UPLOAD - Brisa (a beach style house... in a normal lot)

There was an announcement at MTS regarding a little challenge - monthly themes!
The theme for this month is "a day at the beach" so I decided to build something on purpose. Which is rather unusual for me.
Also the very first time sharing something I built with UC - so unluckily it requires all the expansions. But as usual no custom content was included.
To be honest I'm quite happy of the outcome :)

What will you find?
It is a two bedroom beach house. But it's not placed on a beach lot so it can be used in any other kind of neighborhoods as well.

Outside it looks like a quite classical wooden house but the inside is decorated in a modern style.

Would you like to see more pics?
Do you want to download it?
You will find all the information and images at MTS.

TUTORIAL - How to change the language of UC

When I downloaded The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection from Origin it automatically installed in my language.
But for some reasons I wanted to temporary change it to English.

It is slightly different from other versions so I'm writing it down so I don't have to figure it out again next time.

1. Open the register editor. The easiest way is typing regedit into your Windows search bar.
2. There are a lot of subfolders there; don't freak out.
   You need to expand  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then SOFTWARE, if you are on 64 bits also Wow6432Node, then EA Games, then The Sims 2 Fun with Pets Collections.
   Too hard to find? Don't despair and use the search function instead: search for Fun with Pets and most likely the editor will find the right path - just look at the status bar to make sure you got there.
3. There should be a subfolder named 1.0 which you must select.
4. Double click on Language and edit your code with the one of the language you want to use (see below). Make sure to enter it as a decimal value instead of a hexadecimal one.
   
   

   CODE	Language
   1	U.S. English
   2	French
   3	German
   4	Italian
   5	Spanish
   6	Swedish
   7	Finnish
   8	Dutch
   9	Danish
   10	Brazilian Portuguese
   11	Czech
   12	Hebrew
   13	Greek
   14	Japanese
   15	Korean
   16	Russian
   17	Simplified Chinese
   18	Traditional Chinese
   19	UK English
   20	Polish
   21	Thai
   22	Portuguese
   23	Hungarian

5. You may also click on LanguageName with the name of the language you want to use, but it's not mandatory.

And that's it, you are done. Go enjoy the game in whatever language you have chosen!

UPLOAD - 101 Road to Nowhere B

It has been a while since I uploaded anything at all!
I have a few lots I could share but I never got to take pictures and actually upload them... until now.

This is a version of 101 Road to Nowhere (Smith family home) which I built from scratch.
I specially wanted to change the upper bedrooms structure and improve the landscaping, and here you have the result:

Do you want to see more pics and download the lot?

UPLOAD - Custom bills (for houses & apartments)

I finally decided to make some changes to this blog.

Blogging about my stories is quite fun but also very time consuming - and I doubt anyone else wants to hear about them anyway xD
So I think I should be spending more time playing and less time writing about it. In face I've even hidden all the previous entries about my games - so hopefully the blog will look much less cluttered now.

While doing so I realized there are two uploads which I had not blogged about.
And it's funny because my custom bill mods is my most popular upload at MTS so far :D

As the name says it's just an override for the default bills so you may get more expensive ones if you wish so.
They come in many different flavours and you may choose different ones for your houses and apartments.
This will allow you to customize your hood economy very easily!!