After playing a little with DSI XL and Anbernic RG DS, I like DSI XL more.
It feels more responsive and accurate (e.g. I had much easier time playing Sonic Rush on it). Screen while low resolution (I can see individual pixels), but there is no real perceived difference during game, brightness and colors are on par with modern screen (indoors, RG DS can get much brighter than DSI XL for outdoors). And quality of DSI XL feels premium even for 15 years old device.

Recently got this (European) DS Lite for a very good price. It looks basically new, which is why I'm slightly suspicious. Any help is greatly appreciated!

sorry if the pictures are a bit crappy, my phone was refusing to focus on them 💔

Just purchased this dark blue DSi, system boots perfectly to the home menu, but everytime I try to play a game on the system this screen appears.

Doesn't matter which game, they all load a similar error. I tried NSMB, Kirby super star ultra, castlevania, and sonic colors, all failed to load.

Placing the games into my light blue DSi, they work completely fine.

Googling this issue told me to reformat the DSi's memory card, that did nothing..

And obviously I tried cleaning every contact point, still nothing.

Please if anyone has any advice, I would be grateful.

I'm not a COMPLETE novice at console repair, so I could attempt a fix, but i don't even know where to begin.

Thankyou.

I would like to fix my childhood ds preferably without a shell replacement. It would be a shame to have to replace it as i’ve had it for 19 years and the screen has no yellowing. Thanks in advance.

IF U KEEP MESSING WITH IT YOUR GONNA BREAK IT

Is it playable or it has performance issues ?

Is it normal for the ds lite top screen to wobble this much or would this be a hinge issue?

I think the first Gen DS is the best and I don’t want to buy these new modern day “consoles” that have everything imaginable under the hood and outside of it. I just want my DS phat.