This is a follow up to the last post i made about this, I wasn't sure whether to just add this to that post or make a new one, but since the two are now separate things at this point i might as well make a new one. (mostly because the previous post was to figure out why things were happening, now i know why i just need to know how to fix it)
I fully opened up the 3ds (classic one, no XL or New or 2ds), unglued the sticker briefly and saw the insides, this is what was below the sticker:
Now, i am not sure if this is corrosion actually or the gold/copper on the sensors just degraded and is unusable.
What i really want to know is if this is salvageable, if there is a way to remove that/make it so the button works again. I thought about maybe lightly coating that with solder? but I'm not entirely sure what that would achieve. The problem seems to be that whatever happened to that button causes the input to always be pressed, if that helps.
I have tried scrubbing it with isopropyl, and have tried to use baking soda mixed with distilled water. Neither worked very well, if at all, although the cotton buds i was using to try and remove that stuff were getting visibly dirty with black stuff, so maybe it was removing just a tinge bit of it, or maybe just some of the outside stuff, which had no impact on the 3ds and didn't fix anything at all.
I fully opened up the 3ds (classic one, no XL or New or 2ds), unglued the sticker briefly and saw the insides, this is what was below the sticker:
Now, i am not sure if this is corrosion actually or the gold/copper on the sensors just degraded and is unusable.
What i really want to know is if this is salvageable, if there is a way to remove that/make it so the button works again. I thought about maybe lightly coating that with solder? but I'm not entirely sure what that would achieve. The problem seems to be that whatever happened to that button causes the input to always be pressed, if that helps.
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I have tried scrubbing it with isopropyl, and have tried to use baking soda mixed with distilled water. Neither worked very well, if at all, although the cotton buds i was using to try and remove that stuff were getting visibly dirty with black stuff, so maybe it was removing just a tinge bit of it, or maybe just some of the outside stuff, which had no impact on the 3ds and didn't fix anything at all.