Magnolia Blossom Cattery - Catz 3 to 5, Dogz 3 to 5, Creatures 1 thru DS

How to breed petz like mice... timeforwarding and more.

The methods described here are the ones that I use for selective breeding projects in Petz 3 when I don't have all month. Use at your own risk --- I'm in front of my own computer screen, not yours, and I can't baby-sit you! I strongly suggest making regular backups of any petz that you care about.

Also, note that having your favorite petz have a litter and watching the babies grow up is fun because you get to watch the process, play with the infants, and take a billion pictures for your web page. In a PKC or DKC dogz' pedigree, quantity cannot replace quality, and there is no time-forwarding in the show ring. I use these methods when working on a tricky selective breeding project that I want to finish quickly or when breeding "litterz" in Petz 3 --- since multiple births are not possible, it usually takes four times as long.

Time-forwarding: This is the process of tricking the Petz program into thinking that several days have passed instead of just one. Start by closing other programs (the web browser is usually OK with it, but other software might get confused) and double-clicking on the system clock at the bottom right corner of your screen. Change the date to about two weeks ago. Make sure that your "Adopted Petz" folder contains only the two petz you plan to breed and launch the program. After they're expecting, close the program, advance the date on the system clock by one day, and start the program again. Continue moving forward in this fashion until the babiez have separated from their mother. Then I usually start the entire process over before I let the petz breed again. The key is to never ever set the date to a time earlier than the last time the program was launched if you have a pregnant petz or a mother with babies - they'll get stuck!

Additional notes:

As mentioned above, NEVER GO BACKWARDS when you have a pregnancy or dependant kittenz! If you are not sure when you last time-forwarded to, then check the date that the file was last opened by looking at its Properties (right-click in Windows explorer). Set your computer's clock to a date after that.
I usually keep petz that have been time-forwarded in a seprate folder if I am interrupted and have to leave one pregnant or with babiez so that I remember to do the above.
Turn off any software that automatically updates your system's clock (don't panic, you'll remember if you downloaded it.)
Despite ubi-soft's dire warnings, I have never had any problems with time-forwarding in Petz 5. I think that they just put that line in there to keep people from calling their tech support with stuck pregnancies. I have never had a stuck pregnancy in any of the petz that I was time forwarding.
In Petz 5, don't forget to play with dad every day, or remove his file from your Adopted Petz folder.
You can usually detect time-forwarding by looking for improbable values in a petz' pedigree.
If you continue to surf the 'net while waiting for your petz to breed, odd things will happen to your browser's history file... it also uses the system clock. Don't use any software where you want the dates correct while you are time forwarding.

Even more control over petz: The Slider Brain I found this at Carolyn's Creations. There are instructions there about installing it. It's a crude little controller, probably used by the programmers, that lets you manipulate the basic variables that make up your petz. WARNING: You could really mess things up! Most of the variables are quite self-explanitory, so don't do anything stupid!

Additional notes:

This change can probably be made with registry-editing software... but I'm not going to be responsible for unleashing anyone on that for the first time. 3l33t h@x0rs who want to do things the hard way... you know who you are.
This can also be used to heal sick petz, cure fleas, and rehabilitate rescued petz. Poof, you have god-like powers! Just like Jim Carrey!
TO REMOVE THIS CHANGE AND HIDE THE SLIDER BRAIN AGAIN, edit your pet.reg file in notepad and change 01 to 00. Here are the codes with the number changed if you feel more comfortable just copying and pasting again, or have deleted the previous registry key:

Petz 3:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz 3\3.00.01]
"Show Slider Brain"=hex:00

Petz 4:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz 4\4.00.00]
"Show Slider Brain"=hex:00

Petz 5:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\StudioMythos\Petz 5\4.00.00]
"Show Slider Brain"=hex:00

Hope that helps you. :)

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