Well I ended up getting a 4.5 with the globe pattern on it used on ebay for pretty cheap! It even came with the silly microphone dock that I'll never use and some software. I had to open it up and clean the button contacts because they were really dirty but it's been working great ever since!
Thanks for the awesome feedback! I suppose I'll just poke around and see what the major differences between 4 and 4.5 are and see what price I'm looking at. I might get a pair of them for the IR functionality.
I have some really good memories as a kid of my old v1 tamagotchi and wanted to get one for Christmas as a gift. What sort of functionality is lost by not having access to the tamatown website?
I was thinking of grabbing either a Connection v4 or v4.5 if not much functionality is lost or a...