:pickme:  Write restaurant guide fix

* Requires     : FreeTime & Nightlife
* Compatibility: FreeTime, Apartment Life
* Modifications: Semi-Global (affects all computers)
* Hack Version#: 1.0

Quick Info
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:topic cl: This fix is no longer needed if you installed AL patch #2 v1.16.0.194.

Re-enables the sadly missing "Write Restaurant Guide" interaction for computers on Apartment lots.

The fix is not needed for FreeTime alone, since the guide works fine on that Expansion Pack.  Only Apartment Life or higher Expansions will need this fix.

* Check out the readme.txt file for more information.

 Dog and cat pet age duration

* Requires     : Pets
* Compatibility: Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, FreeTime, Apartment Life, & Teen Style Stuff, Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff, IKEA Home Stuff
* Modifications: Global (affects all pets on all lots)
* Hack Version#: 1.0

Quick Info
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Do you find that your pets live too long?  Or maybe they don't live long enough for your Sims to fully enjoy them?

Maybe you wish your pet could be a cute little puppy or kitten for just a little bit longer.  Or perhaps you have grown tired of that old dog laying around the house for 7 years always on the brink of death.

This hack decreases the lifespan of pets for their adult and elder life stages.  Without a hack, pets can live up to 41 years which is very unrealistic compared to real life where most pets are lucky to reach even 15-20.  The human ages in the game are more realistic, being 60-70 on average.  So the hack is decreasing (by default) the pet ages for the sake of realism and to make the game more enjoyable (not having a house full of pets that seem to live forever).

* Check out the readme.txt file for more information.

 Allow puppy kitten toddler riders

* Requires     : Pets or any later pack
* Compatibility: The Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open For Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, Store Edition, FreeTime, Apartment Life, Mansion & Garden Stuff, all Stuff Packs
* Modifications: Global (affects all lots)
* Hack Version#: 1.0

Update ( 05/08/2009 )
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Compatibility fixes for InTeenimater are now available as separate downloads.

zdf_compatible_apktr_InTeenimater_B.rar is for InTeenimater without the BackToSchool FlavorPak
zdf_compatible_apktr_zInTeenimater_BackToSchool.rar is for InTeenimater with the BackToSchool FlavorPak

Only use one of these fixes, not both!!!
Each one has a README.TXT file explaining how to use it.

Quick Info
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* You must also download the following addon for this hack to work correctly:

  df_game_edition_addon.package
  http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=94482

Permits a puppy or kitten to ride in a vehicle, to walk with you to a community lot, and to travel back home with you.  Also has the same effects for toddlers.

WARNING: This hack will add Puppies, Kittens, and Toddlers to the list of available passengers when you call a taxi or choose to drive an owned vehicle.  Puppies, Kittens, and Toddlers also move very very very slowly, so it might take a while for them to travel to the vehicle to get in!

But hack is also configurable to allow you to turn off either Puppy/Kitten or Toddler riders, if you only want to allow 1 type (either Pets or Humans).

UPDATE April 03, 2009
Use SNS-AL.rar if you have Seasons, Bon Voyage, FreeTime, Apartment Life, and/or Mansion & Garden Stuff.

Use PETS.rar if you haven't installed any of the 5 packs above (SNS/BV/FT/AL/M&G).

* Check out the readme.txt file for more information.

 Pet modifications

* Requires     : Pets
* Compatibility: The Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open For Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, Store Edition, FreeTime, Apartment Life, Mansion & Garden Stuff, all Stuff Packs
* Modifications: Global (affects all lots)
* Hack Version#: 1.2

Update ( 04/12/2009 )
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1.2
- Fixes issue with the "Greet Everyone" interaction, when a puppy or kitten is part of the group waiting to be greeted (it was causing an animation error)

1.1
- Adds 4 new options to the _CONFIG file, so you must overwrite the old one!
- Fixes issue that prevents both wolves and skunks from showing up on all lots
- Adds ability to prevent wolf & skunk visitors on Residential Lots
- Fixes issue of strays walking by home lots way too often (way way more than a non-hacked game), instead of only visiting a small percentage of the time

Quick Info
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* You must also download the following addon for this hack to work correctly:

  df_game_edition_addon.package
  http://www.insimenator.org/index.php?topic=94482

WARNING: The default configuration will create many more stray pets in your game.  This behavior was chosen on purpose because I love pets and I especially love strays.  Read this whole file and pay close attention to the Customizing section.  There are instructions for restoring the options back to the game defaults in order to prevent more strays from being created, if you so desire.

There are 2 other hacks available that I recommend you look for.  The first is a Pet Name hack (should be called Live.package), which gives a wider variety of random pet names to strays.  And the second is a Pet Age hack, which either increases or decreases the number of years in each stage of a pet's life.  I think pets live too long and I always find myself waiting for the elders to die.

If you want to use either of those other hacks, you should install them before running the game with my hack because my hack does generate new strays by default.  These new strays will pick up any changes made by those other 2 hacks.

A huge number of fixes and changes are included with my hack:

- Allows owned pets to visit all lots without their owners

- Allows Puppies & Kittens to show up as visitors on all lots

- Allows Sims to adopt stray Puppies & Kittens

- Enables randomization of the age (life stage) of newly created stray pets

- Allows pets from the "adoption pool" to visit lots (disabled by default)

- Allows pets in "shop display cases" to visit lots (disabled by default)

- Allows increase or decrease of the maximum number of stray pets created

- By default, increases the maximum number of stray pets to 20 dogs and 15 cats

- Speeds up selection of home walkbys on the order of thousands of times faster!

- Alters Walkby behavior to no longer favor unknown Sims (now it is random)

- Allows Young Adult Sims as walkbys on non-college residential lots

- Allows all Sims, instead of just Young Adults and College Professors, as walkbys on college residential lots (disabled by default)

- Allows Pets, Wolves, & Skunks as walkbys on all college lots

- Allows Downtownies as walkbys on non-Downtown residential lots

- Allows Pets as walkbys on college Secret Society lots (disabled by default)

- Allows Pets, Wolves, & Skunks as walkbys on Vacation House (residential) lots

- Prevents the following interactions from aborting when used with visiting (non-controllable) Puppies & Kittens on all lots:Bond, Adopt, Play With, Greet, Chase Off, Nuzzle

- Allows Puppies & Kittens to travel to and from Community Lots with your Sims (but requires a separate hack: df_allow_puppy_kitten_toddler_riders.package)

* Check out the readme.txt file for more information.

 Do not leave without me

* Requires     : The Sims 2 (base game)
* Compatibility: The Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open For Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, FreeTime, Apartment Life, & all Stuff Packs
* Modifications: Global (affects all lots)
* Hack Version#: 1.2

Update ( 10/14/2008 )
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1.2
- Really fixes the "Take A Spin" interaction.  Was only fixed 95% of the time in v1.1, sometimes leaving Sims still permanently stuck in the vehicle.

Quick Info
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* You must also download the following addon for this hack to work correctly:

  df_game_edition_addon.package
  http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=94482

Hey wait a minute, don't leave without me!

A game code glitch makes an owned vehicle (and possibly a taxi too) leave before all of the passengers have gotten in.  This hack forces the vehicle to wait until every last one of the passengers has entered the departing vehicle.

* Check out the readme.txt file for more information.

 No babysitter needed for community lot travel

* Requires     : The Sims 2 (base game)
* Compatibility: The Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open For Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, FreeTime, Apartment Life, & all Stuff Packs
* Modifications: Global (affects all families/lots)
* Hack Version#: 1.0

Quick Info
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Allows travel to community lots without requiring a baby sitter (nanny) to watch your toddlers and babies.

A baby sitter is still required for going on vacations though.  Toddlers, babies, and even pets need a baby sitter when the family leaves for a long vacation.  I left that requirement in on purpose.

* Check out the readme.txt file for more information.

 Community lot normal speed arrival

* Requires     : The Sims 2 (base game)
* Compatibility: The Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open For Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, FreeTime, Apartment Life, & all Stuff Packs
* Modifications: Global (affects all lots)
* Hack Version#: 1.0

Quick Info
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* You must also download the following addon for this hack to work correctly:

  df_game_edition_addon.package
  http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=94482

Forces the game to stay at normal speed upon arrival at the destination community lot.  An added bonus is that you get to actually see the beautifully smooth animations of the vehicle arriving on the screen and traveling toward the phone booth.  Rather than it all flying by over the course of 1-second with jerky animations at 3x speed.

* Check out the readme.txt file for more information.

 Cooking uses money instead of food points

* Requires     : The Sims 2 (base game)
* Compatibility: The Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open For Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, Store Edition, FreeTime, Apartment Life, Mansion & Garden Stuff, all Stuff Packs
* Modifications: Semi-Global (affects all refrigerators)
* Hack Version#: 1.2

Update ( 06/07/2009 )
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1.2
- Adds 1 new option to customize the hack for communal areas of apartment lots
- Fixes issue of grocery restocking when more than 1 fridge exists on the lot.  Other fridges would get 0 food points added.  Now they get filled up with the correct amount of groceries that you purchased.
- Fixes a bug on Apartment Life or higher only, whereby non-apartment lots were always charging the person who took the food (instead of charging the family that owned the lot like the hack was supposed to do)
- Adds a new function named "CT - Say Goodbye" which is used to test whether or not this hack is installed

Quick Info
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* You must also download the following addons for this hack to work correctly:

  df_game_edition_addon.package
  http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=94482

  df_globals_pack.package (version 1.1 or higher)
  http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=94483

In lieu of using food points (groceries), each meal prepared will instead cost money.  This occurs on all types of lots (residential, business, community).

The game actually does this behavior already even without a hack, under certain circumstances.  Such as?  When no apartments have their own private fridges, meaning the only fridges in the apartment building are in the shared communal areas.  And also on all community lots that contain a refrigerator.  It may even charge money to the owner on a business lot for employees that are preparing meals to sell.

But now with this cool hack, that behavior occurs everywhere, every time.  And yes, your money will go into the negative if your Sim lacks the Simoleons (but only on residential lots).  Consider the situation to be that you paid in advance with a credit card.

Even though the hack does run on the Base Game of 2004, it can not allow the budget to go negative.  So if your family runs out of money on the Base Game, then they will get free food from the fridge.

* Check out the readme.txt file for more information.

* Requires     : University
* Compatibility: University, Nightlife, Open For Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, FreeTime, Apartment Life, & all Stuff Packs
* Modifications: Semi-Global (affects all refrigerators)
* Hack Version#: 1.0

Quick Info
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All brand new refrigerators, except those at dorms, will come with 0 food points to start with.  So you will have to buy food at a store or as delivery over the phone.

Since when does a brand new refrigerator from a store come fully stocked with chilled food in real life?  This hack makes the game more realistic.

It is an alternate version of my original hack.  This is for players who think that students are too poor and need a fully stocked fridge when moving into a brand new dorm lot or when buying a new fridge at a dorm.  Do realize that a previously "lived-in" dorm will have the same number of food points that it had when the last students moved out.  But that is also the standard game behavior, even without any hacks installed.

Remember that this alternate version absolutely requires University or higher.

* Check out the readme.txt file for more information.

  Optimize vehicle speed

* Requires     : Nightlife or FreeTime or Apartment Life
* Compatibility: Nightlife, Open For Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, FreeTime, Apartment Life, & all Stuff Packs
* Modifications: Semi-Global (affects all ownable vehicles and taxies)
* Hack Version#: 1.0

Quick Info
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* You must also download the following addon for this hack to work correctly:

  df_game_edition_addon.package
  http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=94482

Reduces in-use lag and graphical freezing for ownable vehicles and also a little bit for taxies (though not as much as for ownables).  But no, it does not increase or decrease the speed at which the vehicle moves while you are driving it, even though you might have thought that from the picture.

By default, it also shuts off the car stereo/music before the driver exits the vehicle, but only if it was a return trip (meaning the vehicle just recently returned to the driveway after a trip off-lot).  If you just sit in the vehicle for fun, turn on the stereo, exit the vehicle, then the music will still stay on to allow your Sims to dance to the car stereo music.

* Check out the readme.txt file for more information.

 No watchout for driverless vehicle and no shuffling

* Requires     : Nightlife or Bon Voyage or Store Edition or FreeTime or Apartment Life
* Compatibility: Nightlife, Open For Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, FreeTime, Apartment Life, & all Stuff Packs
* Modifications: Semi-Global (affects all ownable vehicles)
* Hack Version#: 1.2

Update ( 10/14/2008 )
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1.2
- Now requires my Game Edition addon to fix compatibility with IKEA Stuff Pack
- Fully fixes previous 1.0/1.1 issue of Sims complaining that something is blocking their path, possibly becoming trapped in place unable to move

Quick Info
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* You must also download the following addon for this hack to work correctly:

  df_game_edition_addon.package
  http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=94482

"Watchout!" - exclaims one of your Sims, directed at a non-moving vehicle with no driver.  "OMG!!!  It's going to run me over!"

Well obviously not, when there is no driver while the vehicle is parked and not even moving.  This hack stops pointless "Watchout!" interactions, similar to the antiwatchout hack from MATY.  While that hack conflicts with my "Vehicles cost money to drive" hack, this one does not.  You should also read about the problems with the MATY hack in the Known Conflicts section.

The second part of the hack is the "no shuffling" fix.  The Watchout and Shuffling issues are intertwined, so I fixed them both in the same hack file.  This second part is related to Sims shuffling around endlessly when trying to get into a vehicle.  It stops the problem from ever happening.

This hack does not alter taxi behavior; only ownable vehicles are affected.

* Check out the readme.txt file for more information.

 Harder Money Tree

* Requires     : The Sims 2 (base game)
* Compatibility: The Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open For Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, FreeTime, Apartment Life, & all Stuff Packs
* Modifications: Global (affects all families/lots)
* Hack Version#: 1.0

Quick Info
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* You must also download the following addon for this hack to work correctly:

  df_budget_transact_addon.package
  http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=94483

This hack changes 5 aspects of the money tree's behavior.

- Makes the tree only harvestable by Sims with a wallet (playable Sims)

- Allows playable visitors to keep the funds from harvesting the tree

- Sims will always succeed aspirationally when harvesting the tree

- Decreases the amount of money obtained each time you harvest a money tree.  It is now a random number between 10-15 Simoleans instead of the original amount of 40.  Additionally, it now takes 24 hours until the money tree can be harvested again, instead of the original 6 hours.

- Automatically waters the tree after it is harvested (can be disabled)

* Check out the readme.txt file for more information.

 Globals Pack (including Budget Transact)

* Requires     : Varies (depends on which global function is being called, but most of them do work on the base game)
* Compatibility: The Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open For Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, Store Edition, FreeTime, Apartment Life, Mansion & Garden Stuff, all Stuff Packs
* Modifications: Global (but needs to be specifically called by a modder)
* Hack Version#: 1.1

Update ( 06/06/2009 )
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1.1
- adds 6 new functions, 0x0E69 to 0x0E6E
- backward compatible with all 1.0 functions

Quick Info
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Read the included INSTALL.TXT file before you start randomly copying files!

* You must also download the following addon(s) for this hack to work correctly:

  df_game_edition_addon.package
  http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=94482

This "Globals Pack" file replaces my older addon named "Budget transact".  So if you were instructed to download the Budget Transact addon by another hack, you must download this Globals Pack instead.  It will do the same thing.  One important change is that this pack requires my Game Edition addon, while the older "Budget transact" did not.

Globals Pack is a set of globally accessible functions that many of my hacks use.  It is not a game-altering hack in and of itself.  It is simply an addon that other hacks need to explicitly call.  If no other hacks call the file, it will just lay dormant doing absolutely nothing (not even using up CPU cycles).

Instead of including this file along with each individual hack that needs it, I made it only available as a separate download.  I've done that so that my old hacks will not need to be constantly repackaged to include a new "globals pack" file every time this file gets changed to fix issues or to add new features.  

It is just so much simpler (for me anyway, maybe not for you) to do it that way.

Other people can reference these routines from their own hacks if they wish and can even tell people that my "Globals Pack" is required for their own hack to function.  It is not advisable to directly include my file along with any other hacks though, since I do plan on updating it to newer versions frequently.

* Check out the readme.txt file for more information.

2thumb Game Edition addon (for creators/modders)

* Requires     : The Sims 2 (base game)
* Compatibility: The Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open For Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, Store Edition, FreeTime, Apartment Life, Mansion & Garden Stuff, all Stuff Packs
* Modifications: Global (but needs to be specifically called by a modder)
* Hack Version#: 1.1

Update ( 04/08/2009 )
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1.1
- Introduces compatibility with Mansion & Garden Stuff Pack and hopefully any future EPs/SPs without needing a new 1.2 version (ver 1.0 only works up to AL)
- Using advanced mathematics invented by the Klaxxon Empire, optimizes EP/SP detection code to use less CPU cycles (meaning it runs faster now!)

Quick Info
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* Since some people are not reviewing my README file before installing the addon, I'll make this clear upfront.  Do not install any test files from the embedded RAR archives unless you are planning on making your own hacks.  Those 2 files make messages scroll down your screen every time you move the mouse over a sink.  They are only for testing hacks that you make yourself.

EP = Expansion Pack (usually new game code + objects)
SP = Stuff Pack (usually just new objects)

This is simply a tool that allows all of my hacks to be backward compatible with all or most editions of The Sims 2, from the original base game of 2004, up through the latest Expansion Packs: such as FreeTime / Apartment Life / Mansion & Garden Stuff.  It adds global BHAV routines that permit any hack from any author to check which EPs/SPs are installed upon the player's computer.

Any functions that already come with the game are either broken or sorely lacking in functionality.  So I coded my own routines to do the job properly!

Effects
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This addon is the end result of my desire for 100% accuracy in determining which game engines are installed with the minimum amount of CPU processing power spent executing the checks, all accessible globally from any hack.  That is the main reason for this addon.  Plus, the global routine "Expansion Pack - EP(param) Installed?" that comes with University and higher is not a proper solution to this issue because it does not take into account the base game, returning false positives for many EP checks.  In addition, it crashes when checking for "Apartment Life" on older EPs.

* Check out the readme.txt file for more information.

* Requires     : The Sims 2 (base game)
* Compatibility: The Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open For Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, FreeTime(unpatched-only)
* Modifications: Private (Object only)
* Hack Version#: 1.0

Quick Info
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A shining "Neon Flamingo" that you could hang on a wall came with the base game before any expansion packs were released.  The object worked fine in the base game and in the University expansion too.  But for some reason starting at Nightlife and continuing through all future expansions up to the unpatched FreeTime, the object was missing from buy mode (Decorative - Wall Hangings).

FreeTime Patch 1 or higher (v1.13.0.148 or higher) actually fixed the glitch and put the object back into buy mode.  However, people without FreeTime are still unable to enjoy the Flamingo.  This hack does work with all expansion packs of the game, but it only needed for Nightlife, Open For Business, Pets, Seasons, & Bon Voyage.

If you do have a patched version of FreeTime, you should not use this hack, unless you prefer the "Neon Flamingo" be a painting instead of a lighted wall lamp.  It will replace the new FreeTime "Neon Flamingo" light in buy mode (Lighting - Wall) with an old painting-style one (Decorative - Wall Hangings).  The FreeTime one is an actual Lamp that gives off light.  The original base game one never gave off any light and was considered an inanimate wall object like a painting.


Install
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Go to where the base game is installed, such as:

"C:\Program Files\The Sims 2"
"C:\Program Files\The Sims 2 Double Deluxe\Base"

or wherever you installed the game

You will know it is the correct one because it has this file: TSBin\Sims2.exe

Extract the FIX.RAR file to this directory: TSData\Res\Catalog

All expansion packs will now allow you to buy the Neon Flamingo (wall hanging).