I saw a leapster at toy'r'us and thought about if a rewriteable flashs card was available. I have read some stuff about, but don't know any specifics. Is it powerful enough to emulate games. I wonder what what systems would work. NES most likely work. what do you guys think.
Well, I don't know if it could emulate anything, I'm not to sure what the system's capabilities are. I'm pretty sure it could handle NES, SMS, maybe Genesis or SNES, but it would take a bit of tech savvy to get it to work. I playtested one at Toys R us a little while ago, not too bad- decent sound, graphics looked like any good flash content you can find on the web. I think it would be more interesting to hack it to play your own flash games/content on (it runs Flash 4 I think.) I don't have the slightest Idea on how to do this though.
its actually pretty burly.. the final specs werent out yet when last i worked at leapfrog (close to a year ago) but even then, they had the demo version fully playable.. its a custom chipset of some sort, with full Flash/ActionScript capabilities.. and as far as I know, they were usin the same Flashcard burners that are used with the LeapPad (LeapLink, MindLink, etc) to write the games for testing, so theoretically you should be able to burn your own saved .swf files to carts, and watch some StrongBad on the road, etc. only catch is i think there's some custom software needed to make the image file that gets burned to the carts, but maybe that's floatin around somewhere (may be available from their developer support website, if it still exists). -ab
