Welcome the Sims 2 Story Viewer, a convenient way to view the story files that the Sims 2 makes without having to open up the game itself!

Want to show a friend a story without having to run your game? Want to transfer your story without alt-tabbing the life out of your computer or the risk of accidentally deleting an entry? Just want a cool new gadget to play with or test out for me?

Then feast your eyes on this!

With the familiarity of the editor in the game, plus added functionality, the Sims 2 Story Viewer will open any story you want from your game or from somewhere else!* I will be adding to this program: Add Pictures Mode along with editing capabilities are on the way!

This program is still in the "alpha" stage (or "beta", depending on what you want to think of it), so be advised. It is stable and error catching has been implemented, so this should not in any way damage your computer or your Sims 2 save file. If you do get an unexpected error, please post here the error codes along with what you did to make this happen.

Finally, this was made using the .NET Framework 2.0. This is the same framework that SimPE is made in, so most people should already have it. Microsoft released the framework as a critical update, so technically everyone should have it, but this is a "just-in-case" statement.

*For a story to be view out of game, currently it must be in a directory named "N###" with the # being any number. Story Viewer must be directed to the directory that contains the "N###" directory. This may change in the future.

Woe. This is great. Thank You so much! This'll make everything MUCH MUCH easier.

This is great!! Thanks, I actually really need this!

System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from string "MX" to type 'ULong' is not valid. ---> System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ParseDecimal(String Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat)
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToULong(String Value)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToULong(String Value)
at SimsStory.XMLGrab.LoadStory(String file)
at SimsStory.FormSC.cmdOkay_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

Is the message I get whenever I load a certain story.