Katy Perry pack?

[Tapasvi]

Is there a way to have it?

It's the only icon i have grayed out, and it's kinda annoying XD

[Regret and Redemption]

I did some digging around, it seems it was a limited time thing. (now that we are in the digital age its kind of odd for EA to continue to refrain offering it)

At the moment, there doesn't seem to be a legit means of getting it - short of getting lucky with a still-fresh hardcopy soemwhere.

[marstinson]

That stuff pack is no longer available. The reasons are speculative at this point because EA unexpectedly yanked it, but it likely involves their contract with Ms. Perry. You can purchase a hard copy (amazon still carried it the last time I looked, but there are probably other vendors) and then register it. Registration adds it to your Origin account, so it will be available as a download from there. At that point the simplest solution is to simply start playing through Origin.

For your Steam game cruinne can explain the process in much more detail than I can, but the non-simple solution involves downloading the Origin copy and installing it, moving the game files to a location where your Steam game expects to find them, and then making the appropriate registry changes to tell your Steam game that they are installed and available. I'm not a big fan of encouraging registry editing because it can completely hoze your system if you mess it up.

[Emma]

The way I did it was with a retail copy of the base game, and a retail copy of the stuff pack. You can buy a copy of both reasonably cheap on Amazon these days.

1. Install the retail copy of the base game, and then install the retail copy of the stuff pack.
   
2. Go to where you have The Sims 3 installed in the Steamapps directory and in The Sims 3 directory create a folder named "SP6"
   
3. Go to where the retail version of the Sims is installed, look one directory up in the Electronic Arts folder and find the folder called The Sims 3 Katy Perry's Sweet Treats.
   
4. Copy the contents of this folder to the folder you made before in the steamapps directory called SP6.
   
5. Open RegEdit (windows button + R and then type in regedit), and go to the following location:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Sims(Steam)\
   
6. Right click on the folder and go to new and then choose new key. Name this key:
   The Sims 3 Katy Perry Sweet Treats
   
7. In this key, right click anywhere and click new and choose new string. Name this key "contentid" and enter the value "sims3_sp06_sku7"
   
8. Create another string with the name "country" and for the value, put the same value that's in the key for the base game, for the United States, this value is "US.
   
9. Create another string with the name "DisplayName" and the value "The Sims 3 Katy Perry's Sweet Treats"
   
10. Create another string with the name "exepath". The value is the location of the Stuff pack's exe. If you installed the game in Steam's default location, this value is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\SP6\Game\\Bin\TS3SP06.exe"
    If you installed Steam on the root directory, highly recommended, the value would be: "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\SP6\Game\Bin\TS3SP06.exe". Adjust this value accordingly if you installed Steam somewhere else.
    
11. Create another string with the name "install dir" and again its value is based on Steam's install directory. The two most common values would be "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\SP6\" or "C:\Steam\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\SP6\". Adjust accordingly if you installed somewhere else.
    
12. Create another string named "locale" and copy the value from the same string in the base game's registry key. For the United States this value is "en-US".
    
13. Right click and choose new, and select DWORD and name it "productid" and enter the value of "d" as a hexadecimal. Do not make a mistake here, if you don't get this part right the stuff pack won't work or it could break other stuff packs or expansions.
    
14. Create another DWORD named "sku" with a value of "7" as a hexadecimal.
    
15. Create another DWORD named "telemetry" with the value of "0" as a hexadecimal.
    
16. Close RegEdit.

The Stuff Pack should be good to go. If you load the game and items or icons from another expansion don't seem to be showing up, you made a mistake at the productID string.

[cruinne]

I did something very similar, so I'll also post my method. It's slightly different - one might be easier for some users and another for others.

1. Copied my The Sims 3 folder (in Documents > Electronic Arts) to a safe location.
   
2. Uninstalled Steam Sims 3.
   
3. Registered my disk key at thesims3.com.
   
4. Downloaded and installed the base game + KPST from Origin.
   
5. Started the game up once to ensure it would run.
   
6. Deleted the newly-created The Sims 3 folder (in Documents > Electronic Arts) so the game wouldn't get confused about version numbers.
   
7. Copied the registry entries for the Katy Perry stuff pack to a file on my desktop. You'd be looking for two entries - both for a Stuff Pack under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > WOW6432Node > Sims(Steam). One should be the name of the stuff pack, then its name and key (ERGC), the other should include its "DisplayName" and install directory.
   
8. Installed the Steam version base game.
   
9. Started the Steam Sims 3 up once to make sure it would run.
   
10. Copied the SP06 folder from the Origin install directory to the Steam install directory.
    
11. Removed the old Katy Perry stuff pack entries from the registry.
    
12. Used a text editor to change my two registry entries (from 7, above) to match the following:
    
    • (where XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXX is the key for the game):
      

      Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
      
      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Electronic Arts\Sims(Steam)\The Sims 3 Katy Perry Sweet Treats]
      
      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Electronic Arts\Sims(Steam)\The Sims 3 Katy Perry Sweet Treats\ergc]
      @="XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"

      
      
    • For the other file, ensure that "install dir" matches your actual install directory for Steam Sims 3:
      

      Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
      
      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Sims(Steam)\The Sims 3 Katy Perry Sweet Treats]
      "ContentID"="sims3_sp06_sku7"
      "DisplayName"="The Sims 3 Katy Perry's Sweet Treats"
      "ErgcRegPath"="Electronic Arts\\Sims(Steam)\\The Sims 3 Katy Perry Sweet Treats\\ergc"
      "install dir"="N:\\Games\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\The Sims 3\\SP06"
      "locale"="en-US"
      "country"="US"
      "productid"=dword:0000000d
      "sku"=dword:00000007
      "telemetry"=dword:00000000

13. Imported these modified files into the registry.
    
14. Started the game up once to make sure it would still run.
    
15. Installed the rest of the EPs/SPs from Steam.
    
16. Yep - started the game up once more to make sure everyting still worked.
    
17. Deleted the The Sims 3 folder from Documents > Electronic Arts and put my original folder back.

[Tapasvi]

Thanks.
Kinda complicated, but i'll try, on separate PC :)

[Emma]

Hmmm... you'll want to do that step with the key for the game. I forgot to put that in mine. It works without it but I think the game counts the stuff pack as "custom content" without that.
Either way would work and you can use the steps for either method. It just depends on if you're using the retail or Origin versions. Origin might be easier if you already have the game on Steam since you can redeem the keys steam gives you for an origin version of the game.

[Shnow]

Thank you so much my fellow Sims 3 loving maniacs. Bumping to say thanks and to confirm this method still works in 2020. I did not need to uninstall / reinstall anything with my current setup!

I just used Emma's instructions to get my Origin-installed Sweet Treats pack to work with my Steam base game + xpacs, with a few small differences:

For step 3, you're looking for where Origin installed your Sweet Treats pack. For me this was not located in Electronic Arts, and it was not named The Sims 3 Katy Perry's Sweet Treats. Instead, I found mine in C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 3, and the folder is called "SP06". Step 4 is the same, copy the contents of this folder into the SP6 folder you made in steamapps.

I completely omitted step 10. My SP06 folder did not have an exe in it, so I could not do this step. It seriously just does not exist.

THANK YOU!

As for how I obtained a legit copy... My sister got me an unused, legit hard copy as a gift. I presume she spent quite some time on ebay or similar looking for an unused hard copy. It was the box with the disk and everything. I'm sure it was not cheap. But that is all you need - a new and unused serial code.

[Mr Happy Pants]

lol its the only xpac i didnt get because its stuff you wouldnt use for your sims in their normal lives - its cupcake and candy cane furniture and really bright clothes. your not missing out on anything

[marstinson]

^^^ LOL! ^^^ Pretty much the reason why I don't have it. Well, that and just thinking about it pays for my dentist's vacation in Acapulco.

[igazor]

That's the only pack I don't have either. But from what I understand from mostly reliable sources, some of its content is really quite good if one brings it into CASt (Create a Style) and removes/replaces the sugar coated decorations and patterns. There are as I have seen in screenshots some nice hairs and basic outfit designs underneath the awful patterns. Not so much that I'm going to go through great effort to acquire the pack at this stage, though.

[Jackrabbit_V6/ RSProduxx]

Are you talking about that mediocre singer with mainstream producersongs and the most obvious ripp-off-lyricfragments of the past 3 decades?

Didn´t know there was a pack with her as a theme...

[cruinne]

There are actually two, sort of. There is the "Katy Perry Sweet Treats" Stuff Pack, and then there was a special collector's Katy Perry edition of Showtime.

AFAIK, Steam never sold the latter and the former was sold for a very short time before being permanently discontinued.

[KagomeLeopardin]

would this work for worlds as well, i have a few worlds that isnt dling

[cruinne]

Worlds are not like packs - they are separate content, and you have to download them from the Sims 3 store and install them in the launcher.

They would not work to move them from an Origin install to a Steam install because of the different version numbers for the two versions, I believe. The Store content tends to be pretty sensitive to that when you're downloading/installing.

[Illusion of Progress]

Originally posted by igazor:

That's the only pack I don't have either. But from what I understand from mostly reliable sources, some of its content is really quite good if one brings it into CASt (Create a Style) and removes/replaces the sugar coated decorations and patterns. There are as I have seen in screenshots some nice hairs and basic outfit designs underneath the awful patterns. Not so much that I'm going to go through great effort to acquire the pack at this stage, though.

Out of curiosity, got any pictures?

Also the only content I don't have and doubt I'll ever get it (especially if not available on Steam), as last time I looked I remember looking at pictures of all the content and telling myself that all but maybe one (and that was a maybe) piece of content in it did not interest me, but of course they are shown with the crazy dandy-like themes.