Special entry on The Sims 2 Castaway for psp regarding common questions asked/problems faced when playing the game.. Note: the game may be different if playing on a different console.1. How many islands are there?
There are 3 islands in total, Shipwreck Island, Airplane Island and Volcano Island.
Shipwreck Island - First Beach, Deep Jungle Pier Island, Shipwreck Lagoon
Airplane Island - West Beach, Airplane Jungle, Dark Cave, Skull Rock Jungle, West River Plains, East River Plains, South River Jungle, East Beach, Hidden Lagoon, Pirates Cove
Volcano Island - South Volcano Beach, Volcano Jungle, Geyser Plains, North Volcano Jungle, North Volcano Beach, Temple, Temple Exterior, Volcano Summit, Volcano Overlook, Tidal Pool, Ancient Theater, Crystal Island
It's rather easy to figure out how to cross the islands so I shall not elaborate on it.
2. How to meet other crewmates? How to increase social ratings?
I cannot say this for sure, but for my game I could only find crewmates on the second island, probably because I had only 2 other crewmates. Dont worry about searching for them on the second island, they will just appear.
Other than socialising with crewmates, your sim can also increase their social skill by interacting with chimps. By befriending chimps, you can even ask them to gather food/resources for you. The fastest way to make a chimp your friend is to give him a banana, entertain, entertain, hug, and hug. If you happen to ignore a chimp when it returns with resouces, just hug him again and he will go on collecting stuff for you.
3. How to shower when I cant build any shower facilities?
Just go for a swim! Swim meaning your sim must be doing some stokes or at least trapping water. If you're waist-deep in the water but standing, the hygiene bar will not get any greener.
4. If your game is stuck and you cant progress beyond the Dark Cave on the second island, the path is in the dark cave. There'll be a path with an explore sign (the footprints) to the right of the 3 pools in the middle of the cave. The path will lead up to Skull Rock Jungle.
When entering a new region of the game for the first time, you will need to fill up the energy bar to the max (dark green). If you find that you cant cross to the new region even when your bar is almost full, then it's time to build to new bed.
5. I dont know if it's a bug with my game data or it's the game but there limited number of items to build in an area, even when I've deleted some items built previously. And when you delete an item, you dont get back money like in the Sims 2. You dont even get back the resources put in =\ What you can do is when you decide to move your "home" to a new area, keep everything you have in your inventory (everything except shelters, walls etc. can be kept), build whatever you new things you want to build in the new area, then take the things out from your inventory. There are no max cap for the amount of things you can take out from your inventory.
6. How to increase mechanical skill?
You will have to craft many many many things eg clothes or light the fire many many many times. If you run out of things to craft and still haven hit the mechanical skill required, try gathering sisal and crafting twines and ropes. They'll come to use when building bridges later.
I would suggest you begin with a doctor sim because that will give you one logic skill and one mechanical skill to start with. The rest of the skills are rather easy to gather along the game.
7. How to fish/catch chicken using traps?
To fish, go to an area along the beach that has a pool of fish (similar to when you want to spear fishes) and set a fish trap. To catch chicken, leave a chicken trap over area that you can find chicken feathers or chicken feed. To successfully catch something in both traps, you will have to leave the traps there long enough. Fish traps takes at least half a day but try to check on them at least once every 2 days. Else the waves will destroy them. Chicken traps takes at least a day.
Oh and to spear fishes, click on stab once you see a fish leap. For fishing using pole, reel in after you see 2 or 3 tugs on your pole.
8. How to hunt a boar?
Boars are most commonly found on the third island in the Geyser Plains. However, there are reports of boars on East River Plains and East Beach as well. To hunt the boar, you must follow it around and irritate it with a spear in hand. It might leave the screen though and if it does, find another boar and try again. It's easier to get the boar to attack if you can get it cornered. You can also try to lure it by leaving food out, or by building a garden and not fencing it in. Most importantly, you must have very very high (almost, if not 10) body skill to successfully hunt the boar.
Once it attacks you, you will see a brown dust of cloud. If you win, you will receive some leather, some boar tusks, and a ham.
9. How to find/make dye?
I haven found out how to make dye but I do know that if you can send a sim that you're not controlling to go gather resources, he/she may return to home with some. To send a sim to collect resources, set up a home tiki (available in one of the options at a fire pit), then make a sim sign up for the job "collect resources", feed the sim well and make him happy, then control another sim in the tribe. The happy sim will have nothing to do except to "work", which is to collect resources. Hopefully he'll return with some dye. Mine returned with black, blue and red dyes on 3 occasions.
Another way is to ask chimps to gather resources for you. (Refer to point 2 above)
10. The Sims 2 Castaway Hacks
I haven got the chance to try out the hacks, my gamesave got corrupted when i'm halfway thru the third island =( So be careful when you're using mods with outdated firmware! I was so upset that I deleted the hack codes that I found online =\
If you want to search for some hacks, try searching for the keyword "gnome hack". Cant exactly remember the hack's name but it's suppose to give you alot of resources. Update me if you tried.. Other than this, there are very limited hacks regarding The Sims 2 Castaway on psp.
Lastly, if you need a more specific guideline (not hacks) to the game, you can find it here: http://www.cheatcc.com/psp/sims2castawaycheatscodes.html
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