Cosmetics
- Mazurka reports that
putting a coating of Crazy Glue on your Tam Angel can help protect its paint from chipping. Be careful, and make sure that the glue is completely dry before picking it up!
- I have discovered that for my blue-with-silver wings Tamagotchi Angel, Wet 'n' Wild's "Bliss" nail polish is a near-perfect match for the paint on the wings... plus it looks kinda neat when your make-up matches your tam.
Hatching
- Mad Cow has some interesting things you can do before/while hatching your tamagotchi at his Tamagotchi Club page
- You can get the secret or "factory test Screen" by doing the following: reset your tamagotchi, or press the reset button in the back. Hold down and press button A (left) for about 3 seconds. Then press button B and then button C. This will test all of your pixels to see if they are working. Not very flashy, but a good way to scare any ignorant Tam lovers in your area ("Hey, why don't you try this cheat for getting twins? You do this, and this and... OH NO! You broke it!")
- With the Ocean Tamagotchi, if you keep staring at the screen before setting the timer, the teenage fish Ototochi and Kingyochi swim past!
Feeding and Playing
- Meals fill up one hunger/onaka heart. They also increase weight by one unit.
- Snacks fill up one happy/gokigen heart. They also increase weight by two units.
- A game will decrease weight by one unit. A game that is won (3 or more correct guesses out of 5) will also fill up a happy heart. A filled heart is black, while an empty one is white. (You wouldn't believe how many people get confused over this...)
- If your tam refuses to eat or play, chances are it's beling "selfish". Scold that little bugger! However, tams never seem to refuse snacks, no matter how selfish they're feeling.
- When playing the Guess-Which-Way-Blob-Will-Look game, A=left, B=right, C=cancel (no weight loss). Tamachi and Ginjirotchi are fairly easy to play with; just press the button for whichever leg has a line on it. Maskuchi has a tendency to continue wiggling its toosh after you've "guessed"; Kuchipatchi seems to have similar "slow reflexes".
- When playing the Guess-What-The-Next-Number-Will-Be game, the number that appears in the right corner will be the next number to appear in the left corner. Thus it is possible to get the ultimate sequence: 1 - 9 - 1 - 9 - 1. The last number to show up will be the first number in the next game.
- If your tam stops playing in the middle of a game, and shakes its head, it may be about to fall ill. Either that or it wants to go potty (see below).
Tamagotchi Angels need to eat pie to fill up hunger hearts, and candy to fill up Angel Points. No one knows whether Angel Points are a good thing or not, although constant heart-filling and candy-feeding seems to result in Kuriten.
When feeding candy, look out for the bat! It will descend from the top of the screen, and if you don't chase it away, it will cause the Deeds meter to drop by one unit.
To chase away the bat, try:
- Tapping on the tam
- Yelling at it
- Shaking it.
From personal experience, I can say that talking to the bat in a reasonable tone of voice and
singing Amazing Grace at it does NOT work.
Osuchi and Mesuchi tamagotchi seem to have a different food for every generation (once the parents leave). Vickie reports that the new Mori-no-tamagotchi ("Forestgotchi" or Tamagotchi Garden) has a variety of foods that alternate every day. The Ocean Tams, however, eat a steady diet of soft-serve ice cream cones and oden, a sort of Japanese soup.
What Goes in Must Come Out
- The tam's potty cycle depends on when you hatch it. For example, if you pull the tab out at 1:15, it will first go potty at 1:35 (20 min later). It will take a nap 45 minutes after birth, and upon awakening will poop again (2:05). It will transform in another 20 minutes (2:25) and will poop 5 minutes later. After that, it will poop every 3 hours.
- To summarize the above: it will settle into its "cycle" 1 hr 15 min after resetting/pulling tab out. From then on, it's every 3 hours, not counting time paused or sleeping.
- After about 4 poops, the tamagotchi will be partially outside of the screen. After the maximum 8 poops, there will be nothing on the screen but droppings. Not even skulls or anger signs will be visible. Also the game music slows down considerably.
- Ignoring calls and leaving poops around will cause your tam to become ill. However, tams also become ill 7 to 9 hours before their next transformation.
Tamagotchi Angels will usually call/pray for you before pooping. Once you praise them for their good deed, they will look very happy, and then poop. No one knows why.
Tamagotchi Angels make a little sound when praying once they are adults. This is also when they start using potties and toilets; eg. Kuriten uses an Omaru, or ducky-shaped potty. When praised, the angel points go up by 18 points, and the Angel loses an Effort heart.
This is totally unrelated to poop, but Tamagotchi Angel sicken and die when you turn the lights out on them for no reason! try it out! The younger angels seem to have greater resistance, but the older ones can "return to the Celestial city" as soon as the lights are flicked off.
With the Tamagotchi Ocean, the poops will follow the fishie around until you flush them. One flush gets rid of one poop and one Pollution Skull.
