My LeapFrog Has Emulators Now

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[mpt]

"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.

[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!

[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

[remakeyourself]

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

[loxdude]

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

[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

[patrickmill]

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

[SemkOld]

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

[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.

[counter-mouse]

Imagine your waiting in an waiting room and you glance over to see a toddler playing metal gear solid on his leapfrog

[tergish]

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.

[YOUR_NARRATOR]

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

[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 :)

[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!"

[Calzone]

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

[cheddar]

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

[theawardgoesto]

*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*
😳

[bellowick]

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

[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.

[wa]

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.