If you get it working, let us know if its any good.No, my problem was that the Didj needed a tune up! It refused to do anything until it was connected to the computer and 'tuned up'. If you get it working, let us know if its any good.Īnyway, whatever you decide, good luck. It is a little shocking that leapfrog have actually released this when it's half finished, but I'm not going to be sending mine back.Īnyway, whatever you decide, good luck. Maybe in a year or 2, they might have sorted the software out and there might be more online games to download. My point is, even without the online features, its still a great console for the kids and, without these features, I don't think they're really missing much at the moment. My 5 year old was hankering after a DS, but since playing this he seems to have forgotten all about it.

I don't know what age your kids are, mine are 4 and 5 and they love playing it with just the cartridge games. He also points out that it is not such a bad thing, because you can still use the cartridge games. The guy who wrote one of the links I posted above seemed to think that it had been rushed out in time for christmas and wasn't really ready. No, but seriously, is it really worth the extra hassle? I know you don't want to disappoint your kids, but from what I've read, the online functionality is not really that great yet - they only have 2 games to download and it seems the technology is not really that mature. Plus, by the sounds of the posts I've added here, they have enough of a job getting it working properly on shmindows! You can probably bet your bottom dollar that there will be developers there who are total linux fanatics and would love to get there stuff working with linux PCs, but the management slap them down because it's not worth the effort.

Indeed, the embedded operating system that runs on leapfrog products **is** linux! Still, that is no guarantee that it should automatically work with Ubuntu (or any other linux based distro). From reading the PDF and downloading their source code (there are links to it in the PDF), they are clearly **extremely** familiar with open source software. Interesting post, Golubovsky! I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic when you said the developers were 'not totally unfamiliar' with open source software. They make for some fairly interesting reading - this is **not** simply a linux compatibility issue. I was looking to get the leapster2 connected after getting one at xmas - it installed and ran under WINE but the leapster wasn't detected.Īs usual, you tend to think this is some sort of linux issue, but after a little digging around it seems there are a fair few dissatisfied customers out there - and not just linux users.

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