Comments on: Tamagotchi Talk (Part VI, The Gender Bit or ‘Is There Pre-Determination Among Tamagotchis?’) http://www.kwartzlab.ca/2010/06/tamagotchi-talk-part-vi-gender/ Home of Kwartzlab Makerspace in Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario Tue, 21 May 2013 22:45:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: DW http://www.kwartzlab.ca/2010/06/tamagotchi-talk-part-vi-gender/comment-page-1/#comment-207 DW Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-207 Undocumented protocols are such delicious puzzles.

DW

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kwartzlab.ca/2010/06/tamagotchi-talk-part-vi-gender/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-208 I’m not sure about V4, but some previous versions have a lucky rating, generated at each character’s birth, based on the lucky ratings of her/his parents. When two Tamagotchis play a connection game, the lucky ratings of both are taken into consideration when determining who’ll win the game.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kwartzlab.ca/2010/06/tamagotchi-talk-part-vi-gender/comment-page-1/#comment-209 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-209 It seems likely that some of the bits in the stream are used to identify the version of the Tamagotchi toy (e.g. Connection V1, Connection V2, … Connection V5, Music Star, etc.)

Some characters (such as Mametchi) exist in almost all versions of the Tamagotchi toys. When you connect two different version Tamagotchi toys, if one contains a character not defined on the other, that character will appear as Nazotchi (the mailman) on the other.

The latest Japanese model (Tamagotchi-iD Nov.2009) seems to have done away with the problem of undefined characters. When two Tamagotchi-iDs are connected, instead of exchanging character id codes, an entire bitmap image of each character is exchanged.

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