Now we want tu show u our MINI-ME pikchurez that we sent tu Rubie's Birthday Event. Mom furst read 'boutz this a few dayz ago an'we told her we wanted tu du it. Well, she iz one of thoze furry best prokrastinaterz - ya'know, one of thoze peepz who putz off stuffz so FINALLY tuday she takez our pikchurez then we git them sent tu Rubie - the day B-4 her birthday event contest endz. Bunnyz are a 'friend' breed introduced in Catz 4. Like Pigz, their Pick A Pet icon is a star.
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Petz (Dogz and Catz) is a series of games dating back to 1995, in which the player can adopt, raise, care for and breed their own virtual pets. Petz has sold over 3 million copies worldwide.[citation needed]
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Game play
The player starts at the Adoption Center,where they may choose a dog or cat to adopt of a breed and gender of their choosing. Once they have found a pet they like the user can adopt and name the new puppy or kitten. After around three days (real time) the petz become adults. Adult petz can then breed and have kittens or puppies of their own in Petz 3, Petz 4, and Petz 5 (this was not available in the first two lines). Cross-breeding can create different types of petz, called 'Mixed Breeds'.
There are a number of toyz, food/water bowls and treats available. Petz can learn tricks with positive rewards such as tickling and treats, or trained not to do something using the punishment (water) spray bottle. Petz must be looked after properly; abused or neglected petz may run away.
Players may share their petz with others who have the game via an E-Mail. Each version allows the importing of petz from all earlier versions. There is also a camera feature, permitting snapshots of petz to be taken and saved as .bmp files.
Bunnies Petz 4 Demo
Other animals include pigz and bunniez. Later versions of the games included a Petz Web Fun Pack, Petz Publisher and a Petz Player web browser plug-in, allowing players to publish their petz online in playable webpages.
Users learned how to reverse-engineer the system, and began producing additional breedz, toys, playscenes, clothes, and developer tools for the games, as permitted by PF Magic, Mindscape, and Ubisoft Entertainment.
Creature design
Body: (ball style design) The petz are modelled as a set of balls joined by lines with variable parameters. The concept for this was developed in an early PF Magic title, the fighting game Ballz for Sega Genesis. This model was scrapped in the 2006 games 'Dogz' and 'Catz' for the PC for a more 'realistic' look.
Colors: There are 10 default fur colors that occur naturally in the game. Eye color is not restricted to the 10 default fur colors. In 'hexed' breedz/petz the range of colors can be much greater, although all colors must be within the 256-bit selection. Any coat colors other than the default 10 can not be inherited properly and will mutate to inheritable colors in offspring, usually white.[citation needed]
Textures: Textures cover the ballz, imitating fur and stripes.
Paintballz: Some Breedz have splotches of color or texture on their bodies called Paintballz. The spots on the Alley Cat, Calico, and Dalmatian are examples of this.
Breedz
Each Petz breed has its own body shape and color variations.
Petz 2 began with 5 Breedz per game, and new ones were introduced through downloads via the PF Magic website. In addition to what became 10 Breedz, avid Petz fans began using a hex editor to modify the 10 Breedz to form new ones. This hexing continued through Petz 3 as well.
Petz 3 and 4 contain 10 Breedz per game, referred to as the Original PF Magic Breedz. Petz 5 saw the addition of 5 new Breedz per game, referred to as the UbiSoft Breedz.
'Hexies'
Hexed breedz and petz, called 'hexies', are petz that have been modified to appear or act a certain way. Color, size, behaviour, sound, shape, texture, paintballz and other variables can be changed this way. This is often used to create new breedz. The term comes from 'hexadecimal code', which is the coding that is modified to create a hexie.
Breeding and Petz genetics
File:Mixed Breed.PNGPetz in the game can become attracted to one another and breed to produce offspring. This feature was introduced in Petz 3 and has also appeared in Petz 4 and Petz 5. In Petz 3 and Petz 4, a petz couple could only produce one kitten/puppy per breeding, but in Petz 5 a mother can bear up to four offspring per litter.
The user can encourage petz to fall in love by squirting them with love potions and perfumes and giving them food with aphrodisiac-like qualities, as well as using other means. When petz have mated, a heart will appear on the screen informing the user of the female's pregnancy (which generally lasts 3 – 5 days). In that time, females will become noticeably rounder and will require extra food and attention.
Petz' genes carry through to their offspring but can mutate, resulting in different fur and eye colors to that of the parents. The shape and size of body parts is also inherited in 'sections;' eg. the legs, head, and ears could be inherited from one parent and the feet, tail, and body could be inherited from another.
When two different breeds of Petz are bred together, the offspring will have the base personality of one parent (or ancestor). The base personality can be determined by the pet's voice, their personality and behavior and how they pose if they are a cat.
Petz life cycle
When petz have babies, the player is asked to name the offspring. During the first few days of a pet's life, it is blind, small and cannot walk. The mother feeds her infant and the user can do so with the milk bottle.
In Petz 5, when the puppies/kittens are young, they remain in the nursery room with their mother until they are weaned. Only the mother and offspring can access this room and the mother and offspring cannot be taken out separately. When the babies have grown up, the nursery becomes inaccessible. In Petz 3 and 4, the mother and her single puppy/kitten have free access to all areas.
The newborn will later open its eyes and it is able to walk around, jump onto ledges and stop suckling. They can eat from food bowls and drink from the milk bottle, but cannot swallow treats.
Eventually, the offspring will separate from their mothers as they grow to kittens and puppies.
2006 Petz and on
The 2006 and onwards Petz games bear little resemblance to the original Petz games. Instead of ball-and-line modelled Catz and Dogz that could grow, breed, and interact with each other, the 2006 Petz features 3D graphics that can be retextured, but not remodelled by players due to the software used to create them (the resulting model files being saved in a format incompatible with other 3D programs).
Six other games were released along with Catz and Dogz. These were Bunnyz, Horsez, Tigerz, Dolphinz, Monkeyz and Hamsterz. The new Petz games were produced for a range of consoles, including Playstation 2, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance and PC. On the DS and GBA, the player can care for up to three catz or dogz, which are unable to breed, whilst on the Wii and PS2, the player controls a cat or dog on an adventure quest to save the planet from Ivlet, an evil wolf. In this version the player may customize his/her cat or dog to their style, respectively. In the PC version, the player cares for a single pet.
See also
External links
Academic papers
Paranoia breed files
Rissa kindly uploaded her missing breedfiles to PKC for us! All notes on this page are Rissa's and have been copied intact from the Paranoia website (as they can't be easily read there at the moment). Files may or may not be PKC registerable.
Furfiles
Dogz Furfiles ::Catz Furfiles ::Some other Furfiles
Breed Files
Catz
American Curl
P3 ::P4 ::P5
There are 13 coat colour variations, with or without bi-colour or other white markings, making a total of 39 coat colour variations ^_^There are also several eye-colour variations.
There are three coat length variations in the one file!
NOTES: Requires external fur files.
Balinese
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes in all the colours shown - red, chocolate, seal, blue, cream and grey ^_^
It has an addballz tail.
British Shorthair
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes in various tortie, tabby and torbies as well as solid colours. All variations can come with or without bi-colour markings. Males are larger and heavier built than females. In future generations these gender differences aren't locked and you can get any combination.
NOTES: Has 6 external furfiles (for tabbies)
Cornish Rex
P3 ::P4 ::P5
# Made van a variation like it was supposed to be in the first place ;)
# Removed random coloured patches, added 'Van' variation and altered kitten. All variations in the file should now be PKC registerable.
There are 12 body colours in this file - all the ten 'realistic' colours as well as calico and dilute calico. Each cat can come with or without additional white markings - bicolour, van or white trim patterns. All catz come with gold eyes.
Cymric
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes in several colour variations, all with or without extra white markings. Can have green, gold or copper eyes. Also, comes as a true tailless variation or a small stumpy tail (not preferred in shows). Several face, leg and body length variations.
NOTES: Has 2 external furfiles (for tabbies)
Japanese Bobtail
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Fixed tabby variations and removed blue and odd eye variations. All catz from the AC should now be PKC registerable.
The file comes with 36 different coat variations, with or without the bi-colour markings, adding to a total of 72 different variations.
There are also 19 eye-colour variations.
Longhair and Shorthair are both in the same file!
Odd eyed variation colours are slightly different to those shown.
NOTES: Requires external fur files.
Norwegian Forest Cat
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Several different coat colour variations, and several eye colour variations also.
All colour variations now in the same file. Ruff texture has changed, face has been updated and outlines altered. The updates won't affect breeding at all. Kittens grow their ruffs as they reach maturity ^_^
NOTES: Requires external fur files.
IMPORTANT: Both variation files overwrite each other.
Ocicat V2
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Petz 4 and P5 versions now have the correct personality! (Maine Coon instead of Siamese)Thanks go once again to Minibyte for fixing this ^_^
Comes with many eye colour and coat variations.Also comes with two leg length and two body weight variations.
NOTES: Requires external fur-files.
Oriental Longhair
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes in all accepted solid colours, tortie (patched), dilute tortie (patched) and tortie(mingled) with or without the bi-colour variation.Has several eye colour variations.It has an addballz tail.
NOTES: The pattern on the tail of the calicoes is slightly different to that shown.
Oriental Shorthair
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes in all accepted solid colours, tortie (patched), dilute tortie (patched) and tortie(mingled) with or without the bi-colour variation.Has several eye colour variations.
It has an addballz tail.
NOTES: The pattern on the tail of the calicoes is slightly different to that shown.
Persian
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Has two drop tail variations and a normal tail variation. Also has variations of the addballz mouth outlines and some kitties don't have the extra outlines at all. Comes in lots of colours! Solids, Tabbies, Torties, Calicoes, bi-colours and colourpoints ^_^
WARNING! Some catz come out with BLUE EYES when they should have COPPER EYES. Only solid white cats and colourpoints can be registered with blue eyes.
Ragdoll
P3 ::P4 ::P5
All coat colours shown come in the one breedfile. The file comes with three different shades of blue for eyes.
Note: Contains two pattern variations - Pointed and Mitted. So there are 11 colour variations, and 2 pattern variations, meaning a total of 22 coat variations ^_^ - Not to mention three eye colours.. *is happy*
NOTES: Requires external fur files.
Scottish Fold
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes in all accepted solid colours, with or without extra white markings. Can have green, gold or copper eyes. Comes with both longhair and shorthair variations.
NOTES: Has two internal furfiles.
Selkirk Rex V2
P3 ::P4 ::P5
# My old Selkirk just looked like a scruffy, straight-tailed persian with a curly furfile *lol* So it was time for an update. This file has many variations. 18 Coat Colours# 2 Body Lengths
# 3 Leg Lengths
# Longhair and Shorthair Coats
# 2 Addballz and 1 Normal Tail
# 3 White Marking Variations (or no white)
# 9 Eye Colours
NOTES: Requires external furfiles.
Siamese
P3 ::P4 ::P5
The siamese comes in all the colours shown - red, chocolate, seal, blue, cream and grey - as well as having an addballz tail.
Siberian
P3 ::P4 ::P5
One third of catz come with addball ear tufts. There are two ruff size variations, several eye colour variations and looooooads more colours than those shown ;) - it comes in every accepted solid colour, dilute tortie, tortie, and well mingled tortie, as well as unique patterns of every accepted colour and white.
Somali
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes with the 7 main body colours shown (heavily ticked ruddy, lightly ticked ruddy, cream, blue, red, silver and fawn) with cream or white face markings. Some have matching either belly markings, chest markings, toe markings, all three, or a combination of two of these, in either cream or white (depending on the face markings).
Comes with or without a ruff, however you won't know this until the cat gets older.
Comes with two types of green eyes and two types of gold eyes.
Turkish Angora V2
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Includes solid white as well as solid and bicolour grey, red, cream, black, distinct red tabby, distinct cream tabby, faded red tabby and faded cream tabby.
Two hair length variations included in the one file!
IMPORTANT: This file overwrites Turkish Angora (Version 1)
NOTES: Requires two external fur files.
Turkish Van
P3 ::P4 ::P5
All coat colours shown come in the one breedfile. Also comes with gold eyes, yellow eyes, three shades of blue eyes and also odd eyes (one yellow one blue).
NOTES: Requires external fur files.
Dogz
Australian Cattle Dog V2
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Five different blue/grey furfiles and one red furfile. The blue/grey dogs come with 45 or 105 tan points. There are two tail variations - one natural and one addballz. There are several leg length and face length variations. Black (on blue/grey dogs) and Red (on red dogs) eye spot variations (i.e. one, both or no eye patches).
Let's Play Petz Bunnyz [1 Of 2] - YouTube
Cairn Terrier V2
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Seeming as I was re-doing the Westie, I thought I might as well re-do this one as well ^_^
It comes with the following variations:
# 3 Muzzle Lengths
# 2 Face Ruffs
# 3 Tail Types
# 6 Body Colours
# 2 Point Colours
# 3 Shades of Iris Colour
Chihuahua
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Longhair and shorthair variations both in the same file. Longhairs come with or without chest ruff. Comes in many solid colours with a variety of tan markings and white markings. The file contains two leg lengths, three snout lengths, and a variety of nose shine variations (big or small, left, right or both). Everything seems to breed well ^_^
Chinese Crested - Hairless
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes in black, grey, cream, red, orange, chocolate, dust, tan and blue, all with white fuzz.
Also includes various skin patches on legs, arms, jowls, chin and chest.
Body shape variations include 5 tail variations, 3 tuck variations, 4 eye fuzz variations (none, left flick, right flick, both flicks), ear variations as well as two foot and neck fuzz variations.
Chinese Crested - Powder Puff
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes in black, white, grey, cream, red, orange, chocolate, dust, tan and blue, either solid or saddled.
Also includes various white markings on legs, face, tail, belly and fringe.
Body shape variations include 2 feathering thickness variations, 5 tail variations, 3 tuck variations, possible eye fuzz and 3 ear variations.
Finnish Lapponian Herder
P3 ::P4 ::P5
So many colour variations in this file that every Lapphund in the PKC has the potential to be a one-of-a-kind!
NOTES: Both tail types now come in the same file! (Addballz and non-addballz)
French Bulldog
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes in several coat colours (solid fawn, solid brown, solid white, several piebald and brindle variations) and a range of eye colour shades (all 95 or 55 ranges). Also has many body shape variations: 2 tuckups, 2 back wrinkle sizes (or no wrinkles), 2 nose positions, several body/leg length variations, 4 ear variations.
NOTES: Has external chocolate brindle furfile.
Komondor
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes only in white but has two body size variations, two leg length variations and two body length variations ^_^
Newfoundland
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes in black, brown and grey (faulted) as well as landseer.
Dogs can come with or without toenails and with a variety of featherings and white markings on toes, chest and tail tip.
Papillon
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes in one pattern, but a whole range of different colours - all the PKC accepted colours. Also, eyes comes in several different shades of the two acceptable colours and there are three different blaze sizes ^_^
NOTES: Both types of ear must be entered in PKC shows as 'Papillon'
WARNING! When breeding Phalene x Phalene or Papillon x Papillon they seem to breed fine, however when you breed Phalene x Papillon you start to have problems, such as:
# No feathering beneath the ears
# Lots of white colouring on Papillon ears
# Odd colour combinations on the ears (more often than usual)
Subject to the usual 2nd Generation feathering problems (On Front Legs and Ears)
Portuguese Pointer (Perdigueiro) V2
P3 ::P4 ::P5
This should breed OK with Version 1 dogs in as the adult scales haven't been changed :)
* Variations include: 3 coat colour variations
* 5 eye colour variations
* 3 body type variations
* 3 leg length variations
* with or without toe nails
* various white markings
Puli
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes in all the colours shown above ^_^ Black, Grey, White, Apricot and Rusty Black.
Pumi V2
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes with the following variations:
# 2 Body Types
# 2 Leg Thicknesses
# 9 Colour Variations
# 3 Leg Lengths
# 3 Tail Styles
# 2 Tail Fur Types
# 2 Finger/Toe Sizes
# Optional White Chest Patch
Saluki V2
P3 ::P4 ::P5
The droptail actually uses the original tail ballz and so moves and breeds fine ^_^
Comes with the following variations:
# 2 Leg Length
# 3 Body Length
# 3 Tail width
# 3 Ear Length
# 8 Eye colour
# 3 Muzzle Length
# 4 Leg Feathering
# With or without toenails
# And of course, lots of colour variations ;)
NOTES: Overwrites the Version One file.
Segugio V2
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Unlike Version 1, this has a Great Dane personality which fits the breed much better.
* Variations include: 10 coat colour variations
* 4 eye colour variations
* 3 tuck variations
* 4 tail variations
* 2 coat type variations
* 3 back slope variations
* 2 muzzle length variations
* 4 body length variations.
Enough to keep you going? ;)
It moves pretty decently considering the amount of manipulation that went into the shape.
NOTES: When breeding Pelo Forte (rough coat) with Pelo Raso (smooth coat) some minor mistakes can happen, such as a smooth dog having the beard addballz. It will just look like a thinner muzzle.
Also, rough pups may lack the beard addballz and just have less of a beard. There aren't any major issues.
Shar Pei
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Comes in several coat colours, including masked variations. Has three body wrinkle variations (two, four or six wrinkles), comes with or without neck wrinkles, with or without a dewlap, with or without claws, four tail shape variations, two leg lengths and two body lengths.
Silky Terrier
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Two tail lengths, pet and show coat types in the one file, two main body colours and two tan point variations. Also has a variety of hair variations including shaggy underbody hair, and different facial hair variations.
Sussex Spaniel V2
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Only comes in one colour.
Comes with three feathering variations and two height variations.
Mucho improved from version one ^_^
NOTES: The P4/P5 files of the VERSION ONE Sussex Spaniel are not compatible with this file due to incorrect offset numbers.
If you adopted Version 1 Sussex Spaniels in P4/P5 and this is an issue for you, please email me.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
West Highland White Terrier V2
P3 ::P4 ::P5
Again, it only comes in one colour ;o)
Instead of the scottie personality that V1 had, this has the Mutt personality! Much more user friendly! :oD
Comes with the following variations:
# 2 Ruff size
# 3 Tail position
# 3 Head fuzz
# 4 Body length
# 2 Leg length
# 3 Shades of eye colour
NOTES: Doesn't appear to have any second generation problems, wh00t! :oD
This file is recommended to be shown in profile pose.
Other
Aliumz (for Catz)
C3 ::C4 ::C5
It is based on the PFM Maine Coon file but is soundless.
Has a few variations - antennae length, with or without rainbow spikes, with or without tail, 7 colour variations and 2 texture variations.
Bunni V1.1 (for Catz)
C3 ::C4 ::C5
Offspring in 2nd+ Generations are now coloured! Yay!
Comes in all 10 natural colours with or without white markings on any of the following: face, chest, neck.
Comes with green, brown and blue eyes and a variety of shades of pink for the ears.
There are two size variations in the same file ^_^
(The tan bunni in the middle is the smaller adult size)
Horsez
It is based on the PFM Calico file.
Care Bear V2 (for Dogz)
D3 ::D4 ::D5
Comes in the five variations shown (Tenderheart, Cheer, Bedtime, Funshine and Good Luck Bear).
All files in the zip need to go into the Resource/Dogz folder. This is a silent breed.
It is based on the PFM Mutt file and so it acts like a mutt ^_^
This is actually a version two file. It overwrites the original file and the two files should interbreed fine.
My Little Pony (for Dogz)
D3 ::D4 ::D5
It is based on the PFM Chihuahua file but is soundless.
It comes in a huge range of body, mane/tail, eye, tattoo, wing and horn colours.Heaps of combinations are possible! ^_^
Platypus (for Dogz)
D3 ::D4 ::D5
Comes in tan or brown for the main body colour and either dust or grey for the male's spur colour.
Females are smaller than males and also lack the spurs that the males have.
There are two slightly different shaped spurs, one shorter and one longer.
Enjoy! ^_^
It is based on the PFM Sheepdog file.
Snails and Slugs (for Dogz and Catz)
D3 ::D4 ::D5
HEAPS of variations in this file - 5 size variations, 9 shell colour variations, 9 main body colour variations, 13 eye colour variations, not to mention that one in ten snails actually turns into a slug as it ages! You can tell the slugs from the snails if you look at them front on - slugs have a white shell, snails have a black shell.
It is based on the PFM Calico file and the PFM Mutt file.
It doesn't actually have a mouth, so don't freak out if your snail or slug picks up something and it disappears. Mother snails and slugs will carry their babies out like any other species but the baby will be invisible until the mum puts it down. Also, most clothes disappear if you put them on your snail.
C3 ::C4 ::C5