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First off, Hello and thanks to everyone! I thought I was a few years late buying the game, turns out lot of people are enjoying it still. So I purchased the game from EA.store.ea.com. Installed and updated to version 1.1. Then I found the SAAM patch(awesome). When I patched the exe it gave me an error "Start Looking for original codes. 1ma9x99 couldn't be found even one time. Failed replacing 1ma9x99" . All the others worked. So I Looked in the car folder and the cars are all there. I go to enter the codes in the game and they work. the problem being that they dont show up in the showroom.
Any tips on what im doing wrong will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time. Luke