Digimon World (デジモンワールド Dejimon Wārudo?) is a role-playing, adventure, and digital pet video game developed by Bandai released at January 28, 1999 in Japan, North America at May 23, 2000, and PAL at July 6, 2001 for the PlayStation. It is the first game in the Digimon World series. The storyline focuses on a human brought to File City on File Island by Jijimon to save the island. Digimon have been losing their memories and becoming feral and the city has fallen into disarray. The goal of Mameo is to save the island by helping Digimon recover their memory and return to the city.

As it came before the anime in Japan, it is very strictly based on the Virtual Pets. The game play revolves around raising a single Digimon from its Digitama form, hatching into a Fresh, up through In-Training, Rookie, Champion, and with work, Ultimate. A Digimon partner will die with age, and return to an egg eventually, so the player has to raise it again.

Fans of the anime will be familiar with the sixth stage, Mega; however this game was made only shortly after the Pendulum series of pets, which introduced Mega level.

To raise a Digimon partner, the player must train it, feed it, let it rest, and take it to the bathroom.

The other main aspect of gameplay is battle. The player's partner Digimon fight the Digimon that have become aggressive due to a crisis on File Island. Partner Digimon begin the game with a few basic skills but acquire more as they progress in levels through the game.

The PAL region's variant cover art features the seven initial Partner Digimon from Digimon Adventure. The group includes Tentomon which isn't obtainable but does however appear in Beetle Land and Gomamon, who is otherwise completely absent from this game

Gameplay

Digimon World's game play utilizes two major aspects: Raising and battling. The element of monster raising consists of feeding your Digimon, allowing it to rest, and leading it to the bathroom. As a Digimon grows and trains, it can digivolve into a stronger form; there are 5 stages of digivolution in total including the desirable Ultimate form. Raising a Digimon carefully and properly helps progress through the game, and improper treatment can lead to dire consequences. The second element of the game, battling, composes the other major aspect of the game. Digimon World's battle system heavily relies on options that a player can command, such as "Your Call" and "Retreat".[3] As a player ventures in the wild, Digimon may engage in battle when touching each others paths. Battles are usually inevitable while adventuring, and they are a reliable source of techniques that a Digimon can learn and money. Training a partner Digimon enhances its parameters, enabling it to fight with better ease and digivolve to powerful forms. Digimon World also provides various mini-games for the player, including fishing, arena tournaments, and curling. Sub-quests are also available, mainly for new recruiting Digimon and other hidden surprises.

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  • rtstragedy [she/her]
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    14 hours ago
    angry ranting about computer problems

    I went to turn on my PC tonight, and just all of a sudden the wi-fi doesn't work. Neither does USB. I have a dual boot setup (only use Windows for VR) but it seems to be some kind of hardware issue because not only does the wi-fi device apparently not fucking exist in both operating systems, but the stupid keyboard and mouse that has always worked now won't connect (it's not bluetooth, it's the usually decent logitech receiver thing)

    The worst part?? Keyb/mouse works JUST FINE in the bios, and the bootloader. Once it's in either OS, it's fucking broken, and because there's no internet, I can't fix it without just trying to usb key my way out of this mess. Since there's no network and no input, I can't even troubleshoot.

    I tried to reset BIOS settings because I did do some tinkering in there a while ago, I think it made it worse, lol.

    I just upgraded this computer too, lol.

      • rtstragedy [she/her]
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        13 hours ago

        i was so mad before, but when i read your post i couldn't stop laughing, idk why. thank you haha (I'm finally feeling calm enough to go back in again, but yes return to PS/2 never failed me...)

        • ashinadash [she/her]
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          13 hours ago

          Lmao glad I could help. I also unironically never mained a desktop without a PS/2 port tbh.

          • rtstragedy [she/her]
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            13 hours ago

            ok so I figured it out - get this, the PCI-E USB card that I had in there was causing problems, apparently. Worked last week. Removed it, suddenly wifi works, and so does everything else.

            You might be on to something with this, since it appears that my problem was too many USB ports. Maybe the correct number is 0 after all. Return to PS/2 (do they still make mobos with them in them?)

            • ashinadash [she/her]
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              13 hours ago

              Could be a PCIE power management problem? Also PCIE 4.0 stuff can cause problems with that, try PCIE 3.0 in your bios if it's on Auto?

              I am shocked that you're using a card, most boards have like eight or ten, many ports... And yes, my Asus B450M A-II Prime has a combo PS/2 jack :3

              Glad you found the problem at least!

              • rtstragedy [she/her]
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                12 hours ago

                yeah, I was using the card so that I could do PCI passthrough back when I was using a VM for VR, since usb passthrough wasn't working, the motherboard has like 8000 ports, yeah. I'm not doing VM anymore, so I thought I'd just take it out. You might be right that it could be a power management issue, but I don't really need it right now so :shrug: I bet the card is fine

                Asus B450M A-II Prime has a combo PS/2 jack :3

                wow that's pretty cool actually, damn

                everything is fixed in linux, but windows pretends it doesn't know what wifi is, so i'm off to figure out which service i accidentally disabled lmao (It Was Working A Couple Weeks Ago)

                • ashinadash [she/her]
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                  12 hours ago

                  Oh gosh, computer troubleshooting is so funny ✨ VM VR does not sound fun, but cool that this problem got solved really fast at least!

                • rtstragedy [she/her]
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                  12 hours ago

                  progress: now wifi networks show up (i didn't change anything) but i cant connect to them lol

                  edit: i am connected to the internet, lmao wtf