Hardware n3DSXL Bugs! (Literally)

R4ismychildhood · Mar 1, 2019

Hi. Recently I notice sometimes there is a type of bug crawling on my n3DSXL. It's very small and white (circled in the pic). I never play while eating or with dirty hands. I put my 3DS next to my laptop, yet the bugs are never found anywhere else... How to exterminate them?

Thank you

Update 02/03/2019: I cleaned my n3DS and used plastic wrap to cover it yesterday. Today, there are still a few of them crawling inside! This test shows now the bugs live inside the n3DS...

Slackot said:
I'm having this same issue, but they keep on coming back.

Update 11/03/2019: After intense extermination of my room & the n3DS, I used a plastic bag to store the n3DS for a week, and the SAME TYPE OF BUG still crawls out from it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CheatFreak47 said:
Wow this is an insane thread I've never seen.
Couldn't you, ya know, stick your 3DS inside of an air-tight ziplock bag and just leave it like that for a day or two?
Living things like insects also need air to live. If you put the console in a closed space with no air, eventually everything inside and outside the console will suffocate inside the bag.

Update 18/03/2019: After using the Ziplock method for a week, there are NO MORE BUGS crawling! But, I know they probably still live inside. I am saving up to buy a new n3DSXL. Now, can anyone link me on how to migrate everything from my "BUG n3DS" to a new one? I have B9S, GodMode9 and all those types of things. Thank you

Hayato213 · Mar 1, 2019

It is moving under the screen, you sure it is a bug, not dust instead?

The Real Jdbye · Mar 1, 2019

R4ismychildhood said:
Hi. Recently I notice sometimes there is a type of bug crawling on my n3DSXL. It's very small and white (circled in the pic). I never play while eating or with dirty hands. I put my 3DS next to my laptop, yet the bugs are never found anywhere else... How to exterminate them?

Thank you

Kill it with fire. Burn the 3DS and buy a new one.
Alternatively, get bug spray, open the 3DS and spray the bug spray inside it? I don't think that should harm the electronics but I wouldn't suggest doing it with the 3DS powered on.
If it's any consolation the bug will die from lack of food if it doesn't crawl out of the 3DS soon.

jeffyTheHomebrewer · Mar 1, 2019

yeah, How are you gonna Debug your 3DS?
(It had to be done, OK?)

TurdPooCharger · Mar 1, 2019

Remove the battery.
Wrap your system in paper towel.
Stick in a container with a lid filled with rice or couscous.
- Needed to keep the system dry.
Put the container with 2DS/3DS in the refrigerator for three days.
- Don't stick it in the freezer. Too cold.
Pull out the container and let the system thaw in place.
- Do not remove the 2DS/3DS while it's still cold, or water condensation will form.
Unless you have cold resistant bugs, they should now be dead.

Another variant of this idea is to put your system in container in pure nitrogen or CO2. This will suffocate the critters.

PrincessLillie · Mar 1, 2019

TurdPooCharger said:
Remove the battery.

Wrap your system in paper towel.

Stick in a container with a lid filled with rice or couscous.

Needed to keep the system dry.

Put the container with 2DS/3DS in the refrigerator for three days.

Don't stick it in the freezer. Too cold.

Pull out the container and let the system thaw in place.

Do not remove the 2DS/3DS while it's still cold, or water condensation will form.

Unless you have cold resistant bugs, they should now be dead.

Another variant of this idea is to put your system in container in pure nitrogen or CO2. This will suffocate the critters.

Something to note is that after doing this, you will need to reset the system clock, as the battery was removed.

smf · Mar 1, 2019

I've had these in a laptop screen before, if you're really gentle then you can nudge them to the edge by lightly pressing on the screen. Start far away and then move towards it.

If it goes bad then you will end up squashing it. Then you have the option of disassembling the screen layers and removing it, but be careful as putting it back together can be really tricky.

The last one I did I didn't document the order of the layers properly and when I reassembled it the display was really blurry, the engineer who turned up with the new screen was confused how it had gone like that :-)

You don't see them anywhere else because they are so small, but they get attracted by the back light & that also makes them really obvious.

R4ismychildhood · Mar 2, 2019

Hayato213 said:
It is moving under the screen, you sure it is a bug, not dust instead?

It is moving ON the screen! ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

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jeffyTheHomebrewer said:
yeah, How are you gonna Debug your 3DS?
(It had to be done, OK?)

Of course, it has to be done. I ain't gonna be a Bug Gym leader

R4ismychildhood · Mar 2, 2019

TurdPooCharger said:
Remove the battery.

Wrap your system in paper towel.

Stick in a container with a lid filled with rice or couscous.

Needed to keep the system dry.

Put the container with 2DS/3DS in the refrigerator for three days.

Don't stick it in the freezer. Too cold.

Pull out the container and let the system thaw in place.

Do not remove the 2DS/3DS while it's still cold, or water condensation will form.

Unless you have cold resistant bugs, they should now be dead.

Another variant of this idea is to put your system in container in pure nitrogen or CO2. This will suffocate the critters.

Thanks! I'll do that after I clean my room. Am doing it now

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smf said:
I've had these in a laptop screen before, if you're really gentle then you can nudge them to the edge by lightly pressing on the screen. Start far away and then move towards it.

If it goes bad then you will end up squashing it. Then you have the option of disassembling the screen layers and removing it, but be careful as putting it back together can be really tricky.

The last one I did I didn't document the order of the layers properly and when I reassembled it the display was really blurry, the engineer who turned up with the new screen was confused how it had gone like that :-)

You don't see them anywhere else because they are so small, but they get attracted by the back light & that also makes them really obvious.

This solves why there's always a little with dot on the upper screen a year after the n3DS being bought: it's a bug corpse ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Slackot · Mar 3, 2019

I'm having this same issue, but they keep on coming back.

CheatFreak47 · Mar 3, 2019

Wow this is an insane thread I've never seen.
Couldn't you, ya know, stick your 3DS inside of an air-tight ziplock bag and just leave it like that for a day or two?
Living things like insects also need air to live. If you put the console in a closed space with no air, eventually everything inside and outside the console will suffocate inside the bag.

R4ismychildhood · Mar 11, 2019

CheatFreak47 said:
Wow this is an insane thread I've never seen.
Couldn't you, ya know, stick your 3DS inside of an air-tight ziplock bag and just leave it like that for a day or two?
Living things like insects also need air to live. If you put the console in a closed space with no air, eventually everything inside and outside the console will suffocate inside the bag.

Ok. Will do it now. Thx

Slackot · Apr 7, 2020

Okay, I know I am basically a year late, but did this fix the issue?

lone_wolf323 · Apr 7, 2020

Slackot said:
Okay, I know I am basically a year late, but did this fix the issue?

Id guess it did since they havent needed to reply anymore about the issue?

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