ImAGreatMagician

The Issue has been solved, I ended up calling EA support and they added it to Origin for free. Thanks for all your help guys the support was great. @Ihrob Origin is EA's version of Steam, just another way for EA to cash in on the expanding internet based gaming market with their own client. Like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. So yes in theory just follow my link from earlier post. You have to create a EA Member Account or something then you get an email. I could not get the game to physically show up in my Origin borwser and I really never could figure out how that works, but I ended up calling EA Support (through Origin Help tab) and they added the game into the Origin client. It was wierd because they never asked for my serial key or some verfication that I bought the game (I guess they saw that I had entered the serial when I registered therough the website or something) any way they loaded the game into Origin and all is well.

I have registered the game through EA at this website https://activate.ea.com/activategame.do and follwed the steps provided. Login with your EA account Enter the code in the box above. Click Sign In to redeem the code. It may ask you to link or create a new persona. If the code is still coming up invalid, please email, chat, or call in to support and we can assist you further. Note: You may need to go back to options and click on "Refresh My Games" before the game will show up in Origin. If this does not make the game show in your "My Games" section, please log out and log back in to Origin. I have recieved an email confirming the game has been linked to my email address (the same on as origin) and my EAClassic sreen name is linked to my EA account. However that game will not appear in the Origin browser, is there some extra step I am missing? @A Nonny Mose I really think you have the best idea in the long run, but as I said earlier unless there is some super sale. I see no point in paying for the same product twice but I will if there is no better alternative.

I have no idea how to do that kind of stuff, I tried to use Alcohol to create an image of another game but I could not get it to work and unless I get someone to do it for me that will most likely not be an option. I am hopelessly lost when it come to anything more than running an installer.exe You can't use the automatic registration tool, you have to contact EA 'support' and get them to add it to your account manually. This may be more along the lines of what I am looking for. Can you post a link cause I can't seem to find anything related to EA support. Is this through Steam and once I have registered will they add it to my Steam account or Origins account?

Does not work, I get some sort of invalid serial notification. Guess I have to wait until Steam sale

thanks will give it a try and post the results for others

Before anything else I HAVE A VALID STORE BOUGHT COPY OF SC4, I HAVE A SERIAL KEY, A GAME ACCESS CODE AND A PROOF OF PURCHASE so please do not harass me with anything about piracy and illegal copying. I bought the game years ago when XP was considered new and I have recently got back into the game because of all the neat mods (Love you guys btw your all great). Ok I have everything updated and am currently running 1.1.638.0 of Sim City 4 Deluxe now I know that in order to update to 1.1.640 I need to install the BATupdate, which I will do if I must. No I hate having to keep CDs in my drive and risk them getting scratched and I really do not want to cough up $20 just so I can play the game on steam. Is there an official patch or anything that will allow me to have the update and play my game without a CD? I have looked around on the forums and seen several mentions of an official patch that requires registration to play without the CD, however all the links redirected to Facebook or something and were invalid. If this option still works, are there any working links? Anything pertinent would be of help. Thanks.