Tamagotchi Connection RV3 Research 📖

[rose python]

I just don't know when to push the button and the bar appears so fast

[pearl ore]

I usually try to press it like a half second after I see it. lemme see if I can record a video because I don’t usually time myself

[slow wind]

it’s not guaranteed to win even if u push it when the meter is full but keeping it full is best I think, I just press it a second after first pressing when it says push

[rose python]

So press once to make the bar appear and then press it again when it gets full?

[slow wind]

press when it says push and then press again quickly once the bar is full, the bar will load multiple times if u miss it tho

[pearl ore]

@rose python Here’s how I do it. Pretty much what Mika said, double-tap as soon as you see “PUSH”

[rose python]

Thanks for the video tutorials, I will now go destroy bump

[pearl ore]

Again it’s not a GUARANTEED win but generally you’ll get pretty far. I’ve gone all 8 rounds 3 times today on both devices

But sometimes I also lose on round 1

At least compared to other games you do still win pity money if you lose even on round 1

It’s become my favorite game to grind because it only requires one button and it gives you the most money (you can win up to 2400 if your Tama is light enough!!!)

BUT Heading is still best for consistency and time, Bump takes a little while even when you mash B through all the animations

[slow wind]

You’re pretty much guaranteed to win if your tama weighs in the 80s and the pay out is decent at 1200 for all eight rounds

[pearl ore]

I gotta slim my guys down a bit because I only get 600 😭

That’s where Heading comes in 😎

[kindred hamlet]

speaking of this, the chest turned my otokitchi into ... an otokitchi
it's funny she got so stressed about it like
nothing changed at all

[modern flower]

maybe shes got a wicked old lady tattoo you didnt know about and the chest made it vanish

[pearl ore]

LMAO I was wondering what would happen if the oldies used the chest

I love how everyone is calling Pirorirotchi the pikmin tama

[lavish hazel]

are there differences in character sprites?

[quartz kraken]

What things are different? It's not just changing the language?

[lavish hazel]

it changes a couple of small details, some items have different sprites

the hair gel comes to mind

the game victory screen and sound is different

also, the clock in SET mode doesn't have "SET" text in japanese, while it does in english

this is accurate to the keitai, and it's a detail i'm surprised they paid attention to

[quartz kraken]

Wow, was not expecting that level of attention to detail either yeah

Different sounds too

Anyone have a video of it?

[kindred hamlet]

the game victory screen is not actually the same as in the keitai
the getting money animation is closer to the V3 (including the fact you can't skip it)
on the keitai the victory animation is just the one frame with the text "congratulations" on it, the extended animation used on this release was only used on the birthday animation iirc

also the bath tub sprite changes in japanese, it uses the one on the plus and keitai

[spark otter]

It’s funny how there’s a few nitpicks we have about their attention to detail with the sound and stuff but they clearly paid a lot of attention to things like the sprites

They didn’t need to implement most of this stuff

it’s why I can’t really get behind the idea of the developers being lazy just because there’s an oversight in one of the animations lol

[versed flicker]

Yeah even when they reuse sprites on the color releases they occasionally edit them even if it's the tiniest detail. For example they made hotcaketchi taller on Uni by like 1-2 pixels

[spark otter]

A very important change

reminds me of when they changed Mimitchi’s tail

[versed flicker]

Also the badges on Smart use edited character sprites. They could of took the easy way out and copy and pasted the character sprite onto them but instead they made sure each badge looked nice. Not sure if they did the same on Uni

They definitely do pay attention to detail on sprites

[pearl ore]

Successfully obtained naughty fellas

I love you

[plucky crow]

Yeah I don't think it was deliberately lazy, just kinda baffling how they missed it for such a titular character

And the fact that it uses the same animation as the close-ups, but with Oyajitchi's sprite being moved to the top right of the "frame" makes sense that it was unintentional

But the good news is his full close-up is still there and looks great, so it's not a big deal XD I just love seeing the middle sprite aaaaall over merchandise right now...and yet somehow they missed it on the actual device, haha

[broken lodge]

Question. Was wondering how delicate the RV3 screen is?
Like is it tamagotchi ON levels of “if I even breath on it” it’ll scratch delicate? Or is it more durable

[slow wind]

it’s a much cheaper plastic, mine has accumulated lots of micro scratches, if that bothers u I suggest using a cover

[pearl ore]

It’s not quite as “made of butter” as the Uni but it does scratch quite easily :(

[plucky crow]

Idk, I've been scratching these things WAY more than the Unis

[pearl ore]

True… I feel like the Unis get nastier deeper scratches though

Seems like Naughty characters use the Shirt as one of their idle animations

Which is great for me because Paparatchi has an amazing shirt animation

[lavish hazel]

It’s the ball chain apparently

I never take my tamas out of the house but if I did, I’d probably take them off first

[kindred hamlet]

speaking of these
serious characters have been seen using the bow item, right?
my chomametchi only ever used the ribbon despite also having the bow in the inventory
could it be because she was a girl?
also my male memetchi would use the sunglasses

[lavish hazel]

It would be interesting if different genders prefer different items for idle animations

We already know that they aren’t entirely treated the same because doll/action figure

[pearl ore]

Both of my Serious girls last gen used the hair bow (ribbon). I want to say I caught my Violetchi (male) using the bow tie but I can’t be certain.

[plucky crow]

Nah cause I replaced mine with key rings

I think it's just anything metal scratching the screen

[lavish hazel]

Well yeah that’s what I meant

Though if there are no sharp edges on the ball chain it shouldn’t be scratching anything, in theory

[slow wind]

mine gets scratches just from being in my pocket even with the chain removed

[pearl ore]

Serious - Bow (bow tie?) and Pencil; Sings
Normal - Sunglasses and ???; Sings(?)
Naughty - Shirt and Shoes; Jump hurdles
Frail - ??? & ???; Sings
Stubborn - Wings and Weights; Watch TV

Not sure if Oldies and Oyajitchi play with items on their own. I’ve only ever had Serious children/teens but they all use the Ball

[kindred hamlet]

oh right the ribbon is "bow" in English
in the japanese version, the bow is called ribbon and the bow tie is called necktie

also my male memetchi would use the sunglasses! so normal has the sunglasses at least

these seem to somewhat relate to the V1 items?? except that shirt for the naughty adults

[pearl ore]

Noted. I think there MAY be gender differences but I’ll have to check. Currently I have a male Paparatchi and a female Mimiyoritchi (both Naughty) so I’ll see if they do anything different

It may just be the case for the bow/bow tie though since that’s the only item I can think of that has a “gendered” counterpart

[plucky crow]

Fr -.-;

I think the screens are just cheap plastic, is what it is at this point

Always hurts my heart when it starts happening to a new one out of box tho

[pearl ore]

I carry my tamas on a lanyard so they definitely smack against each other and scratch each others’ screens 😂 my blue one is in much worse shape than my pink

Thankfully they really aren’t that noticeable when looking at them head-on, they don’t even show up on photos, just in light glares

Caught Cheese using the Shoes

So seems like Naughty characters use Shirt & Shoes

I think I have both of those items on both of my devices so I’ll see if Mac uses the Shoes and Cheese uses the Shirt at any point

Naughty characters also do the hurdles idle

[slow wind]

so any items you’ve purchased can be used during idle animations?

is it the same animation if you choose to use the item on your tama?

[plucky crow]

That's so weird tho cause mine never used them

I think you have to own the items for them to use them cause I never had those on my first generation with Mimiyoritchi

All my Mimiyori would do is come up close and jump over hurdles

[pearl ore]

Yeah you have own the items

[pearl ore]

Yes

They’ll just do it on their own sometimes and consumables like the Pencil won’t disappear, which is cool

[pearl ore]

Also updated this to include their secondary idle behaviors. So far I’ve seen Serious characters sing and Naughty characters jump hurdles, Stubborn characters still seem to watch TV like on the OGs

[kindred hamlet]

i assume the secondary ones stay as in the V3
so serious, normal and frail: sing
naughty: hurdles (replaces running and falling)
stubborn: TV

on the V1 hanatchi would sing but its singing pose would be exclusive to this animation rather than just using the regular happy pose like serious and normal adults
and androtchi would have an unique animation no other adults had
so on the V2 and V3 frail adults would all sing instead

[turbid plaza]

Got Gozarutchi and one of his idle item animations is the weights (I don’t have the wings in my inventory yet)

I actually gave my two the exact same care other than winning a ton of games on the blue one, enough to reverse all of the care misses so i got Violetchi again lol

Male Violetchi moment

[broken lodge]

I wonder if a screen protector might be a good purchase then.
I don’t really travel with mine but if I do I put them in one of these

[turbid plaza]

You do need to own them

Serious adults use the bow and the pencil, but i never saw mine use the pencil because i didn’t have it in my inventory

[pearl ore]

Awesome, thank you. Now we just need to confirm the other item that Normals use and the two items Frails use, and to double-check if Normals & Frails still sing as their secondary idle like they did on the original connections

Also @turbid plaza since your Violetchi is male, I’m curious to see if he uses the bow or the bow tie

I feel like I saw mine use the bow tie?? But I can’t be certain

[turbid plaza]

I only have bow in my inventory on that one at the moment

Don’t have the bow tie yet

[turbid plaza]

I had a frail (Hashizoutchi) last gen and she did sing

[pearl ore]

https://tenor.com/view/kowalski-noted-penguins-penguins-of-madagascar-gif-1306663699157096677

[turbid plaza]

I should have taken a picture, I don’t know why I didn’t

[plucky crow]

I'm trying to remember what my Hidatchi did agh cause I know it wasn't the sunglasses as I didn't own those

[pearl ore]

I plan on turning these guys into oldies and marrying them so I’ll see what the old coots & Oyaji do

[plucky crow]

So far I don't think my Oyajitchi's have done anything, but they're technically considered "Stubborn"

[slow wind]

here’s the birthday yogurt (parfait)

[pearl ore]

Yeah, I think behaviorally he’s Stubborn but gene-wise he’s Normal?? He’s an enigma

“gene-wise” as in determining the growth of his child, he’s treated the same as a Normal parent

[kindred hamlet]

oyajitchi is kinda blended with senior in terms of behavior in the V3
they will bathe but not brush their teeth, an no other animations at all
no close up and no TV or singing

[pearl ore]

He sounds boring 😭 no wonder he just instantly grows up from baby stage

He was born to be old

[plucky crow]

Whaa? I thought he gave Stubborn children

[kindred hamlet]

he does on the keitai, but not on the V1-V3

[lavish hazel]

you can just press c when the oyajitchi salesman shows up and it'll skip his upset animation

it does this on the keitai too

[fallen sleet]

Idk if it's been shared, but this is the Melon Soda code

Also, for your viewing pleasure

[slow wind]

i believe thats the same code for the soda from the bubbles shell

gorgeous collection!

[novel scroll]

I'm just biased because of the states of a lot of the V2/V3 sprites

Things like ChoHimetchi where a lot of them are barely altered from the primary sprite

Reusing all the Osu/Mesu sprites would've been lazier by definition, but at least a lot of them are of better quality than the V2/V3 stuff

[plucky crow]

I mean, it is true that this would have been an opportunity to improve what was missing or broken about the V3, too. Not saying it's lazy, but it is a bit underwhelming when you think about the potential of it

But nothing is perfect, and we can't all expect every release to be. I have to tell myself to quell my impulsive perfectionism and just enjoy things the way they are. <3

...unless the screen is getting scratched, that is--

But yeah anyway, it is really nice we're getting all these Keitai things that breathe a little more life into the V3 as a rerelease and make it fun to see what's new and what's different!

[lavish hazel]

i'd argue that the v3 stuff breathes WAY more life into the keitai than vice versa lol

for the japanese side, i mean

we got a "relatively" minor update to our v3, they're getting something entirely different

[lavish hazel]

i strongly disagree

the osu/mesu spritework is pretty bad and i think the v2/v3 ones are significantly better

mohitamatchi's sprites on the osu/mesu always bothered me

[quartz kraken]

So symmetrical

I do agree that the V2/V3 sprites, particularly the mid/close sprites, feel quite “scribbly” and look as if the artist was only using the 16x16 sprite as a reference rather than the illustrated character artwork

eg closeup bill looks nothing like the illusttation

[spark otter]

I get the impression that multiple people worked on the V2 sprites and some of those people used the sprites as reference whilst others used the artwork

Though maybe that’s because some of the sprites were pulled from the Keitai

It’s most obvious with Mametchi imo

like look at these

These ones + the teeth brushing and close-up sprites are much more accurate to his artwork

The V3 sprites were much more standardised, and they updated the sunglasses sprites too

some of his V3 sprites are still pretty weird though, a few of the sprites where he’s in profile whilst using an item look odd to me

[jagged jasper]

Mametchi’s original sprite has always seemed strange to me, I know some people like it but it’s kinda weird how off model it was, compared to almost everyone else who for the most part resembled their character artwork

[spark otter]

Totally yeah

It’s no wonder his US artwork looked so different

[plucky crow]

Well, Mametchi's original Japanese artwork was a little more loose with the design. Plus the original sprites were a lot more fluid and loose, lending to them being off-model a lot more often

I mean, Tamatchi straight up loses his arms with certain P1 sprites xD

[hasty plank]

Is age 5 when they can start getting married via connection?

[lavish hazel]

meanwhile there's maskutchi

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tamagotchi/images/9/9e/Maskutchi_tah.png/revision/latest?cb=20150513033414
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tamagotchi/images/4/49/Masktchi_USA.png/revision/latest?cb=20130902175603

[plucky crow]

Homeboy's design is as rock solid as it comes 💪 🪨

[spark otter]

Which is the better Masukutchi design? Blue and Black or White and Gold Purple?

[lavish hazel]

more of an indigo than a purple tbh

[plucky crow]

This is a good chance to test what kind of adult Oyajitchi is!

...er, wait, actually probably not. I think Stubborn and Serious still make a good toddler

Well, if he's Normal I'd be getting A tier and Stubborn B tier, so I guessss if I'm very attentive with care misses I can test just giving 1 physical care miss to see if I get a Normal adult with one of the babies

[kindred hamlet]

there's an easier way
neglect them a lot during the toddler stage
if they were A tier you'll get a (B-tier) serious teen
if they were B tier you'll get a normal teen

[plucky crow]

Ohh true, I'll do that actually

It's 3+ care misses in both categories, right?

(Feels so mean ;.; but it's for science!)

[kindred hamlet]

i don't quite recall rn lemme check
but i normally just give them a Hell Day (turn the sound off and completely ignore them until right before they go to sleep) when i want worst tier characters

[plucky crow]

Brutal xD but hilarious

[kindred hamlet]

but yeah should be 3+ in both categories
make sure their hungry / happy meters are very low when they end the baby stage, then just ignore them for about 4 hours
don't heal them until you are done if they get sick
also don't turn off their lights at night just in case

[plucky crow]

D...Did they seriously forget an angry sprite for him too...??

I'm confused, this is supposed to be the special character, right?? When was forgetting to make sprites for him "special"

[plucky crow]

Though in this instance it is kinda funny

[pearl ore]

He said :|

[plucky crow]

😐 flipped for the 13th time...

[kindred hamlet]

omg it also happens when you scold him
i have a pair of oyajitchis too

[plucky crow]

Ugh, stop scolding me DAD 😐💢

[summer sage]

bandai did not care about oyajitchi 😭

[plucky crow]

HE'S LITERALLY THE SECRET CHARACTER I CAN'T--

Such a reward!!

[summer sage]

they didn't expect people to get him i guess

so they just got lazy

[plucky crow]

Well I find that hard to believe considering they made the adult stage going into oldie even shorter

[kindred hamlet]

it's the same as in the V3 apparently

[plucky crow]

And made adults marriable to oldies, too

[summer sage]

they also made it so adults and oldies could marry

[plucky crow]

Oyaji's lack of anger?

[kindred hamlet]

https://www.spriters-resource.com/lcd_handhelds/tamagotchiconnectionversion3/sheet/141095/

yeah look at the "angry" pose here

[summer sage]

no emotion

[plucky crow]

Lollll I just find it crazy they looked at his sprite sheet and went "eh that's fine"

[summer sage]

broken man

[plucky crow]

So strange considering Bandai Japan apparently did the coding for this device? They have all these sprites on the Keitai!

Just kinda shocking

[summer sage]

accuracy i guess

[plucky crow]

Ugh, if I hear "faithful remake" one more time I stg

Why can't we acknowledge things have flaws and, uhm idk, fix them

[summer sage]

if bandai half assed it 20 years ago, they have to half ass it again

technically 18 years ago but you get the point

[plucky crow]

Anyway, I know I'm making a big deal out of it but I don't actually care that much. Just makes me a bit sad they didn't really care enough to give him proper expressions

Again it's funny in this instance and doesn't hurt the gameplay experience at all, but it feels a liiiittle lazy

But oh well, it is the way it is. Maybe they'll make later roms with some fixes

[summer sage]

then again, p1/2s had the same snack glitch for over 6 years

[plucky crow]

But I doubt it since it's a pretty clear oversight

[plucky crow]

Well, whether that's a glitch or not is still not really known. If they hadn't fixed it in this long, it could be intentional.

Either instance doesn't make much sense to me but the sprite thing can be easily rectified by like...grabbing the Keitai or V4 sprites, lol

[kindred hamlet]

they seem to have just left all the V3 sprite sheets as they were
if they wanted to make changes they would have also made them actually yell when needing to be given a time out
instead of having the training animations be very similar
and the keitai had close ups for all the teens but they just removed that c-click reaction bc they didn't have those sprites on the V3

[plucky crow]

But they fixed Nyatchi's! And that of all things is a costume character

Yeah I think it's fair not to have the teens do it because there's a lot of them that weren't on the Keitai or even V4, I wouldn't expect them to create all new sprites for them

[kindred hamlet]

oh true
that one is so specific though

[plucky crow]

Eh, I guess I'll never understand Bandai's methods

Maybe there's some glitchiness with Oyajitchi and editing his sprite sheet messes everything up

We'll never know xD

[spark otter]

There’s A LOT of sprites on this

I mean 90% of tamagotchi is the sprites, the coding isn’t particularly complicated

it makes sense to me that out of the hundreds of sprites there’d be oversights

I’m really curious about how they made it though, like, do they still have the original sprite sets backed up?

[kindred hamlet]

they gotta, right?
other than nyatchi all the sprites have been identical to the OG V3
even the weird mizutamatchi sleeping pose

also it's interesting both of these appear when connecting
iirc the jack in the box thing was made to replace the ghost

[spark otter]

Is the little wormy snake thing on this

[hasty plank]

I have an otokitchi and a boy 5 year old masktchi that have full 4 hearts with each other and refuse to make babies

who was the person that confirmed adults and oldies can get married?

[plucky crow]

Isn't it 6 years? :<

[hasty plank]

I thought it was five on the v3. I asked earlier and nobody answered me lol

[plucky crow]

Ah, my bad I didn't see it earlier x3 I thought it was 6, I would just wait a year and try again

[hasty plank]

that explains it! I'll try again tomorrow.

[plucky crow]

I can't confirm cause I'm not exactly sure, but it is moreso based on the evolution timer rather than the physical age that is shown

[hasty plank]

ahh that should be tonight. I've been keeping track of my evolution time. I'm just tired of keeping this otokitchi alive and I'm antsy for a new generation lol

[plucky crow]

Understandable, sucks the oldies come so early on this version haha

[novel scroll]

That's...weird

[plucky crow]

Lemme know if you still end up with Oyajitchi, I wanna confirm that too

[novel scroll]

Usually he's supposed to use the open mouth sprite he uses for his happy and sad sprites

[plucky crow]

Was it that way on the V3?

[hasty plank]

will do!

[novel scroll]

Not sure about the V3, but it was on the Entama IIRC

Even all the way back on the P1, Oyajitchi's happy and angry sprites were the same

[spark otter]

According to the sprite sheets on the spriters resource oyajitchi’s angry sprite is just the same as his idle one, so I don’t think there’s much doubt that this is the way it looks on the V3 too

[quartz kraken]

Bandai: edits nyatchi sprites because they were off model
Also Bandai: leaves in bugs where oyajitchi sprites were missing and replaced with the default pose

[novel scroll]

The more I learn about the RV3, the less inclined I am to get it

[plucky crow]

Well, don't get me wrong, the RV3 is great. It's a faster more convenient V3, and despite the lil bugs and quirks they didn't fix or change, I still love running it and prefer a lot of it to the original.

...still...Kurokotchi my beloved...

[quartz kraken]

I’m still just waiting for a shell design which appeals to me
But also, I think I’ve gotten too comfortable with modern tamas which are so more casual - no weight, no training, no seniors, all growth just deterministic based on care misses or maybe a single stat

[pearl ore]

Speaking of Oyajitchi: Since he evolves directly from baby stage, can he mate earlier or does he have to be 5-6 as well?

[quartz kraken]

Earlier connections feel like much more of a time investment gameplay wise, I’m old and work full time and just want a cute lil character now 🤣

[plucky crow]

I just mated him through connection at age 3, but on my other one the matchmaker hasn't shown up yet

[pearl ore]

Ok awesome, I have a Tama club meetup next weekend and if successfully get Oldies this gen my next gen Oyajis SHOULD be grown up and mate-ready by then

It would be nice to pair them up with other people’s tamas :)

[hasty plank]

masktchi and otokitchi finally did the horizontal tango and had babies so we'll see what they turn into

[scarlet ether]

HORIZONTAL TANGO 😭😭😭

[versed flicker]

It's definitely worth it in my opinion especially if you like the V2 and V3. I never thought we'd get a second chance at buying a V3 at the regular price and not second hand...but here we are.

[versed flicker]

Wait what?! A oldie can marry a regular adult on the re-release?

[hasty plank]

Yup

I think someone mentioned it on reddit initially. I'm gonna see which babies turn into oyajitchi

[plucky crow]

Are they both boys?

[hasty plank]

Masktchi was a boy and otokitchi was a girl. the oldies are still genderlocked unlike the adults

ooh you mean the babies?

is there a way to tell the baby genders while the adults are still there? otherwise I'll have to wait a couple days to see.

[plucky crow]

Yeah haha

[plucky crow]

Are the babies next to the adults?

They usually chill with the parents for two days

[hasty plank]

yup adults are still here with the babies. I'll update in a couple days when they leave

[plucky crow]

If it's black it's a boy, it it's white it's a girl!

Boy + Girl

[hasty plank]

omg I totally forgot about that

[plucky crow]

Ugh sorry these sent with transparency xD

But yeah if they're both boys then I'm betting you'll get Oyajis

[versed flicker]

Does the matchmaker come when you have a oldie too? Or is it still like the original where you have to do a connection marriage

[hasty plank]

masktchi has a girl baby and otokitchi has a boy baby. so looks like only the oldie has the chance of being oyajitchi

[plucky crow]

Matchmaker never came for my oldie and I had her for a good few years

[hasty plank]

sadly no 😦 I wish it did. bandai said no online dating for oldies

[versed flicker]

What age do they turn into oldies on the re-release

I won't be getting another until the holidays. Spent like $250 on tamas in July

[hasty plank]

mine turned into a otokitchi at age 7 but that doesn't seem to be the normal. I have no idea why mine aged so fast. I think it's age 9 normally on the rv3?
#1260768345146392666 message

[versed flicker]

Yeah I remember seeing someone mention yesterday how fast theirs evolved. Dang that barely gives you anytime to enjoy your character

[hasty plank]

yeah I was only running the one at the time so I ended up pausing it after a few days so I could raise a second tama to marry her so my generations wouldn't reset if she died. I def wanted my adult to stick around longer lol

oh wait. they BOTH have boys. masktchi had gone back to sleep when I checked previously and the sleeping baby sprite was white? which seems like an error bc the v3 definitely had a black sprite for the sleeping boy baby. so maybe both will be oyijitchi.

just tested it and the baby looks white when sleeping even though it's a boy.

[plucky crow]

That's just the baby's hat which is white on the Tama itself

[pearl ore]

Wait the babies are different genders? That never happens

Oh nvm I see the above pic

Yeah it’s confusing bc the boy has WHITE ears but a BLACK body

[hasty plank]

oooh that makes sense

are the sprites on spriters resource backwards for the babies? it shows the boy baby with black ears in bed
https://www.spriters-resource.com/lcd_handhelds/tamagotchiconnectionversion3/sheet/142602/

[pearl ore]

The boy did have black ears in bed on the OG V3

So the new sprite is correct, since the boy is supposed to have white ears

[spark otter]

Yeah and to be entirely fair a lot of the specific issues people have are issues the original V3 had that nobody cared much about anyway haha

[rose python]

I love the color matching o-rings you got them

[plucky crow]

Oh, neat lil info :o

[hasty plank]

that's so cool that they fixed that! seems like such a little thing

[plucky crow]

Meanwhile...

[hasty plank]

kldjfa;ldkfa

please

if I have two oyajitchis idk what I'm gonna do

[plucky crow]

BEAUTIFUL MARRIAGE AHAHAHA

So Naughty and Stubborn make D tier, Normal and Naughty make B tier. I can easily check this way with what toddler I get instead of neglecting my other toddlers like crazy xD

[lavish hazel]

the matchmaker comes for oyajitchi?

[lavish hazel]

i understand this viewpoint but i don't know if i can agree

clearly if they reimplemented the flaws, they are aware the flaws exist and have no desire to fix them but rather stay faithful to them

it's not an oversight, that's deliberate lol

same with hoops only rewarding 100gp

it is faithful to the keitai even if it makes no sense with the v3 economy

[plucky crow]

Mhm! Same amount of time as any adult

[lavish hazel]

i wonder if there are eventually gonna be passwords for gp 🤔

[summer sage]

I just got the CD from a chest

[spark otter]

Is its name stylised like that on the V3? Those S’s are weird

[quartz kraken]

I’ve seen S’s like that on the most condensed text before (thinking maybe v5.5 or v6) but don’t know about that specific one

[kindred hamlet]

MU5IC DI5C
was it called that on the V3?, i remember numbered CDs but those may be from the V4

[spark otter]

I thiiiink the numbered CDs were V4 only? According to my notes the V3 name was MUSIC DISC too

[kindred hamlet]

huh, to be fair i don't think i ever bothered to get a disc on the V3 lmao

[spark otter]

I remember the first time I got one

And I actually got so upset that it wrecked my boom box that I stopped buying them

[kindred hamlet]

wrecks as in makes it disappear from the inventory??

[spark otter]

Yeah!! If it explodes you lose it

In hindsight it’s a very funny animation but I remember being really proud of having saved up for that boom box

[slow wind]

so my rainbow shell is having a sale day in the shop but my ice cream shell isn’t and they’re set to the same date, is there a reason for this?

[spark otter]

Because it’s not date dependent at all

[slow wind]

ah ok thanks

[plucky crow]

Ooh I meant to say it earlier, but I got a TV from the Chest :3

[quartz kraken]

is it possible to use the reset button to try and cheat a good result out of the chest?

[novel scroll]

I guess it depends on whether or not item use/consumption/whatever is considered a major event

[quartz kraken]

And perhaps whether that event happens when you first use the item, or after the animation has completed

[pearl ore]

Very blurry picture because I couldn’t take it in time, but the Matchmaker offered me Oyajitchi as a partner! Was that possible before?

Smh Otokitchi trying to hook me up with her son

[rose python]

"Please, he is a very nice and funny man."

[pearl ore]

“He’s a sweet boy, honest…”

The irony that I’m actually trying to get these guys to become oldies

There WILL be Oyaji whether I want him or not

[pearl ore]

This is interesting because this makes him the only gender-exclusive partner, since Cheese is a girl

If it was possible before I’ve never seen it (partly because I had SO MANY BOYS on my OG connections)

[spark otter]

Yeah I think this is totally new

[plucky crow]

I'd find it hilarious if he shows up for boys too

The implication would probably be there are female ones, too...buuuut I'd prefer to interpret it as them finally allowing gay marriage <3

[pearl ore]

V4 had the Gay Mametchi glitch after all

[plucky crow]

Listen the V4 had a lot of things

I had an Androtchi marry my Ura Young Memetchi once and I vommed 💀

[pearl ore]

[plucky crow]

And then one time the matchmaker just...kept bringing me glitched Mohitamatchis??

[plucky crow]

Also my brain said this in the Hotel Mario voice

Thanks YTPs, you have successfully rotted my brain away

[summer sage]

nice of the gotchi king to invite us for a picnic, gay mametchi?

[lavish hazel]

so i just had somethign weird happen

[plucky crow]

YESS

[pearl ore]

I can’t believe I already had a picture for this

[plucky crow]

BRUHHH I THOUGHT YOU DOODLED IT REAL QUICK WTF

[lavish hazel]

i connected two of my rv3s for a gift, and one flew in, they looked at a window for a couple seconds, and then... they flew back in again? and then gave the gift

[plucky crow]

Those are little animations they do sometimes when they're really close :3

[lavish hazel]

oh interesting

i've never seen it before

[plucky crow]

Yeah the originals had them too

Very cute <3

[pearl ore]

If they’re opposite gender and have 4 hearts, they’ll kiss as well

[pearl ore]

Oh no, I accidentally gave Cheese sausage and forgot that was Mimiyoritchi’s least favorite, not their favorite 😭

Sorry buddy

[plucky crow]

"gave Cheese sausage" was hard for me to comprehend for a second

Yeah Mimiyori's fave is Melons right? :3

[pearl ore]

Correct

I got it mixed up

[plucky crow]

Me too buddy, melon-flavored things are the best

I have these fruit flavored mochi and they're so yummyyyyyyyy

[obtuse creek]

Anyone having issues with the parent refusing to leave?

[hasty plank]

the masktchi + otokitchi marriage has resulted in two oyajitchi who evolved from babies after about an hour as expected. so I guess I just take care of these old men now

[lavish hazel]

they leave at midnight following a full 24 hours

so depending on the time you have babies, they could stay for nearly 48 full hours

if you have them at 12:01

but if you have them at 11:59, it will be 24 hours and 1 minute

[obtuse creek]

Parent is still there...

[lavish hazel]

have you paused at all?

because that will stop the 24 hour counter

[obtuse creek]

Paused no but changed the time

[lavish hazel]

that is pausing

so that could be why

pause and clock set are functionally identical except you have the set the time again with clock set

both in the same manner will stop heart decay and the growth timer as well as other timed events like the parent leaving

[obtuse creek]

By just changing the time a few hours?

[lavish hazel]

how long did you leave it on clock set?

[obtuse creek]

Not long, i changed it immediately

[lavish hazel]

i have no idea then

if it has been over 24 hours they should leave at midnight tonight

[obtuse creek]

Tama is 10 years old already

[lavish hazel]

i don't know if setting is past midnight when they're supposed to leave will skip it until the next midnight

if that's what you happened to do

either way this hasn't been widely reported as a glitch

[obtuse creek]

How do they leave at midnight if they are sleeping?

[lavish hazel]

they wake up and leave

[obtuse creek]

Aaaah

[lavish hazel]

btw if you didn't know already, the clock set method works as a pause on almost every model that lacks a true pause mode

ie anything outside of the western connection series

as well as the new connections, which do not have a pause mode either

there are a select few that it does not work on, like the newest couple of generations of the color models

and it doesn't work on the digimon rereleases either

[plucky crow]

Yeah, Smart and Uni don't work for sure. I'm not sure about Pix

But it does work on On, I think...?

[lavish hazel]

people have told me it does, but i remember specifically having to send them to the app because it did not

[quartz kraken]

It works on the meets, but requires faith because the screen turns off and pressing a button brings you to the living room instead of the clock screen so you essentially can’t prove it unless you track stats or growth time

[tribal crypt]

On the color ones I think we are all used to just turning them off or take the. batteries out

[pearl ore]

Yup, seniors at age 9

My first ever oldies! I’ve never bothered trying for them before LOL

[versed flicker]

A friend just shared with me that the matchmaker brought them a Kuchipatchi who is healthy tier on V3.
I remember the matchmaker on V3 only offering lower tier characters with the middle tier being the highest she'd offer (and that was extremely rare). Did they change it on the re-release?

[pearl ore]

Matchmaker CAN bring good adults if your Tama has better “luck”

If they were a Gen 1 or the child of a connection marriage, their luck is inclined to be better

My G2s were connection children and married Debatchi & Memetchi, but their kids (matchmaker babies) only got offered Frail & Stubborn adults

So if they’re a matchmaker baby then yeah, they’re often only going to get bad adults offered

[plucky crow]

Forgot to share, but I got Tamatchi from my Oyajitchi/Paparatchi marriage, meaning he is definitely not a Normal adult as that would've gotten me a B tier toddler.

[pearl ore]

Day 3 in a row of my pink graffiti having a sale in the shop

[spark otter]

is your shop DFS or something

[kindred hamlet]

i was running my connections with the date set to february to see if any seasonal stuff happened
and i didn't get any special connection gift happen like in the keitai but today the shops on both of them had the chocolate heart as the first item

[spark otter]

Nice

Does it have the writing like the keitai or is it more like the connection sprite

[spark otter]

lovely

It’s fun that we’re still finding new items

[kindred hamlet]

first time seeing this animation too

[pearl ore]

It seems like Oldies have a different sound on the trumpet?

It sounds like they’re playing it off-key which, if that’s intentional, is pretty adorable

Also my pink graffiti’s batteries died shortly after that, I hope it doesn’t mess with him leaving the baby tonight 😖

[spark otter]

it wasn’t off key because it was low battery was it?

[pearl ore]

LOL I was wondering that myself but then I tried it with my Otokitchi that had fresher batteries and she made the same sound

They also make a different sound/rhythm on the Drum I think but it doesn’t seem as noticeable

[plucky crow]

Nah it's in the sound test as a separate thing, the Stubborn characters have the same Trumpet noise so it's supposed to be off-key like they're just playing it really badly xD

[spark otter]

I love it

[pearl ore]

That’s so cute

[versed flicker]

Make-up is on the re-release I got it from a chest twice.

Also saw someone got a shaver from a lamp. These keitai items must be EXTREMELY rare. I just opened 100 or so chest and haven't seen any. Hopefully they will eventually give us passwords for the majority of these because those odds seem unreasonably slim.

I bought the chest/lamp/fishing pole then set the time to 1 minute before it wakes up. Then I'd use the item and push reset after seeing the result (before the animation ends) and retry.

[spark otter]

Shaver??

Oh wow I just saw it in the other channel

From taetchi

I wonder how many of the other character specific items are in

Not cotton, presumably

I wonder if you can use the shaver on wooltchi to get kurokotchi

[plucky crow]

XD that'd honestly be so cool

Even if just for a second

[spark otter]

For sure

[plucky crow]

Or a day like costumes

[summer sage]

that would be funny if kurokotchi was a secret character like that

it's like a reverse keitai

[plucky crow]

Fr that'd be so cuuute

[versed flicker]

I just hope they give us passwords for them. With normal gameplay getting enough of these items to try 100 times could take up to 50+ generations. Imagine trying for a year and getting nothing

There's only 3 shop restocks in a day

[spark otter]

I’m sure there will be

[versed flicker]

It might be my imagination but the odds of seeing the chest, lamp, and fishing pole in the shop feel higher than on V3. Also the odds of getting money or a item from chest seem higher

[turbid plaza]

I'm only just noticing that Gozarutchi's closeup is different on the RV3 than on the V2, and if I'm remembering correctly the OG V3 used the same animation as the V2

V2:

RV3:

Basically the same, but flipped lol

[quartz kraken]

Like somebody saw the sprites and thought being upside down was a mistake instead of intentional

[spark otter]

https://www.spriters-resource.com/lcd_handhelds/tamagotchiconnectionversion3/sheet/136966/

Apparently the V3 flipped it for some reason

[turbid plaza]

Oh interesting

[novel scroll]

If only, if only...

[plucky crow]

Gozaru's are def like this on the V4, not sure about the V3

[plucky crow]

Oh

Lol I need to read the full chat before responding--

[pearl ore]

My pink graffiti’s battery died so he didn’t leave his baby today 😭 I decided to reset the blue one bc I want them to leave together

[jolly berry]

came here to rant about Hoops after figuring out how to win, then realizing it takes several minutes and gives just 100g, what a waste of time, what a #$% design decision

[jolly berry]

but it is really insulting

[hasty plank]

my oyajitchi has started getting the matchmaker at age 3. is that the same as the v3? I never got him on the v3.

[lavish hazel]

yes that is normal

matchmaker comes 72 hours after evolving into an adult

since oyajitchi skips the child and teen stages, that would put him at age 3

is there something about august that causes the shop to be on sale literally all the time

cause someone said that earlier and mine is the same way rn

[hasty plank]

does oyajitchi ever turn into an oldie or does the matchmaker ever stop coming for him?

[lavish hazel]

“Darts” lol

[novel scroll]

If they weren't going to change the cash yield, they really should've kept it available from the start like on the Keitai

[plucky crow]

That's one of my gripes with it

Other is that is should only be 20 points for taking so long -.- or have the speed be more consistently faster the longer it goes on

Slowly sitting there waiting for it at 29 is so painful

And then yeah, you get 100G and it was entirely worthless because Heading is faster, easier, gives more money and is available sooner :I

[pearl ore]

My oldies have taken 2 additional days to leave because the pink graffiti’s battery died, then I tried resetting the blue so she wouldn’t leave, now the pink left without her

I just wanted them to leave together smfh

[quartz kraken]

Are batteries an ongoing problem for these tamas? Not just with the cheap battery it comes with?

[kindred hamlet]

hoops is like way worse than on the keitai
on the keitai the ball had like 2 speeds depending on the current round / amount of points, and both were reasonable
also if you got past 10 points you got 2 happy hearts instead of just one, and if you got past 20 you got 3
on this version you only get 1 happy heart if you get 3-29 points and the ball can get So Slow
also they absolutely should have increased the payout, on the keitai you just needed less money in general (you only needed to buy each food item once, and you could get character and connection items for free via connection + you got money from the parents) but on the V3 100G for a finished game is just too little

[pearl ore]

This is the first time my pink one died (the original battery it came with), it seems like it’s mostly the batteries they come with that are the problem. The annoying part is how much time you lose when you HAVE to reset, you practically have to wait another day for events like evolution or parents leaving to occur even if you reset to like, 20 minutes prior

[pearl ore]

The shoes are single use apparently???

That’s so weird

[plucky crow]

Yeah I think it was fine on the Keitai cause it meant you had to work more to get stuff considering it was permanent

[plucky crow]

Whaaaaa??

You're right, they're not in my inventory anymore ;^;

[pearl ore]

I like to take pictures of my tamas using various items to remember them by before they leave and when I gave my guys the shoes they disappeared

I didn’t even think about it because when they were still adults the shoes were one of their default items that they use on their own (that doesn’t consume the item)

The shoes are single use but the roller blades are not

Make it make sense bandai

[plucky crow]

They def weren't on the OG V3 too

Sad :(

[slow wind]

is there a list of what’s single use and what’s not

[plucky crow]

Typically on the item list it mentions if it is or is not, but I think maybe adding a column for that would be nice

[slow wind]

that would super helpful

[lavish hazel]

Get 🎵 and flag are prolly my fav games

Bump is too random and rarely fills any happy hearts

Same with sprint

Get 🎵 and flag are very easy to keep up with and aren’t super long, and they reward quite a bit of gp too

[ember hearth]

Just received mine, so here is my useless research contribution: the buttons have a slight toothpaste smell 😌

[spark otter]

the rate I go through shoes irl they’re basically single use tbf

[plucky crow]

Hey all, been updating the Wiki's item page. Need some help figuring out which items are single/multiple use and what the first stage you're able to use them at is!

Ones I don't know the usage count on:

• Tama Drink
• Shaver

Ones I don't know what stage you're first able to use them at:

• Boom Box
• Darts (adult, I think?)
• Fishing Pole
• Lamp
• Music Discs
• Phonograph
• Rope
• Tickets
• Tama Drink
• Shaver
• Clock

Just trying to compile all these so we know and I can add the info to the Wiki ^^ there are quite a few here where I think I know but just wanna make sure, I can test a lot of these when I get a baby too just to see

[slow wind]

my teen cannot play with darts or tickets, he can play the boombox and fishing pole and lamp and rope (nothing happens tho) and clock and phonograph

[plucky crow]

Thank you! That def helps with the former two items

[pearl ore]

Lamp can be used at any age I believe

Idk about baby but I’ve definitely used it with kids

[plucky crow]

I love that it uses the child's upside down sprite xD like why

How, rather

[slow wind]

interestingly my teen cannot play with the music item (mp3 player) even tho he can play with the boombox and phonograph

[pearl ore]

I don’t think the kids have sitting sprites LMAO

The upside down sprite occurs when they should be doing the “sitting with mouth open” animation

[plucky crow]

I thought maybe they did on the V3? But nonetheless it was different before lol

[slow wind]

so what is the rope supposed to do

[plucky crow]

It just allows you to play the Tug-of-War connection game

But it still has an item animation when played with, just like the balloon

[plucky crow]

Hey, you said you got Make-Up, right? Have you used it and does it work the same?

As in they sometimes get shy and don't show you their close-up sprite, but the item still gets used up?

[slow wind]

ah ok that’s why the animation doesn’t do anything on one shell

[plucky crow]

Oh, Frail characters still eat slower like the Oldies, hehe

My Teketchi is Frail

[pearl ore]

Huh! Oyajitchi gets his own special bathtub

This doesn’t look like the JP bath, isn’t that one more checkered?

[kindred hamlet]

if you set the rerelease to japanese they use the checkered bath
but this one is exclusive to oyajitchi and will appear regardless of language

[pearl ore]

fancy lad with his own custom tub

[kindred hamlet]

also i noticed slow eating takes 6 bites on this one instead of 5 like on the originals

[versed flicker]

I was given make-up a few times but I didn't keep it. I was pushing reset before the animation finished to re-roll my reward.

[plucky crow]

Ohh ok, so far it seems to be chest/lamp exclusive rn anyway tho as it literally never shows up in the store

[jolly berry]

whats with the lamp? first time gives 1000G and second time makes your tama fully unhappy and then it disappears from inventory?

[pearl ore]

The lamp has a random effect. It can give you money, an item, or a rain cloud (that makes your Tama unhappy). Sometimes nothing can happen

It can be used 1-3 times (also random)

Genies can be tricky, so you never know what you’re gonna get…

High risk/high reward item. If it DOES give you an item/money it’s usually a pretty rare/expensive item or a lot of money. I once got 3000 from it

[jolly berry]

is it the same for the chest?

[pearl ore]

Chest I think has slightly better odds of giving you something good, and there isn’t an outcome where it does nothing at all unlike like the lamp.

However it can still do the thing where it turns your Tama into a baby/oldie and they lose all their happy & hungry points (they also become half their weight??? so easy weight loss trick I guess)

[plucky crow]

I don't think it gives as much Gotchi Points, either, never seen 3000 from it before o.o

I wish tho

I feel like I've seen more lamps anyways tho

[pearl ore]

Yeah, Chest doesn’t give as much but it’s more likely to give something

[plucky crow]

Hey, what are all the items you've seen through the vendor? Trying to compile a list of all those as well, I have most of the Keitai items except I haven't seen him sell Gum, Dango or Curry yet

[slow wind]

mine has sold gum multiple times

do u need the price?

[plucky crow]

Nope, just seeing which ones he sells! Thanks :3

[versed flicker]

Shovels were the worst of the V3 single use items that give rewards. Wonder if they are still trash?

Not a fan of the exclusive items only obtainable through these. They should of put them in the vendor's item selection. Instead we get visits from Ojitchi who offers the same 3 items.

[plucky crow]

All I've gotten from shovels is the usual money (very little amounts ofc), cake and snakes

No special items I don't think

Alright, all I need proven now is Dango and Curry so I can put them under the Vendor table I'm making on the Wiki page xP

[pearl ore]

I might just be lucky but I feel like I get money way more often from the shovels on these

Not much, but I don’t think I’ve seen the snake once yet

[pearl ore]

I THINK I’ve seen the dango from him before. I’ll try to get a pic if I see it again

He loves to sell me the cream puff and rope a lot

[versed flicker]

I saw make-up like twice out of 100 or so chest attempts. If it's still single use then it goes from common junk to one of the rarest items. Hopefully bandai has plans to release passwords for the majority of items

[plucky crow]

Me too? I thought I remembered that being the first time I saw Dango in general, but I can't remember.

[pearl ore]

It’s extra amusing now that I have my Oyajis

[plucky crow]

Though I can't say I've seen Curry besides in the shop

[pearl ore]

“I don’t want to buy your junk, Dad!”

[plucky crow]

"Please son they robbed me of my retirement funds and I can't make money off of anything but overpriced Escargot and Marron Cakes 😭"

Well, I'll leave Curry out until it can be proved but it'd be so weird considering it's the only Keitai food left

[lavish hazel]

you know what's interesting

given animations for items like the roller skates

it would have been totally possible for them to have smooth idle animations a la the pix/smart/uni

[plucky crow]

I mean, it might look a bit weird on an older device where you can basically see the entire grid of pixels

But that would be neat

[plucky crow]

Frail uses Umbrella idly, btw :3

[pearl ore]

Ooh thanks for that!

So:

Serious - Bow (bow tie?) and Pencil; Sings
Normal - Sunglasses and ???; Sings(?)
Naughty - Shirt and Shoes; Jump hurdles
Frail - Umbrella & Wig; Sings
Stubborn - Wings and Weights; Watch TV

Oldies & Oyajitchi don’t appear to have any idle behaviors. Bummer

[rose python]

Doing the wrong training call doesn't count as a care miss right?

[pearl ore]

Nope, only if you ignore it outright (when the attention light turns off on its own)

[tribal crypt]

They have personalities?

[pearl ore]

Not quite, these are behaviors tied to their care tier. Perfect care characters like Mimitchi and Mametchi are Serious whereas bad care characters like Gozarutchi and Masktchi are Stubborn

Every Gozarutchi will act the same but Mametchis act different than Gozarutchis, etc.

This chart here explains who’s in what tier (RV3’s is the same as V3, just without Kurokotchi. There’s only 2 odd gen Stubborn adults)

[plucky crow]

RIP, Kurokotchi

[plucky crow]

Uhm?? Hold on I just got 800G from a plant

I was at 400G~ish, and now I'm at 1200G

[lavish hazel]

does this mean the training bar is actually meaningless like weight

lol

[lavish hazel]

bring back the v2 cast it was so great

[pearl ore]

Woah!! That’s big money

[pearl ore]

Pretty much. They’re more just like quick time events to avoid getting care misses on your Tamas

[lavish hazel]

i thought i heard a while back that using the wrong option does count as a care miss

[pearl ore]

Nope! Just a misconception

I have two Oyajitchis right now and they never call for discipline because they’re already adults, so they’re just stuck at 1 training forever (because babies will do one discipline call). Lmao.

[plucky crow]

Frail idly wears wigs, too :3

[summer sage]

why do they look like goku lmao

[pearl ore]

Wigs and Umbrellas then! Now we just need to find out what the other item Normal characters use is

[plucky crow]

I'll go for Normal next on my Rainbow one since I got a Stubborn character :'3

(On purpose dw)

That...honestly makes it sound even worse xD

[slow wind]

so are the idle animations the best way to determine which type of tama you have?

[pearl ore]

Yes, but depending on their species they’re also always in the same group— Memetchi is always Normal, Bill is always Naughty, etc.

I think those are the official names of the care tiers? Because obviously they don’t want to market this cute little critter as a “bad" or “terrible” care character LOL

But saying “normal” is the same as saying “tier 2” or “almost perfect care”

[slow wind]

I received hidatchi today so I’m wondering which tier it ended up in since I’m not sure how many care mistakes I made, but they’re always a normal tama it sounds like?

[pearl ore]

Hidatchi is normal, yes

[plucky crow]

Okay just putting this here so I don't forget after my drive home from work:
Hooking a big fish does NOT increase happiness, just tested it

[slow wind]

so the adults don’t have tiers?

[pearl ore]

They do, those are just the official names for the tiers

[slow wind]

ok so serious equated to tier 1

normal is tier 2 etc

[pearl ore]

Serious = Tier 1 = Perfect Care in everything
Normal = Tier 2 = Good Care in everything
Naughty = Tier 3 = Good physical care, Bad mental care
Frail = Tier 4 = Bad physical care, Good mental care
Stubborn = Tier 5 = Bad care in everything

[kindred hamlet]

seeing how it seems like male serious characters use the bow tie and female ones use the bow / ribbon, it may be a good idea to also keep track of the genders the characters that use each item are

[pearl ore]

When I had my male Paparatchi & female Mimiyoritchi, they used the same items. I feel like bow/bow tie is the only exception and I’m still not 100% sure if it happened, I just FEEL like I saw my Violetchi use it on his own LMAO

I don’t think there are any other “gendered” items besides the doll & action figure

[kindred hamlet]

yeah i'm not Sure either
but my female chomametchi would always use the bow and never the bow tie despite having both items
and i have seen people having their serious characters use the bow tie
that's why i think more testing with more details might help clear things up

but yeah it might be an exception just for the serious tier

[plucky crow]

Bah, I wish I remembered what my male ChoMametchi played with

[rugged pulsar]

A glitch!!! I 10000% did not wrap this lmao I haven't even opened the menu where you wrap things

[novel scroll]

Oh great, another multi-use item made into single-use?!

[slow wind]

has anyone noticed that the wing item can become butterfly wings?

[quartz kraken]

Yeah, the wing design can change based on character

[slow wind]

cool just checking

[versed flicker]

That's one of my favorite things about the connections that item animations aren't just copy and paste. Each character gets it's own variation of each item.

[slow wind]

yeah it was quite the surprised when I used it on my hidatchi and he turned into a butterfly

[hasty plank]

Marrying my Oyajitchi to a Hidatchi has resulted in a Mizumatchi child, which shouldn't be possible if Oyajitchi is actually considered "normal" via marriage, right? Wasn't someone else experiencing this recently?

[plucky crow]

I just tested this out and yeah, he marries as a Stubborn adult. I need to go fix that on the Wiki page, I was busy and forgot x3

[hasty plank]

Oh good! I'm glad someone else got it too bc I'm so bad at reading the character evolution charts lol. ty for confirming!

[pearl ore]

Interesting, so they kept that from the Keitai

Because on the connections he’s treated like a Normal adult

But on Keitai he’s stubborn

This makes more sense tho cuz Oyaji has the behaviors & sleep time of a stubborn adult as well

[plucky crow]

Yeh I was gunna test it by marrying my Pyonkotchi to him and seeing if abuse gave me C tier (since Stubborn + Serious make B tier toddlers), but then I got my other one to marry Paparatchi and that basically confirmed it cause Normal + Naughty make B and Stubborn + Naughty make D

And I got a bad toddler so that was basically confirmed right away

[pearl ore]

@plucky crow You’re right, Oyajitchi doesn’t have any angry sprites LMAO

This pic makes it look like the jack in the box is angry at him

[spark otter]

Jack in the box:
Oyajitchi:

[pearl ore]

i wish i could get on that level of idgaf

[plucky crow]

[lavish hazel]

he didn't have an angry sprite on the og either

it's so weird the things they decided to change or not

[novel scroll]

I need to go check up on some Keitai vids and find out as much as I can about Oyajitchi's sprites

Happiness and sadness are definitely identical, and it tends to be the sprite used for anger

Found some V4 footage with the proper angry sprite
https://youtu.be/DcboXmQFBww?si=dxrRPakZGCHqOr7P&t=56

[lavish hazel]

isn't that his eating sprite

[novel scroll]

It's reused for a lot of things

And uh, speaking of weird sprites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRLmH4tVRQ0

[lavish hazel]

looks like he's missing a ton of sprites lol

[novel scroll]

Yeah this is one weird situation

[pearl ore]

He just likes to yell at everything

[novel scroll]

I think the V3 uses a few Entama sprites other than Mametchi's, so I don't know why they didn't sample more Oyajitchi stuff from there

At least they gave him proper sitting sprites

[pearl ore]

This is fixed on the RV3 at least (and I assume the OG V3), I had one of my guys use the toilet earlier and it just uses his proper sitting sprites

[novel scroll]

Proper closeups, too

This is particularly confusing because the Keitai came out before the V2

So I don't know why they couldn't have just given Oyajitchi a closeup on the V2 or why they felt the need to make their own sprite when they finally got around to it on the V3 (and half-arse it anyway)

Is this Oyajitchi's screaming sprite, or just a unique one specifically for the shaver animation?

[slow wind]

I can’t even comprehend what he’s supposed to be doing

it almost looks like a glitch

[spark otter]

Is this not an akai thing specifically though

I thought he didn’t have close ups on the keitai(?)

Maybe I’m misremembering

The V2 did base a lot of its sprites off the Keitai though afaik? They even used Keitai sprites in some of the promotional materials

[kindred hamlet]

the regular keitai did have close ups for oyajitchi iirc

[spark otter]

Intriguing

[storm ibex]

I tell you hwaht, i tried going for an average care character, even fed them less and made sure their happy bar had 2-3 empty slots. I won 2 bump sessions and it gave me mimitchi.

[lavish hazel]

just ignore it for a day and remember, getting perfect games reverses care mistakes

[kindred hamlet]

messing with the dates a bit more, found the halloween animation
this one is in jpn so it seems to follow the V3 holidays regardless of language

also my male memetchi used the sunglasses, this debatchi is also male and i've never seen him use the sunglasses so far
i'll wait a bit more and see if i see them use an item on their own

maybe it's not gender but like, the specific character

[quartz kraken]

Is the care tier of the character already ruled out?

[kindred hamlet]

no, we've seen the same item used by more than one character in the same tier
but not by two characters of different tiers

[lavish hazel]

babies can use the chest item

i got a bow

interesting that as far as that goes (and allowing connection at the baby stage as well) it seems to be closer to the v3 than the keitai

[versed flicker]

It would of been interesting if the default foods helped to influence which adult you get. Rather than it being a 3-way 33.3% tie. Although that would ruin the surprise which is a major reason why I love V2/V3.
It always felt weird having 8 default foods.

[novel scroll]

It'd give them an incentive

On the Keitai and Akai at least, there were those snacks that couldn't be eaten before a certain stage

[plucky crow]

Apparently the Matchmaker can bring the same Tamagotchi as yours to marry xD

My lil pineapple is better at practicing self-love than I am 💀

[pearl ore]

I love the tama self-ships LOL

[pearl ore]

It seems like babies no longer have to wait for when their parents wake up to start raising them? My new babies were already awake but their parents were both Oyajitchi who wakes up at 10 AM

I remember that being the case before, that when a parent leaves the baby wakes up the following day at the same time the parent would have

I might just be making that up though LOL

[spark otter]

My one is finally being delivered

Jesus Christ what a stupid delay

I’ll check the version number when it arrives in case there was any sort of special reason why it took this long

[plucky crow]

Which one did you get?

[slow wind]

I believe I just saw hidatchi’s least fav food reaction from ice cream, if anyone else wants to confirm this

[plucky crow]

Yep! I had Hidatchi and had the same reaction

It's up on the Wiki already; unfortunately because the Drumstick was their fave on the og V3 and it's not on the RV3, we still don't know their favorite food.

Though I did notice a pattern of all the instances of the Fish meal having previously been favorites/least favorites being replaced with Cheese, so I'm wondering if they did the same. Drumstick was only there for two characters, though, Hidatchi's fave and Kuchipatchi's least fave.

[slow wind]

ah ok I thought it was missing last time I looked

mine is a father so he’s about to leave sometime soon but I’ll keep trying stuff

[wet mesa]

Wait, they don't?

[lavish hazel]

japanese game companies don't like "cheating" and i wouldn't be surprised if that's what bandai jp considers pausing to be

in general they don't like you playing games in ways that they don't explicitly intend (glitching/time travel/etc)

nintendo is notorious for this esp with animal crossing

if they thought they could get away with banning you from a single player game for cheating, i wholly believe they would

[lavish hazel]

they went the extra mile with the digimon 20th, even the clock method doesn't work lol

[kindred hamlet]

christmas season shop items
also i noticed my debatchi never used an item as in idle animation despite having both the sunglasses (my memetchi used those) and the cap (someone posted their debatchi using the cap as an idle animation)

[spark otter]

Nice

[spark otter]

Clear Retro iirc

[plucky crow]

Sweet! I can probably add those to the Wiki page

What are the item names?

[kindred hamlet]

whole cake and turkey

but i can take a pic tomorrow

[plucky crow]

Oki, are they available during a certain range of dates or just one?

[kindred hamlet]

range but i still need to test the specific ones
i let it sit on the same date for a while to check the idle animations
i can confirm the talking tree animation is there

[plucky crow]

Does the Whole Cake also show up on your set birthday?

[kindred hamlet]

oh, haven't tested that one yet! i was gonna go for new years next since it would be chronological order
but i guess i skipped right over my birthday when i changed the date from halloween to christmas

and i guess thanks giving
i think

when was that again lmao

[plucky crow]

Sorry, I'd test it myself if I weren't doing all the V4.5 stuff rn xD

[plucky crow]

It's kinda fluid, 4th Thursday in November each year I believe?

[kindred hamlet]

i remember something like that
but i guess without a year setting they can't know the exact date

[plucky crow]

Yeah it's probably either a range or on a specific day

Dang, I can't find any info on it at all x.x

[spark otter]

I posted this a few weeks ago but this is what it is on the V3

• CHOCOLATE (Feb 14, Nov 14)
• COOKIE (Mar 12, Oct 14)
• CAKE (Dec 23, Dec 24, secret code)
• TURKEY (Dec 23, Dec 24, Dec 25)
• NOODLES (Mar 14, May 14)
• YOGURT (birthday)

I suspect it’s the same on this version

[plucky crow]

December for the Turkey? Thanksgiving is in November o3o

[spark otter]

Yeah but people eat turkey on Christmas

[plucky crow]

True true, there's just a lot of people on old threads mentioning they show up around Thanksgiving time

I'll probably just check all the days in November as well just to see

[spark otter]

the turkey animation appears around thanksgiving

But not in the shop

[plucky crow]

Ohhh

[spark otter]

I think there’d be something really funny about both happening at once

Like getting the turkey animation and then going to the shop and seeing that

[plucky crow]

💦

That was fast, Mr. Shopkeeper

[spark otter]

These are the V3 seasonal animations, for reference

[plucky crow]

Does the Keitai have holiday animations, too?

[spark otter]

I’m not sure but Ale will know

[kindred hamlet]

https://curlour.neocities.org/en/tmgc/ktama/eventos#Seasonal

i will update the site soonish to add the entama miniguide
i just gotta translate it to english

but yeah those are the keitai ones

[pearl ore]

I love that Mizutamatchi’s sleep sprite is just. b l o b

[spark otter]

it’s arrived already

[kindred hamlet]

ok so my debatchi finally decided to use the sunglasses lmao
still never used the cap tho, and i did see someone have their debatchi use the cap as an idle animation

[kindred hamlet]

both the cake and the turkey will appear in the shop from the 23rd to the 25th of december
the cake is called "whole cake" and the turkey is just called turkey
in jpn the names are ホールケーキ and まるまるターキー

[kindred hamlet]

everything seems to match this list (except the cake will also appear on christmas), and the prices are also the same as in the V3

a singular "moodle"

[pearl ore]

it’s just one really long one coiled up into a bowl

[spark otter]

I don’t usually have any issue distinguishing their M and N but that one really does look like moodle

[sour shore]

not even tamas can escape moodle

[pearl ore]

🐮 🍜

[quartz kraken]

It’s super subtle
Middle column with two upper pixels : M
Middle column with all 3 pixels: N
Middle column with two bottom pixels: W

[spark otter]

Yeah

[plucky crow]

Added all of them to the page :3

[plucky crow]

Alright, every single item has a price on the Wiki page now except the Bldg Block, if anyone knows how much that costs!

[plucky crow]

Hey all, did we find out yet what the Shaver does?

[spark otter]

I don’t think so

[plucky crow]

Dang, I wonder if it really is exclusive to Oyajitchi

You know, I guess if he has extra sprites for that item exclusively, I suppose that might explain the absence of middle/angry sprites

[kindred hamlet]

i have the shaver on one of mine, can't use it with my debatchi
i wish i got it earlier when i had oyajitchi

[plucky crow]

Male Debatchi?

[kindred hamlet]

yeah!

i thought gender might have something to do with it but i guess not

[plucky crow]

Yeah that's what I thought too which is why I asked

So it's probably just an Oyajitchi-exclusive item

Anyone else got the Tama Drink, too? Trying to find out which stage it's first usable with

Baby stage wouldn't make sense because it always gets sick twice at specific times

[pearl ore]

I have the tama drink, I would assume you could probably start using it at child stage

If I get a second one I’ll test

[plucky crow]

Yeah presumably, I'd say it'd be good to test it as a baby too just in case

Also lots of questions today: what's the third time that shops reset on the RV3? I've got 3:00pm and 7:00pm, 9:00pm used to be on the page but I tested that and 12:00AM and neither worked.

[pearl ore]

I think it’s just when the tama wakes up

[plucky crow]

Didn't work on my Rainbow one just now :<

Nor my Pearl Flower

And 3PM change just worked, so I'm really not sure xD

[spark otter]

Mine’s 00.0, so no new version for the UK at least

There’s definitely some oddities already and the screen contrast is painful

But I’m getting some nice nostalgia from it already

[spark otter]

Huh, a sale’s just started

It wasn’t a sale earlier, do sales start at weird times? I think this one must have started around 10pm

[lavish hazel]

Has anyone tried to use the shaver on wooltchi

Since it’s a homage to the keitai, and the v3 roster normally having both wooltchi and kurokotchi

It would be neat it worked in reverse to the keitai and kurokotchi was a a secret character

Unlikely but

His removal was deliberate and I can’t see it being for no reason

[plucky crow]

I mean I thought I explained it before tho xD he's the same character, especially on the Keitai where it was a transformation. So I think to Japanese audiences, it'd be weird seeing him twice. Plus they probably made some room for Ringotchi, Ichigotchi and all the other stuff by removing him so it was a net gain for them

Obviously speculation, unless Bandai says it outright we don't know why he was removed. But that's the most reasonable explanation to me

Not that we haven't literally seen duplicates of characters before, even on newer Tamas xP

[lavish hazel]

That’s why I asked if the shaver might turn wooltchi into kurokotchi

[plucky crow]

It would be a bit silly

[lavish hazel]

Reverse to how it was on the keitai

[plucky crow]

I mean, we can try but that'd be crazy

I haven't got the Shaver or Wooltchi yet tho

[quartz kraken]

Personally I don’t think “kurokotchi/wooltchi is the same character in lore” is a convincing enough reason
The matchmaker lets you marry another of the same character, and I think you can encounter yourself in vs games as well? I don’t think they’re particularly concerned with narrative justifications

I’m more inclined to think it’s a “dark humanoid with pink lips” thing, even though you could argue it’s not consistently enforced (tokonatchi maybe gets plausible deniability by having tama beak lips)

[plucky crow]

Wooltchi literally has the same face though...

That argument doesn't make sense to me either

[quartz kraken]

Yeah, but by having the body of a cartoon sheep it might remove it enough from the worst implications

[plucky crow]

I think Bandai JP is just weird and wants to make it clear Wooltchi and Kurokotchi are the same character, even though it really doesn't make much sense considering how many other cases of transformation/costume characters being separate entities before

I mean, I could just cut it off too at "Bandai JP is just weird" xD who knows why

[quartz kraken]

I don’t necessarily agree with it, but it’s the sort of decision I could see being made if Bandai US had some oversight

[plucky crow]

Maybe they just don't like Kurokotchi

[plucky crow]

Then it really doesn't make sense why he's in Adventure Kingdom

[quartz kraken]

Oh is he? lol

[plucky crow]

Mhm! I haven't played enough to see any quests with him, but I think he probably puts on his Wooltchi outfit to be more confident cause he's really shy

[quartz kraken]

Could always be different departments who don’t talk to each other, or the decision of an individual who doesn’t have a say in other areas

Whatever the real reason is, i don’t think it really holds up to any scrutiny

[plucky crow]

It is sort of a weird case cause Adventure Kingdom is the UK team, I think...?

[quartz kraken]

I think Adventure Kingdom is done by a random European game company, it’s not an in-house Bandai thing

[plucky crow]

I mean yeah I agree, I don't understand why they'd get rid of him in the first place, just that my first thought was "oh, it's cause Wooltchi was there and he's been there since V2 in the US, but he's a costume on the Keitai so it's an odd situation where both are there"

[quartz kraken]

Bandai would have some amount of creative control but TAK takes a lot of creative liberties with characterisation, in some ways pushing boundaries that official media doesn’t touch

[plucky crow]

I mean, they still went with calling Uranaitchi by her Japanese name rather than her now perogative English one

So they do pay attention to those things at least

*pejorative, haha autocorrect

[quartz kraken]

https://www.alikestudio.com
Barcelona, Spain

[plucky crow]

Oh, strange. I def thought it was UK but that makes a bit more sense why some English names are weird like Taiyoutchi

Well rather why they didn't use some English ones VS Japanese ones

[quartz kraken]

A pet peeve of mine has been how inconsistent they’ve been with translating/localizing character names lately, pretty much since the “western revival” starting with the On

Arbitrary choices of which words get translated vs transliterated, condensing names for the sake of char limits on tama screens, and errors which are so obvious if you think about the context

[plucky crow]

Yeah, the Uni has been a disaster in that sense xD

Esp the Angel/Monster characters

[quartz kraken]

Eg a pizza ballerina called “pizzalinatchi” instead of “pizzarinatchi”, it’s right there come on

[plucky crow]

That's why I was constantly asking what their real names were xD

[quartz kraken]

I don’t envy them with some of the downloadable character names, they can get super verbose

[plucky crow]

Not even, it's Pizalinatchi xD

Cause of the dumb name limit

Which like...Pizzainatchi is just fine xD

Get rid of the L/R issue

And fits the name limit

[quartz kraken]

The one that really irks me is renaming characters from earlier times, like YoungDrotchi

[plucky crow]

She is no longer Italian cuisine but a leaning tower

[plucky crow]

UGH THEY'VE EVEN DOUBLED DOWN ON IT WITH THE PIX AND UNI

[quartz kraken]

Cos now they just look at whatever the name was on the previous device and use that

[plucky crow]

And now calling Dorotchi Drotchi, HE DOESNT EVEN SUFFER FROM A CHARACTER LIMIT IT'S 4 LETTERS

[quartz kraken]

It gets even worse, the connection rerelease website uses “shiroteletchi” and “kuroteletchi” even though they’re red and blue not black and white - those have only ever been fan names that came from the sprite colors and naming conventions of previous babies. In Japan it’s still Teletchi (boy) and Teletchi (girl)

I’m pretty sure someone just looked at the tamagotchi wiki and didn’t question it

[plucky crow]

Yeah that's always been so odd to me, I wonder where they got those translations

Or missed the memo on Androtchi's official English name being Androtchi xD

And not Robotchi like his Japanese name

He was on literally almost every version y'all

Speaking of, I hope to get him on one of my RV3s soon uwu or maybe my V4

Or Music Star ahh

[quartz kraken]

I like the name “robotchi” better 🙊 it’s easier to say

[tribal crypt]

I can understand they shortened young dorotchi to fit smaller text
But dorotchi itself is changed why
They did my boy so wrong

[spark otter]

tbh they definitely didn’t remove a character for space reasons

Character sprites and data are really unlikely to take up that much space and I’m doubtful that space would be an issue at all in current year

[plucky crow]

But is it "Roh-boh-tchi" or "Roh-bah-tchi" xD

[plucky crow]

Idk, maybe they used the original V3 code as a basis and were just writing over things

[quartz kraken]

Robot chi

[spark otter]

Definitely not

[plucky crow]

Yooo my Rainbow Sky one was evolving into Pirorirotchi, the battery ran out right when it happened and when I put a new one in to start it again, it evolved into Nikatchi this time xD

[pearl ore]

Good to know evolution re-roll still works LMAO

[plucky crow]

Yeah you just have to catch it during the flashing of the evolution

Cause that's right when it ran out

My favorite thing too is he went right to sleep cause Normal teens don't wake up till 10am and it was 9:45 when he evolved 💀

Evolution takes a lot out of a poor toddler 😔

[pearl ore]

LMAO my kids did that too, they evolved into Pirorirotchi around 9:30

[slow wind]

woah so does that mean you’re able to get any tama from the tier they’re about to evolve to if u remove the battery at the right time

[pearl ore]

Not even, you can just reset

It’s a trick that was in the originals too

[slow wind]

I never played a connection before so I’m not familiar with all the tricks

[pearl ore]

You could even do it and get a better tier character (by playing a game and reversing care mistakes) BUT the timing is very specific

[slow wind]

how specific

[pearl ore]

You have to do it while the flashing/checkered evolution animation is playing, you essentially have to reset the second you see them transform or else it’ll be too late

So I’d say you have… maybe a half second to do it?

[lavish hazel]

I don’t mind this change tbh

They appear black or white on the LCD so it’s whatever

Having the same name for what is essentially two distinct characters is confusing

Back on the Osu/Mesu where Teletchi came from there was no kuroteletchi

[slow wind]

so you play a game right before evolution time and then reset?

[pearl ore]

If you see an adult you don’t want, reset THEN play a game (or multiple games, depending on how many care misses you want to reverse). Then they should become something better

It’s not going to be an instantaneous thing though because sometimes when you reset you could lose hours of progress

[slow wind]

oh so more like, if you see the adult it’s going to evolve into while it’s flashing hit reset cause I assume reset doesn’t work once it’s evolved

[pearl ore]

Correct

You gotta reset BEFORE the animation finishes

https://sa311.tumblr.com/post/694490931645300736/tamagotchi-connection-retrying-a-growth this guide can explain it better than I can

[slow wind]

good to know! I was trying to get decotchi on my current run and ended up with hidatchi so I’m glad there’s a method to change who u get

did curlour discover this by chance? or was it know about before

[pearl ore]

Not sure. @kindred hamlet Was the evolution retry thing something you discovered by accident or did you hear about it from someone else?

Seems like it’s still possible on the RV3

[kindred hamlet]

i think back when i still considered the possibility of evolution not being random NeoMametchi sent me a message mentioning the method and how the character would change even if nothing was done differently
i was going to use the method to try and check some of the growth chart again with this new release, but since it does not save progress upon waking up like the og connections it wouldn't have been as fast

[lavish hazel]

my store seems to be constantly on sale

[spark otter]

Interesting

I’ve already lucked out in having a ticket appear during a sale

[lavish hazel]

the tickets also appear more-than-rarely for me as well lol

i don't want to say commonly, but i wouldn't call them rare either

[spark otter]

I wonder if it’d be worth recording the frequency of items in the shop and seeing if there’s any patterns

[lavish hazel]

tbh i wouldn't be surprised if it's entirely random

[pearl ore]

I keep praying I’ll get the TV on sale one day LOL

It’s the last expensive item I’m missing

[plucky crow]

This probably doesn't work on the new ones because when I started mine back up, it immediately started the evolution again

But it is nice still if you're in a certain tier and you really want a specific character

[pearl ore]

I see I see, good to know

[lavish hazel]

i know on the originals evolution, connection, and waking from sleep were the checkpoints

idk what they are on the rv3 but i know every time i reload my tama has empty hearts across the board

idk if it was like that on the original

[slow wind]

did u mean remake?

[lavish hazel]

no

wait yes

[pearl ore]

It just showed up in my store today. It’s 800G!

[plucky crow]

Awesome, thank you! Same as the V3 then xD

[tulip canyon]

Anyone know what type of character you have when the idle animation is sipping tea / coffee?

[quartz kraken]

Do you have a photo of it?

[novel scroll]

Immediately as in you didn't have to wait for a minute to pass before it attempted to evolve?

[kindred hamlet]

there is no coffee / tea animation, just a brushing teeth one
on the og v3 only serious, normal and frail adults would brush their teeth

[tulip canyon]

is that what’s she’s doing here? Brushing teeth??

My mistake lol

[quartz kraken]

Ah yep, that’s the teeth brushing animation Ale mentioned

[tulip canyon]

Ooohhhh, so I have one of those three types. Hmmmm, I guess serious bc I don’t think I made any care mistakes. Thanks for the help!

[pearl ore]

Yup, Mametchi is Serious

[lavish hazel]

is there documentation for the names of the different care tiers?

serious, frail, etc

[kindred hamlet]

the names of the tiers are frequently mentioned explicitly in the japanese guides for the plus line
well, the first plus version and the keitai series specifically
since the entama doesn't really have care tiers

i don't think there was really any consistent official english names for them
i just translated the original japanese names in my guides and those are the ones that stuck i guess

the patent had different english names, but it's not something that the user was meant to see
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/60/4b/50/52936973f7ef27/US08545324-20131001-D00004.png

then the V2 and V3 charts that iirc come directly from bandai use different terms to describe some of the characters
https://www.tamatalk.com/special/images/tamacharacters_v3_tamatalk.gif

i used the terms used in this later chart, except average
i don't remember why but i went with normal for that one

i noticed that the sprite for the low battery screen looks different on the rerelease (aside from not blinking)

the cross looks more symmetrical in the middle and the battery itself is a little longer

for reference

[slow wind]

I like the patent names, earnest, ordinary, mischievous especially

[spark otter]

Ooh I thought it looked off centre, weird

[lavish hazel]

I always thought it was strange how they didn’t give some of the osu mesu characters updated artwork

Actually this chart is just weird in general

A couple are using their vintage artwork despite having updated artwork

And some are missing sprites

[deep forge]

Oh wow the old battery symbol is missing a pixel!

[rose python]

Why he like that

[kindred hamlet]

that's what ordinary, well balanced characters look like

[urban pier]

that screenshot is so funny omg

that's me when my boss asks how I am

[spark otter]

Still outraged they took this from us

[urban pier]

Is that maskutchi

[spark otter]

Yeah

[lavish hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/not-fine-say-youre-really-gif-22813981

[quartz kraken]

“Traumatized in childhood”

[pearl ore]

Weird thing I noticed: Sometimes when visiting another tama, they make a different sound and have a wavy jump instead of the usual dash cloud? This happens in both PRESENT and VISIT. I’ve never seen it happen before and wonder if it’s unique to Frail characters.

First video: Hashizoutchi making the usual jump sound
Second video: Hanatchi making altered jump sound

They’re also a boy & a girl so I wonder if the sound is related to their relationship increasing (as in, the interaction with the altered jump sound is one that will increase the relationship). But I’ve had other boy/girl pairings before so I’m thinking it might just be because they’re Frail.

I don’t normally get Frails so if this is something that was on the older devices I’ve never noticed it before. 😝

[spark otter]

The jump sprite depends on which group they’re in yeah

iirc I noticed the same thing on the V1 and initially thought it was a version difference

[pearl ore]

That’s so cool, I love the little touches they add

[kindred hamlet]

on the og V1 - V3 frail and stubborn characters would have the wavy lines when jumping to connect, i thought this was to show their jumps are weaker

[pearl ore]

That’s what I was thinking! A weaker jump because of their personality

I almost never get Frail or Stubborn characters so this is a new discovery for me. Super neat touch!

[kindred hamlet]

the sound used to be the same though iirc

[pearl ore]

Also it doesn’t seem to happen all the time, sometimes they do the normal jump and sometimes they do the weak jump

[kindred hamlet]

i Think i remember
on the og V3 the visit function would use the same jump for everyone
or that there was something off about it at least but i don't remember exactly how

[plucky crow]

Is the Boom Box just supposed to explode without playing any music when using a CD...? It literally didn't do anything

[sour shore]

it exploded on me even when i used cd. it did play music before that

[lavish hazel]

Another very niche detail to pay attention to and yet oyajitchi’s closeup is broken

I really wonder what the process of designing these things was like

[spark otter]

I mean i can fully understand what happened with oyajitchi, even though there's a lot of attention to detail

[pearl ore]

Hanatchi’s sleep sprite HELP

she gone

[summer sage]

she's secretly playing on her DS under there

[rose python]

I hope she knows that if you're playing some of the Mario games, Mario will go "Bye bye!" if you close the DS

[formal cove]

Apologies if it's been discussed but I've been away and only just got my hands on it, but is the growth chart the same as the V3?

[pearl ore]

Pretty much except Kurokotchi is removed (so there’s only two bad care adults on odd gens) and Ringotchi & Ichigotchi were added (perfect care teens on odd & even gens)

[formal cove]

ok cool thank you

[spark otter]

don’t like how they’ve released in the US, UK and Japan but still haven’t released any codes

Are they waiting for Europe? Or for something else?

It’s been like a month and a half since the release and over three months since they made the website and it’s been pretty much untouched the entire time

If they give us a souvenir code at a rate of once every two months they can keep this Connection going for like 6 years 🤪

[kindred hamlet]

ikr??? what are they waiting for
also since the rom is the same i assume the date format is still month/day on the UK version, right?
that's not gonna be very intuitive for the average european user

[spark otter]

yeah unless they're doing another version for when it releases in mainland europe, dunno

[flint seal]

Hiii! Sorry for the question but its still something ive not understood quite yet : is feeding snack for happiness bad? like even if your tama get to weight 99g, will you get bad care character?. cause the games increase happiness only if you reach a high score ive found

[harsh bough]

From what i hear no, weight doesnt factor in as care mistakes

Having 99g weight could be beneficial if you want to perfect that bump game

[flint seal]

Thank you!

[quartz kraken]

Does weight factor into health at all? eg more likely to get sick/die?

[pearl ore]

Nope

[versed flicker]

@kindred hamlet Care misses are reset upon evolution on V2/V3 right?

[kindred hamlet]

Yep

[lavish hazel]

higher/lower weight does affect the outcome probabilities of a couple of the games though

so it isn't entirely meaningless but it doesn't affect care no

[plucky crow]

Honestly I think it's only Bump xD the other games aren't really affected

I was thinking maybe Sprint was too but I've won at 99g before

[lavish hazel]

ah interesting

on the v2 it affects jump and bump

i thought it affected sprint as well

[plucky crow]

Yeah it was a little more prominent on the V2

[lavish hazel]

i thought it also affected heading?

your tama will move more sluggishly if their weight is higher iirc

holy crap heading is incredibly easy on the rv3

[spark otter]

I love Heading now

[lavish hazel]

i just played it for the first time lol on the v2 it was so annoying

[spark otter]

Friendship ended with SLOTS
Now HEADING is my favourite game

Bump is a lot more fun (read: $$$) than I remember it being too

[lavish hazel]

bump is a battery killer if the sound is on

[spark otter]

Memory is still not worth the time investment

Hoops is outrageous

[lavish hazel]

every single time an rv3 has died on me it has ALWAYS been while playing bump

[spark otter]

That’s incredible

[lavish hazel]

we need to survey that

[spark otter]

They bump too hard and the battery becomes loose

[lavish hazel]

lol

get 🎵 takes a little too long but it's fine

i like bump for the mindless gameplay and to see all the different character sprites

[lavish hazel]

hoops being a direct rip from the keitai without adjustments for the v3 economy is unacceptable

[spark otter]

More like Poops

[lavish hazel]

the salesman also being a direct rip from the keitai without ajdustments for the v3 economy is also unacceptable

[kindred hamlet]

they actually made the happy heart payout worse

[lavish hazel]

i wish we could disable him

[lavish hazel]

for most of the games i've noticed you don't get happy hearts unless you get damn near perfect

[spark otter]

I like that he’s there but it would’ve been nice if the things he sold were a little more unique rather than “I sell the most Japanese things that the shop already sells”

[lavish hazel]

you mean escargot right

you need escargot

[spark otter]

Oh that’s so true

Actually I don’t think he’s sold me that yet

But he really wants me to buy his Marron Cake