My daughter recieved a leapster 2 from a friend. How do you delete the exhisting names from the sign in screen and replace with new names?

You have to make sure that your Cartridges is clean. Try to vacum of blow both of the cartridge hole and also the place where you put the cartridge, Sometime very small tiny dirt will makes that the cartridge cannot be recognise by the console.

Instead of 1 starter game and a few demo game that you get from Leapfrog Connect, you can also get more downloadable games for your Leapster 2. You can get it here:
leapster-2.blogspot.com

we are having the same problem! any success with solving it?

the screen maybe dirty try turing it off and cleaning it with a rag

contact the manufacturer on the link I am giving you. They will supply you with an email to most questions you have.

http://www.leapfrog.com/en/families/leapster/leapster_learning0/leapster.html

Here's the solution: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081228233009AA2w5Xx

Answer
I had the same problem and here is the answer I found at leapfrog.com which fixed my daughter’s disney princess leapster 2’s problem. Good luck!
If your Leapster2 does not respond to the stylus pen, it needs to be calibrated. Calibrating the Leapster2 is easy:
1) Ensure that a cartridge is not inserted
2) Hold down the Hint (?) button while turning the unit on. Continue to hold the Hint button down until the LEAPSTER menu appears.
3) When the LEAPSTER menu screen appears, press the A button
4) Touch each of the crosshairs that appear with the stylus
5) Restart unit

To delete a player profile, go to the player profile screen and press and continue to hold down the following buttons in sequence: Home
A button
Left arrow
Then, touch the X icon that appears at the bottom of the screen and follow audio instructions.
Note: You can only delete a name when all three name slots are filled.

The above procedure only works on LEAPSTER 2.

Directly from Leapster website -

Question How do I delete or change a player name on Leapster™ cartridges? Answer It is possible to remove a player once you have added three player names to the cartridge. If there is a name on the cartridge that you want to remove, take these steps.

1- Add new players until there are three players on the cartridge.

2- Once you have three players on the cartridge, an "X" will appear below each player's name.

3- Touch the "X", then touch the name of the player you want to delete. Touch "Yes" to delete the name. Then add a new name, or touch OK twice to go back to the sign-in screen without adding a name. Two names will always remain on the cartridge.


This is a design flaw with leapsters games (apparently nobody thought to think that they do get sold secondhand or passed down in families)

Since you havent specified the system -

LEAPSTER ORIGINAL
LEAPSTER 2
LEAPSTER LMAX

Clicking on any of the above will get you the owners manuals in PDF format.

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Thank you.

We had a similar problem leapster turned on but would not let us chose a name for sign in. We held down the ? button when switching on then wen tthrough the stylus calibration and re-bootted. All started working again. Hope this helps

how do I remove the names that were originally put in and add my sons name to the leapster 2

Question How do I delete or change a player name on Leapster™ cartridges? Answer It is possible to remove a player once you have added three player names to the cartridge. If there is a name on the cartridge that you want to remove, take these steps.

1- Add new players until there are three players on the cartridge.

2- Once you have three players on the cartridge, an "X" will appear below each player's name.

3- Touch the "X", then touch the name of the player you want to delete. Touch "Yes" to delete the name. Then add a new name, or touch OK twice to go back to the sign-in screen without adding a name. Two names will always remain on the cartridge.