Vital Bracelet Digital Monster

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Series	Vital Bracelet
Version
Colors	Black/White/Special
Release Date	March 13, 2021 May 2021 (premium Bandai) July 21, 2022 (stores)
Language	Japanese (Vital Bracelet), English (Vital Hero)
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List of Virtual Pets

Vital Bracelet Digital Monster (バイタルブレス デジタルモンスター Baitaru Buresu Dejitaru Monsutā) (Dub: Vital Hero Digital Monster) is a Wearable Terminal Type Digital Monster Virtual Pet.

Digimon Versions

Version	Release Date
ver.BLACK	March 13, 2021
ver.WHITE	March 13, 2021
ver.SPECIAL	March 13, 2021 (Bandai Collectors Shop Exclusive)
Digivice-V-	October 2, 2021
ver.BLUE (Vital Hero)	July 21, 2022 (USA Exclusive, Amazon Exclusive)
ver.RED (Vital Hero)	July 21, 2022 (USA Exclusive, Formerly Walmart Exclusive)
ver.BLACK (Vital Hero)	July 21, 2022 (USA Exclusive)

Device Description

The Vital Bracelet Digital Monster, Vital Bracelet Digivice-V-, and Vital Hero all require Dim Cards to load Digimon for gameplay. Each Dim Card comes with a maximum of 17 Digimon, arranged into a themed evolution tree.
They are all a wearable Virtual Pet watch, and the strap color is based on which model of the device you buy.

The goal of the device is to raise a Digimon from Baby-I to Ultimate on an evolution tree. These Digimon do not require food or bathroom breaks, instead they require the players heart rate and specific exercise-based evolution requirements to be filled. A Digimon evolves when enough time passes and enough Trophies, Battles and Vitals are earned. Specific evolutions have their own requirements to reach.

On the Device the left side has a black plastic removable cover, this is where Vital Bracelet Series/Memory Cards#Dim Cards are inserted.
The right side contains 2 buttons and a Micro USB charging port with a dust cover in the middle. The top button allows the user to scroll through the device's features, and the bottom button is select.

Select can be used as a back button in lot of cases, it can be used for stopping evolution, and running away from a NFC battle.

User Interface

Clock
Shows the time using a 24-Hour clock and list your steps (called miles) along with your Digimon mood. Press select on this page to see your cosmetic Tamer level, its based on your progress in the Vital Bracelet Lab (VB Lab).

Status
This shows how many Vital Levels your current character can still obtained, your current heartrate and how many steps you walked with them. Keep in mind the heartrate counter is not the most accurate.

Digimon
It shows information about your characters stats, what stage they are in, their attribute and how long you have raised it.

Mission
Lets you select a mission to earn a trophies (PP on BE) for evolution requirements. Swapping your character does not re-supply Normal / Hard Missions.

Storage
You can store 1 Extra character on your device, this is useful for Jogress.

App Link
This allows your device to interact with the VB Lab or the Vital Bracelet Arena (VB Arena).

System
Allows you to change the date / time, brightness, volume, background and delete all your data. the date is not viewable from regular gameplay.

Evolution Time Tables

Baby-I = 1 Hour
Baby-II = 3 Hours
Child = 16 Hours
Adult = 24 Hours
Perfect = 24 Hours
Ultimate = 24 Hours / 3 Hours via Jogress

• Note: Jogress evolution takes priority over regular evolution on the evolution screen. When in doubt you can cancel evolution by holding select.

Digimon List

Main article: Vital Bracelet Series/Memory Cards#Dim Cards

Dim Card	Digimon
Impulse City
Agumon
Gabumon
Ancient Warriors
Black Roar (Trial Version)
Shadow Howl (Trial Version)
Volcanic Beat
Blizzard Fang
Infinite Tide
Titan of Dust
Hermit in the Jungle
Nu Metal Empire
Guilmon (GP)
Impmon (GP)
Renamon (GP)
Monodramon (GP)
Dynasty of the Evil
Mad Black Roar
True Shadow Howl
Medarot × Digital Monster
Gammamon
Angoramon
Jellymon
Guilmon
Terriermon
Renamon
Primeval Warriors
Dinosaur Roar
Wolf Howl
Espimon
Ryudamon
Agnimon
Fairimon
Chackmon
Wolfmon
Blitzmon
Louwemon
Unobtainable (Raid Bosses)

Gameplay

Trophies
These are earned from completing Normal, Hard and Special Missions. Normal and Hard missions update daily, Special Missions however are received from the now defunct VB Lab making them unobtainable.

Missions

• Normal Mission: A single mission to be completed throughout the day for 1 Trophy. The player is asked to earn a number of something, this can be Steps, Battles or Vital Values.
  
• Hard Missions: Multiple missions which can earn 1-2 Trophies each. The player is asked to do rotating a set of short exercises that reset at the end of the day.
  
• Special Missions: An hour long infinitely repeatable selectable mission from VB Lab. These earned 3 Trophies each and you could hold 3 of them. They were done one at a time and new ones started after the current mission.
  
  

Special Mission List
"Win 6 Fights"
"Battle 10 Times"
"Gain 360 Vitals"
"Walk 6000 Steps" (Listed as 6000 Miles in app)

Adv Mission
The player walks a designated number of steps with their Digimon through 15 Stages and does not earn Trophies directly.
Clearing Stage 15 usually unlocks the hardest evolution. When Stage 15 is done the Adv text will turn red, and all future Digimon made on the Dim will be cleared too. This is reverted when the DRM is reset.

Battles
These are the fights your Digimon get into, like the traditional V-Pet too many back-to-back losses can kill your Digimon. All single player battles on the device itself pull opponents from your own Dim. Battles can be in triggered multiple ways.

• NFC contact: If the watch comes in contact with a NFC device that is outputting a signal a random battle based will happen.
  
• Adv Mission: The first battle in Adv Mission will count as a battle for battle missions, while the total number of battles after that are counted correctly you need to start it over for the mission counter.
  
• VS Memory: This is a dim card comes with the device, you use it to battle a player in the real world locally.
• Vital Bracelet Lab App: These Battles provide EXP for your tamer level when a tour ends, and can increase your Vital Value score, but do not count as a battle for Evolution requirements.
• Vital Bracelet Arena App: These battles only decrease Vital Values. They have to be increased by sending your Digimon to the watch or with event only "Vital Drinks".

Vital Values
These are Values your Digimon earns from detecting your heart rate. The more you exercise the higher they go. They do have a limit though, to reduce them lose battles, use the -1000 Vitals item from VB lab or take the watch off without your Digimon being asleep.

Steps
The device can keep track of your steps. That being said it is not the most accurate counter, shaking it around counts as steps. Pairing it with a mobile app that counts steps is recommended.

Emotional States

• Nothing: Your characters default state, it features the Digimon doing its basic walk animation on the screen.
• Cloud: Your heart rate is not being detected or you took the watch off, the longer this state the more vitals your character loses.
• Running: Your heart rate is increased and your character is exercising with you.
• Sun: Your character is feeling happy increasing its vitals further.
• Skull: Your character has lost too many fights and is on the verge of dying, to heal them you need take the watch off and give them some rest when you get a chance, avoid fights in the meantime.
• Green Cross: Your character is healing itself.
• Bubble: Your character is asleep.

Hardware Revisions

The Vital Bracelet Digital Monster comes in Multiple Models. They all come with a VS memory for local Multiplayer

Vital Bracelet Digital Monster

• Launch device with the DM logo, it comes in black, white or yellow. Pulsemon is included with the black and white versions, while V-Mon is with yellow.
• Digimon have their own sleep schedule and the evolution counter stops counting down while they are asleep.
  
• Vital Values drop more quickly when the user is not wearing the watch.
  
• The menu buttons do not contain text describing what each button does and the storage icon looks different.
• Dims are locked to 1 device.
  
• Users do have access to debugging tools for resetting Dim Card DRM.
  
  

Digivice V

• 2nd Revision device with the triple V logo, it's navy blue and includes Gammamon.
• Digimon fall asleep when you tell them to, you do this by pressing both buttons on the clock screen.
• Digimon Evolution time passes while the Digimon is asleep.
• Vital Values drop slower with the watch off.
• Exercise Requirements are less strict on the Digivice V.
• Selectable elements are now labeled in English.
• Dims are locked to 3 devices.
  
• Users may have access to debugging tools for resetting Dim Card DRM. It depends on the firmware on the Digivice V.
  
  

Vital Hero

• This is mostly rebadged Digivice V, it has DM logo like the first Vital Bracelet model as well.
• The arm strap is longer for the global market, and the Un-adjustable volume for its beeping sounds is slightly quieter.
• Digimon Stages and Attributes will be in English when using the Vital Hero. Digimon names depend on the Dim Card itself.
• Users do not have access to debugging tools for resetting Dim Card DRM.
• Vital Hero's originally came in 3 Digimon variants before expanding outside the Digimon IP. The launch colors are red (Dinosaur Roar), blue (Wolf Howl) and black (Pulse City).
  
  

Bandai Characters

• Based on the Digivice V, this watch is designed for Kamen Rider / Ultraman VBMs. It is partially compatible with Digimon Dims.
• All Bandai Character watches come in some shade of black, and have the longer arm strap like the Vital Hero. Check for the VB, 50th or 55th logos.
• Jogress is not functional as Vbm cards are not made for it. Also using Vbms on your Digimon Device is not recommended as Adventure mode doesn't save.
• 2 Dims can be used a Bandai Characters Device, and this does not take away from the Device limit of Digimon watches.
• Users do have access to debugging tools, but not for resetting Dim Card DRM.
  
  

Vital Bracelet BE

• This is the follow up to all the watches above and has major gameplay shake ups, check out the Vital Bracelet BE page to learn more.
• All cards work without DRM limits hardware wise as the device accepts Dim, Vbm and Vhm cards.
• App wise all cards work with the exception of Vhm as those are only functional in the Vital Hero section of VB Arena.
• The device has a longer strap like the Vital Hero and Bandai Characters watches.
• If you started on a Vital Bracelet keep in mind your monsters can not be transferred to the BE, you will have to start over.

App Features & Compatibility

Before sending anyone to an app make sure you're using the correct watch, otherwise there will be transfer problems on one or more of these apps.
When transferring a character back to the watch when using more than one character card, the app may require the card to be re-inserted to load the data on the device.

Vital Bracelet Lab

• As of March 13th 2023 at 15:00 JST the service has been shut down.
• The app works with Vital Bracelet Digital Monster, Digivice V, and the Vital Hero.
  
• File transfer is seamless.
  
• There is a shop with items and missions to enhance the player experience.
  
• The app has limited storage for Digimon.
  
• There were live group raids to unlock more storage and themes.
  
• The app had asynchronous online multiplayer for the cosmetic tamer exp / level and item prizes.
  
• Transferring a Digimon off VB Lab while it is asleep in Lab will not transfer missions over.
  
  

Vital Bracelet Arena

• The VB Arena treats the Vital Bracelet Digital Monster / Digivice V, Vital Hero and Bandai Character Watch as separate devices.
  
• Online Multiplayer is live but requires all parties to have the same supported category of device.
• If an online opponent can not be found an Ai one will be provided. The Ai is from the BE half of the app, they have Abilities and likely have BE stats.
• VB Arena has unlimited Storage.
  
• You can send your stored Digimon away on an adventure for 12 to 24 hours to bring back items.
• Dims stats are locked in VB Arena. This means BEM Digimon from the newer Vital Bracelet BE are far stronger than regular Dims.
  
• VB Arena doesn't allow for data transfer between devices.
  
• The following have been removed: item shop, tamer level, group raids and special missions.
  
• The Vital Bracelet BE cannot play with any other devices physically.
  
• Digimon transfer can be glitchy in VB Arena, if your Digimon clones itself, delete the clone without closing the app. Clones will corrupt your account, which would require a in app file wipe to fix.

Image Gallery

Japanese Digimon Vital Bracelet Models

ver.BLACK	ver.WHITE	ver.SPECIAL	Vital Bracelet Digivice-V-

Japanese Digimon Vital Bracelet Boxes

ver.BLACK	ver.WHITE	ver.SPECIAL	Vital Bracelet Digivice-V-

US Exclusive Digimon Vital Bracelets Boxes

Vital Hero Digital Monster - Black	Vital Hero Digital Monster - Blue (Amazon Exclusive)	Vital Hero Digital Monster - Red (Formerly Walmart Exclusive)

Digimon DIM Cards

Impulse City / Pulse City	Ancient Warriors	Black Roar (Premium Bandai Gachapon)	Shadow Howl (Premium Bandai Gachapon)
Agumon	Gabumon	Blizzard Fang	Volcanic Beat

Infinite Tide	Titan of Dust	Hermit in the Jungle	Nu Metal Empire
Guilmon (Premium Bandai Gachapon)	Impmpn (Premium Bandai Gachapon)	Renamon (Premium Bandai Gachapon}	Monodramon (Premium Bandai Gachapon)

Mad Black Roar	True Shadow Howl	Dynasty of Evil	Gammamon
Medarot X DigitalMonster	Angoramon	Jellymon	Guilmon EX2

Terriermon EX2	Renamon EX2	Primeval Warriors	Dinosaur Roar
Wolf Howl	Espimon	Ryudamon	Agnimon

Fairimon	Chackmon	Wolfmon	Blitzmon
Louwemon

Miscellaneous

Concept art	Concept art	Concept art	Concept art
Concept art	Vital Bracelet Packaging Size Comparison

Sales

As of August 1, 2021, the Vital Bracelet Digital Monster has sold over 200,000 units.

Device Care

• The device is thin but taller than most smart watches, a screen protector is highly recommended as it will get scratched.
• All versions of the device are on the fragile side, buttons can break and they do not take falls well.
• It is not known if alcohol is safe to use on the plastic display.

Glitches / Oversight

• If the player plays consecutive Adv Mission battles without resetting the mode only the 1st fight is counted for the Normal/Special Missions. This does not affect your characters battle total win/lose ratio.
• These watches lack the ability to delete a character from the watch itself as they can only be overwritten with a new card. While not game breaking, it can be an inconvenience when the app eventually closes as Jogress evolution takes priority.

Other Cards

The Vital Bracelet Digital Monster was designed with DiM cards in mind, however it does have support or partial support for a few others.

• Digimon Dim - 37 cards fully Supported
• Kamen Rider / Ultraman Vbm - 20 cards partially supported
• DC Comics - 3 Cards fully supported on hardware, Vital Hero is required for VB Arena.

Trivia

• Originally only new Digimon were going to be used, but this decision was changed after looking at the Digimon catalog.
• The Vital Bracelet series has more than just Digimon. There is Bandai Characters, Vital Hero DC Comics, and a variety of franchises being made for the Vital Bracelet BE.
• A Vital Hero Memory (VHM) can load the BE, Bandai Characters, Original Vital Bracelet / Digivice V and Vital Hero, however VB Arena will only accept a Vital Hero for app transfer.
• The Vital Bracelet and Vital Bracelet Characters devices each had their own Lab app before VB Arena. Both Lab apps are now delisted, with Characters Lab being the only one still functioning.
• The US exclusives Dims "Dinosaur Roar" and "Wolf Howl" are remixed versions of "Mad Black Roar" and "True Shadow Howl". They have some roster changes and 2 child Digimon each.
• Along with "Impulse City", the entire Vol Series excluding "Mad Black Roar" and "True Shadow Howl" have English Dim variants. There are no gameplay changes, just English text.
• "Impulse City" had its Dim card name changed to "Pulse City" when sold in the US.
• DC VHMs can be used for attribute Jogress with Dims.
• Ancient Warriors has a couple of references to the V-Tamer Manga. V-Mon line is an Ancient Species like the Manga and the castle icon is a nod to Holy Angel Castle.
  
  

Links

• Bandai Toys website (JP)
• ver.SPECIAL (Premium Bandai Shop)

Additional Information

References	Notes