Faking Installation for Homecrafter

[HectorRashbaum]

I run Sims on a Mac, and have always been kind of miffed about Homecrafter's Windows-exclusivity. I recently rescued an old PC that's been sitting in a closet, forgotten, and use it to run programs like SimPE and Clean Installer that aren't available for Mac.

I'd like to run Homecrafter on it, but I don't want to go out and buy the Windows versions of all the expansions and stuff packs I have to set up a mirror installation just so I can do that (actually playing Sims on that computer isn't an option, at least not unless I want to upgrade the RAM significantly).

So my question is: is it possible to fake an installation enough to use Homecrafter, by copying game data from this computer onto that one? And if so, which folders/files would I need? Or is the game data different for Mac and Windows versions, so even if I duplicated all the right folders Homecrafter would be confused?

Thanks for your help :)

[simsample]

First you need to download homecrafter plus- you cannot do that unless you have a Sims 2 account, which requires the purchase of The Sims 2 or an EP for PC.

[FifthAce2007]

I hate to disagree, but you can download HC+ without registering an account on thesims2.com. I have an account on there, but havent logged in since re-formatting my PC, and downloaded it.

As for getting it to work on MAC, aint got a clue, I would just like to be able to get it to run on windows, as it won't even do that for me :lol:

[HectorRashbaum]

First you need to download homecrafter plus- you cannot do that unless you have a Sims 2 account, which requires the purchase of The Sims 2 or an EP for PC.
I just downloaded it fine with no account.

[simsample]

Oops, my apologies- I thought everything you download on the site requires an account. That's good that it doesn't, perhaps they have changed it (or maybe I'm mixed up with the original sims- you had to register for Homecrafter on there). Okay, so to get HCP working on a PC without The Sims installed you'd have to mimic the Program Files structure of the PC install. HCP reads files from Program Files and the Documents folder, and I'm not sure on the differences between the Mac files and the PC files (I have TS1 on Mac but TS2 on PC). I've looked through the ini files and configs and there doesn't seem to be anything that tells it the file path, so I guess it's hardcoded or picked up from the registry.

[HectorRashbaum]

Thank you :)