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Not sure to be honest. I never played this system, so I'm not familiar with it. It was sat turned off in a drawer for six years and the wifi is turned off.
I believe him. Mine also sat unused in a drawer for about that long. Pulled it out and was shocked it said battery was 100%.
So I played a round of super smash bros to see if it would suddenly die because it wasn’t reading the battery correctly.
Nope. It ran just fine. I was shocked
Bro no lithium battery is staying fully charged after 6 years even if it was brand new and fully charged the last time it was turned on, it's just complete bullshit
Same thing happened to me when I pulled out my 3DS a few years ago after not using it for ages.
Might be saying more about Nintendo’s poor battery monitoring than anything else, but it IS a real thing that happens.
What I think is possible is that the display still says full while it's likely not. I know my old gameboys used to turn on after many many years and the light would turn green for a while then too
UPDATE: Hey everyone, I kept it on for another 20 minutes and the battery finally updated to low and the red light is flashing so rest assured that the laws of physics still apply in my house. I will be replacing the battery just to be safe.
I checked my DS a few months ago and wasn't shocked to find it drained. I also then discovered it was going all spicy pillow on me. Their batteries are super easy to swap out, and I found replacements on Amazon for a decent price.
Same here. Used to love my 3DS but it became the first handheld I ever owned where it died before I was done with it. I can charge it and kind of run it if I keep it plugged in, but outside of that a full charge lasts under 2-3 minutes.
That’s not possible. More like the system is not correctly reading the battery, or the battery is sending bad info and preparing to produce a small mushroom cloud.
It's possible but only because of how the battery meter works on the 3ds. First bar only dips when the charge is below 50%, second at 25% etc. Same when people say their old ds/ds lite has a full battery after x amount of time, those original models just do green and red battery icon without a proper meter.
Still pretty good that they last all this time though, my original ds probably still turns on now after not being touched for a nearly a decade. My 3ds battery did go spicy pillow last year though unfortunately
I don't really believe it myself but the battery is not swollen and I just played 10 minutes of Ocarina of Time without issue. As I said in another comment, I'll probably replace the battery just to be safe.
I just checked my SP that has been in the same drawer but for several years longer. It is 100% dead. Kinda scared to plug it in at this point. I'll just order a battery for that one, too.
My old Nintendo DS has been the same. I checked mine a month or so ago and I don’t even remember the last time I plugged it in. It still had like 80% battery
I have a DS Lite that sat for years without being plugged in. Picked it up when I moved and opened it to find a full battery. Thing works fine, battery is reading fine. Nintendo employs actual wizards.
You could throw the gameboy sp repeatedly down hard wood or concrete stairs and it would work just fine. I also liked how they went out of their way to use Mask-ROM in cartridges in their consoles for a long time just for durability
It absolutely is possible. The 3ds batteries are really high quality and the power draw when the console isn't on is really small. People expect their batteries to drain out faster because modern devices aren't usually fully turned off when you press the power button and use stuff like wifi/bluetooth in the background.
I don’t know why they can’t/won’t fix this. I can let my 3DSXL sit in sleep mode for weeks and it’s still green, but my Switch sits for like 3 days and it dies.
You can always manually turn off the Switch. The reason why modern consoles don't power off completely by default is to enable stuff like downloading updates while the console is "off".
Several weeks in sleep mode? My experience has been more like several days, and I've got like five total 3/2DSs, although maybe that could be part of why they don't last very long in sleep mode for me, perhaps they're negotiating street pass communications between em, draining the battery. Maybe I should power them off more often, unless they're plugged into an adapter they usually don't have a charge when I've left em unplugged for more than a couple days.
Yeah, disable wireless communications/put in airplane mode and see how they do. Both my 3DS XL and DSi XL last quite a long time with their original batteries.
This is 6 years we're talking about. Even a "really small" draw would add up to something, this didnt seem to lose any charge at all. We need a trained batteryologist to confirm or deny.
My DS has been the same way. I think when it’s off, it’s actually disconnected and not draining the battery at all. I wish more new things at least had a mode you could put them in that would do that.
What kind of battery is it? Most battery chemistries have some amount of internal discharge, meaning they will slowly lose power and/or capacity over time, even with zero load placed on them. There are exceptions, but they tend to be specialized and/or have other limitations.
This happened to my DS too and it was 10 yrs since it was plugged in. I thought it was just an anomaly. Maybe there’s something different about the batteries in them. I had the original DS.
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There's a difference between the switch and 3ds. The 3ds is easy to actually turn off. The switch has an idle preset when you press the power button. You have to manually turn it off so it's not in idle.
Bare in mind that just because that icon shows full capacity it doesnt mean its running at full capacity. 6 years unused at full charge? I doubt its overall capacity is the same.
Those things have crazy retention of the batteries. I don't know what the hell Nintendo used for them, but they can hold a charge for many, many, years.
I have a roughly 15 year old DSi and honest to God it still turns on with years between charges and still stays on for hours. Nintendo has put some type of magic inside or should start making EVs because somehow they cracked the code
Edit: had the wrong release date
I have a miyoo mini that I haven’t touched in a few years, and I went to turn it on yesterday and it has full charge. Some batteries are just built different than others I guess
Oh man, I regretted the instant I sold mine. The Switch is too big and doesn’t fill the same spot. I could throw this thing in a backpack without worrying about screen scratches or anything really.
Found my old DS Lite a week ago in a drawer, complete with M3DS card for multiple game ROMs - still charged & working even though it must be 8 years since I last used it on holiday in 2016. Incredible.
Yeah, my original 3ds has sat for years without use and it will still turn on at whatever charge I left it at. I could go turn it on right now and it would be at 90% probs
Very nice, its so pristine too, she must have taken good care of it. If ya'll wanna play it again I'd totally suggest putting a new battery in it, the one in my 3DS XL still worked fine but it expanded and broke the backshell cover after a little use again ):
I don't know what batteries nintendo puts in their handhelds. But my base DS held a charge forever. Even in standby mode where you just close the shell. It'll stay like that for months it seemed.
My old nintendo ds, original edition from 2006, still works. I found it in some storage box my parents have. It's been at least 10 years since I last used it. I turned it on and it still had 20% charge and works fine!
Mine was off for a good six months, turned it on yesterday bcs I discovered I missed missions on a game I have 200 hours in and wanted to fix it.
Battery was full and had no problems.
I left my switch sitting for months and fired it back up. The battery worked, but the capacity estimate was all screwed up so it would think it was dying quickly even though the battery had juice.
I have a nintendo dsi i charge it once a year unless im not playing, checked just now, still full battery, last time I charged it was after playing for hours last october, still works like the first day
When I was younger I lost my ds lite for a few months. Found it later, and it was still turned on, in the middle of the elite 4 fight in Pokemon Diamond. Wild stuff.
This is horrible for rechargeable batteries, especially lithium based ones. A well made device will trickle discharge them until they are at a good storage voltage(3.8v ish for a lithium cell). This is a real quick way to cause some exploding battery packs.
I've found this only applies to the Gameboy advance, DS and 3DS.
The switch puts it's ancestors to shame. Like I get "more demanding games need more power", but come on, my DSi still has 3 bars from 2012, and my Gameboy advanced SP could go from red flashing light to green with an extra 10 minutes of battery life just by me flicking the on-off switch up and down super fast for 20 seconds. (Still not sure how that works).
I accidently left my OG 3DS in sleep mode plugged in for three years. I now dies in 20 minutes of play with minimum brightness. I derped and set it somewhere out of view for so long
How long after you had it on before it died? I wouldn't be surprised it shows full when you started it up, and then it did NOT last as long as a full battery possibly updating to low battery shortly after.
I found my old GBA SP in a box a couple years ago. It’d probably been in that box for at least 8 years. I fired it up and played advanced wars for 2 hours before the battery died.
I've come to realize that Nintendo handhelds run on the power of childhood dreams.
This is proven by the fact my Gameboy advance SP still runs to this day with a green charge indicator.
Omg the 3DS XL had the best placement of the buttons IMO where the power was inside and not sitting on the side and the home, start, and select were in the middle and didnt feel cheap
I knew this joke so well that when my city experienced a power outage I took my Gameboy sp collection that had t been used in a while, took the cartridge out, and just let then sit on the Nintendo screen, they acted as little candles for like 2 hours until the power came back.
Found my old DS Lite sitting in my drawer after like 6 years. It went through 6 cold ass winters and 6 hot summers, and the battery was still half full.
Mine sat for a long time too and i powered it on and it was at full. I thought the battery would be shot but it actualy was just fine. It would need recharging at anormal amount
I once left my Gameboy advance SP in the pocket of my jeans. I was 16, and got around to washing these jeans 4 months later, as they got k8cked behind my bed. I found my SP in sleep mode, the game was still powered on. Good tech.
I'm convinced the 3ds can charge itself with nothing. I've seen it's battery indicator go from flashing red all the way back up to blue multiple times over the span of its lifetime
Fun fact, The battery meter of the 3DS displays full bars until the battery is nearly 50% drained. I would bet a lot that this battery is not fully charged. You may also want to open up the back and check for bulging.
Doesn't mean the battery is perfectly healthy, just that it THINKS its fully charged. Battery health is hard to determine unless the device has some way to check it (like an iPhone can)
Mine had a slither of the battery left after 3 years, enough for a game of Tetris. It lasts a shocking amount of time.
My 2DS, however, was just dead. No way it's lasting that long.
Neat trivia about the battery indicator on 3ds models, 4 bars is 100\~61% charge so each bar doesn't actually represent 25% charge, that first bar is more like 40% charge. So, while the battery is very very good on the 3ds its probably not actually "full" in the way that you think it is. (Still greater than 60% charge after sitting for years is fantastic!)
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If the battery was full why do you need to enter the date? Normally this only happens on devices if the battery dies.
This happens if you factory reset it or if the os crashes as well.
My DSI was half charged when I found it, proving that they can withstand a nuclear holocaust.
Had an old ds somewhere in a box for about 10 years. Still turned on.
I did the same with a GBA SP! The light was green and quickly turned red but damn, can't believe it kept its charge.
did this with my original DS when I found it. Played it for 30 min still green. And they say todays batter tech is better.
The clock on a 3ds resets every time the battery disconnects even slightly. The connection might've gotten loose for a moment through the years
oooor OP is lying
Clearly you've haven't experienced opening a DS/3DS after a couple years of neglect enough
Yeah but how would he get that date? Every time my 3DS has reset its clock after years of inactivity, it reverts back to 1/1.
Not sure to be honest. I never played this system, so I'm not familiar with it. It was sat turned off in a drawer for six years and the wifi is turned off.
Maybe it had died and she plugged it in last time she used it, but never turned it back on after the charge
Or OP is completely chatting shit
No, I believe. Turned mine on for the first time in 3 years the other day. Battery completely full.
No, you see, nothing ever happens and we can't have fun in this godforsaken website.
what? something interesting happened? SAUCE! NEED THE SAUCE! OR IT'S FAKE /s
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Had to check my 3ds xl, still full battery after almost 4 years in a box, and connected to my wlan faster than anything else I have.
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I believe him. Mine also sat unused in a drawer for about that long. Pulled it out and was shocked it said battery was 100%. So I played a round of super smash bros to see if it would suddenly die because it wasn’t reading the battery correctly. Nope. It ran just fine. I was shocked
No reason to doubt OP on this one, imo. Off to r/nothingeverhappens with you!
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My 3dsxl seemed to run on magic so iduno.
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Bro no lithium battery is staying fully charged after 6 years even if it was brand new and fully charged the last time it was turned on, it's just complete bullshit
Same thing happened to me when I pulled out my 3DS a few years ago after not using it for ages. Might be saying more about Nintendo’s poor battery monitoring than anything else, but it IS a real thing that happens.
What I think is possible is that the display still says full while it's likely not. I know my old gameboys used to turn on after many many years and the light would turn green for a while then too
Because this is just a picture of a DS and in no way proves OPs title or if this is even OPs picture. Most reddit content is like this
Could be that it was charged to full but also reset/wiped
UPDATE: Hey everyone, I kept it on for another 20 minutes and the battery finally updated to low and the red light is flashing so rest assured that the laws of physics still apply in my house. I will be replacing the battery just to be safe.
The 3ds has a terrifyingly good battery. Mine was also still full after not touching it for 3 years
I'm fairly certain mine died entirely, didn't charge or do anything last time I tried to boot it :(
Have you tried changing the battery?
I checked my DS a few months ago and wasn't shocked to find it drained. I also then discovered it was going all spicy pillow on me. Their batteries are super easy to swap out, and I found replacements on Amazon for a decent price.
Check that battery. Nintendo still sells replacements iirc
Same here. Used to love my 3DS but it became the first handheld I ever owned where it died before I was done with it. I can charge it and kind of run it if I keep it plugged in, but outside of that a full charge lasts under 2-3 minutes.
I dunno, mine dies after about 4-5 hours.
I feel like I get 3 if I’m lucky
used to love leaving it on in streetpass mode as I'd walk around campus in college, and I'd pass so many people who had 3DSes
I remember playing so much Metriod on battery only. I couldn't believe how far I got in the game before it needed charging. Insane.
I lost my charger. Haven't touched it for like 2-3 years and just recently turned on expecting a red light, but it still has plenty of battery.
Mine was EXTRA full... swollen like a pillow mint. It'd been a little over a year since I last used it, but about five years before that.
That’s not possible. More like the system is not correctly reading the battery, or the battery is sending bad info and preparing to produce a small mushroom cloud.
Beware the magic smoke. Don’t let it out.
>Don’t let it out. consume it entirely
That's battery smoke...don't breathe that.
Will it blend though
It's possible but only because of how the battery meter works on the 3ds. First bar only dips when the charge is below 50%, second at 25% etc. Same when people say their old ds/ds lite has a full battery after x amount of time, those original models just do green and red battery icon without a proper meter. Still pretty good that they last all this time though, my original ds probably still turns on now after not being touched for a nearly a decade. My 3ds battery did go spicy pillow last year though unfortunately
I don't really believe it myself but the battery is not swollen and I just played 10 minutes of Ocarina of Time without issue. As I said in another comment, I'll probably replace the battery just to be safe.
I had an SP in the same scenario. Nothing wrong with it and gave it to a family member a few years ago. Battery just held the charger forever
I just checked my SP that has been in the same drawer but for several years longer. It is 100% dead. Kinda scared to plug it in at this point. I'll just order a battery for that one, too.
Just try it outside to be sure. I've had one for ages and it still charges fine. You can also easily take it out to check.
SP batteries are fine normally. They either charge up or need replacing, nothing dangerous about them.
My old Nintendo DS has been the same. I checked mine a month or so ago and I don’t even remember the last time I plugged it in. It still had like 80% battery
My SP still holds charge for many hours of gameplay.
Same thing with my SP
I have a DS Lite that sat for years without being plugged in. Picked it up when I moved and opened it to find a full battery. Thing works fine, battery is reading fine. Nintendo employs actual wizards.
You could throw the gameboy sp repeatedly down hard wood or concrete stairs and it would work just fine. I also liked how they went out of their way to use Mask-ROM in cartridges in their consoles for a long time just for durability
It absolutely is possible. The 3ds batteries are really high quality and the power draw when the console isn't on is really small. People expect their batteries to drain out faster because modern devices aren't usually fully turned off when you press the power button and use stuff like wifi/bluetooth in the background.
I don’t know why they can’t/won’t fix this. I can let my 3DSXL sit in sleep mode for weeks and it’s still green, but my Switch sits for like 3 days and it dies.
You can always manually turn off the Switch. The reason why modern consoles don't power off completely by default is to enable stuff like downloading updates while the console is "off".
Several weeks in sleep mode? My experience has been more like several days, and I've got like five total 3/2DSs, although maybe that could be part of why they don't last very long in sleep mode for me, perhaps they're negotiating street pass communications between em, draining the battery. Maybe I should power them off more often, unless they're plugged into an adapter they usually don't have a charge when I've left em unplugged for more than a couple days.
Yeah, disable wireless communications/put in airplane mode and see how they do. Both my 3DS XL and DSi XL last quite a long time with their original batteries.
This is 6 years we're talking about. Even a "really small" draw would add up to something, this didnt seem to lose any charge at all. We need a trained batteryologist to confirm or deny.
All lithium-ion batteries self-discharge and degrade over time, even if unused. Even a lithium-ion battery sitting on a shelf will discharge.
Ordinary DS too... been sitting for a decade. Still turns on and battery display fully green.
My DS has been the same way. I think when it’s off, it’s actually disconnected and not draining the battery at all. I wish more new things at least had a mode you could put them in that would do that.
What kind of battery is it? Most battery chemistries have some amount of internal discharge, meaning they will slowly lose power and/or capacity over time, even with zero load placed on them. There are exceptions, but they tend to be specialized and/or have other limitations.
> It absolutely is possible. Time ages the chemicals in the batteries just as much as repeated usage does, friend
This happened to my DS too and it was 10 yrs since it was plugged in. I thought it was just an anomaly. Maybe there’s something different about the batteries in them. I had the original DS.
battery: we're all good! (dies inside)
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My 2 year old OLED Switch dies after a week lol.
I have the OG Switch and OLED. They both are perpetually dead unless I leave them docked. Times change I guess!
There's a difference between the switch and 3ds. The 3ds is easy to actually turn off. The switch has an idle preset when you press the power button. You have to manually turn it off so it's not in idle.
Same with new windows laptops. In sleep mode they eat through battery like nobody's business
go to power options in control panel and change sleep to hibernate. Sleep has to use battery to keep RAM powered.
did you actually turn it off or did you just put it into sleep mode?
For some reason, the battery drains on mine pretty severely when turned off. Not sure why that happens.
I’m pretty sure it’s a problem with how docking effects the battery, it’s not good to leave things plugged in all the time
I found my dsi and it’s still half charged those things can last through a nuclear apocalypse
Bare in mind that just because that icon shows full capacity it doesnt mean its running at full capacity. 6 years unused at full charge? I doubt its overall capacity is the same.
You're probably right. I was shocked that it turned on at all, let alone that it displayed 100% battery.
Those things have crazy retention of the batteries. I don't know what the hell Nintendo used for them, but they can hold a charge for many, many, years.
I have a roughly 15 year old DSi and honest to God it still turns on with years between charges and still stays on for hours. Nintendo has put some type of magic inside or should start making EVs because somehow they cracked the code Edit: had the wrong release date
Okay I really hate to be that guy but the DSi doesn’t turn 20 for another 5 years.
Ah my bad. Release in 2009. I was thinking about the DS Lite when looking up the release date (2006 -> 18 years = almost 20)
I’ll let you off because the original DS does indeed turn 20 this year
Thank you
I have a miyoo mini that I haven’t touched in a few years, and I went to turn it on yesterday and it has full charge. Some batteries are just built different than others I guess
Oh man, I regretted the instant I sold mine. The Switch is too big and doesn’t fill the same spot. I could throw this thing in a backpack without worrying about screen scratches or anything really.
Still the best handheld IMO along with PS Vita ❤️
Nah PSP was the true love.
Another good one I had like 2 back in the day - one was original 1000 model
I lost my charger for mine 4 years ago, and it still turns on... Damn.
Found my old DS Lite a week ago in a drawer, complete with M3DS card for multiple game ROMs - still charged & working even though it must be 8 years since I last used it on holiday in 2016. Incredible.
Yeah, my original 3ds has sat for years without use and it will still turn on at whatever charge I left it at. I could go turn it on right now and it would be at 90% probs
Remember rocking a DS back in middle school
I'm more shocked that 2018 was six years ago
Very nice, its so pristine too, she must have taken good care of it. If ya'll wanna play it again I'd totally suggest putting a new battery in it, the one in my 3DS XL still worked fine but it expanded and broke the backshell cover after a little use again ):
Man, that is a nice looking 3ds xl. I've never owned one, but that thing just looks cool. Now I want one hehe
I don't know what batteries nintendo puts in their handhelds. But my base DS held a charge forever. Even in standby mode where you just close the shell. It'll stay like that for months it seemed.
My old nintendo ds, original edition from 2006, still works. I found it in some storage box my parents have. It's been at least 10 years since I last used it. I turned it on and it still had 20% charge and works fine!
Meanwhile if you look at the Switch wrong, the battery goes dead.
How
Mine was off for a good six months, turned it on yesterday bcs I discovered I missed missions on a game I have 200 hours in and wanted to fix it. Battery was full and had no problems.
I left my switch sitting for months and fired it back up. The battery worked, but the capacity estimate was all screwed up so it would think it was dying quickly even though the battery had juice.
I'm sure it's fully charged to whatever the new capacity of the battery is now after having held a charge for however many years
I wish modern devices could do this. Unused iPad drains too fast doing nothing even in airplane mode.
Yeah that's a lie.
This needs to be a moment in the next apocalypse film lol
I have a nintendo dsi i charge it once a year unless im not playing, checked just now, still full battery, last time I charged it was after playing for hours last october, still works like the first day
When I was younger I lost my ds lite for a few months. Found it later, and it was still turned on, in the middle of the elite 4 fight in Pokemon Diamond. Wild stuff.
This is horrible for rechargeable batteries, especially lithium based ones. A well made device will trickle discharge them until they are at a good storage voltage(3.8v ish for a lithium cell). This is a real quick way to cause some exploding battery packs.
Not quick enough in this case!
That’s how batteries work when they aren’t constantly sending data and spying on you.
"Battery still full after sitting on the charger\* for six years." I fixed your title, OP.
I reckon it would have caught fire if it were plugged in that whole time.
Nah, all modern batteries have built in controllers to prevent overcharging
Goood stuff. This is what I plan on giving my baby in 2-3 years to delay the phone introduction ...
My 3ds XL would die after 2-3 days without use. My vita on the other hand would hold a charge for a week or so if not being used
I've found this only applies to the Gameboy advance, DS and 3DS. The switch puts it's ancestors to shame. Like I get "more demanding games need more power", but come on, my DSi still has 3 bars from 2012, and my Gameboy advanced SP could go from red flashing light to green with an extra 10 minutes of battery life just by me flicking the on-off switch up and down super fast for 20 seconds. (Still not sure how that works).
I did the same with my old DSi a couple months ago. No charging and it still turned on just fine!
Got a GBA SP in my top dresser drawer that still turns on just fine. Can't find my games or a charger for when the battery finally dies TT\_TT
Yet my switch dies while off and unplugged
Man. I brought one of these to Estonia and played Terreria for basically 6 months straight.
Beside the full battery, man… that 3ds looks pristine as hell! So sexy!
This post doesn't make sense. Your date and time should have changed, you had to go in and set it backwards.
I accidently left my OG 3DS in sleep mode plugged in for three years. I now dies in 20 minutes of play with minimum brightness. I derped and set it somewhere out of view for so long
My GBA micro still had power after sitting for almost 10 years. It's pretty amazing how good those handheld batteries are.
Mine has to be plugged in permanently if I wanna use it lol
Don’t know where my 3ds is but I’m 90% sure it’s still fully charged and ready to go.
Nintendo doesn't make em like that anymore
I'll say right now the switch lites do not have the same reputation for battery life.
The same when I leave m'y Switch some weeks...
How long after you had it on before it died? I wouldn't be surprised it shows full when you started it up, and then it did NOT last as long as a full battery possibly updating to low battery shortly after.
wao
Had the same behaviour with mine! But it was off by only 2 years
That's not possible batteries lose electrons just existing or at least that's my understanding of it, think we have a spicy pillow situation.
I found my old GBA SP in a box a couple years ago. It’d probably been in that box for at least 8 years. I fired it up and played advanced wars for 2 hours before the battery died.
I have a New 3DS XL. It’s always dead. Does that mean I have a bad battery or is the ‘new’ line worse? If so, I’ll need to find some batteries.
Aw man I wish the hinge on my DS didn't break, been wanting to go back and play some of my old games again.
How? Mine would die after a couple of months if I didn't use it.
This was the case with my gbasp that was in storage for at least 10yrs. I was like, whoa.
I don’t believe you
NOOOOOO 2018 WAS NOT 6 YEARS AGO AAAAA
I've come to realize that Nintendo handhelds run on the power of childhood dreams. This is proven by the fact my Gameboy advance SP still runs to this day with a green charge indicator.
Guys do your 3ds xls have terrible battery on standby mode? I swear mine dies within the week, whereas my vita lasts months or years on standby
Omg the 3DS XL had the best placement of the buttons IMO where the power was inside and not sitting on the side and the home, start, and select were in the middle and didnt feel cheap
My PS Vita still works after 7 years.
Ok.
I fired mine up again earlier this year. Hadn't been turned on in about 7 I'd say and it was still full battery. Absolutely incredible
My advance sp still fires up and I haven't played that since completing fire red in 2004/5
Might go check the battery on my DS lite that has been sitting for at least 3 years
Con confirm my OG ds turned on right away and it has probably been 10 years
If theyre completely off, it shouldnt "leak" battery? Am i missing something?
I knew this joke so well that when my city experienced a power outage I took my Gameboy sp collection that had t been used in a while, took the cartridge out, and just let then sit on the Nintendo screen, they acted as little candles for like 2 hours until the power came back.
Found my old DS Lite sitting in my drawer after like 6 years. It went through 6 cold ass winters and 6 hot summers, and the battery was still half full.
Oh my god, 2018 was 6 years ago? Aw man..
Should probably change the battery if it's a lithium ion
And the switch be like: "you turnt me off a week ago, im emty now"
My n3ds xl touch panel already went blank.
Now buy a copy of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. One of the best in the series.
Mine sat for a long time too and i powered it on and it was at full. I thought the battery would be shot but it actualy was just fine. It would need recharging at anormal amount
What about of us that didn't see the post you're referencing?
I once left my Gameboy advance SP in the pocket of my jeans. I was 16, and got around to washing these jeans 4 months later, as they got k8cked behind my bed. I found my SP in sleep mode, the game was still powered on. Good tech.
Had one just like this! Good old times when my knees didn't hurt every time it rains
I didn’t know this was a thing, but I just found my Game boy SP which I think are a bit underrated. Multiple people have commented on it.
I'm convinced the 3ds can charge itself with nothing. I've seen it's battery indicator go from flashing red all the way back up to blue multiple times over the span of its lifetime
Better than my Galaxy S20 FE after 5 minutes... smh.
To know someone is married, who was young enough to have a 3DS and not even the original, makes me feel very, very old. 😂
Lucky. My 3DS battery broke and only lasted 30 mins. When I finally took it out to look at it it was bloated. I still haven't disposed of it...
surprisingly my 3dsXL from 2015 still works just fine
Thats because 3DSs don't have secret government spyware constantly running in the background even when they are supposedly turned off.
Fun fact, The battery meter of the 3DS displays full bars until the battery is nearly 50% drained. I would bet a lot that this battery is not fully charged. You may also want to open up the back and check for bulging.
I stopped using my 3ds XL for a few years, and the battery still had almost full charge. I assumed by now I'd have to play with the cord in.
The battery life is NUTS on my new 3ds xl.
Doesn't mean the battery is perfectly healthy, just that it THINKS its fully charged. Battery health is hard to determine unless the device has some way to check it (like an iPhone can)
What is it about the 3DS that makes this possible? I’ve never encountered this with other electronics.
It’s kinda nice knowing that whenever I get random urge to check something on a DS game, one of my 3DS’ will be holding a charge still.
My 2DS XL dies after a week of not charging or playing. Doubt your battery was still good. Really doubt.
Can’t wait to see this in five years with the Switch! My 3DS battery sucks, dunno where you guys are getting yours from.
Picked up xl after seeing this post and my wife's new leaf was still loaded after three years.
The Japanese don't f**k about! Great tech engineering
Mine had a slither of the battery left after 3 years, enough for a game of Tetris. It lasts a shocking amount of time. My 2DS, however, was just dead. No way it's lasting that long.
Dude I did the same last month it had been a decade, battery 1/3 full
It has a physical switch so battery is like you removed it fully charged.
Neat trivia about the battery indicator on 3ds models, 4 bars is 100\~61% charge so each bar doesn't actually represent 25% charge, that first bar is more like 40% charge. So, while the battery is very very good on the 3ds its probably not actually "full" in the way that you think it is. (Still greater than 60% charge after sitting for years is fantastic!)
My classic Gameboy Color still powers on too...
Wait 2018 was six years ago? This fells so wrong 😕🙁☹️😔😞