Maxis Patches

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Sims 1.1 patch for Sims 1.0

This patch is for the North American and Polish release (including English, Spanish and Polish).
Download Patch 0 here for North America and Poland (2.8 Mb)

This patch is for the European and South American releases (English, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Spanish and Portugese).
Download Patch 1 here for Europe and South America (2.8 Mb)

This patch is for the general Asian release (English, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Korean).
Download Patch here for Asia (except Japan) (2.8 Mb)

This patch is for the Japanese release only.
Download Patch here for Japan (2.8 Mb)

This Patch is only for the Bild version of the game, available in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Download Patch here for Bild Version (2.8 Mb)

Other Sims 1 issues

Night Workers Need a Union

A night-job worker needs only miss one night before being fired instead of two. This is fixed in the v1.1 patch (above) and EPs.

The chipbag bug

If the Sim puts down a chip bag, it cannot be selected or removed by maid or by Sims. "Unsnacker" fixed this in the patch to v1.1 and later EPs, otherwise the Slot Machine download contains the fix.

Limits

The game's original limits were

• 100 objects per build mode category.
• 99 wallpapers and/or floors

Those Limits were removed with Livin' Large and increased to 65k total files!

Later the Build mode limitation was increased to 2000 objects with Unleashed.

Symptoms of the Limits bug

Across Sims generally, many build objects tend to morph into something else altogether.

The solution is to remove some downloads to come below the limit.

Deleted Mailbox Trashcan Portal

NEVER delete these.

Portals have been known to just disappear for no good reason in the original game.

Makin' Magic, includes extra "intelligence" to try and recover from this but it's not always successful.

Swimming removes will to work

The icon to get in the carpool disappears when the sim is in the swimming pool. This is a persistant little "problem" that has never been solved.

Navigation Problems

Also, if you fence off all access to the road (so the only way there is back through the house), Sims lack the intelligence to go through the house to get out with free will but don't seem to have a problem when you direct them to the carpool.

House Party Problems

Flies can get stuck in walls. A third party patch fixed it but caused issues with the House Party buffet tables. It's best to use the move_objects cheat to dispose of the flies.

Hot Date Problems

• A Sim ends up outside their house after reading a mag from Downtown and his new interests get reset back to zero.
• Hot Date: The patch fixes the following: Sims get stuck when cuddling or dining in the booth and on the couches and no more dining is available.
• Problematic clothing rack.
• Maid gets stuck in the basic shower from probably Hot Date onwards.

Vacation Problems

• In Vacation with THIS table, , Sims will not sit to eat at it, preferring instead to wander all round it first, and then they will eat off the plate in front of them (not their own!) The table in question is on the default top right lot from the Vacation screen, by the fireplace. There is a user fix for this, archived here, made by DaveH at Simslice.

This bug was fixed in the Makin’ Magic expansion pack, if you use this fix follow the instructions in the “readme” enclosed.

Unleashed Problems

• "Alert" for no reason - tone heard when El Bandito or burglar turns up but tone also occasionally sounds for no apparent reason. This started with Unleashed, and was not fixed in subsequent EPs.
• Biographies are not saved in Unleashed. Bought clothes don't 'stick'. This was fixed in the Unleashed patch.
• Unleashed: The boxed flowers aren't functioning properly. They still block sims' movement, but the Sims apparently don't realize that, so they attempt to walk through them, get stopped, turn around, try to walk through them again, and eventually just get stuck there. A couple of downtown lots and new houses that come with Unleashed are particularly dangerous with this bug.
• Unleashed: Sims will no longer sit down on the couch in order to watch TV. Fixed in the patch.

Unleashed patch

fixes the following issues:

Floods no longer spread under objects.
Sims will retain the pajamas or swimsuit they purchased Downtown or on Vacation.
Adult and child Sims now sit to watch TV.
Fixed 180° spins at the end of routes.
Fixed Memory leaks and improved longer-term gameplay performance.

Web Template display fixes:

Sims of both species now display proper gender in web pages
“Human” Sims no longer display pet statistics in the “Stats” page
Web pages now launching in the neighborhood screen

However, it did NOT fix a couple of issues in the web templates: incorrect skill statistics still being displayed for human Sims in the web templates (though files still function properly within the game) in all languages. And several foreign languages contain missing strings in the web templates (they will display “needs translation” in those instances).

SuperStar Problems

• For some players, the Butler will slow the game to a crawl. The Gardener will also do this if he's hung around too late in the day past finishing time. Get rid of him with move_objects cheat.
• Waylon the bartender (from Hot Date) is upgraded for whatever reason to a superstar status when Superstar is installed. When he arrives in Studio Town he won't do anything. If he happens to be in the road, he holds up the traffic. Permanently. With Makin Magic, the game's new logic will sort this situation out but won't stop Wayne coming to Studio Town. Maxis cannot fix this because they claim to not be able to reproduce the problem.

Makin' Magic Problems

• Making Cakes charm in Makin' Magic doesn't work properly - it will ALWAYS backfire and make toads.

There isn't a Maxis patch for MM; there are some user patches at SimPrograms

Music Problems

• If you have more than about 1000 song shortcuts in the Sims music directory, some of the song/radio stations don't actually play anything.

Build Problems

• If you build to the virtual edge of a lot (outside the squared zone) with the move_objects cheat the house will be cropped on the neighbourhood screen.

Baby Problems

• If you evict a family while a baby is present, the baby does not leave with them. It just disappears, never to be seen again.

Patches for later games

Patching The Sims, The Sims Deluxe, or The Sims Double Deluxe for the PC.

Deluxe Edition patch here (US)

here for Asia excluding Japan

here Europe

here Japan

Fixes the following issues:

Many memory leaks have been fixed.
We sped up a number of game processes for Windows XP users
Corrupted skins will no longer crash the game.
Invalid skins will now show up in the game as a plain white skin.
Load times have been improved for all systems.

Important notes:

If you have Unleashed, or higher, you do not need to install this patch.
You must run The Sims at least once before running the Sims Deluxe patch.

Patching Hot Date

here