can it work outside of USA (eg Barbados)

I don't know. If you have internet access I don't see why not. Good luck

What is the best age of the child for this?

My daughtee received this as a Christmas gift shortly after she turned 2, and I think that was perfect. She learned her entire alphabet from this, and a few lullabies. My son is 1 and he will play with it, but he's not interested in it to he extent my daughter was.

Anybody have a link to the software? vtech took it down.

http://s7.leapfrog.com/is/content/LeapFrog/Site%20English%20Assets/Support/Download/Quickstart%20Guides/QuickStart-MOSTP.pdf If this doesn't help, you should reach out to Leap Frog customer support. This isn't a Vtech toy.

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