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Anonymous Posted on Dec 25, 2007

What does the question mark mean on the screen of the leapfrog leapster when you insert a new game

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  • Anonymous Dec 26, 2007

    Thanks I fixed it myself by blowing onto the contacts inside the game card!

  • gatormom Mar 22, 2008

    My daughter had a leapster about 2 years old- with about 10 games. Recently it hasn't been recognizing many of the games. We purchased a new pink l-max leapster and it won't recognize any of the games...not even the newest ones we bought 2 months ago. HELP

  • azmomof3 May 09, 2008

    My son recently began having the same problem or the question mark appearing, but his happens in the middle of a game?  If you take the game out and put it back in, it seems to get rid of the problem temporarily.  

  • rwjpurchase Sep 01, 2008

    What does the question mark mean on the screen of the leapfrog leapster when you insert a new game cartridge?  We tried blowing out the cartridge with compressed air as well as rubbing on the contacts with an eraser.  We also blew out the game where the cartridges are inserted -- still doesn't recognize cartridges.

  • Anonymous Nov 02, 2008

    a question mark appears when my daughter inserts the princess cartridge, but not the dora cartridge.

  • mhorlbogen Jan 20, 2009

    I have the same problem, I tried blowing

    out the cartridge and that did not work.

  • Anonymous May 02, 2009

    I have a problem with my Leapster Leap pad where it suddenly will not play the Spongebob Squarepants Through the Wormhole game. It was working up to this point but suddenly stopped working. Note the other game we have - Cars works just fine. I already cleaned out the Leapster and tried blowing out the Leapster and Cartriage to no avail. I think I might have to call up Leapster and wrack their brains with this one. I don't think I'm going to buy anymore of these if they are not going to last more than 6 months of off and on use. I've had Nintendo cartridges that have last longer than these. :(

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I just called Leap Frog and they told me to take an eraser and rub the contacts of the cartridge and get them super clean, blow out ALL the debris and that should fix it. So far so good...

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Dose not reconise cartrige or not compatible.. I would say it has a fault it the above are not so

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