Anyone get a DS recently? New DS screens are worse?

There's no redesign coming. If it is coming, it won't be for 1-2 years. That recent rumor was just that - a rumor. The thing sells way too well to need a redesign.

It's well known that the black/crimson DSes apparently have bad screens. Or, "worse," I guess.
 
Wow that sucks. At least you still have your choice of the black, white and pink systems. There is nothing wrong with those screens right?
 
The Zelda screen is fine, unless the issue is extremely overblown. Compared to my Phat it's blinding white, so I have no complaints.
 
[quote name='muddyjunk']Hmm, what brightness setting do you guys usually play at?[/quote]

Depends on the setting. At home, it's usually at the second or third brightness. But if I'm playing on a bench outside or in my car on a lunchbreak, I turn it up to four.

A tip: Turning down the brightness is a good way to extend battery life. As soon as the red light comes on, turn down the brightness and the light will go back to green and you'll get significantly more playtime before you have to charge.
 
the yellow tint is not a deflect, nintendo just use a different screen. It is something you probably wont notice with 2 system side by side
 
[quote name='kpzpolar']No issues with my crimson DS yet...[/QUOTE]

ditto. I had a polar white last year and it looks the same as far as i can tell. I sometimes go into GB/EB and they have the polar white ones and it looks the same as the red/black i have now. go figure.

[quote name='62t']the yellow tint is not a deflect, nintendo just use a different screen. It is something you probably wont notice with 2 system side by side[/QUOTE]

i really dont understand how the new ds screens are better if you cant tell the difference between the red and black and the new zelda bundle systems
 
Just bought a new dslite pink. I compared side by side to my old dslite pink. The darkest setting on the new one is darker, but the brightest setting is just as bright.
 
[quote name='guinaevere']Just bought a new dslite pink. I compared side by side to my old dslite pink. The darkest setting on the new one is darker, but the brightest setting is just as bright.[/QUOTE]

So this begs the question, how many pink DS Lites does a girl need? ;)

I have a Zelda DS but I have yet to open it. When I do I'll compare it to the black one I've been using for a while. But I'm too busy to even try to play games these days :cry:.
 
[quote name='muddyjunk']I've read and heard that all newer DSes (particularly the crimson/black and Zelda gold ones: http://gear.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8493825&publicUserId=5746297 ) have darker screens, with more yellowing and ghosting. Can anyone confirm or deny?

I dunno if I even want to "risk" getting one now, with the redesign forthcoming. But I guess there's always the holiday extended return policy...[/quote]

Are you looking to enter into the DS world anew, or are you looking to upgrade from a fat DS?

I'll yield to my fellow posters on screen comparisons for the various lite models, but I can assure you'll find a noticable improvement with any 'fat' upgrade.
 
I recently got a crimson/black DS Lite to replace a broken white DS Lite (touchscreen wasn't responding to touches, but displayed fine). The bottom (the touch) screen on the crimson/black unquestionably has a yellow cast to it that was not present on my older white DS Lite. Also, the top screen does *not* have a yellow cast at all, but may have a somewhat worse viewing angle, though I'm not sure of that (I no longer have the broken DS Lite, so can't make a direct comparison and I didn't think to do that before - I did directly compare the touchscreens.)

Anyone saying with seeming confidence that "this is by design" and/or that it is the result of "a new screen" is talking out their ass. That isn't to say that they are wrong, but they don't actually know that - they are going on what they've read other people saying, which isn't exactly a reliable source of info. The other rumor going around is that maybe the yellow cast is due to a new coating on the screen that makes it more scratch resistent. I don't know if that is true, but it is true that so far my crimson/black has absolutely no scratches after a significant amount of Elite Beat Agents and Ouendan play. My old white DS Lite got some scratches pretty quickly. So, perhaps that is true, but I don't know.

So... at first I was pretty disappointed in the yellow cast, but with time I've decided it isn't a big deal. You only notice it when there is a lot of white on the screen (such as at power up) and/or when the top and bottom screens are showing similar things, as then you'll notice a difference in color between them. Also, it isn't clear yet whether or not the other new DS's are actually any different. I will be able to make a direct comparison though come christmas as my kids are getting new DS Lites, one crimson/black and one onyx. I will definitely compare theirs and mine and report my findings.
 
Yeah, I got a Black DSlite when they first came out, and the yellowing was horrible, and took it back lol.
 
[quote name='io']So this begs the question, how many pink DS Lites does a girl need? ;)[/quote]um... *shuffles feet* Okay, so I have one imported candy pink dsphat, and two pink dslites. But you have to understand io, I play this system at least 2 hours a day every day. It goes everywhere with me in my purse it's taken a lot of falls and abuse. I'm surprised the dslite(1) is still working after it's dropped onto driveways, parking lots, tile office floors... But the dpad was just about dead from use. So I needed another.

If it makes me look less greedy, I will say on my behalf that I've bought two dslites (yes, both PINK!) this month and given them to the USMC toys for teens before I went and got a new one for myself.
 
I just got a zelda DS and my top screen has a red tint to it. And my bottom screen is fine. Guess i'll have to send it into nintendo to get it fixed.
 
[quote name='Strell']There's no redesign coming. If it is coming, it won't be for 1-2 years. That recent rumor was just that - a rumor. The thing sells way too well to need a redesign.

It's well known that the black/crimson DSes apparently have bad screens. Or, "worse," I guess.[/quote]


I wouldn't be so sure. Nintendo denied, denied, denied the same thing in January 2006, then released the DS Lite in Japan in March of the same year. However, I still wouldn't wait for the redesign.
 
[quote name='Lawyers Guns N Money']Supposedly, the new Zelda screen is better. There was a link somewhere, I'm too lazy to find it.[/quote]
Actually, the link appears in the first post in this thread. Perhaps the OP was "too lazy" to read the part where the reviewer claimed the Zelda screen was brighter than that of the Crimson and Black DS, contradicting the very header he'd written. (Or perhaps he, too, was thinking of another link.)

Even so, I wonder how much of the 1Up reviewer's reported difference is due to the incredible use seen by 1Up's "house DS" favorite chew toy in the office of a gaming magazine versus the minty newness of his Zelda Gold. At this point, the HDS is probably ready to pose in a storefront window in Amsterdam and croak hoarse invitations at passing fat suits.

Excerpt from the review:

Lately, a lot of gamers have complained about the Brain Age 2 DS and its crappy screen -- in many cases, the red-and-black system is laden with a screen that's considerably dimmer than the original DS Lite. And since the bright, crisp screen is one of the Lite's main selling points over the competition, that is not cool. Fortunately, the Zelda bundle DS doesn't seem to suffer from this particular affliction; in a side-by-side comparison with an old-school Lite, the screen was every bit as bright. The color was perhaps very slightly yellower in tint, and the contrast was negligibly worse -- but to such a minor degree that you'd never notice without holding two systems together for a close inspection. Compared to our in-office red-and-black DS, it's definitely brighter.
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I have our 3 DS Lites sitting in front of me. Two are crimson and black and one is Onyx. My Crimson & Black (C&B #1 below) was bought several months ago and the other two were bought several weeks prior Christmas.

YELLOW CAST:
Crimson & Black #1 (mine): the most yellow cast to the touchscreen.

Crimson & Black #2: no yellow cast at all. The best of the bunch in terms of yellow cast or lack thereof.

Onyx: definitely better than crimson & black #1, but still a slight yellowishness. You might not notice the yellow cast at all without a direct comparison. In fact, I hadn't until this direct comparison.

None of the DS's have any yellow cast at all to their top screens. The yellow cast issue is only with the touchscreens.

VIEWING ANGLE:
Crimson & Black #1 (mine): left/right viewing angle is very good. Top/bottom viewing angle is only fair

Crimson & Black #2: left/right viewing angle is very good. Top/bottom viewing angle is only fair

Onyx: it's tough to say for certain, but the left/right viewing angle may be ever so slightly worse than both of the C&B's, but still quite good. However, the top/bottom viewing angle is much better than both of the Crimson & Black models, and is very good.

All the displays appear to be of roughly equal brightness. It's a bit hard to be certain which is brighter, if any. It's not clear if serial numbers indicate when a particular DS was built, but curiously enough, C&B #1, with the worst yellowishness, has the highest serial number.

So what does this all mean? I think the yellow cast issue seems to be a crapshoot. You could buy a Crimson and Black and get no yellow cast at all and you could buy an Onyx and get the yellow cast. Or vice versa. On the other hand, our Onyx DS clearly seems to have a different top and bottom screen, one that has a significantly better vertical viewing angle. It could be that the Onyx DS, having the lowest serial number, may be from an older build and they may have used a better screen at that time (from a vertical viewing angle standpoint). Or it could be that the Crimson and Black models are built in a different factory and they use a different screen, and the date of build may have nothing to do with it. They might also switch the screens they use again. I guess others will find out.

I'm considering now, having been able to do this direct comparison, returning my DS (C&B #1) for return/exchange with the hope of at least getting a less yellow screen and maybe getting lucky and getting a better vertical viewing angle. Then again, living without my DS for any length of time sounds painful, and really the yellow cast and even the viewing angle isn't *that* big of a deal. Hmm.
 
[quote name='muddyjunk']I've read and heard that all newer DSes (particularly the crimson/black and Zelda gold ones: http://gear.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8493825&publicUserId=5746297 ) have darker screens, with more yellowing and ghosting. Can anyone confirm or deny?

I dunno if I even want to "risk" getting one now, with the redesign forthcoming. But I guess there's always the holiday extended return policy...[/QUOTE]

You worry too much, get you a DS and enjoy it.
 
It's always been a crapshoot. I bought a white DS Lite the day it came out and it had a perfectly white bottom screen. I exchanged it for another two weeks later (because it had an issue with the bottom portion not being sealed well) and the one I got in exchange has a slight yellow tint to it. It's very minor, and really only noticible if both screens are white.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that this "problem" has existed since DS Lite release day 1. I would hazard a guess and say it has nothing to do with outside color (white, black, pink, black/red), when it was made, "scratch resistant" screen...whatever. It's just fluctuations in manufacturing.

-HM
 
[quote name='Metalic']My Zelda DS Screen turned out fine :D[/QUOTE]
Same here - my sister's got a white DS Lite, and my screen doesn't look any different from hers.
 
You have to look at it from an angle, and on a white screen like the initial screen where you choose the load option. I bought a C/B version and compared it to my sister's white one and saw the yellow. I dont think its that big of a deal as some seem to say it is, i never noticed it until someone mentioned it.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/mellow-yellow/rumor-ds-lite-screens-turn-yellow-gross-260799.php
Here is an example of looking at it from an angle

http://www.gaming-age.com/news/2006/7/1-1
Here is looking at it straight.
 
just get a polar white DS, i have that. not only the screens, but because the whole thing is white everything just looks brighter. plus it matches my Wii :)
 
my g/f got a red/black ds and I got a zelda ds, both look fine, after reading about this case I was a bit worried, but now i kinda wonder what I was so worried about
 
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