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[catandsusim]

SimPE for Mac is HERE!!!

SimPE for Mac now exists! It is a Wine wrapper around the Windows SimPE 0.8.2.11, patched for Mac file paths, loading objects and TXTR files from the Stuff Packs Huge Lunatic extracted, if they are installed in BonVoyage/TSData/Res/Catalog/Bins. Fixed Wine weirdness of not properly displaying the Resource List. Should work on both Intel and M series Macs, but is dependent on Rosetta on Apple M series.

Like all Wine apps, your local hard drive will be the Z drive in the open and save file menus. To get to your Sims 2 folder, you click Z>Users>yourusername>Library>Containers>com.aspyr.sims2.appstore>Data>Library>Application Support>Aspyr>The Sims 2.

It is not uploaded to MTS, because it exceeds the maximum file size for upload. I am working on that. The wine wrapper makes this a large app. Like 1.2 gig. I went through becoming an official Apple developer and getting the app approved, so MacOS won't complain and refuse to run it. You can download the .dmg now from my github. https://github.com/rhiamom/SimPE-Mac-Wine/releases

One year of my life, well-spent! And please, don’t just like this, please please reblog it!

[lamare-sims]

Check out @catandsusim blog, especially if you’re a Mac user 👀

[chrisnewbie]

Hello and Happy New Year! How did you get the residential cars to stay on your Silver Rocket Service Station lot? I am building my own, but the cars disappear when I rezone it back to a community lot. Thank you!

Happy New Year! :)

I didn't do anything special, just used the MoveObjects On cheat. But I've only ever built the Silver Rocket as a residential lot, so if you want real (functional) cars on a community lot you'll need a mod or some other workaround. For example, you can hunt down car statues as decoration.

One mod you might find helpful is Build/Buy Enabler on MTS. This mod unlocks Build/Buy mode AND sim inventory on community lots. However, it doesn't change item availability meaning you can't access residential items on community lots and vice versa. Since cars are considered a residential item, this mod won't save you BUT with a little trickery you can fill your sims pockets with cars then place them on the community lot. Cars placed this way won't function properly but it makes a good shortcut for storytelling purposes.

Hope this helps! Happy simming!

[chrisnewbie]

Reblogging because I found myself coming back to this question. A storytelling scene I'm working on for Whibley presented the same problem: How do I get cars on community lots? But I had no issue using the changelotzoning cheat to solve this:

Steps: 1. Start with a residential lot. Place your cars. Save. 2. Enter cheat: changeLotZoning community 3. Save again, then exit lot. Your next reload back into the lot will complete the process. 4. Enjoy your community lot with cars on it!

The cars are not functional, as my boy Brandon W. is demonstrating for us here. The cars are essentially statues with no interactions. Sims will walk around, but that's it.

One requirement of the cheat is that you need the University EP, but other than that I'm unsure why cars are disappearing if you're building the Silver Rocket per the steps above, @letthemeatcake8 . If anyone has suggestions for us, share in the comments of this post please. :)

[belladovah]

Paralives Mod: Wants Don't Clear

I made a mod for Paralives which stops wants from being cleared when Paras go to bed each night, so they're still available to work on the next day. This adds a lot more incentive, purpose and direction to gameplay for me personally. I love how there's always wants active in The Sims 2 so that's what I'm going for. You can always manually delete ones you don't want anymore to make space when you get to pick a new reaction to an emotion. I learned after making this that you can actually stop one want from clearing by pinning it, but I'd rather be able to keep as many as I currently have and besides, remembering to pin one every day especially in large households could get tricky/annoying. So, I thought others might want this mod too to keep all of their wants.

Download on the Steam Workshop

[belladovah]

UPDATE:

This mod now requires my new mod, Always Show All Available Wants as a workaround for the issue of new wants not being offered. It seems like (maybe since a game update?) when the game is working out whether to allow wants to be picked, the clearing must have happened. This is not currently a clear or moddable feature and there's no other way around stopping wants from clearing when Paras sleep as far as I can tell. I'm hoping this will change in an update. But, this workaround mod will ignore those restrictions and cooldowns so if you use both together, you'll still be able to pick new wants, as well as having more wants to choose from when picking a reaction to an emotion.

[simnostalgia]

Garden Of Shadows - All Custom Content

I've successfully scraped all of the available Custom Content that was linked on GOS from Mediafire, Box, and SimFileShare. (Mirrors on 4shared not included)

Of course, I can't go back in time to retrieve things that are already long gone but here's a .zip of 49 GBs of content. This is everything from the beginning of GOS to September 2023.

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

[millicent-bystandr]

Changeable Game Boards

I love @jacky93sims invisible chess board and I'm planning to use it everywhere all the time. But what if it was easier to switch the game board?

So I present...changeable game boards!

With one board, you can choose between all the options Jacky converted from ATS, plus two from @decat2's ACNH conversions.

All the games are included in the download. The alternate games don't show up in the catalog to eliminate clutter, but you need all the files for it to work.

Unfortunately, changing the model this way removes the ability to change the recolor, so it's one option each. But I did change the GUIDs so they don't overwrite the originals if you want the recolor options. You'll just have to place those the old-fashioned way.

Download: Simblr.cc | SFS

Enjoy watching your sims play something other than chess! :)

Thank you to: @jacky93sims for the Invisible Chess Board @decat2 for the ACNH conversions @blueheavensims and HugeLunatic at the The SimForge Discord for pointing me to the dynamic menu tutorial (and @picknmixsims for making that video) and for trying to help me get the recolors working.

[somedaythesun]

TS2 Defaults: Less silly undersea objects

I'm usually forgiving of TS2's goofy aesthetics, but the Family Fun undersea set has always bothered me to no end. That chair alone is an eldritch object of horror, something that only Cthulhu could love.

So! I made some replacements.

No judgment if you like the originals, but I thought I'd share in case other folks would like less bonkers options.

For the chair, I've defaulted in 4ESF's Dining Chair 2 (with polycount greatly reduced by me). I thought this kept the whimsy of an ocean-themed room, but made it cute enough to be used in other contexts.

Same with the desk (I couldn't look at that ugly unicorn horn/shell thingie anymore). This one is from Simcredible's Beachy office set. I did try to add back in some drawers, but I ended up preferring the cleaner/more streamlined desk.

Next...that bed.

I swapped in the 4t2 Anti-Goblin bed mesh by PlatinumAspiration and shrunk the seashell to be a decoration on the head and the foot of the bedframe. I think it looks cute and on-theme without being so bananas.

And the end table: I dislike the goofy wiggles, so I shaved them down and rebuilt the cabinet to be more of a straightforward shape. Less exciting, but more realistic.

My eventual goal is to default/simplify the two undersea dressers as well, but they're more complicated since they animate.

More defaults to come!

Download here

Let me know if you have any issues, and I hope you enjoy :)

[belladovah]

Paralives: 5 Must-Have Mods

Just 48 hours after release, I had already found 5 mods for Paralives that I consider absolutely essential!

Watch the showcase video here:

Check out my web post here:

Paralives: 5 Must-Have Mods

My Must-Have Mods for Paralives within 48 hours of release!

which contains the links to download all of the mods individually as well as a handy collection to download them all in one click!

Also keep an eye on my Paralives Mod List page which I'll be dynamically updating with the mods I'm using as I install more.

[peanuttysims]

unhidden maxis objects (reinstallation recommended)

for a while i'd been using objects.package modified by me to unhide objects that sims use during interactions and it's now a MUST HAVE for me when it comes to no cc decorating!

initially i posted a whole modified objects.package, but @simnopke suggested i make an override mod instead, so i did! anyone who has downloaded the previous file can bring back their backup or download one someone posted here and then proceed to download the new mod, as modified objects.package isn't needed anymore :)

DOWNLOAD

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS READ PLS!!

the file goes into Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Mansion and Garden Stuff\TSData\Res\Catalog\Bins (if you have Ultimate Collection or Legacy Collection the Mansion and Garden folder is called SP9)

enjoy :3

21.02.2026 - first update - added fish, utensils, crops, trash/leaf piles, weeds, roaches, etc; to change a crop's quality use testingcheats -> shift + right click on the crop -> change material (works only on some crops, not all, but that's outside of my control)

02.04.2026 - second update - properly assigned categories to objects, those that don't fit any category can be found in decorative -> all

[simsionic]

This is the first sims cc I downloaded this year! Definitely a must if you like clutter

[dacrystalsim]

TS2 to TS3 Object Conversion Tutorial - 2026 Edition

It is here, TS2 to TS3 conversion tutorial 😊

You can find the tutorial on MTS. Or if you prefer as a PDF from SFS.

Feel free to ask me if something is unclear and good luck with your CC creations! 🥰

[veronavillequiltingbee]

Lighting Mod Ultimate Collection

(yes it's a reference to the ultimate collection because...it is indeed an ultimate collection)

The Lighting Mod Ultimate Collection is a lighting mod/framework that allows players to switch lighting configurations on a lot-level basis.

Now, the game itself already utilizes lot-level lighting as far back as Nightlife for Downtown lots, and some lighting mods have combined this with the usage of cheat aliases to use different lighting configurations that potentially suit different lots of neighborhoods, or using different lighting color definitions (as in Cinema Secrets's implementation of World Lit by Fire), or the lighting direction changes in Maxis Match Lighting Mod.

However, Lighting Mod Ultimate Collection takes this a step further and features five lighting mods in one setup. This means one installation and you can switch from one config to another on the fly.

INFO AND DOWNLOAD LINK HERE

[fireflowersims]

More random Sims and modding stuff because I still don't have a functioning PC (yet):

Everything in The Sims 2 is objects. Sims are objects, objects are objects, interactions and tokens are objects. It's all objects and if you're clever enough you can run object's A code on object B

Keep track of Temp 0 when working on BHAV's. A lot of primitives and (semi)globals will store data in it so store it in a local or 3 when you do a lot with temp 0. When the needed data is put in temp 0, transfer it to a local or just anything that isn't temp 0

If you're putting temp 0 into param x, remember that the temp 0 being used when param x is being utilized in your BHAV, is not the temp 0 as it was when you called that BHAV, but temp 0 as its current state in the stack. Simply said: if in BHAV A, temp 0 is 45 and you call BHAV B inside of BHAV A, then if you then do some data operations that use temp 0 and change it to 36, then when you call param x after doing so, the temp 0 represented by param x isn't 45 but 36 (this would work better as illustration). Aka: using a temp as a param, means your param behaves the same as any temp. Param x := temp 0 means "param x is just temp 0 wearing a fake mustache"

The Sims 2 uses a temperature range between -100 and 100 and using a lua call, you can retrieve the current temperature and use it for your own evil purpose

When using the manage inventory prim, be sure to clear the index when looping through

You can totally just work out your BHAV on paper when your pc is shitting bricks

You can have more than 4 params for a BHAV, you just can't configure them using the wizard so it's not that useful in practice

Motive decay modifiers are most often configured using code that came with FT, so it's not MAC-compatible

Test your code on Anygamestarter running a Super Collection configuration if you can get it to work.

Use EP checks to make things MAC-Compatible

Trouble resetting a Sim? Are they having weird stuck SFX and are they on their home lot? moveobjects on, delete the Sim, save and reload the lot. The Sim will show back up. I used to use it as a type of "maxmotives" back when I only had the Basegame. It works.

Use expression Graphic and the Refresh prim to change an object's visuals by pointing them to other Scenegraph resources. Honestly worth a tutorial. It's cool

[kayleigh-83]

By popular demand (I saw two people asking) I thought I would throw together a quick guide to using the road editor tool in the newest version of SimPE! You'll see that this is a very easy tool to use, and best of all, goof-proof. If you do mess up (you probably will) it's very, very easy to correct.

Very, very, very important to make a backup of your hood before you ever do any tinkering in SimPE! I also recommend practicing on a test hood you don't actively play in to get a feel for it before you do anything to your main hoods.

We're starting with a vanilla Strangetown. I would recommend going in your game and taking a nice overhead screenshot of the hood like this first to look at for reference of where everything is situated the way that you're used to looking at it.

2. Open SimPE, go to Tools> Neighbourhood> Neighbourhood Browser and open the hood you're wanting to work on. If you're not so familiar with SimPE, opening your hood can take some time. Touch nothing until it's loaded!

3. Once it's all loaded, from the Resource Tree list pick Neighbourhood Terrain Geometry (NHTG). Then you'll see one file populate the Resource List - click that. Make sure on the bottom that you have Plugin View tab selected.

4. Now you should see this map of your hood pop up! There are different things you can toggle, I like to check the Show Lots box when I'm editing the roads. Then click the Road Editor button on the right.

5. To be able to see better, I've pulled this Plugin View window up a bit - it may rearrange the Resource List and Resource Tree windows a bit to accommodate. You can also press the Zoom 2x button to see closer, and then you'll have to use the scroll bars to move around the map and the road editor tool.

6. The road editing tools here will be placed down in the same orientation as the map. So the two parallel roads running through Strangetown from this perspective are the vertical straight road pieces (top row, second from left).

When you select a road tool, above it will indicate which tool you have selected.

Also - I recommend having Handle Stop Signs ticked.

7. Once you have the correct type of road selected for the spot you're working on, simply click on the map - it lays it down one tile at a time. If you miss a spot like shown here, just fill it in.

8. If you want to create an intersection, first delete the section of road where the intersection will go.

9. Then choose the type of junction for the intersection you're making, and add that piece in. You'll see a red circle appear (unsure if this is because it's an intersection or because you have handle stop signs selected, but I recommend you do have that selected either way).

10. Once you're done making all your changes, click Close Editor.

11. This is the part where you save your changes! First click Commit in the top right of the editor. Then, File> Save!

12. Load your game to check! Looks pretty good with all those new roads!

13. However, we have indeed made some mistakes! Which were absolutely for illustrative purposes and not truly an accident.

14. Never fear! Simply reload the hood in SimPE - I've deleted the spot where the T-junction should go and added one in, and deleted where the road just ended abruptly and added a proper end piece.

I have not experimented with what happens if you try to build a road through hood deco - if you have, please let us know in the comments how that went!

I also have barely touched the terrain editing tools, so that's outside the scope of this tutorial.

I hope this helped!

[jacky93sims]

Invisible Chessboard & Board Games - for The Sims 2

I made an invisible chessboard as a new object (not default) so your sims can "pretend" playing multiple games.

It looks like an OMSP with an invisible recolor. The arrows will help you place the two chairs correctly.

First, place it on the ground together with two chairs. After they slide into position, you can place one of the deco board games I converted (or any other deco board you already have in your game) on a table of your choice. Then place the table on the square and voilà! Even the chess pieces will be invisible.

You can find the deco games under Hobby-Miscellaneous. I also converted some of the game boxes. The invisible chessboard can be found in the same category as the original chessboard.

Board games are from Aroundthesims, low poly.

DOWNLOAD HERE

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If you want to support my creations, you can send me a donation with Paypal or Ko-fi ☕ If you want to ask for a Paid Commission, HERE you can find more details. Thank you ❤️

[freezerbunny-sims2]

Tutorial: How to build a stream with lots in The Sims 2

@bayoubashsims​ asked me how I made the stream in my recreation of Magic Town in TS2, and I said I would write a tutorial. I’m not very good at writing them but I tried. Let me know if I missed anything.

Keep reading

[jacky93sims]

Coastal Bathroom Set for The Sims 2

This is a 4to2 conversion from PixelVibes, I lowered the polycount. All recolors and a collection file included.

DOWNLOAD HERE

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If you want to support my creations, you can send me a donation with Paypal or Ko-fi ☕ If you want to ask for a Paid Commission, HERE you can find more details. Thank you ❤️

[freezerbunny-sims2]

Download: Moneywell y2k computer

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.

Polycounts

Case: 231 faces Peripherals: 1192 faces

Download (Google Drive)

[lamare-sims]

Bigger Selection Dialog Window

Download

Special thanks to @lordcrumps for making maxis and clean ui pics and counting pixels with me. It was his and @simnopke's idea to make this thing bigger

Some behind the scenes under the cut

Stage 1, breaking out of the tiny window

Stage 2, figuring out how to mod UI again

Stage 3, going big! But not quite there yet

Stage 4, "should I move it 1 more pixel to the left"

🤓

Secret bonus version for behind the scenes viewers who think that smaller is better, available exclusively and only in starship colors (you can only have one version)

Download 4x4