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| Mattroco |  posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:13 pm | |
Member since: 2008-12-08 Posts: 2 | Believe me when I say I've looked at all the tutorials and searched the forum. I just need an idiot's guide really. The last one on here really confused me. It involved downloading, extracting (I think!) with a program called 'Tortoise' or 'turtle', then using microsoft visual 5 ... as you can tell from me asking, this didn't work ... The daft thing is that I installed it fine a couple years ago but when my hard drive failed I had to download everything again. Please can someone just give me a step by step guide that isn't written for computer-literate people. | |
| Ghost | posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:29 pm | |
 Member since: 2006-03-19 Posts: 775 | The latest version is the one that was the QA release. It was stable enough to be released publicly, but it never had an installer written for it. I think you may have bumped into the source version that is there for anybody to compile and work on.
The link for the main version is in the news listing on the home page, but I will copy it here: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=133134&filename=SimPe_0_73_44-QA.7z
1>Make a folder somewhere on your computer called SimPE
2>It actually doesn't matter what program you use, as long as it can handle the format. 7-zip, WinRAR, and a number of others will work as well. Extract the downloaded copy of SimPE into the new folder.
3>Open the new folder and locate an icon for SimPE.exe (If you have file extensions hidden you need to turn them back on to see the .exe part without right clicking it and selecting "Properties") This is the icon that you need to click to run the program. You can right click on your desktop to make a new shortcut to it if you want to, or just remember where it was if you aren't planning to use it very often.
4>IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SIMS 3 find a package file and right click it. Select properties, and then "Opens With" Scroll to SimPE and click it, then check the box to select "Always use this program to open this kind of file" (SimPE can't open Sims 3 files, even though the format is similar enough that it can recognize that they are there. Spore used DBPF too,which caused the same problem. So if you try to open a Sims 3 file you will be accuused of opening a Spore package because that was the problem first.)
IF YOU DO HAVE SIMS 3 or if you just don't want to change file associations, open simPE before opening a package file you want to edit.
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