I’ve been using my Nintendo DS Lite quite a bit recently, as evidenced by the fact that my right shoulder button completely wore out.
That button is used primarily as Tetris’s “save/use piece” function—which, incidently, I’ve been using with much more frequency and much less “Tetris Purist” guilt—to power slide in Mario Kart DS, and to aim your gun in Resident Evil DS. (Incidentally, the Resident Evil folk get mad props for naming this port/remake “Deadly Silence,” thus making the requisite “DS” Nintendo puts at the end of every game title actually useful.)
In any case, I use my right shoulder button an awful lot, so I’ve just taken advantage of Nintendo’s warranty feature to get it repaired. In the meantime, I’ve been playing a little with the non-Lite “Phat” DS that’s still laying around, and it has really thrown me off my game.
We spent a couple hours yesterday driving around trying to find a pink DS Lite for me to play with until mine gets back from Nintendo D to have, since she’s not terribly thrilled with the Phat either. No such luck though :(
There’ve been lots of black ones, a few white ones and no pink ones. If I was a betting man, I’d have wagered that the black would be the most popular. I guess I would have lost.
UPDATE: 4-10 days for return shipping info to arrive, 3 days to repair, then 4-10 days to ship it back to me? I’m not sure I can make it…
