furdish names
my mom got me a white baby brainy for christmas and i have been playing with it quite a bit bc ive always wanted a furby knockoff.
the names in particular are quite interesting as they dont follow the "word as a name" thing that genuine furbys do. furdish-speaking knockoffs will also sometimes use their name in place of "koh"/"me" in some phrases, eg. "noo-tye (name) kah-kah" ("tickle (name) again").
instead, furdish names are generated from two syllables, most of which dont seem to be part of a furdish word. a furdish fake can have the same syllable for both halves of a name, as stated in the manual for furbish. robotic furdish is most likely exempt from this as i havent seen one say their name.
below are the ones ive found, alphabetized. th…
research- why it's important to hard-restart after putting a 98 into test mode!
i put my sherbet furby, slushy, into the diagnostics mode while doing maintenance on them. their mechanisms do work but they came to me in bad shape and didnt boot at all when i first got them so i had to do the advanced motor force start to get them working. anyway.
soft resetting the furby while it's in diagnostics mode will send "corrupted" data to the eeprom (responsible for storing and saving data pertaining to the furby's name, voice pitch, and proficiency stage), but im not sure if it's actually corrupted data or an error due to the revised firmware. notable differences with this eeprom data are:
the furby's voice pitch will be somewhere between low and medium
the furby's name will always be doo-moh (please)
the furby will always be sic…