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I think hold all the buttons while its starting up might work.

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in the main menu of your DS [not nintendogs, where you choose which game to play] press AND HOLD the following buttons at the same time: Left Bumper, Right Bumper, X, Y, B, and A, then it will ask if you want to erase data, and of course you say yes.

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