In case you don’t know what a Leapfrog Didj is, it’s not a didgeridoo, it’s a handheld console released by Leapfrog, the company best known for making edutainment video games. But what I want to talk about is why were so few games made for it? It’s like the Virtual Boy, only 15 years later. Leapfrog announced the Didj in 2008, released the Didj, and then made 15 games for it (and one more as a pack-in download to be downloaded off a CD.) and then the Didj vanished. I was all hyped up for some reason for it even though I am a grown up. I got one. I had a hard time finding games, and the few titles I did buy came from Best Buy. The rest were from eBay. So I have this chip from Jertechonline.com called the DJHI. It is useful to get a Game Boy Advance emulator running on it, although I haven’t tried to do that yet, partly because I don’t understand the instructions, and partly because there’s a risk i may brick the console. So if there’s a Game Boy emulator running on this thing, chances are good that making a homebrew Didj game would be possible, no? I was just wondering a.) Why nobody has made a homebrew Didj game yet (although I know the answer, so few were sold, but that didn’t stop VB homebrew!) and b.) Why I love failed handheld consoles. I have a complete Didj collection, and a link to me playing the Sonic game is on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=049Y5AcFnjA
If anyone is interested, I may do all the 15 other games. And getting a complete collection didn’t break the bank for once!

I like the idea of Sonic helping kids learn how to spell. The controls on that one look less than fun though =P

I think that’s due to me sucking at Sonic rather than the controls.

http://elinux.org/Didj

it looks interesting. i did not know how much had been accomplished with this device.