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royami-kun's avatar
9 hours ago

Remove regional differences in NBHD Screen / Unblock all music for non-US locale

Right now there is a difference when you play The Sims 1 Legacy using English language or any other:

ENGLISH:
the random track from \The Sims Legacy\Music\Modes\NhoodUS
 plays every time you visit the Neighborhood Screen, including:
latin6.mp3
latin7.mp3
nhood1.mp3
nhood2.mp3
nhood3.mp3 - the iconic one which is absent in other languages

ALL OTHER LANGUAGES:
the random track from \The Sims Legacy\Music\Modes\Nhood
 plays every time you visit the Neighborhood Screen, including:
latin2.mp3
latin4.mp3
latin6.mp3
latin7.mp3
so it basically plays Latin America style music even with European locales.

What is the special need for this kind of segregation? in other the sims iterations there is small changes like clockwise or not road traffic, but not the music.

Just include the all tracks in all locales, that would be fair. I think that nhood3.mp3 is the iconic one because the music matches the motifs of skill leveling up notification sound. And it exists only in English version.

I'm also not sure that there is any sense at having different images with this black (World) or gray (US) asphalte roads in NBHD Screen
 like NScreen_unleashed.bmp and NScreen_unleashed_nonus.bmp from \The Sims Legacy\UIGraphics\Community. The black looks closer to the actual in-game lots using black asphalte tiles, and the US version has the gray asphalte and the road marks. If only black version could have these marks it would be perfect. Right now black roads looks unnatural without these separation lines.

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