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romosim
Rising Rookie
10 months ago

SimCity 4 compatibility

Hi guys,

Not sure if i'm posting this to the correct forum, but I was trying to use the My Sim feature in SimCity 4 with the sims from the Legacy Collection, but the import tab in SimCity 4 is greyed out. I know that the installation directory was changed with the Legacy Collection, so not sure if that's an issue, but just wondering if any of you have had success with this?

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    pacslim
    Rising Novice
    26 days ago

    I managed to get the My Sim import feature working with the Legacy Collection, and the issue really does come down to the changed folder structure.

    SimCity 4 is hard‑coded to look for Sims in the original Sims 1 directory layout:

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    C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\UserData\Characters\

    Since the Legacy Collection stores everything in a completely different location, the Import button stays greyed out because SC4 can’t find the expected folder.

    Here’s what I did to fix it:

    1. I manually recreated the old Sims 1 folder structure in the exact path SC4 expects:
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    3. C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\UserData\Characters\
    4. I went to the Legacy Collection’s character folder and created shortcuts to the character files.
    5. I placed those shortcuts inside the newly created Characters folder.

    After doing this, SimCity 4 recognized the files and the Import button became active. The feature works again.

    So yes — the Legacy Collection still uses compatible character files. The only thing breaking the feature is indeed the changed directory path, and recreating the old structure with shortcuts resolves it.

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