Old age, plus Nintendo’s horrible QC during the DS era.
Yeah, I reckon those issues with displays during that era were down to the sheer scale of manufacturing to meet demand. OLED panels today are the new culprit in quality variation among the same spec, with uniformity issues affecting an unknown (but not insignificant) portion of displays, whether they are manufactured for use in TVs or high end phones.
I was surprised to find today’s iPhones now have QC issues with OLED, probably because they’ve expanded the number of phones that require OLED panels from previously exclusively being part of the X/Pro to now spanning the entire lineup. Samsung used to universally supply all the panels for the iPhone X/11 Pro, but starting from the 12 series they got LG and BOE involved, and they are probably shipping what they can get.
With the Switch, the launch window batch had the best QC on the display side - all screens were supplied by Japan Display Inc who are a top tier maker of LCD panels, being Apple’s sole supplier of IPS panels for use in iPhones. But once manufacturing ramped up Nintendo started sourcing from three more suppliers who weren’t meeting the spec as well as Japan Display.
I predict the same issues will start to occur with the Switch OLED. Right now it’s not being manufactured in large volumes, so Nintendo can afford to have its displays being exclusively supplied by Samsung. But once they ramp up production and phase out the LCD model that will have to change and it’ll probably have a negative impact on what’s considered acceptable QC.
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That’s honestly scary. So the lotto with Nintendo screens are true
Thought to recommend Nintendo DS games by publisher:
Square Enix - The World Ends with You, Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime, Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume
Capcom - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Okamiden
Nintendo - Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Hotel Dusk: Room 215, Magical Starsign
Natsume - Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon, Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns, Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals
Atlus - Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2, Radiant Historia, Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier
XSEED Games - Retro Game Challenge, Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, Avalon Code
Sega - Infinite Space, Phantasy Star Zero, Aliens: Infestation
Konami - Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Contra 4, Lunar Knights
Namco Bandai Games - Digimon World DS, Point Blank DS, QuickSpot
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment - Super Scribblenauts, LEGO Battles, Speed Racer
PopCap - Bejeweled 3, Peggle: Dual Shot, Plants vs. Zombies
Tecmo - Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword, Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff, Robocalypse
Ignition Entertainment - Boing! Docomodake DS, Metal Slug 7, Zoo Keeper
Majesco - Monster Tale, Sideswiped, Air Traffic Chaos
Ubisoft - Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, Tom Clancy’s EndWar, Lost Magic
Aksys Games - Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
SouthPeak Games - Ninjatown
UFO Interactive - Monster Racers
City Interactive - TrackMania Turbo
Sierra Entertainment - Geometry Wars: Galaxies
2K Games - Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution
D3Publisher - Bangai-O Spirits
Destineer - WordJong
Hudson - Honeycomb Beat
Activision - Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
Eidos Interactive - Nervous Brickdown
THQ - Lock’s Quest
EA Games - The Urbz: Sims in the City
NIS America - Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
Namco - Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits
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@harborline_765 recommended me this.
What are your thoughts on it @electricmastro ?
I must reiterate, just for the flying Grand Prix mode on the title screen! The main single player game, while absolutely gorgeous and probably the best looking 3D game on DS, might make you fall asleep! I remember dropping it out of boredom since it’s just too easy and shallow.
Just a nice pleasant Action RPG for the system. Not sure if I prefer it for Tail Concerto though.
A DS game where you use tornadoes to destroy as many towns as possible within a certain amount of time. Might be one of those cases where lacking graphics and sound might hinder the gameplay though since the whole point is to see the results of the destruction you’ve drummed up with the weather, and to have that muffled by graphic and sound design that could use more spark might considerably take away from the game overall. It definitely could use a remake:
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Ah yes!
A few DS games have gotten quite expensive and a lot of the cheapest ones are shovelware, but there still manages to be quite a lot of worthwhile games that go for pretty cheap. One of the best deals is probably the RTS Lock’s Quest, which goes for like $15 even CIB.
Nintendo DS …ML?
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Wonder if that would work on laptop screens too? I’ve had a couple of old Macs over the years that have yellowed screens.
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Bizarre they would make this claim and not show any before and after photos.
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Seems it worked for one person in that thread (there was another comment from someone else mentioning it not working for them)
Mine is not as bad as there before screen, that is some serious yellowing
I tried it twice. Didn’t take before and after photos.
I would say the screen looks better but still unacceptable.
So it’s a spares / parts unit now.
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Hmm, interesting. Will give it a go on my non-XL DSi that has the issue.
I created a custom skin for the Delta emulator to play MaBoShi on my iPhone
- combines both screens into one
- normal portrait iPhone orientation
- leaves a gap at the top for notch/dynamic island
- nice big d-pad in the centre of the display
- most of the screen is actually a button
- instructions in landscape orientation
- let’s aim for 1 MILLION points!
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Chuffed to report that I’ve finally assembled the trio of DSi systems I’ve always wanted:
Nintendo Japan added all three to the lineup in early 2009: ニュースリリース : 2009年2月25日
The metallic blue is a European system, while raspberry pink was acquired in Matsuyama, Japan, and lime green found in Rifu, Japan.
Unfortunately the raspberry pink system lost the D-Pad lottery and has impossible diagonals that mirror my US black DSi system that I picked up way back in 2009. But blue and green have fantastic D-Pads!
DSi is one of Nintendo’s most beautiful systems, the colour choices are the perfect complement for its matte finish.
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