Sim City 4 Downloadable Regions
How to Create a Successful Region in SimCity 4. Want to be a good mayor and create a thriving region in the fourth installation of the Sim City series? Read on to find out how. This map is provided as free content to SimCity 4 players, who are free to modify it for their use and for production of derivative maps for publication. Should the author be absent from Simtropolis.com for more than a year, site staff or individual users may re-host the.
. Download the region or map and unzip it if it is zipped. Usually, you'll see a JPEG and a bitmap file.
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Locate the My Documents/SimCity/Regions folder on your computer and copy the downloaded, unzipped files into the folder or create a folder inside the Regions folder with the same name as the new region and copy the files into that new folder. Open the 'SimCity4' game. To import a new region, press and hold down the following keyboard combination: Shift + Alt + Ctrl + R or go to your Region list and load the new region. You may need to select the JPEG in the new folder.
Even better, there are lots of areas of the world that have been converted to game regions (and a user who will take your requests for new ones), but you'll need some Graphical Editing tools to be able to put them into the game.The most common ones will be SC4 Terraformer (you can download it at SC4Devotion, do a Google search) and SC4 Mapper (Same place). They need some work to get them working, Mapper needs a custom BATch file to start it up with a spoofed C:Documents and Settings folder and Terraformer needs a recompiled version of one of its binaries.
Do searches for 'Mapper Windows Vista' and 'Terraformer Windows 7 SP1' (Without the quotes) at SC4 Devotion to find the posts where the fixes are.