Ds horror stories

Haha, I have a story involving my DS being in some way harmed. Aye, 'tis a story of irony and clumsiness (but mostly clumsiness :(). Alright, so one day I had my DS sitting on a table, and I also had an open glass full of juice on that same table, and I though " Huh, I'd better move my DS, lest that juice spill and drench my hand-held console." And sure enough, as soon as I move my hand to grab and take my DS off of the table, I bump into to glass and SPILL THE JUICE ON THE DS!

Haha, so there's my story. It's pretty funny when you think about it: I ended up harming my DS by trying to help it.:?

Oh, and for the record, my DS works fine. But in the winter, when it gets real cold up here in Canada;) , the shoulder buttons will get sticky and unresponsive.

Haha, I have a story involving my DS being in some way harmed. Aye, 'tis a story of irony and clumsiness (but mostly clumsiness :(). Alright, so one day I had my DS sitting on a table, and I also had an open glass full of juice on that same table, and I though " Huh, I'd better move my DS, lest that juice spill and drench my hand-held console." And sure enough, as soon as I move my hand to grab and take my DS off of the table, I bump into to glass and SPILL THE JUICE ON THE DS!

Haha, so there's my story. It's pretty funny when you think about it: I ended up harming my DS by trying to help it.:?

Oh, and for the record, my DS works fine. But in the winter, when it gets real cold up here in Canada;) , the shoulder buttons will get sticky and unresponsive.

Chunkman

Ouch, Ironic!

Yes for Canada! Boo for cold winters :P

this happened within the past week i left my ds at my friends house with guitar hero on tour in it and i didnt think any thing bad would happen her cat got a hold of it because my friend started playing it now my ds has cat scratches all over it and on the touch screen aand this is my third DS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Haha, I have a story involving my DS being in some way harmed. Aye, 'tis a story of irony and clumsiness (but mostly clumsiness :(). Alright, so one day I had my DS sitting on a table, and I also had an open glass full of juice on that same table, and I though " Huh, I'd better move my DS, lest that juice spill and drench my hand-held console." And sure enough, as soon as I move my hand to grab and take my DS off of the table, I bump into to glass and SPILL THE JUICE ON THE DS!

Haha, so there's my story. It's pretty funny when you think about it: I ended up harming my DS by trying to help it.:?

Oh, and for the record, my DS works fine. But in the winter, when it gets real cold up here in Canada;) , the shoulder buttons will get sticky and unresponsive.

Proke

Ouch, Ironic!

Yes for Canada! Boo for cold winters :P

Haha, you know it!:D

The worst I've had happened about three years ago. I had the orginal DS and I had loaned it to a friend of mine for the weekend. He gave it back to me right before school started so I didn't have to time to look at it before class. As luck would have it, that day was one of like three days we didn't do anything in band so I decided to play some games. When I took out my DS I found a giant crack on the top screen and a black blob thing(coming from the crack). It still works fine and I could play GBA games on the lower screen and everything. I ended up giving it to said friend when I couldn't sell it and I bought a DS lite. I'm still kind of ticked I didn't check it when I got it back, even though I figure it probably cracked in one of our backpacks.

Moral of the story: Check you stuff when you get it back from friends. Just in case.

The trick is this:

If the device is powered on and hits the water, it's almost guaranteed to be toast.

However, if the device was not powered on when it came into contact with water and you allow it to DRY COMPLETELY before applying power it can still function.

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[QUOTE="Wiz007"]Makes you wonder if you could have caught the Grouper fast enough, could the DS had been saved & playable?GabuEx

I think the DS would have been fried when it hit the water.

Not necessarily, actually. Water acts as a short circuit, which means that a water-logged electronic device will obviously not function properly. However, if you allow the water to dry, it may function as normally with the short circuit removed. That happened to me once; I got water in a controller and it stopped working, but when the water dried it was fine again.

I like the dog story best. (G)

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Read an interesting article the other day about cel phones and water and figured this would probably work for wet DS's too.

1. DO NOT TURN ON

2. Remove battery

3. Blow dry on LIGHTEST setting

4. (and this is the weird bit but probably would work) Put small amount of kitty litter (clay type) in bag and set the phone/DS etc. on top of it. Seal up the bag and leave for 3 days. This should thoroughly dry out everying.

I have a Phatty DS, I got it, late 2005 and it works perfectly fine to this day, you know why?, I'll tell you why.

I have never let anyone touch my DS except my cousin once, and I have never played in a place that could danger my DS :P, and, dont you guys EVER learn kids are Never good with games, they will break it

im surprised with the couple of stories with people bringing it on a small canoe or boat. i'd NEVER bring anything electrical on something like that, there's no safe place. in the middle of the sea on a small boat, no way.

anyway, nothing that bad has ever happened with mine, i guess the worst would be when i was playing at home sometime, my cat jumped up on me just for some attention, and it started rubbing its face on the ds, which i didn't care, untill it started biting the corner of it... which left a bunch of dents.

Try not to cry about this one: I don't quite yet own a DS. *sob* *sob* Te... Terrible, huh?

all I've done is dropping it a good amount.