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Bigger Selection Dialog Window
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Special thanks to @lordcrumps for making maxis and clean ui pics and counting pixels with me. It was his and @simnopke's idea to make this thing bigger
Some behind the scenes under the cut
GOS is back 😊
Rejoice.
In case people want to access the new domain through the old (digitalperversion.net) links, I made a redirection. 👇
DOWNLOAD: SimFileShare | Dropbox
Steps to install (very easy):
Download the "Redirector" browser extension (Firefox / Chrome) ;
Download the JSON file above ;
Open the extension's settings > Edit Redirects ;
At the top of the settings page, you'll see a few buttons, one being "Import", click it and select the JSON file I provided.
Hope this will make the transition a bit easier :)
And big thanks to @fireflowersims, @julessims and @teaaddictyt for dusting that Resurrect-O-Nomitron!! 🫶
For anyone wondering
Latest update I have on GOS and S2A is that the old hosting has been resumed (i.e. paid for again) so that HugeLunatic can hopefully access all required files to pass over to the people who have volunteered to assist in upgrading and re-hosting the site, but their c-panel access hasn't yet been restored so it's a waiting game at this stage. I'd also like to offer a formal apology to anyone who was offended by my post yesterday as it did garner negative feedback in comments and reblogs. I have taken the feedback on board. I did not mean to offend anyone with my tone or my words, and feel that most of the negative responses came from people who don't know me very well. I meant to offer reassurance, not condescension. Be that as it may, as I've said I accept my tone did not sit well with some people and I accept why. If you called me out, I have read and accept your point of view. I will not be engaging in further feedback on this post.
Thanks, Tea xo
Mixed Messaging.
Back in 2023, @hugelunatic-deactivated20260510 gave @simnostalgia shit for archiving/scraping GoS “just in case,” citing concerns over scraping, bandwidth, and preservation itself.
Now GoS and Sims2Artists are suddenly gone, and people are left scrambling through remnants, mirrors, and whatever archives survived.
That is exactly why preservation matters.
You cannot discourage archival efforts and then act surprised when people are upset that massive parts of Sims 2 history vanished with little warning. You also cannot get angry over backlash when there was never any clear, direct communication to the wider community.
People were explicitly told that if GoS was truly at risk of going down, there would be an announcement.
No real community-wide warning was ever given.
And honestly, this is where the messaging becomes incredibly frustrating.
We were told:
hosting costs were manageable,
the site was not going anywhere as long as ads/donations covered most costs,
out-of-pocket expenses were still within budget,
scraping was mainly an issue because it increased bandwidth/server load,
“if I were not willing/able to continue, then there would be an announcement,”
and later posts even made it sound like things were functioning again after the PHP fixes.
Most people interpreted that as stability returning.
So yes, people are understandably confused and frustrated now, because the messaging for years was essentially: “Things are annoying, but manageable.”
Not: “Hey. This is serious. Archive what you can now. I may be done.”
And no, buried technical posts about PHP upgrades and drive failures are not the same thing as directly communicating that to the wider community.
I literally had to use archived Tumblr pages just to reconstruct the timeline before speaking on this.
And honestly, we are lucky @simnostalgia even had the foresight to preserve as much as they did back in 2023, because otherwise even more would likely be gone forever or nearly impossible to piece back together. But that archive is still missing huge amounts of resources, attachments, images, updates, and years of content added afterward.
What makes this even more frustrating is that @simnostalgia received backlash for trying to preserve the site in the first place. At this point, I honestly hope they feel vindicated, because this situation is exactly why archival efforts matter.
People absolutely would have helped preserve, mirror, archive, financially support, or even transition these sites if the situation had been communicated clearly, especially if HugeLunatic had simply said: “I am done. Someone else needs to preserve or host this now.”
EF48 Wrap 4t2 Conversion
Download: SFS | MF
PF-CF, 1.4K tris, 256x512 textures, 20 binned and familied swatches with edited EA textures, compressed and tooltipped
There's some cute stuff in the TS4 infant update, but I only know how to make things into hairs. I binned them for less custom bloat, and then made more swatches for an even number of "hairs" per bin. Swatch below the cut.
Added child and teen stages to @greatfairie 4t2 Baddiesims Noelly and all the existing recolors I saw on the database (big thank you to greatfairie and the recolorists!). So you get an edited mesh file + 4 sets of recolors that are familied with & repo'd to the following AF recolors:
• greatfairie's original recolors • these by @goatskickin (just updated) • these by @timeparadoxsims • these by @gaypleasantview
You need the AF recolors for my CF-TF completers to work.
Download CF-TF: SFS / Google Drive
Details and creator resources below.
Maxis Match Recolors of FreshPrince’s Entertainment Center
Basically Amused Sims shared these recolors of a very nice entertainment center for your sims’ living rooms. The mesh is included with the download since FreshPrince’s original mesh isn’t available anymore.
Download from my SimFileShare
**May 2026 Update** - I’ve reuploaded this set and the recolors to my SFS since the archive link from Basically Amused Sims no longer works.
Updated with working link! The entertainment center and recolors are now uploaded to my SimFileShare.
the new lighting mod setup is coming together slowly. basically you can switch to any of these lighting mods on the fly with some cheat aliases and setting up multiple lighting files
clockwise from top left: vanilla plus (basically vanilla lighting but better), maxis match lighting mod, radiance lighting system, cinema secrets
all are taken during daytime, spring season.
I'm sorry? SWITCH ON THE FLY???? Don't mind if I YES
Graying Hair Recolors for Male Sims
18 Graying recolors of Maxis hairstyles, perfect for your late adult-stage sims! Now your sims will show age and not be young forever! Most of these have graying hair on the temples as I am planning on making graying facial hair too, as soon as I figure out how to extract multiple facial hair colors on bodyshop. So please if anyone knows or finds a tutorial, please let me know.
All hair colors have been properly binned and combined in one package for your convenience and storage purposes :)
>> Download (Hair)
>> Download (Hats)
>> MTS
More stuff for your middle aged sims by other creators!
♦ Graying Hair for Female Sims & Facial Hair by IntincrMars (Me) ♦ Various graying recolors by DeeDee-Sims: umSemibald & umPeak, umShortCombed, ufMessy & ufLowBun ♦ Graying ufShortTuckIn recolor by FreezerBunny-Sims2 ♦ Embracing Age Facial Hair Recolor by twiggy ♦ Subtle Wrinkles by simNopke
Preview Pictures Under the Cut
Update!
These are now decustomized and have a custom order in CAS, they now show up last after all normal hairs! This was also done with my graying facial hair pack (Female hair coming soon!)
@deedee-sims's graying amPeak and amSemibald are also now included, thanks and all credits to them!
9 recolors of 4t2 SP06 Bottom Cropped. These are for AF sims, and are set for everyday and formal wear. Click here to see the full swatch. Credits and download link are under the cut.
EDIT (May 21, 2026): I made repo'd versions for TF and EF of the 4 recolors made by Goat that I recommended in the original post. You need the adult recolors she made (FOUND HERE) for them to work properly for teens and elders. TF and EF meshes by DeeDee-Sims are included. Click here for the previews and HERE TO DOWNLOAD THEM.
All credits to @goatskickin for those 4 recolors and @deedee-sims for the new meshes, as well as @picknmixsims for creating the Repo Wizard tool.
Its so funny to me that whenever the sims 4 gets another one of those way too expensive packs, usually the sims 2 players have all the objects in that pack converted and available for free within 2 weeks or so.
Custom Flower Arrangements!
Excuse my horrid preview pictures, it will happen again. But, after pulling my hair out, forgetting about it for like a month and then pulling my hair out some more, I have finished them: @tvickiesims OFB 4t2 Default Flower Bouquets made into custom craftables!
Meaning you can have different defaults and these at the same time! More options! They will unlock at the same badges as the originals, have the same crafting cost (i fixed the difference in the first image after taking it and was too lazy to take a new one) and sale prices and the Snapdragon Bouquet also does the mood boosting things the original does!
There is a main which makes the custom craftables possible, but if you only want a few you can pick and choose the bouquets and recolours as you wish.
Conflicts: This will conflict with anything that edits the "Interaction - Make One and Make Many TEST" BHAV (had to up a number in there to get more than 10 craftable options) as well as the "Craft Obj - GUIDS" and "Crafting - Craftable Object Types" BCONs
DOWNLOAD(SFS)
Many thanks of course to @tvickiesims for the original defaults, the makers of simpe, the peeps over in TeaaddictYT's discord who helped me test and provided some feedback and emotional support and @yoursingrey in particular for kicking of the discussion that got me in that discord and reminded me I was still working on these to begin with :D
୨୧ ⊹4t2 nanaliii's snow sanrio plush dolls⊹୨୧
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♡ Objects Info ♡:
puppy saiko cinnamoroll plush (+3 recolors)| §7 | medium poly | found under decor > sculpture snow hello kitty plush (+3 recolors)| §7 | high poly (4k) | found under decor > sculpture snow kuromi plush (+3 recolors)| §7 | high poly (3k) | found under decor > sculpture snow melody plush (+3 recolors)| §7 | high poly (5k) | found under decor > sculpture
♡ Notes ♡:
- i didn't merge any swatches so that you can pick-and-choose the recolors you want. i recommend using the 'CCMerger' program to merge the recolors you want to keep everything together and orderly. - i used pforestsims' shine removal kit to remove any shininess from the object(s) - everything has been compressed using 'The Compressorizer!' - because i had to reduce the high polycount, there are some minor visual issues with some objects
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Spockthewok (aka Will Nixon) wrote a master's thesis on pink flashing, figured out the cause and potentially found the first genuine fix.
The fix itself (along with the thesis for those interested) can be found here:
A patch to fix the 'pink soup' bug in The Sims 2. Contribute to spockthewok/TS2MemCapRemover development by creating an account on GitHub.
My experience with Spockthewok’s Pink Soup patch for Sims 2 has been positive so far. Sharing for data collection purposes if it’s helpful! I still need to continue testing the patch, but I am using V1 and it works great with the RPC launcher.
Last night, I was able to load a huge, decor-heavy lot and save it, then exit back to the neighborhood with no pink flashing. Exiting back to the neighborhood is where I have never been able to stop the pink flashing. With this, I could also switch between neighborhoods with no flashing. 
After I start filming machinima again in a couple days (gotta do some decorating first), I will stress-test the patch with having more than eight active sims on one lot. That’s when my game always crashed due to RAM issues when I was using a non-gaming laptop.
Sims 2 - Is there actually an influence of a Sim's car on the Date Score?
While looking to edit some custom cars (Fresh-Prince etc.) for myself to adjust their prices, descriptions and motive gains, I noticed there are some constant tables labelled "Date Score Tuning Values", too. Based on a statement from the Prima Guide for Sims 2 Nightlife, which car your Sim takes their date to a community lot with has a direct influence on the date score. For example, Serious Sims love it when you take them out in a Yomoshoto Evasion (sedan), while Romance Sims will find it horrible to be taken on a date in a Landwhale (minivan). I am guessing that's what these tables are for.
There's just one problem. I've looked everywhere - the phone calls, the date controller, and the ControllerGroupGlobals which hold some data shared between outings and dates. There is no evidence in the code suggesting that all the work Maxis put in, to give the choice of car a meaning on dates, ever gets used.
It is referenced here and there. There is CT - Setup 4 in the ControllerGroupGlobals, which references Score - Car Modify, which calls CT - Get Date Score Tuning Values and grabs all the values stored within each car's Privates and works with them. The values are even unnecessarily duplicated within the Controller - Date object as a bunch of separate constant tables.
But all of that is simply never a part of the main routine that runs when Sims start a date - which is where a car bonus should realistically be added. Any date instead always seems to start with a score of 300 (labelled as "Lame") plus 10.
So, a question into the round, to both modders and players - am I missing something? Does the Sim's car play a role after all, or is this a thing the Nightlife Prima Guide got wrong?
Thanks in advance!
Explaining the Pink Soup (In Layman's Terms)
Hi everyone!
First off, I just wanted to say thank you for all of the positive feedback I've received over the past few days — I'm really pleased to see that my mod seems to have been effective for so many of you!
I am aware that my dissertation/thesis is really rather technical, filled with lots of academic/flowery language, and probably quite overwhelming to try and understand if you're lucky enough to have not studied computer science, so I wanted to attempt to break the key parts of it down into the simplest terms possible, to hopefully help answer some of the questions I've seen people have.
What is the pink soup?
The pink/purple strobe lighting we all know and love is 1 of 4 uniquely coloured shaders the game uses to indicate a specific type of error has occurred when trying to display something on-screen. The 3 other colours it uses (you've likely seen at least one of them) are red, blue, and yellow.
These shaders serve two main purposes:
To let you know something has gone wrong in an obvious (albeit obnoxious) manner.
To allow the game to keep running in spite of whatever error has happened (otherwise it would just crash).
Internally, the error that the pink soup represents is known as a "material parsing failure", i.e. the game has failed to understand some piece of material data (textures, rendering properties etc.) about an object it is trying to render.
Part of the process the game goes through before rendering an object to the screen is checking that its data only contains specific characters (numbers, letters, and certain symbols) — an example of when this would fail and trigger the pink soup would be if the game came across a random emoji during these checks.
What does 32-bit/64-bit mean?
A 'bit' is just a single digit of a binary number. All you really need to know is that a 32-bit number is a binary number that is 32 digits (bits) long, with the largest binary number possible being 32 consecutive 1s (1111111…).
I'm not going to bore you to death and show you how to convert binary numbers to decimal, so you'll just have to believe me when I say that 32 consecutive 1s in binary is equivalent to 4,294,967,295 in decimal.
4.2 billion might seem like a pretty high value to be able to represent, but if I said this is roughly equal to 4GB, you might be able to start to see how 32-bit computers/software could be a bit (no pun intended) limited memory-wise. For comparison, the largest decimal value a 64-bit binary number can represent is 18,446,744,073,709,551,615, or just under 18.5 exabytes (EB)!
But what if I wanted to represent the number 5 billion in 32-bit binary? Here's the fun thing — you can't. If you tried, the binary number would 'wrap around'. As in, it would max out at 32 consecutive 1s before resetting back to 0 and continuing to count up until it reached the binary value of 705,032,705 (5,000,000,000 - 4,294,967,295 = 705,032,705).
This is what is meant when we say that The Sims 2 can only use up to 4GB of your computer's memory (RAM) — it is physically unable to access/store data in more than 4,294,967,296 different memory addresses (it's 4,294,967,296 because the range of possible addresses would be 0 to 4,294,967,295).
If you're not sure what I mean when I talk about 'memory addresses', you can think of the concept as being like your home address (your house number, street name, and postal/zip code). It's just the location a piece of data lives at in memory so the game knows where to find it if it needs to use it for something.
Once the game has run out of memory addresses to use to store things, it will crash. The only way this could be fixed would be if EA magically decided to rewrite the game's engine to be 64-bit, thus allowing it to use an exponentially larger number of addresses.
Why does the pink soup happen?
This is where things get interesting. While the game is loading, the material data for the objects in your neighbourhood/lot is stored at individual addresses in your computer's memory so it can be processed.
Part of this processing involves the game taking all of the shader code found in the Materials.package file and linking the relevant shaders to the relevant pieces of material data of an object (e.g. a reflection shader would be linked to the glass part of a mirror object), creating shader 'packages' for the whole object. Again, both these packages and the information that links them to the object are also stored in memory.
As you can probably imagine, if you have a large number of different objects in your hood/lot (particularly more complex/detailed objects with many rendering properties), the amount of free memory the game has to use to keep storing things starts to decrease FAST.
Back in ye olden days of 2004 when The Sims 2 was released, 32-bit was the most commonly used architecture for consumer-grade hardware and software. Despite its known drawbacks, the 4GB memory restriction was not really a huge issue, as the technical limitations of the time meant your parents' PC would likely catch fire and explode long before this level of memory usage could be reached in-game.
Windows XP (the operating system the game was primarily developed for) was also a 32-bit operating system. The way XP handled the 4GB memory limit was simple:
2GB was given to the kernel (the core of the operating system).
2GB was given to applications (i.e. The Sims 2).
This is why it is commonly recommended to apply what is known as a '4GB patch' to the game, as by default, it still thinks it's living in 2004 and is only allowed to use 2GB of memory — the 4GB patch therefore permits the game to use the full 4GB of memory it is able to support.
So, where does the pink soup come in to this?
Basically, there is a piece of logic within the game's code that is used during the process of linking shaders to material data described above. All this logic does is check whether the material data it is being given is stored at a memory address above or below the 2GB mark, presumably some kind of relic of the Windows XP days.
For whatever reason (either due to a bug or intentional design), for data stored above 2GB, the game performs additional checks which will ALWAYS FAIL, and the game will treat this data as being malformed/invalid, refusing to link any shaders to it.
Hopefully, the chain of causality should now be clear:
The capabilities of our hardware has increased dramatically in the past 20+ years.
We've all been applying a 4GB patch to the game to allow it to make use of more of our RAM.
We've also all been installing a load of cool custom content and creating highly decorated hoods/lots because our fancy graphics cards can handle them easily.
All of these objects are causing memory usage to quickly surpass the originally intended 2GB range.
The game is considering any data for the objects stored above this range to be invalid and refusing to do anything with it.
The pink/purple error shader is instead being applied to these objects because the game thinks there is something wrong with their material data.
In conclusion, The Sims 2 is confused and elderly, frequently soiling itself when presented with high-tech information from the far off future of the 2020s that its puny 2004 mind can't possibly comprehend.
What are the differences between v1/v2 of the mod?
Both versions of the mod patch the same piece of logic in the game's code, but with differing approaches.
With v1, the additional (and always failing) checks the game performs on material data stored above the 2GB mark are essentially patched out, meaning they are not executed and shaders will always be correctly linked to them, regardless of their location in memory. This is great, as you should never see any pink soup that would usually be triggered by these failed checks. Consequently however, the game will give you no indication that it is running out of memory, except for when it inevitably crashes once all free memory has been used up.
On the other hand, v2 makes use of these faulty checks. Instead of removing them completely, they are repurposed to warn you of high memory usage, with the game not performing these checks until material data starts being stored above the 3.5GB mark. This means you will still see pink soup, but only once memory usage exceeds 3.5GB. This is intentional, and is meant to be a trade-off between allowing the game to correctly process more data in memory, but also still letting you know that a crash may be imminent some time after the pink soup appears, giving you enough breathing room to save and restart the game before this happens.
To illustrate these differences better, here is roughly what the code is doing in the vanilla game, v1, and v2 of the mod:
Vanilla:
if memory address <= 2GB everything is fine, continue as usual if memory address > 2GB pink soup time!
V1:
if memory address <= 2GB everything is fine, continue as usual if memory address > 2GB everything is fine, continue as usual
V2:
if memory address <= 3.5GB everything is fine, continue as usual if memory address > 3.5GB pink soup time!
Which version should I choose?
There's no correct option, but if you play with a lot of CC or with highly decorated hoods/lots, I would probably recommend starting with v2, only for the so-called 'safety' reasons I outlined above.
I personally use v1 because I play very vanilla, so I know memory usage should never really get that high. If you're like me, or you just don't care about potential crashes and want to be rid of the pink soup, then v1 of the mod is the one for you :)
I know people likely still have many questions, so I've enabled the 'Ask me anything' option on this blog - feel free to use it!
Thanks again,
Will
Thank you, Will 🙏🙏🙏