Forum: The Sims 2 'How Do I' Questions

I used a cheat that I found (somewhere but can't remember where it was) to make my Senior Sims younger...you could regress them to teen or adult or child. I thought it was using the L & D tombstone, but can't find it now. I could kick myself for not writing it down, but I know I did it. I did it to...

Is there any way to make the grass in the neighborhood look as good as the lots I've fixed up? Or just not look so bad as it does now? I can't find any method available to do that when I go to the neighborhood buy/build mode. Lots of stuff to put out there, but nothing to fix the crummy looking...

Okay, evidently I really screwed up. I moved things around in my files and cleared out some stuff (nothing to do with EA) to get more ram. When I rebooted and went in to Sims 2 Best of Business, Pleasantville is GONE. I am sick, because I had families I created that were in third generation. Homes...

Is it possible? I had one of the sons that had grown up working a full-time job for a while , then when he left to move out, he was back to having the standard 20 thou. I was hoping what he made while living with his parents would be ADDED ON to the standard 20,000 they get in the bin. Any cheat...

I created two Sims, husband and wife, based on some old-time movie-stars. They are NOT aliens, anyway, all 3 of their children were generated as teenagers using the "Create a Family" option. All three have pointed ears. Other than that they are normal and are not aliens or anything. I don't know...

I just found my SIMS 2 game I got ages ago. I have all 4 disks, but i dont have the book with the install code thats on the bottom i'm supposed to put in. What do I do???

I thought I understood this, but even though my backup system automatically backs up everything once a day to a remote device; I cannot find my recent Sims videos, etc.. The only videos I CAN find are ones from 2 months ago and those are on a remote device. When I lost my neighborhood somehow a...

She won't do it, even though they are both in platinum moods. Every time I direct her to make smart milk by clicking on the contraption the little icon in the upper left corner just disappears (people do that with a lot of things you tell them to do when caring for toddlers I notice). I tried...

I don't mind so much in buy mode because I'm only in there for a short moments, although I could live without that too. I went into the audio section, but can only find the song-lists for each place, can't find a way to put "none". But in build mode it really bothers me; especially because I can be...

Can you put them into the bin and eventually have them move to a house of their own? I was thinking you might have to invite them to move in and once they're in, "look for their own place". Then wouldn't they be in the bin and you could place them as a regular Sim in a home of your choosing? Just...

Suddenly one of my Sims cannot sleep because he gets overheated. It IS summertime, but usually just drinking a glass of water cools down any of my Sims even if they've been outside playing ball. I never usually have them overheat while inside unless they take an unusually long bath. He's only...

I added the Freetime Expansion but did not add any patches. Didn't realize I should. Then I added the Mansions and Garden stuff, the most recent thing I've added, so now I access my Sims game through the Mansions & GArdens icon. If I want to add some freetime patches, how do I do that? If I add the...

I noticed that when I look through windows from the outside, all the furnishings are gone, but they are still there when seen from the inside. Also at the same time when I look from one floor down to the other from the top floor, like say over a banister, every bit of furniture is gone. I must have...

I've never had this problem before at least not since I learned to let them have fun and get up around 3 am to do the homework when they're rested. Homework and school just suck the fun right out of them, whereas adults seem to enjoy their jobs. Anyway, she does her homework faithfully. I was...

How do I kill off an NPC who is a trouble-maker and getting on my nerves? I tried having one of my Sims befriend him, but he's still in every public place poking people and provoking fights and interrupting what I'm trying to accomplish because everyone runs to watch the stupid fight. Sometimes he...

I can't seem to find which area to go into to get this started. I wanted this sim to be a private detective for a career (she's based on a character in a story I wrote once) and have talent in photography (obviously helpful in being a PI lol). But I'm not finding an option for either one. I've seen...

Used to be if I went to the park or to Rapid Racers Roller Rink or the boutique there would be 4-6 people there all the time (not counting the clerks). IN the last 24 hours I have only encountered 2 people at each place. As soon as one leaves another one comes, but still there are only 2 peoplel ...