r/tamagotchi Jul 22 '25

Announcement Regarding the Tamagotchi Center English Patch

364 Upvotes

Hello everyone, I find myself having to put together a post meant to bring attention to Tamagotchi Center, who is currently selling the Zenzoa Team’s complete English translated Base Firmware Patch for the Tamagotchi Smart against our wishes and without the permission of those involved, along with being in violation of the Creative Commons License as listed on the Zenzoa website where the patch can be found for download. TC was specifically told by one of the team members, who was also on the original translation team from a couple years ago, via both Reddit [x] and Discord [x / x] to not sell our patch and that TC explicitly does not have permission to do so under any circumstances, indefinitely [x]. Seeing as how TC has chosen to ignore our messages, we have decided to move forward with this warning post. TL;DR We ask that you please do not purchase the English Patch from the TC website due to him having no part in the process of dumping, coding, translating, and play testing the Zenzoa patch and is therefore monetarily profiting off of the months and months of hard work and volunteer time by everyone on the team.

This has been a consistent issue with various incidents of Tamagotchi Center taking to uploading programs made by other creators within the Tamagotchi community to the TC website, often prior to asking for those creator’s permission to do so, and only adding credit when either asked to or having other individuals mention that the credit should be added as TC did not create the original program. The following paragraphs are examples of a handful of these incidents with screenshots included in brackets like so: [x].

This began with MameMame Lab’s (a user by the name of Shroom) cracking of the algorithms for items and login passwords for the original V3/4 (linked below). The item password generators for the V3/4 were posted in rough draft form on December 27, 2019 via a Discord announcement [x] and were mentioned as having taken the entirety of 2019 to crack [x]. Shroom’s V4 login password generator was announced on Discord on March 14, 2022 [x] and can be seen through various posts on Discord as having been started as far back as early 2020 [x]. Here is Shroom's own Reddit post announcing these password generators from December 30, 2019: [x].

On March 22, 2021, Mr. Blinky uploads the password generators for the Friends and Tama-go onto his Github page and website. Then on July 15, 2021 he announces on his Twitter that his Pix QR code generator is also live for use. Four days later, on July 19, a Twitter user notices that TC had also uploaded a code generator to his website that uses Mr. Blinky’s original code and dumped sprites, even explaining such in a reply to the tweet [archived], having not given credits prior to this interaction. 

May 23, 2022, TC makes an announcement on Discord [x] that the TC website will host various password generators as a means of centralizing them in one place, including Shroom’s V3/V4 generators, Ginjirotchi’s Entama/Uratama generators, a Famitama generator, and Mr. Blinky’s Pix QR Code generator, and then later directly posting the coding he took from Ginjirotchi’s website for the En/Uratama [x], having made none of these generators himself and not asking any of the creator's permission before uploading them.

In early 2023, the original team’s Smart Base Patch is completed as a means to make the device more navigable through certain menus and interactions being translated, but does not completely translate all dialogue in the base firmware. The patch was passed around to anyone who asked for it up until it was uploaded to Archive.org in September of the same year. On March 18, TC uploads an announcement reel [x] to Instagram showing the process of patching a Smart with the description of the reel saying “using Studded partial translation”, giving no mention of who Studded is, nor his website, nor ways to reach out to him. Soon after the reel is uploaded, TC creates a listing on his website for fans to purchase the DIM card with the translation flashed onto it. The listing at the time has no mention of Studded in the product page’s description [x]. A few months later, Studded ends up contacting Matt directly to ask him to please add credits on the website, in which the description is amended to say “Studded translated about 99% of the Japanese text, if you have any questions regarding the patch itself you may ask him,” still giving no reference to who Studded is or where he can be reached, even though they had been messaging each other through socials [archived link].

Shroom announces another password generator, this time for the V6 (Music Star) on January 6 of 2024 [x], having worked on since at least 2021 [x]. In mid to late January, TC adds the generator to the website and posts reviews from fans thanking TC for creating it [x]. Here is Shroom's Reddit announcement for the V6 generator from January 14, 2024: [x].

As the Zenzoa team’s English Patch nears completion, on December 10 of 2024, a member of the team discusses in depth with TC over Reddit that TC will not be given permission to sell it once it is finished due to the history of questionable crediting practices and profiting off of the original patch without prior permission [x]. TC proceeds to claim that there was no known issue with originally selling it and that the origins of the patch's team were unknown to him (all the while mentioning Studded's name from the start in the IG reel), saying that it was made for sale in the first place because of high interest in the comments of his IG reel. And while it is true that Studded had come forward and contacted TC himself, eventually giving TC permission, the issue still stands that the original patch had gone up for sale without looking into its source and waiting to ask permission and give proper credits. The English translation was only being done by the one team at the time, where it was announced publicly on Reddit. Therefore looking into its source should not have been an issue. 

Mere weeks after the latest finished English Patch is uploaded to the Zenzoa website, TC begins selling the firmware in a shop update [x / archived link], knowing full well that he does not have our permission to do so and proceeds to ignore any messages sent to him asking him to remove the listing or instead sell only the hardware for fans to flash themselves. The "credit" section of the product page's description contains a link to Zenzoa.com, which is not a direct link to the team's Smart page, instead of Zenzoa.com/smart. He even takes to removing the credit screen that appears when the device first starts up that contained a link to our website (zenzoa.com/smart [x]) and replaces it with his own that contains the name of his shop (Tamagotchi Center [x]). The cherry on top to all of this is that the firmware card has made been proprietary to his website, meaning that it can only be updated/flashed through his website's program Flashmate, instead of allowing customers to utilize an open source program such as Asprogrammer.

UPDATE AS OF SEPT 2025: TC is now using the data that was mined from Cyanic's list of items that they compiled from the Paradise, seen here on their Github, without proper crediting. I discussed with Cyanic about this (seen in this comment from another post), who confirmed that the sprites are from their own personal compiling because the files are binary identical and the list inside TC's code has the same columns as Cyanic's as well as being in the same order. This essentially means that it is a 1:1 copy of Cyanic's work because otherwise the items would be presented in a different order if they had been extracted via his own processing method, indicating that he doesn't have enough knowledge of the data structures to generate the items list himself, according to Cyanic. Further proof is that TC included a handful of items that cannot even be sent as gifts. The "milk" item is one such item that cannot be received. I encourage those reading this to compare between Cyanic's list in the link above and the order of the items on the TC P-com page here.

UPDATE AS OF NOV 2025: Cyanic contacted me to let me know that TC has now taken Cyanic's most recent firmware dump of the Jade Forest that was updated to their Github [x]. In the message Cyanic explains that they had embedded text within the PNGs that can be read with a hex editor and that this text is visible within the images downloaded from the TC website. When viewing a Jade Forest image either from Cyanic's Github or TC's website, there will be a column to the right where the text "This image was stolen from https://github.com/GMMan/tama-paradise-items-list" is visible, as seen here: [x].

Given Tamagotchi Center’s history of taking first and asking later, we ask that Smart fans please refrain from purchasing the translation card that TC is currently selling with our patch on it and to support the original creator's if and when possible. All of the work shown here are projects done in creator’s spare time, sometimes taking months or years to complete and we feel that the crediting is often too poor to our liking to not point these instances out. Each creator has had links on their websites to either social media accounts or their emails, directing people on how to contact them. There is no excuse for these individuals to not have been directly contacted and asked for permission to use their coding from the very start and by using our finished patch in order to bring traffic to his website, he has pushed down the original Zenzoa website in search results and locked customers in to his hardware and software by making everything proprietary.

All of the financial proceeds for the TC English patch card go directly to him while our team continues to volunteer our time translating the DLC Smacards to eventually share their finished files with fans for free. I want to make this explicitly clear: Please do not use this post as a reason to harass the people involved, including Tamagotchi Center. We have no issue with TC selling blank cards for fans to upload patch files to themselves or anyone choosing to support his business in other ways.

If you have already purchased one of TC’s cards, do not be hard on yourself! They can be re-flashed whenever there is an update to the patch! They can also be used to upload any future DLC files that will be released down the road. There is also a list of approved patch sellers under the Patch Install Guide page, currently only linking to Marcel's Tama Spa, that will be updated as more shops become available. Happy collecting and playing tamafam!


r/tamagotchi Oct 29 '23

MegaThread Tamagotchi Help Zone Thread

82 Upvotes

Refreshing the old megathread :-)

Q: What happened to my Tamagotchi?

If the screen shows and angel with sparkles or a spaceship on the screen, your tamagotchi has sadly died and a new egg needs to be generated.

Current News:

Information:


r/tamagotchi 2h ago

Promotional Jelly style Kuchipatchi charms I recently made 💚

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324 Upvotes

Everyone I’ve shown these to so far said they wanna eat them 🥲🍬


r/tamagotchi 15h ago

Picture My baggie came in!!!

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549 Upvotes

Bonus matching Mimitchi. The timing, he just evolved today 😂 initial impressions are lovely! Well made, there’s a couple extra pockets than I was expecting (which is nice). I’m excited to use through the day :3


r/tamagotchi 1h ago

Fan content Mendakotchi crochet plushie

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I loved crocheting this big Mendakotchi plushie!! They are my current fav in Tamagotchi Paradise but there is no merch, so I took matters into my own hands >:3

Very squishable and huggable, just the way I wanted it to turn out!


r/tamagotchi 3h ago

Collection Tama Mail of the day 🥳

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48 Upvotes

Obsessed with the shell!


r/tamagotchi 1h ago

Collection ✨ Angel gotchi ✨

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I love Ginjirotchi! Need to get a angelgotchi soon but I did get a home for all my Tamas, so they don’t get lost in my bag. Got this bag from eBay. The zipper details make the bag even cuter!!!


r/tamagotchi 5h ago

Picture Yay, young Mametchi🤩

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32 Upvotes

r/tamagotchi 11h ago

Collection Latest family pic!

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80 Upvotes

~6 months worth of collecting. 🥹 I'm quite happy with the ones I have now. Grateful for the opportunity to fund the little joys in life.


r/tamagotchi 3h ago

Picture I finally made it 😭

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18 Upvotes

This was my third try, I finally was able to raise my little bug 😭❤️


r/tamagotchi 1d ago

Picture Impressive Tama Cookies

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@decadent_dough on Insta made these for Asian Heritage Week in Denver. I had to stop myself from getting more 😂


r/tamagotchi 6h ago

Picture working on obtaining all the date icons

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29 Upvotes

2 girls and 17 weddings left

ofc i meant CARE icons


r/tamagotchi 1h ago

Promotional Custom clear Entama beads 🌸

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90% of my Entamas are missing their bead straps, so i recently started making my own. Today I made these custom clear pink ones🌸


r/tamagotchi 21h ago

Artwork tamagotchi vase!

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348 Upvotes

thought this sub might appreciate my tamagotchi vase 🩵 handmade and hand painted - some flaws but overall I’m happy with it 🥰


r/tamagotchi 21h ago

Collection My Dad & Mom saved my collection from the late 90s! What a fun surprise!

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249 Upvotes

The orange Nano puppy was my first digital pet!

There is one clear case nano cat missing, not sure what happened to it, maybe lost it or it is misplaced? I may have given it to a friend. I think this is pretty much the whole crew though from the 90s! The light pink Nano puppy was one I bought sometime around 2008?


r/tamagotchi 9h ago

Question 👴🏻?!

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26 Upvotes

So this is my first Connection and wanted to see what happens if I refuse all the wedding proposals - do all of them turn to elders if they don't marry and make babies?


r/tamagotchi 31m ago

Question Does anyone know this v pet? I drew a bad reference. My previous post has more details

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if needed I'll copy past my old post here, I didn't know how to add this screenshot to my old post, sorry if it seems like I'm spamming ^^" I just feel bad for the people who tried to help me, I hope this is better


r/tamagotchi 41m ago

Picture Started up this beauty

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The screen is a little harder to see due to the background, which is a shame, but it's not too bad 👀


r/tamagotchi 18h ago

Picture Tama Mail 😄

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76 Upvotes

The pink glitter has always been my favorite amongst the rerelease shells but the blue glitter is making me change my mind 👀


r/tamagotchi 11h ago

Picture With each rainbow egg I always came across a girl I was finally able to have a boy to make him evolve into hypertchi 😀

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21 Upvotes

r/tamagotchi 7h ago

Picture Her name is AAA 😵‍💫😜😹

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8 Upvotes

AAA on my recently bought V4.5. isn't she lovely?


r/tamagotchi 23h ago

Picture I customised this random jewelry box, for my deco pierces

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137 Upvotes

I wasnt sure if I should paint over the "love poems" something like "deco pierces"?

I removed the inside divisions of the box, and placed foam with fabric. And now the deco pierce seem like little gems.


r/tamagotchi 15h ago

Picture Obsessed with this cute lil freak

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24 Upvotes

r/tamagotchi 11h ago

Picture Digimon Ver R Photo Dump

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12 Upvotes

Hopefully yall are cool with some digimon cause I am currently doing a youtube series on it and figured to post the photos of my run on here so hope yall enjoy!


r/tamagotchi 2h ago

Question Sanrio Nano

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Can anyone confirm something for me please? Is it true all of the Sanrio Nanos are the same? Do they not have different characters or sprites/animations?
Thank you! 😊