Okay, fine, I borked it - help with regional settings
Zazazu:
I --uh-- "got" H&M (why?). I installed the UK version, and of course it set my time to the 24-hour clock and changed a few names. Luckily, it didn't do anything to most of my sims first names, and I was able to change the names of the living, two of whom had been given arbitrary sex changes (apparently, the UK does not recognize that sims can be named Builder Babe and Big Tool, like my construction whores were). The dead, however, I cannot figure out. My problems are three-fold.
1. 24-hour clock
2. Name changes for the dead
3. Fear of future name changes when I get the next EP and it's the US version. Because it will be.
So, I need to edit the registry to reset the region, yes? Well, I tried the handy little program JM made for Seasons changes, but no dice. Should I go ahead and uninstall/reinstall Seasons in the hope that installing a US version EP after the UK version SP will change it back to US (backing up is not too much of an issue) or is there a quick way to do the registry change myself?
SaraMK:
Well, it's fairly simple, if you're willing to mess with the registry. Make a registry backup first, in case you somehow manage to mess it up.
From the Start Menu choose RUN and type regedit in the box. The registry will open.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EA GAMES\
Expand/select The Sims 2 H M Fashion Stuff
Find Language and Locale and change to English US and en_us (double-click to change)
Now expand/select the 1.0 folder
Find Language Name and change to English US
Find Language and change from 13 to 1
Exit registry.
This should fix all three two of your problems. It won't fix the dead.
SaraMK:
ETA: But it won't change the screwed-up names back to what they were originally. If you don't have a backup of your neighborhood, you'll have to change them in SimPE or with Lot Debugger.
EDIT: I suck. This really was supposed to be a modification and not a reply. :-\
syberspunk:
Quote from: SaraMK on 2007 June 15, 17:18:33
EDIT: I suck. This really was supposed to be a modification and not a reply. :-\
* syberspunk points and laughs. :D
Well... you could have still edited the previous post and just deleted the 2nd reply, and no one would've been the wiser. Except now, I've quoted you. ;D
Ste
Zazazu:
SimPE still shows them with the original names, just to add to the confusion. That was my initial thought. Lot Debugger works, it just doesn't work on the dead. And, apparently, Lonny Lon didn't know April (now Paul) my founder. Which is odd, since he is the All-Knowing Mime (tm). So no one alive can resurrect, rename, and kill her again. Unless I have Lonny resurrect Brown and Brown resurrect April. Blech.
But eh, Big Tool is much happier now that he's not named Maryann anymore.
I did back up the neighborhood, but that was eight sim days ago, and too much craziness has happened since (accidental death by fright x2, loony bin residency, puppy breeding madness, the dawn of zombie outreach, genetic research towards nanobot-assisted girl-on-girl pregnancy). Yeah. I don't want to lose all that. Only half of it was on purpose.
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