ash10ben10 I'm about to go down a rabbit hole, but I ran the game in a fresh save folder, and my Belladonna Cove also has 6 stories. I checked Ultimate Collection as well, and there were also only 6, and sometimes I couldn't click on the arrow button to cycle through them. Obviously, there are supposed to be more, so can you let me know whether you had 12 stories in disk or UC? And if it was disk, did you have all the packs installed?
If you temporarily generate a fresh save folder (move The Sims 2 Legacy folder from Documents\EA Games\ to your desktop), does it still happen?
I'll keep testing this out to see what happens with other neighborhoods and sub-neighborhoods.
EDIT: I regenerated the folders to start fresh, and this happened:
- Every time I loaded a neighborhood, I cycled through its stories.
- If I loaded Riverblossom Hills first, the stories were fine.
- If I loaded Belladonna Cove, then Riverblossom Hills, the stories had no photos and showed text from BC, like in the OP's screenshot.
- If I loaded Desiderata Valley and cycled through its stories, then went back to RH, the stories were fine.
- Other neighborhoods had no issues.
- I attached all Maxis sub-neighborhoods to BC. If I loaded BC, then RH, the stories had no photos and showed text from BC. However, if I loaded any BC sub-neighborhood from the Main Menu, then went back to RH, the stories were fine. The issue only happened when I loaded the main BC neighborhood before RH.
- Sometimes, the arrow button didn't work in BC; it wouldn't let me cycle through stories, or it skipped them and went randomly.