My son's LeapPad is not recognizing game cartridges. We've taken an eraser to cartridge, used rubbing alcohol and used air can inside cartridge hole. Both game cartridges are new. First time we inserted them, we were able to play each one 1 or two times. After that, we had to work pretty hard to get cartridge to be recognized and when it did finally recognize it, we would select it only for the screen to turn black and return us to the home page. Now we can't even get the games to be recognized again.
I used the pencil eraser first on each of my daughter's cartridges. Then I used a qtip to rub them with rubbing alcohol. Finally I used a blow dryer to blow out where the cartridges are installed and now her games are working just fine.
SOURCE: Leapfrog Leapster doesn't read cartridges anymore?
HI my son has a LEAP frog MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS NOTHING OBSTUCTING THE CONTACTS( metal on the game and the cartdridge meet)
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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.
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Cleaning it with rubbing alcohol helped the LeapPad to recognize the cartridges but it still wouldn't open the game. My brother used a tiny flathead to pull the pins inside of the LeapPad up a little bit. The cartridge wasn't making full contact with a couple of the pins because the pins were pushed out of place, probably due to my son putting the game in backwards or sticking something else down there. Games are working great now!!
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