I recently installed TS2 Ultimate Collection on a new PC and was looking to transfer my old Neighborhood to my new system, and so I did. Upon launching my game, however, the neighborhood does not appear in the menu. I looked on SimPE, and the neighborhood shows up there, along with all of its sims. Any help resolving this issue is appreciated.

So it's a custom hood and you pasted the folder into the neighbourhood folder? Did you also delete the neighbourhood manager file?

I did not delete the neighborhood manager file, but yes, that is what I did.

Did your previous installation include Store Edition?

Yes, I'm moving from Double Deluxe with all other EPs/SPs to Ultimate Collection.

You need to remove the store edition flag from the neighbourhood to make it compatible with M&G.
http://www.modthesims.info/showthre...659#post5307659
http://www.modthesims.info/showthre...783#post5410783

Thanks, I tried it and other than a few name changes, my neighborhood is working perfectly.

Thanks to @Chris Hatch too!

That's severe, if it really has no ID then it's not really a neighbourhood. Only the Tutorial Neighbourhood can have no ID, that is how the op-codes recognise it and disable options for it.
The dummy neighbourhood option is your best bet but instead of replacing the 'non-existent' ID just import the extracted file to add it, then follow the rest of the Tutorial about changing names etc.

If it zips up to a reasonable size I'll take a look, while I've never seen a corrupt neighbourhood that can't be fixed 'unreadable' files are the worst kind of corruption so it may not be able to be fixed properly.
What EP/SPs do you have? if I open your neighbourhood with any other EP/SP configuration and send it back to you then your game may not be able to open it.

Yes, that's no problem if you can upload it somewhere.

I don't have the same problem, but am curious about the "neighborhood manager file" - what IS that, and what would deleting it do?

http://www.modthesims.info/showthre...437#post5283437

Generate a new one.

That doesn't have corrupt parts but missing parts, so much so there is nothing left to recover. There's no Neighbourhood Terrain or Neighbourhood Geometry (So there is no Neighbourhood Map to recover). There's no TATT so no Neighbourhood Decorations, the only lots are the secret hobby and witch Lots, there is no other Lots to recover. The only sims are Maxis default that have been added by the various EPs and they have lost their DNA, family ties and memories. No Catalogue Description so even the name of the 'hood is gone and most of the Family Information files are gone and the corresponding family name texts are blank. The Pets Suburb has already been added in twice.
You may as well delete it and start again, there is nothing left in it to lose. I'd love to know a neighbourhood gets into such a bad state.


When you delete it the game copies the one over from Base Game which contains several unused text lists, it's better to open it with SimPE and delete everything in it so the game will only generate useful stuff in it.

It contains; a version information file, these are written by the game probably as a versioning stamp for beta testing and development, the information in them is taken from the game's executable.
Type 0xCC8A6A69 is the EP version, possibly used at start-up to detect a different EP running.
Type 0x8CC0A14B is unknown, the only readable thing in it is 'SceneDBAnimSystem_PredictiveMap' it is not created on loading the neighbourhood but on entering an occupied lot so I guess it's related to sim's animations.
Type 0x0ABA73AF is a Game Wide Inventory which can be read and written to from every neighbourhood, originally and I believe still only used for Game Tip tokens so no matter what neighbourhood a game tip runs in every neighbourhood 'knows' it has been run.
Nothing else in it is used or regenerated if deleted.