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I'm Inzey, she/her, 32 years, Norwegian. I post pictures from my game, makeovers of my Uberhood and downloads. WCIF's and asks are always...

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The Sims 1 Starter Pack

The Starter Pack is an all-in-one source for obtaining, installing, and optimizing TS1 on modern hardware.

The Sims 2 Starter Pack

NSIS-based installer for installing & optimizing The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection. Provides the full Ultimate Collection (free Origin version from 2014 with all packs/updates) and bonus content, including fixes needed for modern systems.

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My first post on Tumblr - YAY!!!

I have been archiving Casaslindas Sims 2 recolour files from her Wordpress and Tumblr accounts since February. Why so long, you may ask?? Well I've had to take several (and regular) breaks as the whole process was doing my head in. I've just about lost what's left of my sanity!!!

Why did I do this??? Well, I love Helen's recolours and as usual, I was late to the party when I discovered her site around 2018, She hadn't posted anything new for a while, but I downloaded what I could as there were lots of dead links. Then, I noticed many WCIF requests on @Sims2Packrat, most of which were sets with the deceased Dropbox links. I didn't have these files but I wanted them desperately.

However, at the beginning of this year, I had a scary vibe that one day, her Wordpress site would vanish. So I started the archiving mission/nightmare. It's so weird but in July, Helen deleted every post related to Sims 2 and only concentrates on Sims 4 now. I was devastated but relieved that I had saved what I could months earlier.

I am about 85% finished but there are still many files I cannot find: specifically Dropbox files from 2014-2015 and a few other randoms (Send Space, Copy, Uploading and those posted at Paeginsims.com). Unfortunately, Helen Torres changed up her file hosting sites quite often so it's been a lottery to find stuff. 

It's been a busy month, but I have finally compiled an archive of the missing Casaslindas files.

I created a Flickr Collection (MISSING SIMS 2 CASASLINDAS FILES) consisting of 39 albums; one for each missing download I could find. There could possibly be more, but unfortunately if the Wordpress or Tumblr pages haven't been archived, I can only assume they don't exist. Believe me, I checked...ALOT!!! Each album is complete with hi-res images, screenshots of the original post, release date, file host name and the file name (if known). Each album appears in chronological order, from the newest to the oldest files/sets and they are a combination of files posted at Wordpress or Tumblr.

Hopefully. someone will have the original RAR files stashed away, or at least recognise some of the recolours if they have them in their game.

If you do have any of the missing files featured in the album that you would like to contribute to the archive, YOU ARE AWESOME!!!

Please share the link with me and I'll add the required meshes, images and add it to the saved archive.

For any complete sets/files that are FOUND and posted, I will remove the corresponding album from the Collection so it will always remain updated and will contain the missing files only. I really want to finalise this project before the end of the year, so we'll see how we go with finding the missing files. Maybe give it a couple of weeks, and then I'll post a SFS link to all of the completed sets I have (which I am still fiddling with ie. adding meshes, renaming or resizing images and compressing and zipping) which is just over 200 sets I think. Then, if any missing files are found in the coming months, I'll add them to the SFS Folder.

Here is the direct link to the Collection => https://www.flickr.com/photos/199530419@N06/collections

Here is the direct link to the Albums => https://www.flickr.com/photos/199530419@N06/albums/with/72177720312893163

Feel free to reblog, share the album links to other groups, forums or sites and please spread the word.

In my experience, The Sims 2 community is the BEST and so wonderfully generous with sharing or finding missing content. I have accomplished all I can on my own, so now I need the assistance of fellow Sims 2 lovers.

Thanks in advance for all your help with this treasure hunt.

G xo

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Does anyone have the missing sets? Genelle have worked so hard on this and it would be wonderful if we could complete all of Casaslindas stuff! :-D

[droolworthysims]

Let me list what I have:

Black and White kitchen: rugs (1-4)

170 Tumblr Followers gift: NMS Jack Pillow (3-6), Yulia Rectangular Pillow (2,4,6,8)

For Your Walls: Curio Wall Picture (1, 4-7, 9)

Moar Random Recolours: Colonial Sofa (1,4,8), Mira Spring Pillow (3, 4, 6, 9, 13, 15-17, 19)

Reinventing Your Home: Pomme De Pin (1), Avenida Wall Plate (3-8), Sage Rug (1, 4, 8, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 21, 22, 25-27, Pine Cone (1-3)

Some Gifts: Wall Writing (2, 5-7, 9, 11-15)

Starshine Chairs: Katija chair (1-2, 5-8)

As I said, I don't have all the files, and all have been compressorized and re-named (as in removed spaces and random symbols)

I've added a picture of my Casa Lindas folder:

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TS2: Resolution and UI help - answers :)

mdpthatsme

I change the resolution with this tutorial: https://simsvip.com/2014/07/20/the-sims-2-ultimate-collection-increase-resolution-guide/

I tried that first, but with the high resolution of my screen, I’d either have a tiny window or not be able to see the UI/text.

baticeer-sims

Have you tried fiddling with the high DPI scaling for the game?

I tried this, but wasn’t able to get it to work.

theneighborhoodchronicles-blog

I play in full screen mode and have chosen from the settings within the game a resolution that has the same ratio.

I don’t want to play in fullscreen mode, as I often do several things at once. Most of the time I want to play sims while I am on Neopets.com (I am addicted).

goingsimcrazy

If you happen to play on a laptop (this likely won't work well with a big monitor), the easiest would be to turn down the resolution on the screen and the game to roughly the same

I play a lot of other games, so I would prefer to keep the resolution the same, and not have to keep changing it.

osab

I recommend Magpie

This turned out to be the best solution. I can move the game to the background with a few buttons, and then get it to fullscreen when moving it to the foreground. This lets me go back and forth between the game and my browser. Thanks for this suggestion.

I ended up installing Magpie, which was the easiest solution.

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TS2: Resolution and UI help

I’ve had some trouble with TS2 crashing, but I’m hopeful I’ve got it fixed now. However I had to run Graphic Rules Maker once more, so I lost what tweaks I’d done.

My issue is that I’ve got a (very) high resolution screen (as in 3840x2160); if I run TS2 the UI is teeny tiny. 

Just a week or so, when my game was crashing, I had it windowed. I was using the RPC starter, and the Clean UI. The resolution of the game was someting in the 1200x1000 range, while the window it ran in was quite big.

So what I’m wondering about, is there a way to have low-ish resolution in the game, while having quite a large window for the windowed mode?

[droolworthysims]

I posted my entry for the 2018 Founder’s Day celebration

ETA: Two of the recolours didn’t work (MS91 Standing Bowl with Moss), download link had been updated. Download just the files HERE

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Download has been fixed, as I found one of the items had the wrong GUID.

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GUIDs

I’m currently looking for something that makes my game crash, but I got lost cleaning up my files. And I’ve found that a small number of items (from different creators) share GUIDs (i.e., two random objects share a GUID). So now I’m currently swapping out the duplicate GUIDs in my files

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Trying out some various edits of the pictures I post. Got a newer version of my photo editor, so I’m learning it bit by bit.

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Ranch Retreat - a makeover

[droolworthysims]

Sorry to bother again, I can't seem to download your rugs in this post /post/23758546403/. I've tried different browsers & nothing :(

Sorry, I’m having some trouble with the site as well. 

Maybe someone else has them, and would be willing to share.

[droolworthysims]

Hey, how are you? I'm having trouble finding full top clothing to wear with bottom shoes only. Do you know where can I find this kind of clothes?

Hi.

I haven’t even got sims installed any more, and I’ve not kept up to date on where to download.

I would recommend starting with a google, which I just did. That leads first to a lot of pinterest boards, which should link you to a lot. Third search result was this post which leads to a lot of top/bottom-only clothing.

[droolworthysims]

WCIF this dark blue kitchen counters set? This kitchen is stunning!

I’m guessing you’re referring to the last pics I posted, in which case it’s Bautifulnerdkitty’s Spatia Kitchen. The counters are linked to Buggybooz’ Kitchen Basic, which has a million and one recolours.

I haven’t got the files on my computer atm, but just a simple google will give you a lot of hits. I will also recommend the Shakerlicious set, which adds more to the kitchen.