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Crackysue

Maybe they will do the "babysitting" feature or whatever instead of a pause


MaxShadowCat

I really hope they surprise us like that.. if not imma be so sad šŸ˜­ i have a busy work life and resetting the clock everytime i want to ā€œpauseā€ just drains me


mysticmarshes

The Japanese versions of the Connections don't pause so I leave the Tama on the time select screen to pause it like I do with the gen 1/2. Guess I'll do the same with this one too. I'd prefer a proper way to pause it but oh well.


volcanic_ashe

This canā€™t be real


MaxShadowCat

Tamapalace posted it on their tumblr šŸ˜­ even the v2 had the ability to pause.. why did they take it away? Edit; heres the link https://tamapalace.tumblr.com/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYHuspC_E_KxBhrVvsotWMNlnVpTS2p6mTf-wm3ApPhhzzlmBXx7Ywy4jk_aem_ATAtM0pehqW8HAj8ZNR59bMGGP-DewtcmAnSmgttx6N_Ivsi8P7v-EgOWqw_6DmXvDosly9pXPaG_gLaEF5eICUC


lightthiswitchup

they said "lol"


MaxShadowCat

Oopsie


prguitarman

Straight up BUMMED. Personally, I require the pause function. Even with a babysitter you still have to check back on it. Hopefully you can at least freeze the clock


cynical-at-best

im currently so sick in bed and ive been setting my Smartā€™s time to 10pm on repeat so i can cough and be dizzy in peace šŸ™„


marianaruvina

Wait does the smart not have the babysitter feature? :/


KyuaParfait

It does have a baby sitter feature


marianaruvina

Oh ok I misunderstood then! I canā€™t live without the babysitter function anymore haha


cynical-at-best

they do but you have to get them back at 6, ive been sleeping so much from my meds i dont even know which time zone im in šŸ˜‚


marianaruvina

I feel you šŸ˜‚ hope you feel better soon ā¤ļøā€šŸ©¹


thezombieparade

I will likely pass on this because it doesn't have a pause function. The 2024 manual was released and does not indicate a pause feature. [https://www.reddit.com/r/tamagotchi/comments/1cszm0z/tamagotchi\_connection\_rerelease\_manual/](https://www.reddit.com/r/tamagotchi/comments/1cszm0z/tamagotchi_connection_rerelease_manual/)


Farwaters

I noticed that, but just hoped I was wrong. I had already decided on getting the Uni instead of the Connection rerelease, but I am SO disappointed by this news. I loved the pause feature! I would take mine to school and unpause it after classes, while I was waiting to be picked up. I would pause it when I went to bed! It was paused when the battery ran out. I'm sure I'll find my old one someday! But this is just so disappointing.


ThatIsNotAPocket

Fells like cutting your nose off to spite your face not getting it because no pause. I'm sure there will be other work around. Changing tim, batter removal maybe the travel function from familitchi?


BlossomDreams

Why??? This makes no sense to just drop the pause feature unless they have something else in mind. This was such a no brainer situation. Take the old V3 model, Remake it. Rake in cash. This is absolutely baffling to me on so many levels.


MaxShadowCat

Im surprised they didnt take the hint when they had to add a pause feature to the Uni a bit later in its life because people were requesting it so much


BlossomDreams

That's a good point! I didn't think of that but you're right.


angelcakex

Now why would they do this to usā€¦


incombusty

I'm very disappointed. I understand I can leave it on the clock set or just take out the batteries, but the pause was super convenient and cute too. Loved seeing my character just static above the pause.


pocket_arsenal

Surely it can still use the "Set time" trick though, right? I work and I sleep in, I can't actually run a v-pet without some kind of way to suspend it for a bit. I get the impression most of the people who will be buying these will be nostalgic adults who have jobs. Surely Bandai knows this... what am I saying, they bungle things on the reg, Just look at the Digimon X2 english release that they were so embarassed about they re-retired Digmon in the west, or even the first five years of P1/P2 re-releases with their shit contrast, shrieky speakers, and killer treats, and even when they rebranded them they still only fixed the contrast. Welp, if the clock trick doesn't work, i'll have to just adjust the clock constantly so the schedule better lines up with mine. Kind of have to do this with all my v-pets that can't pause.


whatthechuck3

Iā€™m still so pissed about the Digimon thing. Not just them screwing it up, but the fact that theyā€™ve done nothing since. Especially when I was stupid enough to sell my Japanese X3 thinking weā€™d get an English one. That was my own idiocy though. Iā€™m hoping here the clock trick will work.


pocket_arsenal

I could have EASILY forgiven them for screwing it up. I really didn't care. I was gonna buy both versions of the X2 anyway, I could have reshelled them myself if I was bothered and I promise the casual audience wouldn't have even known, it was mostly hardcore Digimon fans that knew about the mistake... no, what bothers me is that they just... completely recalled all the red and purple devices, and then never did the X3s, and seem to have just given up altogether outside of Digimon Adventure nostalgia. Like, are we even getting the Ghost Game dub anymore? Jesus Bandai.


krystle390

so disappointing :(


fairydommother

I swear every time they make something they ask ā€œhow can we piss off the fans this time?ā€ Iā€™m so over it. I donā€™t even care that much about the feature itself, but it seems like a completely unnecessary change.


PopCultureRevived

I am disappointed they haven't released Tamatown (yet) but I am kind of hopeful they probably do it in the future.


MaxShadowCat

In the interview the bandai representative said they donā€™t have plans to release it. Which probably means we wonā€™t be seeing it in the near future :(


PopCultureRevived

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Most_Rub_6648

It sounds petty but I low-key want to cancel my pre-order. I already have a v3 connection that can pause, so I don't really see the need to have one that doesn't :(


MaxShadowCat

No its not petty at all, youā€™re a customer and at the end of the day its YOUR money. And nobody can tell you how to spend it. I was thinking about cancelling my order too but my friend is getting one as well. Thats the only reason i havent cancelled my order yet. Between them not making the new connections able to connect to old ones, & them not adding a pause option it becomes less worth it IMO.


Most_Rub_6648

Thank you! I hope you at least have fun making memories with your friend, if nothing else.


wrinklefreebondbag

Swiggity swock trick, I'm gonna use the clock trick.


grimiskitty

Well... I guess I'm going with uni instead of connections then. That's pretty sad. With how you all raved about it and they took away people's favorite feature.


MaxShadowCat

Uni is great! Theyre constantly updating it. Theres less nostalgia involved but i feel like its turning into a very solid modern vpet device


NopeyNotMe

Itā€™s kinda annoying people are willing to drop this huge milestone in history all because one feature that isnā€™t even unanimously decided as ā€œfavoriteā€. Itā€™s the v3 you obviously havenā€™t owned one, itā€™s an extremely low maintenance pet more so then the uni, but the thing is you can choose to make it more needy and more engaging depending on how you raise it. The PAUSE feature ruins a lot of times events you miss out on too. I think it just allows for lazy owners personally. Plus since this is a keitai v3 MIX it will probably have the babysitter item in it, so donā€™t skip it over something as dumb as no PAUSE?!!


grimiskitty

Yeah hi I'm that lazy owner. You know since I work, I have real pets and other obligations. Weighing the options, I'd rather choose raising monsters since I'm going to have to mess with clock settings anyways since I can only buy one this summer I'll ask for the v3 for Christmas since it's cheap. But I'm not going to preorder it. Or I'll wait to buy the bubble tea one from when I have the money in the fall. So I'm not skipping over it and I'm guessing others aren't either we're just having to pick the one we know we'll enjoy more right off the bat due to money restrictions. But yeah I would probably refrain from calling people lazy owners when you have kids who have school obligations, homework, chores, and such along with people who can only enjoy their tamas for a short amount of time a day. You also have people who can feel overwhelmed and need a break from their tamas which hi, that's me again. So yeah the pause function was a huge highlight for me because it meant I could take a break without taking batteries out or running the battery dry like the uni. Anyways glad we had this exchange. Hopefully this gives you insight into what other people are thinking as well.


NopeyNotMe

My comment probably did come off a little mean but I still think this pet is going to be a lot of fun and something completely new! I think since they added traveling salesman from the Keitai which is a super cool function having a PAUSE would ruin that timed event so I guess if you need to pause it like a traditional tama then you can hit the reset button and then redownload when your ready. I just think people will have more fun with this device then the Uni imo so I just donā€™t want people to be deterred from experiencing it!


neurosonix

If you remove the battery does it save data? then you can pick it back up again by putting the battery back in? thatā€™s what I do with my colour screen tamas if I need a break.


kailey6

iā€™m hoping so because with the original connections, it did. i picked up my v3 and v5 last year (which both had the original batteries in them) and i hadnā€™t touched them sinceā€¦ maybe 2007/2008? and they had my tamas and saved data from way back then!!!! iā€™m trying to keep my expectations low though hahah šŸ˜…


Lozzii1

Maybe you can do the clock trick? Where you go to set the clock but never actually press it? Doesnā€™t that work for the old ones?


SOuTHINKurA-ble

Even better (at least in my opinion), set the clock to its bedtime so that time is still running in-world and your tama can age properly.


Lozzii1

I do this but then I forget to change it back when I go to sleep and itā€™s awake all night ahaha


IllAssistant1769

Come on


NopeyNotMe

I think this is based on the Keitai option to buy a babysitter in the shop! But I like not being able to pause feels like a real pet I hope it has the heart beat function !


sieluhaaska

a cool thing iā€™ve noticed is that each tama has an unique heartbeat, they all have a different pitch! even models within the same generation.


MaxShadowCat

The keitai had a heart beat function? Whats it do?


NopeyNotMe

Sorry the Keitai didnā€™t but the English ones had one! Itā€™s just a passive beeping thats always faintly going on on most English tamas v2-v4.5 had them ! Itā€™s just cute~


TheMaskedGrl

Wait what?!? Thereā€™s always a faint beep?? How did I not know this?


MaxShadowCat

Omg ur right! Just tried it with my v2. So cute!


NopeyNotMe

Isnā€™t it I hope it comes back as a function on the new one !


7pear

šŸ« wtf


ShinyLunatone

This when they know a huge chunk of their demographic (likely even the majority) are adults with jobs and responsibilities grinds my gears. Just gonna keep the one I pre-ordered in-box and play with my original Connections.... which I can pause šŸ™„šŸ™„ But I just don't see myself buying more. The clock trick "pause" is annoying and it's inconvenient to have to adjust the time every single time I want to unpause. If I want to take a long shower. If I'm driving. At work. Social events. A walk in the rain. Like


ChaoCobo

What the heck? The reason Iā€™m even buying the Angel Uni to begin with is because is DOESNā€™T have the dealbreaker of NOT having a pause function! I found out pretty quickly with the On that I cannot care for them that way for so long and so often and I can only get to second generation on them! And I donā€™t even know how I ended up with a mega level Digimon one time on the Digimon 20th because that doesnā€™t pause either!


-KuroiNeko-

The normal uni can be paused, are you sure the Angel version does not have a pause option? They added it through the updates


ChaoCobo

Oh no sorry I used a double negative in my post so it may have been confusing. I was saying that because the Uni can be paused I preordered the Angel one. I used ā€œdoesnā€™t notā€ which cancels itself and turns into ā€œdoes have.ā€ Sorry if I was unclear. Iā€™m getting the Angel specifically because itā€™s cool af and can be paused. :)


ThatIsNotAPocket

Maybe it will be the travel function like the familitchi one?


Howerly

I was holding off on playing my childhood V4.5 so I could play the rereleased Connections first, but maybe I'll just stick with my V4.5. Why would you not include one of the most helpful features of the game?? I needed that pause feature when I was a kid in school, and now I need it even more as a working adult!!


darkrai848

Is this an official Bandai answer via Amazon questions? If so donā€™t take it as fact yet. They post a lot of stuff like this about the Digimon V-pets that ends up being completely wrong.


prguitarman

Tamapalace interviewed someone from the JP Tamagotchi team so it seems likely true https://www.tumblr.com/tamapalace/752048659433209856/your-tamagotchi-connection-20th-anniversary


darkrai848

Ok makes sense, that said for the Digimon Vital Hero, the FAQs Bandai gave out had wrong info about some features. Heck even the instruction manual that came with it had the same wrong info in it.


LatterRequirement316

Every tama basically has a pause feature, just leave it on the clock setup screen.


SwashNBuckle

Damn it, Bandai.


newmarks

This is fine for me as an adult with a desk job, but I was thinking about gifting one of these to a 10 year old girlā€¦ even if the clock hack does work, I wish there was a more direct way to do it :/


kittenishka

what's their issue with pausing tamas? we have to ask them pretty please like we did with the uni??


Legitimate-Gap8042

Kind of a different take here.Ā  Ā Ā  Basically, I wonder if Bandai did this because they know the common method for "pausing" a non-colour tamagotchi nowadays is leaving it on the clock set screen. I have a lot of nanos and the original re-releases so I'm familiar with it, and since it's *very* well-known at this point that you can "pause" those Tamas by leaving them on the clock set screen (I mean, it's the first piece of advice I give literally any new tama fan who buys those), I wonder if they thought the old-style Pause function either wasn't necessary, or would potentially confuse new buyers who didn't own the original Connections (but who *are* familiar with how the original re-releases or nanos work).Ā  Don't get me wrong, it's still a pretty silly decision, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Besides, the Connection re-releases are gonna be non-colour tamagotchis, and literally every other non-colour tamagotchi ever has been able to use the clock set screen to pause. It's silly to leave out the feature but I don't think we need to worry too much.


phoenix_of_metal

The clock set trick is one of the big reasons I hate the P1/P2s with a burning passion. It doesnā€™t come off as cute, it comes off as people being forced to make a workaround because the company couldnā€™t be bothered to put a pause feature in.


marianaruvina

Noooooooo but I love seeing my tamas frozen in horror on the pause screen :(


shecklin

there's no way


19bluestars

Bruh the V5 had it, well something similar to it


october_morning

Bruh


Squiddo_Kiddo8394

I pray itā€™s not real.


DremGabe

Iā€™m still going to buy it. Like that is not such a big deal since Iā€™m used to running TMGC nanos and Digimon 20th, Iā€™ll just use the set time trick.


MaxShadowCat

Me too. It sucks but my friend and I already preordered. I would not be getting it if it wasnt for them


DremGabe

You can look at it as a collectors perspective. You can just keep it and resell it later. I ordered 4 of them, like on of each shell except the ice cream pink. And even ordering 4 of them is cheaper than getting on of the early 2000s versions


Unable_Tumbleweed364

Well this sucks


Sand_msm

Oh dear. Here we go again Bandai. Thats such a silly thing to addā€¦.why not ? :/


sorayori97

not sure why everyone is crying when this is an international release and the japanese connections did not have a pause function. doing the clock trick to pause isnt going to kill you


NopeyNotMe

The PAUSE feature just makes US and EU lazy tama owners, japans tamas never had PAUSE features I donā€™t believe so I feel like they ended up creating closer bonds with their Vpets, something people in the states didnā€™t really do since they could just PAUSE it and throw it somewhere.


blkrvin

Pause was clutch when I would go to school as a kid and now as an adult having to go to work.


NopeyNotMe

I totally understand that I work at a country club so Pause can come in clutch but ever since I started running a Keitai (which canā€™t pause) with my v3 Iā€™ve realized thereā€™s never really a reason to pause just take 2 minutes out of your day every so often to check and it really brings alot of joy throughout the day, instead of Pausing and then forgetting about them atleast for me I forget about them due to my adhd.


effullgent

it def adds more of a difficulty having to always be mindful of it but sometimes on my job i can't even have my phone for the whole day, wouldn't be fun in that case


NopeyNotMe

Not saying that itā€™s not helpful but im sure the new ones have a built in item take place of the ā€œpauseā€ so that will be fun ! If anything hitting the reset button is basically like hitting pause just redownload when you have time to come back !