FM-1 firmware · v1.0.0
Trumpagotchi
A parody virtual pet: feed and praise a demanding Trump who joins your pentatonic keyboard playing on bongos when he is happy.
- Made by
- adamcharleswilsonmusic-code
- Released
- October 13, 2026
- Install
- On GitHub
- Scan
- Scanned, nothing harmful found · Oct 31 What we checked
- Last checked
- October 31, 2026
What Trumpagotchi does
- You raise a tiny Trump pet inside the FM-1, feeding, praising, cleaning and resting him.
- The lower white keys play a corny pentatonic instrument, and a happy Trump joins in on bongos.
- Keyboard notes are dry, with no reverb or delay, and K1 to K4 and FX are unused.
- The first four lit upper black keys are Feed, Praise, Clean and Rest, left to right.
- Feed refills his burger stack, Praise lifts his mood, Clean removes wrappers and cartoon poo, and Rest sleeps or wakes him.
- A day lasts five minutes, and sleeping at night runs through to dawn and restores full energy.
- Press SAVE once the audio is quiet to store progress and see PET SAVED, and it also autosaves about once a minute.
- PLAY and STOP pause or continue the pet, clock and audio, while MASTER sets overall volume.
Its modes
- Status
- Press HOME to open or close the status view with the three bars and the controls guide.
- Start Over
- Press GLO for the key guide and a deliberate restart, choosing No or Yes with the SELECT knob and confirming with SEL.
- Game Over
- Appears with a quiet wamp wamp wah when Food, Mood and Energy all hit zero, and any button or key starts fresh.
What Les checked
Trumpagotchi v1.0.0Scanned October 31, 2026
What we checked for
- The file is exactly the one its author published
- It's the same file we saw when this release first came out
- It opens cleanly as an FM-1 firmware, nothing damaged
- It doesn't show up on your computer as a keyboard, mouse or other input device
- It doesn't show up as a USB drive or network adapter
- Its text mentions no computer command tools, like PowerShell, Terminal or a download command
What we found
- MIDI and audio, as expected
StatusScanned, nothing harmful found
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