Fuck Yeah Petz 5!

Who doesn't love those old Petz computer games from when we were kids? Well, we figured it's about time that fans on Tumblr got together to geek out about their favorite Petz! We feature a variety of gameplay chatter, cute Petz bred, and fond memoriez. We'd also like to encourage Petz community. We follow the tag fuckyeahPetz5!

[fuckyeahpetz5]

My little sister messaged me yesterday wanting some files to fix up Petz 5 on her laptop, so I opened the game for the first time in about 3 years. :’)

This certainly isn’t a message about becoming active again since I’m not even really active on Tumblr anymore, but it’s a nice dose of nostalgia again.

(Pictured catz are custom breedz I downloaded, see [this post])

[fuckyeahpetz5]

There is a BIG chance that you won't see this but ok... Have you still got Carolyn's sound files? Her site has dissapeared a long time ago and I need them, please

Wow, Carolyn’s finally went down? That’s really sad actually. An era ends

I was already using the “Wayback Machine” web archive for various Petz sites, so you can still find archived versions of Carolyn’s and others. It’s actually a little trickier than I anticipated, you’ll have to find archive dates that include the actual .zip file links. [This archive] (Nov 8 2007 for http://boardwalkerz.com/carolyn/soundsorig.htm) seems to have downloadable sound files. As a last ditch effort, if there’s a link to a file you can’t actually download, copy that link and redo a search for only that file in the archive.

[meredith-gray]

catz

[kkgsarchive]

looks through petz tags

laughs and cries at breeding modded petz

[fuckyeahpetz5]

I am getting the game again this upcoming Thursday and I would really like to start some sort of Club like the kennel club. Would you, the followers and the admins, be interested in designing one with me :3?

To be honest, I don't have the time to dedicate now to a fun project like that.  I know Petz kennel club(s) exist, but I've never been very involved with them, and right now I'm not even managing this simple blog very effectively.  So I wouldn't have the first idea of how to go about it.

If you want to attempt a project like that, though, I'd be happy to be a sounding board for you.  :)  If anyone out there wants to help Cocoa out, then go introduce yourself?  Or if you make a blog/website for your project, submit me a link to post. 

(Also, yay for getting the games again!)

[miketownsends]

So I decided to try a selective breeding project for fun (hah!) - crossing Russian Blues and Siameses to create a breed that looks like this:

Basically, Russian Blues with the black paws/tail tip/nose that Siamese cats have (ears are optional, as I’m having a hard enough time breeding for the first three).

I have bred 109 kittens so far. FOUR of them have the right coloring/face (I’ve gotten three with the right coloring but the Siamese face and it’s driving me nuts). I need eight.

I feel a bit like bashing my head repeatedly into something.

On the plus side, I’ve gotten some really adorable “reject” kittens:

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[fuckyeahpetz5]

Aha "fun" breeding projects that require weeks of work.  Petz is so wonderful.

Those are super adorable kittenz, though!

[fuckyeahpetz5]

I have windows 8 and I can play Petz 5! You might have to lower your resolution but it should work.

That's good news!  :D  Yeah, lowering resolution is a trick that also works on Windows 7, if I remember correctly.

[fuckyeahpetz5]

Does Petz 5 work with Windows 8? :/

I haven’t seen much chatter about that, so I’m Googling it.  Unfortunately I don’t know anyone with Windows 8 to test it on.

[This] thread says installing PetzA with Petz 5 fixes it.  (You wouldn’t actually have to use any PetzA features if you didn’t want to.)

Wow, the search is bare even by Petz standards.  I would say, don’t go far out of your way or spend a lot of money on the assumption it will.  But there’s a decent chance you can troubleshoot issues like you can on Windows 7 until it works?  It’s easier to troubleshoot issues as they come up than to know beforehand, since it might give useful error messages or something.

[gh0stfatale]

Petz 5 sound problem

I know a lot of people have had sound problems when installing Petz5 on xp, and I have a solution! Just go to your Petz 5 installation folder and rename setupapi.dll to setupapi.bak . Petz 5 will now load without any problems. The problem only effects Petz 5 because Petz 4 doesn’t include that file. 

Hope this helped!

[fuckyeahpetz5]

In case anyone has had issues!  Thank you very much.

[fuckyeahpetz5]

karkankles submitted to fuckyeahpetz5:

Right okay so I've been breeding some of my hexed breeds AND THEY CAME OUT LIKE THIS AND I'VE BEEN DYING EVER SINCE. (I have no idea if the picture loaded properly or not)

I started laughing so hard I had a coughing fit.  All the vaguely humanlike ones with little eyes - the one doubled over - oh my god

[miketownsends]

I GOT MY CATZ 5 IN THE MAIL TODAY AND IT WORKS BEAUTIFULLY I’M GONNA CRY

i adopted one of each type of cat (plus one of a breed i downloaded so that i could have an equal number of boys and girls) i have a problem

i’m vaguely tempted to rapid-age them all to adults just so i can start breeding them (shhh that part is fun ok)

that’s Kotone she’s so pretty but she’s started fights with two other cats already

she’s getting along with the cat i’ve got her out though with now thank god

[fuckyeahpetz5]

Ahhh how exciting!  (We're all secretly still kids inside when we see Petz stuff.)

Breeding has always been my favorite part.  So many cute combinations to discover and so little time.

Kotone is adorable but oh man the pain of cute cats that don't get along with anyone. 

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Neat trick!  Want portable Petz?  Apparently it'll run off a flash drive just fine (given it's between Windows systems troubleshooted properly for running Petz 5.) 

I literally just grabbed the entire Petz 5 folder (plus my Extra Petz organizational folder) off the desktop of my old computer, where it had been installed via CDs, and I copied it onto a flash drive and am now running it off a flash drive on my new desktop.  All my petz appear to be in order, but my collected itemz have reset (aw man) and the options are default.  So it knows it's a new game on a new computer.

I highly doubt this will work for most programs.  Not that I've actually tried it...

[lady-halibuts-convos]

So I’ve been following this blog that does random breeding experiments in Catz 5, which is the last in a series of games I spent a crapload of time playing as a kid.  This is one of their critters ^__^  It is a funny goddamn blog and you should read it.

Weeeee nostalgia!!!

[fuckyeahpetz5]

Airports are awful.

But I finally got home a whole day late, and I've just chosen the winners for the giveaway!  After a bit of debate, it seems fair to post the names here so you can tell that, y'know, people actually were chosen.  All correspondence about the prizes will be private, though winners consenting the pictures might be posted.

1st place: doktor-gilda

Runner-up 1: merfcity Runner-up 2: youriliketodrawsometimesworld

I'm about to send asks, but one of you appears to not have your askbox open, so if you see this it'd be great if you could either open it for me or send me an ask so I can be in touch with you.  :)

[counterline]

uploaded my white bunny ears, emo glasses, texture less Maine coons overwrite and my brindle textures. I still need to poke around my half finished files and work on them. go download them at Counterline

[fuckyeahpetz5]

Have you ever played any others games in the petz series before, e.g dogz3, oddballz or babyz just wondered :D

Yeah!  I actually found my Petz II CDs while I was cleaning my closet the other day.  That was my introduction to the series, and then we got Petz 4 and later Petz 5.  My childhood friend had Babyz, so I saw a fair amount of it.  Petz 5 was our longest running game, though, which is why I'm still playing it.  I was never that attached to the Petz community, so I know a lot of people prefer Petz 4, but I don't know why.  (I also don't have those CDs anymore.)

Actually, I've also played one of the Petz reboot games.  I believe it was [Catz Clan] for the DS.  I bought it because breeding was back and I was curious.  I did play a few generations of catz on it, and it wasn't disagreeable?  But.  The graphics of the old Petz games are really charming to me, and the new ones kind of fall into an area where they're not real enough to really attract me (trust me, I love a good CG model), yet they're too real to be stylized and cute.  The gameplay was more limiting than the old Petz games.  I didn't do enough breeding to really see how versatile it is, but I did get attached to a number of catz.  There's my two cents for ya!

[fuckyeahpetz5]

Sometimes you Petz fans out there send in touching messages about how much you appreciate Petz and/or this blog, and sometimes I’m impressed by what a wide variety of blogs find their way onto our follow list,

So I thought it was time for a follower give-away!  200 seemed like a good benchmark, but we just hit 222, what a nice number!

The prizes are digital artwork of your favorite real life or virtual pet.  Sorry to disappoint about no physical prizes, but money and also drawings seem more personal and about the sharing of petz love that makes me want to keep running this blog.  c:  Plus, anything in-game Petzy like breeding requests or whatnot are things I’d be happy to do for people anytime. 

The Prizes

1st place: 1 fully colored digital drawing of a pet

2 Runners-up: 1 sketched or simplistic digital drawing of a pet

I’m willing to be fairly flexible with what and how I draw for the winners.  Petz or real life pets or animal characters are all welcome.  The drawings above this post are examples of animal artwork I’ve done recently.  The winners may use the drawings however and wherever they please; it’s art for you. 

The Rules

You can like or reblog the post.  You can do both to be entered twice.

You do not have to be following me.

You don’t have to own or actively play Petz 5.  It’s not like I could verify that anyway.

The end date is July 8th, since I’ll be back from vacation then and able to start drawing.  I’ll be using a random number generator to pick names from a list.  I’ll contact winners that day or the next!

[fuckyeahpetz5]

Reminder that this is happening, hopefully at a time to catch a different crowd!