VERSION 1.1.0.20 (BETA) HAS BEEN RELEASED!   Do download and test it! Throw your feedback and support requests in this thread or on GitHub   Table of contents Backstory Screenshots Bug reporting   Main features Manage your user folders through a friendly user interface without having to mess around with folders and files manually. Let SimCity 4 Buddy install the plugins for you (dat, rar or zip files. Multi-volume rar archives (zzz.part1.rar, zzz.part2.rar) Launch the game with a specific user folder (i.e. a Paris region, SimMars, MTP, Futuristic etc.) Handle launcher command line switches through a user interface (stuff like no intro, no audio, 1 cpu, resolution, window mode etc.) Let SimCity 4 Buddy save your game at regular intervals Let SimCity 4 Buddy identify your plugins against the central database so you can easily manage your plugins onwards - Don't worry if all of your plugins aren't identified. The database is being constantly updated. Let SimCity 4 Buddy check if you are missing any dependencies (for plugins known to the central database)   Backstory  One of the things I dislike about custom content for SimCity 4 are dependencies, plugin conflicts and installing/uninstalling plugins from the game. I have many gigabytes of plugins and even though I spend time maintaining the folders it gets out of hand quite fast. I tried to search for plugin managers that could help me with just some of the above but to little avail, so I decided to make my own and this is the result!   Screenshots I admit it, I got the layout idea from the SC4 Launcher. You can select which user folder to use when you start the game through the application, if you do not select one it will take the default folder.   Screenshot from the plugin installer. It searches for readme files in the archive and if it finds any, the user has the option to read these before the installation continues After the plugin is installed the user is prompted to enter some information about the plugin if so desired.   This is the list of installed plugins for a particular (this is just a demo folder) You can organize your plugin in groups so make it easier to identify and maintain the plugins. You can see what type of info you can enter about a plugin (all fields are optional if you don't care) From here you can also scan and remove non-plugin files from the selected plugin folder and you can scan the folder for manually added plugins   This is the folder scanner. It scans for all unknown files and you can select the files that belong together in the same plugin This is where I will implement the auto-detect functionality as you may have tonnes of plugins already installed so this could then take ages to complete!   The last screenshot is the handling of the command line switches. This is also where you can set the auto save feature (from the other tab though) I have some issues with the language selection. Mainly about portuguese and norwegian. The folder names are "portgese" and "norwgian" and I can't find the correct command line switch for these languages. Neither "portgese", "porguguese", "portugal", "pt", "norwgian", "norwegian", "no" or "norway" works. If you have any suggestions then please let me know   Bug reporting To make it as easy as possible for me to track down a bug please do the following when submitting your report (replying to this thread): Preferably please create your bug report on the projects github page. You can post your bugs here as well though GitHub makes it easier for me to track the bugs. Describe the bug as detailed as possible. What happened, what did you expect would happen? Replication: Try and see if you can provoke the same error again after you restart the program. Write down everything you did in the program prior to the error Log file: The program automatically writes a log file in the following location "C:\users\%user%\AppData\Local\Irradiated Games\SimCity 4 Buddy\Logs\" attach this file or paste the contents into your bug report System info What operation system are you using (including service packs) What version of "Microsoft .NET Framework" do you have installed? If you have any feedback or comments then please let me know