Pixel Cuties

A blog featuring all the sims games! Sometimes I post edits and my own cc, but it mostly has finds. Under construction! Follows from honowo. I will attempt all WCIF and Requests! MY CC: https://www.pinterest.com/honowo/sims-garbage-dump/my-cc/

[honowo-cc]

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A blog featuring all the sims games! Sometimes I post edits and my own cc, but it mostly has finds. Disorganized, sorry! Follows from honowo. I will attempt all WCIF and Requests!

MY CC: https://www.pinterest.com/honowo/sims-garbage-dump/my-cc/

[furbyq]

help needed

I need to pay my internet and power bills. Internet is $85.34 and power is $139.27. I would really appreciate some help if possible. I still have a few days on both, as I managed to extend the power bill too.

I am trying and I know it's not enough. I should be doing, but my MDD and/or Bipolar 1 are currently making it difficult to even get out of bed. I'm having a severe depressive episode. Trauma cracks from taking care of my parents are showing through in my brain. I can't stay calm for the life of me, unless I'm so medicated that I feel a distinct cognitive decline.

Making a harsh effort to get some facility to pay for my GED if possible. I may not know anything about this until Friday though (writing this June 7 2026)

If you could please help me, here are my paylinks. I would appreciate any assistance.

paypal.me/furbyq

venmo: @ furbyq

ko-fi.com/furbyq

these all use my dead name

[virtualpeople]

Hi! I’m a huge fan of how you create your sims, even attempting to replicate myself a few times. I get confused with all the cc sometimes but I’m slowly improving, that was until I got distracted. Recently I fell in love with a style of sims I see in the sims 4 (most often done by @pearlean). I don’t want to compare creators styles but you seem to be the most creative sims 2 creator, and was I was wondering if this type of style would be possible within the sims 2 and if so with what cc?

hi anon! with all the creativity in this community I'd hardly say i was the most creative but thank you so much haha, I'm incredibly flattered :D

But oh, that's a fun question! I don't follow ts4 in the slightest so I'm not sure if I'm getting the wrong end of the stick or not, but I've had a look at perlean's sims/tumblr and damn that's a rad style, i like it a lot.

I'd probably say it's an answer of both yes and no if it's possible in ts2? I'm thinking the filtering/editing/hand-painting (or maybe some reshade/reshade-esque presets? you'd be best off asking someone else about these as I've never used 'em) is doing some heavy lifting, aesthetically speaking - I'd be really interested to see what the sims look like in raw screenshot form. So it's likely not technically even 100% possible in TS4 on its own with just CC.

Now, seeing as we in TS2 land are a bit more limited with <1000 polygons per face, it'd be even harder to replicate. That level of painterly quality? I'd say it's a no, unless someone sat down and worked really hard on a specific set of CC to achieve that. The comic outlines are definitely post processing too. But! The rest might be more possible, if in adapted-to-ts2 form.

I'll give recommending some CC a go but it might be utter shite I'm talking, I'd need to give making sims like that a go to test haha. I accidentally wrote an essay so I'll stick it under a cut.

A lot of the style isn't really CC tbh, lots of strong features (I love a strong facial feature when making sims so 1000% approve of this) particularly with the nose, big eyes/eyelids, pouty-shaped mouth and asymmetry going on. Slightly cartoon proportions for extra oomph? You'll want some asymmetry sliders for this if you don't already have them. Obviously TS2 features won't be so smooth, but such is life :) Thinking about it, the style/proportions actually remind me a little of ghen's old sims, so might be worth a look!

As for getting the boldness, you're probably best sticking to the chunky 4t2 hairs for this, with hairline masks where fitting. Io has some here for example.

If you want the kinda painterly feel, AlfredAskew's content comes to mind. Her face shaders (1, 2, 3) will be good for this, these as well and I'd reccomend grabbing some of her sims too as they've got CC that could be fun to use that afaik wasn't released anywhere else.

For skins, they seem to use kinda matte but well defined skins? i've not tried them but AlfredAskew's reconstruction skins might be a good base? They've got that painterly feel. Sleepytabby's imperfection skins would work well as a base too. They're gonna need a lot of CC for this style (mainly for eyes, lips and nosemask) but they're really texure-y as well. as always I'm gonna say Io's skins would be a good call, and hell standard maxis might not even be too bad for this. they're all defined and not too shiny.

If perlean's stuff is anything to go by, you can go HEAVY on the nose masks and shaders (and i mean this in the best possible way). Some nosemasks that might fit the bill are basically everything here.

Eyebags, blush and eyelashes seem kinda prominent too, XOD's eyebags seem to fit the bill best (and they're uploaded with a LOT of sims) but I can't find the original source anywhere so here's some recolours by digi. The eyelids here feel like a good call too

Eyelashes I don't have many of these so it'll be worth browsing some creators to find some bold ones. it is a lot harder to get them looking good in TS2 though as it's easy to warp the eye area. I have even less for actual blusher blushes so others may be able to recommend stuff here (please do!), but ideally they'd be ones that hit the upper cheekbones/eye orbit area (idk much about how you'd describe this in makeup terms haha).

Some nice bold or fun eyebrows will help, I love these by Mina M on MTS: and this big set by pooklet is also good.

For the rest of the face pretty much all of simplelife's face shaping makeup CC (and the brows tbh) will be your friend here, as will Amaryll's miranda facekit and Pooklet's face stuff for for freckles and eyebags. Rensim has some eyebag building kit here too and Pforest's face kit will be good for this style also.

Eyes are probably the one that matters least as they look to vary massivley and I can't quite tell what they look like under the post processing. A more realistic sclera (or a darker one) might work better, but you can probably get away with whatever you like.

I have no idea if this is all stating the obvious or would actually work, but I hope it helps!

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and as an aside, I gave the style slapped together this guy quickly in Bodyshop using CC I already had while searching for stuff for this post, I think I completely missed the mark so far but idk if he'd be approaching the right style with a little more effort and more painterly CC?

I might see what I can do with editing and overpainting if I can be bothered to get my graphics tablet out :)

[julessims]

GOS is back for good!

Hello! I was the one who fixed it.

Well it wasn’t just me, to be fair. I would have never been able to without @fireflowersims help and HugeLunatics trust in both of us. Thank you to both of them for their work and thank you @teaaddictyt for reaching out and doing the more public communication.

I’m super happy I got the chance to work to fix it. It wasn’t an easy undertaking. It seemed like every little thing would cause more errors, I fixed one and another thing broke. But now it seems stable, finally.

A lot of technical stuff below the cut, beware.

Fixing such an old forum is not easy. Documentation is rather sparse because the framework it runs on is old. There is however a more modern version, but updating is difficult. Here was the issue for the forum - upgrading failed. 

A website (usually) consists of two different parts: 1 - The files. They contain the code, scripts, designs, images, attachment, profile pictures etc. 2 - The database. The database connects all the different parts and tells the website where to find something. Everything gets stored in tables, assigned IDs and given values. Everything written, each post and topic is also stored in the database. So without the database the whole page would be useless.

It was clear from the beginning that the database was the culprit for the failed upgrades. I got an earlier backup from HL and started working.

I set up a local environment with two versions of XAMPP. One running on php 7.4 (the last version having compatibility for the forum framework version and the upgrade script to the recent version) and the other on a modern 8.3, which was the same as the version the server @fireflowersims set up for GOS.

I ran the upgrade script (which consists of 4 separate parts) on the old backup and ran into errors right away. The script would just outright crash on me, most often without a log or message. The (local) server would just stop responding. My original plan had been to upgrade to version 2.0 first, then 2.1, since it was the recommended order. However the database backup had already been partly upgraded to 2.1. That was the reason my upgrade script failed. Reversing those changes could have been a possibility but extremely time intensive.

(This is the frontpage of the upgrader. I stared at it so much. Like you can see it has a ton of steps)

Instead I asked for the current database and HL provided it to me. This one was already further along on the upgrade and I could see the error HL had run into before handing over. I had to look at the upgrade scripts and source php files to diagnose what the framework was expecting - and failing - to find in the database.

That’s where I found the main culprit for *most* of the errors: Time tables. The framework saves every action that a user does in a log, a long table with the action, an id and a date. This was where everything had gotten wrong. The upgrader expected to see one column for the date, named *day*, while the current table had a different column for day, month and year. I tried fixing the table at first but that didn’t seem to work, so I completely deleted the table and created a new empty one myself. (By now I think the issue stems from forgetting to uninstall certain packages before upgrading, more on that later)

That was possible because the log actually doesn’t hold relevant information for the forum to work. It just records each step, probably for moderation purposes. Once I had done that step the upgrade script was finally able to proceed.

There were a few more errors where I had to look at what the script was doing, find the corresponding code in the sources and edit the database myself. Thankfully the code is relatively well commented and named, so I was able to find what I needed.

Finally I got the upgrade script to run to the end and I was actually able to open the forums (local) page. I hadn’t been able to for now so it was a first. But a lot of stuff was still missing, like all the topics. I could see that the posts were back, but not sorted correctly.

The fix was simple but annoying. The forum framework comes with a repair_setting.php file which I had run several times to fix all the paths, but apparently it didn’t fix *all* of them. So back to the database I went, ran some queries and fixed them myself.

Then the forum finally worked again!

(This is what the forum looked like when I first opened it. It ONLY had recent posts)

(The working local forum, no files yet with the default theme. Seems wrong to look at GOS without the dark theme, right?)

There were still a few things I needed to fix but the database seemed to work fine now. I had never done so many queries in my life. I know SQL, and had to fix databases before but not this intensely. So I guessed I learned something new haha.

Next was the exciting step to upload my clean install to the server. @fireflowersims and I had some directory issues, but I was able to fix them manually once again.

Then I had to take a look at the files which mostly consist of avatars and attachments. They didn’t work at all once moved to the clean install. Once again I took a look at the code and realized that the upgrade script would have changed those files as well, but because I ran it on a clean install it didn’t actually do this step.

I didn’t want to run the upgrade script again, worried that it would mess up a now working database. Instead I wrote a script myself that sorted through all the attachments, looked for the IDs of the avatars from the database so it could move and rename them.

Last were the attachments. This was an easier fix. They just had to be given the ending .dat. @fireflowersims ran a command through the console and then the attachments worked too!

We were getting closer!

Next was the theme. The old theme didn’t work on the modern framework anymore so @fireflowersims looked for a new one which I customized with CSS, trying to get it closer to the way the forum looked before. I think it turned out quite alright, hope you guys think so too!

(Trying to find out what CSS class addresses what? Make everything red and green!)

(All the spider webs)

Next was packages, or mods, to the framework. Fire and I encountered some hiccups here too, since there were some leftovers in the database. The packages hadn’t been properly deinstalled before running the upgrade script, which was another source of the errors. I tried fixing them manually but one of the packages would continue to just break the site no matter what I tried, so we settled for an alternative.

Some more work was put into SSL and making the forum secure. Once again some settings seemed to just break the page and each time I had to go back in the database and manually fix what had gone wrong. It was tedious but by now I knew my way around quite well.

@fireflowersims handled a lot of the server administrative work and DNS settings. I know very little about that part so having @fireflowersims there was great and they made sure the page is reachable at the correct address.

So yeah, I hope the site stays online for a long time now. It’s such a big part of our community and communities history. I used to download so much from there when I was younger. I wanted to give back to the community I love so much. That was the reason I spent many many hours digging through code and old forum threads.

[cityof2morrow]

WIP: SimLife Generator (Testers Wanted)

Published: 5-16-2026 (Version 1.5) | Updated: N/A SUMMARY “You can tell a better story when you have a more fleshed out character” – Simulation Princess, 2026 The SimLife Generator is an Excel-based tool for generating Sims 2 character profiles. Use it to create new sims, play with ideas, edit existing sims, or get unstuck in Bodyshop/Create-A-Sim. You can also profile details related to a sim’s background, family, hobbies, relationships, career, lifestyle, and more!

This tool requires one of the following: Excel 2021 and up, Google Sheets, LibreOffice 26, MS Excel Online (via MS Outlook), Office 365, or PlanMaker.

Some profiles will include both default and custom content – disregard what doesn’t apply to your sim. Sims 2 default items are generated on separate lines for ease (“DEF” or “TS2”).

Select Sims 1/Sims 3/Sims 4 items were included so there is some limited application for those games. Lots of descriptive details are available to help you create unique faces/bodies – not everything will have a literal button/slider in Create-A-Sim (i.e. there is no “dad bod” or “bottom-heavy” toggle in-game but the detail can help you assign unique physical features).

See below for more information.

IMPORTANT: Generated suggestions come from a small language model (SML). Text items stored in the gray “DATA-“ tabs – DO NOT ALTER THESE unless you know what you’re doing. The password to unlock these is: cityof2morrow. TESTERS WANTED! If you use one of the programs listed above – I’m looking for another set of testers for the generator. There are a few unfinished areas but it is 95% finished. I’m still looking for feedback on the following:

-What kinds of reference images you need for the FACE profile (I was thinking body shapes, head shapes, eye shapes, beards, 1A thru 4C hair). You don’t have to test Steps 1-5 on this profile since it’s been thoroughly tested – unless you want to! -I need links to TS4 body presets (so I can add them to the suggested shapes part of the BODY tab. -Making pets using the PETS tab for TS2, TS3, and TS4 -General feedback on any other profile tab (which parts you like best, which parts could be improved/explained better). -Suggestions for the CENSUS tab (the plan is to generate a census of sims types. Example: how many low, medium, high income sims a subhood should have). CONTACT ME via PM.

CREDITS Thanks: Suggestions, Links, and Feedback from ChocolateCitySim, Ch4rmsing, Ranabluu, Haziewhims, SimFan333, YessuDessu, Waterpixlez, Nemertes, SimBuilderJess, ES-Sims, EarlGrayTay, GrottyDotty, MishaSims, StandbyEntrance, Xmiramira, Corasims, Treehawk, ViVi, Shield-Sphinx. Sims2/Simming communities.

[oceansmotion]

New Story Blog & New Challenge Idea

I came up with a new challenge for Sims 2 called the Test of CC challenge and with that, decided to start a separate blog where I post my sim stories. If you're interested in that sort of thing, you can read them here.

The challenge is to start with vanilla game and work your way to modern era CC, as a way to appreciate old CC and remember how far creators have come!

Interested in the challenge? Read the rules below!

The Test of CC/Bygone Eras Challenge

Most people have heard of the Test of Time challenge, which got me thinking about bygone eras….of CC! So I came up with this challenge to dust off the CC of yesteryear and play the way Simmers of old used to.

The goal of this challenge isn't to be restrictive or particularly difficult, the goal is to simply revisit all that old CC and mods that were popular way back in the day; start from vanilla and eventually get to the modern age of custom content and modding. This challenge can easily be played alongside a lepacy but is not required.

Every generation includes 2 full years of CC and mods to browse through starting from the game's release. You can play however you want to, you can start with a premade hood in a premade family, you can make your own founders, play rotationally or legacy, you can even try to find one of the oldest custom hoods ever made, it doesn't matter, that part is up to you :) I've also included some optional goals for each generation.

Generation 1 - The Founders

Vanilla only! No CC is allowed in this generation, to cleanse your palettes of CC. All mods that do not directly fix your game are not allowed. Anything you use to make the game playable is acceptable, but anything else is not! Mods that fix things that were broken or taken away or otherwise unusable are allowed. Things like RPC, aging fixes, removal of perma plat, no corrupt death, stuck object remover, rug fixes, etc, are all acceptable, but things like changing your UI, ACR, midge's Romantic Standards, and such are not. Fail safe mods like simblender, memory manipulator, day setter, etc, are all acceptable, as the goal isn't to play a broken and frustrating game, but to see all the CC and mods people used to use! As you progress through the ages, you can begin to add in mods that were popular in that generation's years, like inteen. What you choose to keep is up to you, but keep it in the spirit of the challenge!

Optional: try not to let your sims die, try not to uninstall the game because you miss your mods. I personally cheated my sims in money to really see all the vanilla items and see them in their fullest glory.

Generation 2 - 2004-2005

Simple, but effective

The very first CC and mods were beginning to come out, and you'll be very surprised at what was available even in the first year of the game's release! While a lot of it isn't very pretty, and toddlers, kids, and elders didn't have very much, this is what people had at the time.

Optional: Have your sims live perfect lives. The game had just come out and most people were still exploring the game.

Generation 3 - 2006 -2007

Year of the Emos, ball gowns, and more

This is when things really start to get fun! A massive influx of CC and mods were beginning to come out, and a lot of it you might still be using to this day. This was also the era of emo/scene styles, and the beginning of sims stories and machinima. You'll also start to recognize some very familiar meshes!

Optional 1: Your teens become orphans! Somehow, in some tragic way, your teen's parents die, leaving them all alone, and he/she also becomes a teen parent. This was really popular back then, don't look at me. It's also extremely important to marry in a face 1 sim.

Optional 2: Make your own sims machinima or story! Go back in time and dig up some of those old videos on Youtube. Watch as people put their sims through it all and try to recreate that feeling. It doesn't need to be the best video or story ever, but have fun following the trends of this time period and recreating those feelings :) Also gives you an excuse to use all the smeared mascara makeup people made. Maybe a story about a teen getting dumped at prom, or some poor sim gets run over for no reason, a teen becomes an orphan or gets pregnant, go wild!

Generation 4: 2008-2009

Year of the…Celebrities?

There is so much CC in this time period to create ultra realistic sims, including celebrities! This is one of my personal favorite eras of CC

Optional: Go big or go home. Your sims live the life of luxury! They live in a giant mansion with everything they could ever want, Desperate Housewives style. Your sims start drama, get into petty cat fights, plot, steal, cheat, and otherwise live the life of a spoiled housewife/husband.

Generation 5: 2010-2011

The end of Sims 2 but not the end of CC….mostly

The Sims 2 might have ended, but people still created CC and mods! You'll start to see more modern mods coming out, ones that you probably use today to spice up your game. Things are a lot more chill in this era as people made stuff that fit all types, there's a lot less photoskinning going on, and the ultra shiny hair starts to phase out. There's honestly not a lot around this time, I guess most people had moved on to Sims 3, so it's slim pickings for clothing. Paris Hilton and emo kids are out, much more "normal" and less "socialite" is in.

Optional: make a love story to rival Twilight! Twilight was all the rage, and it could be seen reflected in sims stories across the world.

Generation 6: 2012-2013

What even happened this year?

CC only continues to reflect a more modern era, mods get more and more advanced, but the playerbase is more and more fractured. Challenges are more popular, toddler clothing previews get weirder, but there really isn't much else. Machinimas were replaced with actual feature length videos years ago, but they're still going strong.

Optional 1: Your sims go broke, losing everything. Reduce funds to zero, move into a smaller house, and start a new career. It'll make sense later, promise.

Optional 2: The Hunger Games exploded! Create a fun mini challenge where you pit your sim against other sims to fight to the death! Hope your sim has siblings in case they lose :)

Generation 7: 2014-2015

The Comeback Kid

The Sims 4 comes out and with it….conversions! There's still CC being created in the more traditional fashion as well, conversions don't take off straight away, but they do start.

Optional: Your sims make a huge comeback if they went broke in the previous era! Cheat in some funds to give them a nice blue suburban house and some extra cash to cushion things.

Generation 8: 2016-2017

The End of an Era

2017 is the last that time anyone uploaded something for the Sims 2 on The Sims Resource. Please give a moment of silence for this tragedy. There are over 5000 pages of CC for females alone on TSR, half of the first page of ALL Sims 2 downloads are from 2016-2017. Over on MTS, there are over 500 pages of CC for females, the last 17 pages cover 2016 to 2023. You realized generations ago that there are hundreds of dead sites dedicated to Sims 2 CC that are lost forever, and the two Big ones aren't doing much better when it comes to this version of the game. But I'm also sure that you know that most creators have moved on to other sites, mainly Tumblr!

Optional: Don't let go, keep the dream alive. Don't use any 4t2 items and stick to what you have. Only download things made in the traditional sense for the game, and continue to use older CC. You're not ready to move on yet, in rememberance to all those amazing creators from the past.

Generation 9: 2018-2019

The Start of Something New

I'm sure you miss your pretty, uncrunchy, modern CC, and we're almost there! But there's still some stuff left to look at in these years, stuff that we've all seen before. Stuff that I'm sure you have defaulted in your normal saves somewhere. Go grab all that stuff and mix it right in with your 4t2 items.

Optional: This is the year of strict wants and rotational gameplay for reasons unknown (but you can guess). Load up your ACR, crank those settings up, and only play strict wants based. Calculate everything, hope for your sims to autonomously do something, or roll for it. You're hands off, baby, let your sims take control.

Generation 10: 2020-2022 and beyond

The Modern Era

You made it! You've traveled back in time, dusted off those crunchy textures, and got to see what people of yesterday were playing with. Did you find things you like? Things you'll be incorporating into your downloads folder from now on? Do you have a new appreciation for modern CC? I certainly hope so if you stuck it out this long!

The rules are pretty flexible, as the whole point of this is to look at all the old CC created way back in the day. When it comes to mods, anything that fixes something that was broken in some patch are allowed, and mods that do something to a pack that was released after the year that you're on are also allowed. Examples include mods that fix butler behavior, pets, landlords, apartments, etc, are all fine. But if you're in Gen 1, ACR is not allowed, if you're in Gen 2, UI mods aren't allowed, and so on.

It's up to you to decide what mods you want to use, but keep the spirit of the challenge in mind. Don't put in things like 3t2 traits or planting overhauls or things that are clearly from Sims 4 game play. Try to think about what people of that year were playing with and try to play with those too. The one big exception I've allowed is Uni semester changes after gen 1, because the mods they had at that time are unreliable and often crashed the game.

[teaaddictyt]

Good morning (from Australia), just an update for everyone that Sims2Artists is now rehosted and accessible once again. The site is being cleaned up and will likely go down again for a major update later down the track, but first priority it GOS.

As to GOS itself, all files have been secured and are in good hands. Still "running into many interesting and varied errors" while trying to update 😱🙈 but the main news is that things are moving.

Just a reminder I have pretty much nothing to do with any of this, I'm just the messenger but I'll certainly post as many updates as I can to keep everyone in the loop 😊

Cheers, Tea xo

[platinumaspiration]

4t2 EP21 Royalty & Legacy + SDX040 TPain 🫡

Wow, thank you so much for the positivity on the WIP post! I hope it lives up to expectations. If any issues, please let me know!

Download All - LC | SFS | MF

Pick n Choose - SFS | MF

details under the cut:

Braid Pull Through | TF-EF | 3.758 poly Cat Ear Long | CF-EF | 4.894 poly Cornrows | PM-EM | 6.158 poly Curly Short | CF-EF | 3.686 poly Deco Locs | TF-EF | 6.264 poly Formal Head Wrap | TF-EF | elders have own recolors | 1.662 poly Frilly Wrap | TF-EF | elders have own recolors | 3.102 poly Gele | TF-EF | elders have own recolors | 2.078 poly Golden Deco Braids | CM-EM | 8.447 poly Koroba | CF-EF | 5.404 poly Low Bun Rosy | TF-EF| 6.146 poly Mid Wavy | CM-EM | 5.848 poly Quiff | TM-EM | 6.903 poly Royal Puff | TF-EF | 6.358 poly Sculptured Afro | CM-EM | 6.410 poly Sleek Pony | TF-EF | 6.544 poly Slick | CF-EF | 2.744 poly Slick Back Puff | CF-EF | 4.575 poly Versailles Afro | TF-EF | 9.502 poly TPain | CM-EM | +4 ombre | 3.676 poly

[honowo-cc]

i swore i would switch to clay when rl hairs dropped. ;;

[sillysoraya]

I feel like this creation by @alfredaskew needs more people to know about it, love it and use it too! It's a default eye add-on set, which basically means you expand the default eye options in game! They show in CAS with the other default maxis eyes and have maxis-style thumbnails. It's cool as if you grow tired of some eyes you can just edit them and not worry about the drama from removing custom eyes.

AlfredAskew made a bunch of sets using some eye sets, but it's easy enough to edit the files with your own favourite eye sets, which is what I did :D Maybe I'll share them some time. SEE IT HERE

[honowo-cc]

Reblogging this now with the deadsite link

From alfredaskew's Dead Site repository, Originally, all these downloads came from: https://alfredaskew.livejournal.com But is no longer aro

[sims2packrat]

should people @ you if we find the original download links to CC that were uploaded to GOS/s2a before the shutdown? do they count as unavailable cc? just wondering

Hello yolkema! I was just about to make a post about this, hope you don't mind me using your ask :-)

I'm aware of the GOS/S2A situation and I've been lurking. I wanted to see how it all turned out before making a post about it. @teaaddictyt shared an update where she explained that GOS/S2A aren't dead just yet, people are working on getting it up again. I've also reached out to @liquidsims if this is something they would perhaps be able to "mirror" like the old ts2 sites they have done before (if all else fails).

In the meantime, @simnostalgia scraped GOS back in 2023 and you can find it here. I also found this sfs link on reddit. There's also the mediafryer archive. For links, you can plop them into wayback, a lot of links has been saved but not all ofc. I've already stumbled upon some links not archived. To answer your question, yes, feel free to share the links you find!

I've seen people post some links etc already, and I will probably reblog those, and until GOS/S2A are up and running again, I will reply to asks looking for GOS/S2A content. But pleeeease include links* if you have them! Even if wayback hasn't archived it. And if the creator is still active, reach out to them first.

*It makes it so much easier for me, it's already hard enough as it is with Google's fucking (sorry) AI shit. If anyone has any recommendations for working image-search and search engines, please enlighten me.

Also, packrat turns 10 today! I was planning on celebrating with something, but it feels kind of odd doing that right now. But nevertheless, happy birthday to packrat! 🎉

[honowo-cc]

cr1tikal voice: the garden of shadows situation is crazy

[twentyfourfirst-sims]

Garden of Shadows: a preservation effort

Like many of us, I grew up with Garden of Shadows. To me, it was more than just a forum. It was a place I could ask for help, learn new skills and, best of all, find amazing content in any style I could possibly want. I loved the board names, the people, the themes; everything, really.

And I admit I was more than a little heartbroken to find it gone.

After mulling it over, I decided that I wanted to preserve what I possibly could. I spent a few hours yesterday running through strategies and ideas about how to best go about it, and the best I could come up with was, well, exactly the same.

So, here it is: the Garden of Shadows mirror forum.

I've only just started, but I hope to add a little bit to it every day. The primary focus will be on preserving all the knowledge and custom content. I'm tackling it myself, but if you feel so inclined, you're more than welcome to join in.

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PS. I am not here to offend, break Terms of Use, or to step on any toes. This is simply an effort to preserve content and knowledge for a game I have played and loved for over twenty years. Thank you ♥

[simnostalgia]

billie you'll never guess what happened to GoS

I JUST FUCKING SAW, BITCH.

Okay okay, wait let me collect myself.

First, let me say that I'm actually so sad to see it go. It's been a huge part of my time in the sims community. It's a shame that was so sudden. I really loved the community and I think it's a shame that it happened like it did.

With that out of the way.

BITCH, I TOLD YOU. I TOLD ALL OF YOU. I told ALL you motherfuckers exactly what would happen and everyone bitched like "Oh!! Well, WHY would you do this? Especially when it's not like GOS is closing down anytime soon???"

I got hate mail for months. Bitches poured out of the woodwork like "Mmmm I've always hated Billie, just another thing he's done to add him to my shit list" Then HL bitched at me and acted like the scrape cost him a huge amount of case in data usage when that shit was fucking cents on the dollar. I even offered to pay HL back the like 2 dollars that it *may* have costed him to scape.

Well GUESS who fucking took their ball and went home with very little warning?

Garden Of Shadows (CUSTOM CONTENT SCRAPE - SEPTEMBER 2023) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This is the entire site's worth of custom content scraped. There are a few things that you need to know.- This is not checked to see if depe

Here's the fucking scrape. It's missing 2024-2026. I be that stuff can be scraped as well though, but since it'll have to be done through Wayback it's gonna take time.

[simnostalgia]

Simscave 01 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

SimCave

The news of what happened to GOS makes this a good time to mention, probably, something that I didn't mention earlier because of the hate I received when I scraped GOS.

But I also scraped SimCave.

[honowo-cc]

so gos is dead dead :( i think we can salvage mods from the wayback machine but so much isn't the same

[spell-bloom]

why is every essential sims website just down? GoS, MATY and cyjon's??? good lord

[honowo-cc]

the paid modder crashout will be studied for generations