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Post by Turbo Tax 1.0 » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:14 pm

:evil: today i had a chance to ride my bike down to funcoland to see if they had any DS lites. the guy looked around and said "its your lucky day" i was real happy and took my new lite home to charge after an hour or two i start the bugger up and i have a freakin' stuck pixel right in the middle of the touch screen. i returned it of course but they dont have any more in stock anywhere

sorry to post such a meaningless thread but i expected nothing like this in a product from nintendo

and to make it a bit less blog like, has anybody else ever been dissapointed when they got something they thought would be super female of the dog species and it was defective :evil:


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Post by Radon199 » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:19 pm

If you call Nintendo they will send you a free DS Light, all you have to do is ship the defective one back in the box that the new one comes in. I had the same peoblem with my original DS, called em up, they sent one out (and you get to use the old one till the new one arives) and when it arived I just sent the old one back.

Mind you I would have returned it to the store but everywhere in my city was sold out...
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Post by minkster » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:21 pm

I've been usually lucky when it comes to electronics. I am kinda pissed though that when I picked out my laptop that I wanted for gaming, at the time I didn't really know what were good requirements. Later I found out I got severely ripped off and N64 emulation sucks ass on it.

Now a little bit off topic, I miss the funco land I used to have :cry: Damn you gamestop, damn you.
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Post by Skyone » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:23 pm

Yep, there have been a lot of reports of dead pixels. Sorry!

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Post by daguuy » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:50 pm

the only time something like that happened to me was when i got a playstation and it was piss yellow :P that probably doesn't count as a defect though
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Post by Triton » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:51 pm

true but it pales in comparison to the psp on release, ds like mebe 2-3 dead/stuck pixels and nintendo will take them back no questions asked if there is even ONE. sony unless you had an assload dead, like 1/3 the screen you were up crap creek, ive heard of psps with 10+ dead pixles lol, nintendo pwns

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Post by Harshboy » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:51 pm

That sucks.....sorry man

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Post by Super Cameraman » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:07 pm

I had a dead pixel on the bottom screen but now it's gone... :? Maybe it was something from my red shirt... But I'm not sure. That sucks though.
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Post by timmeh87 » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:12 pm

when lcd screens are mass produced, a lot of them have at least one dead pixel (although im sure manufacturing technology is slowly getting better). if they threw out every single screen with a dead pixel, the price of LCD screens would be ridiculously high.

i know that for comptuer LCD monitors, manufactuers each have their own rules about how many dead pixels means 'defective'. some of them are as high as 9!

that said, there are big companies that offer a "no dead pixel policy". but im just saying... dead pixels are a pretty common thing and a part of life. you still have a pretty awesome piece of gaming equipment there.
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Post by gannon » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:15 pm

Too bad, if you had a ram cart you could use the pixel fixer rom (works some times, not always)

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Post by G-force » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:47 pm

Skyone wrote:Yep, there have been a lot of reports of dead pixels. Sorry!
No kidding! It's the PSP pixel complaining problem all over again.

Anybody have a DS Hevy (Phat, original, etc) that has a stuck pixel? I've never seen one. Which begs the question, why does this only happen to backlit LCD's?

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Post by NES_fanatic » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:54 pm

My brother's DS Hevy has a single light blue dead pixel on his screen.

I heard that with Nintendo, it doesn't matter how many dead pixels there are, it depends on if it dents your playing experience or ability, or something.

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Post by extremesonic » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:06 pm

G-force wrote:Which begs the question, why does this only happen to backlit LCD's?
The original DS was backlit, and yeah I've heard of dead pixels in them.

My SP had a dead pixel. Took it back to futureshop and they gave me a new one(in blue which is better than silver) and all the asked is if I thought it was defective and i said yes(dead pixel and scratched up on the top). Even the box was a bit mangled and they still took it anyway.
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Post by Sir Games-A-Lot » Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:52 am

I had this happen with my Dell Axim X50v there was one light blue pixel in the corner that drove me crazy (Even though it was extremely tiny), but after about 6 months it just went away.


And I'll keep the returning to nintendo thing in mind if I ever wind up with a dud unit.


And the DS is not backlit, it is frontlit with LED's and diffusers.
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Post by cowsgoquack101 » Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:31 pm

My neighbor had a dead pixel on his DS Hevy, but he pushed on it for a few minutes and it went away. Maybe you could try it?

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