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"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.

Recording types

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[]

Screenshot 2018-03-13 at 12.00.21 PM

"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.[1] 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.

Marvin Demo

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

References[]

  1. "Like I, I leave my PlayStation, and it comes, comes out and, uh, does this whole pre-recorded thing." -Paul, Petscop 6, 11:55