DS Daily: A longtime companion calls it quits

This hasn't happened to me or anyone I know. If it did, I'd call Nintendo customer service; they're pretty good at helping customers out.

When one of the buttons on my DS stopped working, I called Nintendo and they were willing to help me out... for $80.

Your situation makes a good case for the r4, as long as you own the game too, of course.

I've never even heard of that happening. How unlucky for you.

I go Mario 64 DS soon after launch and it's still working fine.

animal crossing did this to me,one day i put it in and the system couldnt read it

I hear a lot of rattling around with my copy of pokemon diamond, but oddly enough that has never had any impact on the cart working or not.

Only nintendo game i heard of that stopped reading over time was the original zelda nes cartridges. something was said of an internal battery that would die and cause it to loose the ability to have its data read or saved. Never heard it happening to a gameboy or ds cartridge.

I heard of this problem in Blackcats's Forums. But I don't know what to do in this situation...

Did you learn nothing from the NES days, blow out the system and blow on the game

One of my games (WarioWare) occasionally isn't recognized by my DS, but turning it off and on a couple times always fixes the issue.

This has happened a couple of times with my Zelda, Sonic Rush, and Dragonball Z supersonic warriors 2 card.... Zelda and Sonic are pre - owned though... and once my DBZ data got deleted :O It came back when I booted up the game again XD

What a coincidence. Just last night I popped in one of my current favs, Picross. Turn on my DS, "there is no DS game inserted". "That's odd" I thought, as I turned off the system, removed the game, and inspected the contacts on the game for anything that might cause a poor connection. Reinsert the game...."there is no DS game inserted". A small amount of panic begins to set in. How will I get my pixelized puzzle fix? Ok, step by step, is it the game, or the system. Take Metroid out an pop it in, works fine, take Wario Ware out, pop it in, works fine. "Oh no!" I think "My Picross died!". After a few more panicked inserts, turn-ons, failures, removals, it decided to work. Now I am afraid to take the game out of my system for fear it may never work again. Nothing feels lose in the pack, however. I find that a bit odd.

I sometimes get that with Pokemon and Animal Crossing *I play the latter daily* but they usually play the second or third time.

This Sh*t happend to my F*cking madden game...i should sue nintendo because of their F*cking idiocy (using flash cards)!

I would be horrified if that happened to me, since I unlocked everything, and beat all the courses with 3 stars (only beating the staff ghosts remain undone).

Call Nintendo, they'll probably replace the cartridge, but all your game data is lost forever. :(

As bad as losing Mario Kart DS data would be, I worry more about my GBA Pokemon data (since they have a battery for time-based events, like berries). The battery will die eventually, and I don't know how to rescue my game data. :(

Is there any way to save Pokemon GBA data? I asked Nintendo what would happen if the battery on my GBA Pokemon games (Emerald, Sapphire, FireRed, etc.) died, and Nintendo said they would replace the cartridge. However, I would have to transfer all my Pokemon, because there was no way to save the information on the cartridge.

I live in fear of that day (when the battery runs dead), I know you can still use the cartridge, but I want my time-based events (like berries).

If anyone knows ANY way of saving GBA Pokemon data, then please let me know, by replying to this post or sending me a PM.

Thanks in advance.

Peace.

Meteos does this to me.


I just blow in the slot and on the game, and it works!

Yay Nintendo!

Yeah, some of my games did the same thing. All I did was use a Q-tip and damped it lightly with rubbing alcohol, and then rub the "shiny gold" part of the cartridge. Since this, they work fine. The reason why it works because when you click in and click out a game, the metal connector rubs on/off onto the game causing it to get "dirty".

I think this is just a thing with carts. My Ouendan is going a bit funny.

This has happened to me on Mario Kart DS but with me it was down to a corruption in the game saving. I had just unlocked something, it saved and the screen when blank never to return :/ I rang nintendo who offered to replace it as long as i had the receipt (which i didn't) booo.

I haven't had this happen yet - but I also haven't played the DS much this year. My oldest game is Wario Ware. I assume it works, but it's been awhile.

Man, on my ds phat i've been having problems getting my games to come out... like i push down and they pop back out like normal...but past that i have to really pull to get them all the way out...

everytime I do it i just fear my ds is going to OM NOM NOM my game :(

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both my phat and lite sometimes don't want to read a game on the first try... but it's never been anything more than that

Well, if the psychos at Wii Fanboy each buy their own copy and stop sharing it, maybe this won't happen.

Quit the "we love this, we do that, we experience everything as a unit as if joined at the hip" crap.

This happened only a few times with Animal Crossing:Wild World.
All I did was take it out, blow it and put it back in the 2nd time and it works fine :)!
Nothing to worry about : )!

Whenever I store my games in plastic bags I have to blow on the cartridge to make them be recognized o.0

Or Gameshark if you're American.

known problem, dirty contacts.
easiest fix is to simply "rapidly remove and reinsert" the game.
the contacts inside will then rub some of the dirt off, and should make the gamecard useable again.