Free to Play Arcade Machines

The two arcade machines from the university expansion pack (A-maz-ing Matey! & Pimp Viking 3D Arcade Game) have a feature where every once in a while your sim will be charged one Simolean while playing. While this is a nice bit of realism, this results in my sims never playing them as I don't want my sims to waste their Simoleans.

So this mod completely gets rid of that feature and makes the arcade machines cost zero Simoleans to play. The amount of Simoleans the arcade machines charge is a tunable value and this mod simply sets that value to zero.

Note on Installing
Putting this mod in your Downloads folder does not make the game think the Maxis arcade machines are custom content.

Known Issue
You will still hear the paying Simoleans sound effect while your sim plays the arcade machines. This is because the game is still trying to charge your sim for playing, but the game is charging zero Simoleans.

Custom Arcade Machines
This mod only affects the Maxis arcade machines, so you will need to manually edit any custom ones you have in SimPe. What you need to do is select the Bcon called Tuning - Play, select the value labeled Cost, and then changed the value from a one to a zero.