How to fix HoodChecker Memories Subject does not exist

Hey everyone! Yesterday I spent good two hours fixing the bugs that HoodChecker found in my Pleasantview neigborhood file. 

HoodChecker is a famous tool created by Mootilda that helps The Sims 2 players a lot. I believe that majority of you already use it and if you don't, you should really consider it. It's a great tool to prevent corruption in your neighborhood. 

In this article I am showing you what helped me with my problems and how you can do it too, but there is no guarantee it will work for you as well, always make a backup of your neighborhood!

Subject does not exist

The problem I had yesterday was the Subject does not exist error in the Memories section. HoodChecker will not automatically fix this but you can do it in SimPE. Even though a lot of people are talking about this topic on the internet, in the first moment it's not that easy to find a straighforward answer. At least for me it took a while. That's why I thought it would be nice to write a tutorial on my blog for it, and it might help someone in the future.

These are the ones I'm talking about. 

Always make a backup of your neighborhood folder before doing any changes in SimPE. HoodChecker tells you to do so as well!

1. Open SimPE
2. Click Tools (top bar) -> Neighborhood -> Neighborhood Browser -> choose your neighborhood and click Open
3. In the left tab "Resource Tree" click Neighborhood/Memory
4. Click Plugin View at the bottom of the page
5. Choose a sim which has the broken memory in the left part of a window
6. Find the memory that is supposed to be broken - we are looking for a memory with missing Subject
7. Click the memory and add a sim/object that you want to the Subject tab

for this memory - Had a Great Anniversary Party - the subject is supposed to be the same as owner of the memory so I filled the Subject...Sim: with the name of the owner

After that just click Commit and File->Save to save the changes

Then I would recommend closing SimPE and running the HoodChecker again to see if that worked.

Problem: Memories not showing up as they should

I encountered the problem that my memories didn't show up - only some of them did and it was only the Invisible ones. So for example I didn't see the one Had a Great Anniversary Party with that balloons symbol. If this didn't happen to you, skip this part, you're done.

For those of you who had this problem, my solution was this:

1. In SimPE, click Extra (top bar) -> Preferences
2. Click System Folders tab if it's not selected already
   
   Instead of path like this
   
   I've had there stuff like that
   
   
   
3. Change the wrong paths to the path where you have installed your game and expansions
4. Click Okay, then you may need to restart SimPE and you're done

This worked for me and since then my memories showed up as they should.

Resources

This ModTheSims page is everything when comes to fixing memories in SimPE
This thread helped me when memories were not showing up

I hope this article helped you! 

enchuanita.

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The Sims Castaway Stories + how to install DISC VERSION

Hello everyone, today I am bringing you an article about the last one of The Sims Stories series - The Sims Castaway Stories.

I bought this thing recently on Facebook Marketplace after searching for it for a long time in my country. Finally, I got it. I am planning to do a let’s play of it because I am very excited. I have never played it actually.

What needs to be mentioned is that this is The Sims Castaway Stories - the version for computers. There is another one called The Sims 2: Castaway but that is for consoles like Wii, PS2, or PSP.

And here I am happily holding my The Sims Castaway Stories game - also, it is in very nice condition!

This game has two modes/ways you can play it - story mode called Shipwrecked and Single which takes place on Felicity Island, and open-ended normal-gameplay-thing which takes place in a “neighborhood” called Wanmami Island.

How to install

The installation was pretty simple to me, I hope you’ll have the same - because installing these old sims games to newer computers seems to be like a roulette, someone doesn’t have any problems with that and someone else cannot make it run like ever.

Now, if you want to do what I did:

• simply install the game from the autorun OR if you consider it a better idea like I did (for no reason tbh, just bc some guys on the Internet recommend this for The Sims 1) you can right-click on the DVD in This PC and click open - then open the AutoRun.exe

• apply Graphics Rules Maker to the game there is a whole tutorial on how to do it on their website so I will not retell it

these are my settings, I mostly use the ones you get when you hit Auto-detect

If anything doesn’t work for you, try to run everything as an administrator, I do that permanently

• then don’t forget to set all settings of the game to maximum (if you think your computer is able to do that, but my PC is pretty average and it runs it perfectly so I think you’re ok)

• also, a thing that helped me a lot is setting Smooth Edges to More in Graphics/Performance Options

Unfortunately, even though I tried a lot of things, I wasn’t able to apply the 4GB patch on this game. So, if anyone knows how to do that, you can write me in the comments, in the sidebar, or on any of my social media and I can add it to the tutorial. Fortunately, my game works fiiine even without this.

That is pretty much everything I wanted to tell you about The Sims Castaway Stories right now. I'll be back soon with a let's play, pictures, maybe some tips and more!

enchuanita

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What to build in The Sims - FOOD EDITION | Sims 2 Tips

Have you ever lost your inspiration on what to build in The Sims? I did! And what helped me? Tips from other people on what do they like to build in this game. I am building mostly in The Sims 2 since that is my most favorite game of The Sims franchise, so these tips will be dedicated to The Sims 2 but players of other games can definitely use them too since this is a general topic.

This time I will be writing about food and drink-related builds since they're my most favorite! Oh, and I will be adding some CC tips!

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