#SIMCITY 4 MODS FLAT LAND CRACKED#
#SIMCITY 4 MODS FLAT LAND MOD#

This version check ended up not only blocking users running unpatched disc copies and cracked copies from installing the NAM, but also those using the Origin Store’s perma-unpatched edition–which, as it has a different checksum than the original disc-based edition of Version 1.1.610, also isn’t recognized as a valid executable by EA/Maxis’ own official Version 1.1.638 patch (known more formally as “EP1 Update 1”).Īs for the NAM Team’s perspective on this, we feel honored that EA would use screenshots with the NAM on their official promotional page for the game. Between June 2013 and July 2020, this requirement was actually enforced by a version check routine in the installer, which was instituted after users with unpatched games kept pointing blame at the NAM Team for issues that were fixed by EA/Maxis with Version 1.1.638.

#SIMCITY 4 MODS FLAT LAND MOD#

The bitter irony of these screenshots being used here are the advertisements just to the right, for the EA Play and Origin Store/EA App versions of the game–which, as many readers of this blog know, are perma-locked to Version 1.1.610, thereby not meeting the NAM’s minimum requirement of Version 1.1.638, which has been in place since the very first release of the mod in April 2004. The NAM’s Diagonal Streets and Road Viaducts/Overpasses are featured in another featured image. Other prominent pieces of content shown in the gallery include one of cogeo‘s Semi-Transparent Train Stations, and KingOfSimCity‘s re-lot of SimGoober‘s Super Shopping Center #1.

In fact, six of the nine images included in EA’s promotional gallery clearly feature mods and custom content, and were almost certainly made by members of the online SimCity 4 community. The image in question was actually made by memo himself, sometime in 2012-2013, showcasing the new Draggable Fractional Angle Roads feature he spearheaded during the development of Network Addon Mod (NAM) Version 31. Recently, my good friend and colleague memo (who invented the first FLEX Piece back in 2006) returned to the SC4 community, and he happened to notice something very curious on the newly-revamped version of EA’s page for SimCity 4, in the screenshot gallery: Screenshot of NAM Fractional Angle Roads in the screenshot gallery for EA’s official SimCity 4 page, taken August 21, 2022.

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