My DS has been sitting on the shelf untouched for about 2 months or so. I recently was going to take it with me to the auto shop so I could play it while my car was being worked on and I figured I would charge it to full. I plugged it in with the regular charger and bam, the LED charging light didn't come on. The battery still has a charge and the DS turns on perfectly fine, there are no noticeable problems with gameplay or anything and both screens are just as bright as the day I got it. It hasn't been dented or dropped or anything (to my knowledge) and as far as I can tell aside from the charging thing it is working fine. So I have two questions:

1) Is there a way I can find out whether or not it is the DS or the charging cable that is the problem without just buying a new cable?

2) If it does turn out to be the DS that is the problem, do you guys think I would be able to get away with trading it in at EB Games for one of those new sleek red/black DS lites (I've been thinking about doing this anyway)?

I guess there is also the possibility that the charging light just doesn't work anymore for some reason. The DS is an original one, I bought back when they launched in 2005.

9/5/2007 6:20:32 PM

Let the battery die, try to charge it, bring it to someone elses house and try to charge it with their cord.


2. Sometimes they do a thorough check, sometimes they don't. However if you followed step 1, the bat would be dead and it wouldn't turn on, they wouldn't take it.

9/5/2007 6:23:19 PM

^Yeah that is why I didn't want to drain the battery. Nobody else I know here has a DS.

9/5/2007 6:39:24 PM

Anyone else have any ideas?

9/6/2007 9:31:20 AM

try a new AC adpater. For whatever reason, DS chargers crap out fairly regularly. I used to sell these last year around Christmas, and got a handful of complaints from people that their AC chargers weren't working.

9/6/2007 11:07:55 AM

go into a gamestop, ask if they have any ds systems that are no good that have a charger with them and see if they will let you swap out a charger.

9/8/2007 6:16:29 PM