Ok, I bought the Sims Livin’ Large upgrade yesterday, had a bitch of a time installing it, and now that I finally got it running I find a lot of items are MISSING: The Vibrating Bed (aaack!!), Bear Skin Rug, Egg-Shaped Chair, Party Balloons, and God knows what else. Also, the money cheat is still “klapaucius”. I do have some new items like the topiary, jukebox, cuckoo clock and those kick-ass wall lamps.
What the heck? Do I have a bad version or did it install wrong or did that stuff never make the expansion? I’ve asked on the SIMS BBS and they all say, “It’s at the end of the menu dude,” and I know writing tech support would be a waste of time, so I’m asking here where the people at least have INTELLIGENCE…what’s up with my damn game?
Jeremy,
I had to uninstall The Sims and Livin’ Large after I first put Livin’ Large on. When I reinstalled both from scratch everything worked fine. I don’t know why, though.
Me too, the first install didn’t work so I had to install from scratch, it worked but that’s when I noticed the missing items. I bought the strategy guide too and it’s got a LOT of stuff I’m missing…magic potion kit, genie lamp, fireworks, voodoo doll, guitar, servo the robot…shit, I might as well try and install it a THIRD time…
Oh yeah, it installed four new neighborhoods but I can’t figure out how to switch between them.
On the neighborhood screen, in hte upper left hand corner there should be a Neighborhood selector…just use the arrows to switch between neighborhoods.
As for missing items…hrm. I’d second what Zette said. Uninstall BOTH games, then do a clean install of the Sims, then Living Large. If that doesn’t work, I’ll ask the mailing list I’m on…they’re pretty good with tech support issues.