sarajw, 4 months ago

@clayote I've literally just got mine back out recently as the kids are ageing up into being able to play with them - give me a few and I'll take a picture of my socket*

• fnarr 😏

sarajw, 4 months ago

@clayote interesting that we seem to have the inverse colour scheme 😅

This one isn't heavily used and charged fine earlier, so I think it's ok. The inner part of the connector does also seem to have a funny angle on it.

I can't clearly tell from your pic, but it may be the tiny inner friction contact pins above the two holes are worn, and/or aren't pressing reliably enough on the tracks in the charger connector.

Does it charge at all if you wiggle the charger plug?

Photo of 2DS power socket
Photo of 2DS power socket
Photo of 2DS power socket

clayote, 4 months ago

@sarajw No luck ;_;

I may have to open it up and take a look

It feels ok when I push the plug in, I don't think it's the pads...

sarajw, 4 months ago

@clayote sad. Hope it's just a crack in the socket solder or something that's easy to fix

sarajw, 3 months ago

@clayote did you have any luck with this?

I wanted to ask you a question, do you have a way to load new/old games into the device? Does the native Nintendo store work any more?

clayote, 3 months ago

@sarajw it's hacked.

clayote, 3 months ago

@sarajw no, eshop is dead, I installed a different shop

I haven't found time or a hacker space to open it up at

sarajw, 3 months ago

@clayote how difficult is it to hack? I guess that way I'd lose the preinstalled super mario that came with it though. Hm.

clayote, 3 months ago

@sarajw I didn't find it very hard but neither is it a turn key operation

sarajw, 3 months ago

@clayote fair enough. May leave it as it is for now then, we can still borrow games for it from our local library!