Sims 2 CD to DVD Backup.

[FREEMAN100]

Originally Posted by EvilTwin

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

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

[Grumpy]

Err Krondike are you by any chance losing the plot?

[reddragon105]

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?

[Grumpy]

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

[Grumpy]

Whoohoo my linked worked! Didnt look like that when I pasted it! 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. Luckily this game doesnt interest me so I wont be needing to put it on DVD.

[reddragon105]

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

[max26199]

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)