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Title: Nightlife House Mix? Post by: MaxisManiac on 2006 April 14, 02:15:13 I was always wondering what the House Mix station was, and all I found were four songs which were remixes of the Sims 2 Theme song (the one at the Neighborhood screen), and I looked in the MusicTitles text file and found many other songs not in my game. "Chewing Gum" by Annie, "Jump" by The Faders, etc. I searched on the BBS, and found this: http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?&openItemID=&threadID=2229a5aa538dc3fa663e2a924a21e5a9&directoryID=2&startRow=1#2773e9f2b620039f742da4aa3f15138e
Apparently someone else has these songs included in their game. Does anyone know more about this? EDIT: Ah, I see. Some translations in other countries got certain songs from the list. They were easily extractable. Title: Re: Nightlife House Mix? Post by: trancejeremy on 2006 April 14, 04:37:49 It's weird - the songs are spread out in various different packages, and some songs are repeated.
Funnily though, out of the 4 songs in the "house" mix, only one is really "house". One is breakbeat (Adam Freeland's stuff), and the other two are closer to trance than anything else (though Timo Maas is more "progressive", but close enough). Title: Re: Nightlife House Mix? Post by: Simsbaby on 2006 April 14, 05:03:17 I wish they kept the music from "My Sim Don" in the game. That was a good song.
Title: Re: Nightlife House Mix? Post by: jrd on 2006 April 14, 14:36:38 There are 15 unique house mix songs in total:
Adam Freeland - Busy.mp3 Andy&Lucas - Madre.mp3 Andy&Lucas - Mi Barrio.mp3 Annie - Chewing Gum.mp3 Annie - Heartbeat.mp3 Christian Forss - Hubny Harb.mp3 Hyper - Sim the Builder.mp3 Jeanette - Run with me.mp3 Junkie XL - Sims 2 Uni Theme.mp3 LUX Spencers - O blay wobba zoon.mp3 Musikk Feat John Rock - Summer Lovin'.mp3 The Faders - Jump.mp3 The Faders - What it takes.mp3 Timo Maas - Sims 2 Theme.mp3 Victoria - Cry.mp3 They're hidden in the different locale files. Open <Nightlife>\TSData\Res\Locale\<locale>\Sound\Housemix.package for each of the following locales, and extract the MP3 files to C:\Documents and Settings\<you>\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Music\housemix : Brazilian Portuguese Czech Danish Finnish German Norwegian Spanish UK English There are some dupes, but at least this way you'll get them all. Title: Re: Nightlife House Mix? Post by: Simsbaby on 2006 April 14, 15:13:22 Is their anyway to make them all show?
Title: Re: Nightlife House Mix? Post by: jrd on 2006 April 14, 15:22:29 Yeah, extracting them.
Or drop them all in a single package for your locale (but why?) Title: Re: Nightlife House Mix? Post by: radiophonic on 2006 April 14, 18:27:18 My question is: Why is it necessary to have an extra 120+ megs of locale files on the user's machine when there is only one locale in use? It's not like the user will one day decide to switch from English to Japanese on a whim.
Regardless, I replace all of those silly simlish music files. It's just the same songs over and over and over and over. Title: Re: Nightlife House Mix? Post by: jrd on 2006 April 14, 18:58:26 Maxis' (EA Games') methods are strange anyway. Do you realize that because each XP is installed next to the original game, there is an immense amount of duplication going on? It's not as if you even can remove an XP later and continue playing: your 'hood will be unusable.
Title: Re: Nightlife House Mix? Post by: TheCheat on 2006 April 14, 21:20:02 House Mix was originally intended to pull music directly from your My Music folder, as evidenced by what the Prima Guide says (which was finished before the game went gold).
Obviously, this is just more proof how inconsistent Maxis seems to be with keeping what they intended. Well...It's probably more along the lines of "Maxis is inconsistent because EA tells them development is finished when it's really not." :-\ |