Most Wanted Hacks

[strangetomato]

First of all, thank you to everyone who helped me to troubleshoot my game issues in the last post. As always, I appreciate your help immensely. In the end, it was a simple matter of placing the no-cd crack in the wrong folder. I feel a little better knowing that I'm not the only one who has made the same mistake.

My next hurdle to jump in the quest to get my game running properly again is to rebuild my downloads folder. You see, I may have lost my entire uberhood (with ALL of the households played to 14 sim days) and a good portion of my downloads folder to the hard drive failure of my old PC. *deep breath* I'm okay. There's very little I can't just shrug off these days. And let this be a lesson to you all. Go make backups, and not just half-assed ones where you sort of have copies, but not really, and you're just swapping in and out hoods without also keeping a copy in your external drive. Seriously, double check that you have a decent backup. Do it.

On the bright side, I do still have Elsewhere and the Tomato Legacy and all of my other hoods. I also, by some strange luck, still have my Bodyshop and Build Mode sub-folders of my Downloads folder. What I do not have: Hair, Buy Mode, Defaults, Hacks, and Storytelling (hacks and pose boxes) sub-folders. I'm going to take the first two as a blessing in disguise and a chance to scale back my cc a little. I'll gather up the hair and recolours of buy mode items as I realize what I truly need and want. Defaults, I'll figure out. Hacks, I need pronto. Storytelling stuff is also pretty key.

What hacks do you absolutely need for your game? I know I need the MATY Director's Cut and ACR 2.0, and some of the others are coming back to me as I look into it, but I don't remember everything I had. If you wouldn't mind tossing out some of your must haves for me to peruse (or share a link to your resources post), I'd really appreciate it.

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I used a lot of the ones you've listed here. I had Gunmod's Camera Mod in my backup folder, so that went right back in. As a storyteller, I find that one beyond essential. When I was testing the game, I was surprised to remember how truly terrible the default camera is. It's maddening. XD

I've never heard of the Community Time Project. It sounds interesting, tough I think the time management required on my part would turn me off from it. I'm bad at it, and I sort of like the timelessness of community lots.

*checks MATY to refresh memory* Have you looked at Simsbaby's No With Overlay at MATY? I frequently switch back and forth on whether I want green skin and/or sparkles in my game (mostly story-related), but when I did remove the overlay, I used that one instead of HP's. It uses a different technique and the file is smaller.

Thanks for all your help. I appreciate it. :)

[im-i.livejournal.com]

Oh no thank you I hadn't heard of that No Overlay mod at MATY! I mean HP's works fine for me, but alternatives are good and I'll need to give it try. Definitely good if the file is smaller. It just really is a must-have for me as I can't stand the green skin.

The Community Time Project isn't for everyone of course, but it works well for me and makes sense if you run a lot of community businesses.

No problem and glad I could help. :)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I can't recall if HP's mod allowed you to pick and choose between the good and bad witch overlay or if it was one file, but I liked that about Simsbaby's mod. For a while, I wanted the sparkles, but not the green skin, so that was perfect for me.

I'm glad you might be able to make use of that one. :)