On Monday I ended up having like a third of my bottled iced tea spill in my bag, which had my 3DS XL inside. Needless to say it got a bit messed up. Thankfully only the controls are wacked out, which I think I may have figured out. My volume control is really stiff now.

But what I AM happy about is after finding a few tutorials... I managed to open up the system, clean what I thought was messed up at the time (circle pad + d pad), put it back together, and while I didn't fix the issue yet I did manage to put it back together so it turned on and I hadn't lost any system data.

I'm really fucking shocked but most of all I'm fucking proud as hell! I didn't lose my mind and I fucking did it! I've never taken anything electronic apart before. Hopefully I can fix it but if not I may send it off to my father (he works with computers, so he might know) or see if he'll help me send it in to get it fixed.