Tutorial: Extracting & Packaging Sims

[dragancaor]

Well we all know the Pixel_trade community is all about sharing sims that its members have either created or bred in game. And then installing what we download from others into our games to create stories, or play challenges with. But in order to extract or package a sim, you first need to know how to do it in a way that wont create issues for someone else'

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[highshelf]

Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to package sims on a Mac that didn't make everyone you gave it to's game crash. If this is explained somewhere else I'm so srry and a link would be awesome! :DDD

[dragancaor]

Packaging bodyshop sims I think is the same. However, extracting sims born in game sims for packaging isn't techincally possible on a mac in so far as I know.

Either copy your neighbourhood to cd & take it to a friend's house with the same (or higher) install as you (on windows), swap neighbourhoods (make sure you make a backup of theirs before you do this) & use SimPE, following the tutorial above.

Then you can use the DBPF Reader, which is the Mac version of clean installer (thanks sixamsims) to install packaged sims into your game.

Or you could run windows on your own machine through a program like bootcamp, or parallels, with SimPE on that partition.

Failing that you might be lucky enough to have a member here or on thesims2 be willing to help you via the net. However you would need to find an online host able to hold your (preferrably rar'd) neighbourhood & someone with a monthly download quota that allows it as well as the spare time to get the sim(s) you need to grab.

Hope that helps.

[highshelf]

woah that sounds complicated. I don't think their would be anyone willing to help me because I'm more of a lurker in the sims community. Alls well though I'll just make sims I want to package in body shop! So for packaging I just use the end of this tutorial right?

[dragancaor]

Yups =)

[highshelf]

thank you so much! Sorry if any of my questions were nublet questions :D

[dragancaor]

Any time =D
The tutorials are here for people who don't know. Questions are welcomed; it's all part of the learning process =)