Triggers

[Rokrin]

Has anyone else had this problem? After a while of intensive play on your DS, it seems your triggers begin to stop working. My triggers have been out of commission for a while now, and I know a fair number of people who have one or both triggers failing.

Anyways, I finally fixed mine today. Mainly my reason for posting this was to see if anyone was having this problem and interested in knowing how to fix it.

[dartingd]

haven't had the issue as i don't have my ds yet (triforce ds coming tomorrow), but i'd like to know how to fix...

[Rokrin]

I'll make a tutorial eventually. But anyone who does it must know (and I will haev a disclaimer on the tutorial) that taking apart your DS does void your warranty. So don't do it until after your warranty expires.

It basically involves a lot of unscrewing, including a few hidden screws, and then making the pressure sensor slightly taller so that your trigger can hit it properly.

[Agravain3]

nope mine work jsut fine. however i dotn ahve a game that reliys on trigger pressing. also im verry caring for my games and stuff. are u pshing hard...if so that wuld explain allot

[stormsmash]

i was thinking of giving mine a respray cause my little sister scuffed it within a week of me getting it. i heard nintendo triwing screwdrivers are quite cheap too.

(i have the fat ds lol)

[Rokrin]

Originally Posted by Agravain3

nope mine work jsut fine. however i dotn ahve a game that reliys on trigger pressing. also im verry caring for my games and stuff. are u pshing hard...if so that wuld explain allot

No, I wasn't. I'm extremely protective and gentle with my game stuff as well; my Sega Genesis that I got when I was 2, some 15 years ago, is still perfectly intact. It's not an issue with trigger pushing, so much as over time the fat DS's triggers will stop aligning properly with the pressure sensor (happens way faster if you have a game that requires a decent amount of trigger pressing...*coughMPHcough*).

Two people I do robotics with also have broken triggers...one is on a DS Lite, he's gentle, and it's probably because of all the Resident Evil...the other one barely ever touches his DS, and when he does it's to play something like Mario Kart. I know about 8 other people in person with broken triggers, but I don't know what they were doing with their DS's

Originally Posted by stormsmash

i was thinking of giving mine a respray cause my little sister scuffed it within a week of me getting it. i heard nintendo triwing screwdrivers are quite cheap too.

(i have the fat ds lol)

Lol, you don't even need a triwing screwdriver. Those mini-screwdriver kits come with tiny flatheads; I unscrewed all my screws with one of those.

[stormsmash]

Originally Posted by Rokrin

Lol, you don't even need a triwing screwdriver. Those mini-screwdriver kits come with tiny flatheads; I unscrewed all my screws with one of those.

really? would that work for the wii too? cause i was also thinking of doing the LED mod

oh yeh and my triggers are so scuffed it hurts if you put alot of pressure on them LOL, mite sand those down.

[Rokrin]

Originally Posted by stormsmash

really? would that work for the wii too? cause i was also thinking of doing the LED mod

oh yeh and my triggers are so scuffed it hurts if you put alot of pressure on them LOL, mite sand those down.

*goes to check his Wii*

Yeah, should work just fine.

Lol, my triggers are starting to become a little harsh. Think I might mold some custom ones out of plastic and stick them in there; heck, I could adjust the thing on the trigger itself that hits the pressure sensor, make it a little longer, and take the pressure sensor add-on that's currently sitting there off.

*starts dreaming of custom triggers*

[dartingd]

do it...do it....do..it...doit doit doit

[stormsmash]

Originally Posted by Rokrin

*starts dreaming of custom triggers*

nick a gamecube trigger, oversized trigger LAWL