Thor's Petz Coding Projects

[Thor]

I was encouraged by lobb that I should be brave and publish my petz coding projects (I have a few going on right now), so I made a GitHub Repo for my Petzy Projects found here: github.com/kyokichi



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The first petzy program is thanks to research found out by Reflet on Yabiko. This program will tell you what your petz favorite color(s) and flavor(s) are!
The entire coding project is open source, written in Java. I'm a bit shy about how I write code haha but maybe if it helps anyone I'll be excited!
Thanks to shaina @ kizmet for testing it out and giving me feedback.

Code found here: github.com/kyokichi/PetzChecker

For those of you interested in downloading and using the program, please visit the Release page for all the current versions:
github.com/kyokichi/PetzChecker/releases

Instructions are found on the page but I'll reproduce below:
1) Download the PetzChecker.jar found on github.com/kyokichi/PetzChecker/releases
2) Put PetzChecker.jar file in a folder with the .pet file(s) you want to check.
3) Double-click the PetzChecker.jar file. Or use a command line and type: java -jar "PetzChecker.jar"
4) The output is petzfavorites.txt which is a tab delimited text file, each line is your pet's name and their preferences (color(s) and flavor(s) only).
5) Import/Copy the text to a database or spreadsheet.

If you want to read/understand what the flavors are read here: secretpetz.neocities.org/research.html

I'll update it when I feel the need to fix/update code. Feel free to use my applications and reply here to let me know how they work (or if you have any suggestions for more projects!).
Also let me know if you have any questions!

[shaina @ kizmet]

Yay, Thor! It works great! <3 I'm excited for your other projects as well - I know they'll be very helpful for people! ^^

[CatCreature]

For me, Windows 10 wants to know how to open the PetzChecker.jar file and...none of the suggestions (such as WinRar??) look right. I think I'm missing something...does anyone know what it might be? D:

[Thor]

Apr 9, 2022 21:02:47 GMT -5 CatCreature said:

For me, Windows 10 wants to know how to open the PetzChecker.jar file and...none of the suggestions (such as WinRar??) look right. I think I'm missing something...does anyone know what it might be? D:

You need Java to run it.

[CatCreature]

Well where'd my Java go? LOL Thank you. x'DDD

EDIT: IT WORKS! (of course it does, I'm just an idiot who somehow lost Java LOL)

This is so cool! And I can probably have it run and check a pretty hefty sized profile too and get all my answers at once...ahhh!! Me and my sister are super excited for this! Thank you so so much for sharing with everyone!! <3

My smaller 'testing things out' profile got these results,

Abayori red yellow fish wet
Gramnel yellow blue fish cheese
Kesimo green yellow beef
Lola green cheese
Meadowview green yellow beef bone
Mikara green yellow beef
Nahi red chicken milk soft water
Nelna red chicken milk soft water
Rozu red blue wet cheese

Somehow that last one amused me...with nothing in between them, it sounds like Rozu prefers wet cheese. Yuck. LOL!!

Oops. Lola isn't mine...she's a hexie for someone else. But now her favorites are out there. xDD Nahi and Nelna are siblings and their likes match PERFECTLY!

I'm probably gonna be playing with this a lot tonight x'DDD THANK YOU!!

[Thor]

Thanks for testing and using it CatCreature !! Glad it worked finally!

We already have V1.1 ya'll hahahaha! Thanks for testing it and giving me updates :')

[Aubrey 🌱]

Thank you for sharing!! I'm also excited that it's coded in Java! xD (this is what I'm trying to teach myself, haha)

[lobb]

Thank you for sharing this, it works like a charm!

[Thor]

Update: version 1.2

github.com/kyokichi/PetzChecker/releases

All the jokes about flavors being "wet soft water" are great but I think it's legitimately confusing. So I updated the output to be a bit easier to understand. I used the adjectives that were found here: secretpetz.neocities.org/research.html

0 Tastes like chicken
1 Beef, dog food
2 Fish, cat food
3 Wet food (Leftovers, red food bowl)
4 Milk
5 Candy and popcorn
6 Catnip
7 Cheese
8 Shiny and colorful
9 Squeaky chewy toy
10 Soft and fluffy inedible things (Update 04/09/22: Recent research in the petz hacking community suggests this may be mouse flavor!
11 Bones
12 Mostly wooden things
13 Metal, jewels
14 Water
15 ??? (Shells and a few other things) (Update 04/09/22: I think this is a dry, hard, dusty flavor. Shells, bones, fossils, coconut shells. Also the petz 4 dlc vacuum cleaner, for some reason.)
17 ??? (Hair ball and flea spray)
23 Chemical smells (and pirate skull for some reason... alcohol???)
24 Garbage (glass bottles, bag of coal)
26 ??? (The outside of the flea bottle)
27 Plants (seeds and jack o lantern)
28 Cardboard box

[Thor]

A second petzy program I started working on is something I wanted to do but I really don't see this being useful to a ton of people outside of like myself.

Basically, when you convert Petz from P5 to P4, they lose the ability to do left/right tricks. I probably only have a few petz who suffer from this fate, but it's annoying me. I thought I'd write a little program that would fix this and it's still a work in progress. I was able to successfully fix a cat and dog! But I will need to test this with more petz first haha

Right now, Nibbles (from Ratqueen ) can do Left/Right tricks! But.... I did something wrong... hahaha


So more testing is needed before I release it. But if you're curious, I put up all the code on here:
github.com/kyokichi/PetzTrickFixer

And I used this tutorial from Reflet to help me:
whiskerwick.boards.net/thread/4545/veterinary-info-hacking-pets-tricks

And special thanks to gyiyg who gave me a lot of insight and ideas!

[mouse]

i can't contain my excitement. the urge to check every single pet i own and add it to their profiles on my crew page is EXTREME
you are amazing Thor i am so EXCITED AAA

[Thor]

I haven't updated here since April haha but I finally had some time and did a lot of work with a petz trick section.

Firstly, I created a giant spreadsheet of all the possible tricks from each version of the game:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XQGlaAgr6Z7N4bdN7MAnxRqSkje1g4GHKf5SmW5gMAs/edit#gid=193990975

I used this spreadsheet to help me write the following update to the Trick Fixing program-- Version 1,,, which doesn't fix tricks yet. Haha! Right now it just reads the Trick Section of a pet and gives you the following information (saved in a .csv file with that pet's name):
-- the name of the trick,
-- the version of the game it detected the trick is from,
-- the treat flavor the trick is stored in,
-- the in-game gesture,
-- and then 5 integers the game stores for the tricks (plan ID, action ID, direction, angle, association)


You'll need Java to use this program. And understanding of how to use a command line.

To run the project from the command line, go to the folder and
type the following:

java -jar "PetzTrickFixer.jar" <file.pet>


You can download the release here:
github.com/kyokichi/PetzTrickFixer/releases/tag/v1



My next goals for this project is to output a .pet file with the trick section of the pet fixed to the right version :)

[Thor]

Hi everyone! It's been a year and two days since I decided to pick this project up again (wow it's been that long???)

I wasn't a fan of my code from the previous version so I decided to change it up and now I've gotten it to work for actually fixing Petz' broken trick sections! Currently, it fixes the trick section of a pet to version 4 of the game (I'm not sure if other people care about other versions for me to make it work for others? feel free to change my mind and post below! 😝)

I'm currently looking for anyone who would like to help me out with testing or has any comments and/or concerns with how their petz perform tricks, etc. so I know what my program should fix :)

[Abby (abbyspetz)]

This is so amazing. Thor tested this out on Silly Spots and now he actually responds to treats, does the tricks he learned in Petz 2, and can learn tricks again. I have my trickster back!

[Thor]

Aaaaand Version 3 is finally available for download! As with all programs, always make a backup of your petz first and confirm that everyone's okay!

You can download the release here:
github.com/kyokichi/PetzTrickFixer/releases/tag/v3


Features in This Release:
-- Right now it only fixes petz for version Petz 4.
-- Has a spreadsheet for *each* pet in the directory before fixing and after, so you can check that data if you'd like.
-- Put the jar in the directory with a bunch of pet files and it will batch update them all.
-- This release of the program does NOT recalculate and update the checksum, so please download and use PetzByte from Yabiko until I add that to the program


I would really love it if people could test this and let me know if it works!