DIGIMON Bandai Original Digivice Virtual Pet Monster - Gray

So, I've been waiting for the English release of the Wave 2 X series (Gold/Silver X) and a huge disappointment that they got the roster mixed up for the shells. It's a huge nitpick, I know, but who ever converted the programming swapped the monsters in the Silver into the Gold and vice-versa. They are even advertising it with the correct roster that the original Japanese version had but the actual product doesn't have those monsters.I am not sure if future restock will have it fixed or they will just leave it and adjust their advertising instead.Other than that, it's fun mini portable monster fighting virtual pet.

I ordered and Amazon delivered. This pet is amazing, and I got back into Digimon a week ago, so I couldn't pass up on buying this. I got the Gray version since it has the exclusive Gabumon egg, and Gabumon is my favorite (as well as Agumon). Thank you so much for the speedy delivery, Amazon! It works great, it was new in box, and it's the most adorable virtual pet I ever raised.

First off. There are 11 eggs on each “color version” of the device. 1 egg is specific to each device color version.The site humulos digimon” can be searched for, it lists both the original 1997 and the newer anniversary model. Pretty sick what little changed, and what changed is for the better. Both can battle together(I’ve yet to test this with my 1997 model bc of battery sizes/voltage differences of today). Both have the same 5 eggs and digimon(except the original had an additional 6th egg group, that line was changed for 5 additional eggs mostly linear evolutions.The added “Jogressing” and copy feature are an interesting addition of features to the new model as well. I’ll not spoil the fun…. “Humulos Digimon” is the site and that can be compared on the site.The version 1,2,3,4,5 will refer to eggs of all devices.The color device you have refers to version a,b,c,d,e

While I still miss my cluster of digimon (at least grey, brown green and clear) and virtual pets stolen/ lost on the school bus all those years ago. These are still quite upgraded models with many more digimon to raise, including two at a time. While someone has likely sold off my old ones these will take up my time and maybe be able to share with my daughters when they are a little older.

*I've noticed weird things with Amazon's reviews lately where the descriptions seem to be for other products. This review is supposed to be for the new Digimon virtual pet, if you find this review under anything other than a Digimon 20th anniversary version, then there's been some kind of product switcharoo with the listing.**Amazon has recently grouped the Digimon X versions in with the 20th anniversary editions instead of giving them their own product page. They look virtually identical, with the exception of the colors and a big X painted on the new models. The X version differences are significant and you should check them out before buying.I was a big fan of the original Digimon virtual pet. I was very annoyed when year after year, Japan kept getting new versions of them that were never released in the USA. While stateside got a good part of the Digivice toys that were based on the shows, most of them just seemed to be games rather than a true pet. The closest exception being the Digivice iC 10X which as far as I could tell was locked into one evolution path, despite having similar options to raise, feed, and train the monster.To my surprise, Bandai released this out of the blue stateside. It is not a simple reproduction of the original, but rather an all new device, a translated and tweaked version of the 20th anniversary edition released in other regions back in 2017, or so the wikis say. As a result, many things are changed and tweaked. If you wanted a pure reproduction of the original, that is not what this is.The most immediate differences I've spotted in this model are things like: A four letter name entry (Careful, cant be changed without resetting the device). The digimon evolve much faster. It used to take me three days to get from second stage baby to rookie, then seven to ultimate, but in one day I had a rookie tier Augomon. I kinda miss this, but it means you'll be battling with other kids and grown men enthusiasts inside a day. This was probably changed so kids didn't have to wait three days to get fighting, like waiting for the snow to melt to use your bike you got for Christmas. The training mode where you tried to shoot attacks past your mirror opponent's blocks is no longer here(it has been slightly repurposed), but rather you just mash A button to fill a bar while he smashes a wall. The biggest change however is that you get to raise TWO monsters on the same digivice, more on that shortly. And finally, a dead battery doesn't make you lose your progress. While I have yet to test this, the digivice's memory is apparently not reset when the battery goes completely dead.The device also gets a battle mode that gives your monster on board opponents to fight without having a second digivice or a friend to fight, although I don't know if it affects your evolution paths the same way as fighting another digivice does. There does not seem to be a way that I can find to make your two on-board monsters fight eachother, save for as sparring partners.Once you have your first egg hatched and to rookie stage, you can choose from one of several eggs to hatch your second digimon (From digimon pets 1-5, and some locked evolution path extra characters if I understand right). From there, pressing C swaps you between three screens, one showing one or the other digimon currently on the machine, and a middle view showing both. When showing one digimon you get the usual feeding, training and stats screens. When you select the screen that shows both digimon, everything you do feeds, heals, trains etc both of them, while swapping to a particular one feeds/trains/etc only that one. The original training mode in fact comes into play when both digimon are shown, where the two spar with eachother, which is admittedly a better place for that minigame. The three screen system is very intuitive. Having the two Digimon is supposed to facilitate evolutions from the show that required two digimon to fuse. Even if you can't figure out how to get them to evolve into a path where a fusion actually happens, its still an enormously cool feature, almost like having two separate digimon pets at once.Additionally, the screen goes blank after a few seconds to preserve battery life (Which gave me a scare since blank screens meant a dead battery on the original). I'm not sure how much of the life is saved by doing so, but I imagine that's most of where the battery power goes into. This could stretch the even a cheap factory installed battery to last MUCH longer. Unfortunately the device comes only with a "testing battery", which got me about a month on another CR2O32 powered digivice toys which had no screen saver. Tomagotchis and Digimon originally got about a month out of life out of their "testing" LR44 batteries, and a good branded replacement got me close to two YEARS of operation with the sound muted most of the time. I suppose most kid's attention spans only lasted that long anyway, but for me that didn't even last long enough for my first digimon to die. Here in the USA the batteries used to cost a good 10 bucks to replace from radioshack, CR2O32's are a bit more common but still pricey. Considering how much this costs MSRP, and 20 years of technological advancements, I don't feel like I should give Bandai any slack for sticking us with a pricey battery replacement soon after purchase. That is where this loses a star. That and it comes with some of the same chintzy feeling rubber buttons that you can't quite tell if your pressing right sometimes, dust trap screen that's nearly impossible to clean, etc, but that is the cost of making this as authentic to the original's shell as possible.Still, I love the machine and am very grateful Bandai released a new model stateside after all these years. The new features freshen it up a good bit too. I hope this is not a one off though and maybe we can expect the states to get a few more of these in the years to come, with some of the advancements like hard plastic buttons and dust resistant screen.UPDATE: I happened to notice a purple Digimon on sale, and had to look, and found that my review was one of the best rated! I've taken the time to edit the review a bit for mistakes and readability, and ad some more details.

still doing good

I have a 1997 and this 20th feels much better in construction. A little heavier and more solid in general. The ink in the LCD has really good contrast. Buttons are really smooth, sound is the prefect volume. It's a high quality device overall. Definitely worth the price. The manual could use a little more detail. I'm quite happy with this digivice.

Simply stated, improved in every way. Battery life with screen saver mode, able to raise 2 digimon, train and fight as a tag team, and solo battles to unlock digivolutions. Battery lasted just under 2 months with heavy use, which was about 5 generations of digimon ages 12-15. Need to raise that many on a single device to unlock the jogress evolution for the two eggs unlocked by raising 50 unique digimon (includes individual stages).