Just another Sims2CC archive

Credit due to all the amazing modders who took time to create these amazing mods. None of these are mine. Also, shoutout to pleasantsims who made an amazing list filled with so many essential mods for a better game. Most of the ones i use are from that list.

Anti-Corruption Mods; mods that will help you prevent neighborhood corruption. these are a must have!!

No Corrupt Death : suppresses the corrupt death memory.

No unlink on delete : when moving tombstones, the game no longer deletes the sim in question.

Anti-Redundancy : elimnates spawning of unnecessary redundant NPCs.

Sim Blender : ultimate sims 2 management item ; acts like a “god” / IS A MUST HAVE.

Toddlers:

Baby bottle replacement : replaces the ugly green bottle with a clear one filled with milk.

Accessible toddler high chair : global mod that allows sims to access any high chair from left & right sides. custom chairs work as well.

Build & Buy Mode:

OMSPs : allows you to place more decorative objects in more places.

Rug Texture Fix : fixes the wonky ugly textures that happen to rugs when places off-grid in game.

Television Placement Mod : allows you to adjust the placement of tvs, can be moved up and down on walls like paintings.

Walk-Through Blocks : allows sims to walk around and through objects; useful for small lots.

Business Mods:

Business Mod : fixes a ton of issues with Open for Business. Get this only if you’re interested in starting a business with your sim.

Townie Budget Mod : townies no longer are able to pay for things they cannot afford. adds to realism.

Computer Mod:

Monique’s Hacked Computer : allows online shopping, sims to have bank accounts, and much more.

Education Mods:

Semester Changes : makes University 8 days instead of 24; if you’re interested in making semesters smaller for faster playthrough

Faster Homework : finish homework in 15 minutes instead of an hour.

Fix Mods:

Extended Family treated as Family : allows the game to recognize second cousins, first cousins once removed, great grandparents, great grandchildren, and great aunts and uncles as family members. No more dating distant relatives!

No Sim Loaded : removes useless “sim loaded” tokens and other garbage that slows down your game and causes lag.

Pescado’s Apartment Hack : fixes a lot of issues with apartments.

Smart Beds : forces the bed ownership system in the game to actually work. Sims will autonomously use the bed they have the most ownership of.

Hobby Mod:

Professional Blogger : sims who have maxed out enthusiasm in a hobby will earn money during the time they blog.

Job Mod:

Level Numbers Added to Job Titles : adds the job level next to the job title in menu screens. Very handy for quickly seeing what level your Sim is at in their career.

Memory Mods:

Memory Manipulator : the Memory Manipulator allows you to edit the memories of the currently selected sim. Now you can edit memories directly through an in-game menu

Met New Great Grandchild Memory : this mod gives the memory of meeting a new great grandchild.

Misc Mods:

Watch TV from All Chairs : allows your Sims to watch TV from chairs facing any direction at least 10 squares back from the TV – even if they’re facing sideways or at 45-degree angles.

Marriage Last Name Chooser : allows you to choose the last name of two Sims getting married.

Camera Mod:

Gunmod’s Camera Mod : necessary to view your skies and skylines. Allows you to view the far edges of your hood and have a top-down view, plus many more camera angles.

Pregnancy Mods:

Pregnancy Relationship Change : for when a sim’s pregnancy first shows and those around her realize she’s pregnant. Allows a Sim to figure out a baby is not “his” if he has high enough logic skill points.

Quiet Pregnancy : no longer get the pregnancy chimes after try for baby. Pregnancies will be a surprise!

Young Adults Can Enjoy Maternity : this is a suite of mods that allows your Young Adults to get pregnant and have babies in University, plus a host of other functions.

Relationship Mods:

Autonomous Casual Romance (ACR) – allows your Sims to autonomously woohoo, try for baby, make booty calls, and perform a whole host of romantic interactions. gives your Sims more freedom to make their own romantic decisions and creates a lot of drama and fun in your neighborhood. Highly recommended! It’s one of my favorite mods.

Just Be Friends Social : teens and up can ask romantic interests to “just be friends,” and then all crush/love flags between them get cleared.

Skill Mod:

Comm Skilling : controlled sims, NPCs, and townies may gain skills while visiting community lots. Enthusiasm may now be gained on community lots and while visiting.

Townie Mods:

Townie Body Diversity : any spawned townies have a chance of being either fat or fit. Every Sim is no longer thin.

Townie Move-In No Memory Loss : townies will keep all their memories when moving into a playable household.

Must Have Tools:

Sims2Pack Clean Installer : Sims2Pack Clean Installer is a tool, mainly for lots. It categorizes, catalog, and removes content, as well as preview files before installing.

Bulk Rename Utility : Software that lets you rename files ; a lot of package files come with ( ) , [ ] , +, - and even _, files with different symbols can make the game take longer to read and therefore taking more time to load.(if help is needed, leave something on my ask, i’ll help you)

I see a lot of people are sorting out their downloads folders and I thought I’d offer up my advice because I like to think someone might find it useful.

As someone who has actively practiced emotional control for over a decade in a very no-nonsense-no-excuses way to get rid of toxic behaviours, I think Simblr could benefit from a few tips; a sliver of emotional control could solve most issues that blow out of proportion on here. This is aimed at everyone across the breadth of identity and mental health experiences and neurodivergence etc, including the person reading this. I'm not putting this under a cut because I feel this is important and I'm tired of people and their inability to work on themselves or think clearly before speaking.

First off: half-hour rule. Do not touch your phone OR your keyboard for half an hour after you read drama or criticisms that make you very, very angry. Being under the influence of strong negative emotions will skew your train of thought and make you come out with shit that doesn't help anyone most of the time. Things are easier to deal with when your emotions are more settled. If it takes longer than half an hour to calm down, then take longer. You also have to learn to try and identify irrational thought processes as well as general rage responses, they are equally as unhelpful to you. Yes I know this is more difficult to do with certain mental conditions, but I cannot account for the unique mental state of every reader.

You also HAVE to face your own shitty behaviour head-on. You will be tempted to excuse your behaviour for multiple reasons - don't. Don't excuse your behaviour, and don't deflect either. Whether or not there are reasons for what you said or did, the reality is that you still did it. Do not accuse people of bigotry unless they are genuinely being bigoted towards you. Everyone with the capacity to KNOW better needs to learn to DO better. It doesn't help worrying about what kind of reception you get - the internet mob will do as it will, all you can control is your own response to criticism.

Remember that the point of an apology is not to make people like you again, it is to take accountability for poor behaviour. Apologies mean nothing if you are not going to follow them up with improved behaviour. Yes your apology may NEVER be good enough for some people, but again, worrying about reception won't help you. Apologies are accountability for behaviour, there is no expectation upon the other party when you apologise. You may not be forgiven for your mistakes. Keep apologies focused entirely on what you did wrong and the harm you caused, and how you plan to fix these issues going forward. Don't be tempted to blame your accusers for rightfully calling you out on what you did. Also, people may block you. People are allowed to curate their space.

Do not manipulate the feelings of other people. ANYONE can be a manipulator! Being a manipulator is not something limited solely to shitty exes and middle-aged fathers. Forcing people into a corner where all they can do is agree with your poor behaviour or they'll end up looking like the bad guy is manipulation. You can't force people to feel a certain way about your own poor choices, no matter how much you want to.

So we've discussed the accused, now let's move on the accusers, and let's learn when to ditch the torch-and-pitchforks mentality when we come across poor behaviour in the community.

You have to evaluate when anger and callouts are actually needed, such as with repeated proven horrible behaviours, dangerous behaviour, prejudice, harassment etc. And the opposite - when less severe issues arise where you can just block them or be like 'look, what you did isn't right'. If you are criticising poor behaviour, keep the focus on the poor behaviour - DO NOT use it as an excuse to be bigoted against their marginalised identity. And don’t try and cloak bigotry in progressive buzzwords, either. Don't get tempted to 'dunk on' people either, just keep it focused on what they have done wrong. To be honest, I completely understand WHY people have the torch-and-pitchforks mentality. Nobody wants to be accused of ignoring an issue, after all, or not being angry enough. It only makes sense that the expectation to speak up and do enough about a bad person or situation bleeds over into fandom in a way that actually ends up being unhelpful.

It’s also worth mentioning that like any other fandom, people tend to disproportionately jump down the throats of people of colour, especially Black or Arab simmers in my experience of being on Simblr. I've had people tell me 'not to make it about race' on here last time I mentioned this, but clearly it plays a part when it happens in every single fandom. You should not treat people with more vitriol than you would a more privileged person. No-one is immune from being criticised, but you need to not treat marginalised people with more shit than you'd give to someone more like yourself. Bigotry is still bigotry, even when it's covert, even when someone has done something wrong. And I should not have to say this, but do not call people slurs against their marginalised identities either, INCLUDING if you are overall less privileged than that person.

Do not be tempted to post anons' (or anyone else's) speculation about drama situations that cannot be proven. I remember back when a troll Simblr blog was being awful to everyone, and someone on here posted anons' speculations about who was behind the account with zero proof. Don't do that. Don't send death threats to people either, even if you think they really deserve it the reality is they don't solve anything, nor do they say anything about the behaviour of the other person really.

Sometimes there will be a point where no amount of civil discussion will get through to people. At that point, I recommend just blocking. Sometimes there's no point in cyclic discussions. You're always going to encounter people who cannot listen to reason or refuse to do anything about their behaviour and you may as well just block.

Sul Sul!

I was recently asked about my naming conventions and what the numbers mean, they are pack identifiers! So GP01 will be Get To Work etc. But I was asked to compile a list together with them all! So here it is, I also have links to a download link for the conversions if the full pack has been uploaded!

Some will link to lordcrumps.com and some link to friends posts by @platinumaspiration / @tvickiesims etc!

Standard; BG - Base Game FP01 - Holiday Celebration

Expansion Packs; EP01 - Get To Work EP02 - Get Together EP03 - City Living EP04 - Cats & Dogs EP05 - Seasons EP06 - Get Famous EP07 - Island living EP08 - Discover University EP09 - Eco Lifestyle EP10 - Snowy Escape EP11 - Cottage Living EP12 - High School Years EP13 - Growing Together EP14 - Horse Ranch✔️ EP15 - For Rent✔️ EP16 - Lovestruck✔️ EP17 - Life & Death✔️ EP18 - Businesses & Hobbies✔️ EP19 - Enchanted By Nature

Game Packs; GP01 - Outdoor Retreat✔️ GP02 - Spa Day GP03 - Dine Out GP04 - Vampires GP05 - Parenthood GP06 - Jungle Adventure GP07 - Strangerville GP08 - Realm of Magic GP09 - Star Wars: Journey to Batuu GP10 - Dream Home Decorator GP11 - My Wedding Stories GP12 - Werewolves

Stuff Packs; SP01 - Luxury Party✔️ SP02 - Perfect Patio SP03 - Cool Kitchen SP04 - Spooky SP05 - Movie Hangout SP06 - Romantic Garden SP07 - Kids Room SP08 - Backyard SP09 - Vintage Glamour SP10 - Bowling Night SP11 - Fitness SP12 - Toddler SP13 - Laundry Day SP14 - My First Pet SP15 - Moschino✔️ SP16 - Tiny Living SP17 - Nifty Knitting SP18 - Paranormal SP46 - Home Chef Hustle✔️ SP49 - Crystal Creations✔️

[under construction, there's more to come]

This is a list of programs that will make your life easier if you're an avid Sims 2 player. Click on program titles to get download links.

SimPE The most known software for The Sims 2 that lets you edit package files. You can do basic stuff like rename a Sim, change family name, edit Sims' genetics as well as edit/create mods. Don't use if you have no idea what you're doing, watch a tutorial first or back up your neighborhood beforehand in case you mess something up! The newest version also has a terrain editor.

Sims2Pack Clean Installer The best program for installing downloaded lots and Sims. Those don't just go into Downloads, you need to install them!

Hood Checker This program checks neighborhood references and can clean out ones that are broken. Also useful for bringing back lost graves (it's still good to have NoUnlinkOnDelete).

HCDU Plus The Hack Conflict Detector Utility lets you scan your Downloads folder to check if you have any mods that edit the same aspect of the game, so can potentially be in conflict. Also useful to navigate which mods load first (load order is important for some mods to work).

What Caused This When you have 'testingcheats' on, the game gives you error messages if there's something going on. Not all of them mean there's a serious problem, but What Caused This can help you navigate what the source is. Upload the log file (Documents/EA/TS2/Logs) in the program, give it your Downloads folder and it will scan it to look for the culprit. Might give you straighforward information on which mod conflict caused the issue or that you lack Smarter EP Check for a mod that requires it.

Outfit Organiser You downloaded CC clothes that the creator marked as outerwear but you think they don't fit in that category? With this program you can quickly change that! It's also doable in SimPE, but Outfit Organiser is a lot easier to use.

(Alright it's an index, I just had to)

Made it for myself, I might as well share. If there's something I've missed please let me know. This list is being updated, Tumblr is being a pain and updates won't show up on re-blogs. Visit the original post to view the most current version.

CC:

Sims 2 Object Default Database [Discontinued - DW].

Sims 2 Object Default Database [Active - Spreadsheet].

Sims 2 Default Database [CAS].

Sims 2 Hair Database.

Sims 2 CC: Afro Hairstyles.

Sims 2 Shoes Database.

Sims 2 EA Store Items 2016.

Sims 2 Repository Finds [sorted into categories].

Sims 2 Functional Finds [Sorted by function].

Resource list: Clutter and decorative items [massive index at GoS].

SkyBox/Horizons/Skylines Database.

Stories to Sims 2 Conversion Database. [DW Backup]

TS1 to TS2 Conversion/Recreation Database.

TS3 to TS2 Conversion Database [DW Backup].

Sims 4t2 CAS Conversion Archive [EA].

Custom Clothing Conversion Database [Custom - ts4 only?].

Sims 4t2 Build/Buy Conversion Database [EA].

4t2 CC Database Build & Buy [Custom].

The Sims spin-off games to the PC TS2 [&3+4].

TSM-to-TS2 Conversion Database [DW Backup].

Grunge Masterlist Project 2025.

List of Asian Sims 2 Sites With Working Downloads [As of 2017?].

CC Archives:

Sims Cave.

Sims Graveyard.

Liquid Sims - Community Archives.

Sim Archive Project, at The Internet Archive.

The Booty, at PSMBD.

Sims 2 Packrat, on Tumblr [Watch out for the recent SFS Hacking problem].

Ekrubynaffit (a.k.a bestbuild4sims) has re-uploaded a lot of archives of defunct creators. Albums with DL on her pinterest. Mainly build and buy mode, thanks a lot!

Resources:

CEP-Extras List, Huge Lunatic @ Sims 2 Artists.

Several Lists of Maxis Resources for Modding, under Notes. Pick'n'Mix Mods, own website.

Sims 2 Painting Sizes Database.

The Sims 2 Tutorials Database.

Sims 2 GUID Database Revival (Yes I'm shamelessly promoting it).

Update notes are under the cut:

Are you still getting pink flashing in the new age of 2024?

There are plenty of solutions but there is one that ultimately stopped mine

Click here for the tutorial!

*I'm unsure if its compatible with mac

This tutorial is someone else's work, I'm just bringing light to it since it literally saved my sims game.

📩 Simblr question of the day: Who are some of your favourite CC makers and mod makers?

answer in whatever way is most comfortable for you and feel free to share this SQOTD around, make sure to use the hashtag SQOTD and tag me in separate posts ~ 💛

@episims

@lamare-sims

@pforestsims

@tvickiesims

@platinumaspiration

@nonsensical-pixels

@angelapleasant

@fwaysims

@lordcrumps

@rockethorse

@linacheries

@goatskickin

@jacky93sims

@elden-hicks

@crispsandkerosene

@deedee-sims

@madraynesims

@earlypleasantview

@cityof2morrow

@simmer-until-tender

@antisocialbunnysims

@gaypleasantview

@celestialspritz

@yeoldecorprusarium

@shastakiss

@keoni-chan

@rascalcurious

@tony-veis

@ethanmcgregor

@sunmoon-starfactory

@hugelunatic

@lilbabydilljr

@gummilutt

@jellymeduza

and OFC, our late but beloved, Mootilda <3

This is down to my own research, and I'm not saying it is the one and only reason why the game is so broken these days, but I have some points worth mentioning.

So, you're bored one day. You remember this game you had so much fun playing a few years ago, or maybe as a child. It's The Sims 2!

The game has a few issues than from when you last remembered playing, so you search on google for some fixes for the tiny resolution, and among the countless posts you may find, you may find this:

Or this:

(to the creators and players mentioned here this isn't me making a dig at you, i'm just pointing out some cc that could affect the game from working properly. your stuff is all beautiful :D)

Lesya's game is gorgeous!!! Oh, how can I get it to look like that?

So you, with a clean, vanilla (ugly) game you decide to download a few mods she listed, such as:

Skylines by GCKP (you can get optimised ones by me very soon)

Skies by Lowedeus (you can get optimised ones by me here)

Trees by Criquette (you can get optimised ones here)

No More Blurriness by Voeille (you can get optimised snow only here)

Cool! And then you notice some cheats than can give the game that open-world, interactive feel. Even better!

And you shove them into your folder and you boot up the game. Everything's going great!

Until...

You search hundreds of posts looking for the fix. Some recommend 3rd-party tools, but they seem to make the problem worse. You reinstall, finding you only wasted your time. Something has to be causing this, but you'd never guess it'd be the mods everybody swore by.

Well, in fact, it is. Partly.

I've struggled with pink flashing since 2019, when I reinstalled Sims 2 after I got a decent computer for once. I did everything above, searched for fixes, found Lesya's blog which was my primary inspiration. It was through Lesya's guide that I was able to make my game look pretty!

These mods, which are a staple in the modding community, are beautiful indeed... but what if I told you that the reason they're so beautiful, is because they're high-quality. With textures soaring up to 4k, when, hang on--

In 2004, 4k resolution was... probably unheard of. With the leading monitor size being 1024x768, what would be the point of using such huge textures on an engine that was designed for monitors of at least this size? Would you be able to see the detail of 4k on a monitor of that size? Definitely not.

The max visiting sims, okay, a little hit or miss. If your sims are all wearing high poly alpha CC, then it's a problem. If not, good luck.

Then comes the cheats I mentioned. The lot skirt cheat expands the view distance a significant amount. With the mergenhoodflora cheat, that displays more trees. Combining the two, what do you get?

A massive view distance, blinded by trees.

With skies and skylines with large textures up to 4k, and trees with textures up to 2k, The Sims 2 will collapse. It's like forcing an old man with health conditions to do 20 situps, again and again.

It'll overexert him, by the very least. And you're overexerting the game by cramming custom content that is not optimised for the engine TS2 was built on.

So please, next time you encounter the pink soup, please check your CC folders, and research changes and cheats before you put them into your game. You will enjoy the game much more if you do this, and won't encounter this problem so often.

Don't use Graphics Rules Maker

Instead, opt for a maxis original Graphics Rules uploaded here by Veronavillequiltingbee. It's essentially a rewrite of an old tutorial I made a long time ago.

Once you download the file from VVQB, open DXDIAG by pressing WinKey+R and typing 'dxdiag'.

This value I've underlined is what you need to put after seti textureMemory. Open the sgr file and do CTRL-F and input seti textureMemory.

Add the value from DXDIAG and then save it.

You can use GRM for adding your GPU to the game, but I do not recommend it for anything but that.

Optimising the game... inside the game

*shoves GRM off the table*

We're going to go into TS2 in-game settings for this one.

These settings are optimal if you play CC-heavy households. It will ease the load on your game to make space for the heavy CC you have in your current household. You can tweak these when you want to take photos outside, but for playing I recommend them all to be off - especially at community lots as there are lots of sims there.

I never see anybody talking about Object Hiding.

Object Hiding hides objects from floors that aren't in view. If you're playing downstairs, objects upstairs won't be rendered, thus minimising the load on your game.

I have reflections and smooth edges off because I use ReShade.

Snow on Ground is optional. Sometimes snow can cause pink flashing, I believe it's due to texture replacements that are huge in size too, Voeille's is 2k. I've linked a resized one above.

Did anyone else know of this trick I accidentally discovered with Sims2Pack Clean Installer? How many of us have opened each individual file and downloaded, which takes forever?

Basically, if you make a shortcut of Sims2Pack Clean Installer.exe, and go into properties like so,

if you put the suffix -f after the path in Target, it will load up this window:

So, from here, you locate a folder with all the sims2packs you want to install and tada! All installed at once, hassle free