TamaTown Tama-Go

Tamatown Tama-Go
Also known as: Tama-Go Developer: Bandai Publisher: Bandai Platform: Handheld LCD Released in US: August 2010 Released in EU: 2011 This game has unused graphics. This game has debugging material.

This page covers the Tama-Go only The Connection series, Tamagotchi Friends, the vintage series, Japanese models and the Tamagotchi apps are not included here.

The TamaTown Tama-Go (often simply shortened to Tama-Go) is the successor to the international Tamagotchi Connection series, first released in 2010. It features an amiibo-esque gimmick in the form of “Gotchi Figures”. While it was supposedly meant to last years as hundreds of “Gotchi Figures” were planned, it was somewhat of a commercial failure and resulted in temporary discontinuation of the Tamagotchi brand, until the 2012 release of the “Tamagotchi LIFE” brand. It wasn’t succeeded by another physical model Tamagotchi until the 2014 release of the Tamagotchi Friends.

ROM Testing

ROM test on the Tama-Go

This tests for any problems within the toy including pixels, ROM and the connection feature. It is accessed by holding 'A', 'B' and 'C' at once while pressing the Reset button. Curiously, the ROM Test refers to the Tamagotchi as “Ver. 7”, indicating that it is still considered as part of the Tamagotchi Connection line even if it was not marketed as such.

Debug Mode

To do: Needs information on how to access the Debug Menu

Test mode

The base image used for the test mode.

On the Tama-Go, it is possible to access a “test mode” where more features can be altered than the usual debug menu and ROM test found in previous models. In this menu, as well as allowing the player to select any character, stats and care factors deciding what the Tamagotchi will grow into can be viewed and altered. Some of the options on the screen go completely unused and appear to be part of unused functionality in the Tamagotchi.

Character selection

This allows the user to choose their character as soon as the egg hatches. Unlike previous versions, on the Tama-Go, both the player character and the spouse character can be selected.

Unused Graphics and Features

To do: Upload the rest of the sprites. There's a lot. Here are just some of them to note.

Many unused sprites are contained within the Tama-Go. While some of these sprites have functionality that can't be accessed by normal means, for the most part they're sprites that never found a use.

Various unused sprites

Image	Description
	An almost completely unused image on the Tama-Go, intended to be shown when figures aren't compatible with Version 7. Such figures were never released, but the Tama-Go will very rarely display this message if the figures aren't functioning correctly. This is another reference to the version number “Ver. 7”.
	No idea what this could be used for.
	Unused sprites intended to be displayed when the player has used 25, 50 or 100 different figures. While the functionality is present on the Tama-Go, only 12 figures were ever released, along with 2 "lite" figures that come with the Tama-Go. Since the lite figures are actually just circuit jumpers that activate data already in the Tama-Go, a third lite figure can be activated by using something like a paper clip as a jumper. This means that the player will only ever reach 14 or 15 figures by normal means instead of the 100 originally intended figures.

Unused character sprites

Many of the unused sprites are for inaccessible characters. It’s thought that many of these sprites are placeholders for any future figure functionality.

Image	Description
	Unused sprites for Pachikutchi. While a full set of animation sprites exist, the character cannot be raised by any means.
	Unused sprites for Pichikutchi. While a full set of animation sprites exist, the character cannot be raised by any means.