Armandeus

I'm having problems with this message composition applet. It doesn't work right in MSIE. It turns all links to that null Simtropolis page, it adds too many lines between paragraphs, and it changes images to <object>. Here is a multipurpose building by Uwason. He says he can't get the lighting to work. Download here ( http://uwason.client.jp/biru.zip ). SNZ made some F-14 Tomcat props. Get them here ( http://kamurai.itspy.com/bbs/data/simedit/1109769214290181/F-14VF-101&103.zip ) and here ( http://kamurai.itspy.com/bbs/data/simedit/1109769214290181/F-14VF-1&31.zip ).

Thanks for the comments and complements, everyone. And thanks to FosterK for pinning this thread. If you downloaded NOB's Japanese house set, Showa era house set, or traditional Japanese shop set, you should redownload them, because there was an error causing some stage 1 and 2 buildings to not appear. You can get the new files on this page (http://tokitoko.hp.infoseek.co.jp/lot_others.htm). Look for the 4th, 7th, and 11th pictures on the page and download the lots (the download links are in English). Here is a new modern city hall building by 211. It's not a BAT but a lot. It functions as an office building instead of a city hall. Get it here (http://kamurai.itspy.com/bbs/data/simedit/1109756728750963/211_TeitoCityHall_af30f1bd.SC4Lot).

Sorry, I've been away with acute RLS (Real Life Syndrome) and I haven't been visiting this site till now. I'm glad that this thread is a source of enjoyment for a lot of people. That's why I post here. Here are a couple of new BATs. First, NOB has created this to commend his site recieving 100,000 hits. Congratulations, NOB! Can you guess who it is? I think it would be really cool if he could change the walking robot in the game to look like this. You can download it here . Pahoo created one of those huge electrical towers. It's just decoration, and he says the wires may look odd. Download here .

ATPX redid his Oita Prefectural Library with the help of Gascooker's tutorial . The library holds 610,000 books. Get it here .

Here are a couple of new BATs. First, something from the Japanese comic series Doraemon. It's a camping capsule. SimS created it. It acts as a R$ house. Get it here . http://kamurai.itspy.com/bbs/data/simedit/1107450185879601/camping2.png align=baseline> Shubo created a library based on late Showa era architecture. It is 2x3, 5000 to plop, 250 to maintain, and holds 30,000 books. Get it here . http://kamurai.itspy.com/bbs/data/simedit/1107572124662833/LibD.JPG align=baseline> Shubo also created a hospital, designed in a similar mid-Showa style. The size is 4x3, 5000 to plop, 1200 to maintain, and it supports 3000 patients. The blue strips are solar panels. Get it here . http://kamurai.itspy.com/bbs/data/simedit/1107572660980193/HosD.JPG align=baseline>

Thanks to everyone for the encouragement! And thanks to Eddiem for beating me to a lot of good BATs as well! Here are three new buildings by Raika, that he made for the Japanese city set project. First, an apartment building called Tokiwa Highrise. It is growable, houses 278, and comes in a 2x2 and 2x3 version. Go to this page and click on Tokiwa Highrise to download. http://raika-s.hp.infoseek.co.jp/images/blog/SS20050122.jpg align=baseline> The second is a smaller apt. building called Fujimino Heights. It's growable, 1x2, and houses 70. Get it at the same page as the Tokiwa Highrise. Click on Fujimino Heights. http://raika-s.hp.infoseek.co.jp/images/blog/SS20050121a.jpg align=baseline> The last is an CS$ office building, the Aoyagi Industrial Center. It is growable, overwrites a default building, is 2x2, and provides 446 jobs. Get it on the same page as the other two buildings. http://raika-s.hp.infoseek.co.jp/images/blog/SS20050121c.jpg align=baseline>

Date: 1/25/2005 8:55:09 PM Author: ardecila Armandeus, could you please make a post on the SimCity Force BBS? I'd like you to ask Meta if I can release his TMG building here on ST.; I've fixed it, translated, and put it on a lot, but given the recent attitudes seen on that board, I'd like to get permission first. We here at Simtropolis aren't too happy either when our lots are uploaded to the Maxis Exchange without permission, or so I gather. The last post asking him where it can be downloaded is dated last April and there was no response. I will post your question, but I doubt if he will answer. Here is my post.

211 created a futuristic subway tunnel. It has no function - it's a decoration. Get it here . http://kamurai.itspy.com/bbs/data/simedit/1106658074189512/bat_subwaytun_1.jpg align=baseline> 2chnetSimplayer uploaded a Taiwanese style building to the STEX . http://stex.simtropolis.com/lots/2ch_net%20simplayer/2ch_net%20simplayer_hunanqu%20yangminglu%2023/HunanYangming23.JPG align=baseline> Shubo created two bus stops, local and city. The city one has a roof and costs double and services double the passengers, while the local one costs half and services half. http://kamurai.itspy.com/bbs/data/simedit/1106576650208085/BusStop.JPG align=baseline>

Date:1/21/2005 5:12:29 AM Author:kinmulder 'Milky way Railway' I think that makes reference to a famous Japanese cartoon in the '70s, roughly translated as...'999: The Milky way Railway'. Similar to a Harrier take-off from a British aircraft carrier, that particular train takes off to the universe at the end of the track. quote> You are exactly right. It's called Ginga Tetsudo Three Nine in Japanese, and Galaxy Express 999 in English. Google search here . Cynshep0500 wrote: Accepting mild scolding in good countenance. I didn't really mean to scold you. Sorry. Cynshep0500 wrote: I certainly did not expect that you should find them for me. Only that should you happen across parks and gardens in the course of your explorations, you might be so good as to post a few here. Sorry, but when I saw your post saying, Parks, please. And gardens, it sounded like a request to find these things now. Anyway, Eddiem and I post everything we find here, so even if we don't keep our eyes out specifically for parks and gardens, we'd still post them as soon as we see them. Two new BATs. First, a sailing ship park by Bripizza. It's a landmark costing 60,000 to plop and 150 to maintain. Go here and click on Sailing Ship Park in blue to download. See what I mean? I'm already posting parks and gardens. Next, Raika created a large house for two family generations to live together, called Estate Mihama. Go to this page and click on the download link after Estate Mihama.

Date:1/17/2005 2:25:25 PM Author:Dargor I found some nice buildings through one of your links, Armandeus.... but there is no way to download those or so it seems. http://www.geocities.jp/kei_5218443/Jp-Style-1.htm This is the site I found the buildings on... Could you have a look there and find some info, when you've time? My Japanese is not what it should be quote> The answer you seek is on page 31 of this thread. See my third post on that page, and read the text starting with Kei and others. Cynshep0500, unless there is a Japanese BAT web page that I don't yet know about, all of the BATs, including parks and gardens, have already been introduced somewhere in this thread. I know it takes time, but if you want them please look through the thread for them. That's what I would have to do to find them for you, because I don't have the locations of all the Japanese BATs memorized. Keep in mind that some of the old web sites may have closed down, so if you can't download something, it's gone. Good luck. What I can recall is that if the gardens of Japanese castles are acceptable, there are a few here (you will need these props ). If temples are OK, go here . And there are a few modern parks and historical buildings with parks here . I'm sure there's more out there, but I can't remember where.

Date:1/17/2005 12:27:21 PM Author:eddiem I'll just repost this as it's relevant at this time. quote> Thanks, Eddiem. And congrats on your new title. It turns out there was one misunderstanding. Mine. I thought that the image the poster (who is not Somy) was referring to was the image that Equinox used when he posted Somy's lot. It wasn't. It was the image on this thread (on the previous page) of the SimCity Force post that mentioned Equinox. The poster was commenting that we copied and pasted the post from SimCity Force and that we couldn't machine translate the emoticon at the end. There was no grammatical subject in the poster's comment (as often happens in Japanese when the speaker assumes you know what he's referring to) and I only realized what subject the poster was referring to when he posted again to clarify his first comment. That much was a misunderstanding, and I apologized. I also apologize for my hastiness to you here. The rest of the poster's comment was not a misunderstanding, but the poster offered an apology for his rashness. I think we should accept it and forget about this matter.

Date:1/17/2005 7:22:13 AM Author:Equinox I was kind of concerned this would come up eventually ... I'm interested to see if and what Somy himself will say in response to this. quote> Somy has posted. There is no problem with my creations being posted at Simtropolis. Just in case, I will say this myself. Thanks, Somy!

Date:1/16/2005 12:00:42 PM Author:eddiem I could only get: 'Mr Equinox has put it on the STEX at Simtropolis' Perhaps Armandeus can tell us if we're missing something. quote> The post was more like it looks like Mr. Equinox has posted it on the STEX. (The Mr. sounds funny in translation because of differences in language and culture - it doesn't sound odd in Japanese at all.) There were two parts that I think were not machine translatable. The first is where there is a hiragana u followed by a Latin p. This is Japanese Internet slang for up(load). The last part, the part with the parentheses, is a Japanese emoticon. Japanese emoticons are not sideways like English ones. Free online translation sites probably can't deal with this stuff just like they can't deal with 1337 speak. Another member, who perhaps I shouldn't go out of my way to name, was insinuating that Equinox posted it without permission, and didn't even take the trouble to alter the pictures. He insinuated that it is an unnecessary favor, to put it nicely, that people are submitting Japanese lots to foreign sites. He also said that recently it seems that all new BATs get attention at Simtropolis, and that may not be a good thing. It appeared to me that he is insinuating that Japanese lots are only for the Japanese. I explained in reply that I have direct permission from Somy himself for Equinox to post Somy's lots here. I also reminded him that just as Japanese BAT creators make use of Ilive's Reader and other things from sites outside Japan, that people from other countries will download their creations. I reminded him that the Internet has no borders. I then said that Japanese lots are highly regarded and popular. Although I have seen a similar exclusionary attitude like this poster's before on Japanese sites, let me remind everyone that most all of the Japanese BAT creators, like Somy, NOB, Raika, Ragutaro, the administrator of SimCity Force, and others, welcome the attention that you have been giving them. Let's not get the wrong impression of all Japanese BAT creators because of the words of one person. It is possible that there was a misunderstanding - even when two native speakers of the same language write to one another on the Internet, that can happen. I'm hoping that it is.

Date:1/15/2005 7:26:32 AM Author:Equinox On second thought, does SOMY say anything detailed about the gyoko lot? quote> From SOMY's site: Fishing Harbor 2 This time I am trying again to match the sea with the edge of this lot, which is something I didn't have the skills for earlier. This lot is the largest I've ever made in that it requires an area of 21 by 6 on land as well as space in the sea, and so it is over 10 MB in size.

Kaminko has created a mutipurpose dome stadium. Go to his site and click on the picture. Kamada Captain recreated a Sogo dept. store. It has a lot of service jobs. Get it here .

Date:1/9/2005 9:16:12 AM Author:Meows I tired to post there before posting here. But am not a registered user for that board.quote> You don't need to register. The first field is for your name (anything you want). The second, e-mail (optional), the third a URL (optional), the fourth, your message title, the fifth, a password you make up so you can edit or delete your message (you can have a different password for each message), and the last is for your message text. The two buttons below that field are submit and redo.

Date:1/9/2005 7:45:43 AM Author:Meows Tried to send a email to somy000@jcom.home.ne.jp but it would not go. so would Armandeus Official Japanese Liaison, Armandeus please forward this to him?quote> Post it on his bulletin board on his site, here . Eddiem, you're welcome, but those shops by NOB aren't thatched, they have ceramic-like tiles on the roofs. You can find an example of a thatched roof house at the bottom of this page . Modern houses in Japan don't have thatched roofs, of course. Maybe you're talking about Kaminko's BAT - but then you were the one who introduced it here for us. APTX has recreated the Daimaru dept. store in Shinsaibashi, Osaka . It is 7x5 and employs 1800. Get it here . Raika has created a 4 storey apartment building similar to the type built in the 80s in Japan. It's growable, 2x2, and each houses 89. Get it here . Kei and others are working on a Japanese style set (they are planning to overwrite the New York set), and here's a page with pictures of some of the buildings. There is nothing to download yet, but some lots were featured in the past. Here is a page in Japanese detailing what they plan to overwrite with what. Use your favorite online translation service to translate it.

Date:1/7/2005 3:25:58 AM Author:eddiem Here's what Somy is working on at the moment. quote> Thanks, Eddiem, for introducing all that stuff for us. Somy says on his site that he's thinking of redoing his famous commercial fishing port. Those are the fishing boat models. Here are some new things. First, Alias/Kaminko has made the ruins of a Mayan temple. Go to his page and click on the pictures. Next, NOB has created a family of CS$ lots that will overwrite some in the game. These lots are recreations of traditional Japanese shops like you might find in old towns in Japan popular with tourists. The shops are vegetables, tofu, Western confectionery, fish, and sushi, respectively. For those of you with technical knowledge of the game, this set uses instance numbers 0xd0000001, 0xd0000002, and 0xd0000010, and is a 1x1 and 2x1 family. Download here . Someone called 211naoya created a special transit enabled lot with two one way streets, in the form of a brick texture, on either side of train tracks. Download here . In addition to the F-14s that were introduced earlier, SNZ has also created some F/A-18C Hornet props. Get them here .

Date:1/2/2005 6:36:19 AM Author:Adm Lee J.E. Braden That is the Launch Arco from SC2K, God that brings back memories, Can someone tell me where this was found, so I can go and look at the site, see if the person has done more quote> Go here . You will find that he has done nothing since my last post. I have lots of new creations to tell you about. First, Anjo has created a wierd observatory, called the Star Tower for obvious reasons. It is 2 by 2, costs 5000 to plop, 20 to maintain, and 400 to demolish. It's in the parks menu. Get it here . Next, Simsim has created a police station lot (not a BAT). Get it here . Rougetsu renewed his old station BAT to include bus service and parking. Get it here . If you want a humorous lot, Alias/Kaminko created an upside-down house. Get it here . Finally, Bikutorii created the Wind Tower, a 206 m, 40 storey office building. Get it here .

Date:1/2/2005 6:31:48 AM Author:Alkaola well if i clikc the 'here' link from armandeus , i see the yahoo site with some japanese links but i don't know where the download butten is and i don't see it quote> Go back to my original post. There is a full explanation of what to do. I always explain fully whenever the link goes to a Yahoo briefcase and you have to do something special to get the file.

Uwason has created a new building, which appears to be an apartment building, although he doesn't say so. There's a 7-11 on the first floor. It's a landmark in the game, it costs 0 to build and maintain, and 2005 to demolish (in honor of the new year). Get it here . Date:1/2/2005 12:51:31 AM Author:Fox I did find this picture at one of the Japanese sites, but alas no download for the actual model. Looks pretty cool to me. quote> That is a composite picture - a photoshop. There is no model. The bat creator of that site says he wants to recreate the arcology from SC3000 someday, and this is how it might look. There's nothing to download. AIX wrote: I would like to see some of the archologies from the old SimCity 2000. Would anyone know of any sites (Japanese or any other) that has them? This isn't really an arcology, but try this . You can find a full explanation of the building earlier in this thread. Woelfwynde wrote: The file is no longer at this link. Does Dareka have this at another site, or does someone have this file available? Go to his page and look for the link next to the picture. Did you try that step? All the web pages hosting files that I introduce are in my signature. These Japanese sites are almost all personal web sites. The owners have to delete files to stay within their ISPs file size allowances, the sites are closed or rearranged, and so on. You cannot expect everything to remain constant and permanent. Get it while it's hot. Woelfwynde wrote: Just a small footnote. When you download the file it is antena.gca.zip. You must rename to antena.gca so that gca.exe can extract it Ya know, fellas, some people don't read past the current post when they are eager to download a lot (like me ). Then maybe you should start doing so. It would solve your problem. Because of this, they wouldn't know that they would have to rename the file just so they could look at their newly aquired treasure. Having that side note in the same post would have been a better idea. The side note was written by another person (Eddiem) because I didn't notice that piece of information. I do not have time to check and recheck every link or downloadable file here. I also do not have time to go through this enormous thread and amalgamate all the information in it. We who post information here are doing it as a favor to you who download, not as a duty.

Happy new year, everybody. Kei is offering 3 bats until Jan. 5th Japan time. Download now. Life supermarket . (the building with the red clover sign in the bottom right) Green Heights Midoridai apt. bldg. (the white multistoried building in the middle left) Book Off recycled book shop (the white building with blue trim on the top right with the red and white sign saying books in Japanese)

Date:12/31/2004 7:12:23 AM Author:Obi Hello Armadeus I wrote to you a while back to ask you if you knew anything about this modd or wahtever it is. I didn't have the picture so you were not able to answer me, well I found the picture in Ragutaro's page, I don't know what they say about it, can you tell me if it is a modd to turn green the ground under the rail tracks and if there is somewhere I can get it from? quote> The trains are NOB's. The thread describing the mod you show is here . The modder, Gamtech, says the mod often crashes the game, and that's why he hasn't uploaded it. The last post in that thread is in August. NOB was discussing the mod with Gamtech in that thread. Maybe NOB can give us some information about this mod. NOB? Uwason has created a car rental shop. Sims go there by bus or on foot and leave driving cars. Download here . Alias/Kaminko has made a partially submerged version of his ruined building. Get it here .

Date:12/28/2004 9:56:17 PM Author:eddiem Here's a new hospital from Somy. 500 capacityquote> Thanks, Eddiem. Somy says (in Japanese) that it is a clinic, sort of like the kind that is attached to the doctor or dentist's house, and is passed down over generations.