Permanent Quarter-Tile Placement On!

Just wanted to share a tip I know about how to make the Quarter Tile Placement Cheat on all the time so you just have to press Ctrl + F when you want to use it without having to type in a cheat each time.

Many of you may know that adding “setquartertileplacement on” to your userStartup.cheat doesn’t work, so I’m going to tell you where you can put it that does work, in case you didn’t already know!

So, head to Origin Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Fun with Pets\SP9\TSData\Res\Config and open up the file called “globalProps.xml” with a text editor, I recommend Notepad++. You should probably make a backup of this file first before making any changes, just in case.

In this file, scroll to the bottom and you should see a line that says:

<AnyBoolean key=“quarterTilePlacementEnabled” type=“0xcba908e1”>false</AnyBoolean>

Simply change the false to true and save the file and that’s it! The Quarter Tile Placement cheat will always be on without you having to type it in ever again! Simply toggle it on and off with Ctrl + F!

Hope that helps at least someone! I was telling my friend @morepopcorn​ about this trick and I couldn’t find the website where I initially read about how to do this anymore so she suggested I should make this post as it might not be common knowledge.

I knew this was possible, now I know how

eight's Aspiration Calculator + Personality Coder For the Sims 1 and the Sims 2

I'm reposting because I made some updates! But the link will stay the same for as long as I can help it.

Here is a version for when you're referencing The Sims Wiki. The displayed order of interests is changed, but it functions the exact same and the personality codes are interchangeable with the original version.

Feel free to use/copy/edit/share/etc. To use, simply make a copy of the spreadsheet where you are the owner. More info under the cut.

Pink Flashing Research Part 2

I've done a bit more research and testing on the subject of pink flashing (Thanks to everyone from my Discord who contributed!)

I came up with a "duct tape", temporary solution for Mansion & Garden players, in the form of an ASI mod, available with instructions under the cut.

Let me know how it goes! This won't fix crashes and won't work in every case, but people have seen improvements. Hopefully we'll get to the bottom of this at some point. I might make it a part of RPC eventually.

Hi guys! Since this Sims 2 community is so wonderful about sharing information and resources, I wanted to make some small contribution of my own with something I hadn't seen around before.

Mirrors have definitely tripped me up in the past and I know that's the case with others too, but once @thimblesims kindly gave me a couple pointers I actually realized they're really easy if you already know basic converting, just a little fiddly!

So this tutorial will walk you through the mirror-specific steps of converting from TS4, in the way that seemed most efficient to me. It's likely transferable to other mirror related applications besides just 4t2 but that's what I am doing so that's how it's geared. It's sort of part "understanding how mirror packages work" and part step-by-step instructions.

Feeling a little silly posting a tutorial since I'm such a beginner myself, but hopefully being able to write it out in detail while I'm still in a beginners mindset myself will be helpful to some! I find step by step tutorials that really spoon-feed me the information SO important for how I learn new things.

Tutorial is in PDF format so you can save a copy for yourself (my own tutorials folder is getting bigger and bigger).

Download

( @sims2tutorials )

Here’s a mini-tutorial on

how to use SimPe to check CC inside Downloads (or any other folder) for GUID conflicts,

and tips on how to find GUID duplicates inside merged files

It’s best to make backup copy before changing the conflicting GUID or removing any resources from merged file. And also..

Check CC for conflicts BEFORE you go and merge everything into one giant fireball 🔥

Note: Scanning can take a long time if you have old HDD / tons of CC. SimPe will not start scanning until it loads the content, so it might seem like it froze completely. And sometimes it does.. hard to tell, so it’s best to wait. If you suspect particular merged file contains something that conflicts with TS2 object, drop it in an empty folder and point the Folder Scanner to it. Then it will only get screened for conflicts with TS2 object files (and stuff inside that file ofc).

Common symptoms of GUID conflicts: strange recolours, TS2 objects visible on lots but missing from the catalogue, CC not showing in catalogue.

FYI Broken Bookcase doesn’t conflict with TS2 stuff, it was just used as an example  ;)

ts2 edited graphicsrules.sgr + patched executables

since @vidcunds deactivated their simblr, which had a great tutorial on how to edit the graphicsrules.sgr file by hand to make it (hopefully) work with modern PCs,  I uploaded my personal graphicsrules files (for both the game and body shop).

this contains the following changes:

also included are executables for both ts2 and body shop that have been 4gb-patched.

download and more important info under the cut.

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re-blogging to keep this easy to find

It took me the entire day to reinstall the game on my new computer, to make all the adjustements for it to work on Windows 11, find the right settings with the Graphic Rules Maker, and… my game loads twice faster from Windows to neighborhood view, then it loads at least TEN TIMES faster to enter a lot, everything runs so smoothly, even in very heavy CC lots and neighborhoods, with all settings at high, Origin downloading the Sims 4 at the same time, talking to my best friend on Discord, recording a video… like… IS THIS HEAVEN ?! I’m about to cry. Tears of joy of course. But still !

I think the next week (or maybe even the next month) will be about enjoying my game and nothing else. I’m so, so, so happy, you can’t even imagine !

Perhaps you would be willing to share how you made Sims 2 work on Windows 11. There was someone asking for help with getting their game to work with Windows 11. Thanking you in advance 💞

Oh ! I followed a few tutorials actually.

First I did this as usual :https://gardenofshadows.org.uk/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=21931.0

Then the last part of @anibats​​ tutorial (the part about the dxvk file) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac1PyUxKoNU except that I wrote 16384 instead of 8192 in the file she talks about and in the Graphic Rules Maker as I now have 32Gb of RAM.

And I learned something important here to complete Anibats tutorial : https://docs.google.com/document/d/19JMr-FQSU3AlF7Kyvcrr7awTiHBDQSUNLG6qfaI6rOs/edit

That was the only part that was useful to me, but it worth reading it all just in case.

My Graphic Rules settings are exactly these if it helps :

TS2 ULTIMATE MOD - HOSPITAL MOD (Working, Cleaned & SFW) !!! 2021

Made By: Chris Hatch (LEGEND!!)

Edited and Cleaned By: nyamisims and Meduza (HEROES!!)

Your Sims can now give birth to a real hospital and If they are sick they can get well there, With Doctors, Nurses,  Patients  and Visitors !

I Decided to release a complete version of this mod that will WORK and it will have ALL the required files AND WILL BE “SafeForWork” !!! With complete instructions and guide !!!

I finally got it to work ! AND I LOVE IT. it’s the “Sims 2: Hospital Expansion Pack” we never got ! 

DOWNLOAD LINK. 

Instructions and Guide:

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How to make the invisible Espresso machine work with counter islands

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However, there is a trick ! See :

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@lenarosic88​ How you can have this kind od roof?

The roof is made of Greenhouse Roof Pieces by Lethe_s (they locate in columns section). You must put invisible floor tile on top/on the ceiling if you don’t want the rain to flood your house :D I’ve stolen this idea from Vimpse :)

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