Baldi's Least Favorite Tape

*For other uses, see Baldi (disambiguation).*
*For the object it can be used on, see Tape Player.*

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## Store description

This tape was carefully designed by a student to effectively make Baldi deaf as long as it plays. If you can hear the tone, you can make all the noise you want, worry free!

**Baldi's Least Favorite Tape** is an inventory item in the *Baldi's Basics* series.

## Description

Baldi's Least Favorite Tape appears to be a clear but colorful cassette tape, with two reels with one of them storing the actual tape. To the right of them, there are gray pieces, which contains all of the parts that the tape feeds through and onto the other reel.

## Usage

It can be used to deter Baldi away and make him unable to hear any sound for 30 seconds by making a noise that Baldi absolutely despises. The item will disappear from the player's inventory once the player inserts the tape into the tape player, which is located in the Principal's office. This is especially useful if the player is in detention, as that is when the player is usually the most vulnerable to getting caught by Baldi especially when detention lasts for 99 seconds and there are no other items to escape from this location.

However, Baldi may enter the Principal's office while the sound is playing if Baldi decides to head to the office while wandering around.

When the sound from this item is done playing, Baldi will be able to hear sounds.

## Locations

### General

The tape can only be found in faculty rooms. It can also be bought at Johnny's Store for 50 You Thought Points.

### Endless Mode - Medium

The tape can be found in a faculty room with vending machines along with a Quarter.

## Other appearances

* In *Baldi's Basics Classic*, it is found in the faculty room that connects with another faculty room. When it is used, it will cause Baldi to stop heading to the sound he heard and instead start wandering.
* In *Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash*, it can randomly be found in presents or Crazy Item machines. Like *Classic*, it will also cause Baldi to stop heading to the sound he heard and instead start wandering.
* In *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*, it has the same locations in *Classic* and *Birthday Bash*. However in Demo Style, it randomly spawns in faculty rooms, classrooms or cafeteria.
* In *Baldi's Basics - Field Trip demo: Camping*, the item is obtained when successfully completing the demo. Although, the player cannot use it as the demo skips to the Kickstarter promotion ending.
* In *Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo*, the item is found in the faculty room where Gotta Sweep spawns.

## Trivia

### General

* The tape's sprite is edited after the Memorex DBS 60.
* mystman12 held a poll about the most favorite item out of four least popular items and this item got the most amount of votes.
* The sound the tape makes varies in pitch when the player moves due to the Doppler effect.

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* Using this item during the party event will make Baldi freeze unless he sees the player.

### *Baldi's Basics Classic*

* Baldi's Least Favorite Tape is the item that has gone through the most name changes.
	+ It was simply called "**Tape**" in the first version of the game.
	+ In V1.1, it was renamed to "**Baldi Anti Hearing Tape**". The name was changed probably so players could understand its purpose.
	+ In V1.2, it was renamed from "**Baldi Anti Hearing Tape**" to "**Baldi Anti Hearing and Disorienting**".
	+ In V1.3, it was renamed from "**Baldi Anti Hearing and Disorienting**" to "**Baldi Anti Hearing and Disorienting Tape**".
	+ It was finally renamed "**Baldi's Least Favorite Tape**" in *Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo* to make its mechanic more obvious.
* In V1.0, the tape was originally found in the faculty room next to the Principal's office instead in the faculty room merged with another one.
	+ It was also originally used to play helpful sound clips that would tell the player about some school members.
		- This was changed due to the people playing the game ignoring the advice that is given to the player. Another reason is that it does not have any indication that it is disorienting Baldi.

## Gallery

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

Baldi's Least Favorite Tape in the teaser of Johnny's Store.
### *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*

Baldi's Least Favorite Tape in the inventory.Ditto.
## References

1. ↑ "*Keep in mind, with the tape, Baldi may still enter the principal's office by chance. This is especially likely to happen if he was already heading towards detention. When he passes by the room, he may randomly decide to enter, even if he doesn't actually remember you were in there.*" - Basically Games' comment on Report bugs here! post
2. ↑ "*Since I've never doing a poll before... I'mma gonna try it! Which one of the four \*least\* popular #BaldisBasics items is your \*most\* favorite?*" - mystman12. June 29, 2018. Twitter
3. ↑ "*There are two main reasons why I removed the tutorial tapes. One reason was that I noticed that people who were playing the game back in that very first version, they weren't really paying attention to what was being said in the tapes, they just kind of keep playing the game but they didn't seem like they were actually really listening or learning from the tapes. The other reason was because the tapes even in that point in the game were still used to distract Baldi, but having just kind of, you know, audio someone talking didn't really make that clear, so that's why I replaced the tape with a tone, it just made it a bit more obvious that it was doing something to Baldi.*" - Baldi's Basics Classic LOST BITS (ft. The Developer!) | Unused Content [TetraBitGaming] 5:00-5:33