LeapFrog Didj
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"It burns, burns, burns"
— Loco Loco
The LeapFrog Didj, marketed as the Didj Custom Gaming System, is a handheld education gaming console made by LeapFrog Enterprises to build on the success of their previous Leapster console. It was released on August 22, 2008, and discontinued somewhere in 2010. Its library mostly consists of educational software aimed for children based on licensed properties such as those from Disney, Nickelodeon, and Marvel.
The Didj runs on a customized Linux distribution with OpenGL, plus homebrew applications and demos.
Why It Gets You All Fired Up (In a Bad Way) and Burns the Town
- LeapFrog sold a rechargeable base for it, but it could get extremely hot, which would literally melt the system if placed upside down! This could become a potential fire hazard and could even burn down your house! There was even a recall for the charging base and batteries alone. Did LeapFrog learn from the Amstrad GX4000 at all?
- Only 16 games were produced for it, around the same amount as the Virtual Boy.
- The game included on it, JetPack Heroes, is pretty generic and bland.
- However, there are worse games, such as Sonic Didj.
- The battery life is painfully short, only lasting for 1-2 hours.
- Speaking of the batteries, the Didj can go to the point where it is unable to recognize its own batteries AND rechargeable batteries!
- It can tell you to reinsert the cartridge when nothing is wrong with it.
- Even though there are options for 6th-8th grade, the highest grade ever made for a Didj game, in this case High School Musical, was 5th grade.
- If it tells you that it needs a tune-up, it can essentially lead to LeapFrog Connect being unable to recognize the system when trying to reset it.
- Speaking of LeapFrog Connect, there are many problems with it, such as it being unable to eject from the USB, not transferring Bitz, the currency gained by playing games, etc.
- It constantly forces you to update the system, similar to how Windows 10 keeps having updates nonstop.
- Customer service regarding the system was terrible, as they would be unable to fix mandatory problems with the system.
- The Didji avatar and Bitz currency are entirely pointless nowadays, as you can no longer customize your Didji avatar or spend Bitz due to LeapFrog Connect discontinuing support for the console in 2018.
- It was overpriced, being sold for an outrageous $89.99.
Redeeming Qualities
- When connecting it to LeapFrog Connect, you can change how you want the games to educate you with a vast library of content.
- The advertisements were very cool to say at the least.
- Not only could you customize the software, but you could also buy skins marketed by LeapFrog.
- Believe it or not, the Leapster Explorer, a later console made by LeapFrog, is backwards-compatible with Didj games thanks to using the same processor and cartridge size as the Didj.[1]
- It is worth mentioning, however, that Didj games will NOT work on the similarly named LeapsterGS Explorer due to having a different processor.
Games
- Didji Racing: Tiki Tropics
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
- Hannah Montana
- High School Musical
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- Jetpack Heroes
- Nancy Drew: Mystery in the Hollywood Hills
- Neopets: Quizara's Curse
- Nicktoons: Android Invasion
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Fists of Foam
- Star Wars: Jedi Trials
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Super Chicks
- Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
- Wolverine and the X-Men
Trivia
- The Didj has garnered the attention of hackers given that it runs off Linux.
References
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