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|style="border:0px" | <b>{{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Cheats || LinkText=Cheats || Description=A list of the game's cheats, with instructions and descriptions on how to use them.}}</b>
 
|style="border:0px" | <b>{{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Cheats || LinkText=Cheats || Description=A list of the game's cheats, with instructions and descriptions on how to use them.}}</b>
 
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Choose Gender of Babies || LinkText=Choose Gender of Babies || Description=Want a boy, or a girl, and getting the wrong gender?  Here's how to get a baby of the desired sex.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Testing Cheats || LinkText=Testing Cheats || Description=Information on the game's testing cheats (aka boolProp).}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Userstartup.cheat || LinkText=Userstartup.cheat || Description=How to automatically enable cheats so you don't have to type them each time you play, and shorten them so you don't have to type so much.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexSection || Title=General}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Change Last Name || LinkText=Change Last Name || Description=How to change the last name/family name of sims in your game.}}
 
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Change Lot Zoning || LinkText=Change Lot Zoning || Description=How to change a lot to/from residential, community, dorm, or secret society.}}
 
|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Change Lot Zoning || LinkText=Change Lot Zoning || Description=How to change a lot to/from residential, community, dorm, or secret society.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Changing Sims' Appearance || LinkText=Changing Sims' Appearance || Description=How to change everything about how your sims look - face, hair, eyes, makeup, clothes, skintones, etc.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Choose Gender of Babies || LinkText=Choose Gender of Babies || Description=Want a boy, or a girl, and getting the wrong gender?  Here's how to get a baby of the desired sex.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Deleting Neighborhoods || LinkText=Deleting Neighborhoods || Description=How to remove a neighborhood from your game.}}
 
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Disable Censor Blur || LinkText=Disable Censor Blur || Description=How to get rid of the blurred pixellation when sims are nude or using the toilet.}}
 
|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Disable Censor Blur || LinkText=Disable Censor Blur || Description=How to get rid of the blurred pixellation when sims are nude or using the toilet.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Extract In-Game Sim || LinkText=Extract In-Game Sim || Description=How to export a sim born in-game or made in Create a Sim so you can remake them or share them with others.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Gender Preference || LinkText=Gender Preference || Description=Information on how gender preference works in the game.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Installing Lots Multiple Times || LinkText=Installing Lots Multiple Times || Description=How to install that perfect house sitting in your lot bin more than once.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Keyboard Shortcuts || LinkText=Keyboard Shortcuts || Description=How to install that perfect house sitting in your lot bin more than once.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Moving Sims || LinkText=Moving Sims || Description=How to move sims the right way, so you don't break your game.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexSection || Title=University}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Zombies || LinkText=Zombies || Description=Gnarrrrr, braaaains.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexSection || Title=Nightlife}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Vampires || LinkText=Vampires || Description=Become a blue-skinned creature of the night.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexSection || Title=Open for Business}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Servos || LinkText=Servos || Description=Bleep blop blort whiirrrrrrRrrrRRrr.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Werewolves || LinkText=Werewolves || Description=Howling at the moon, hair growth, and glowing golden eyes.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Fishing || LinkText=Fishing || Description=Baits, badges, and bass with squash.}}
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|style="border:0px" | {{GameHelpIndexItem || Link=Gardening || LinkText=Gardening || Description=Compost, planting, the garden club, the wishing well, greenhouses, and more.}}
 
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==Gameplay==
 
==Gameplay==
 
* '''[[Game Help:Userstartup.cheat]]'''
 
* ''[[Game Help:Testing Cheats]]''
 
* [[Game Help:Change Last Name]]
 
* '''[[Game Help:Fishing]]'''
 
* '''[[Game Help:Gardening]]'''
 
* '''[[Game Help:Selling Cars]]'''
 
* ''[[Game Help:Werewolves]]''
 
* '''[[Game Help:Vampires]]'''
 
* [[Game Help:Servos]]
 
* ''[[Game Help:Extract In-Game Sim]]''
 
* '''[[Game Help:Moving Sims]]'''
 
* '''[[Game Help:Changing Sims' Appearance]]'''
 
* ''[[Game Help:Zombies]]'' * http://db.modthesims2.com/article.php?t=60059 (just the top part)
 
* ''[[Game Help:Change Lot Zoning]]'' * http://db.modthesims2.com/article.php?t=59100
 
 
* '''[[Game Help:Keyboard Shortcuts]]'''
 
* '''[[Game Help:Keyboard Shortcuts]]'''
 
* '''[[Game Help:Playing Your Own Music]]'''
 
* '''[[Game Help:Playing Your Own Music]]'''
 
* '''[[Game Help:Windowed Mode]]'''
 
* '''[[Game Help:Windowed Mode]]'''
* '''[[Game Help:Deleting Neighborhoods]]'''
 
 
* ''[[Game Help:Screenshots and Videos]]'' - http://www.modthesims2.com/article.php?t=53048 - plus really basic info on how to take screenshots (C key, TAB, etc)
 
* ''[[Game Help:Screenshots and Videos]]'' - http://www.modthesims2.com/article.php?t=53048 - plus really basic info on how to take screenshots (C key, TAB, etc)
* '''[[Game Help:Gender Preference]]'''
 
 
* '''[[Game Help:Installing Lots Multiple Times]]'''
 
* '''[[Game Help:Installing Lots Multiple Times]]'''
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  

Revision as of 14:18, 11 July 2007

Sims 2 Game Help Categories:

Custom Content  | Expansion Packs  | Installation  | Gameplay Guides  | Technical & Graphics Issues  | Body Shop & Homecrafter  | Miscellaneous Issues  | FAQ Index

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    Installation

    ... Installing or uninstalling the Sims 2, expansions, stuff packs, or game patches, and stuff that happens right after you've installed something new.
12-24 Hour Clock How to change the clock from 24 hour "military" time back to 12 hour time.
Change Game Language How to change the language of all the game's text.
Install What to do if you're having trouble installing the game, expansions, or stuff packs.
Patching Your Game A guide to the patches, which ones you need to install, and why you need patches.
Poor Graphics Quality After New EP Install If you've just installed a stuff pack or expansion and your game suddenly looks terrible.
Preparing for the Next Expansion What to do before purchasing and installing a new expansion or stuff pack.
Red Flashing Walls If your walls and foundations are flashing red after installing a new expansion or stuff pack.
Uninstall How to uninstall Sims 2, expansions, or stuff packs, what to do first, and if you're having problems uninstalling.

    Custom Content

    ... Everything related to downloading, installing custom content, and problems with it.
Bad Lot If your game crashes when clicking on a custom lot in the lot bin.
Custom Content Shows up Incorrectly If your downloaded items don't look like they're supposed to.
Custom Neighborhood Terrains Information on custom neighborhood maps/terrains.
Custom Objects on OfB Shelves How to place your custom items on shelves to sell in shops.
Downloading for Fracking Geniuses A quick summary on how to download and install custom content, for computer-savvy users.
Downloading for Fracking Idiots How to download and install custom content, explained in the simplest way possible, with pics!
Finding Problem Custom Content How to find problem or unwanted custom content to remove it from your game.
Expansion Pack Data Not Installed If you're getting a "This content requires expansion pack data that is not installed," error when installing a lot, sim, or pet.
Getting Custom Content to Show Up If some, all, or none of your downloads are showing up.
GUID Conflicts About GUID conflicts, and how to find conflicting items.
Maxis Content Manager Information on the Maxis content manager tool for custom content.
Meshes and Recolors What is a mesh, what is a mesh recolour, and why you need to know what they are.
No Downloads Folder What to do if you're missing a Downloads folder.
No Longer Prompted to Save Files If your computer has stopped asking you where you want files saved when you download.
Organizing Custom Content How to clean out, organize, get rid of, and fix up your mess of downloads.
Poly Counts What poly counts are for meshes, what's a good and bad poly count, and why you need to know.
Q-Xpress Information about Q-Xpress, a program to download and install content from MTS2.
RAR What RAR archive files are, and how to use them. Anyone can use RARs!
Removing Default Replacements How to find default replacement skins, eyes, and other overriding content to remove it from your game.
Too Much Custom Content? How much is too much custom content, and is there a limit to the number of downloads you can have?
What are Hacks? Information on what hacks/mods are, and why you need to know.

    Gameplay

    ... Information that will be helpful in the various aspects of playing Sims 2.

    Cheats

Cheats A list of the game's cheats, with instructions and descriptions on how to use them.
Testing Cheats Information on the game's testing cheats (aka boolProp).
Userstartup.cheat How to automatically enable cheats so you don't have to type them each time you play, and shorten them so you don't have to type so much.

    General

Change Last Name How to change the last name/family name of sims in your game.
Change Lot Zoning How to change a lot to/from residential, community, dorm, or secret society.
Changing Sims' Appearance How to change everything about how your sims look - face, hair, eyes, makeup, clothes, skintones, etc.
Choose Gender of Babies Want a boy, or a girl, and getting the wrong gender? Here's how to get a baby of the desired sex.
Deleting Neighborhoods How to remove a neighborhood from your game.
Disable Censor Blur How to get rid of the blurred pixellation when sims are nude or using the toilet.
Extract In-Game Sim How to export a sim born in-game or made in Create a Sim so you can remake them or share them with others.
Gender Preference Information on how gender preference works in the game.
Installing Lots Multiple Times How to install that perfect house sitting in your lot bin more than once.
Keyboard Shortcuts How to install that perfect house sitting in your lot bin more than once.
Moving Sims How to move sims the right way, so you don't break your game.

    University

Zombies Gnarrrrr, braaaains.

    Nightlife

Vampires Become a blue-skinned creature of the night.

    Open for Business

Servos Bleep blop blort whiirrrrrrRrrrRRrr.

    Pets

Werewolves Howling at the moon, hair growth, and glowing golden eyes.

    Seasons

Fishing Baits, badges, and bass with squash.
Gardening Compost, planting, the garden club, the wishing well, greenhouses, and more.


Gameplay


Body Shop and Homecrafter

Having problem with the Maxis-made modding tools?

Performance

Graphics

Expansion-Specific

Stuff directly related to specific expansion packs.

University

Nightlife

Open for Business

Pets

Seasons

Technical Info

General facts, figures, zeroes, and ones.

Miscellaneous Issues

Other stuff. Mostly problems.

Unsorted

Personal tools
Namespaces

Variants
Actions
Navigation
game select
Toolbox