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@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!

This mod "in beta" is great! It makes using the 3D camera mod a lot easier. I also love being able to step in to so many different zoom levels! Feedback that I have is that it breaks mouse wheel scrolling through the UI. If you can't implement anything to fix that, that's okay.

Looks it hasn't left Simtropolis! It's still here! If needed, I can upload the file to Mega, too...because I was trying to figure out a personal backup plan now that Backblaze Personal is not a backup service to be relied upon. I ultimately settled on uploading my data to Google Cloud using an open-source utility called Kopia. In the middle of all that, I got a subscription to Mega and I tried using Mega's Amazon Web Services S3-compatible storage solution. Attached is an HTML view of what's in that folder. That's better than a bunch of screenshots. I'll get to uploading it to Mega, too. By the way, I'm keeping a "Simtropolis Uploads" folder on my PC in case "disaster" ever strikes again! z20_Single Sites_1.html Edit: Here's the file on Mega via Mega's Transfer.it service. I have the file set to expire in one year. I'll keep making minimal payments for a Mega subscription for a little while. https://transfer.it/t/XU91pGoDBDKQ

What a nightmare for me. I have this game from GOG and I'm on the latest Windows 11 25H2 with a 4K monitor. I'm trying dgVoodoo2 and dxwrapper...along with the patched .exe from GOG. I can't get my Windows 98 PC running again soon enough. I ditched my CRT monitor. I'd rather use a modern monitor, preferably a 4K OLED, and a RetroTINK-4K upscaler. Right now, I have an MK1869 XTREME ISA sound card for MS-DOS games in it, but I was able to get in on the latest batch of the Orpheus II. The MK1869 XTREME is great with Theme Hospital because Theme Hospital natively supports ESS ESFM, and I believe The Settlers II does as well. I believe that the Orpheus II with its Crystal controller and original Yamaha OPL3 chip is a better overall choice for a system that tries to cover as much as possible, though. Also, I was in some pretty dire straits recently, so I sold my Voodoo5 5500. I wish I didn't, of course. Either way, I'm makin' myself sick trying to get SimCity 3000 Unlimited working on my Windows 11 machine here. I'm not selling things anymore, but I sold a number of Orpheus II and Voodoo5 5500 cards in the past some years in what I was feeling. I sold my latest Voodoo5 5500 card because I had to. Edit: Now THIS is what I'm talkin' about! I was able to get SimCity 3000 Unlimited running on my offline 1440p Windows 10/Nvidia 3D Vision PC doing EXACTLY what I did on my "up to date" Windows 11 PC! This is why I keep legacy systems around! I'd still like to get my Windows 98 system up and running again!

In early 2022, I tried to capture as much as possible from sites, whether they were Japanese or "international" sites. I did this through both "download" and "webcopy" methods. Did my OneDrive link that I provided in one of the groups ever help? Because I definitely have content from Jim's OneDrive and MayorOverpop's Junkyard. The giant .zip file is still in my OneDrive, and I'd be willing to share the link to it again!

No organization, either!

@CorinaMarie Thank you so much! I remember the Side Water Shoppe thread. I might experiment a bit further, but for now, 32 for both WaterMinAlpha and WaterDepthForMaxAlpha looks great to me. I like the Gobias HD Bodensee water. It's not TOO bright like Gobias's Caribbean water. (Note to self: Look up where in the world "Bodensee" is!) I was going to ask if the @CasperVg's CAS_AutoHistorical_v0.0.2 DLL and it's corresponding .dat that were on SC4Devotion still had any use with the AutoSave DLL mod, but I see that it has some functionality outside of its autosave functionality. Also, I did a search on the "new" SC4Devotion and I found the files. So much is available through sc4pac. More and more downloads are being updated to "modern standards" through Project ZIP. So many of the downloads on SC4Evermore have Cleanitols included. The community is a giant of governing gifts. Stand tall, Simtropolis. Stand tall. Edit: I didn't want to open SimCity 4 to see what I was going to misquote!

Thanks! I just skipped to the recommended settings! So, it seems to me that if I want more transparent water, then I should set a lower value for WaterMinAlpha and a higher value for WaterDepthForMaxAlpha. I'll try 32 or 50 for for WaterMinAlpha (but probably 32) and 32 for WaterDepthForMaxAlpha.