A quick update:

Apologies to any regular readers of this blog for my lacking in updates on this thing as of late. My poor little white DS Lite (whom I'd lovingly bestowed the monicker of "Lennon" to) passed on to the great video game portal in the sky about a week ago. After researching my repair options, it turns out the cost to get it repaired, plus shipping and handling, would only end up being about $30 less than purchasing a brand new DS altogether. So, after a moment of silence for Lennon....

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I bring you...

LIZA (with a Z!):

Sexy little thing, isn't she? ;) (Okay, I'll give; I googled "red ds lite" and grabbed the first picture that came up because I was too lazy to grab my camera. But she looks exactly like this, regardless.) The red DSes came out about a month or two after I purchased my other one, and I've been drooling and ogling over them ever since. I can't believe I finally own one! :D My only complaint is that the touch screen emits a high pitched squeal whenever it's turned on; no, this is not from a game or anything. It does this even with no cartridge in there. Through a little research, I found out that almost ALL the new DSes do this, apparently. So until someone finds a fix (y'know, apart from mailing it back to Nintendo to do it because if it's been going on this long with the newer ones, they clearly don't know what they're doing), I'll just play with headphones on to block that out. (I have mild tinnitus and vertigo, and this particular pitch aggravates it greatly after just a few minutes. Environment-blocking headphones work pretty great for keeping that noise out of your ears. Just a little heads up in case anyone else who reads this suffers from similar problems and has a newer DS.) If anyone could drop me a line if a fix is found, that would be amazing, thank you!