Official Sims 2 Thread

[bibimba]

Finally I can play the TS2!!!

thx, guys.

[bibimba]

Just a little complain...

I'm in Thailand so as we know, the local distributor is ........ THAILAND INC. (guess it!!) . It's good to have a local one coz the price is so damned low. But I dont understand why they have to make the game in THAI . That's not meaing I'm not loving to my country but it's mean I CANT MARRY THE GIVEN SIMS COZ THERE LASTNAMES ARE IN ENGLISH BUT MINE ARE IN THAI!!!. The installing option for english version is also not available. What da hell those 'Game Localizer' is thinkin'!!

Some of my friends cant bear this so guess what
They bought a legal one. Disappointed. And bought another copy...
yes, pirate version... which is english.
just to get fully into the game

Really, I think we should have more options. For playin' in the preferred language

That's All. Sorry for inconvenience.

P.S. Plz dont tell me I have to get the imported version... coz it's too much for just a game.

[jimscreechy]

Your boyfriend! Oooooo! Heh heh

Well, Mr Dimensio who is actually Miss Dimensio or Mizzz Dimensio in the interests of political correctness. Thank you for the insight into the dark side of your psyche. I suppose there really is not answer to personal opinion, howerver perhaps you may want to extend your knowledge in this area. Although it is certainly a good idea not to allow administrative privilages 'willy nilly' there is more to it than that. Remember the system account is used to run the operating system and programs such as IE so the protection you think you may be getting by not logging on as Admin may be erroneous. Still I suppose it is a fairly good practice to follow.

Ah but for the diversity of the human mind, thank god for logic.

[bimbam]

However, it is being reported that if you use either of the 2 mini images available from GCW, you will be able to fully enjoy the game. That is all[/QUOTE]

Excuse me, but what_the_hell_is known for the mini images????

[seolpo]

Originally Posted by bimbam

However, it is being reported that if you use either of the 2 mini images available from GCW, you will be able to fully enjoy the game. That is all

Excuse me, but what_the_hell_is known for the mini images????

[/QUOTE]


where I can be lowered those two mini images and as they work.

[nErD]

Download from Gamecopyworld, use alcohol or demon tools to mount the image. Think it's been written severals of time in this 9 pages topic!

[seolpo]

thanks

[srhalfwaythere]

I just wanted to let you guys know what exactly I did. I was having trouble with the build options also not working.

- After putting the 4 images onto seperate cds using the .ccd format (couldnt tell whether to use .ccd or .cue so I used the one with CD in it)

- I downloaded and bought alcohol 120%.
Those of you who don't want to buy it, can always download a free trial.
- Next I opened up Alcohol 120% and looked for images on the left side, and had it look in the folder I put the Sims 2 cd images. I then selected CD 1 image and It showed up in the main screen.

- I then clicked emulation, then extra emulation and click the first box: BAD Sectors Emulation so that it compromised for the SafeDisk. In the extra emulation screen the boxes in order from checked to not are: Bad - Checked. The rest I left blank.

- In the Emulation tab I have the top two boxes checked: Ignore and Launch, the last one is open.

- After this was done I minimized Alcohol 120%, then double clicked on the Sims 2 icon, with the ORIGINAL .exe in the TSBin folder. When I loaded the image into Alcohol 120% it came up with this dialog boc with a Red X and no message. I click OK, or whatever the button was and didnt worry about it.

- After ignoring the message popup when I loaded the image, the double clicking on the Sims 2 shortcut on my desktop, I played Sims 2, tried out the build option. AND IT WORKED!!!

- As A sidenote: I played for about 5 hours that night, very addicting.

Well I know that this procedure had been put up here, maybe not in the exact length of description but the overall theme. I first had a question on whether to use .ccd or .cue, if it made a difference, and I pretty much answered it myself. I hope this helps someone who was having the same problem as me. I personally couldnt get the mini-image, or of course the .exe from GCW to work. Have fun!

[Egos]

Originally Posted by nErD

Download from Gamecopyworld, use alcohol or demon tools to mount the image. Think it's been written severals of time in this 9 pages topic!

I made the image using them but it still says that I have an Image program. I've tried with Daemon V3.47 and Alcohol 120%...
And now I have another problem... when I make the image and the autorun activates, only appear a tiny window with nothing writen...
Can anyone help me...?

Uninstall CloneCD it detects that as emulation software

[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?