Wait what they can break? "
    No-one was more surprised than me.  
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    #7  Edited By Axersia

    Still have my 2004 US launch system and it still works perfectly. No scratches either since the first thing I did after unboxing it was put screen protectors on it.

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    #8  Edited By Hairydutchman

    I'm still waiting for my DS phat to break since the Lite came out.

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    #9  Edited By Jayge_

    I swear to god man, you have an evil plan.


    My brother's DS died once. He put it through the laundry.
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    #10  Edited By Dimsey

    My launch one still fine - and thats even after I lost it for like a year and god know if it was stepped on, sat on, chucked about in the meantime. Doesn't freeze or whatever.
    My Lite is also fine. They can take a pretty good beating.

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    #11  Edited By shirogane

    my DS is fine, well, it sure doesn't LOOK fine, but it's in fairly good condition, considering it's a DS phat, i sold it to my friend though, since i got kinda bored and annoyed at the fact that it had no backlight, which caused me to see nothing but my own reflection at many times.

    the phat seems more enduring than the lite, i've heard of a few people's whos lites touch screens have died, which was suprising, wonder what they did. from memory, nintendo or somestore or something, did a test on the touchscreen where they hit it with a hammer and it was perfectly fine.

    as for physically breaking...i think someone's skull is more likely to break than the ds,  the thing's practicaly a brick

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    #12  Edited By CoolDrMoney

    My launch DS is still going strong

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    #13  Edited By suneku

    Mine hasn't yet either, but it's probably because I don't play it enough to get to that point.

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    #14  Edited By ValkyrieGoddess

    Have 2 DS lites and they've seen a lot of abuse but they both still work fine.

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    #15  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator

    My DS lite is broken. The top screen flickers on and off. It's my fault for sitting on it though.

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    #16  Edited By AgentJ

    Well, my first DS lite may not be dead, but it has probably been raped and sodomized. I took it with me to PAX two years ago, and it was in my bag and my bag was under my seat, and when i got up to leave, he was gone, along with my PAX swag and 7 games. If you have seen a Black DS lite with a stranger please report it to your local police. I just have to continue to hope that he will come home safe someday...

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    #17  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

    I've been through 3 or 4 Xbox 360s but I've never had to replace any of my other consoles. I have an original DS from launch week that's received some serious abuse in it's time on this Earth, but apart from the unavoidable shortening of its battery life, it still works like new.

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    #18  Edited By whyzenheimer

    My DS Lite seems to be damn near indestructable.  I couldn't imagine the amount of play in hours I've actually had with the device, and it's still going strong.  By this point I wouldn't feel ripped off in the slightest if it were to drop dead.  Another $130 seems like a steal when I think about how much I play the thing.

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    #19  Edited By StarFoxA

    My original DS from almost five years ago still works perfectly.

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    #21  Edited By Sticky_Pennies

    Never, but my first SP got killed by a Coke 2-liter falling and hitting the screen, cap first. Giant cracks and dead pixel blobs abounds!

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    #22  Edited By oldschool

    So far, apart from an abduction and certain sexual abuse to Agent J's DS and some abuse by the owner (unintentionally of course), I seem to be the only one here with a defective DS.  Seems to be a rare event.  Somebody has to be the owner of that rare lemon and looks like it was me :-)

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    #23  Edited By BigBoss1911

    A nintendo system...break?Never heard of it.

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    #24  Edited By toowalrus

    One got stolen at an airport, and one got sold on ebay. So... twice? Oh wait, zero.

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    #25  Edited By OneEyedNinja7

    Yep I got mine a few days before the US launch (living near NOA's HQ has its benefits) and it still works just fine. I probably will get a DSi though because the touch screen on my original is kind of scratched.

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    #26  Edited By oldschool
    BigBoss1911 said:
    "A nintendo system...break?Never heard of it."
    It is looking like a rarity on my part.  If someone on here saying that their DS died, I would be suspicious that they were a Sony fan spreading untruths.  I clearly do not fall into that category.  It actually makes me a little glad inside that no-one else has had the problem :-)
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    #27  Edited By HazBazz

    I've still got the old fat DS and it still works fine, though one of the hinges has snapped.

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    #28  Edited By j0rdan

    still on my initial launch DS.
    been through alot of use, probably dropped a fair few times.
    Im very satified with its build quality.

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    #29  Edited By Snuffy

    Have the DSphat from 2004, still fine.  Bottom screen is a little scratched, and a hinge is broken.  Need to fix my L button too.

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    #30  Edited By ImperiousRix

    Still have my fat one from launch.
    Works fine, but I'll probably get a DSi just for kicks.

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    #31  Edited By Otacon

    My Lite broke, AV connection to the top screen. You can still use it if you toggle about enough.

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