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Posted on Jul 22, 2009

Games don't read when inserted

When the games are inserted into the ds's that my daughters have they do not show up as been inserted. we have had 3 ds's and it has happened to all of them. The latest is under a year old.

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It is very easy bend the pins on the inside of the card slot in the DS. Depending on your daughters age's they may be the cause. Have a look into the slots with a small torch to see if any are out of line. If they are there is your problem.

On a similar point I had one recently at our shop and it had come in twice before with the same problem of not reading the games. We asked the women who was bringing it in to show us how the games were being put in to discover it was her 7 year old son and it wasn't putting the games in that was the problem, it was him pulling them out instead of pressing the game down to release it.

It would be very rare to have the exact same problem with 3 DS's in a row with the exception of the problem being caused by the user.

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