[jack-pot]

hey man, i made a copy of my sims game and i didnt need to patch it at all. but im using a magic swap disc to load up my backups, i guess i dont know alot about patching and pretty much nothing about the gameshark method that everyone is talking about on here, but i made a backup of the sims with CDRWin and it boots right up for me, i didnt patch it, dont know if it will work for you, could try it though.