It depends on a lot of things. I have Sims 2: Ultimate collection and I had so many glitches initially I had to look up tutorials on how to change the game's code in the files to make it work correctly.
I did that to copy my Pleasantview and make a group picture of all of them without the risk of corrupting the neighborhood. Having 80 people in one family and trying to arrange them somehow took me 2 hours but the effect was worth it xD
5:36 when you rename a neighborhood folder, the game can't read those files anymore because it only recognizes the files from the original neighborhood; so you have to copy and paste the "thumbnails" and "storytelling" folders from the renamed neighborhood back into the EA Games folder
If you don't want to install the renamer and would prefer to do it monotonously, you can press F2 to rename a file without having to right-click, rename etc. I did it this way and it took about 20 minutes but as someone who has very little space to download things it was the better option.
This is so helpful oh my gosh, thank you so much! I just renamed the folder bc I was dum-dum and didn't realize I had to rename everything lol. You are a life-saver
Your videos are like my Sims2 personal manual ♥ I already saw this video a while back but I just downloaded a custom clean pleasantview and came back here to check how to make it work xD Thank you so much ♥♥♥
I just found your channel I want to watch more videos from you. I love your accent, I love that at the end you fast forward the thank you stuff. That part is boring, noone watches it, lol. Keep sharing stuff, you're awesome :D
Thank you so much !!! I have been wanting to do that for quite some time, now, I have been looking on the internet for an answer, and I just received a notification from your channel with the solution !! It's perfect
I think I Know why copied neighborhoods doesn't have description. It might be hard to understand, but here we go: F.e. You created your own neighborhood - Nowe Pobrzeże, so if you would try to start new one you couldn't name it Nowe Pobrzeże 'cuz you already has neighborhood like this. Let' s Say your cloning Strangetown. One is N002 and 2nd is N031 as you did. It's impossible for the game to have two neighborhoods named the same. Game knows Strangetown (N002) already has description so when you're in Strangetown (N031) game thinks it has description 'cuz Strangetown (N002) does. I guess I also Know how to get desctiopion in Strangetown N031. After Advanced Renaming put Strangetown 2.0 and take Strangetown 1.0 out. Lauch the game. Change name from Strangetown to Strangetown 2.0 (or something else). Open the neighborhood. Exit the game. Put Strangetown 1.0 to game. And it should work ;)
I once tried this without a tutorial with Strangetown and did everything right, except the mass rename. At least I fixed that! And I'm glad I did cuz Strangetown disappeared completely while in limbo
My main issue with this is that the text-box prompts (like Vidcund wants to use the telescope, then gets abducted) won't show up either (just like the neighborhood stories, but that's less important for me). Any solution for that?
You also have to change neighborhood ID by editing neighborhood.package inside the folder using SimPe, otherwise it will potentially lead to corruption
@@Marticore essentially half of the info (well, maybe not size-wise, just figurative) is stored inside of neighborhood.package (for example that's one of the reasons why you can't delete a character file and consider the sim to be safely deleted - info about them still will be stored inside of neighborhood.package, and when game will try to create a new sim using the same ID their info will overlap with chunks of info that are still stored in package file). That's why it's important to change neighborhood ID inside of this file - it's a big part of whole nhood's structure. I don't actually know what can happen if there are two same IDs and ID inside of a package doesn't match to folder's ID because corruption isn't always visible but it is advised to change it.
@@fandbzgt100 open simpe, then open the neighborhood you need to edit and find "ID number" on the left side, click on it and click again on it on the right side, then edit it below
I have Windows 10 and it works like a charm. Had to watch tutorials because I had a problem with one expansion pack but I don't know anymore what it was. I just can't play sims 1 😂
I used the Sims 1 Complete Collection page on Old Games Download and it works like a charm! Follow EVERY step in the ReadMe File or the page itself though, and especially the 8th step about compatibility (!!!) to not get stuck on the neighbourhood screen.
Thank you so much this helped me a lot I have 2 laptops but can't take them from the house there at and I wanted to continue what I was doing and I think it also worked with that thanks
Is there a maximum amount of neighbourhoods you can have? And The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection works completely fine for me on Windows 10, amazing actually. But, I hear millions of different stories of playing sims 2 on windows 10. I wonder why.... EA sucks lol
AKGBLanvia The only issues I have is the occasional glitch (somehow, my sim used to always end up on the roof lol). But lag doesn’t exist for me. My game is kinda pixelated, but my monitor is very big yet also dated whoops
Windows 7 is perfectly fine, it's a lot more stable and functional than 10 and not so full of trash. Just have protection for your browser and don't click shady links, keep all the DLL-producing tools updated and you'll be fine. And if you are really concerned, there may be some... more hacky ways to still get updates for win7, just as there was for xp.
Hello, I don't know if you can give me a solution but I wanted to ask. I have a MacBook Air and bought Sims 2 on the appstore, Sims 2 Super Collection. But right now one of my neighborhoods doesn't let me enter it just loads, I've tried to see if I can fix it but most people tell me I have to go to my Sims files, but I don't have any files for Sims on my folders. It's just the app, is there a solution for this?
If it’s a neighborhood without much progress (or that you’re not emotionally attached to :P) I suggest just deleting and reinstalling the application. Deleting the application kind of wipes all glitches from your game since it’s all reset like new. Deleting the application does delete all progress however so it’s recommended if you have a lot of progress.
Any advice if I followed this to a T and it didn’t work? :( I’m trying to move my old Pleasantview over to my new laptop and wanted to keep the fresh Pleasantview as well. I renamed all of the old files and planted them in the Neighborhoods file but they won’t show in game. Then, I said I didn’t need the fresh PV, so I deleted the N001 file and pasted over my N001 files from my USB drive. It still doesn’t show up! I’m getting desperate 😅
I lit never thought of cloning neighbourhoods, so, i have a question: ¿Do pre-scripted events work in those cloned neighbourhoods, or just the original ones? If they work, i might do this myself. Having to delete and copy paste everything againg every single time i want to play the scripted events of each Maxis neighbourhood just to make different storylines everytime sounds annoying and exhausting, but with this maybe it is doable.
I am asking mostly cuz I'm fan of older ones and had no idea there was different version somewhere in internet. But guessing by names (I saw 'fixed dead' there) I just guess they gave genes to deceased ancestors.
Hello! Actually I have the worlds in the sims 2 whit families that I created, but I want to have strangetown only whit the families that live there, no whit my sims, if I follow this video, I would have it?
Hey Marticore, I tried to do this exactly the same as you did in the video, but I didn't get my extra Pleasantview on my neighbourhood menu. I'm not sure what I did wrong.. Can you help me, I don't even know if you keep up with these comments on this video still, but might as well try :)
@@Marticore Yes I do, I was thinking should it maybe be just a little thing as I clicked copy on the file, and then pasted it into the TS2 Neighbourhood folder, instead of "cut", I have my Windows in Finnish so I can possibly mix these "options" together?
@@Marticore Well now it suddenly started working, even though there are some random townies, which I would've liked to only have the Pleasantview townies, but oh well. And I renamed the folder from "N001" to "N014".
I wish i could find one person that makes sense, i dont have any of these files, its not EA games its origin, non the neighbourhoods are in any of the file locations i get told on anything i look up its driving me insane why cant it be simple, why cant it just not delete my premade towns just because the game crashed.
TS2 works just fine for me on Windows 10, I feel like people who can't get their game to work are just unlucky.
It depends on a lot of things. I have Sims 2: Ultimate collection and I had so many glitches initially I had to look up tutorials on how to change the game's code in the files to make it work correctly.
nah mate, they just didnt install grapic rules
same
Yeah, me too
I was literally just going to ask you how you do this! You truly make some of the best Sims 2 content out there!
I did that to copy my Pleasantview and make a group picture of all of them without the risk of corrupting the neighborhood. Having 80 people in one family and trying to arrange them somehow took me 2 hours but the effect was worth it xD
Ahhhh I tried doing this before and just tried changing the folder name because I was a dumb shit and wondered why it didn’t work 😂 thanks for this
When you get 500 internal error on sim file share, just go to previous page and re dowload it. Works for me
5:36 when you rename a neighborhood folder, the game can't read those files anymore because it only recognizes the files from the original neighborhood; so you have to copy and paste the "thumbnails" and "storytelling" folders from the renamed neighborhood back into the EA Games folder
Thanks to you and this video my 6 Pleasantviews and I are very happy.
I'm happy for you're coming back to the channel
Same
Yeah :D
If you don't want to install the renamer and would prefer to do it monotonously, you can press F2 to rename a file without having to right-click, rename etc. I did it this way and it took about 20 minutes but as someone who has very little space to download things it was the better option.
I like that I don’t know when next video will come. In a few hours? Next day? Next month? Never know…
I use an old Windows 7 desktop for my Sims 2! You are the first person I have seen who also uses the old Windows to make the game work!
Now I'm on Windows 11 😂 Still works!
@@Marticore that's so awesome!!!
This is so helpful oh my gosh, thank you so much! I just renamed the folder bc I was dum-dum and didn't realize I had to rename everything lol. You are a life-saver
Your videos are like my Sims2 personal manual ♥ I already saw this video a while back but I just downloaded a custom clean pleasantview and came back here to check how to make it work xD
Thank you so much ♥♥♥
literally anything i search for, you end up answearing here
I just found your channel I want to watch more videos from you. I love your accent, I love that at the end you fast forward the thank you stuff. That part is boring, noone watches it, lol. Keep sharing stuff, you're awesome :D
I usually create different accounts but i think i should do this, thanks for the tutorial! You're the best! ❤
Thank you so much !!! I have been wanting to do that for quite some time, now, I have been looking on the internet for an answer, and I just received a notification from your channel with the solution !! It's perfect
I think I Know why copied neighborhoods doesn't have description. It might be hard to understand, but here we go:
F.e. You created your own neighborhood - Nowe Pobrzeże, so if you would try to start new one you couldn't name it Nowe Pobrzeże 'cuz you already has neighborhood like this.
Let' s Say your cloning Strangetown. One is N002 and 2nd is N031 as you did.
It's impossible for the game to have two neighborhoods named the same. Game knows Strangetown (N002) already has description so when you're in Strangetown (N031) game thinks it has description 'cuz Strangetown (N002) does.
I guess I also Know how to get desctiopion in Strangetown N031.
After Advanced Renaming put Strangetown 2.0 and take Strangetown 1.0 out. Lauch the game. Change name from Strangetown to Strangetown 2.0 (or something else). Open the neighborhood. Exit the game. Put Strangetown 1.0 to game. And it should work ;)
My brain thought about it while taking a shower lmao
It didn’t work for me
@@aspirationfailure6100 :(
I didn't check it, but I WILL
@lien I just downloaded strange town again and now I can see the story things!
Lien idk what that means but ok...
you are a lifesaver, thank you so much!
I once tried this without a tutorial with Strangetown and did everything right, except the mass rename. At least I fixed that! And I'm glad I did cuz Strangetown disappeared completely while in limbo
My main issue with this is that the text-box prompts (like Vidcund wants to use the telescope, then gets abducted) won't show up either (just like the neighborhood stories, but that's less important for me).
Any solution for that?
What eye mask do you have for your sims? They look stunning
You also have to change neighborhood ID by editing neighborhood.package inside the folder using SimPe, otherwise it will potentially lead to corruption
What? How will it lead to corruption? :O
@@Marticore essentially half of the info (well, maybe not size-wise, just figurative) is stored inside of neighborhood.package (for example that's one of the reasons why you can't delete a character file and consider the sim to be safely deleted - info about them still will be stored inside of neighborhood.package, and when game will try to create a new sim using the same ID their info will overlap with chunks of info that are still stored in package file). That's why it's important to change neighborhood ID inside of this file - it's a big part of whole nhood's structure. I don't actually know what can happen if there are two same IDs and ID inside of a package doesn't match to folder's ID because corruption isn't always visible but it is advised to change it.
Holy crap :O
Haven't found anything on that. Where is the exact thing you have to edit?
@@fandbzgt100 open simpe, then open the neighborhood you need to edit and find "ID number" on the left side, click on it and click again on it on the right side, then edit it below
I have Windows 10 and it works like a charm. Had to watch tutorials because I had a problem with one expansion pack but I don't know anymore what it was. I just can't play sims 1 😂
...I'm on Win11 now 😆
I used the Sims 1 Complete Collection page on Old Games Download and it works like a charm! Follow EVERY step in the ReadMe File or the page itself though, and especially the 8th step about compatibility (!!!) to not get stuck on the neighbourhood screen.
The amount of work you need to do to get some things working in TS2 is wiiiiiiild
Thank you so much this helped me a lot I have 2 laptops but can't take them from the house there at and I wanted to continue what I was doing and I think it also worked with that thanks
Thank you so much! Can you make a tutorial how to make a new neighborhood without the extra bin families? I will love you forever.
I don't have to! There you go → ruclips.net/video/-FghcJ2WYw4/видео.html
Is there a maximum amount of neighbourhoods you can have? And The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection works completely fine for me on Windows 10, amazing actually. But, I hear millions of different stories of playing sims 2 on windows 10. I wonder why.... EA sucks lol
Yeah I play Sims 2 Ultimate Collection on Windows 10 and it works fine for me too lol. I did have to tweak it a lil bit but it's overall ok
AKGBLanvia The only issues I have is the occasional glitch (somehow, my sim used to always end up on the roof lol). But lag doesn’t exist for me. My game is kinda pixelated, but my monitor is very big yet also dated whoops
Wow, super to wyjaśniłaś, dzięki za pomoc! :)
Chamsko zerżnięte ze Szczęśliwego Ziemniaka, więc zapraszam do niej xD
@@Marticore Haha to również znany mi kanał! :D Dzięki wam odkrywam Simsy na nowo :D
Thank you for the help❤
Windows 7 is perfectly fine, it's a lot more stable and functional than 10 and not so full of trash. Just have protection for your browser and don't click shady links, keep all the DLL-producing tools updated and you'll be fine. And if you are really concerned, there may be some... more hacky ways to still get updates for win7, just as there was for xp.
Kamienica Zdrój?! Spoiler for Polish Channel, right?
:o
Kamienna-Zdrój is Ania's town, I was checking it out. It's not finished yet :) Ania is one of my moderators.
@@Marticore :o
Im waiting ❤️
I don't know if I will show it on the channel, but she will share it in the group one day!
@@Marticore Yeah, I'm waiting for that, duuh
tysm for this video 💗
Omg this was so much easier I was abt to manually do this with pleasantview Jesus
thank you so much! ❤️
I don't know why but the scripted events aren't working when I use clean templates. For pleasantveiw.
Hello, I don't know if you can give me a solution but I wanted to ask. I have a MacBook Air and bought Sims 2 on the appstore, Sims 2 Super Collection. But right now one of my neighborhoods doesn't let me enter it just loads, I've tried to see if I can fix it but most people tell me I have to go to my Sims files, but I don't have any files for Sims on my folders. It's just the app, is there a solution for this?
If it’s a neighborhood without much progress (or that you’re not emotionally attached to :P) I suggest just deleting and reinstalling the application. Deleting the application kind of wipes all glitches from your game since it’s all reset like new. Deleting the application does delete all progress however so it’s recommended if you have a lot of progress.
NOT RECOMMENDED sorry. It’s NOT recommended if you have a lot of progress.
Any advice if I followed this to a T and it didn’t work? :( I’m trying to move my old Pleasantview over to my new laptop and wanted to keep the fresh Pleasantview as well. I renamed all of the old files and planted them in the Neighborhoods file but they won’t show in game. Then, I said I didn’t need the fresh PV, so I deleted the N001 file and pasted over my N001 files from my USB drive. It still doesn’t show up! I’m getting desperate 😅
I lit never thought of cloning neighbourhoods, so, i have a question:
¿Do pre-scripted events work in those cloned neighbourhoods, or just the original ones?
If they work, i might do this myself.
Having to delete and copy paste everything againg every single time i want to play the scripted events of each Maxis neighbourhood just to make different storylines everytime sounds annoying and exhausting, but with this maybe it is doable.
Followed this tutorial to a T and the new hood won't show up no matter what I do, very confused :(
EDIT: nvm figured it out hah
I use BulkRenameUtility and it works similarly enough
also, how different are older clean templates to newer clean templates?
Honestly, I have no idea :D
I am asking mostly cuz I'm fan of older ones and had no idea there was different version somewhere in internet. But guessing by names (I saw 'fixed dead' there) I just guess they gave genes to deceased ancestors.
6:28 I'm going scrap all my old saves, uninstall (including registry), reinstall and before anything try this and see what happens.
Thanks
Hello! Actually I have the worlds in the sims 2 whit families that I created, but I want to have strangetown only whit the families that live there, no whit my sims, if I follow this video, I would have it?
Yes
6:12 ,,Kamienna Zdrój" hmm........
Merta, what is that thing?
My friend's town
I just copy my town-folder to C disk, and when i want to change my town I replace town from the game folder and copied folder advance (from C disk)
Ok, but this is a tutorial on how to have two of the same town at a time, to avoid moving folders
I just lost pleasant view, how can i play again in it, i deleted the carpet and im trying to download :(
if you still having this issue just find a clean vers on yt, its kinda of the same thing just for the brokes unborn baby is not a clone
Hey Marticore, I tried to do this exactly the same as you did in the video, but I didn't get my extra Pleasantview on my neighbourhood menu. I'm not sure what I did wrong.. Can you help me, I don't even know if you keep up with these comments on this video still, but might as well try :)
Do you have the new hood in your Neighborhoods foder? Did you look inside to check if all files have been renamed?
@@Marticore Yes I do, I was thinking should it maybe be just a little thing as I clicked copy on the file, and then pasted it into the TS2 Neighbourhood folder, instead of "cut", I have my Windows in Finnish so I can possibly mix these "options" together?
Doesn't matter. What did you rename it to exactly?
@@Marticore Well now it suddenly started working, even though there are some random townies, which I would've liked to only have the Pleasantview townies, but oh well. And I renamed the folder from "N001" to "N014".
link for clean neighbourhoods no longer works is there are alternative?
meetmetotheriver.tumblr.com/tagged/clean%20templates/
Thanks for the heads up!
Can you teach us how to turn hoods into subhoods pls?
I don't have that particular knowledge, you can just google it
Do You Play Sims 4 On Windows 7 Or Only 2
My general PC has Windows 7, so I use and play everything on it
How do you use the advanced renamer?
Didn't I just show that in the video?
I'm so lazy I just installed templates and make a new neighbourhood and attach Pleasantview etc. as a shopping district.
nice
i dont see pleasant view?
I wish i could find one person that makes sense, i dont have any of these files, its not EA games its origin, non the neighbourhoods are in any of the file locations i get told on anything i look up its driving me insane why cant it be simple, why cant it just not delete my premade towns just because the game crashed.
Origin Games is the installation location. Look in DOCUMENTS.
✌️
Im have Are you merta