#ts2 beta

[andrevasims]

Woolworths Exclusive Preview Disc (Source)

Has beta screenshots/trailers/wallpapers/screensavers, a TS1 object set, and installation files for the preview version of BodyShop with a "SIMS2SKIN" (aka Sims2Pack) file that installs 2 package files which seem to be a collection of base game items from almost every category (makeup, hair, brows, clothing, face presets, etc.) that end up over-writing the retail version items while giving them CC stars

[andrevasims]

Promotional render from 2004

(Source)

[a-l-i-s-a]

Wow. A beta hairstyle that they used in almost all of their renders, but cut out of their games (only traces of the dead remained, such as Darleen Dreamer), while a basic male costume, which was never seen on female Sims. Looks interesting. It’s really annoying that they squeezed so much content)

[andrevasims]

Wallpapers made before TS2′s release

Source: Sims Archives

[andrevasims]

It’s a cool extra feature, but at the same time like... The fact this takes so long that they had the foresight to distract you with a game inside the installer (and in 2023 it STILL takes long enough to install that I have time to play it)

Also the answer to question 1 is apparently “Raise cattle” and the answer to question 2 is “Genie” (in TS1 since this is from the base game)

[thesims2psp]

Objects03 Findings!

I recently went looking through simPE and found a bunch of unused/old memory stuff!

Death of a Spouse (i wish this made it in)

Told a Bad Joke (imagine remembering every single time the negative relationship sign popped up IRL)

An old version of the "caught cheating" memory! I was very excited about this one.

And the regular affair memory. I don't know why they made it keys.

Sims would remember repairing an object for the first time.

Grim looks a little different here, is the model the same in the final game?

A broken engagement ring for being left at the altar

And last but not least, an actual bindle that teen sims would have carried while running away!

I will definitely post more simPE finds on this blog sometime

[bruised-pixels]

Interesting Sims 2 Beta screenshots

so if you don’t know on my stream im playing the og sims 2 base game for a legacy challenge and one thing i found fun is while installing, it launched a lil matching memory game and on the side had little screenshots of “sims 2 sneak peek.” but the thing is like... all the screenshots have to be from beta. almost all them either have unused hair/clothes or are just completely changed premades (but still recognizable) so i thought i’d share some findings

first of we have ol’ donny boy in aspiration failure, and he’s still using an unused hair cut that we actually see in the goth storytelling pictures. that’s what first set me off to “omg these are beta images they didnt even update them”

now we have pt9 and if you can look past the compression, his face is actually pretty different. his mouth is much fuller and wider and his nose looks wider, but still flat. he almost looks like the psp version of him (almost).

next we got the curious bros house and idk if ive seen this on other beta screenshot compilations but their house looks much different. It’s even harder to follow, almost more escher like and peep the little addition on the bottom right. it would be so cool if someone could even recreate this.

finally, this one i find pretty interesting bc that is obviously lilith but... that does not look like dirk but its very possible it could be a beta dirk. i infact love it more than his final build version which literally makes him and dustin look like fighting game color swaps of each other.

[thesims1master]