3DS R Button Trouble

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I was traveling from place to place a few weeks ago and I kept my 3DS in a bag buried under tons of DVDs. When I got back home, I popped in Mario Kart 7 and tried to power slide into a drift boost but the R button wouldn't respond when I pressed it right away. After pressing it a few times, it did respond but only once and that was it. It went back to being unresponsive afterwards.

Is an unresponsive button on a hand held fixable and how much would it cost? Is there a possible way to fix it myself before I send it to Nintendo for repairs?

It may be still under warranty if you registered the serial# at https://club.nintendo.com/

I think it's been about a year and a half since I got it (That's right. I bought something on the first day it came out.) so the warranty may have expired. Is it possible to renew it or no?

Maybe you should trade it towards a 3DS-XL at Gamestop, and hopefully they won't notice the f***ed up R-button. lol

Hmmm. I'll have to check with my brother on that. Getting the 3DS was his idea after all and we managed to put a lot of good games on there like Legend of Zelda, Metroid, LoZ Minish Cap, Yoshi's Island, Warioware, Kirby's Adventure, Super Mario Bros. and I don't want to pay for them again after I got most of them for free due to special offers because I bought our 3DS the moment it launched.

I got all those free games from the 3DS ambassador program too. I did a system-transfer from the 3DS to the 3DS-XL. Gamestop let me take the 3DS-XL home with me to do the system transfer. Then I came back later that day and they re-rang up the 3DS-XL I bought previously, and also applied the trade-in original 3DS towards the purchase.

The 3DS-XL has 90% larger screens by the way which is great for the 3D effect.

Okay. A 3DS XL costs $200. How much can trading in a regular 3DS knock off?

I did it when the 3DS-XL first came out and it knocked $100 off the price. That's fair since I was trading a used old version of the system for a brand new improved version of the 3DS.

Seems like a fair deal.

Yes, but you're probably better off with this other plan.

lift up slightly, and blow into/underneath it, sometimes dust gets in there and affects it.

It's pretty difficult to get dust inside of the microswitch itself. Though blowing into it might create enough moisture to make it work a little bit better (temporarily).

I actually saw a YouTube video once where a guy put his tongue on the button for a second and "fixed" it. Just for a laugh, I tried it...and it actually worked O_O

Obviously it doesn't work every time, and might've just been a cooincidence.