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    Default 3DS Crooked Touch Screens?

    Hey, remember when Nintendo had a reputation of sorts for reliable, indestructible hardware?

    Seems my tribulations are unending. Somewhere along the line, the touch screen on my (refurbished) 3DS XL went askew. The bottom-left corner of the screen is distinctly closer to the bezel than the bottom-right corner. Upon placing it on a table and looking at it from slightly above the surface suggests the backlight is shining in somewhat at the upper-left corner, while the upper-right corner is properly flush.

    A bit of Googling turns up at least one thread suggesting that if I try to get Nintendo to fix this, I'll be faced with more of the anguish I experienced before. I guess I'll just have to live with it; the difference is probably too small to have any meaningful impact on touch input, it that's even possible. My only concern is that one day it might suddenly take a turn (heh) for the worse – has anyone encountered reports of that happening?

    Of course, it would also be great if there happens to be a trivial fix for this out there.
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    i'm curious to see this, got any pics?

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    Same here, this one is totally news on me, the 3DS screen slip part at least. Not the fact that any system at all these days are a lot more flaky and flimsy than the 20th century systems. I already had Nintendo kill my WiiU on the last system update, not sure I want to do the new one from yesterday. I still haven't used it in like 3mo because they erased all my data which was totally accessible.

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    My DS touch screen has been that way since it was a few months old. Never has become a problem.

    I think I even made a thread about it around here.

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    The leaking backlight is easy to get on camera; the bottom edge of the screen, not so much.
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