Sims 2 CD to DVD Backup.
 

alright after spending a few minutes ive figured a rudeimentary solution on how to put it onto dvd..

first copy all the cds to your hard drive.

go into each folder and extract the compressed.zip file to /compressed

copy the /tsdata/control/controlX.dat, where x is 1-3, to the cd1 folder.
make sure that u do that for each of the 3 files.

after u have extracted out the compressed.zip files combine them all into one folder, make sure that u keep directory structures.

open up the common_filelist.txt and make it look like this.




1,1,sims2_uninst.exe
1,1,eauninstall.ico
1,1,TSBin\1.0.0.932
1,1,TSBin\Sims2.exe
1,1,TSBin\Sims2.exe.bak
1,1,TSData\Res\*.* /s
1,1,TSData\Sys\*.* /s
1,1,Support\*.* /s
1,1,eauninstall.exe
1,1,TSData\Control\control0.dat
1,1,Sims2.ico
1,1,CSBin\1.0.0.932
1,1,CSBin\PackageInstaller.exe
1,1,CSBin\properties.txt
1,1,CSBin\TS2BodyShop.exe
1,1,TSData\Control\control1.dat
1,1,TSData\Control\control2.dat
1,1,TSData\Control\control3.dat

i have added the no cd crack to the tsbin folder so that it automatically installs, but i have renamed the original exe and had it copy over. this way after install u can click play game now and it will succesfully launch the game.

test burn with RW.

sims 2
 

PLEASE INSERT DISK NUMBER 1

this is the error i get when following those instructions can u tell me y this is please

tell me at which part it told you this, also is anyone else having any luck with this method?

freeman, make sure that ur common_filelist.txt looks exactly as the one posted above.

i will add mine just so that everyone can grab it..

the sims 2
 

hi again i copied and pasted ur lines lol does it matter what the volume name is and if not can u recheck ur txt cos i cant see what im doin wrong

got it to work thankz but 1 prob i have to address in ur txt line this is in here and ur assuming that everyone is goin to do the same as u <naughty lol>

anyway for other ppl reading this if ur not adding an allready cracked exe like the way it was done up top then dont copy this line from his txt

1,1,TSBin\Sims2.exe.bak

as this will cause an error when it tries to copy a file that isnt there

anyway thankz again

The correct and "universal" way to pass to DVD can be found on CdSTeam on this post.

Feel free to translate into english to make it universal (cause it is a little variation of this one above)

CdSTeam.

Thks Okmk1 first to make this possible.

TIP: This is a modified method and maybe more explained from this one.

freeman i did mention that in my original post, but in case anyone is having the same problem maybe this will help them out..morglum ur post looks like a more detailed version of mine but in spanish...

that site seems to have the exact same order as mine, file for file....

Yeap, u are right, but it is a bit more explained ;)

Credit is yours ( i have to check some things before cause i'm not its author.

Greetz ( give me some time to edit)

SIMS2 auf eine DVD brennen (Funktioniert 100%tig)

1.)erstelle ein verzeichnis SIMS2_DVD

2.)kopiere alle dateien und verzeichnisse von CD1 dorthin
ausser der Datei COMPRESSED.ZIP

2a.)von CD2,CD3 und CD4 aus dem Verzeichnis TSDATA\CONTROL kopiere nun die Dateien
CONTROL1.DAT,CONTROL2.DAT und CONTROL3.dat in das Verzeichnis TSDATA\CONTROl in dem
neuen Verzeichnis SIMS2_DVD.nun sollten dort 4 CONTROL.DAT dateien vorhanden seien


3.)von der CD4 kopiere nur die Dateien **_COMPRESSED.zip dorthin (14 Dateien)
ausser der Datei COMPRESSED.ZIP8ca 465 MB) ,keine anderen dateien oder verzeichnisse


4.)öffne jetzt die Datei COMMON_FILELIST.TXT aus dem neu erstellten Verzeichnis
SIMS2_DVD mit einem editor und lösche dort alle einträge.danach ersetze die einträge
mit den folgenden:

1,1,Sims2_uninst.exe
1,1,eauninstall.ico
1,1,TSBin\1.0.0.932
1,1,TSBin\Sims2.exe
1,1,TSData\Res\*.* /s
1,1,TSData\Sys\*.* /s
1,1,Support\*.* /s
1,1,eauninstall.exe
1,1,TSData\Control\control0.dat
1,1,Sims2.ico
1,1,CSBin\1.0.0.932
1,1,CSBin\PackageInstaller.exe
1,1,CSBin\properties.txt
1,1,CSBin\TS2BodyShop.exe
1,1,TSData\Control\control1.dat
1,1,TSData\Control\control2.dat
1,1,TSData\Control\control3.dat

speichere jetzt die datei

5.)dekomprmiere jetzt mit WINZIP die 4 COMMPRESSED.ZIP dateien von den 4 CDs
in ein temporäres verzeichnis deiner wahl z.b.:(C:\TEST)

6.)nach dem dekompremieren der 4 dateien siehst du folgendes im temporären verzeichnis:
TSBIN (Verzeichnis)
TSDATA (Verzeichnis)
Sims2-UNINST.exe (Datei)
eauninstall.ico (Datei)

7.)die beiden dekompremierten dateien Sims2-UNINST.exe und eauninstall.ico
verschiebst du nun in das hauptverzeichnis von dem neuen verzeichnis SIMS2_DVD

8.)die dekomprmierten dateien aus dem verzeichnis TSBIN verschiebst du nun
in das verzeichnis TSBIN von dem neuen verzeichnis SIMS2_DVD

9.)die dekompremierten 2 verzeichnisse (RES und SYS) aus dem verzeichnis TSDATA
verschiebst du nun in das verzeichnis TSDATA von dem neuen verzeichnis SIMS2_DVD

10.)in dem neuen verzeichnis SIMS2_DVD müssen jetzt 7 Verzeichnisse
und 39 Dateien vorhandenseien.Dann hast du alles richtig gemacht

11.)brenne jetzt alle dateien (2.999.496.773 Bytes)aus dem neuen verzeicnis SIMS2_DVD
auf eine dvd,benenne diese mit dem namen SIMS2_DVD

@ Morglum007

Hello again, you are one helpfull man ;) Not that I'm interested in the Sims games but you just amaze me how helpfull you are to everybody at Fileforums. Please Keep it up. I know when we first comunicated (The True Crimes Post) I was a bit cranky with you (Hence My Nickname) but gee how wrong I was!! :o

And @ Freeman100
I just love this line:
:D makes me laugh everytime I see it. Very Clever.

1 more way to burn and install to dvd
 

I'm sure that the methods posted here will work to install from 1 dvd rather than having to use the 4 cd's but i've found another and possibly simpler way to burn and install from a dvd. I created 4 folders naming them cd1 through cd4. I put the image files into the correct folder and used nero to put them on a dvdr as data. Install daemon tools and set 4 virtual drives and with the data disc in my real dvd rom I loaded the image files for each 4 cd's to the virtual drives in daemon tools. The install can now be done without having to swap discs and everything can be stored on one dvdr disc. Hope this helps someone as it's a simple way to use 1 dvdr instead of 4 cdr's.
PS... I also put the dameon tools install file on the disc in case I wanted to install this to another pc that didn't already have daemon tools installed on it.

Question:

I copied all cd's to my disk like this c:\SIMS2_DVD\cd1 c:\SIMS2_DVD\cd2 etc.. i extracted the compressed.zip from the first 3 cd's but from cd4 im not sure..i have to extract only compressed.zip again? btw i extracted all the files with sub folders to c:\SIMS2_DVD\compressed . Do i have to zip that folder compressed? or leave it? also i did the control0-3.dat thingy just not sure what i have to do with cd 4 exactly plz fill me in and try to talk step by step...yes im dumb :)

The Sims 2
 

does anyone no were you can get addon's for the sims 2 the only ones i can find are a couple of clothes addon's like i had my little girls set up with the reguvinator and other things i would like an official site for addons as like the first sims bad addons mess up the game

read to the very top of the posts to find out how to it in detail sheeeesh

if you cant understand how to do it from reading the guys post its not help on this forum u need but someone to visit ur house and do it for u lol

Sorry, some parts i cant understand clearly just to be sure i am checking i extracted them all i have now 4 things at my compressed folder 2folders called TSBin and TSData and 2 files called eauninstall and Sims2_uninst do i have to zip this folder again? or leave it in cd1? or just in the SIMS2_DVD folder? what about the cd2 3 and 4 folders? can i delete those? plz help me thanks in advance people :)

I realy couldn't care less of to make cd to a DVD backup.

WHY don't you all waith for the DVD version + bonus on the Sims? And then you have 2 copies of Sims 2. And you can have the DVD+bonus disc as a backup disc for the cds. I resolved your problem, behave your self or I nuke you all! Mohahahahahahaha, beer, mohahahahaha, beer, mohahahaha, beer, muoahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaaaaaaa! :eek:

Instructions For Evil Twin
 

1) take all 4cds in your hand (sorry sarcasm)
2) make 4 folders on your desktop and copy each cd into 1 of the 4 folders
3) rename the 1st folder THE SIMS 2
4) now unzip the compressed.zip from each folder
5) delete the compressed.zip file from each of the 4 folders
6) go into the unzipped folder on ur c drive c:\unzipped
7) put these 2 folders and the 2 files into folder 1 (THE SIMS 2)
8) inside the folder THE SIMS 2 there will a file called common_filelist.txt
9) copy and paste this into it replacing all the txt thats allready there

1,1,sims2_uninst.exe
1,1,eauninstall.ico
1,1,TSBin\1.0.0.932
1,1,TSBin\Sims2.exe
1,1,TSData\Res\*.* /s
1,1,TSData\Sys\*.* /s
1,1,Support\*.* /s
1,1,eauninstall.exe
1,1,TSData\Control\control0.dat
1,1,Sims2.ico
1,1,CSBin\1.0.0.932
1,1,CSBin\PackageInstaller.exe
1,1,CSBin\properties.txt
1,1,CSBin\TS2BodyShop.exe
1,1,TSData\Control\control1.dat
1,1,TSData\Control\control2.dat
1,1,TSData\Control\control3.dat

10) copy the TSDATA folders from cd2/3 and 4 into THE SIMS 2 folder
11) make folder in THE SIMS 2 folder called gamefix place fixed.exe in there
12) now write the dvd with volume name of THE SIMS 2

if ive missed anything or your not getting any of this soz best i can do

Err Krondike!
 

Err Krondike are you by any chance losing the plot? ;)

i've followed the guide(s) posted here and i am having problems.

i started with what was originally posted by last_caress however i couldnt get that to work at all, although i did follow what he was doing. i translated the german guide that lowcast posted, using freetranslation.com, my own basic german skills, and filling in the gaps with what last_caress did, et voila, the game installed.

the game loads up (to the menu), however when i go to actually play it i can not leave the menu. going to 'Learn to Play' gives me a list of tutorials, when i select one and press 'Play' it does nothing but take me back to the main menu. when i go to 'Select Neighbourhood' there are no neighbourhoods there, it just tells me where to copy them to when importing Sim City 4 cities.

i reinstalled the game from my 4 CDs and it works fine. so from my DVD backup either not all files are being copied to hard drive, or there is a file index somewhere that is making the game look in the wrong place.

my common_filelist looks like this:

1,1,sims2_uninst.exe
1,1,eauninstall.ico
1,1,TSBin\1.0.0.932
1,1,TSBin\Sims2.exe
1,1,TSData\Res\*.* /s
1,1,TSData\Sys\*.* /s
1,1,Support\*.* /s
1,1,eauninstall.exe
1,1,TSData\Control\control0.dat
1,1,Sims2.ico
1,1,CSBin\1.0.0.932
1,1,CSBin\PackageInstaller.exe
1,1,CSBin\properties.txt
1,1,CSBin\TS2BodyShop.exe
1,1,TSData\Control\control1.dat
1,1,TSData\Control\control2.dat
1,1,TSData\Control\control3.dat

(last_caress's list, without the original exe backup)

and all files from the compressed.zip files have been put into the TSBin and TSData folders as described in the german guide.
everything seems to be there as my install is 2.73gb big (listed as 2806mb in Add/Remove Programs) so its either missing something small, or looking in the wrong place

any one else found this? any help or advice?

Im almost positive Morglum007 has the conversion on his site, its in Spanish but using your translation program you should be able to work it out. I was going to do a translation of Sims 2 for him but I'm gonna skip it as you guys seem to be just about there with it. ;) Morglums is at cdsteam

Hopefully this will get you there: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel...c1674b019a5f3b

Whoohoo my linked worked! Didnt look like that when I pasted it! :p This will take you to the sims 2 link but as I've put it thru Babelfish it comes out in English. (Still have to work out a few Spanish words Tho)
Hmmm it now appears that 'okmk1' has used 'Last Caress's version but put in more detail, okmk1 acknowleges this. Alos Morglum acknowledges this on page 1 of this post. Whew confusion reigns. :D Luckily this game doesnt interest me so I wont be needing to put it on DVD.

ok i got it now, couldnt see the forest for the trees basically :p

I can't copy the files from CD1 on Harddisk.
i always have bad sectors (ger:Lesefehler).
I also tried it with IsoBuster, but he also writes bad sectors.
can somewone help me?

Max
(sorry for my bad english)