Sims 2 CD to DVD Backup.

[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?