Hi there, I am trying to figure out what I've done wrong here. I made a copy of my origional Sims 2 Nightlife game with Alcohol 120%. I ripped them as .mdf files. Then I burned them onto cd-rw (at 16x, with the Safedisc protection selected) and re-installed the game from the copies without any trouble. Now when I go to play the game, the splash screen comes up but it hangs up and doesn't do anything else. The nice part is that at least it doesn't freeze my comp and I can ctl+alt+del to close it down. I am *assuming* this is a 'no disc' error but no screen comes up to say so, and mounting the .mdf files (which I dropped into the game folder) with Daemon give the same result. I've also tried to drop a mini image into the game folder and mount it... still it hangs up. This is crazy because I've ripped it several times with the same result of the hanging screen when I try to play the game. Can anyone help?
Why don't you just install it with the original files? Try some tests and see if installing it with the original discs eliminates this problem. If not, just use the real ones.
I was just trying to figure out how to use my copy so I wouldn't have to mess with the origional disc (I have a cat that uses anything around the comp desk as a toy... actually he's swatting the screen right now... including discs). I did get the whole thing working though, I even made backups of my other Sims 2 expansions... I just got SafediscHider (a handy little app by SKULL), and mounted a mini-image with Daemon. No cd required to play so I didn't even need to make back-ups!
