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<p>Conversions of my breedz to Petz 5.</p>
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<p>07 september 2003</p>
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It has recently come to my attention that there is a problem with breedz of
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mine that someone else has been converting. Specifically, the problem is with
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breedz that have been converted to Petz 5 at Nicky's Petzfriends site. Quite a
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few of my breedz are up there under the "converted" sections, and some that
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look like mine are under the "created" sections. It turned out that things
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were in a bit of chaos with them. ID numbers have been changed, furfiles are
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missing, and in some cases the names have been changed. Also there was no
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acknowledgement of my work on the originals, but that is really a minor issue.
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The main thing is that these breedz will have been causing distress to many
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downloaders because they will have crashed the game under certain
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circumstances.
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There is too much hate in the world, without allowing it to interfere with our
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gentle hobbies of hexing, breeding and playing with petz! So let's not get all
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screwed up with complaints or accusations; let's just tackle the definite
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problem here, a problem which needed to be sorted out so that people could
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enjoy the breedz.
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The real problem was <b>not</b> that Nicky had converted my breedz to petz 5;
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although I would have liked it if she had checked my site first to see if I
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had Petz 5 versions, I am willing to accept her explanation that she did not
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know that they were mine. I'm still amazed that people were silly enough to
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send her breedz to convert such as my monkeys and ratz, which the downloaders
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<b>must</b> have known I had Petz 5 versions of up at my site!! I released all
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the versions at once for those breedz. It's particularly silly of them because
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the ones here are carefully made so that they will speak "monkey" or "rat".
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(A note here for anyone who's interested -- I prefer to convert my own breedz,
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because I have a lot of complicated things in many of my breedfiles, not
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simply the .lnz sections. If anyone wants a breed of mine converted to another
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version of the game, please contact me in future; if it's mine and I've not
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already converted it, I shall do it.)
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The problem was also <b>not</b> that she had renamed some of them; I don't
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like to see my breedz masquerading under different names of course, but that's
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a personal matter.
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The <b>real</b> problem was that her conversions all have a different ID
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number from the ones that I gave the originals, also some of them were missing
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essential furfile bitmaps, which means that people who like to import pets
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from earlier versions of the game and breed them will see the game crashing
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just as a "happy event" is about to be announced. So, this means that the
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existence of two different conversions of any given breedfile causes
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difficulties in the Petz Community, and I keep getting emails from people who
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want to know how to fix their pets.
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Aaaaargh!! That kind of interruption I do not need; my computer-time is
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already too limited these days.
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So a solution has been found that will keep breeders happy and my mailbox less
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overflowing :-)
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Nicky still has the files up at her site, except for a couple which really <b>had</b>
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to be removed, so that people who swap pets which were originally adopted from
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her files are not left unable to breed them. She has a link to my site under
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any of the breedz which are obviously mine, so that people who have adopted a
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pet from one of my older versions of the game or have downloaded one from the
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Internet can find a <b>proper</b> conversion that will work at my site.
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Finally, she has a warning "agreement" at her site about possible difficulties
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using her conversions of other people's breedz.
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Note that if you want my various species or fantasy pets (particularly for
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instance the Horse) to have the correct sounds, you should really download my
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proper conversions of my breedz. You can download the sounds for my breedz at
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this site, "Carolyn's Creations", of course.
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Note also that you will not be able to breed a pet from one of the conversions
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from Nicky's site with one adopted from an original same-name breedfile at my
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site unless you do a clever trick to fool Windows. For instance, take the
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Monkey. If you want to have a pet adopted from the version downloaded from
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Nicky's site in your game and you want to breed it with one adopted from my
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proper one, rename the breedfile from her site to this:
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<p>Monkey.catNicky</p>
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(You can rename it by right-clicking on it in My Computer or Windows Explorer
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and choosing "Rename". No need to open it in a hex editor or anything -- just
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rename the file.)<br>
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Then you can run my Monkey.cat in the game as well as Monkey.catNicky. The
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pets will both come out with no problems, and will breed -- at least, they do
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on my Windows 95 system; if they don't on any different operating system you
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have, then I cannot help you.
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Finally, about the cat breedz which look like mine under Nicky's "created"
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section. I am happy to accept her explanation regarding the Angora cat. The
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Himalayan -- people, forget it. There are a lot of Himalayans on the Internet;
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I agree that one of the ones at Nicky's site looks very like mine, but mine is
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based on a Siamese and the ones at her site are not.
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I hope this sorts things out and that we can all co-exist in peace, helping
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each other out where necessary and having a good time.
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<p>Enjoy!</p>
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<p>Carolyn Horn</p>
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