I downloaded Treeag's "No Stupid Reagents" from MTS2, but the hack conflict detector says it conflicts with MATY's firemod, which I can't play without. But this thread here: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,13372.0.html says that the "noreagents" hack breaks the spectral cats. Could you please look into it? I'm lazy enough that I want to cast spells without having to use reagents, but I don't want to break the spectral cats or end up having my sims diaf because they're too stupid to use a fire extinguisher.

I just installed Bon Voyage, and I used the patched no-CD crack from www.gameburnworld.com, and loaded the game. The game played fine, except when I went to make a pet in CAS, the pets were all invisible! The breed options showed up, but the fur and coat options didn't display. I created a cat, and the cat was invisible (and noiseless too), except the family still interacted with it. When a stray dog walked by the lot, the dog's ears were missing, and there was a blank space where the ears should have been. I tested several neighbourhoods, and they all had the same problem. Is this a problem with this particular crack, and is there another site where I could download a better version?

Yeah, I realize that the "completely illegal" sounds dumb - I'm nitpicking, but I don't consider downloading a song or an old video game (one that isn't being sold commercially anymore) to be as bad as downloading the Sims 2.

I'll probably get the no-CD crack, but I'm crossing my fingers and hoping it doesn't screw up my computer...

I bought BV when it first came out, and had to remove it because of SecuROM - first my game stopped working when I tried to load it - "insert the original game disk" blah blah - then it started screwing with other games on my computer, and I had to reinstall another game after removing BV and SecuROM. I'm thinking about putting BV back on my computer and getting Freetime, but I don't want SecuROM fucking up my game. However, I'm apprehensive about downloading a no-CD crack. Not only is it completely illegal (even though I already paid for a legitimate copy), but I'm nervous about getting viruses and crap on my computer from downloading a crack. Can I install BV or FT from the CD, and remove SecuROM without having to uninstall the games? Or will this make my computer blow up? (Despite all the warnings about deleting SecuROM at the Tom's Hardware Forums link, I deleted SecuROM after removing BV and didn't have any problems; except I removed SecuROM after uninstalling BV, and didn't try to play BV without SecuROM).