Posted December 21st, 2007
by Josh
I was excited to recieve an email from Nintendo UK today explainig in their words that this was the “news that our most loyal members have been waiting for”, its now finally possible to exchange Club Nintendo Star Points for Wii Points.
So, I excitedly loaded up my web browser and proceeded to load up the club Nintendo Site…only to be hit by an erroneous Apache webserver error. After 5 mins of trying the page finally loaded up, I logged in and followed the directions to the Wii Points shop.
Once there i then found out that Nintendo have ‘run out’ of the virtual points cards! Notice the word of choice there ‘virtual’. Seriously, only Nintendo could run out of a virtual commodity!
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Tags: Apache, Club Nintendo, Nintendo, Star Points, Wii, Wii Points Posted in Rantings
Posted June 21st, 2007
by Josh
Well my tri-head Nintendo screwdriver arrived, so of course I jumped straight in and began to dismantle the DS!
I found a great video showing a guy dismantling his DS. I used this as a basic guide (the guy was spanish so I couldnt actually understand a word he was saying).
Dismantling the DS was a piece of cake, but when it came to examining the touch screen that the screen is glued to the main LCD so I was unable to actually do anything with it. Well, I gave the inside a good clean out while Iwas there and put it back together, but the screen was just as bad as before.
So it looks like I’ll be buying a new touchscreen for it after all.
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Tags: dismantle, DS, LCD, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, touch screen Posted in Personal
Posted June 18th, 2007
by Josh
It seems our Nintendo DS has developed a pretty major touchscreen issue.
We noticed that it had become very inacurate so tried to calibrate it. The calibration just looped and looped and after some google searching I discovered that this is a symptom of a faulty screen. I tried the “toothbrush technique” and although I managed to brush out a load of dirt, it didnt fix it.
To that end, I’ve just bought a Nintendo tri-head screwdriver and am going to attempt opening it up and giving it a proper clean. If this fails, Ive managed to source a new screen, which I will buy and attempt to fit.
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Tags: DS, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, toothbrush technique, touch screen, touchscreen Posted in Personal
