Krapulainen, or Remi - they/them - Finnish
The Sims 2 - Maxis match - CC
TOU: You can use my stuff to make more stuff! Just keep it free, no paywall/early access etc., and please tag and credit me so I can see what you've made c:
Make hair and clothing default replacements without wrestling SimPE.
I've always loved making default replacements, but the actual work in SimPE was... well... annoying. So I went looking for a better way to do it, and when I couldn't find one that clicked, I started building my own. 🛠️
This is very much a personal project. I'm sharing it because this community is far smarter than I am when it comes to custom content and default replacements, and I'd rather build this out in the open with your help than pretend I've got it all figured out. So please, let me know about any and all issues you run into.
⬇️ Download / latest version: Up-to-date Download in Discord
More details under the cut 👇
Why I made this
Every time I sat down to make a default replacement, the SimPE workflow felt like more friction than the actual creative part. I wanted something that got out of the way and just let me swap the thing I wanted to swap. This tool is my attempt at that, built for myself first, shared because I figured I'm probably not the only one who feels this way.
⚠️ Read this first: it's alpha
I can't emphasize this enough: this is both a personal project and an alpha program. Please expect things to not work.
I'd happily use this for personal projects, but I'd hold off on creating default replacements you intend to share with the community. Not because the files it produces are bad, but because they may not be optimized or follow every best-practice yet. That said, each update gets better and better.
So: if you want to help improve the tool, share feedback, report bugs, and you don't mind that it's not perfect, this is absolutely for you. 💜 If you want this to be as flawless as your manual SimPE method and you can't stand the thought of hitting a single issue... it's probably best to wait, or just use SimPE for now.
What it does (and doesn't, yet)
Right now it handles hair and clothing. Most of my time and testing has gone into hair, so that's the solid part. Clothing is very much a work in progress. Expect the rough edges to be rougher on the clothing side.
How to download and use it
I try not to gate-keep anything behind a Discord (I personally hate joining a whole server for one single thing). But because this is alpha, I'm constantly pushing out new versions, and the Discord is genuinely the best way to make sure you're on the latest one no matter when you're reading this post.
It's also just easier for everyone: Tumblr is rude as hell and already shadow-banned me once for sending links in DMs, so having a place to chat and report problems directly makes life better for all of us.
👉 Join the Discord here: Up-to-date Download in Discord
A note on what I'm actually asking for
I am not a professional software engineer. I'm a Sims lover who also likes learning new things, that's it. Your help genuinely means everything here. For those of you who are far smarter than I am with default replacements, please send any and all info my way: what works, what breaks, what a "proper" file should look like. I really want to make this a solid, easy tool for default replacements, and that starts with all of us.
So don't be shy. Bugs, suggestions, corrections, best-practices I've completely missed, send them over. 💜
There are too few curly hairs out there, and even less curly hairs with bangs, so as a curly girl I decided to ta saken i egna händer 💃
This is Arcia's Lea hair but with bangs for AF-EF. You can use both my mesh and Arcia's original at the same time. I repo'd half of the textures back to mhairdavid from M&G, which I defaulted using these textures from @y2sims. This means that both M&G and my default are required for my recolor files of the hair to show up correctly. If not using my default, the hair will look weird. Since I defaulted using the textures from y2sims, I re-used y2sims' recolor file, meaning you have to delete their file before installing mine.
Polycount: 1.8K *smiles delightfully*
Texture size: 512x512 (+ repo'd to Maxis' textures)
Animated: yes!
Unfortunately my bangs have some transparency issues I don’t know how to fix. I tried merging them with a variety of groups but it didn't help sadly.
While I was at it, I made *new recolors for Arcia's original Leah hair and repo'd them back to Maxis' textures and to the textures in my edit of y2sims' recolor file I mentioned above. I also repo'd the male recolor file from y2sims' for Acria's male Leon hair, to umhairdavid. Again, I re-used their file so make sure you delete it as well. Basically, if you install all files, you get 3 (4 if you include Maxis david hair!) hairs all using the same textures. If you're confused which files are dependent on what and which files you must delete, there is a clear list included in the download<3
*Using @deedee-sims' recolors as a base, bc for some reason the gray hair didn't show up when cloning using Arcia's files. My files don't conflict with DeeDee's.
^Shitty bodyshop preview of the other meshes from Arcia included in this download.
Other defaults for hairdavid, if they are created the correct way (i.e made with new resources, not replacing the textures like I did in my default), they should be compatible with my default. Oh and also, I merged the AM/EM Leon hair with the TM version (because why have two files when you can have one?) so delete any Leon meshes you might have and replace it with mine. I would love a TF version of Lea and my v2 version (with bangs) but I'm not talented enough to try and do that 🤡
This hair is very similiar to my own hair irl, so I made a second brown recolor matching my hair color. This is included and I've merged every rec for all meshes inside it, so this single file (this specific brown recolor that is) will work with all of the meshes included. I think I have binned it correctly? Do let me know if anything in this download is wonky, I'm sure I have fucked up somewhere haha. Compressed, no mipmaps and all meshes are included with thanks :-)
I've had this hair in my folder since 2021. Everytime I poke at hairs I remind myself of how much I absolutely despise it. You hair meshers/converters/recolorers out there are SUPERHUMAN, I could never!!
DOWNLOAD: SFS
Credits: Arcia for the hair meshes, y2sims + deedee-sims for the textures and files, and lastly Maxis.
Funny how originally The Sims was considered to be a satire on consumerism and late stage capitalism, and 26 years, 3 games, and thousands of dollars in DLC later, it might be getting in-game ads.
Full circle moment if the circle was on fire, and also the portal to hell.
I will admit I don't make CC so I have no idea if it's doable, but what I'd want out of a default face template set is basically like, fixing the glitched faces so when sims age up, they use a consistent template, and making it so different face templates mesh together better, because sometimes the combinations get a bit polygonal in a way human faces don't. But keep as true as possible to the original intent of each template otherwise
I think this is just the Less Gendered Faces I did already, right?
Elder female update to my Less Gendered Faces as I just wasn’t happy with them anymore.
I took the difference between AM>EM, created a WSO f
I have included all the fixes for broken templates. They retain the combined geometry of the M&F face defaults, & the features are height & depth managed so that resulting children don't look too Weird.
There's even an optional, additional, babyface addon here
https://withlovefromsimtown.tumblr.com/post/721127804890218496/download-babyface-an-addon-for-my-less-gendered
I am not usually someone who gets involved in Sims community discourse or public callout-style posts, but this genuinely breaks my heart to see.
A massive amount of the custom content, creativity, and inspiration behind my work on Vermillion Sins came from communities like Garden of Shadows and Sims2Artists. They were huge pillars of the Sims 2 creative space for years.
What hurts most is not even just the shutdown itself. It’s the lack of warning.
These sites were not just forums anymore. They had become archives of nearly two decades of community history: old creators, inactive creators, forum attachments, resources, tutorials, contests, shared knowledge, and years of creativity that helped shape this community into what it became.
A simple “hey, this may go offline permanently soon, please archive what you can” would have allowed people time to preserve pieces of Sims 2 history before they vanished. Instead, so much appears to have disappeared overnight.
And to be clear, I do not think anyone is owed endless unpaid labor or permanent site maintenance. If someone no longer has the time, energy, money, or interest to continue running something, that is completely understandable.
But I do think the community should have at least been given the chance to help. People absolutely would have pitched in through backups, mirrors, technical help, donations, archival efforts, or simply having enough warning to preserve pieces of history before they disappeared.
The Sims 2 community has survived because people cared enough to preserve things. Without archivists, backups, mirrors, and Wayback captures, huge parts of this game’s creative history would already be gone forever.
And honestly, I hope this becomes a wake-up call moving forward. Preservation should matter.
TOUs and repost policies should not become barriers that result in entire pieces of community history disappearing forever the moment a creator or site owner leaves, especially in a community where everything is interconnected.
I respect active creators wanting credit and boundaries. But abandoned content should not be treated like untouchable lost media while the community watches it disappear forever. Communities preserving older Sims games and their content are a huge part of why those games remained alive and accessible long after EA itself had largely moved on from supporting them, and likely played a significant role in renewed interest surrounding things like the Sims 2 Legacy release.
I hope more people begin supporting archival efforts, mirrors, and preservation projects before more Sims history is lost for good.
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.
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?
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.
A frankensteined version of the Moneywell Computer. The main object includes the screen, speakers, keyboard and mouse and it is functional. The case is a separate object and decorative (use cheats to place it under desks). Both objects can be found in the Electronics / TV and Computers catalogue.
Known issues and differences
Sims will play the insert CD animation in the monitor when playing games. I didn't like that so I removed the CD. The animation will still play, but without the CD. Edit to clarify: in this computer.
When the computer breaks, sims will look as though they are repairing the monitor. This doesn't bother me, as broken monitors can sometimes smoke and spark (speaking from personal experience). Sims will turn the screen around when repairing it, their arms might clip through the speakers a bit when doing so.
This is not cloned from Monique's hacked PC as I don't use it. Feel free to make a clone that works with that mod.
The textures were extracted directly from the game files, however Mirror's Edge uses some technological game design stuff I didn't look into in order to display colors on the textures, so none of the extracted ones actually had color, it was all black & white.
In that case, I just used some screenshots I took while playing to narrow down an eyedropped color palette, then I applied those colors to every texture I turned into a TS2 wall/floor.
There's 5 unique walls & 5 unique floors, each in the same 9 colors, amounting to 45 total walls & 45 total floors. All the walls are categorized as Poured, all the floors are categorized as Tile.
🌵 New Mexico – A Custom Neighborhood for The Sims 2 [+Scripted Events]
I am thrilled to finally share my latest project with you: New Mexico, a custom neighborhood heavily inspired by the worlds of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
Step into a sun-scorched desert landscape where the laws are relative, and every Sim has a secret to hide. Experience everything from the high-stakes drama of the criminal underworld to quiet, yet suspicious, suburban lives.
[ DOWNLOAD (ENG) | MAINHOOD ]
[ POLISH VERSION | PL ]
🔍 What’s the Story?
The neighborhood is built around a central mystery involving the Gardeners' Club—a powerful organization rumored to be behind the strange disappearances of local teenagers. Between a corrupt Mayor, a fierce dietary war (chicken vs. vegetables!), and shady business deals, you’ll find plenty of drama to explore.
👥 The Cast of Characters
Meet the legendary families, fully recreated with custom memories, relationships, and skills:
The White Family: Walter, a brilliant but frustrated chemistry teacher, and his family.
The Salamanca Family: Led by uncle Hector, this ruthless clan controls the local "oregano" market.
The Schraders: Meet a tough DEA agent with a passion for minerals and his purple-obsessed wife.
The Pinkmans: Their rebellious son is desperately trying to escape his parents' strict expectations.
Saul Goodman: Albuquerque's most colorful lawyer who always has a "plan."
Gustavo Fring: Cold and professional, he runs a chicken empire as a brilliant front for his revenge ...and many more, including Mike Ehrmantraut, Kim Wexler, and even the crew from High School Musical!
🏘️ Locations
Explore custom-built lots, including:
Los Pollos Hermanos – Perfectly clean tables and a smiling staff hiding dark secrets.
The Dog House – The best hot dogs in town, but the atmosphere is thick with suspicion.
Belize Retirement Home – Is it just a peaceful place for seniors, or where the past finally catches up with its heroes?
Goodman’s Plaza – Paradise for shopaholics and home to a very "colorful" legal office.
Lavandería Brillante – This spotless industrial laundry definitely has nothing hidden in the basement...
⚙️ Technical Information
Compatibility: Created using The Sims 2: Ultimate Collection.
Features: Each Sim has a unique biography and a carefully crafted memory log to tell their story from the moment you start playing.
Important: For the best experience, I recommend using mods that prevent memory loss for townies and allow for viewing furnished apartments. (See ReadMe.txt)
Required content: This neighborhood utilizes items from The Sims 2 Store and Pre-order bonuses. To ensure all lots and Sims display correctly (please remember to delete the IKEA chairs), download the full collection here:
Store - Download
Preorder - Download
As a huge fan of the Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul universe, I’ve put a lot of heart into this project. I hope you have as much fun playing it as I had building it, and that you truly enjoy this journey to New Mexico!
As requested by anon, this is @gryning's edit of the Sims 2 Store Curly Bob hair with added TF, CF and PF stages. Polycount: 2.1k.
When I received the request, @rudhira reached out to me with an already working and optimized all-ages file so most of the credit goes to her, all I really did was tweak the meshes.
Download: SFS / Google Drive
Details under the cut.
The hair is animated. Like all store hairs, you'll find it among Maxis content with no custom star.
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