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Bust Out of Bustin' Out! - Video Game Counter Rack Fix

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Created by LimeyYoshi
Uploaded: 10th Feb 2023 at 9:16 PM
Updated: 30th Mar 2024 at 7:29 PM
Updates!
  • 2024-01-25: Even more choice for Sims! I was informed that the Sims 2 Exchange once featured an additional video game for your Sims, Urbz: Sims in the City. Sims can now browse that too, if you have this installed! Both from the countertop, and from the floor racks, so both mods received an update.


In my seemingly never-ending series of annoyance fixes for Sims 2, here is another entry by yours truly!

While I think the large video game racks are more appealing and make sense for most community lots I make, there is also a countertop video game rack, which is very handy if you make corner shops that try to offer as much as possible on small space, for example.
While editing the files to make some custom video games available on these racks, I stumbled upon a mistake that Maxis made while coding the countertop rack, and decided to provide a fix for everyone to enjoy.

So what went wrong?

As a result of these errors in the Maxis code, the only game your Sim ever looks at, when browsing the countertop rack, will be Sims Bustin' Out. Additionally, Sims are much more frequent to just stop browsing the rack.

With this simple mod in your Downloads folder, the errors in the countertop game rack are fixed, allowing Sims to browse the rack as intended and see all games that are available to them.

I also added a check to spawn Mr. Humble's game, The Sims 3 (or as it's internally called, "NewGame5"), into a Sim's hands. However, by default, that game re-uses the box art from C&C3, and there is also no box art for Sims 3 in the game files to begin with.
To finish my work off, I added a mesh and textures for the Sims 3 game as a default replacement so this game can spawn correctly. These are originally from Lamare's Buyable Sims 3 Game mod so all credit goes to her.

And finally, if you have it, the Urbz video game from the Sims 2 Exchange is also finally in the place it belongs! No more having to place custom floor racks down - anything works!

Add-On: Sims 3 & Urbz on Floor Racks
Now that The Sims 3 has its own unique game case, it's only consequential for The Sims 3 to be browseable in the base game and FreeTime floor racks, too! And of course, Urbz is part of it too, if you have it installed. Put this add-on in to add this functionality.

Requirements
  • Counter Game Rack Fix: Base game compatible!
    The additional FreeTime games will only be shown if you have FreeTime.
  • TS3 Floor Racks Add-On: FreeTime Expansion Pack.
    The Sims 3 (and with it, Rod Humble) were not part of the game before this EP. If the game can't spawn the object because it doesn't exist in the game, then the interaction will abruptly end, so don't use it without FT please.

Overrides
Main mod:
Resource nameType nameTypeGroupInstanceInstance (high)
Make GameBehaviour Function0x424841560x7F41D78C0x000010080x00000000
Model - NamesText Lists0x535452230x7FF5EDBD0x000000850x00000000

Add-on:
Resource nameType nameTypeGroupInstanceInstance (high)
Make game/place in handBehaviour Function0x424841560x7F8B97830x0000100A0x00000000
Make game/place in handBehaviour Function0x424841560x7FAE5BB00x0000100A0x00000000

Conflicts
Obviously, anything that overrides these particular resources. No such mods are known to me, however.

Lamare's Buyable Sims 3 Game is a custom object with its own unique GUID so it can theoretically be used alongside this mod, if you desire.

Credits
  • Maxis and EA for creating Sims 2 in the first place
  • The Creators of SimPE and especially the BHAV plugin
  • Lamare for letting me use the mesh and textures from her Buyable Sims 3 Game mod to fill the gap that EAxis left. Thank you so much!

Have fun and happy Simming!
~ LimeyYoshi
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