I really wish there was a way we could watch walkthroughs/playthroughs/gameplays of InnoTab/InnoTab MAX/InnoTV games. I particularly want to see a playthrough on the Finding Dory game.

I'm currently working on a video talking about strange and odd facts relating to the V.Smile, and was wondering if any of you knew of any.

Some notable facts I've got so far are;

• While the VTech brand is well known for never having violence, some Chinese V.Smile games like ABC Park Adventure has one of the puzzle icons you must identify be of a soldier holding a rifle. I think this only shows up in more advanced modes.

• One of the most obscure mascots from VTech is this unknown CGI fish which can be seen in one commercial for the V.Smile Motion in Europe (likely France).

• That jingle heard when completing a Learning Zone mini game in ABC Park Adventure is sampled from "Der Fuehrer's Face" by Spike Jones which btw is a anti-Nazi song from when everyone was trying to fight back against the Nazis in WW2. Yes, this technically means that a V.Smile game references WW2, even if it is a technicality.

• The door sounds from Doom (1993) are used in The Batman Gotham City Rescue game. (I know it's really a stock sound that both games used, just lemme have this one)

Lol

Very early go go smart wheels cars says “Goodbye!” Instead of playing a short tune during auto power off sequence, but in 2013, they changed to short tune, wonder if any played a short tune the cars released in 2012?

Hi!

So, I have another obscure VTech toy in German: A learning laptop called "Mr. Laptop" from 2004 or 2005.

Do you know if this exists in English? I've never heard of an English version so far!

I have a German VTech toy called "Benjamin Blümchen Buchstabenbus" from the German "Lörni"-Series. The toy is based on the German audiobook series "Benjamin Blümchen".

What I want to know: Is there an English version of this VTech Bus or is that a rare German exclusive?

Who voiced Cogsley in the US

And who voiced Gadget in the UK

My last post was about alphabert but i found this… it looks to have alphabert and chip color scheme… so it could have been released after alphabert and chip? So maybe 2001 at the latest? Maybe even early 2002…

Either way… ive seen learning robot before but never this version if i remember… colors are weird…

Roby le futé

Source: https://www.beebs.app/fr/ca/ordinateurs_pour_enfant-2KR1WI9ZLYvwlbCZtEF4b

Futé in french means smart… so its (litteraly) roby the smart… i presume people who speak french dont refer to people as “Andy The smart”, its probably just a janky translation… vtech has weird names for french items… i still like them though and while i dont collect anymore i definitely will get any alphabert variants i see… especially this…

This appears to resemble alphabert a lot more than reading robot… so this could have came before it and they just ended up using this color scheme for alphabert and chip… not sure…

The following was lifted from there current end of life page as of 4/6/23.

Product End of Life Announcement

Dear Loyal Customer,

VTech products and services continually advance and evolve to meet global demands and to offer you the best features. In order to maintain industry-leading standards on our products we regularly release firmware updates that keep the products updated and you protected.

We would like to advise you that we can no longer support the firmware updates on our first-generation remote Baby Monitors and Wireless Monitoring models listed below and will discontinue the remote monitoring services and support from 30th Sept 2022.

Baby monitor models

VM981VM991

From 5th July 2022, your Baby Monitor product will continue to operate as a local monitor, however, the MyVTech Baby app, push notifications, and related services will no longer function.

Wireless monitoring models

VC931

VC921

VC9312-245

VC9311-112

From 30th Sept 2022, the MyVTech Cams app, push notifications, and related services will no longer function.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause and encourage you to contact the VTech customer support team in your region if you have any questions.

Thank You,

The VTech Team

From The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XVIII (aka S19e5), and Smart and Smarter (aka S15E13). I know this is parodying a VTech or LeapFrog device, and in the show is named Phonic Frog, but don't know what. In an episode it was shown to speak the pronounciations of letters when a button was pressed.

Found a page on the 2004 archives of VTech's site found in "http://www.vtech.com:80/pub/Jokesite/funMovie/"

is some kind of site that hosted funny images and movies. Sort of felt internal like it was just a think the employees did to pass the time.

The index page has it's page title say "leba.com", but at this time that url was on sale. There's an FAQ linked on this page but the two questions amount to "What is this?/idk", and "How do I become member/pay the fine". I know it's poor translation from Chinese to English but it still feels oddly vague. I'll put a table below on the videos that are available. If you go to one of the search.php pages you can find an index of some of these videos. All of them are of old commercials at the time of course compressed heavily for web standards. Despite every page under this Jokesite name being in Chinese, the commercials and videos are mainly in English. A few I noticed has this watermark flash at the lower corner, "viralx.com" which was a primitive site for sharing viral videos and images which is what this site is. The section of the site was last used around 2005. Outside of a small sample none of the images or videos will be hosted from this sub domain on here due to it not being that relevant towards VTech.

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Wine ads | 70_1726.wmv

Beer ad (1) | 68_1724.wmv

Flying car | 67_1723.wmv

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091.mpeg

093.mpeg

094.mpeg

119.avi

122.avi

123.avi

60_wuhui.wmv

61_pijiu.wmv

63_bbshs.asf

67_1723.wmv

68_1724.wmv

70_1726.wmv

71_1727.wmv

Here is the actual prototype V.Smile logo in high quality which was lost to time for nearly 20 years.

Found Here - https://www.vtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/AR2004_eng.pdf

(it's on page 19 btw)

I am currently reverse-engineering the german "Genius Leader 8008 CX" laptop. As with all models of that "CX" range, it is equipped with a non-standard serial port to connect the "MagiCam" digital camera and the "E-Mail-Set" modem, which works great :-)

VTech also sold a bespoke version of the sync software, called "PC-Link PLUS", which allowed file transfers between a Windows computer and the laptop (CX models store everything in their "VTFS" file system, so everything is a file). It is a completely separate and incompatible piece of software than the regular "PC-Link" or the later "IQ Link" program.

I fear the "PC-Link PLUS" software might be lost forever, since no one seems to have bought the accessory back in the days, so there is nothing on eBay. I even wrote to VTech directly, but they just answered with their default "no longer supported" and/or "our license for distributing the software expired" reply. Bummer. I even started disassembling the protocol ROM, but it has several nested state machines which are really hard to reverse-engineer.

So, my call to action…

Does anyone of you happen to have that software sitting around somewhere? Please contact me if you do!

Cheers!