The Search for Nervous Subject's Clone

[strangetomato]

I'd post this to wcif_sims, but I've already posted once today, so I thought I'd ask here (though I'll post there tommorrow if this doesn't work out). I'm looking for an extracted version of the Nervous Subject "clone" found in the data of Strangetown. He's one of those unlinked dead characters, so I'm also open to advice on how to extract him myself. I have no idea, and I'm a bit wary of messing around with SimPE.

As someone who's already using the idea of cloning Nervous in a story, you can see how I'd like to use him in a wink and nod sort of way, right?

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[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

He was used in an early promo video for the Sims 2, called An Unnerving Day and he's killed off at the end by a satellite.

That's probably exactly why he's in the game as a dead character. Instead of reviving him, they simply made another Nervous (a cuter one, in my opinion).

Pretty cool, huh?

I'd be very happy if you could extract him. How do you go about extracting those unlinked sims, anyway?

[aledstrange.livejournal.com]

I know there is a trick with unlinked files, I'm trying to remember how, but tbh, last time I tried was a very long time ago.

The problem now is that, unfortunately, I just noticed Nervous' clone is not only 'unlinked', but also says 'No character File' and for I understand that means exactly that. There's no file for the character. He's only an image.

I'll try a bit more, but not sure if it can be done in any way.(at least not that I know of). Maybe try recreating him, by using the image? He looks a lot like Nervous after all.

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

An unlinked sim can be relinked by changing a variable from 1 to 0 in the 'Other' tab (I forget what exactly it's called). Incidentally, doing this to Skip Broke (the real one, not the clone) will result in Brandi's unborn baby getting his genetics and having a chance of being a girl as well. :D

But yeah, 'no character file' is a bit more difficult..

[aledstrange.livejournal.com]

oh yeah!! That was it!

I remembered there was a 'unlinked' something in one of the tabs, but couldn't find it. Now I see it. Is on Other/Misc/Unlinked it say 0x0000 for unlinked characters should be 0x0001?? (and in matter of fact I think I learned that from you, in the first place, but soo long ago!! lol)

But with 'no character file', there's no actual info to extract (for what I understand, at least)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Really? Well, that's too bad. I was hoping there'd be a way.

Thank you for looking into it! I really appreciate it. ^_^

I suppose I could recreate him. I did that with Nina and Dina's alien grandfather. I'm not sure if he's extractable at all, but I figured I'd just recreate him at the time, and tweek him to my liking. I prefer doing that with family tree sims most of the time anyway, since they're known for being straight template faces, who don't resemble their families at all (Lyla Grunt is a good example, since her face two has nothing in common with the Grunts, and she also has missing data, if I remember correctly).

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Someone on MATY had revived Lyla (she does have data but it's broken, when I tried extracting her her package file would crash Body Shop), and her face was... er, explody. I'll see if I can find the link...

Here we go: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15239.0.html

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen that video! That is pretty cool.

I've no idea how to extract him or the other character files like him, though. Their character files are broken and incomplete, that's why they can't be cloned normally and can't be summoned ingame. I suspect you'd have to add in whatever's missing to make them work, though I don't know if that's even possible.

The base game neighbourhoods all look like they've gone through some serious modification before the release. Besides the clone of Nervous and several characters in PV (Skip Broke, Darleen Dreamer, Michael Bachelor), there's a whole lot of garbage files floating around, like wants & fears and relationships for deleted characters. Also, I found some broken relationship links that set Lucy Burb as someone "high up" in the Goth family tree (aunt of Mortimer or something silly like that), and some other stuff like that as well.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty nifty, huh?

Hmmm, well maybe it's not possible. He probably would've been extracted by someone now if it was possible.

Yeah, I know there's a lot of "junk" floating around in there, and it makes the hoods sort of unstable, but I like when they're sort of interesting mysteries like the Nervous clone here.

I'm seriously laughing at Lucy in the Goth family tree, though. That's a pretty big wtf.

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

I think maybe Lucy's character file number used to belong to a character that was deleted... maybe? It's pretty weird, she consistently had relationships being Goths' spouse, sister, even mother and grandmother now that I think about it...