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Simlish Workshop & Bingo Posters
I made these posters for my community center and just now realized I didn't post them back then. Most of them are focused on handicrafts, though there are a few bingo ones too.
They're on Artig, and of course on its great addons (1, 2, 3).
Download (SFS) (alternate)
The files are compressed. I used assets from Freepik, AI was excluded from the search. Simlish fonts by @franzillasims, @ajaysims, @bigbadbunnysims, @simsinlowspace, and @chere-indolente.
4t2 Mooninbrites Walls
I liked these walls from Crystal Creations, but I wasn't a fan of the original molding, so I (re)converted them and added dark moldings and panels by Shasta. Comes in the original 14 colors, and categorized as wallpaper / paneling accordingly :)
Download - Alternate
here's where to find it on windows 10
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 ♥
TS2 Default: AL heavy metal chairs
The Apartment Life heavy metal barstool and dining chair are another eyesore set in the game: they look promisingly grungy, but IMO end up too cartoony for good dive bar vibes. So I've made an alternative!
Worn polyester seats that will definitely stick to the back of your sim's legs.
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.
just checked and this doesn't seem to be a thing on windows 10, looks like you only have to worry if you're using windows 11
What pisses me off the most about there being early access content for paralives is the fact that it’s an INDIE GAME. it’s not a multi million dollar company like EA. It’s an early access indie game and some of you are so fucking greedy for cash that you wanna profit off of it? We already have to deal with this shit in the sims like the community is fucking infested with it and now you wanna do this to paralives when they literally told us that we’d always be getting updates for free???? Loser behaviour. You’re a loser
Okay things I have found out from just two days of playing:
paras have different needs depending on personality. My para is an introvert, so instead of a fun need, she has a "me time" need. Her fiancé (extrovert) has a fun need instead.
You can break up suddenly, amicably or ask for an open relationship
there are meteor impacts???
you can customize posters and photos with your own photos
the paras can PILLOWTALK AFTER WOOHOOING???? Like they talk while cuddling. There are no voice lines and no animations for it yet but I can see it in the queue
you can vandalize the town (other paras don't react to it yet though)
you can change the skin tone of the fuckin PALMS, I have never seen that in a video game in my entire life
the genetics are so good DESPITE the colour wheel. Reminds me a lot of the Sims 2 genetics system, but it additionally has hereditary height and hair texture. Remember how a certain multibilliondollar company kept saying Sims 3 has wonky genetics because of the colour wheel for skin and hair? Clowns.
Build mode? Fantastic. Already.
THE MODDING POSSIBILITIES? PLEASEEEEEE, people will go wild, I already know it (psssst in the game files there are files for different "sspecies", such as humans and... rabbits)
Finally, at long last, I’m ready to start posting some of the recolors I’ve made. As long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to share the things I make for the game, but as a mother of two small children, time has been so limited that I just never got around to it. Now that the kids are a little older, maybe this is finally the beginning…
DOWNLOAD SFS
IMPORTANT: I may have made small changes to the included original mesh (I do that from time to time, and I don’t always remember which ones I’ve edited and which ones I haven’t. Most often I improve the UV map or something similar), so if you already have this mesh in your game (moyokean_DannysDomainPeachsPinkDress_AF_mesh), REPLACE it with the version included in my download if you want the clothes to look exactly like they do in the pictures. There are still some issues with this mesh that I wasn’t able to fully fix — the vertices on the chest area were somehow messed up — but I managed to hide the problems fairly well with the textures.
Dixieland Dress 3t2
It's a drop-waist formal gown with tabard-style bodice and beaded straps. I couldn't decide whether to ditch the gloves, so I just did two separate meshes with the lower arms on a different group so I could use the same texture files to a different effect. Shoes are Uberfam T-straps.
These are Miss Scarlet, Black/White, White, MissPeach, Golds, Blues, Green Black, Greens, Wine, Black/Purple. (Yes, I edited in two Bodyshop screencaps there.) Because of how I made them, the repository version has ALL ten dress textures (plus shoes) in a single repository package for maximum flexibility. You can mix-and-match from there and no matter which variations you want, you can safely delete the ones you don't.
DOWNLOAD with a single texture repository
DOWNLOAD standalone
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Doing a final project in my stats class, we have to pick a subject and collect data on it. We need at least 100 data points, and I figured this blog is big enough that a poll on here could get to that pretty easily!
Doing my project on if it’s more likely to be born in certain months :]
I have gotten the OK from my teacher to collect data using a Tumblr poll, btw. I’m also going to have to send her this post as proof of where I got the data from / proof I didn’t just make up the numbers. So. Behave
Let's get those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.
An odd selection of hairs for guys (requests by anons)
The Nadja hair is a recolor only. I've already recolored the female versions of Nadja and Drag Queen before.
6 natural colors, gray linked to black. Meshes and bodyshop swatches are included, enjoy! :)
Credits: Aharris00Britney, Platinumaspiration, Letomills, Moood, Profesionalpartyguest, Kewai, Digitalangels, Sizz, Simgaroop
Download Aharris00Britney Nadja F2M (2.6K polys) - Alternate
Download Moood N124 (7.9K polys) - Alternate
Download Kewai Drag Queen M (7.8K polys) - Alternate
Download Sizz Pungback (1.3K polys) - Alternate
Object Limit 2: Electric Boogaloo
Good Bad news, everyone!
I have returned from a grueling 48-hour adventure deep within the Maxis mines, and have witnessed unspeakable man-made horrors with my own two eyes — the object limit is very real and there is nothing that can be done to fix it! The end times are upon us!
Okay, I'm being slightly dramatic. It could be fixed fairly easily, but not with a simple patch, and likely not without access to the source code (anyone else tired of hearing that excuse?).
The issue is that the limit isn't localised to purely the Build/Buy menu — it's integral to every aspect of the game that involves objects. Here are just a few examples of the game's functionality that would need modifying to remove the limit:
Sim pathfinding and routing.
Mapping tree tables to objects.
Interacting with objects.
Manipulating objects within lists (reading/writing/deleting them).
Objects being unselectable in the Build/Buy menu was also a result of this limit and I managed to fix it very quickly, but because The Sims 2 is a house of cards with the limit as its foundation, everything started falling apart almost instantly.
"So, what is this limit?", I hear you ask. 32,767. Yes, you read that correctly. The game is only willing to accept object IDs up to a meager value of 32,767. In computing terms, this is the maximum value of a signed 16-bit integer. It can store many more objects than this in a list, which is why you can still see all your 4t2 objects in the catalogue, but it isn't designed to recognise this many IDs and thus can't do anything with them.
Why are integers signing things? Are they famous or something?
'Signed' refers to the fact that these are integers (an integer is just a whole number btw) that can represent both positive and negative values — negative numbers have a negative sign before them, hence the term 'signed'. An unsigned integer is therefore one that can only represent positive values.
While they can both represent the same total of different values, the range of representable positive values differs. Using 16-bit integers as an example:
Unsigned: 0–65,535 Signed: -32,768–32,767
This shows that both can represent 65,536 different values, but the range of positive values for signed integers is half of that of unsigned integers. Object IDs cannot be negative, which means Maxis deliberately chose to use signed integers as a way to cut the ID limit in half.
The cherry on top of all this is that the game is manually converting 32-bit numbers into 16-bit numbers to enforce this limit. This is why I could fix objects not being selectable in the Build/Buy menu easily, as all I had to do was patch out the conversion. Could EA do this across the whole game themselves if they wanted to? I imagine so. But then again, if I had billions of dollars, I probably couldn't be arsed either.
What's an object ID?
An object ID is just a number from 0–32,767 that the game assigns to each new object it places into a list, presumably starting at 0 and incrementing by 1 for the next object. It would appear that CC objects are given IDs first, which is why it was solely Maxis objects becoming unselectable after passing the limit.
Sims and objects are stored in separate lists, but I believe they both contribute to the overall limit. My single piece of evidence for this is that I experimented switching between several hoods and observed that the IDs of objects in the Build/Buy catalogue fluctuated across them. Objects in hoods with subhoods attached had higher IDs than in those without.
What was causing the Build/Buy menu crashes?
The same thing I explained in my original post (the game trying to access null pointers), except the creation of these null pointers was no accident and not the result of something going wrong.
The game merely checks whether the ID for the object it is looking at is above 32,767, and if it is, it deliberately sets the pointer to its address to 0. This would be fine, if it didn't then try and access this nullified pointer immediately afterwards!
I'll cut Maxis some slack here, because surely no one would be crazy enough to want more than 32,767 objects in their game, right guys? How could they ever have predicted such a scenario? (2004 was a simpler time).
Wait, so you were wrong about there not being an object limit? Not so cocky now, are you?
Whoa there, cowboy — hold your horses. If I may direct your attention to this excerpt of an email I sent to @teaaddictyt on the 22nd of April 2026 at 13:42 BST:
As you can see, I was right all along!!!
In my defence though, we thought the crashing was the only thing we had to solve, which is why I missed the completely obvious 16-bit conversion that was occurring within the functions I patched. Unfortunately, I am only human, but I understand if you want to destroy all the spockthewok posters I know you have hanging on your walls...
In light of these new findings, if you want to hear my updated opinion on the existence of the object limit, watch this video.
Is your patch useless?
Yes, but also no. It's not fixing the object limit (I should probably rename it tbh), but it is fixing those annoying crashes caused by it.
At the moment, not having the Build/Buy menu crash when you try and use it is the best we can do. It's up to you which you find more annoying — crashing, or not being able to buy x number of objects in the catalogue. Like the 4GB memory limit, this is going to be an additional constraint we'll have to learn to accept :/
Another alternative would be to join me and the 12 other weirdos who play with no CC, and never have to worry about any of this. No? Oh well, it was worth a try...
Will you ever actually fix the object limit?
If it's even possible without the source code, then not by myself, no.
Because of the number of core areas of the game that would need patching, I don't trust myself not to miss something and have the game explode. Unless someone wants to assemble a modding strike force to try and tackle the issue as a team over several months, I'm not touching it with a 10-foot pole (for your safety and for mine).
Should Maxis go on trial at the Hague for crimes against humanity?
Probably.
Anyway, that's all from me, apologies for the false hope :( One small positive is that I did manage to map out a reasonably large chunk of the game's code while I was frantically searching for solutions, which should make my life easier when looking at your requests. I feel like I need to successfully complete some of them now to make up for this dud!
Will
(Thank god I didn't look at this for my dissertation, I would have failed my degree).
Will forgot to include a screenshot from my email to him where I said,
"My other theory is that it's something to do with 16-bit integers having a max value of roughly 32000 (I can never remember the exact number) and maybe there's some kind of limit there, but I lack the skills and technical knowledge to look into it." Heh.
Ah well. Time to do another downloads folder cull, I suppose...
Seriously dude, thank you so much for really diving so deeply into this and leaving no stone unturned trying to figure it out. I appreciate the hours of mind-bamboozling work. @spockthewok you still have your well-deserved place on Mount Willmore 😄❤️
🎡 TIRED OF PREDICTABLE LIFE IN SIMS?
I put together 150 random things to do – from romantic dates with vampires to going on a spending strike. There's room for drama, silliness, and unexpected twists 😈
Go here
How to play:
Hit the black "Spin" button and see what fate throws at you.
🗯 Works for Sims 2 and Sims 3 – probably also for Sims 4, since the tasks are fairly general 🗯 All expansions are recommended (because the list uses supernaturals, weather, pets, etc.)
Life hack for The Sims 2! (credit to crosimmer on twitter!)
Hi! I’m BoltCore and welcome to my blog! So i was scrolling on twitter and then saw a post by crosimmer saying that you can skip the selecting main menu for the sims 2! So with this your game will just load the hood you want or the lot you want! I think this was introduced for testing purposes and also for showing the demo version of the game at E3 or such!
To “tell” the game to skip the menu and instantly load the hood you wish you just need the game’s shortcut! Then Right-click on the shortcut and go to the target line! Should look like this:
At the target line,press spacebar once and type: (with the “-”)
-load:N001 (for pleasantview)
-load:N002 (for strangetown)
-load:N003 (for veronaville)
-load:E001 (for belladona cove ,the sims 2 apartament life)
-load:F001 (for desiderata valley,the sims 2 freetime)
-load:G001 (for riverblossom hills,the sims 2 seasons)
Then click apply and you can close the window then open the shortcut to see the results! :D
(note that this dosent work with subhoods,only main hoods!)
But that’s not all! You can also load a specific lot! to do that you have to specify the lot adress! For example,to load the goth family you have to type:
-load:“N001;165 Sim Lane” and yes in a lot case you need to put the quotes before the hood s name and after the lot’s name!!!
You can also load CAS (Create-a-Sim) too!,for pleasantview type load:“N001;CAS!” ,the same rule applies!
Again crosimmer is a legend in the sims community <3 xoxo
Anyways i hope you find this quite helpful ! if you have questions please ask!
Follow crossimmer on twitter: https://twitter.com/Crosimmer
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Link to thread:https://twitter.com/Crosimmer/status/1394601339129368577
