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HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL! Check out the response I just got from Aspyr (pasted below). Let's keep it up everyone! If we all voice our concern, maybe they'll actually come through with a patch! Please use the link I posted up above (third post in the thread) to contact Aspyr, and you can even reference Support Note 1006 using the link I did below. And don't forget to round up fellow Mac gamers! ********** Aspyr Media Support Response Hi Jason, Thanks for playing SimCity4. We are aware of and currently looking into the issue. Thanks for the input, we always value the opinions of our customers. Have a great day! ------ Aspyr Support Team Original Question According to Support Note 1006 for SimCity 4 ( http://www.aspyr.com/detail.php?p_support_article_id=1006&p_game_id=2 ), PC downloads of landmarks and cities ARE compatible with the Mac version. However, nightlighting for all BAT files does not work on the Mac version, as no update/patch was ever released for that. This is in direct contradiction to your claims of compatability. I and many other Mac Sim City 4 gamers would really appreciate it if Aspyr gave us the same level of support that our PC brethren receive. Please release a patch to enable BAT nightlighting. Thank you.

jpj: for what it's worth, I was able to contact EA/Maxis directly and said that my serial numbers didn't work. I just had to proved them with a photo/scan of my CDs and jewel cases, and some personal info (address, etc), and they issued me a serial number that works on their site. But as to that Aspyr support note: they claim that the files are compatible. But if the nightlighting doesn't work, then they really aren't fully compatible, are they? I'm going to call them on this, and I encourage all of you to do the same!

Ooh! I just saw these new small shops by SimGoober! https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=12051 These are just what my cities need! Can we please get those, when you get a chance Kbooms1w? Oh, and the Del Taco too, now that KevDan is part of BSC and apparently using EXE files. https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?mode=files&filetype=BAT&Str=del%20taco

Okay! I've just written to Aspyr. Everyone else, PLEASE also write to them requesting an update so that we can enjoy nightlighting on the BATs like PC users! Here's the link to send Aspyr a request: http://www.aspyr.com/contact.php?p_game_id=109 Here's the link to the official BAT page, that has some info about the BAT nightlighitng update (you can refer Aspyr to this page): http://simcity.ea.com/coolstuff/bat/index.php Let's band together and push for an update!

I've seen it said a few places now that, at least for the PC version of SC4, one has to install an update in order for the nightlighting effects on BATs to work. For instance, see this quote from the readme of SimGoober's current Coca Cola building: In order to see the nightlighting, you must install the EP1-Update 1 for Rush Hour/Sim City 4 Deluxe, and then afterwards, install the SC4-Update for nightlighting (note: you have to be logged in in order to see the download link). If this update isn't installed, you won't see any lighting effects on custom BAT buildings. Does anyone know if we need some kind of update for the Mac version too? I looked at a few custom buildings at night in my city, and some have lights while others don't, but I don't know if that's because those without lights maybe just didn't have them programmed in by the lot designer. Can anyone else check custom BATs on their Mac for nightlighting? I'm hoping that they just work and we don't need an update like the PC users, because I'm guessing that if we DO need an update for the Mac version... it probably doesn't exist! ...or maybe those PC updates are just a few DAT files or something that we could dump into the correct folder, if we can get them out of the exe file they're probably in, which we probably can't!