Nintendo 3DS problem - from Currys- Advice needed

vyle

I have no particular affinity for the game, but critical acclaim from reviewers would have highlighted poor analogue control.

Out of interest, as the game uses the gyroscope for first person view, if OP is playing in first person and it's not working right IN first person, it could be the problem. What view mode are you experiencing issues in?

vyle

Nilrem wrote: »

I had a game on the Snes (Mario All Stars), which showed a very specific fault up on my Snes - in the second game the character falling from the sky would loop endlessly.
It didn't show the problem with other games that I noticed (I suspect it may have resulted in other games crashing, and been a memory address that wasn't used much).

It took me about 30-45 minutes in the store, arguing politely with a member of staff who would go from the display console to our one trying the same bit over and over again before he conceded it was a faulty console (you would have thought after the second go on both it would have been obvious, I think he tried it about 10 times on both).

So it's entirely possible for a game to display a fairly obvious fault on one console but not another, as not all games require the console hardware to work in the same way, thus something like a dodgy memory address, or joystick that isn't quite up to scratch can easily not be noticed until a particular game tries to make use of it.

It's one of the reasons that a fairly basic trouble shooting method for unexplained crashes on PC's is to run a proper memory test

That's really interesting. Was it anything to do with a pin fault in the cartridge slot, or a deeper internal component? My snes is still going strong 20 years later, as is my well used megadrive.

Nilrem

vyle wrote: »

That's really interesting. Was it anything to do with a pin fault in the cartridge slot, or a deeper internal component? My snes is still going strong 20 years later, as is my well used megadrive.

I don't think it was a fault with the cartridge slot, but given the fact that that was about the 4th replacement for one that had died after a week, and at least 3 of the other replacements had faults/were obviously returns*, I strongly suspect that Curry's had given us (yet another) returned faulty unit from a pile that they had yet to send back to their distributor.

We eventually insisted that they replace it with a unit that was still in a properly sealed box.
That one still works, or at least did the last time i checked it (unfortunately I gave most my games to my nephews a few years back).



*One had greasy fingerprints on it, and cake crumbs in the slot, another was the one we'd returned a day or two earlier (noting the serial numbers is rather handy).