Tamagotchi DIY

Tamagotchi DIY, known as Tamagotchi Factory in European (excluding the UK) and Australasian territories, is a 2016 virtual pet and game maker developed by Bandai Namco Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for the Nintendo 3DS.
It was announced in early 2016 by Bandai Japan as an early gift to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Tamagotchi franchise, and was released worldwide on November 23, 2016, with a Wii U port known as Tamagotchi DIY Remix being released five months later.
In 2021, a port of the game, known as Tamagotchi DIY Upgraded, came out on the Nintendo Switch to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the franchise. A mobile port, known as Tamagotchi DIY Mobilized, was released on December 19, 2022.
== Gameplay ==
Tamagotchi DIY follows you, the player, to create their own Tamagotchi Virtual Pet and try it out. The grand majority of Tamagotchi engines up to the Dreams (Smart for the Switch) are in the pet and once the player selects which Tamagotchi they want, they can either save to use personally or upload for other people around the world to play.
Tamagotchi on the DIY maker aren't limited to one stage. So they can be raiseable at any stage the player desires them to be (for instance, Chamametchi can be raiseable as a child stage if the player ever so desires to). The pets also have unique sprites native to what version you put them in even if they aren't obtainable on that said version (such as Lovelitchi on the Game Boy version). Players also have the choice of adding their Miis as raiseable Tamagotchis.
The Nintendo Switch version in particular includes $1.99 DLC, including Characters from third-party franchises. Such franchises include Sanrio, Super Smash Bros., Super Mario, Pokémon, Sonic and Sega All-Stars, Cartoon Network, NIZOO, BTS, Minecraft, Strawberry Shortcake, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, Gundam, Saturday Morning Cartoons (WildBrain), DreamWorks, and other Bandai properties.
== Plot ==
The plot of the game takes place in Tamagotchi Town, where MameMame Laboratory introduces a new factory where Tamagotchis can participate in a virtual pet-like environment created by a Machine that resembles a Wii U. However, two troublemaking toddlers (revealed to be Memepetchi and Tonmarutchi) start to mess with the machine, causing the entire Tamagotchi Planet to be converted into the virtual pet environment. Astonished by this, Papamametchi and the rest of the scientists try to remake it into a smaller-tablet like object that creates its own Tamagotchi. After a test, all the scientists found it fun and decided to release the device to the public where it exploded in popularity.
== List of Engines Available ==
=== All Versions ===
* Original Tamagotchi
* Tamagotchi (GB)
* Mesutchi and Osutchi
* 64 de Hakken! Tamagotchi Minna de Tamagotchi World (Tamagotchi 64 internationally, non-special stages only)
* Tamagotchi Connection
* Tamagotchi Connection v2
* Tamagotchi Connection v4.5/UraTama
* Tamagotchi v5.5 Celebrity
* Tamagotchi Color Plus
* Tamagotchi Music Star
* Tamagotchi Tama-Go
* Tamagotchi iD
* Tamagotchi iDL
* Tamagotchi P's
* Tamagotchi Friends
* Tamagotchi 4U
* Tamagotchi 4U+
* Tamagotchi Dreams
=== Introduced on the Wii U version ===
* Tamagotchi (Windows 95) (Wii U only)
* Tamagotchi Town
* Hoshi De Hakken!! Tamagotchi! (Tamagotchi World internationally)
* Tamagotchi Mini
* Tamagotchi L.i.f.e. (Wii U only)
* Tamagotchi M!X
=== Introduced on the Switch version ===
* Tamagotchi On
* Hello Kitty Tamagotchi
* Tamagotchi Touch
* Tamagotchi Pix (original included in the original, Party version available via DLC)
* Flowergotchi (original included. Lite version available via DLC)
* Tamagotchi Smart
* Tamagotchi Uni (set to come out with the "Tamaverse Update", which is planned to be released on July 17, 2023)
== Trivia ==
=== General ===
* Tamagotchi DIY was the last Wii U game published physically by Bandai Namco on March 10, 2017.
* If the player uses the Tamagotchi Touch engine and adds a Mii to the roster, they won't speak in actual words and instead make humming noises depending on the size, stage, and gender. The noises they make are ripped straight from Mario Kart 7.
** If a Mii is selected as a baby or toddler stage, then they will resemble the babies found in Tomodatchi Life. Meanwhile, Teens will be small in size.
* While the Nintendo Switch port is considered the definitive version of the three ports, it did remove the Tamagotchi for Windows 95 and Tamagotchi L.i.f.e engines due to Bandai Namco having trouble creating an alternative for the touchpad on console mode.
** Despite this flaw, My Tamagotchi Forever was intended to receive an engine port on the Switch version but that never got to the final version either.
=== DLC ===
* If a Minecraft mob is placed as a teen or younger, then they will appear as their baby variant if possible.
* The DLC was strongly advertised during the Nintendo Switch preview of it, showcasing an Agumon evolving into Meta Knight, Hello Kitty evolving into the RX-78-2 Gundam, and a Young Memetchi evolving into a Nidoqueen, showcasing that with multiple DLCs, you can create some of the most chaotic rosters of all time.
* By far the biggest DLC is the Pokémon version with it's grand total of 908 additional characters, with every Pokémon from Gens 1-8 being raiseable.
* Having the Minecraft DLC and using an "anything goes" option on the Original Tamagotchi, then the Gen 1 pet (Babytchi) will have the adults being passive mobs and the Gen 2 pet (Shirobabytchi) will have monsters (hostile mobs).
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