Hello, folks.
So recently I ran across an used DS lite that was given to me. The overall health of the system was excellent at a first look:
1. The shell is in excellent shape. No visible scratches or anything.
2. The battery seems to be working very well even after years of not being turned on.
3. It was missing the GBA cover. However, GBA games worked fine on the first attempt.
4. It failed to launch any DS games on Slot-1. Taking a closer look I found that one of the pins on the slot reader were bent. I unbent it with a knife and managed to get it to boot an `Acekard 2`. It doesn't boot 100% all the time, but seems to work most of the time.
5. It had a DSTT flashcard on Slot-1 which is not working at all. My DSi report the card (on unlaunch) to have all checksums as 0, so I think the card was somehow damaged with the pin being bent.
6. There is no visible damage on any of the screens, and also no visible scratches on any screens.
But here is the catch: The touch screen have zones where it doesn't register the region touched precisely, i.e. it registers the touch point a few pixels to the side. I tried calibrating the screen but regardless how precise I am on this, it keeps annoyingly imprecise. So I am wondering what could have happened to this DS and what could be done to fix this. I do not see evidence of trauma, liquid damage, or anything bad on it.
So recently I ran across an used DS lite that was given to me. The overall health of the system was excellent at a first look:
1. The shell is in excellent shape. No visible scratches or anything.
2. The battery seems to be working very well even after years of not being turned on.
3. It was missing the GBA cover. However, GBA games worked fine on the first attempt.
4. It failed to launch any DS games on Slot-1. Taking a closer look I found that one of the pins on the slot reader were bent. I unbent it with a knife and managed to get it to boot an `Acekard 2`. It doesn't boot 100% all the time, but seems to work most of the time.
5. It had a DSTT flashcard on Slot-1 which is not working at all. My DSi report the card (on unlaunch) to have all checksums as 0, so I think the card was somehow damaged with the pin being bent.
6. There is no visible damage on any of the screens, and also no visible scratches on any screens.
But here is the catch: The touch screen have zones where it doesn't register the region touched precisely, i.e. it registers the touch point a few pixels to the side. I tried calibrating the screen but regardless how precise I am on this, it keeps annoyingly imprecise. So I am wondering what could have happened to this DS and what could be done to fix this. I do not see evidence of trauma, liquid damage, or anything bad on it.