Everyone who owns a LeapPad knows that it's super useful for teaching the kiddos essential learning skills such as reading and fluency. But what's the value for the older, tech-savvy ones in the crowd? For glitching, of course!
This used to have me horrified as a kid my aunt was sold a defective device so it would do that while I was playing I'm 23 now and I just had to look this up to see if this really happen to anybody else or was just Just me. Growing up other kids were afraid of the monster in the closet myth I was afraid of this despite this thing brought so much joy as well.... Those sounds you displayed in this video still low-key scared me as an adult.... wow
You cant actually destroy the cartridge data I think. These are ROM cartridges, which means Read Only Memory. Zero data is actually saved to the cartridges while you play, so nothing can get overwritten or corrupted. The Pad will ask for data that abruptly doesnt exist, and it doesnt know what to do next. Other times it may get stuck on the last piece of audio data, like a sound effect, that it had successfully loaded. If it couldn’t load the whole piece of data, the garbled mess it was working on would be played instead.
I used to have one of these. I chewed on the pen (more specifically, the cord of the pen) and my dad had to duct tape it back together. It still worked.
Funny enough, I got recommended a video by The 8 Bit Guy called "How Oldschool ROM Cartridge Games Worked". And that's interesting because I think the LeapFrog and things like the Nintendo DS cartridges are ROM chips, right?
this device uses the leap-font, along with the pre-pollux based leapster systems (leapster2 and before) leap-font based devices like to glitch out when it can't read a cartridge for some reason, but the most common one you'll get on the leapster is the gargling noises.
sometimes, the voice/audio would come back right after the cartridge is reseated properly, although sometimes it doesn't and keeps gargling/shuts off. other times, voices/audio would continue, but the game would fail to even start back up again.
I remember my LeapPad having the weirdest glitch I would put in, let's say, a Scooby-Doo cartridge, but after a while, it would play the audio of a completely different book! Specifically, one about this kid saying something about "My tooth is loose!" IDK if we even HAD that book cause honestly, I was a pretty stupid kid! I don't know what I did wrong, or if my brothers did something, but eventually, we just gave up
Lily’s loose tooth was the original book that came with the LeapPad, it didn’t require a cartridge. When you heard that book while you were using a different one it was probably due to there being something wrong with the book cartridge you were using.
It’s an opening theme stops at beginning, them monotonous second note, 6:27 opening theme abruptly stops after second note, 6:32 odd noises, opening theme stops with abruptly loud scratch, 6:34 opening theme stops after second note, and opening theme begins normally, and gurgling sounds!
mom comes in Mom what the heck are you doing to your leappad Kid nothing Mom let me see your tablet and your leappad Kid oh no Mom omg you are grounded from watching this Kid but ... Mom no buts no it's no shut ups Kid aww come on Mom no more leappad and tablet for a week Kid TvT Mom stop crying like a baby At 2:00 am Kid goes downstairs Kid Finds the tablet and the leappad Leappad welcome to the leappad Learning System Mom wakes up Mom goes downstairs Mom grr Mom give me the leappad NOW! Kid throws tablet at mom Mom dies The end Sorry bout the ending But why don't you like it