A few years ago i joined the group of morons who washed their poke walker. I felt doomed after finding no tutorial to fix it, i did find one but i didn't find my poke walker into a week after its been washed so the old fashion drying technique failed me. BUYING a new poke walker wasn't worth the cash and glad i didn't because mine LIVES! Screw old those who said it was screwed. Few years later after recently taking a drill to my poor poke walker's screws to clean it out i just discovered all it needed was a new BATTERY! Dam it all but now i'm happy.
The reason i think it lives because not only did it go through the washer i forgot it also went through the drier witch i think helped save it. So lol i guess Nintendo products are drier safe but don't try it on purpose.