OM21: Global Tamagotchi Updates! NEW COLOR TAMAGOTCHI

Welcome, everyone! With the new month of October comes many exciting new updates to the Tamagotchi world...

NEW TAMAGOTCHI COLOR COMING SOON IN JAPAN

Prepare to meet the...

Tamagotchi iD

With many thanks to Binary of Tama-Zone for breaking the news, Tarokaja for providing the info, and !Gotchi-Gotchi! for translating the name.

While not shown on the official Japanese website, a new Tamagotchi model is on its way to Japanese retailers. A rough translation of the Japanese site says the following: (Careful: This translation is rough, so not all information may be correct.)

New communication system that you'll want to show off!
New for Tamagotchi:
* Changeable accessory (shell?)
* Characters personality can be altered.
* You can keep the same character forever.
* You can overwrite existing games and items with new ones by downloading them.

New Tamagotchi Memory
* Change accessories to make your our Lovelitchi
* Download items from DekaTama
* Download new minigames through Cell Phone
* Download new wallpaper through Cell Phone
* It's lots more fun to connect Tamagotchis to each other

Whatever you want to download, you can download to make this into your original Tamagotchi.
* Unlike older Tamagotchi models, you can download data and overwrite as many times as you like.

As you customise more and more, you'll become attached to your character.
Instead of aging quickly from baby to adult. Now there's a friend stage. That's when you can use the new download function and influence their personality.

Improved Tamagotchi lifestyle!
Your Tamagotchi can go to a restaurant, go to a photo studio. In your garden, there's a mailbox for receiving letters.

The newest addition to the Tamagotchi family will be released on Tamagotchi's 13th birthday, November 23rd. Start saving up!

Meanwhile, the newest English language model, Tamagotchi Music Star: World Tour Edition, has yet to appear ...

Tamagotchi Music City: October Item

For the month of October, talking to MemePapatchi in the Park will give you the October theme item, Big Pumpkin! Go grab one before the end of the month!



New Tamagotchi Anime in Japan!

A new Tamagotchi animated series, simply titled Tamagotchi!, will be airing this month in Japan. The series appears to focus on Mametchi and his friends spending time in a Hollywood-like town, meeting celebrities and having adventures.

Some returning characters include Mametchi, Memetchi, Kuchipatchi, Makiko, Flowertchi, KuroMametchi, ChaMametchi, and Kikitchi. Four new characters will be introduced as well. One of them is Lovelitchi, a white cotton-ball like character who appears to be a famous celebrity. The other three's names have yet to be translated.

Unlike the original animated series, episodes will be half an hour with two stories each (not any different from American animated cartoons, such as Spongebob). Currently, a dub of the new anime has yet to be announced.

Click here for the official Japanese page focusing on the new anime!

New Tamagotchi DS Game!

Announced with the new anime is a tie-in Nintendo DS game. Info is currently You can check it out here.

Thanks for reading, and check back often for more information as it comes!

OM21: Tamagotchi Music City Tips, Part 3: Weekly Competitions

OsuMesu21 here, with tips on how to be the number one star in Music City! Since Music City is one of the biggest things to happen to Tamagotchi, I thought it'd be great to help other users make the most of the newest Tamagotchi experience.

Today, we'll be discussing one of the most exciting aspects of Music City: The weekly competitions!

What is it?
Every week, Tamagotchi Music City holds a musical competition to see which band is the best, both in music and in popularity. There are plenty of prizes too!

How do I sign up? When does it take place?
Registration for the competitions is available every week, from Monday to Friday. The competition game will be available to play from Saturday to Sunday.

To register, visit the Concert Hall in Downtown, and head over to the Registration desk, where you'll see Rosetchi.

Once you've talked to her and registered, you will receive a letter in your inbox with the competition information.

What do I need to be allowed to register?
All you need to do is be logged in as any character and have a CD featured. That's it!

How do I play the game?
First, you must wait until Saturday for the game to be available! When the competition has officially begun, you will see the two big doors in the Concert Hall open.

Once you walk through the doors, it will show you this:

There are two ways to start the game: one with flashing animations in the background, and one without. The second option's typically for users with slower computers.

After clicking Start, it will show you a little intro, and then present you with your judges. Whichever judges you get will determine how difficult the game will be.

The "Gotchi King Family" (Gotchi King, Gotchi Queen, and Princess Tamakoko) and the "Music Star Judges" (Don Big Boss Gotchi, Bill, and Glasuntchi), for example, are the "toughest", as their patterns go all over the screen.

The "Teachers" (Mr. Turtlepedia, Principal Mimizu, and both male and female Puchioyatchi) and the "Reporters" (Reportchi, Guidetchi, and Depagatchi) are the easiest, with patterns only coming from the left and right side of the screeen.

And for moderate difficulty, meaning patterns from all sides but in smaller groups, the judges are the "Paparazzi" (male and female Scooptchi, and female Paparatchi), and the "Celebrities" (Teitokutchi, Tonotchi, and Elizabethtchi).

Of all of these, the Gotchi King Family will give you the highest possible score - the maximum possible combo is 59, giving a score of 6780!

The game starts off looking like this:

On the top left is your score meter. To the bottom right is the judges. In the top right is the clock, and on the bottom left is the "Excitement Meter". In the background, your featured CD will play corresponding with the time.

In the center, you have four directional buttons and long bars. Small dots will appear sliding along those bars and hit the arrows, and when they do, the arrow will change color - from yellow to pink. Your objective is to hit these buttons once they change colors. You may hit them either by pressing the corresponding directional key on your keyboard, or by clicking on the arrow with your mouse.

If you hit the arrow at just the right moment, you will get "GREAT" from the judges. This starts off a combo, and if you keep it going, your score will skyrocket. With each hit in a combo, the Excitement Meter will start to fill up. Once it's filled, the stage will light up, and your score will go much higher!


Once the game is over, the judges will show you your final score and voice their opinion on your performance. Afterward, you can leave or do whatever you like, or head back in and try the game again for a better score. Remember, try to get a high score on both Saturday and Sunday to insure being on the top 30!

What about voting?
This part is much more difficult than the game itself! Once you're in the competition, fans can vote for their favorite band. To vote for a band, talk to Monsieur Kikipapa, who stands right next to Rosetchi at the desk.


(I've blocked out other user's names for privacy reasons.)

You will be given a list of some of the bands in the current competition. You can scroll through the list by holding your mouse over the up or down directional arrows, and if you want to see more bands, press the "Reload" button on the bottom of the list, and new bands will appear.

When you want to check out a band, just click on them. You will be shown that band, plus an opposing band. You'll be able to see how many votes each band has had, and you can listen to their featured CD. From there, you can choose to vote for one of them, or exit and look for other bands.

You can vote for bands starting on Saturday, and ending on Thursday. (although, you can vote on Friday too, but it's completely pointless...)

Is there anything else that influences my score?
Yes, there is! How many users visit your apartment and listen to your CD have an impact on your final score. After you compete, on the days leading up to Friday, you should do your best to become well-known in the Tamagotchi Music City community. People visiting your room and listening to your music have just as much influence on your score as actually voting!

So what happens on Friday?
Once the clock strikes midnight and the competition has finished, you will receive a letter in your inbox telling you how you placed in the competition. Also, once you've finished reading it, your trophy (if you earned one) will appear in your item inventory. Head over to the Concert Hall and talk to Rosetchi to receive your cash prize.

The third, second, and first place winners will also be featured in Gotchi Records!


Also, to see more results, visit the Concert Hall and check out the machine called "Result". It will tell you who placed first through tenth place. There's also a "Special" category, but I don't know what it means...

And one final note. In your apartment, hanging from the top right of your room, is a monitor wearing a crown. If you click on it, it'll show your competition history: which competitions you participated in, who was in your band, and what place you've earned. You can view other people's results by visiting their apartment and clicking on theirs.

Please vote for me! This week, I'm working hard to place first, so please vote for me, and come check out my apartment!

~OsuMesu21

OM21: Tamagotchi Music City Login Codes

Because everybody's been asking, here's a list of Music City login codes, from this topic on Tamatalk:

Boy
Petitchi (boy)___RIKKI__C21D50B 5ADDF82
Kuribotchi_______GRANT__E2B0E59 434C21B
Kuchitamatchi____RIKKI__B636C29 189FB90
Kikitchi_________RENEE__B506A72 6E83729
Hinotamatchi_____JUANC__18A420D 1A18223
Nonopotchi_______RIKKI__F2A6542 5ACBF96
Mametchi_________MELMO__388B067 71D02CD
Kuromametchi_____RENEE__82A90E1 6BF61B6
Shimashimatchi___MELMO__8F1F506 059B5C1
Togetchi_________JADE___EED95D6 2D97ECA
Kuchipatchi______SORA?__10DA3C9 0A7DBBF
Dorotchi_________WAWA___79484D4 C002F3D
Tarakotchi_______MENG___8ED3D8C ECCAF32
Androtchi________RIKKI__D15CF80 47ACEC7
Gozarutchi_______MENG___9CAB5B6 AB80B43
Tosakatchi_______MEME___FAF9703 5BDEC30
Ojitchi__________MENG___0D53DAF A18FBC5
Rexitchi_________WAWA___FFA24A7 C301F44

Girl
Petitchi (girl)__RIKKI__846B92F 74FFD83
Hitodetchi_______RIKKI__9204F29 1299B0F
Tamatchi_________EQU____D67B1FC 33EF818
Chamametchi______WRATH__D9ED679 53A4DA3
Ichigotchi_______WRATH__1C3433A 0BF0BA8
Ringotchi________RIKKI__7276804 1896B94
Mimitchi_________OLGA!__54C5348 367DDC5
Chantotchi_______TOM!!__C1B716F 7631F43
Memetchi_________DG L___B6C2CB1 6AC7CC9
Makiko___________RACHE__700DB57 FB6A249
Violetchi________DANAN__A7BBCE3 680C5B6
Onputchi_________SOCKY__0203E6D 2E9192F
Sebiretchi_______RIKKI__C0E56C8 23AF8BC
Maidtchi_________MENG___D9428B7 C9E6D3E
Masktchi_________RIKKI__B07A8E7 1F8EAB4
Kunoitchi________WRATH__6BED793 52B8EB3
Otokitchi________TMGC!__358F73E 25538CE
Dangoobatchi_____OLGA!__A3DF22C 1C0E9C7
Dazzilitchi _____AARON__329e0c0 52230ce


On a special note, if you login with all 38 characters, you get the special item decoration All Star Poster. Just remember the thing take up nearly half of your wall space, so be smart about using it.


Also, when you login as certain characters, you get a doll for that character. This is limited to Mametchi, Memetchi, Kuchipatchi, Gozarutchi, Ichigotchi, ChaMametchi, and Kikitchi.

OM21: Tamagotchi Music City in Spanish!

Bandai has just updated Tamagotchi Music City to include a complete Spanish edition!

¡Bandai acaba de poner al día el " Tamagotchi Music City" para incluir una edición española completa!

Tamagotchi Music City Español

The Spanish edition is great because it destroys language barriers. Anybody with a Tamagotchi Music Star can use Music City, and the text is limited to speech bubbles with pre-added text. Since both the Spanish and English editions run on the same server, a person may use it in Spanish and their speech will appear in English on the other user's computer!

I can't wait to see if Tamagotchi Music City gets more languages in the future. :)

OM21: Tamagotchi Music City Tips, Part 2

OsuMesu21 here, with tips on how to be the number one star in Music City! Since Music City is one of the biggest things to happen to Tamagotchi, I thought it'd be great to help other users make the most of the newest Tamagotchi experience.

For this next post, we'll be talking about the Apartments! Gotchi Apartments gives each user their own room, which they can edit with whatever door, wallpaper, floor, furniture, windows, items, toys, instruments, and decorations that they like.


Each room starts off completely empty. Those two televisions in the corner tell stats about the user; the left one shows what place they've reached in competitions, and the right tells which characters they've used on Music City.

When you play games in Music City, you earn money (points) that can be used to purchase items. Most stuff can be bought at The Funky Gotchi, the store to the left of the fountain in the Shopping District. Next to that store is Gotchi Guitar, which sells 18 of the 21 Music Star instruments.

(Take note - all of the Toys for the Music Star can be bought in The Funky Gotchi. Instruments and toys can be transferred to your Music Star toy whenever you like!)

Generally, when you've begun to buy things, you'd like to start editing your room to reflect yourself. There are several different kinds of rooms you can design...


Here's an example of a great room. The window and sliding doors give the feeling that the room is much larger, and the rest of the room follows a general theme (Japanese).

Here's another terrific example:


This one is very roomy and warm, and the chandelier is an added bonus. I'd like to see many more rooms like these someday.

Now, he's an example of what you DON'T want.


Rooms like this are what I call "Showoff" rooms - rather than focusing on looking nice and having a sort of functionality, these act more like warehouses to show everything the user owns. Extreme showoff rooms will often be littered with trophies or donation items. Rather than draw users in, these may actually freak them out.

And there's the third kind, "Crowded" rooms.


Yes, that was my room until today. Crowded rooms often have a user try showing off nice things while staying neat and organized, but end up running out of room. Walls of a room are very vulnerable to end up being crowded, so pay very close attention to what you're adding to your room. Crowded rooms aren't as bad as showoff rooms, but can still be bothersome. (See in this one, where the Truth of Kuchipatchi is covering the Big Screen? Big mistake!)

So in general, keep three things in mind when you design your room:

• Make sure to define a proper function for your room before you add its form. Think first before adding decorations.
• Keep an eye on your money. Lots of furniture and items means lots of money, so don't blow it on a decoration that you'll never use.
• Try to follow a general pattern or theme. For example, putting the "Sunshine" window next to a "Winter" window is a big mistake.

Keep these in mind when you make your room, and you'll be more happy with your end result. Invite people to view and enjoy it too, and if you design it right, they won't leave unsatisfied.


I hope you enjoyed these tips! Next time, I'll be explaining the weekly competition.

~OM21

OM21: Tamagotchi Music City Tips, Part 1

OsuMesu21 here, with tips on how to be the number one star in Music City! Since Music City is one of the biggest things to happen to Tamagotchi, I thought it'd be great to help other users make the most of the newest Tamagotchi experience.

Today, we'll be going over one of the most important tricks to getting lots of attention on Music City - your character!

There's a total of 40 unique characters on your Music Star toy. Of these, you can use 38 on Music City; the two costume characters (Spotchi and Mocatchi) do not appear. Characters have possibly the biggest impact on other users; if you have a rare character or if you have a fan favorite, you're more likely to get lots of room visits and friend request.

And to gain even more attention, buy costumes for your character to wear. Only teens, adults, and seniors can wear costumes, and prices can range from as low as 500 points to as high as 20 thousand. This is directly related to which character you actually use; Dreamitchi and Dazzilitchi have the most expensive costumes on all of Music City!

So how do you get attention? Other than playing the games and entering the contest, the best and easiest solution is visiting either the Entrance or Downtown, especially when they're crowded. The Entrance serves as the gate where users appear, and Downtown is the heart of Music City, so of all of Music City, you'll find more people there than anybody else.

All you need to do is walk around for a bit, and maybe say hello to other users to start conversations. You may even invite people to your Apartment (which I'll talk about in my next entry). Sometimes you don't even need to talk to somebody to get friends requests - they may come to you, or might send you a request without saying anything at all.

Remember, you don't need to have the special adults to be popular on Music City. As long as you take good care of your Music Star and visit Music City often, you'll see your friends list grow in leaps and bounds. :)

In my next entry to this series, I'll be talking about Apartments, and how to make one that'll keep people coming!

~OM21