Gaming Is there anything I can do to force my DSiXL to turn off?

[Shinigami Kiba]

and this is why I hate digital controls, this wouldn't have happened on my DS Lite.
I was playing Pokemon White and put the DSi XL in sleep mode/standby, next thing I know the light which was previously blue and at full charge flashes red and I can't turn the DS off or reset it.
It's been doing this for 20 minutes now.

The game worked perfectly, the soft reset on my AceKard 2i did so too

I figured I'd quit Pokemon, take the flashcart out and see if I can't turn the DS off that way, no dice it's just stuck on the main menu now with the red light blinking as if the battery is about to run out.

I have a DS XL I can and probably will let this run out of juice but that might take a while
is there a way for me to force it to turn off?

edit: since holding the power button doesn't work I'll just let the battery run out
Let this topic be a warning to DSi owners guys, if you have the Black and White ROMs and Flashcart 2i do NOT put your system in sleep/standby mode.

This isn't a problem on the DS Lite though

 

[gtmtnbiker]

Take the battery out and then put it back in again.

 

[TheTwoR's]

You do know it could be an issue with your power button, right?
Who knows, maybe by coincidence it stopped working when you decided to play Pokemon.

 

[Arithmatics]

I'll test this on my DSi.

 

[Shinigami Kiba]

My power button and DS are fine, phew.
I let the battery run out, put the thing to charge and it's working fine.

Maybe it was just a one time glitch, maybe it happens a lot
but I think I'll play Pokemon White on the DS Lite for now, though it's very difficult for me to read on that since this is Pokemon it's not that big a deal.

 

[ProtoKun7]

How long did you actually try holding the power button for?

 

[dinofan01]

The battery cant be pulled on DSiXL? didnt know that...

 

[gtmtnbiker]

I had the same problem happen to me a couple of months ago. I looked up the code on nintendo's website and it says something like "battery not installed correctly". WTF?
So I removed the battery and put it back in. It was fine.

I didn't try holding down the power button for 4 seconds which might have worked.

 

[skystealer]

Uhh. I think if you hold the power button for a while, it forces the system to turn off.

Then again, I could be wrong. I tried it when my DSi suddenly froze and couldn't get back to the DSi Menu or hold it for the regular 2 seconds. So I held it for about 5 seconds and it turns fully off, like the Wii I guess.

 

[ferofax]

power button should technically ALWAYS work, unless you got a physical problem with the button, or you somehow mess up the bios/whatever it is that makes the button work.

 

[The Composer]

This happened to me. I think its some kind of bug of the system, not just black and white.

I say this because it has happened while playing other games.