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My Way
 

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!

Sorry,i don't want to be rude,but when do we expect a proper crack for the sims 2??(a crack with build mode working)

PS:Sorry for my English!

Thats a good question!

I dont think anybody, on here, can tell you when a fully working crack will show up. Maybe this game will go the way of TOCA Race Driver 2 :)

I´d rather have a crack for toca 2, ´cause sims 2 is..well i better keep my mouth shut , otherwise people are goin´ mad on me! :)

What do you mean?? :confused:

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

Hey... it worked...!!! thanx you very much...! :D :D :D

Yeh it's in this loooooooong thread, this needs unstickying/deleting and a new post making with ALL the instructions in the first post. Ten pages is too much for anyone to be bothered to scout through to find all the info.

Too bad it looks like the crack groups seem to think that the "mini-ISO" solution is good enough and they have apparently given up on providing a proper crack. I still can't play without full Administrative rights.

Well just maybe it isn't possible to do that type of crack anymore, just maybe Starforce is too good and just maybe we'll all have to play with our original CDs.

Sounds kinda hard to swallow doesn't it [/sarcasm] :p

The Sims 2 uses SafeDisc 3, not StarForce.

And my real problem is being forced to play with full Administrative rights, not the CD check.

money released a new nocd crack that works perfect , so it will be on gamecopyworld soon .