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<a href="#REF">Fix 'n' Ref</a>... <a href="#EDT">Easy Babyz</a>...
<a href="#UTL">Edit Info</a>... <a href="#SCN">Easy Scenes</a>...
<a href="#TOY">Toyz/Clo</a>... <a href="#BAB">Babyfile edit</a>...
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<p class="big">
Go to <a href="/tutorials/tutorials/">my Main tutorial page</a><br />
for general stuff and colour charts, Resource Hacker tips, LNZ Pro 2
tips etc<br />
Go to <a href="/tutorials/LNZdetails/">my LNZ breakdown chunks</a><br />
for some very useful information on the LNZ files which make up the core
of your new baby.<br />
<a href="/specials/nicholastools/"
>Go here for info on Nicholas' Babyza, Tinker, and LNZPro 2</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>Not created by me, obviously -- but I've helped with information and
files, and I feel very protective of Nicholas. He's a National
Treasure :-)</span
>
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<p>
<b>NOTE</b> My tutorials mostly tell you how to edit in the days before
<a href="/specials/nicholastools/" title="Nicholas' utilities"
>Nicholas' tools</a
>
were created for us all. I keep the tutorials and howtos here anyway
because they are still useful. But wherever you see mention of Notepad,
you can use the same info when editing the LNZ or CLZ section in LNZPro.
And <a href="/tutorials/LNZdetails/">my LNZ info chunks </a>are still
invaluable.
</p>
<p class="big">
<a href="/tutorials/hexerbaby/">The special hexer baby</a> -- thanks,
<a title="http://rgn.riverpebble.net" class="defunct" target="_TOP"
>L41N</a
>!<br />
This is L41N's brilliant idea. She sent me a hexer baby which I tidied
up and added to with extra comments, a how-to page etc.
</p>
<p class="big">
<a href="/babyz/sphinx/">Go here for Sphinx's Special tools</a><br />
<span class="normal"
>Also not created by me, obviously :-) but Sphinx has generously
offered them to the BC and, since I have fond memories of her jabbing,
poking and encouraging me until I made many of my Babyz discoveries, I
am very happy to have something of hers here.</span
>
</p>
<p>
<span class="big">IMPORTANT NOTE:</span><br />
Some files that we hexers want to edit are .DLL files, such as the large
BabyzRez.dll. Windows, by default, has files of this type "hidden" --
presumably as some kind of safety feature, but in our case we need to
see them. So if you cannot see them on your machine, open My Computer or
Windows Explorer, choose View and Options, and then under View make sure
that "Show all files" is ticked. While you're about it, un-tick "Hide
MS-DOS file extensions", because that's a nuisance too.
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<p class="bigger purple">
<b id="REF">Babyz fixes, and Reference items</b><br />
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />
</p>
<p class="big">
<a href="/babyz/vvccr/">ViaVoice fix</a><br />
<a href="/babyz/babyzxpsoundfix/">Sound fixed files for Windows XP</a
><br />
Now that Nicholas has made Petza fix the sound problem while the game is
running, you don't really need this soundfix. But I'm leaving it up for
anyone who cannot get petza to work for them or wants alternative files
for the "fooler". I have the link to Nicholas' site on my "Nicholas'
Tools" page.<br />
<a href="BabyzWithMenu.zip">Modified Exe for Playpen access</a><br />
<span class="normal"
>This is my ongoing testbed .exe file. My hope is that I will
eventually be able to get the game to accept more playscenes, by
avoiding the need to use the house icon. As yet in my game I have not
been able to get it to work for the Attic and Nursery, so have not got
as far as further scenes. I'm producing it for you in case you can do
better with it. It does have one feature that you might enjoy; the
Playpen and Desktop "scenes" are both usable. It overwrites your
original, so please please make sure you put yours somewhere safe
before trying mine.</span
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/BabyzColours/">My Colour Chart for Babyz hexing</a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/BabyzFreezeFix/"
>How to fix problems with Babyz freezing or crashing</a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/BabyzSliderBrains/"
>Brain-sliders for your Babyz' health and happiness</a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/BabyzBallList/">Babyz Ballz list</a><br />
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<a href="BabyzrezSafeCopy.zip">Backup copy of un-edited BabyzRez.dll</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>For people who don't use my easy-edit package to create new babyz. If
you've messed the thing up in Resource Hacker or a hex editor and
don't want to have to re-install, then this is the download for
you.</span
><br />
<a href="babyzCDfix.zip"
>A fix for when that annoying CD message pops up</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>...and you don't want to either have to keep putting the CD in the
drive or re-setting the game back to its defaults.</span
>
</p>
<p class="big">
<a href="/babyz/babyzfooler/"><b>Babyz Demo Fooler.</b></a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>A partial solution for people who cannot buy the game anywhere; this
fools the demo into giving you better play.</span
>
</p>
<p>
And for people who have lost their CD and cannot find another anywhere,
<a href="/babyz/babyzfix/">here is a page</a> where you can find a
backup ISO image of the complete game and an installation fix. The game
is zipped of course, so you would need to unzip it and either burn it to
a CD or mount it with image-mounting software. If you don't know what
that means, just burn it to a CD.
</p>
<p>
And, if you're running Windows (blech) XP or (argh blech) Vista, I
strongly advise you to get Nicholas' Petza/Babyza. You can get the link
to his site via my "Nicholas' Tools" page.
</p>
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<p class="big">
<span id="EDT">Ultra-easy editing to create new babyz</span><br />
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />
<a href="BabyzEditingMadeEasy.zip"
>Ultra easy New-babyz editing "howto" package</a
><br />
<a href="BabyzRezForEasy-edits.zip"
>The Rez.dll plus .lnz from Ultra Easy package</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>Only download the Rez.dll version if you either cannot change the
single byte yourself or the little patch from the "howto" package
doesn't work. The zipfile is 5.5 megabytes in size.</span
>
</p>
<p class="big">
<span class="normal"
>(Take a look also at my LNZ file breakdown chunks
<a href="/tutorials/LNZdetails/">here</a>, they really should be
helpful.)<br />
This is part of my "Ultra-easy" editing range; this package includes
all that you need in order to create new babyz easily, using only
Notepad, Wordpad and either Windows Explorer or My Computer! Woo-hoo!
NOTE: You do have to read the included text files carefully and follow
the instructions, or the method won't work for you. Click
<a href="BabyzExtLnz2.jpg">here </a>to see a screengrab of my Babyz
directories in Windows Explorer, so you can see where the .lnz files
are supposed to go if you're confused. The icon beside the .lnz files
are Notepad ones because I used Windows Explorer's View -> Options ->
File Types menu item to Associate the .lnz extension with
Notepad.exe.</span
><br />
This next lot is for people who want to edit items such as the bubbles
from the bubble machine. You can only change those by editing them in
the BabyzRez.dll file, and all the in-game bubbles will be changed if
you do -- bath bubbles etc. So if people want your bubbles they will
have to download the external-filmstrip files.<br />
<a href="externalfilmstripbabyzrez.zip"
>The Rez.dll prepared for external filmstrips</a
><br />
This is a 5.5 megabyte download and is just the .dll file with two bytes
changed to make the game look for filmstrips externally. You can change
the bytes yourself instead if you wish, but whichever you choose, you
absolutely need to download the filmstrips.<br />
<a href="Babyzfilmstripfiles.zip">The external filmstrips</a><br />
This next one is a .dll which has been prepared to use external lnz as
well as external filmstrips. If you download it, make sure to download
also the external filmstrips zip which also contains the required
external lnz.
<a href="externalfilmstripandlnzbabyzrez.zip"
>The Rez.dll prepared for external filmstrips</a
>
</p>
<p class="big">
<a href="/tutorials/fatima/"
>Ultra easy New-babyz Egyptian-pharaoh eyes, bangs, single pigtail
with bow</a
><br />
This is actually the complete .lnz for a baby, for use with my Ultra
easy New-babyz editing "howto".
</p>
<p>
<a href="Fatima.zip" title="Fatima">
<img src="Fatima.gif" alt="Flowers etc on a babyz" />
</a>
</p>
<p class="big">
<a href="/tutorials/faedruna/"
>Ultra easy New-babyz Flowers, Long hair Etc</a
><br />
This is actually the complete .lnz for a baby, for use with my Ultra
easy New-babyz editing "howto", including instructions for customising
it.<br />
<a href="Faedrune.zip" title="Faedrune">
<img src="Faedruna.gif" alt="Flowers etc on a babyz" /> </a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/BabyzWingzCodes/">Ultra easy New-babyz Wingz</a
><br />
<img src="Check.gif" alt="wingz on babyz" />
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<p class="big">
<span id="UTL">Various Information for making special new babyz</span
><br />
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />
This is for editing the .lnz files; my
<a href="BabyzEditingMadeEasy.zip">easy-edit kit</a> along with
Notepad.exe is how I used to make new babyz, and I recommend it to
you.<br />
Nowadays I also use the ever-more-fantastic LNZPro, either with my
easy-edit kits or simply to rehex one of my existing babyz.<br />
<a href="/tutorials/hexerbaby/">Here's a special hexer baby</a> for you
to use with LNZPro -- thanks,
<a title="http://rgn.riverpebble.net" class="defunct" target="_TOP"
>L41N</a
>, for the great idea and the base baby! This method is also
<b>highly</b> recommended.<br />
As I say above, please also take a look at my LNZ file breakdown chunks
<a href="/tutorials/LNZdetails/">here</a>, they really should help you
understand the .lnz files.
</p>
<p class="big">
<a href="/tutorials/ThinFatBaby/"
>How to hex a babyz that's permanently skinny (or fat)</a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/Polygons4BabyzHowto/"
>How to use Polygons in Babyz hexing</a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/ClothingToBreed/"
>How to add stuff from clothing items to your babyz</a
><br />
<a href="Pepebabyz.zip">
<img src="Pepebabyz.gif" alt="Pepe Babyz" /> </a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/Linez4BabyzHowto/"
>How to use Linez in Babyz hexing</a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/HowToHexNewBabyz/">Making new babyz</a><br />
<a href="/tutorials/BabyzTeethEnabling/"
>How to "enable" the original teeth</a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/PreemieBabiesHowto/">Creating Preemie babyz</a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/AddBallz/">Moving Add Ballz around</a><br />
<a href="/tutorials/xyz/">x, y, z positions -- how to figure it out</a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/BabyzTextures/"
>changing textures in Babyz, also kiss-marks</a
><br />
<a href="HexingBabyzHairEyelashesAndGrowthAug2003.zip"
>Hexing Babyz Hair, Eyelashes, and growth</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>Updated August 2003. This time not on .baby files (see below,
"Various Information for Editing adopted .Baby files", for info on
making already-adopted babyz grow). This is for people who want to
adopt babyz that will grow without alteration. Includes some info on
changing body colours. Also includes example babyz and .lnz
sections.</span
>
</p>
<p><img src="Babyzgrow2.gif" alt="growing babyz" /></p>
<p class="big">
<a href="RemovingBabyzOrPetzLegsEtcApr2003.zip"
>Making a Baby or Pet with missing limbs.</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>and before anyone sends me hate-mail for this one, please read the
readme. This tutorial is intended as a service for people who need to
relate to virtual playmates who do not have the "body perfect".</span
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/BabyzFAQ/">Hair FAQs</a>
</p>
<p class="big">
<span id="SCN">My Playscene Easy-edit Kits</span><br />
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />
NOTE: Since I made these, Nicholas has made the Tinker and LNZPro 2
programmes. You can download them via my Nicholas Tools page, and for
info on how to use them for this purpose
<a href="/tutorials/TinkerAndLNZPro2Tips/">click here</a><br />
Specifically on making playscenes show up separately using LNZPro,
<a href="/tutorials/BabyzSceneSeperate/">click here.</a><br />
<a href="KitchenExternal.zip">A kit for making new kitchen Playscenes</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>part of my "Ultra-easy" editing range. This particular one has the
filmstrips separated out, but I have not had time to put the bitmap
headers on them for you.</span
><br />
<a href="ClothesclosetExternal.zip"
>A kit for making new Clothes Closet Playscenes</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>part of my "Ultra-easy" editing range. This particular one has the
filmstrips separated out, but I have not had time to put the bitmap
headers on them for you.</span
><br />
<a href="FamilyroomExternal.zip"
>A kit for making new Family Room Playscenes</a
><br />
<span class="normal">part of my "Ultra-easy" editing range.</span>
<a href="AtticExternal.zip"
>An easy-edit kit for making new Attic Playscenes</a
><br />
<span class="normal">part of my "Ultra-easy" editing range.</span>
<a href="BackyardExternal.zip"
>An easy-edit kit for making new Back Yard Playscenes</a
><br />
<span class="normal">part of my "Ultra-easy" editing range.</span>
<a href="PlayroomExternal.zip"
>An easy-edit kit for making new Playroom Playscenes</a
><br />
<span class="normal">part of my "Ultra-easy" editing range.</span>
<a href="NurseryExternal.zip">A kit for making new nursery Playscenes</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>part of my "Ultra-easy" editing range; this package includes the
playscene and a load of external files which you do need to put in the
correct places before the game will accept it. Please read the
included info carefully. Note that if you want the window area to look
right, you'll need to either change the background in the affected
area or you'll need to edit the window filmstrips. If you want my
<a href="/babyz/BabyzPlayscene/">Secret Wood Playscene</a>, you'll
need to install this "change your nursery" kit first. Click
<a href="ExternalStuffWhereItGoes.jpg">here </a>to see a screengrab of
my Babyz directories in Windows Explorer, so you can see where the
Nursery's external files are supposed to go if you're confused.</span
>
If you're having trouble working out how to fix problems with the
background<br />
<span class="normal"
>being messed up in places, or you need help with editing the
filmstrips,
<b
>download
<a href="FilesToHelpSceneEditing.zip">this file</a> also</b
>
-- it is specific to Nursery-based scenes, but with any luck it'll
help you to understand how to deal with others too.</span
>
</p>
<p>
<span class="big"
><a href="EditingBabyzSecretPlaypen.zip"
>Changing your Babyz "secret" Playpen background</a
></span
><br />
Note that this tells you to edit your game's main .exe file. It also
gives a hint that you can edit other graphics within the .exe.<br />
For people who have a later version of the game than mine, you may
prefer to use:<br />
<span class="big"
><a href="/tutorials/BabyzSecretPlaypen/">this simpler method</a> for
changing the playpen background.<br
/></span>
Works with later versions of the game than mine. If this doesn't work
for you, either get a later version of the Babyz.exe -- my "modified"
one, for instance, or there may be one available at Daniel Wright's
<a title="http://www.dmwright.com/babyz/" class="defunct" target="_top"
>The Babyz Crib</a
>
-- or check out my "howto" above on editing the .exe.
</p>
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<p class="big">
<span id="TOY">Filmstrip editing, Toyz, Toychests, and Clothes</span
><br />
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
</p>
<p class="big">
NOTE: Since I made the easy-edit kits, Nicholas has made the Tinker and
LNZPro 2 programmes. You can download them via my Nicholas Tools page,
and for info on how to use them for this purpose
<a href="/tutorials/TinkerAndLNZPro2tips/">click here</a>
</p>
<p class="big">
<a href="/tutorials/MakingCrackersShowSeparately/"
>Extra help; making your own crackers come out of the box</a
><br />
<a href="CarrotsBagExternal.zip"
>The Carrot bag mentioned in the cracker-box tut</a
><br />
<img src="Carrotsbag.gif" alt="carrots bag" /><br />
<a href="/tutorials/NonOverwriteClothes/"
>Extra help on non-overwriting clothes etc</a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/SpoonBlobColour/"
>Changing the jar and bowl food-blob colour on the spoon</a
><br />
<a href="SipcupEasyedit.zip"
>Easy-edit kit for making your own Sippy cups</a
><br />
<a href="redchestEasy-edit.zip"
>A kit for making your own "Red" Toychests</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>Everything is here for your easy-editing pleasure, except that I've
not put the bitmap headers on the chopped filmstrips. I thought I'd
leave that bit of fun for you... actually I had no time to do it
:-)</span
><br />
<a href="HippochestEasy-edit.zip"
>A kit for making your own Hippo Toychests</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>Everything is here for your easy-editing pleasure, except that I've
not put the bitmap headers on the chopped filmstrips. I thought I'd
leave that bit of fun for you... actually I had no time to do it
:-)</span
><br />
<a href="BabyzFrogChestEasy-edit.zip"
>A kit for making your own Toychests</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>This is an external-filmstrip easy-edit package. Those who are keen
to learn more about filmstrip editing may also wish to download
<a href="BabyzFrogChestFilmstripSections.zip">this second zipfile</a>
with its split-filmstrip and howto, but those who just want as much
done for them as possible will wish to download
<a href="BabyzFrogChestFilmstripBitmaps.zip">this third zipfile</a>
with ready-prepared bitmaps instead of the second zipfile.</span
><br />
<a href="gunkchest.zip">My Gunk Toychest</a><br />
<img src="Gunkchest.gif" alt="Gunk toychest" /><br />
<span class="normal"
>Think it's pretty dreadful?? Well, consider yourselves lucky that I
didn't drive you potty with my "gone" toychest *cackles crazily*</span
><br />
<a href="KidpoolmakingKit.zip">A kit for making your own kiddie pools</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>This is a set of filmstrips for you to edit and instructions for
re-inserting them into the bathtub toy.</span
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/HiddenAndDifficultToysInPetz3-5andBabyz/"
>Un-hiding and giving shelf graphics to difficult toyz</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>This includes the petz games, but there is very important info for
Babyz. It shows how you can use your hex editor to make "hidden" toyz
show up properly on shelves in all the games.</span
><br />
<a href="babyfilmstrip.zip">Editing Babyz Filmstrips (advanced)</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>Toyz editing, clothes showing up separately, etc, for Babyz.</span
><br />
<a href="filmstriphexpainting.zip">Simple filmstrip editing</a><br />
<span class="normal"
>hex-painting (colouring) for toyz, clothes on shelf, etc. Applies to
all the games including Babyz.</span
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/BabyzClothes/">Hexing babyz clothes</a><br />
<a href="/tutorials/PositionOnShelf/"
>Position of clothes etc on shelves</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>People who get puzzled as to how the game knows where to put clothing
items etc, and how to fit their own in where they wish, this is for
you.</span
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/ToyzInSpecialPlaces/"
>Making Hidden and special-place toyz</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>This one shows how easy it is to make your own "hidden" toyz and make
them appear in very special places, such as the floor of any chosen
scene or the fridge etc. Click
<a href="orangetexturedicecup.zip">here for my example Icecup</a> toy;
if you follow the installation instructions, the toy should show up
only in the freezer compartment.</span
>
<a href="/tutorials/ChangingPointersInFiles/"
>Changing "Pointers" in files</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>For people who get puzzled about why clothes or toyz don't look right
on the shelves after filmstrips etc have been changed.</span
>
</p>
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<p class="big">
<span id="BAB">Various Information for Editing adopted .Baby files</span
><br />
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
</p>
<p class="big">
<a href="/tutorials/hexerbaby/">Here's a special hexer baby</a><br />
for you to use with LNZPro -- thanks,
<a title="http://rgn.riverpebble.net" class="defunct" target="_TOP"
>L41N</a
>, for the great idea and the base baby!<br />
<span class="normal"
>If you download this baby and study how to edit it in LNZPro, once
you're used to that you should be able to rehex any of your own babyz
in the same way. This is not intended as a method for thieves to steal
code, and you can be assured that the BC will notice if you do that
:-)</span
>
</p>
<p>
Apart from the "basic" tutorial, the following "howto"s tend to assume
that you already know how to edit .baby files. Some of them are also
relevant to editing pet files, but don't let that confuse you. The
methods are the same. Unless you are using LNZPro (recommended to you
since the wonderful version 3!), you need to edit in a hex editor and
compensate for the checksum.
</p>
<p class="big">
<a href="/tutorials/BasicBabyOrPetFileEditingJul2004/"
>Basic .baby and .pet file editing</a
><br />
</p>
<p class="big">
<a href="/tutorials/ThinFatBaby/"
>How make your baby permanently skinny (or fat)</a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/EyeshadowOnBabyz/"
>Put "eyeshadow" on your already-adopted babyz</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>You can now make changes to your babyz' eyelids that will actually
work.</span
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/MakingBabyzWalkers/"
>Turning your babyz into Walkers</a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/CorruptedBitmap/"
>A rare fixable corruption in a pet or babyz</a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/PetFileEdit2/"
>Eyelids -- adding or subtracting digits</a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/PetFileEdit3/"
>Editing without a Paint Ballz section</a
><br />
<a href="/tutorials/PetFileEdit4/">Eye colour -- how?</a><br />
<a href="PeteyesBabyzbellybuttons.zip">More Pet and Baby file editing</a
><br />
<span class="normal"
>Putting bellybuttons on Babyz, and how to increase a pet's eye colour
to a greater-digit number or decrease it to a lesser-digit number.
Includes example babyz and petz.<br
/></span>
<img src="Gerri.gif" alt="bellybutton before and after" />
</p>
<p>
<span class="big"
><a href="GrowingBabyzAndHairMar2003.zip"
>How to make your adopted Babyz grow, also its hair</a
><br
/></span>
Includes example baby.<br />
Note that, if you want the hair etc to grow out from the head as the
baby grows rather than appearing as spots in the air around the baby at
first, read
<a href="/tutorials/BabyNaturalHairGrow/"
>this [Add Ball] snippet of info</a
>.<br />
<img src="GrowingBabyz.gif" alt="Growing Babyz" />
</p>
<p class="big">
<a href="MoreAdvancedEditingPetzAndBabyzFilesJun2003.zip"
>More Advanced Pet And Baby Files Editing</a
>
(Updated 20 June 2003)<br />
<span class="normal">Includes examples</span><br />
<a href="PetAndBabyFileEditingJan2003.zip"
>Advanced Pet And Baby File Editing</a
>
(Jan 2003)
</p>
<p class="big">
Online Player files.<br />
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
</p>
<p class="big">
<a href="MakingBlyFiles.zip"
>Making babyz Player files to put up at your website</a
>
</p>
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