Topic: Flaking paint on D-pad:(

After i bought Dark spirit for dsiware and after playing it hard graft for about a hour my hand began to sweat so decided have break.

I then notice that the paint was coming off D-pad on up and left parts of D-pad.

Which kinda made me sad because i alway look after my stuff and kinda upset me to see paint coming off my lovely blue 3DS!

Due to 1 hour session.

Never had any problems with DS and i was gutted see this happening!

However it still works but it still annoying see this happening on 3DS and am not pressing it really hard or anything:(

ive had system since launch and works fine.

But worry is will further use of the D-pad make this worst!

due to system beening covered in shiny layer paint does this mean that as are hands sweat will paint start falling off other areas of 3DS?

Has anyone else had this problem?

Wish they bought out D-pad protecter or sumthing?

How strange. I've used my 3DS for nearly 250 hours since I got it - a lot of that's been spent playing DS, DSiWare and VC games, for which I always use the D-Pad, and mine's absolutely fine. But then, my hands don't sweat.

Maybe you've just got killer sweat.

All I can suggest is, if your thumbs are getting sweaty while you're using the D-Pad, keep wiping them every so often. That's probably the best you can do, besides getting a cover for your D-Pad.

I have the Flare Red 3DS and I have put alot of hours on the D-pad with SML2, Four Swords and Children of Mana and havent had the paint come off. Could there have been something else on your hands like a solvent or something that caused the paint to come off?

My d-pad (I barely use) has a small chip on the right corner. I don't know how it happened..

But the D-pad on my 3DS is the worst.

The same thing has been happening to me too, so you're not the only one. I don't know why though

This only happens to blue 3DSies
The paint they use, isn't the same as the other 3DS colors.
You can look it up, your not the only one who has this problem.

That sucks that hasnt happen to me (yet) but i hardly use my d Pad

I wonder if Nintendo will release a d-pad add-on now.

probably lol

http://kotaku.com/5828584/more-nintendo-3ds-dpad-woes

That's a story about it from a couple of months ago. Pretty shoddy job really, even if it doesn't happen to every console.

Hasn't happened to mine yet so fingers crossed.

I read about that too, it had something to do with the paint process for these units but only on one color. It reminds me of the shoulder button problem on the DS lite. Nintendo kept saying 'it's the user fault' until too many people had the problem and came forward with a free fix and admitted it was thier manufacturing material that was bad. Got me many years of free repair service though.Nintendo gave a free 1 year warantee after the repair.... something went wrong every 11 months.... Now my 3ds had many, many, internal system problems, lock ups, black screens, backward (non)compatibility etc... It spent first 3-4 months in repairs...didn't get it back until after Zelda launched... finally no more problems... PS they can and will void warantees for non licensed screen condoms (and system covers) be aware. Believe it!

Cannot believe some of you have had so many problems with Nintendo products O_o from charts you can see they're way better than the other products. But I've got a handful of Nintendo console and dozens of accessoires and have never had a single problem.

Good this is brought to the attention though, did you get it at launch? I hope Nintendo's using a different type of paint now.

He said he bought it at launch.

Also, I'm quite surprised. Nintendo consoles are like tanks... Especially the older ones.

Even the NES. Although that's more like the shell of a tank around a bunch of.... Crumbling mess. They need so much maintenance, it's not even funny.

Yea its annoying after shelling out nearly £290 pound for it:(

Love 3DS but seening paint flaking off doesn't make me happy bunny......