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Using sc4datanode yesterday morning, I was looking at which of my own installed plugins were completely overriding each other....and I noticed that BSC-VIP Girafe 4 Rue Des Lilas v2 that's on SC4Evermore has two files outside of the .SC4Model files. These files are R$$2_2x2_Grfe_4_rue_des_Lilas_3f521521.SC4Lot and R$$2_2x2_Grfe_4_rue_des_Lilas_fedb4ec4.SC4Lot. I tried comparing both files in reader. I would think that the file of the two that comes later in alphabetical order (fedb4ec4) is the one that loads. That file has a last modified date of 2013, and the file that ends in "3f521521" has a last modified date of 2024. Which file should I keep? Both files have similar data in reader, but the "fedb4ec4" file has more entries. Thank you in advance! Edit: Now that some days have passed since I posted this, I won't touch the file structure for files from SC4Evermore. I deleted some complete duplicate files between sc4pac and SC4Evermore within the 075-my-plugins directory, but I'm not stressing over those.

No problem! Like I said, I wouldn't do anything without your permission.

It's late on a Friday for me, but before I forget, do you think that there could be an intuitive way of hiding the camera controls button? The button always being there isn't that great for screenshots. Thanks again!

I actually like ShareX as a utility for taking screenshots across Windows. I have a hotkey for screenshotting the active monitor. The game's screenshot tool remains useful for me, though, for file naming and organization.

Thanks to the responses here, I've been gathering content from STEX Volumes 1 and 2 and organizing them. Though I got those two volumes from a shady source long ago when the discs themselves are from even before my time even observing the community, I've learned a few things since obtaining those .ISO files. 1.) There are "right" ways to rip discs (byte for byte methods), and there are wrong ways. The Redump people will tell you how to dump your discs for video games preservation, and people who are into music will tell you how to rip your music CDs. 2.) Since moving into my own apartment in 2019, I spent a lot of time feeling like my interests were "wrong." Obviously, they're not.... but my mother gave me an external hard drive from my old room in her house after moving in here. Those .iso files were on there. Back when I traded in all my games in 2016, which I don't regret for a second, I left my CD booklet with all my exchange discs, burned or official, in it at the games store. But while feeling like my interests were "wrong," I did delete all my SimCity 4 files. I'd go on mass file-deleting sprees. It was my way of dealing with stress. And then, I'd want my files back....so I'd restore my files through Backblaze Personal. And then, one day, I noticed that some of my exchange disc ISOs were gone after a restore! I had to dig further back into the archive with one year of retention to find the files. There are some things I can't find anymore through all that because I'd even feel so confident that I wouldn't need my files anymore that I'd delete my backup archive from within Backblaze, too! One such example is a specific HD texture pack for the Wii game Metroid: Other M from the Dolphin forums for the Dolphin Wii/GameCube emulator where the creator of the texture pack removed their posts from the Dolphin forums. Whatever, though. I've moved on from Backblaze Personal because it clearly can't be trusted now. So maybe, some checksums got altered through all that on my part. I have no idea. Well, anyway, thanks for the breakdown on STEX Volumes 1 and 2 nearly a year ago, @CorinaMarie and @pikachu_SQ. Both discs come with a "bonus" or "extra" folder, depending on the volume, which made identifying the potentially exclusive files easy. I looked through the Cleanitols in the BSC dependencies collection that's on SC4E to find gasometer.dat and GC_Essentials.dat from gascooker_gasometers on STEX Volume 1 in the Cleanitols. That left me with only the SC4Lot files for gascooker_gasometers.

I came across something else. It's not the biggest deal when the SC4AutoRunCheats DLL cheat exists, but with version 1.0 of your camera mod, I cannot enter "a" in the moolah cheat because it's a part of WASD. Though by disabling WASD movement, I am able to enter the cheat. So, that would work as a workaround, too. Thank you for the update!

@comradesean I tried the Lost Kingdoms installer on my installation of SimCity 3000 Unlimited. It resulted in the Lost Kingdom landmark names being present, but the thumbnails were shown as blank in the Landmarks menu. Also, when I plopped them, all that plopped down was colored tiles. Was this download for vanilla SimCity 3000 Unlimited? Thank you for all your work!

I feel pretty dang satisfied with my "SimCity 4 Content Outside of sc4pac, STEX, & SC4E" directory, which can be seen below. I wanted to share my "Assorted Japanese and Chinese Content" directory within that directory seen above. It's dated 2019. I don't know how much, if anything, is something that hasn't yet been collected. It's not organized, either. The .zip is less than 200 megabytes. Please find it below on OneDrive and on Transfer.it. Also, please find below the HTML file with the directory listing generated by Snap2HTML. The OneDrive link will probably last longer than the Transfer.it link will because I'll probably still be paying for Microsoft 365 after my free year is up. OneDrive: Assorted Japanese and Chinese Content.zip Transfer.it: https://transfer.it/t/GCUfAO5RURIb Snap2HTML Directory Listing: Assorted Japanese and Chinese Content.html I will never share my WolfZe directory, by the way, because I understand the trouble that sharing that directory would create.

@pikachu_SQ I spent today downloading what was in the seven links within the original post of this thread. I used the Chrome browser extension Linkclump (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/linkclump/lfpjkncokllnfokkgpkobnkbkmelfefj) to make gathering the individual links easier, and I used the Chrome browser extension SingleFile (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/singlefile/mpiodijhokgodhhofbcjdecpffjipkle) to download the individual webpages. I might've missed some downloads or webpages. It was a very tiring effort for me. Also, trying to take care of each of the seven individual sections in a single browser window would nearly max out my system RAM (64 GB) and downloading all of those webpages using Save Page WE would max out my CPU usage. I initially thought that I was going to save English translated versions of each webpage using the built-in translation functionality of my web browser (Microsoft Edge), but I then realized that any modern web browser can translate local .html files. Would you like me to upload all this zipped to OneDrive and Mega's Transfer.it service to ease things for others in the community? I will only do that with your permission. If you say no, then I will keep my archive for my own personal usage. Please find attached an HTML view of my archive's file structure. Thank you so much! Korean Content.html

@CorinaMarie Of course! Feel free to go ahead!

I'm sorry. I just have the entire thing uploaded into one archive file. I'm certain that there's a much more efficient way of doing this, but I don't want to overextend myself right now.

I know that this was said a while ago, but I can totally vouch for that browser extension! I used to use Save Page WE, which I believe is also a Chrome/Firefox extension. Single File is much, much better, though! And yes, my mother is watching the French TV and seeing plenty of stories about the heat wave in Europe! She was supposed to go to Spain for a vacation before she had that broken arm only to find that it was 46 degrees in Bilbao. I never really cared enough about units of measurement to think much about conversion between what's used in the United States and what's...not used in the United States, but that number feels unusually high to me. I hope I didn't distract too much from site suggestions!

Okay, soooooo............. With some work, I was able to get ReShade AND Special K working together in SimCity 4 using dgVoodoo2. Apparently, there's an "illicit" kind of Special K. I'm not talking about that, and I don't know much about it, anyway. I'm talking about the "computer games" kind of Special K. I don't have the latest paid version of Pascal Gilcher's IMMERSE shaders for ReShade, not like the super advanced stuff would ever matter in SimCity 4, so I'm using the latest version of his IMMERSE sharpening shader. I might keep it enabled. It adjusts the lighting, but with these kinds of games, things look blurry for me without that shader. I always keep that shader enabled in Cities: Skylines and Cities: Skylines II. SimCity 4 would definitely look oversharpened at the shader's default (and maximum) settings to many. Here are some C$$$ ploppables with the day/night cycle off, and with the sharpening shader off: And here are the same ploppables with RTX DLSS 5 the sharpening shader on: I'm going to keep the sharpening shader on. Another nice benefit of Special K is that I've configured it to have SimCity 4 continue rendering in the background. No more music stopping because I click to another monitor! Edit: Oh! Also, Special K allows for Alt-F4 handling to close SimCity 4!