Another amazing find here, and I had to give out a huge thanks to Schlaghund’s Playground for this little piece of advice: It’s real simple. If you find you find your DS has unresponsive (or sporadically responsive) “L” and/or “R” buttons, all you need to is apply an old school trick. I thought for sure that I would be sending my DS into Nintendo for a fix, but I decided a quick consult of the nets, and this is what turned up:

Hit the jump for the result.

“Take your lips and form a perfect seal around the L button and then blow a few times. It blows the dust out from inside where you can’t normally reach (damn tri-wing screws). It’s kind of like the theory behind blowing in old school NES games.”
- GameSpot forum user SonOfTheSky05

I tried this out, and had instant results. My “R” button felt like it was slowly dying, though I could still hear it click. That made me worry. But the odd thing is that I knew I used the “L” button more, so it couldn’t have been normal wear and tear. Finally, it stopped working all together, but once I gave this nothing-to-lose-piece-of-advice a shot, it started working like brand new.

Thanks again to SonOfTheSky05, and Schlaghund’s Playground!

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