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Rebecca Rees Posted on Jan 01, 2014
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When clicking on leapster cartridge in Leapster 2, Leapster reboots itself. There were possibility of dirty cartridges-how does one clean the cartridges if they're in tiny slots?

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If the cartridges can be removed, pull them out and try spraying an electronic contact cleaner, power off, and make sure it is safe for plastics, onto the cartridge pins. Then, Gently, slide the cartridge in and out of the socket several times to clean both the socket and cartridge. May have to do this a couple of times.

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its not recognizing the game, contact is probably dirty. 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.
good luck!

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