One of my families have lost/hidden their tv remote somewhere where I can't see it. Has this happened to anyone, or maybe it's a glintch???? I'd sure like to find their remote, as they can't watch the boob tube without it.

I wish mine would lose theirs. Seems like all they do is sneak off to watch TV.

No, it's not a glitch. When the house gets messy, the remote often ends up in another part of the house. Just look around the house for what looks like a tiny black bar.

With one family I couldn't find it for a whole day. They did a great job of hiding it & it was hard trying to find it at night. I waited until day so just keep searching as I'm sure it is there somewhere.

The house is spotless. I've looked for it off and on for about 18 hours now, and it's nowhere to be found. My little couple trys to watch tv when they're tired and can't because the remotes gone. I wish Arthur, Lady, or someone in the know would help...PLEASE! As it is if someone doesn't they'll have that big screen tv without the ability to watch it ever again.

Lewanda, you can turn on the tv, you can turn on the tv yourself by clicking on it. I hope you find the remote back soon. Maybe they will relocate it theirselfs overnight or something.

Lewanda, the remote has been known to be located in some places that make it very hard to find. I suspect that updating from one version to another over the course of the soft launch has introduced some anomalies that are going to be difficult to diagnose. Since you are very comfortable with doing mods, I suggest that you enlarge the remote image (remote.png) considerably. I have done that several times to help locate missing remotes for testers during beta. Increasing the dimensions to at least 220x170 produces a large, albeit pixellated and silly-looking remote that's easily found on the map. Once you know where it is, you should be able to have one of the peeps retrieve it after you restore the original image (so you know where to drop them).

Thanks Sweetheart! You can only click on the tv to turn it on when the remote is on the table. It's been lost for over 24 hours now, and they keep their house and yard stopless. It's not going to show back up unless the creators of the game somehow help me. If they don't I may have to scrub the game after this gen, and it's too bad because this is the third generation for this family.

Hi Lady,
Thanks so much for your help, but this remote is hopelessly lost. I've searched their house for over 24 hours now, and it's nowhere to be seen. Unless Arthur can fix it so that they can purchase another from the store I'll have to scrub this family, and I really hate doing that, since this is a third generation family getting ready to go into the fourth.

Did you try the modified image to see if it was visible? I can provide one for you, if you'd rather not make one. One of our testers found the remote in the yard.