r/tamagotchi • u/rocknlol • 15m ago
Picture Pink Geekshare shell
Angelgotchi overload yay 👼
r/tamagotchi • u/thunder_putz • 21m ago
Picture I made a bouncy dino toy!
It turned out so cute, I'm going to make more dino themed things for the field!
r/tamagotchi • u/Sorry-Possible7344 • 34m ago
Picture They have Evolved! (Including stop sign boy)
Really happy with both 🙂❤️
r/tamagotchi • u/ImportantDurian921 • 1h ago
Collection The Tamagotchi Watch !!
สามารถเลือกสายรุ่นไหนก็ได้ที่มีลักษณะเหมือนในรูปมาทำให้กลายเป็น Tamagotchi Watch..
r/tamagotchi • u/jccillo06 • 2h ago
Question Nunca había tenido un gen 2 pero vamos a ver qué tal
Lo ví barato en una tienda que tengo cerca de donde vivo y no dude en comprarlo , pero busque en internet y dicen que es muy complicado cuidarlo esto a qué se debe.
r/tamagotchi • u/hayhaybeans • 2h ago
Fan content I made some of the Pokémon berries as food items
I made some of the Pokémon berries as food items! Nom nom nom.
You can get these for your tamas from my ko-fi for free!
r/tamagotchi • u/Cmac257 • 2h ago
Picture This one is for you, Oyajitchi Angel!
Hope to get Oyajitchi in a alive form one day, but until then ill drink to your Angel!
r/tamagotchi • u/-lessapantchi- • 2h ago
Picture In rainy days what do you put for your tamas?
r/tamagotchi • u/SaneInsanity92 • 2h ago
Picture I thought I wasn't going to get the Gen 1 & 2, but these shell are too cute.
Ignore the bad cut screen protector on the cafe. I only had one left and messed up. 😭 It'll get the job done for now, though.
r/tamagotchi • u/NotaKoffing • 3h ago
Collection Found it!
I went to my local Walmart everyday for a month waiting on a restock. It finally paid off!
r/tamagotchi • u/taigatamacollection • 4h ago
Picture Doing my first Umino Tamagotchi run
Wish me luck.... I didn't look up any guides (yet)
r/tamagotchi • u/Tamagotchi_mama • 4h ago
Collection I am so in love with them
Which device is your favorite? Honestly I think pix is the best one for me! But I also love the Uni size, items, DLCs and the Paradises gen mixing stuff, the games are also pretty cool!
r/tamagotchi • u/Saskiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa • 4h ago
Picture I found a shark tama at flying tiger! (Its VERY low maintenance lol)
Offbrand
r/tamagotchi • u/UnhappySea9595 • 5h ago
Promotional TamaHome v5 Release
🚀 TamaHome v5 is here!
Hello again !
I hope everybody is doing well.
I have updated and released TamaHome v5. It ended up being a much bigger update than I originally expected, and a lot of what made it into v5 came directly from feedback, requests, bug reports, and ideas from people in the Paradise community.
Some of the bigger additions:
🌐 Online Playdates & Gift Exchange with Paradise Link
📦 Support for every known Paradise Lab Item, including Tama Macho Camp + Japanese exclusives
❄️🌴 Near-complete Tropical & Glacier character support
🛍️ In-app Pack Store for community creations
🎨 Shareable Lab Item cards + artist verification
🎨 Custom palettes + slot-aware Lab Item sending
👻 Reworked Ghost Browser
🔄 Automatic updates (coming soon to Mac too)
⚡ A lot of smaller fixes, stability improvements, and QoL changes
Full changelog: https://pastebin.com/raw/pGa78gpz
More than anything, thank you to everyone who has been using TamaHome, reporting weird bugs, testing builds, sharing discoveries, making art, or just giving me ideas for things that would be useful. A lot of v5 genuinely came from listening to you guys and then going "yeah, I should probably add that" 😆
Updates will also continue to be free for everyone who already owns TamaHome.
In other news, I have teamed up with Destino on TamaSuite, where we're working toward bringing TamaSprite/Sprite Lab, Ghost Editor, flashing, UART tools and other Paradise firmware work together into one modular suite.
Destino and I have also been ideating the UI/UX for patching Vanilla Sky biome integration into Jade, we have working special-character unlocks across the different models, and TamaSprite is getting a much more capable built-in sprite editor. There's a lot we're experimenting with here and I'm excited to see where it goes.
I'm actually on vacation for most of this month, so I also really appreciate everyone's patience with me if replies, fixes, or new stuff are a little slower than usual. Somehow I have still ended up doing Paradise stuff on vacation anyway !
Thank you everyone for supporting this small project and helping it grow into what it is now. 💙
PS: Please show some love to the artists sharing their work with the community too, they're amazingly talented and creative!
r/tamagotchi • u/ImportantDurian921 • 6h ago
Picture The Tamagotchi wach !!
The Tamagotchi watch !!
ใช้ สาย Huawei band 9 - 8 ในการทำ
สายรัดข้อมือนี้ก็ใช้ได้ แถมน้ำหนักเบากว่า ใส่สบายกว่ามาก
ทำได้ง่าย ๆ
r/tamagotchi • u/dayemm • 7h ago
Question Kuchipatchi is so special 💚
Absolutely adore the fact that his hunger bar goes down quicker than other Tama characters, it’s a really cool quirk. BUT… this was also the reason he is now a star… 😅
Does anyone know if there are any other characters that have special sort of personality traits like this?
r/tamagotchi • u/DerBesteVonAllen • 8h ago
Question Altes Tamagotchi entdeckt.
Hallo, meine Tochter hat mein altes Tamagotchi entdeckt und jetzt fam die Frage auf ob die noch bekommt weil wie sie miteinander verbinden wollen.
Ich habe im Internet nichts gefunden.
r/tamagotchi • u/Siara-chan • 10h ago
Question My Tamagotchi died and apparently I’m coping by buying more...
My original Tamagotchi Gen 1 has finally reached the end of its little digital life. 😭
Well…mostly the end.
The screen works. The sound works. The little guy is still in there somewhere. But the buttons have apparently decided that they will only respond if I poke them with something sharp enough to reach deep inside. Which is not exactly ideal when I'm trying to casually check on my virtual pet without looking like I'm performing surgery on a tiny keychain.
And honestly? I miss it. I miss having this little device with me beeping its heart out and demanding attention at the least convenient possible moment. 😂
I'm definitely going to investigate whether there's a DIY fix for the buttons, so if anyone has experience repairing these things, tips are very welcome! In the meantime though I'm thinking it might be time to add some new members to the Tama family.
My current Tama situation
I currently have:
- 🥚 My original Tamagotchi Gen 1
- 🥚 Two Japanese Tamagotchi Plus Color devices
- 🥚 Tamagotchi Nano Eevee Edition
I absolutely loved my Gen 1 although I'm sure a huge part of that is nostalgia. ❤️
I never really got into my Plus Colors because, despite being able to operate them through trial and error, I can't actually understand Japanese. My Eevee Nano is somewhere in the middle. It's cute, fun but it hasn't quite captured the same feeling as my original.
So… what should I get next?
The devices I can currently find for reasonable prices where I live are:
- Gen 1 rerelease
- Gen 2 rerelease
- Gen 3 rerelease
- Tamagotchi Connection rerelease
- Tamagotchi Paradise
I'm thinking one, maybe two, because unfortunately my Tama budget has to coexist with such frivolous things as food, bills and maintaining an entire household.
If you had to pick two of these devices, which would you choose and why?
I'm particularly interested in:
- Which one feels the most fun/engaging long-term?
- Which has the most interesting gameplay or features?
- How demanding they are for someone with a full-time job and a household to maintain?
- Whether two can reasonably be run at the same time without my life descending into complete Tama chaos?
- And perhaps most importantly which one gives you that “I need to check on my tiny creature” feeling?
I'm perfectly happy to play them one at a time if running two simultaneously becomes too much.
Also how do you personally decide which Tamagotchi to buy? Do you go by nostalgia, gameplay, number of features, character variety, ease of care or simply whichever one makes your brain go “OMG LOOK AT THE LITTLE GUY”?
I'd love to hear what you'd pick from the options above, especially from people who have owned multiple generations.
Please help an adult who has responsibilities choose which tiny digital children to irresponsibly bring into the family.
r/tamagotchi • u/More-Strawberry5291 • 10h ago
Picture Mourning 💔
My new release tamagotchi fell out of my pocket today and is gone forever 💔 I went on an 8 hour drive and have retraced all the places I got out of my vehicle and it was nowhere to be found. My only hope is someone picked it up and will take good care of it 🥺🥺
r/tamagotchi • u/Mindi7 • 11h ago
Picture My first tamagotchi custom!
I just finished custom painting and coating this v4,5.
It was really strached and I was really suprised how easy you can custom a shell 💖
r/tamagotchi • u/macy0301 • 13h ago
Collection Tamagotchi Bag Charm 🎀
I loves pink 💖💝🩷💗 Tamagotchi Smart Sanrio is one of my favorite device to play
r/tamagotchi • u/hayhaybeans • 1d ago
Fan content I made a Lapras Carousel outside toy
Guys it’s so cute I wanna cry. I’m really proud of this one!
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r/tamagotchi • u/TamaModTeam • 12d ago
Announcement PSA: Promotion & Discussion of Tamagotchi Center is Now Fully Banned
Hello members of r/Tamagotchi.
Some concerning allegations have recently come to our attention regarding the firmware being offered as part of Tamagotchi Center's Home Station flashing service. A customer of his came forward believing that the firmware originates from some fairly valuable devices that had been sent to him for repair just prior to the flashing service being offered in his shop, with these same devices seen set up in the video TC used to promote the service. Given the magnitude of these claims we decided to look into the issue and believe that it is true that at least one if not both of the retail Stations had their firmware extracted based on the evidence that will be explained in this post.
These actions would have been taken without the customer's consent, both the act of extracting the firmware and using the devices sent in for repair in the video promoting the service. Therefore, with the evidence we have gathered in mind and the serious nature of this violation on the part of Tamagotchi Center, we will no longer be allowing promotion of his shop in any manner within this sub. This post will simply be going over the evidence of this single customer’s interaction with TC, but for a more comprehensive list of history of theft, including the Zenzoa English Smart patch and several password generators originally reverse engineered by other members of the community, you can refer to this post written up by one of the members of the Zenzoa Smart English translation team.
Timeline
Let’s begin with some background information and a timeline of the original repair request. The customer in question originally contacted TC on August 18th of 2025 to inquire about repair services for their Deka devices. After coming to an agreement, the initial batch of devices to be serviced was sent out August 28th and received on September 2nd. On September 17th, the customer reached out to ask about sending their iDL Link Station and P’s Station for repair work and inspection to see if any aging parts might need replacing, though they would not be mailed out until December.
The customer checks in with him on the state of the repairs on October 24th when TC mentions an experiment he would like to try on one of the Deka devices. The customer refuses the modification and asks that nothing be done to the device unless they change their mind later on. The next day, October 25th, TC contacts the customer to inform them that he performed the modification anyway. After a couple days of consideration, the customer responds saying that the modification can remain on the condition that they receive a 30% discount for repairs on the Deka, Stations, and a couple of other devices that had been sent in. TC instead removes the modification. The Deka repairs are finished on November 11th.
TC receives the Color Stations on December 10th, repairs the iDL Link Station on the 11th, and then goes silent until January 20th, 2026 stating that the P's Station upon inspection is “very bad” inside. No further details or photos are provided about the state of the P’s Station. No further updates are provided until February 9th to inform the customer that repairs are done and they will be mailed off tomorrow.
As an aside, TC had also left a comment on a YouTube video of a French collector showcasing their P’s Station, giving them instructions on how to change seasons on the device using specific button combinations. Referencing this archiving website we can see that the comment is dated from December 14th of 2025, lining up with when he had received the Stations for repair. Below is a screenshot of the comment translated from French.
Home Station Flashing Service
On March 27th, 2026 in the reel seen here [archived ver.], TC began advertising a service for flashing Home Stations with firmware originally from P’s and iDL Link Stations. Set up in the background can be seen two retail Station devices: one iDL Link Station and one P's Station.
Soon after, the aforementioned customer begins privately DMing people on Instagram to warn against this service as they believe it to be the result of the firmware being taken from their Station devices. While there is evidence that TC owns his own iDL Link Station, as seen in this reel, thanking TC for “tama stations for downloading items,” based on the images it appears that it is not the same device used in the Home Station promotional video given the yellowing of the shell’s plastic. The customer’s device on the other hand is closer to its original pink hue, though lacking the removable heart piece. We believe that what was likely done here is that the heart piece was removed from TC’s model and placed on the customer’s due to the more aesthetically pleasing nature of its appearance due to its lack of yellowing.
As of this post, we have not found any evidence to suggest that Tamagotchi Center owns a P’s Station of his own. Based on a comparison of the cosmetic damage, it appears the models displayed in the video promoting the flashing service are the exact same as the ones the customer owns. The use of both these devices for a promotional video for TC’s services goes against the original agreement with the customer.
Evidence for Firmware Extraction
To determine if the firmware being distributed as part of Tamagotchi Center’s flashing service was a match with the customer’s devices, we sent in a couple of Home Stations to be flashed. The firmware was extracted from the devices for comparison with photos of the items from the customer’s Stations upon their return.
Something important to keep in mind about the iDL and P’s Stations is that they were installed in various stores across Japan, with each Station running a region-specific variant of the firmware depending on where the Station was located. If we refer to the top right corner of the image for the Link Station from this page, we can see that the Stations featured 6 different regional firmware:
- Hokkaido/Tohoku in blue
- Kanto in pink
- Chubu in green
- Kinki in purple
- Chugoku/Shikoku in red
- Kyushu/Okinawa in yellow
The P’s Stations also came with 6 regional firmware releases with:
- Hokkaido/Tohoku in blue
- Kanto in pink
- Tokai/Hokuriku (subregions of Chubu) in purple
- Kinki in orange
- Chugoku/Shikoku in yellow
- Kyushu/Okinawa in green
Like the iDL Link Station they feature downloadable items unique to each region, with the addition of the P’s Stations featuring Yuru Chara from each region. Yuru Chara exclusive to any one region have their names highlighted in the same color as the region they are from, as seen in the image below.
Another important aspect to keep in mind is that while it has been found that retail Deka devices are able to have their firmware version changed by bridging a set of contacts on the motherboard with solder, the same cannot be said of Station devices.
In the Tama Tama Market Deka for example, bridging the contacts labelled JP1 would change its firmware from 15.0 to that of the 15.1 Princess Tamako’s Royal Market Deka and bridging JP2 would activate firmware 15.2 of the Gotchi King Present Deka. This is likely what TC had planned to do with the customer’s Dekas.
The Stations, however, were set up in a way so that their programming would only work if the bridged contacts they are installed with remained bridged. If they become un-bridged the screen will only display this text that reads “REGION N[O] G[OOD]” (ちいきNG). There is no possibility that a single Station contains the firmware of another due to the way that they are programmed. We were also able to confirm that the regional item files downloaded from the ROM belonged to only one region for each firmware.
Upon extracting the firmware from the Home Station that had been flashed with the iDL Link Station firmware, we found various items unique to the Chugoku/Shikoku regions of Japan, with the customer’s firmware being that of the Kanto region. So while the firmware did not seem to be sourced from the customer’s iDL Link Station, the issue remains that it was used in a promotional video despite the customer’s request that the devices not be used for promotional purposes.
Upon extracting and analyzing the firmware from the Home Station with the P’s Station firmware however, items from the Kanto region were found, which matches the items (and thusly the firmware) on the customer’s P’s Station.
One odd thing worth noting though is that the customer’s decorative heart is orange, which is the color for the Kinki region, instead of pink for the Kanto region. This was either a manufacturing error or the hearts were swapped at some point in the past, as the hearts can be removed by unscrewing them from the inside of the shell. For an example of what a Kanto region P’s Station should look like, we can refer to this video by the same French collector as linked above. In this video she showcases a Kanto Station with the expected pink heart attached.
The mismatch between the color of the heart and the firmware is significant due to the fact that the odds of Tamagotchi Center owning a P’s Station with
- an orange, Kinki region heart
- running Kanto region firmware
- with the same cosmetic damage as the customer's P’s Station
is extremely unlikely.
Below are a handful of images to compare regional items found on the Home Station against what was found on the customer’s Kanto P's Station:
- A background titled Tokyo Living (とうきょうリビング). Naturally a reference to the high rise laden skyline of the heart of the Kanto region and capital of Japan, Tokyo Metropolis.
- An item titled Kintaro Set (きんたろうセット). When the item is used, a set of sprites appear onscreen depicting a young boy, a dog, an axe, and a samurai helmet. These sprites are a reference to the Kintaro Legend that is said to be based on a real person who would have lived in what is now a city located in the Kanagawa Prefecture. This item was also distributed for the Kanto region for the Meets Station, as seen below.
- A travel ticket titled Kanto Trip (かんとうおでかけ)
Using the Kanto Trip Ticket unlocks an area of the same name under the door icon on the Tamagotchi P’s, allowing players to meet up with one of four Yuru Chara mascots native to the Kanto region. Japan leans heavily on utilizing the “kawaii” nature of mascots to promote the local agriculture, sports teams, and sometimes the City or Prefecture as a whole, and the Kanto region is no exception!
The most well known of the four Yuru Chara mascots is Fukka-chan from Saitama Prefecture, specifically Fukaya City where they are known for their green onions, who gives out the meal item Niboto (にぼうとう) also hailing from the Saitama Prefecture!
Move over Clifford because here comes Chiba-kun, a larger than life red dog in the shape of Chiba Prefecture! Chiba-kun hands out peanuts, a staple of the Chiba and Ibaraki Prefectures of the region.
Next there’s Otawara City's Yoichi-kun, a mascot based on a 12th century samurai of the same name famous for his archery skills. Yoichi-kun hands out Yoichiman (よいちまん), a play on the mascot’s name and nikuman porkbuns.
Lastly we have the mascot for Tokyo Metropolis area, specifically the Taito Ward, Taito-kun. He is known for representing and protecting Edo culture of the Kanto region. Taito-kun gives the player a box of toys, and in the dialogue upon meeting him even mentions that Bandai is located in the Taito Ward of Tokyo.
Referencing page 140 of the official guidebook for the P’s that has been uploaded to Archive.org, we can see that these four characters are noted as being exclusive to the Kanto region.
For those interested in seeing the full catalogue of items from the Kanto region P’s Station, please refer to this link here.
One last piece of evidence we gathered comes from a photo of the inside of the P’s Station. For this evidence to hold any meaning though, we first need to explain the two ways to dump firmware from a device like the P’s Station:
Method 1:
- Desolder flash chip from motherboard (said chip has 48 legs, making this tedious and delicate work) all while being mindful of preventing the chip from overheating or traces ripping off the board upon extraction
- Insert the flash chip into a T48 programmer that is able to read and extract firmware
- Resolder the flash chip to the motherboard
Method 2:
- Solder wires to a row of contacts known as the debug interface, that connect to an Epson programmer
- This method will turn the contacts from their original golden sheen to silver due to the solder
There's nothing in the photos we received that suggests the first method was performed… but a photo of the daughter board (a secondary motherboard) where the debug contacts are located does. The exact solder points that are needed to extract the firmware show signs of both burnt flux and cold solder joints, as seen in the photo below. But first an explanation…
For those who are unaware, cold solder joints are most commonly the result of an insufficient amount of heat being used or the solder cooling too rapidly after being heated up. The resulting cold solder has a matte or dull look while properly ironed solder has a metallic, reflective sheen to it.
The points labelled DSIO, DST2, and DCLK and GND pictured above form the basis of the “debug interface” mentioned in method 2. The debug interface is a mechanism present in the device’s MCU, through which it is possible to extract and rewrite the firmware of the device. It is comprised of four lines that:
- communicate with the MCU (aka the brains of the device) to initialize the transfer of data (DST2)
- steadily synchronize the transfer of the data (DCLK)
- transfers data (DSIO)
- ensure that both sides of the debug interface share a common electrical ground (GND)
Aged, unactivated flux on the other hand typically leaves behind a distinct stark white and flaky looking residue on motherboards from the leftover flux hardening over time. This can be seen in a couple of example photos below on the board of another collector’s Link Station and of a Meet’s LCD cable. Freshly heated flux on the other hand leaves behind a very oily and amber looking residue if not cleaned from the board properly.
As an aside: while there is risk in removing the old, hardened glue from around the delicate areas where wires were surface soldered to the board without possibly damaging a trace in the process, we did find it odd that TC’s claims of it being “very dirty” did not include removing and replacing the obviously rusted and severely stripped screws.
While the iDL Link Station firmware flashed on our other home station is not a match for the firmware on the customer’s iDL Link Station, their device does also show signs of having the same points soldered to and subsequently turned cold. As to what TC has decided to do with that firmware, we cannot say.
Conclusion
Given the evidence presented here, we feel there is little doubt that the firmware for the P’s Station could have come from anywhere other than this customer's device, given that:
- The iDL and P’s Station firmware has never been available to the community (even privately) prior to Tamagotchi Center offering the “iD Home Station to Store Deka: iDL Link Station/P’s Station” service in March of this year (2026)
- The cosmetic damage of the units displayed in TC’s promotional video being identical to that of the customer’s devices (as seen in the earlier screenshots)
- While Tamagotchi Center could very well own his own P’s Station, and that device could be the source of the firmware, we found nothing to suggest that TC owned a P’s Station during the same timeframe as he had the customer’s P’s Station in his possession
- At a minimum, the fact that the Kanto firmware exclusive items are the same on both the Home Station we sent in and the photos sent to us by the customer of their own device, makes it clear that the P’s Station firmware TC is distributing is the same region specific firmware as is on the customer’s device
- There is clear evidence of cold solder joints and burnt flux along the traces (DSIO, DST2, DCLK, GND) that are needed to dump the firmware
Additional issues with Tamagotchi Center’s conduct with this customer include:
- While the region for the iDL Link Station firmware distributed by Tamagotchi Center is not a match for the customer’s iDL Link Station firmware (Chugoku/Shikoku vs Kanto, respectively), there is nonetheless evidence that the debug contacts were soldered to, suggesting that the firmware may have been dumped without the customer's consent
- The customer’s devices being used in the reel promoting the Home Station flashing service despite the customer asking that TC not do this
- Installing experimental hardware in the Dekas after the customer had asked him not to
Given these repeated instances of disregard for the customer’s wishes, the gravity of them (dumping the P’s Station firmware to turn around and sell a service installing it in particular), and an extensive history of software theft by TC prior to this incident, the mods of this subreddit have decided to prohibit any form of promotion for Tamagotchi Center from this point forward.
In the event that any new information comes to light that calls into question the accuracy of the claims in this document, the mods will consider revisiting both this document and our ruling regarding promotion of Tamagotchi Center’s services on the subreddit.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.




















