Petz II

Petz II
Also known as: Catz II, Dogz II, DogzIICatz Developer: PF Magic Publisher: Mindscape Platform: Windows Released in US: November 1997 This game has debugging material.

Petz II is the second release in a series of virtual pet simulation games developed by PF Magic. It contained two separate games, Catz II and Dogz II, both running on the same engine.

Debug Registry Keys

Upon launch, Petz II checks the values of several registry keys which serve the purpose of toggling debug functions. They do not exist by default, and must be created by the user. They can be toggled on by setting their values to 01 00 00 00.

Note that the specific location of these keys may change when running Petz II with a compatibility shim on newer versions of Windows.

Key Name	Type	Functionality
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Debug To Mono	REG_BINARY	Unknown.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Keypress Debug Stuff	REG_BINARY	Unknown.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Fast Render	REG_BINARY	Unknown.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Very Fast Render	REG_BINARY	Unknown.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Special Focus Test Ver	REG_BINARY	Unknown.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Profile Info	REG_BINARY	Unknown.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Debug Screen Saver	REG_BINARY	Unknown.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Test Exceptions	REG_BINARY	Unknown.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Hyper Mode	REG_BINARY	Unknown.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Show Slider Brain	REG_BINARY	Opens two additional windows, "Biorhythm Sliders" and "Mouse Sliders", which presumably give you control over the simulated aspects of a virtual pet.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Show Goals	REG_BINARY	Opens a "Monitor" window that displays virtual pet events.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Show Emotions	REG_BINARY	Opens a "Monitor" window that displays virtual pet emotions.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Longevity	REG_BINARY	Unknown.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Show Palette Ramp	REG_BINARY	Displays a color palette in the upper left-hand corner of the window.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\No Pets in SSV	REG_BINARY	Unknown.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\No XCursor	REG_BINARY	Unknown.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Search Files Only	REG_BINARY	Unknown.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Search Resources Only	REG_BINARY	Unknown.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PF.Magic\Petz II\1.00.01\Search Default	REG_BINARY	Unknown.