Small (but good) victory!
As I blogged several weeks ago, I thought I had lost hundreds of megabytes of information for Sims 2. This greatly crushed me as my favorite family consisted of Harley and her ‘husband’ Lilith (Lilith clearly wears the pants in the family), both had skin tones that were ‘lost’. Likewise a couple other families had a problem with their hair tones and everything was out of wack in my Sims town.
This week I had started to download stuff from a free site, though I knew if I wanted the skin tones I’d have to go to a pay site… and most of the hair styles came from another pay site. I had investigated it last week and found it would cost me $30 (slightly less then the new expansion) to sign up to both sites long enough to get everything back in order. SO before I put up the money I talked to two of my friends today who know computer geeks… I figured they might be able to ‘find’ the information that was supposed to be on the computer disk. Basically the disk was supposed to have about 700 megabytes of info and only had about 100 when I used it a couple of weeks ago. As I was about to email both people to ‘remind’ them to help me… I decided to look at the disk. I had put this plastic ‘disc cover’ that was suppose to save the disk from scratches, so I figured I'd look to see if the disk was scratched regardless of the disk cover… and I looked at the disk and I wondered ‘gee what if I remove the plastic cover before I put the disk in the computer?’
Eureka! That worked perfectly. After weeks of stress over not being able to play the Sims, and burying myself in Champions of Norrath, I have ALL my Sims back. I’m very happy. I have destroyed the disk cover…. And I intend tomorrow to back up my Sims info on NON re-writeable CDs [or maybe a single DVD] before I do anything in the game.
I’m very HAPPY. I don’t have to pay to re-download things… and further am glad that I don’t have to put in the hours/days it would take to download all the files.
Right now I don’t plan to buy Nightlife, which came out today, until December for three reasons. The first is, of course, money. I don’t have a lot of money and Nightlife is not needed for me to enjoy Sims 2. The second is, I promised myself that I wouldn’t buy Sims Nightlife until I had started sending my Sims teens to college (aka Sims University). See I had bought Sims U. the first day as I was DYING to have the items in it… But as I haven’t played Sims 2 a whole lot and tried to balance my families, none of my kids have gotten to the point where I wanted to send them off. I feel that before I get the second expansion, I should be taking FULL advantage of the first expansion. The third reason, is to be frank, if I had money for a video game- I want X-Men Legends 2 more. As I have little money, I think it’s important for me to decide what I want to buy… and Legends 2 beats Sims 2, part 2.
But again, I’m happy I have Sims 2 up and working again. And I plan to play it this weekend, after I make sure everything is backed up… again.
This week I had started to download stuff from a free site, though I knew if I wanted the skin tones I’d have to go to a pay site… and most of the hair styles came from another pay site. I had investigated it last week and found it would cost me $30 (slightly less then the new expansion) to sign up to both sites long enough to get everything back in order. SO before I put up the money I talked to two of my friends today who know computer geeks… I figured they might be able to ‘find’ the information that was supposed to be on the computer disk. Basically the disk was supposed to have about 700 megabytes of info and only had about 100 when I used it a couple of weeks ago. As I was about to email both people to ‘remind’ them to help me… I decided to look at the disk. I had put this plastic ‘disc cover’ that was suppose to save the disk from scratches, so I figured I'd look to see if the disk was scratched regardless of the disk cover… and I looked at the disk and I wondered ‘gee what if I remove the plastic cover before I put the disk in the computer?’
Eureka! That worked perfectly. After weeks of stress over not being able to play the Sims, and burying myself in Champions of Norrath, I have ALL my Sims back. I’m very happy. I have destroyed the disk cover…. And I intend tomorrow to back up my Sims info on NON re-writeable CDs [or maybe a single DVD] before I do anything in the game.
I’m very HAPPY. I don’t have to pay to re-download things… and further am glad that I don’t have to put in the hours/days it would take to download all the files.
Right now I don’t plan to buy Nightlife, which came out today, until December for three reasons. The first is, of course, money. I don’t have a lot of money and Nightlife is not needed for me to enjoy Sims 2. The second is, I promised myself that I wouldn’t buy Sims Nightlife until I had started sending my Sims teens to college (aka Sims University). See I had bought Sims U. the first day as I was DYING to have the items in it… But as I haven’t played Sims 2 a whole lot and tried to balance my families, none of my kids have gotten to the point where I wanted to send them off. I feel that before I get the second expansion, I should be taking FULL advantage of the first expansion. The third reason, is to be frank, if I had money for a video game- I want X-Men Legends 2 more. As I have little money, I think it’s important for me to decide what I want to buy… and Legends 2 beats Sims 2, part 2.
But again, I’m happy I have Sims 2 up and working again. And I plan to play it this weekend, after I make sure everything is backed up… again.
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