2 slight issues with sims2

External Since: Dec 23, 2006 Posts: 48

When you load up the game you have 3 neighbourhoods to choose from;
Pleasantview, Strangetown and Veronaville. Ever since seasons neighbourhood
was installed it was put where Pleasantview once was and all of the others
shifted across likewise. I play with Pleasantview and Veronaville most of
the time. Is there a way to make Strangetown move to the 4th place so that i
have Riverblossom, Pleasantview, and Veronaville as my first 3 to choose
from? I dont want to DELETE Strangetown, just shift the location as its
annoying to have to scroll to get to Veronaville.

Also a much more pressing question:

I have a wide screen lcd (lucky me) and while TheSims2 has 'adapted' to it
by changing the resolution, some things are just not quite right. For
example in the Create Sim function the sim is to the left and the menu is
right in the middle, so that the menu actually covers about half of the
sim!!!! The menu is slightly transparent, but that doesnt help at all. I
have to use the nearby mirror to clothe a sim as i can only see HALF of the
sim from the front, so i have to spin the sim around so the front faces away
from me and the mirror helps a bit. It gets annoying as you can only really
deal with the Sims right hand side when creating their face, and when the
camera zooms out to clothe the sim you have created a monster!!!

Is there any way to modify these two problems?

thanks for your time,

Trinity

External Since: Jul 12, 2005 Posts: 3067

Trinity wrote:
> When you load up the game you have 3 neighbourhoods to choose from;
> Pleasantview, Strangetown and Veronaville. Ever since seasons
> neighbourhood was installed it was put where Pleasantview once was
> and all of the others shifted across likewise. I play with
> Pleasantview and Veronaville most of the time. Is there a way to make
> Strangetown move to the 4th place so that i have Riverblossom,
> Pleasantview, and Veronaville as my first 3 to choose from? I dont
> want to DELETE Strangetown, just shift the location as its annoying
> to have to scroll to get to Veronaville.

The only way I know of to do it is to go into My Documents/EA Games/The Sims
2/Neighborhood. You will see folders named G001, N001, N002, and N003.
N002 is Strangetown. You will have to rename that folder to a number higher
than N003 - say, N004. Now you must go inside that folder and rename every
file in every folder and replace N002 with N004. This takes a while to do
manually, but it can be done faster if you have a file renaming program that
can change the string every place that it occurs. This should place
Strangetown after Veronaville.

Another option is to simply remore the N002 folder and place it someplace
else within My Documents (or park it on your desktop). That will remove
Strangetown without deleting it. You can put it back anytime you wish to do
so.
>
> Also a much more pressing question:
>
> I have a wide screen lcd (lucky me) and while TheSims2 has 'adapted'
> to it by changing the resolution, some things are just not quite
> right. For example in the Create Sim function the sim is to the left
> and the menu is right in the middle, so that the menu actually covers
> about half of the sim!!!! The menu is slightly transparent, but that
> doesnt help at all. I have to use the nearby mirror to clothe a sim
> as i can only see HALF of the sim from the front, so i have to spin
> the sim around so the front faces away from me and the mirror helps a
> bit. It gets annoying as you can only really deal with the Sims right
> hand side when creating their face, and when the camera zooms out to
> clothe the sim you have created a monster!!!
> Is there any way to modify these two problems?
>
> thanks for your time,
>
> Trinity

Someplace under Game Options you should find a place to change the
resolution of the game to fit your widescreen monitor. I believe it is
under Video options.

Jeanie