Gaming DS Lite stylus tip material

[kazaakas]

Hey all,

Got back to playing my DS again, but unfortunately I lost the stylus. Ordered some replacement ones online, but I found that the tip of them is really hard plastic.
Can this scratch my touch screen? Perhaps someone here has an original DS Lite stylus that can verify what material it's supposed to be made of?

 

[Nikokaro]

Hi.
The original DS Lite stylus is made of simple, normal hard plastic, not rubber or any other material. I also have some spare stylus, made in China, for DSi and the hardness of the tip is identical. There is no risk in using them.

 

[CoolMe]

Hey all,

Got back to playing my DS again, but unfortunately I lost the stylus. Ordered some replacement ones online, but I found that the tip of them is really hard plastic.
Can this scratch my touch screen? Perhaps someone here has an original DS Lite stylus that can verify what material it's supposed to be made of?

Yea, same no rubber, only plain plastic, just don't bash the screen like a maniac with it playing one of those rhythm games or something, and complain that the the cheap stylus ruined your touch screen.

 

[FAST6191]

There were some awful third party things. I have (and have seen) several stylus with a separate tip as well. No markings on the one I have and would rather not melt it to see what it might be. Only reason to have an extra step like that is because you wanted a different hardness/toughness for the tip that the rest was either too weak or too expensive to be made from the tip material.

Most problems though came from either the injection moulding leaving a massive bit of flashing around the tip, or from the plastic actually being soft which meant when people dropped it in the dirt then the little rocks that make up the dirt got stuck on it and basically acted as sandpaper, especially when combined with a stylus heavy effort and being one of the ones where going "maximum power" on everything is a way of life.
Alternatively I once used a tungsten rod (basically one of the hardest metals there is, not quite as hard as some ceramics) as a stylus because I was bored and into heavy controllers at that point (it is also really heavy) and the screen was OK for my little experiment.