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So uh. Not everyone who uses a No-CD crack is a bad person, honest. I use one. I’m on a Macbook Air, and I do not have an optical drive. My fiance does, and I use it to install the games, but I will not carry it everywhere I go, and be forced to connect it each time I go to play. This is an issue that I kinda sorta really care about, and I hate how it’s such a red flag about piracy for everyone. I have proof I didn’t pirate my games- I have an actual Sims3.com account with all games registered. Go figure.

Anyway, I was on this board for finding stuff, and I saw this chick asking for help with a No CD crack for her mac. Of course, I answered. The thread was deleted before she ever saw it, not surprised. So I PM’d her the directions, and she thinks it sounds difficult. Well, it isn’t. Here’s how. (I’m on a Mac, so this is a Mac-based tutorial. I may move on to make one for the PC, but I may not. Who knows.)

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Step One. Download http://nraas.wikispaces.com/NoCD – it’s a .package file, and it goes into your Documents > Electronic Arts > Mods > Packages folder. I’ll discuss that another time. You can find plenty of tutorials on that, and for setting up framework.

  • No:( i see support,DLC,Commuinty guide but nothing to do with cd-key and in the middle it says that the sims 3 doesnt work on your platform and gives me disscusion forums to go to. I think the only way to get your CD Key if it doesn't show up in the game library is to contact to steam's customer support.
  • Before you say anything: Yes, I was speaking in a very weird way in this tutorial. However, everything still works, you just have to make sure you use 'The U.
  • I recently got a Macbook Air, and I've installed (on the MacBook Air) The Sims 3 base game and a few other expansions via my old computer which has a disk drive. Although whenever I try to play Sims 3, it says 'No game disk found! Please insert The Sims 3 University Life before proceeding.' Even though I have the disk in my other computer.
  • I had a macbook pro for almost three years. I bought all the sims games because I had a disc drive. I had to get a new computer because mine broke. Now I have a macbook air so the only way of playing the sims is by downloading them. My problem is that I dont want to spend the money for a second time.

I just bought a new MacBook Air. I used to play The Sims a lot in my old Mac. All my games are registered. How can I play The Sims in my new Mac witohut buyng again all the games?

Now. Go into your Applications folder. There should be a folder with the name The Sims 3. Click that.

Please tell me I don’t need to go and highlight the folder.

Anyway. This is my Sims 3 folder.

You’re going to right click on the Sims 3, and hit ‘View Package Contents’.

Now, you’re going to see a folder called Contents. Just click through it.

Yes, I’m cropping out the majority of the folder. I swear, I don’t have anything else in there.

So, this is what your Contents folder should look like.

We are looking at the Info.Plist file. That’s between Frameworks and MacOS.

Copy that folder onto your desktop. Seriously. Do it now. Do not read on unless you’ve done that.

Did it? Good. Let’s continue.

Open up that file. It’ll open in TextEdit. Let it. That’s good. It’ll look like this.

It’s telling the game that when you open it with the icon, it’ll open the Launcher, and we don’t want that. You can’t use the mod we’re using if you do that.

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So change it to this.

See? Barely touched anything.

Sims Macbook Air

Now, you might want to save that. That change we just made tells the game to open from the actual program, which is what we want. I want you to highlight that file we just made once you saved it. I want you to make sure you know that it’s the one that’ll let your game run.

Remember that copied file on your desktop? We’re gonna use it now! Yay! So, before moving it back, I suggest you name it Infos or something of the sort. The extra letter makes it so the game doesn’t need it, it’ll just sit there until you need it. You’ll need that file if you want to install things through the Launcher, or even open it at all.

So, that’s my folder, with the changes made and all. See how one is highlighted, and one isn’t? How one has an extra letter? That’s what I mean.

And that is how you are able to play your game disc free.

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