Official Sims 2 Thread

[Dimensio]

Do you still have the game disc or mini-ISO mounted? If so, umount the ISO or remove the game disc and try again, and see what happens.

Moreover, MONEY's new "crack" breaks my one workaround for the game's internal environment check. With the default executable, I can disable the check by running in Windows 98/Me compatability mode. For some reason with the MONEY executable, the check occurs even when running in this mode, meaning that I still have to be logged in as a system Administrator.

This "crack" is even more useless than the previous, broken releases.

[Kanalradde]

Originally Posted by Dimensio

Moreover, MONEY's new "crack" breaks my one workaround for the game's internal environment check. With the default executable, I can disable the check by running in Windows 98/Me compatability mode. For some reason with the MONEY executable, the check occurs even when running in this mode, meaning that I still have to be logged in as a system Administrator.

That you have to be logged is as admin is not nice but in the end not the fault of MONEY but the one of Macrovision (manufacturer of SafeDisc) and EA (who chose that protection): click

[KiLL]

i have downloaded money's crack and it doesn't work and it asks for correct dvd rom .. can some one tell me what to do . and give me a link for that .tmp file "Tipstaff" was mentioning ..

[Dimensio]

Originally Posted by Kanalradde

That you have to be logged is as admin is not nice but in the end not the fault of MONEY but the one of Macrovision (manufacturer of SafeDisc) and EA (who chose that protection): click

There's more to it than that, though. There's an internal check done by the game itself -- not SafeDisc 3 -- that verifies the environment under which it is running. If it doesn't have full Administrator rights, it aborts with an error. This occurs even on the broken "build mode absent" cracks that disable SafeDisc. This check does not occur, however, if I run the game in Windows 98/Me compatability mode, meaning that I can still run the game without full Admin rights when using one of the previous broken cracks. The new MONEY crack, however, somehow disables this workaround, causing the executable to check the user environment even if I run in the requested compatability mode.

This makes me wonder how the crack would work under a real Win98/Me setup. Anyone tried that yet?

Also, I understand that Doom 3 uses SafeDisc 3 protection as well, but it does not require full Administrator rights to run. Can anyone confirm this?

[Psycloned]

Anyone else having the game freeze with a Protection Error? This happens occasionally at random where the game locks up and puts a Protection Error task on the task bar.

Alt-Tabbing just closes both the game and the Protection Error task at which point I have to reload and lose any unsaved progress. I have tried both the iND mini image and the SPiTFiRE mini image and still get this. Anyone else gotten it and know how to workaround it?

I should that I burned the money release using a non safedisc 'compatible' burner to cd's, installed from those cd's and then edited the registry to point the CD Drive and the Installed From values to point to the mini image that's mounted using Alcohol 120.

The odd thing is that this error only happens on one computer while on another it runs fine with the difference being that I installed straight from the mounted images on the computer where the game is running fine.

I am not knowledgeable in burning of safedisc games on 'incompatible' hardware but I would assume that the data would be burned fine, that safedisc is only a factor when looking for the 'bad' sectors that are part of the safedisc protection. Could it be possible that one of the cd's were burned in such a way that could cause a problem like this?

[Tipstaff]

Someone mentioned to me that the Money DVD release that this crack comes from is a US release, and it works perfectly on it. However, since I DO NOT WAREZ I cannot verify the files on that release (size and file comparison), but I do know it has just 1 TMP file (00000001.TMP), and the other 3 *_filelist.txt files. All I'm doing is telling you guys what worked for me with what I have, which is the RETAIL US DVD, and RETAIL International CD/DVD. It's my understanding that Moneys DVD release is a repack of the 4CD version, so until I get a hold of the retail CDs I can't verify the crack with them.

Again, from my experience the crack works flawlessly with the International releases, but not on the US release for DVD (until I replaced the *.TMP files of the US release with the *.TMP files from the International one, which I mentioned in my early post). So, if someone can verify it on the US CD release that'd be helpful.

Edit: This post sounds like I'm angery, or telling people off.. I'm not though, k? LOL

[klagegg]

i've got the international version of the sims2 (the one released by money) but if you use the crack without inserting the cd it says "insert correct cd and blah..."
if i insert it, it says that emulation software was found and i should deactivate it... i even uninstalled alcohol and daemon tools and it stillt says that?!
any ideas

[Sidney]

I have both US CD and DVD versions.
Both have only 3 *filelist.txt.
US DVD has only 00000001.TMP approx 20MB
US CD has 00000001.TMP = 2k and 00000002.TMP = 310k

Crack does not work with either.

[FREEMAN100]

ive got the 4 cd with a choice of what lanuage i want mine has 2 tmp files is the nodvd suppose to work on mine cos if so it doesnt and i was reading the posts and it sounded like i have the us version but i didnt buy it from the us

anyway thank for any answers


US CD has 00000001.TMP = 2k and 00000002.TMP = 310k

mine has these to files on cd1 of 4

[Tipstaff]

Originally Posted by Sidney

I have both US CD and DVD versions.
Both have only 3 *filelist.txt.
US DVD has only 00000001.TMP approx 20MB
US CD has 00000001.TMP = 2k and 00000002.TMP = 310k

Crack does not work with either.

Interesting. I know that if I leave the DVDs original 0000001.TMP file, and add the International 00000002.TMP file it doesn't work. However, if I place both TMP files from the International version, and overwrite the US *01.TMP file the US DVD backup works perfectly.

Thanks for the post Sid. Still waiting on the US CD version to test this out.

[king_joe]

Originally Posted by klagegg

i've got the international version of the sims2 (the one released by money) but if you use the crack without inserting the cd it says "insert correct cd and blah..."
if i insert it, it says that emulation software was found and i should deactivate it... i even uninstalled alcohol and daemon tools and it stillt says that?!
any ideas

iv'e got same problem
please help!