I felt that way too googlefest. It looks like they would have to some sort of records left, but I talked to three different people and got the same story from each one. As you know, as of March of this year, Nintendo officially stopped supporting all of the "Authorized Repair Centers." Most of the centers had alreay stopped doing repairs due to the fact that it wasn't usually profitable, but after March, Nintendo totally removed all these repair center records from their database. They used to be able to tell where the closest repair center was based on your location, but I was told they could no longer do this. I suppose it is possible, but unlikely.