Hooray! I copied all the files from the ISO to my machine and ran the Autoplay.exe -- now it works fine! Thanks so much for the manual install hint!

Ok, now I understand! I've always been using no-cd versions - I've just never heard them called that before (we just call them "cracked versions").

I know where to put the cracked .exe file once the game is installed. I can't back up my original AL .exe file though because it doesn't exist yet! Well, at least not on my c:\ drive. The problem is that I cannot "run" the disc to initiate installation. I CAN explore it and see all the contents, I just cannot get the install wizard to run (and when it was installed, the game wouldn't run). It's NOT an "insert original disc" problem. Basically, imagine putting a CD into a dead CD drive and double-clicking the drive icon -- NOTHING happens. I hoped that a no-cd version would be a version that didn't have to be mounted.

You say manual install -- I have never done this but the basic principle seems simple -- could I simply drag-n-drop the folder to c:\Program Files\EA Games and then put the cracked .exe file in?

Wow! Thanks for the speedy reply!

I don't think SecuROM is the issue ... I followed the Reclaim Your Game tute to remove SecuROM and they (any of the AL images) still don't run! I also tried using sd4hide, also to no avail.

I've never used a no-cd version - always just used ISOs with c racks. I'm getting a no-cd no-dvd version now ... hopefully this works! It seems a bit fishy that these are so small (<15MB when the ISO is ~1G ?!), but I guess I shouldn't knock 'em til I've tried 'em ...

Hello awesome Sims geniuses!
I loves me some Apartment Life ... but my Apartment Life ISO and every copy thereof that I try refuses to work!

No error messages. No autoplay. Nothing. All my other ISO files work fine (I uninstalled and re-installed everything else thinking that would fix the problem, and now I am unable to reinstall AL). I located two separate additional ISO files for AL, but none of these work either! I'm using Daemon Tools 3.47.

I suspect it happened when I unmounted AL to mount a different image like a moron, instead of just creating a new drive. Upon re-mount AL stopped working -- when I used the desktop shortcut, the launcher would come up, and when I clicked "play" it would briefly initiate a process that terminated before anything happened.

I have a vague memory of dealing with something like this before but I cannot for the life of me remember what I did!