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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder that it's Scaredy Cat in the Spooky Woods season

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a real splash screen from an official LeapFrog game by the way (LeapSchool Reading)

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Playing Jetpack Heroes after making it my game on the Nightfall mood

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Alternate reality where @leapfrog.bsky.social got the license to use Blinx on the didj instead of Sonic

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Has anyone ever 100% completed Nancy Drew: Mystery in the Hollywood Hills on the LeapFrog Didj? The closest I've gotten is 98% and it seems random. Just did another playthrough where I did the exact same steps as the first one and ended up with 97% completion.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I improved this a bit. This isn't trying to be a real product or anything, I'm just having fun.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Imagine installing the original Xbox font on your LeapFrog didj

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I only have the best games ever made on my computer

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

At least he helped save Doodleburg by teaching us how to draw lines and shapes

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

And they didn't even render the MIDI correctly - they used gm.dls

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Fun fact: The LeapFrog Didj had a MIDI synthesizer that went completely unused. The only game that was planned to use it comes with a firmware update that places a render of the MIDI in the UniversalAudio folder and uses that instead of the MIDIs.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I know the answer to this one! The penguin sound is "Linux". Alternatively, you might catch a penguin saying "Free and open source software", but that's not guaranteed.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Feel free to correct the way I typed it for bonus points

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Forget what I said in the previous post. You can just skip it by pushing the question mark in the upper right corner. Also, there's an alternate version of the registration page that's still up... I have no idea if it actually works though.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

If the LeapTV registration site that LeapFrog disabled mentioned in my previous post truly bricks unregistered LeapTVs (with the only way around it being hacks), please politely bring it up to LeapFrog. If more people do this, they might reverse this action.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

LeapFrog delisted the LeapTV's games and might've (maybe without realizing?) made unregistered systems unusable by disabling the webpage that's used to register it.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Remember to pick up lots of game packs - I mean easter eggs

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I've made some progress on the Jetpack Heroes level editor over the past few hours

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Might make a level editor for Jetpack Heroes on the Didj soon. I removed most of the game logic from a game I made last year and it's ready to be used as a base for this.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Your website needs a tune up

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Hello @leapfrog.bsky.social! I made a model of the LeapFrog Didj mascot (Astro Guy) today.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Your educational content has been really informative today! I've learned so much.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Remember that all suitable housing should at least have a door, a frame, walls, a table, a chair and a light source.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

LeapFrog tried to trademark the word "FROG" at one point

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

These were found through the LeapFrog Connect application, which is already public

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I'm not an official @leapfrog.bsky.social account by any means, but I'll still help them advertise their upcoming console on here because they aren't doing that for some reason.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

You know, stuff like the fact that their custom bitmap format uses the same RLE compression as certain compressed TGA files and how the sound driver makes oddly high usage of floating-point math operations

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I totally haven't been debugging the Leapster on a work in progress fork of MAME that boots Leapster games to figure out all of the secrets it holds

The "My Photo Album" game from Top-Secret Personal Beeswax on the Leapster running on MAME with the debugger opened. The watchpoints were set to the offsets of various instrument pitch values in the BIOS and one of them was reached, leading the MAME stopping emulation at the code that accesses it.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Counting on Zero for the @leapfrog.bsky.social Leapster L-MAX is an educational video game that teaches number recognition and counting to kids. This is what Zero looks like:

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Entering .ZROSTER while signing in on Counting on Zero enables debug mode. You can press down + B to open a hidden cheat menu and up + B to fly. Flying even works in minigames where Zero shouldn't exist.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Thank you for creating this masterpiece of a game @wayforward.bsky.social

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Not even 2 months later and we already have work in progress Leapster emulation that's booting games

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LeapFrog @leapfrog.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Rest in peace, Mike. 💚

Left image: a note of farewell to our founder, Mike Wood.

"We are saddened by the loss of LeapFrog founder, Mike Wood.

He was an innovative leader whose passion to find a new way to help his child learn led to something remarkable.⁣
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His passion was transformed into a company that has helped millions of children learn to read, and so much more. ⁣

We loved working with Mike and are honored to continue what he started.⁣⁣ We extend our condolences to his family, friends, colleagues and all who were touched by his legacy.⁣"

Right image: Mike cradling one of his creations, a plush frog with pressable buttons to hear words and letters.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Thank you, Mike for all of the amazing childhood memories. Rest in peace💚

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Anyone have a Leapster 2 with a non-functional touch screen? This *might* help you: Hold the hint button while booting it up and press A when you enter the hidden diagnostics menu. Now try to calibrate the screen by tapping the spots it tells you to.

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Guys, I don't think Sagrus from Dragon Kingdom on the Leapster 2 likes the sun and all the pretty colors

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Good to see you guys being active on here again!

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This is an image of a real Leapster by the way

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Leap @leapthefrog.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Howdy @leapfrog.bsky.social! Here's a Leapster memory map! I hope you find my unprompted (and potentially educational) documentation useful! 0x01800000-0180FFFF - Registers 0x3C000000-3FFFFFFF - SDRAM 0x40000000-7FFFFFFF - BaseROM 0x80000000-BFFFFFFF - Cartridge ROM

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