CREATUREFEST JULY 2025

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here is Initial Tamagotchi Status
 

i had planned to use my rerelease connection for this, but the current adult resident, Bean, was not at marriageable age beforehand and so there is no baby to raise here yet. Bean is still very cute. we will check back in a bit.
 

with that in mind, i stuck a new battery in my V2 Connexion yesterday and looked to see what data was there, and luckily, there was already a baby waiting there!
 

...a 99 years old baby. i have no idea if the download data somehow glitched out or what happened. i think i might have waited on starting to raise this baby before the batteries ran out and left it on the naming screen for a while or something? but it doesn't generally count that towards the age since it doesn't technically start until you enter the name. i'm assuming something messed up with the data somehow. it shouldn't actually cause any problems, though, other than not being able to reference the age for evolution timing, lol. anyway, this is Pippa.
 

i put him on pause until today so i could start raising with anyone else who is starting today.
 

he must have gotten tired of being a 99 year old baby, because he evolved into Kuribotchi within a couple minutes after unpausing. no evolution weirdness, so it looks like the age being set to 99 doesn't have any actual side effects as thought. so far so good!

EDIT:
in addition to the physical models, last night i also stumbled across Tamaweb, which is an online fan tamagotchi game in a similar vein to Eternitchi (checking the credits, it seems some of the sprites were contributed by the Eternitchi developer, actually), so i decided to try it out, too.
 

the initial egg (named "Mimo" prior to hatching) hatched into a Teletchi. gameplay seems similar to modern tamagotchi releases, with toys available to play with at home, and games in a separate arcade area.
 

there's also a "petting" option, where you can have the tamagotchi come close to the screen and tap it to pet them, sort of like on the Pix. very good
 

like Eternitchi, there's a park where your tamagotchi can meet other tamagotchi and add them to their friends list, who will then age at the same rate as them.
 

rather than evolving automatically, it seems you have to have the tamagotchi have a "birthday" when they are old enough to evolve in order for them to do so, which is cute. (also, you can customize the home in a similar way to modern releases.) the game also appears to have a Missions and Achievements system that gives you some extra points alongside the ones earned from the games for regular tasks done while caring for your tamagotchi, and they can also have specific "wants" that may require you to get certain foods or toys for them in order to fulfill them, which presumably gives more happiness than usual. neat!
i will probably keep an eye on Mimo along with the other two. it seems the Tamaweb characters age significantly faster than their physical counterparts, with Mimo's next evolution time in 9 hours.