My LeapFrog Has Emulators Now

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[@gnomegguy69]

I want the leapfrog battery acid

[@baddragonite]

It's a part of that authentic experience lmao

[@ax3226]

You’re weird dude

[@Vovxb]

sorry that's part of the premium package

[@STICKOMEDIA]

Lol

[@DobleDDD]

You want the leapfrog battery acid

[@m2pt5]

"I'm installing Windows on a Mac Mini because I couldn't use Linux properly on my PS4" has got to be the best string of words I've heard in a long time.

[@TempoLOOKING]

Powermac g4 cube with ssd.

[@ldmun]

Most normal sentence on a Bringus Studios video

[@francofernandes2006]

Alan Turing would be proud of us.

[@theairacobra]

"also i can play retroarch on a leapfrog"

[@Galvatron102]

It really do be like that sometimes

[@remakeyourself]

I appreciate you capturing the true frustration and feeling of helplessness we all go through in order to do stupid bullshit like this.

[@STICKOMEDIA]

Lol

[@Jetanium]

How I feel building a PC with AMD CPU

[@devioustrip5728]

Fr even putting homebrew on my wii

[@Weneedaplague]

@@Jetanium tfw no one asked for agreed🤡

[@Jetanium]

@@Weneedaplague just like your opinion? 🤡

[@themachomanrs]

Leapfrog is one of those things you just forget you ever knew and then as soon as it’s brought up you get blasted with nostalgia

[@b3cky14]

So true I saw it and instantly like my whole childhood went WOOSH

[@FirstLast-fl1co]

the jingle and the narrators voice made my brain fart with nostalgia

[@maiastniki]

ive always followed these toys closely but never actually had one myself. i remember wanting a fee of them

[@JamesTDG]

I remember playing with my little brother's leapfrog long ago. I saw it as a potential emulation station, I just couldn't figure out how to jailbreak it since I didn't have my own to tear apart and read the circuitry to potentially find a security error

[@sybsygstgstsgysg5330]

I still have original leap pad, leapster, and the weird pen thing, but I had a platinum that my parents ended up giving to my cousin since I “didn’t use it anymore”. I tried to get it back a few years ago, but never found it. It probably got flushed down the toilet at some point knowing my brat of a cousin

[@loxdude]

Man someone woke up and thought: let's make Linux for the goddamn leapfrog and I admire the dedication

[@idoghacker8008]

Hilariously, it already ran Linux. People just flashed a better version of Linux onto it.

[@Wheagg]

Linux is on more platforms then doom at this point

[@lordkaczuha4598]

@@Wheagg if it runs linux it runs doom :)

[@Wheagg]

@@lordkaczuha4598 not if it's Linux on PS3 CELL architecture tho

[@lordkaczuha4598]

@@Wheagg how do you know that? and even so ps3 by itself runs doom so still

[@Anagusame]

This’ll probably get buried, but fuck it. As a kid I was a product tester for LeapFrog and VTECH. I’d take home unreleased products, use them for a few weeks, and give my feedback on them. Most of the things I’d test were pretty forgettable, but I was able to keep a PVT Leapster Explorer which I still have to this day. Because I showed such a strong interest for it and since it was basically a retail model, the adults at leapfrog let me keep it. Years later I still have it, and always wondered how hard it’d be to run, well, anything on it. GBA emulation was always what I had in mind, but I never truly started work on it due to lack of documentation. Seeing this is amazing, Im so happy to see someone get under the hood of one of these!

[@Eaten_squid_cake]

Imagine playing bad apple on a leapster 🧍‍♀️

[@zeplynnnnnnnn]

that's actually so funk'n cool.

[@EllRiver]

You should do a video on it! Espcialy be intresting to see the internals of a prototype unit

[@awii.neocities]

@@Eaten_squid_cake touhou fans try to not think of running bad apple on everything

[@BeetleBuns]

​@@awii.neocities impossible challenge

[@antitheus]

You're the first person I've seen ever to install windows AND linux on a Mac, Linux on a PS4, and RetroArch on a leapfrog all in one video. Major props to you

[@YOUR_NARRATOR975]

5:00 This is probably the craziest sentence I'll ever hear

[@celtia6131]

It sounds like a sentence you hear before you take someone to go get tested for dementia or something.

[@patrickmill3541]

I’d like to see this the other way around. An emulator for the old leapsters

[@EnchantedSmellyWolf]

Totally!

[@crashmat1042]

I want þis

[@nomad_0036]

I've been trying to get one to work, as I'm sure it was a distro of flash.

[@1secondarysmile]

@@crashmat1042 no way an actual þorn user in þe wild! hello fellow þorn fan!

[@Yixdy]

Add that shit to emudeck and run it on my steam deck. Gotta learn to count to 4 in between league matches

[@SemkOld]

Now we need a mod that uses a donor cart to use SD cards.

[@Bane_Amesta]

And replace the AAs with an internal battery

[@alphacide_2857]

@@Bane_Amesta The fact that the power supply is separated actually makes doing that an extreme chore, but it'd be nice

[@samuelpierce2.088]

@@Bane_Amesta Maybe use an external power bank with a USB to DC converter cable? It’s by no means the ideal solution, but in theory it should be good enough for gaming on the go. 🤔

[@sybsygstgstsgysg5330]

@@samuelpierce2.088 maybe a ghetto setup with a small portable charger with a skinny little built in dc converter cable running out to the power port. It would be pretty jank and ghetto, but it would get the job done

[@leonidas14775]

@@Bane_Amesta Why not use rechargeable lithium AAs?

[@DougSalad]

This thing absolutely gobsmacked me. I figured this thing would top out at half speed GBA. PS1 emulation in 3D? that's kinda nuts.

[@IngwiePhoenix]

Has hardly 1ghz of CPU power and pulls this off. Im quite amazed too. Must have pretty high IPC to make up for that though, pretty neat.

[@magggg2797]

It's almost as powerful as a switch

[@mohamedaminekhadhraoui6417]

Why would you not expect it to play PS1 games let alone GBA? My n3ds is definitely weaker than this machine but it handles most ps1 games pretty perfectly.

[@sr.metang8193]

@@mohamedaminekhadhraoui6417 the n3ds can play ps1? holy molly

[@tylerstarkey9141]

@@sr.metang8193 yeah the new 3ds models will play ps1 either through retroarch or converting the ps1 rom to a .Cia file and launching from the home screen

[@tergish1]

The reason snes is kind of a mixed bag, is because Nintendo started releasing supplemental chips within cartridges themselves to achieve greater performance than a bog standard nes could, classic examples would be star fox, f-zero, and yoshis story.

[@princetexasloaf2632]

oh thats pretty cool

[@retrofan4963]

Yoshi Story SNES? I think you meant Yoshi's Island.

[@mrbisshie]

Yeah, I learned this the hard way when emulating SNES games on PSP. It ran some games great, but had so many slow downs with DKC2 and SMW2. SNES emulation on PSP isn't really worth it imo.

[@VexAcer]

FYI F-Zero didn't use enhancement chips, it was stock SNES. You're probably confusing it for Super Mario Kart which used the DSP-1

[@deadair32101]

@@VexAcer F-Zero used the SuperFX, the SNES cant do polygonal math with any amount of speed that you would want to even try playing a game with by itself

[@Calzone407]

God, this LeapFrog is newer than the one that I had

[@CorruptedSystem32]

I had the original green one when I was a kid, man the memories of learning math with Sonic X lmao...

[@Soul21]

I had the fat green one with spongebob, but i recently bought one at a goodwill it came with dora

[@Panasonicy0uth]

The first LeapFrog I had was closer to a Game & Watch than a Gameboy Advance 😬😬😬

[@rofl_copter]

yeah i had the green leapster explorer that i would play lots of Penguins of Madagascar on and surprisingly i still have the leapster too bad i can no longer play on it without putting it on the charger or it'll die

[@cheeseswears]

I had a Dora one

[@MooseGamingChannel]

I really like your videos, especially the console mods. You have a genuine feel and it seems you're actually spending hours to deliver us this great content.

[@TheoHiggins]

I hated my leapfrog because I asked my mum for a DS and she got me a leapfrog. It represented everything I didn't have every time I played it. I did eventually get a DS though, and it was glorious :)

[@horatio2560]

no you didnt

[@TheoHiggins]

@@horatio2560 ??

[@pigmentpeddler5811]

​@@TheoHiggins owned

[@littlefox_100]

​@@horatio2560 bro reads minds or smth.

[@cheddar500]

Woah, that's a throw back. I wish my leapfrog had played GBA games when I had it as a kid 😂

[@adamkane7513]

When I was a kid "leapfrog" was a game we played in the park where we jumped over each other.

[@LambdaMiscellaneous]

@@adamkane7513 “bayk in my dayh” 👨‍🦳

[@adamkane7513]

@@LambdaMiscellaneous Yes, things were much simpler back then. We only had _two_ genders...

[@SMCwasTaken]

@@adamkane7513 you know gay kids exist?

[@kleptophrenia4125]

@@adamkane7513 cope

[@bellowick]

thank you for showing the windows build number, most creators would have totally forgotten to even know to go that far with details

[@theawardgoesto1]

*buys tech savvy kid leapfrog with an alphabet learning game* *kid asks to borrow laptop* *30 mins later returns laptop and expresses how happy he is with his new leapfrog* *peaks head into kid’s room expecting to hear sounds from the alphabet game but instead hears FINISH HIM* 😳

[@ptmry2k]

lol

[@TheReconJacob]

I remember getting a Leapfrog Leapster L-Max as a birthday present from my Mum and she told me "this is way better than a gameboy, your friends will be so jealous", and being very disappointed when I realised what the games were. I then wrote a letter to Santa begging him to give me a gameboy for christmas. To this day I am still haunted by the letter I got back from Santa saying "I'm very sorry Jacob, but I cannot give you a gameboy. There are kids out there who desperately need a gameboy more than you do, especially since you already have something way better, you have a Leapster L-Max! Merry Christmas!"

[@TheReconJacob]

@EnriTheGamer my Nan eventually came in to save the day and got me a DS lite the next year.

[@jlco]

The effect at 2:33 sounds _beautiful._ Also, that is a sentence I vibe with very much. "I'm installing Windows on a Mac Mini because I couldn't use Linux properly on my PS4, also I can play RetroArch on a LeapFrog" is such a powerful statement. I'm the kind of guy who somehow had my BIOS think a 16GB stick of RAM was 54GB while trying to get Windows Boot Manager to cooperate on a new drive with identical partition GUIDs (the third time I changed boot drives, and I had to reinstall Windows 10 all three times but still have the same Ubuntu installation from high school, also on the first time I corrupted winlogon.exe), and also one of my Ubuntu VMs boots with the Kali splash and I didn't do that on purpose. I just think the Kali xfce themes are cool, alright? So cool, that I've gone out of my way to install them on both of my bare metal Linux installs, including Kali, because I accidentally installed that without any GUI whatsoever the first time around. So yes. I vibe with "Windows on a Mac because Ubuntu on the PS4 broke while installing Arch on a LeapFrog." I aspire to treating "cross-platform" like it refers to a _platformer._

[@gammaboost]

I recommend enabling integer scaling for 240p emulators since the leapfrog's screen is 320x240. I mean, you're probably not gonna want to use this that much anyway, but...

[@sonicphoenix7]

its 1024x768 right thats what the specsheet says

[@wa27]

In my experience, the $10 USB2.0 HDMI capture cards work amazingly well. And they just show up as a capture device without any nonsense.

[@trashtrash2169]

What are you smoking. You were the lucky one.

[@nezatrebovan]

Same

[@ThePiprian]

@@trashtrash2169 mine works really well too!

[@namesurname4666]

they have mono audio

[@SianaGearz]

@@namesurname4666 Under Linux they have stereo audio now. Also you can install a janky thing to recover stereo audio under Windows. Someone figured out what the problem was, i think it might have been marcan42 from the legendary Team Twiizers. They had a hardware bug with sample start which would occasionally cause the two channels to jump and swap places, so they papered over it by re-declaring what should have been a 48KHz stereo audio into 96KHz mono, with a last minute USB descriptor change. And the samples for the two channels just come interleaved, so when the audio is downsampled to 48KHz or less, the aliasing suppression filter in the downsampling algorithm ends up averaging the two streams to true mono. With sufficient workarounds in USB driver stack, you can fix the sample start issue, and then you just have to re-interpret the data the way it was originally intended. Macrosilicon probably would have considered respinning and fixing the chip for real, but given it was the silicon shortage era and thus massive supply issues, they would have likely been unable to launch the IC at all had they done that, soooo off it went being manufactured buggy like that. And after all even the way it was, the chip was an adequate enough substitute for Camlink, so it was useful enough. Even then they kind of kept it on the down low and uncharacteristically didn't advertise the chip or publish the specs for the longest time. People have mixed mileage with the hardware though. It can be either reliable or die in 2 hours, seems it might have some silicon quality issues or cooling related, these sorts of things.

[@NeoRetroEntertainment]

When I was younger I modded my PSP (which was nerve-wracking considering it was my first time) and used it as my primary emulation gaming device. Although now I mostly just use my Steam Deck

[@Hibbyhubby]

you're a legend

[@magicslinky]

Hello me

[@victoriah8069]

Hey, a fellow RetroLeaper! Fun fact: After being fascinated with plain old LeapFrogs and RetroLeap, my Dad (a computer programmer) thought it would be a great way to teach me the ropes of Linux. It was as hard as it was for you, plus I was using Ubuntu natively. It was hell. Anyways, I'm a Linux user now. We all have Stockholm Syndrome.

[@RareSun]

What's with every dad being tech savvy

[@diegobrando2750]

​@@RareSunYou gotta expand your horizons in this world if you wanna stay relevant within it. Plus, hobbies are just a good thing to have.

[@AdrianGhastly]

This is my favorite KZbin channel in this whole DIY modding console scene. Good shit

[@tetros5265]

Love the comedy style and this style of video is awesome, I'm glad KZbin incessantly recommended your channel because its the perfect mash of shit I like. When I heard "Who wants it" I knew I had to subscribe.

[@Susiesophie]

You’ve popped up in my suggested a few times now and I just gotta subscribe i love putting emulators on everything I own and this was a really cool watch

[@legokingcandy]

my sister had a leapster explorer in like 2010. Im pretty sure the GS is like the revision that came out like 2 years after that. neat piece of hardware no doubt

[@AverageMichaelJordans]

I'd honestly love to do this, it would be a nice challenge to see how many games I could fit on the 2GB HDD

[@steventechno]

I’ve had smartphones with similar specs so the performance is about on par with what’s expected. GBA emulation is fantastic, SNES, like the PSP is hit and miss, PSX is hit and miss, very few N64 games will run half-decently, like SM64. NDS is mostly a lost cause. It’s still a large library even if it’s limited to mostly 2D gaming!

[@unlimitedbitsgaming]

KZbin recommended this to me and it piqued my curiosity. Well worth the watch, man, this is great stuff. Subscribed.

[@TravisStamper]

This is why I watch this channel. You may be able to upgrade the internal memory bga chip as well. We need to get a beer one day and find someone with bail. Thanks for the video

[@SM-hn9hu]

God bless Your soul. I went through this process on Ubuntu on my PC around two years ago and did not have so many problems but still the process of pushing the games into this thing through the terminal is a pain in the ass. It’s really cool tho that this can do that much.

[@sire_kirbz]

wow, the leapfrog's emulation performance is kind of comparable to the psp thats pretty impressive

[@laggianput]

The things specs arent far off from a god damn 3ds actually which is impressive

[@prettymuchabandonedaccount9141]

@@laggianput Except for probably the GPU and 3D capabilities that thing could probably run most PSP and 3DS games.

[@lavadamiller4239]

128 mb of ram my compumter 64 gb

[@sEmih3337]

1:03 i like that sound

[@tergish1]

As an introduction to your channel, you have my attention. Well done friend

[@tergish1]

Side note, fix your corrosion issue before it spreads.

[@fgclue]

did you just flash linux in a leapfrog leapstergs using a ps4 running linux with ubuntu and then installing it in a mac mini and installing windows in a mac mini and windows a windows update broke it and then downgrading it to install linux and retroarch in a leaprfrog leapster and now i'm starting to wonder why and how someone made it so you can flash linux into a leapfrog leapstergs to run retroarch in a leapstergs

[@fgclue]

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[@LegoLoco7]

I used to use my Leapster Explorers/GSs a lot, so seeing this was mindblowing. I really want to try this.

[@cybercity79gaming46]

Wow that is honestly quite incredible to see RA running on a Leapster LeapFrog device. Great IT work done on a very educational, and entertaining video! What build of RetroArch is running on here. And my personal note to any haters of this idea: I would rather play this than any console Soulja B ever released ha

[@Many_Sparrows]

How am I going to explain to my 2 year old why they don’t have a leap pad anymore!!!

[@ozzelot3349]

Oh, I did this on the LeapPad 2, though with the button layout (and... amount) on that thing, it's pretty janky to actually play anything. Nice video!

[@Greaseworld]

This was awesome thanks for the upload great information. Unfortunately I had one of these and through it away last year cause it sat in a bunch of broken toys .

[@ClaymoreClay101]

I think the issue you were having with SSH'ing into the Leapfrog from Ubuntu was related to not having an SSH configuration with a profile for the host, in this case the Leapfrog. This profile will tell SSH how you wish to connect to the remote host in terms of things like what user to connect as and what key to use. This is really useful when SSH is being called by a script and you can't pass CLI arguments to SSH directly.

[@flareblitz2466]

THIS is the content that we've all been waiting for

[@HeckmanFT7]

These madmen turned a educational console into an actual console full of nostalgia Legend

[@dronenb]

Discovered your channel today. Very entertaining. Subscribed!

[@joro3945]

I remember playing this for hours I loved it so much, it was a nice alternative to my gameboy when the batteries for that were recharging

[@Jilvenhong]

What the hell, the leapster is more powerful than the 3DS

[@hadesbutyoutube]

I made a video on this with a Leapster Explorer and it was a lot of fun! I used Pop!_OS in VMWare on my Windows machine and it worked flawlessly on the first time. I even wrote some of the documentation on the Github page!

[@SnakeTango2]

I remember having one of these. It definitely did not look like the one shown, but I remember some of the games on there. I think one of the games was named something that starts with "Train", there was also a sequel, but for some reason the sound of the train scared me. It was also one of those puzzle games. Another game I remember had something to do with dogs. I will call it "A Dogs' Life" for now. Pretty much you had to feed and take care your dogs, as well as take them to shows. One last thing I remember is I was rereading this Toy Story book ALOT. It was probably some kind of pre-reader's book, but that's pretty much all that I remember from the Leapfrog.

[@Halftroller]

I'm not gonna lie your style of video is really charming I love it keep up the great content

[@Aeduo]

Python 2 is a sign of quality software. But this script might be quite old, in which case it's more reasonable. I'd guess whatever install that gets flashed to the leapfrog got updated or its config changed and nobody updated the documentation. This seems commonly the trend with stuff like this. :p

[@Kat-01]

This video is *_Several_* layers of cursed

[@HazyJ28]

Leapfrog had so many products when I was growing up. I remember they had a map of the country that would give you facts about whatever state you clicked.

[@tsunsharks]

I had a leapfrog with I was younger, this looks like mine when I was younger too, it's actually nice to remember it from back in the day to now! I only used it for KidzBop music bc I was too poor to get any games and could only get something that was music. It wasn't that fun but also was for me who was obsessed with music and still is

[@RyanLeCocq]

This is one of those things where it doesn’t shock me, because of course it’s a fairly normal chipset. But just the fact that it is what it is and looks like it does makes it hilarious.

[@ripleyandweeds1288]

I cannot get over that this isn't some dumb idea you came up with, and that people have done this enough times to have a tutorial on how to do it. We have been indoors for so long that we're becoming the gaming equivalent of deep sea animals.

[@RedPMD]

very cool my cousin had a leapfrog that startup chime is nostalgic

[@UltimateTS64]

This one actually looks nice, my sister used to have the original Leapster and that thing was a behemoth

[@WiKiTWoNKa]

I would love to see if the Leapfrog game cartridges could be reprogrammed and games could be put on them so you could have a collection like back in the day with a box of Gameboy cartridges 😁😁😁

[@FennecTECH]

The Linux machine isn’t asking you for a password. The leapfrog is asking for a password

[@guffingtonreal]

Yeah he realised that

[@bradallen8909]

Yes, that was painfully obvious to anyone with a brain.

[@thelunchbox420x]

No way dude how did you figure that out u r so smartttt

[@VOAN]

It'll be funny if the password is just leapfrog.

[@SocialistDog]

Luv that you do things just to do things... keep up the od stuff

[@nickolaswilcox425]

always fun to see these things getting cracked open, only one ive managed anything with myself is the fisherprice ixl, not modding the system persay, but turns out that it just blindly trusts the app manager to be installing the correct things and the manager itself doesnt verify that the item is what it claims it is

[@NotACupOfNoodles]

2:26 I think your best bet is an elgato capture card

[@matiasbrule7774]

I took this video as a tutorial, and now my son is playing god of War in school

[@SirQuacksalotthe1st]

Not heard of leapfrog In many many years this is crazy I remember having a leapfrog read along book you'd put in the cartridge and it would read along the book along with the words you press with your pen if I remember correctly

[@johnbillings5260]

You have to love the rabbit holes we find ourselves going down when modifying things. I keep way too many old computers around because you never know when you'll need a *real* parallel or serial port.

[@ehrensto]

it's amazing how anything that CAN go wrong in your videos WILL go wrong lmao

[@Z64sports]

A mod I've always wanted to see is adding native composite out to a modern game console (any HDMI only one)

[@shanez1215]

But like, why? It'd be better to just convert the HDMI into Composite outside the console and run it into a CRT since HDMI is lossless. Who am I kidding, I'm commenting this on a vid where a guy runs RetroArch on a Leapfrog Explorer.

[@Z64sports]

@@shanez1215 Those adapters add artifacts to the picture

[@K-dex]

Never thought I'd see content that mirrors my ADHD Tech moments, here I am, I love it. You'll now be my background audio for my Steam Link NAS Idea

[@BringusStudios]

Godspeed madman

[@frankgile1996]

We shall refer to this console as the "LeakFrog" from here on out.

[@sad-robokythree3632]

All the crying 13 year old me did when I got this instead of a Gameboy Advance for Christmas still haunts me. If I knew in the future I could put emulators on it, I wouldn't have given it away.

[@Alcoholic_Nerd]

These are for like 4 year olds....

[@Noname-um1fs]

@@Alcoholic_Nerd and here you are like the rest of us

[@sad-robokythree3632]

@@Alcoholic_Nerd A little backstory - the school I went to gave out progress reports almost every week. I missed one assignment but turned it in late due to being sick which took my grade down to an F. My parents were strict and when it came to videogames, my grades had to be damn near perfect for me to play them. I asked for a GBA for Christmas but they saw that F on my progress report and ended up getting me a Leapfrog. They gave the GBA to my youngest brother.

[@Alcoholic_Nerd]

@@Noname-um1fs I'll watch anything involving modding, coding or emulation in general. Also my daughter had one when she was 4 or 5, she's 17 now but giving one of these to a 13 year old is appalling. I already had a frigging job and paying rent by the time I was 13 ffs....

[@BALtimore2001]

I'd be interested in one of those cool Leapsters designed for hacking.

[@kelxey]

woah, this is fantastic! i wonder how some of these games would run on a later leapfrog device, such as the leappad ultra for example, seeing as a lot of games meant for older leapfrog systems when played on there have added on screen a, b, & shoulder buttons :3€

[@N0t_Fe4rL3ss]

"Whatever the equivalent of un-shouting out something is, I'm gonna do that right now" got me crackling lmao

[@YakkoWarnerTower]

LeapFrog is after my time but I used to like how cool and nostalgic their Leapsters were.

[@dizzyneurin4654]

After your time.... OMG ARE YOU A GHOST?!👻😨

[@YakkoWarnerTower]

@@dizzyneurin4654 Nope I just wasn't in the age set at the time lol. 😂

[@erc3338]

I hope stuff like the Leapfrogs have emulators. I had an "older kid" version called the Diij that actually had decent games, that I wanna play again.

[@BringusStudios]

The DIDJ actually kicked off emulation on leapfrogs IIRC

[@erc3338]

@@BringusStudios Oh, I meant if an emulator *of* the DIDJ existed.

[@wyldelf2685]

@@BringusStudios getting this to actually work looked like torture , , , Kudos to you for your hard fought success 👍👍👽

[@idoghacker8008]

@@erc3338 I did preserve the game files for all of them and get video captures of a few games. Sadly, Didj looks really complicated to emulate.

[@erc3338]

@@idoghacker8008 Sad.

[@photographyguru2135]

So cool!!! I am blown away that this one: can be done! and two: that you flipping did it!!!

[@commanderkrabs6066]

3:29, something eerie about this screen with the details on it, maybe analog and software horror has plagued my brain too much....

[@laserfoxpro]

this mf would be terrified of debug menus

[@LandonEmma]

I used to have this! anyways, I wish there were emulators for the leapfrog itself, like a way to play leapfrog roms on a computer

[@HL09]

Same, I want to play Mr pencil saves doodleburg in HD

[@LandonEmma]

@@HL09 SAME I HAD THAT GAME BUT SOLD IT!

[@GuyIncognito486]

Someone please buy this man some nail clippers...

[@legendaryocelot]

I remember having a green leapster gs as a kid, I forgot it completely until now lol.

[@ethanwaldock2515]

Cool video in my suggested, never seen your channel prior to today.

[@DrMateen36]

2:38 Is it "you boon too"...? Man I always thought it was "ooo bun to"

[@AirknightTails]

No, no. You're correct. It's "Ooo-boon-too"

[@tacokoneko]

I use GNU/Linux on the PS4 and yeah.. i have a lot of praise for it but unfortunately, updating it in particular is NOT beginner friendly and, while I am very happy with my setup on it, i would say to get the best use out of it requires a advanced user who can easily rebase custom graphics drivers and kernels on newest upstream

[@abominableyeti5639]

I remember playing with this thing at some other kids house. I remember being impressed with the little console.

[@doitallYT]

Sigh... Now I have to find one of these at a thrift store, I need to know if it runs Vigilante 8 🤦‍♂️ awesome video! 😁👍

[@MagnetizedBread]

1:40 does anyone remember what that game in the top left corner is??? When I saw it I got hit by nostalgia as hard as a truck, and now I cant find that game! all I remember was catching creatures in that game, and I am not sure if that's even right.

[@Dreamconfedi]

DUDE your Leapster may have actual lost media on it! I was part of a Discord server that desperately wanted to see what I Spy Spooky Mansion was like. If it's not too much to ask, could you please show the world some footage of that? Maybe second channel?

[@BringusStudios]

Oof, this this mod wipes the internal storage I believe, I don't think the original data is still there. That sucks, I actually follow some stuff in the lost media community, but I had no idea about that.

[@Dreamconfedi]

@@BringusStudios Aw, that's too bad. :/ Looks like the game has escaped us once again. But I'm still hopeful it'll pop up somewhere, somehow. Thanks for the reply ☺️

[@kiddwizzle]

The lengths you went just to do this has me on the floor 😂😂😂

[@unveiledwithouttears1370]

4:14 the dedication. I respect it.

[@Ensign_games]

but can it run doom?

[@meemmeem9565]

A toddler’s learning toy, playing a game about eviscerating demons. I love it.

[@nathanhargenrader645]

The way this goes is me trying to do literally any project at home and I run an IT help desk lol

[@GamingPenguien]

my leapster is dusting in the corner, I can still remember the SpongeBob racing games, mr pencil saves doodleburg and all the things that made my childhood

[@experial7725]

i had one of those leapfrog book & pen things, and as soon as i saw "My LeapFrog-" i was already hovering on the video.

[@connorsteffan8958]

it would be cool if you could do this with a VTech MobiGo 2 Touch

[@matcha6710]

9:33 nice name

[@mykotauro]

Lego Bionicle: Quest for the Toa (also known as Lego Bionicle and originally titled Lego Bionicle: Tales of the Tohunga) - GBA

[@michealadebz]

Damn I remember this when I was 5. I was so exited to get the green one for my birthday. I remember the long car rides to cousins and it would keep me occupied the whole 5 hours.

[@1stnorthernfrontier]

Funnilly enough, I finally have a need for PCBWAY. I need to 3D a knob for my bidet. I was really hoping that Bringus had a referral code or something, wasn't able to find one. So PCBWAY if you're reading this. Pay Bringus More.

[@rc-fannl7364]

You can use a bit of citric acid (available as powder) solved in hot water and a q-tip to clean up those battery terminals