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Title: DS Lite d-pad
Post by: sju4sju on September 13, 2006, 06:19:36 am

Just got a black DS Lite, and I'm having trouble making diagonal movement with the d-pad.. especially UP-RIGHT. I have to press it pretty damn hard to get it registered.

Do you think the d-pad will ease up over time? I'm thinking I have to open it.. but I dunno what I should do to fix it.. perhaps raise the cross with some paper, or file down something  :P

Anyone else have this problem?

Title: Re: DS Lite d-pad
Post by: clanggedin on September 13, 2006, 12:33:14 pm

I had the same problem with my DS Lite but over time it has loosened up and I can hit diagonals without much effort.

Title: Re: DS Lite d-pad
Post by: TalkingOctopus on September 13, 2006, 03:46:41 pm

I've used my DS a lot and I haven't noticed this problem. 

Title: Re: DS Lite d-pad
Post by: shmokes on September 13, 2006, 05:25:31 pm

If one of the diagonals doesn't work right why don't you just exchange it for one that's not defective?

Title: Re: DS Lite d-pad
Post by: bleemus on September 14, 2006, 10:18:29 am

Didn't have a problem with mine.

I'd return that sucker for one that doesn't have the issue.  Even if it does "loosen up", i doubt it will be 100% as good as it should be.

Good luck!

Title: Re: DS Lite d-pad
Post by: sju4sju on September 16, 2006, 06:40:51 am

Yeah I exchanged it yesterday.

This one works better, although it seems the DSL wants you to press just a little bit harder on the dpad than the original DS.

I wasn't really looking forward to standing in the exchange queue, 'cos last time when I bought my original DS, I spent 2 days exchanging units with dead pixels - the fourth one was good!

Anyways I'm glad I swapped it, 'cos my Passme2 device (it's a bare pcb) scratched the previous one pretty bad  ;D