Recording

"auto-H3Us6Z9h" in the secret menu.

Recordings are saved inputs of Petscop gameplay that can be directly accessed through the secret menu under the "All Recordings" section, or played back either through demo playback when idling on the title screen or through Room Impulse.

All of the recordings below "auto-6wC4CK5r" are stored on the CD.

Many of the recordings shown in the All Recordings list appear to be automatically named and saved, although some of them appear to have been named manually. Starting with auto-6wC4Ck5r, the recordings are stored on the memory card instead of the CD. The listed recordings appear to have been created in three cycles, each starting with a gen 1 recording, and ending with a "family" recording in gen 15. The first two cycles are stored entirely on the CD, while the third and final cycle is stored partially on the CD, with the later recordings being stored on the memory card.

Functionality

All Recordings menu

In the "All Recordings" section of the secret menu, all currently accessible recordings are listed and can be individually selected.

Upon selecting a recording, two variables and a play button can be seen; the first variable, "Gen." determines the gen that the recording will be played back within, while the second variable controls a property called "Demo Rot." which may be set to ON or OFF. "Demo Rot." presumably means "Demo Rotation", and is speculated to either mean to continue cycling to the next recording after the recording is finished, or to allow it to be played as a demo recording.

Demos

"Demos" are when recordings are automatically played back on the title screen. These recordings automatically play on the title screen after idling for an unknown period of time.

Demo playback of recordings is showcased on multiple occasions. Demos are first referenced by Paul in Petscop 6, where he refers to the game doing a "pre-recorded thing" when he leaves his console alone. They are first shown in videos starting with Petscop 9. The game itself references that inputs get recorded, through the version of Even Care in the recording shown in Petscop 13.

When a demo is playing, a "DEMO" sign is on the screen that flashes every few seconds. This is usually at the top of the screen, but is moved to the bottom of the screen in certain areas, such as in front of the school or in Roneth's room. If the pause menu is opened during a demo recording, the message on the menu will be "Demo Recording". The "Quit Game" button does not appear in the pause menu in demo playback (except in Petscop 23).

Due to the nature of demo playbacks taking automatically recorded inputs, some demos contain synchronized events that can be matched up between episodes. While almost all instances of demo recordings are typically showing the same inputs regardless of location, the demo playback shown in Petscop 9 holds an exception where the timing of an action-button (Paul plucking the petals of the flower in Petscop 2) is used to control timing of directional movements (walking on the treadmill in Pen's room).

In some instances, as shown in the Petscop videos, the demo recordings play back in different gens than they were recorded in, changing without player input. This is used as an intended gameplay mechanic in some circumstances, making inputs that only function properly in demo playback (or possibly recording playback in general) to solve a puzzle. For example, making inputs that get recorded in a gen where the master bedroom door is closed in the house that completes certain tasks inside the master bedroom in a gen where the door is open (which is loaded during demo playback), is required to enter the garage for the first time and make progress.

Room Impulse

Main article: Room Impulse

Room Impulse is a form of recording playback.

History

Recordings are first shown in the videos at the beginning of Petscop 9 through demo playback. This demo follows a player in Odd Care, picking up pieces as they navigate from the upper entrance in the first room to the treadmill in Pen's room.

Petscop 11 contains two instances of demos, showing a different unknown player (see Pall) visiting the school. The first is shown after a cut from Paul's gameplay, and involves "driving" to the school in a cutscene, to interacting with Marvin using P2 to TALK, to entering the school and exploring the first floor, collecting pieces and interacting with the locker. The second demo (which may still be part of the first) shows the player, still on the first floor, entering a classroom to meet Marvin and play the Needles Piano.

Petscop 12 is entirely demo playback footage of Tiara, starting trapped in the right side of the Quitter's Room. Shortly into the video another player appears, replaying Paul's inputs from Petscop 10. Tiara's position is immediately forced to mirror the movements of the second player, and is stuck like this until the player leaves the room and they collide, letting her regain control as the second player disappears. On her own, she explores the hidden game area both under and on the Newmaker Plane collecting pieces as an unknown narrator talks to her through prior-left messages, calling her Belle. At one point, Marvin is encountered on top of the Newmaker Plane, replicating his movements from the first demo of Petscop 11 and freezing at the point that he would have entered the school.

Petscop 13 is also entirely footage of a demo playback, but it is the first instance of Paul's commentary being included. As he later explains in Petscop 14, the footage from this episode was originally lost, only retaining his commentary audio, but demo recordings played back his inputs on two separate occasions, allowing him to get the footage back. In the first demo, he is pushing the paint bucket in the house onto the road to catch a teal tool, then bringing the tool back to dismantle a device outside Care's room. In the second demo, he uses a bucket to catch Roneth for the first time, and see what happens when he catches all pets available in Even Care.

A demo recording of Marvin in the house

Petscop 14 has some independent demos, but also instances of demos being overlaid on past live gameplay, as Paul explores rooms of the house being different in demo recordings to record applicable inputs to solve puzzles specific to demo "versions" of the house (see gens) and showing his live gameplay vs. the demos. The video starts with a demo of Marvin exploring the master bedroom. Instances of demos in the rest of the video are of Paul experimenting to get the right inputs to solve a puzzle only possible when the door to the master bedroom is open, only available in the version of the house in the demo.

Petscop 15 is a full demo playback, showing the player from the demos shown in Petscop 11 now exploring the second floor of the school. They later enter a classroom, finding Marvin who tells them to wait as he leaves and brings back Tiara (who he calls Belle, but Tiara protests this). After Marvin leaves, Tiara teaches the player a code to access Draw Mode.

The "All Recordings" menu is first seen listed in Petscop 17 and first accessed in Petscop 19, where the current player scrolls through the entire list of saved recordings. Parts of the "sort-test", "mike2", "care", "belle", "james2", "phil", "amber2", and "belle3" recordings are shown in this episode.

Petscop 20 is a collection of manually played back recordings of Marvin playing Petscop in 1997. Parts of the "marvin", "auto-hZDK2lhq", "auto-cmhyVTZn", "auto-u401R6WJ", "auto-25JC8CNT", "auto-wnOHes3U", "auto-ugu8PsPt", and "auto-1lTWsbyV" recordings are shown in this episode.

Petscop 21 entirely consists of showing the contents of the "care-dancing-sign" recording.

The first part of Petscop 22 is the "auto-b4yw0bHt" recording, which is of Paul's gameplay from 2017 and is overlaid with his commentary. After this recording, the video shows a short clip of the tunnel cutscene through demo playback. Then, recordings of gameplay in the school are shown through Room Impulse playback.

Almost all of Petscop 23 is a long playback of a demo recording. The player visits and explores the third floor of the school, including a classroom showing representations of the 8 ghost rooms. Through interactions with Marvin and Tiara, the player gains the code for the locker. The player then enters and explores the school basement, catches Care B, and enters the machine room, encountering both Marvin and Tiara. Marvin forces the player to put Care B into the machine and play the Needles Piano, but the player appears to sabotage the procedure. After gaining an egg "pet", the player leaves the basement, puts the "Care" egg into the locker with the other egg, and leaves the school. After stopping in front of the bench, the Newmaker Plane's fog turns blue and the demo fades to white, automatically stopping with a loading screen before going back to the title screen.

Recordings list

This showcases the 248 recordings present in "All Recordings".

Type	Name	Gen.	Demo Rot.	Episode	Notes
Card	family3	15			Most recent recording as of Petscop 19
Card	auto-zzT7QDqQ	14
Card	auto-H3Us6Z9h	14	ON
Card	auto-UxT2GzYz	14
Card	auto-DK0D3eVY	14
Card	auto-cmv5jLLV	13
Card	auto-Qc56sY1u	12
Card	auto-ocjeM7Lv	12
Card	auto-qgbIhwuC	12
Card	auto-Xjzj0L8l	12
Card	auto-623jAsfP	12
Card	auto-ssGFW4r4	12
Card	auto-DrbvPStV	12
Card	auto-vT88m4Sj	12
Card	auto-YVIAhuLI	12
Card	auto-2qwn5iRu	11
Card	auto-t8S9ODTq	11
Card	auto-xj8pReth	11
Card	auto-YdJoRee9	10
Card	auto-q8F8mAKC	10
Card	auto-PI5rnkRP	10
Card	auto-wQ5dgbCs	10
Card	auto-SifdmxBf	10
Card	auto-o5VHdVqx	09
Card	auto-Q2KONexY	09
Card	auto-b4yw0bHt	08		22	Playback of Paul gameplay taking place between Petscop 10 and Petscop 11
Card	auto-b96FmG2b	08
Card	auto-yABD1VvB	08
Card	auto-zgBPAYlN	08
Card	auto-UTeL2e3X	08
Card	auto-6kT0bK8O	08
Card	auto-dPvV7kym	08
Card	auto-7BwLsTqQ	08
Card	auto-Y8SsQjNS	08
Card	auto-AzU6BvrG	08
Card	auto-l4VuQtbb	08
Card	auto-4iTtPmvR	08
Card	auto-qEg59is8	08
Card	auto-UGS4COgn	08
Card	auto-RG0dw17g	08
Card	auto-W6AjCNiS	08
Card	auto-9Z8dftSt	08
Card	auto-4CEnh4Hi	08
Card	auto-6wC4CK5r	08
CD	auto-8YT5H3Ga	07
CD	auto-BeI8xHoI	07
CD	auto-AGfpoQH8	07
CD	auto-yELgzj1f	06
CD	auto-M6xZQxHc	06
CD	auto-vz8eQrSI	06
CD	auto-Fq75kNqp	06
CD	auto-XTk8rBtD	06
CD	auto-xUDgR2eH	06
CD	auto-0TnomCKG	06
CD	auto-m88qi7w3	06
CD	auto-mbU1H7j2	06
CD	auto-3jmVdQn3	06
CD	auto-LZKrC6eW	06
CD	auto-40yOJtkx	06
CD	auto-z2vTAOIS	06
CD	auto-swmhrhJe	06
CD	auto-FYCoXEeZ	06
CD	auto-0C5DTnbg	05
CD	auto-40pzOX12	04
CD	auto-XslWydxA	04
CD	auto-idltXbdh	04
CD	auto-UrLc4iwX	04
CD	auto-txHjNO9d	04
CD	auto-OayPv4u5	04
CD	auto-G3Qr9wxz	04
CD	auto-t0ZqvzMN	03
CD	auto-GRADf8ii	03
CD	auto-4FCM3LMM	03
CD	auto-soMc4OKZ	03
CD	auto-07AC0OtB	02
CD	auto-9xakJQch	02
CD	auto-wrgGGbVz	02
CD	auto-o5fDoWjw	02
CD	auto-SQrdR9vo	02
CD	auto-7MlLTypC	02
CD	auto-iCjo4wro	01
CD	auto-gajNB97y	01
CD	auto-V2I3VP0D	01
CD	family2	15			"The family" is a group mentioned numerous times by Rainer
CD	FUCK-FUCK-FUCK	14
CD	tiara	13			See Tiara. Might be related to events mentioned in Petscop 12
CD	auto-hIvoO3oh	12
CD	auto-3ApLUEu9	12
CD	auto-CIPzIMK6	11
CD	auto-KW7Jz6FP	11
CD	auto-z55aczhp	10
CD	auto-ykrGKIRv	09
CD	auto-GeAqwlOF	09
CD	auto-Nzc5pwJ6	09
CD	auto-NGY50jjY	09
CD	auto-nAiPZF9F	08
CD	auto-6BIhquS3	08
CD	auto-9X6haO3c	07
CD	auto-WQLsMLVY	07
CD	auto-KTDUFL3c	07
CD	auto-YD3zSflY	07
CD	auto-0kwPjzb5	07
CD	auto-d7zMOK21	07
CD	auto-FwD4bA6g	06
CD	auto-GbXRSvWg	05
CD	auto-AzByJKk3	05
CD	auto-KEOXxI9d	05
CD	auto-8wBJkf6R	05
CD	auto-YH3SKjrU	05
CD	auto-0uLp0ade	04
CD	auto-ofMoB94b	04
CD	auto-Wd3V7i2j	04
CD	auto-3r2F3Oyb	04
CD	auto-GwCT6Fd1	04
CD	auto-wyMdyUzw	04
CD	auto-J6tliMtY	04
CD	auto-dcLA3hm5	03
CD	auto-jOCGAQrV	03
CD	auto-p53gwnwk	02
CD	auto-FAwYbHBu	02
CD	auto-yvm8tOGO	02
CD	belle4	01
CD	family	15
CD	auto-cJcqoCDh	14
CD	auto-jvZFCuUN	14
CD	auto-NqtkIbvY	14
CD	auto-rBF3mN1E	14
CD	auto-u8BeDgPB	13
CD	auto-tkFUFity	13
CD	auto-ULslD1UX	13
CD	auto-pdiEZh6X	13
CD	auto-UlQAE5hS	13
CD	auto-tfCwYCUy	13
CD	auto-fw30Y1dH	13
CD	auto-MGxFP4Ya	13
CD	auto-TfYVvHnE	13
CD	auto-J7KVTihI	13
CD	auto-7KqXBFMl	13
CD	auto-92xYHNhd	13
CD	auto-CvyFQj5D	13
CD	auto-nfHlbiOe	13
CD	auto-J1XRYteR	13
CD	auto-mpNea2CT	12
CD	auto-1wbaiBou	11
CD	auto-5cbvfSKN	11
CD	auto-lDnvPIVj	10
CD	auto-w3PE9mEb	10
CD	auto-uPMZrebl	09
CD	auto-83a8xHQh	09
CD	auto-1BaZaZW5	09
CD	care-dancing-sign	08		21	Care shown running around signs in Even Care
CD	auto-1lTWsbyV	08		20	Presumed to be Marvin, the player enters the underground area and observes numerous signs left by Rainer
CD	auto-BO9pIztU	07
CD	auto-Iy7fAyxj	07
CD	auto-ugu8PsPt	07		20	Presumed to be Marvin, the player starts in the Newmaker Plane and is instructed by Rainer to "be more careful" to not get lost
CD	auto-nq6fwc7W	06
CD	auto-ANhoju3x	06
CD	auto-Ncy4yYa2	06
CD	auto-IP7CzIAb	06
CD	auto-wnOHes3U	06		20	Stands motionless in the Newmaker Plane
CD	auto-25JC8CNT	06		20	Wanders in the Newmaker Plane
CD	auto-u401R6WJ	06		20	Wanders in the Newmaker Plane
CD	auto-cmhyVTZn	06		20	Wanders in the Newmaker Plane
CD	auto-hZDK2lhq	06		20	Walks in a straight line in the Newmaker Plane
CD	marvin	06	ON	20	Marvin starts a new file named "MVM". No Pieces present, he inputs the code to transport to the Newmaker Plane
CD	auto-Zp5h7Chu	05
CD	auto-ZMT4HADX	05
CD	will	05
CD	welles	05
CD	trevor	05
CD	tony	05
CD	theo	05
CD	shelby	05
CD	sarah	05
CD	sally	05
CD	ryan2	05
CD	rebecca	05
CD	ramona	05
CD	phil2	05
CD	peter	05
CD	nick	05
CD	nathan2	05
CD	mike10	05			See Michael Hammond
CD	melinda	05
CD	meghan2	05
CD	mackenzie	05
CD	lucas3	05
CD	laura	05
CD	larry	05
CD	kyle	05
CD	kate	05
CD	joel	05
CD	jessica	05
CD	james3	05
CD	jack	05
CD	holland	05
CD	henry	05
CD	fatima	05			Only non-western name
CD	emily	05
CD	elly	05
CD	doug	05
CD	david	05
CD	daisy2	05
CD	charlie	05
CD	ben	05
CD	belle3	05		19	Belle shown catching Pen, and then greeted with a text similar to the end of Petscop 13
CD	april	05
CD	amber2	05		19	Is perpetually locked in the cage in Amber's room, in Even Care
CD	adam	05
CD	sean	05
CD	robbie3	05
CD	mike9	05			Ninth recording of Mike
CD	auto-GZrNigAz	05
CD	auto-aNFmNtGJ	05
CD	phil	04		19	Stands motionless in Roneth's room
CD	nathan	04
CD	ryan	04
CD	meghan	04
CD	lucas2	04
CD	james2	04		19	Continuously goes back and forth in Amber's room
CD	daisy	04
CD	belle2	04			Second recording of Belle
CD	robbie2	04
CD	mike8	04			Eighth recording of Mike
CD	auto-lWteNvlx	04
CD	auto-gVTPDu0f	04
CD	auto-UpbtblzX	03
CD	belle	03		19	First recording of Belle
CD	james	03
CD	amber	03			First recording of Amber
CD	auto-iu5VGqDQ	03
CD	lucas	03
CD	mike7	03			Seventh recording of Mike
CD	robbie	03
CD	care	03		19	Care is shown running back and forth in Randice's room. Last file known to have a recognizable appearance to Petscop
CD	mike6	03
CD	auto-9jwWUfM8	02
CD	auto-DNWQKkE7	02
CD	auto-2iOktaqn	02
CD	auto-NnYxFBpF	02
CD	auto-NGO19om4	02
CD	mike5	02
CD	mike4	02
CD	mike3	02
CD	mike2	02	OFF	19	Mike starts in a painting room and moves to Randice's room. There are no pets present, but an egg that he catches, which activates text. There are no walk cycles and animation is very crude
CD	mike	02
CD	test5	01
CD	sort-test	01	OFF	19	No rooms, walk cycles or objectives, the guardian is moved across the screen, clipping through various objects with arrows on them