Spring4Sims – The Best Finds, Downloads & Hints for Your Sims

I’m not sure now who I should give my big thanks to, but somebody at his/her LiveJournal from the community posted a video of a song by The Perishers (it’s called Trouble Sleeping). I had no idea who this band was, but when the music video ended, I accidentally clicked one of their other songs–Sway–and then I realized it’s the same band that’s featured in The Sims 2 University EP!

This made me so happy! I’ve been trying to figure out the name of the band for a year, but with my annoying old PC, there was always something wrong with my game. I felt too tired of playing it, then the PC was broken or my sounds card didn’t work and the game refused to show me the track list for The Sims 2. So I ended up with a song I had no idea who its artist was.

Now I know the band is called The Perishers. Fi-na-lly!

Here’s my little bonus for everyone who loves the Simlish version just like me. You can download it as an .MP3–I converted it with iTunes. I have a few more Simlish songs in iTunes and I’m willing to convert most probably all of them, but now I really don’t have time for that. Maybe some other time.

The Perishers — Sway (I wanted to upload the file to Spring4Sims, but I always got an error. No idea what’s wrong, so MediaFire link for now.)

I love this – Maxis makes Maxis-match pictures of actual albums. I found this at strange_tomato’s blog and I was amazed. Beck is one of my favorite musicians and it’s so much fun to see that his album cover is featured in The Sims 2. The other album covers are, according to strange_tomato, by Radiohead, Aphex Twin and Belle and Sebastian. Isn’t that cool?

There are three important things I’d like to either point out or ask you. Please, don’t be shy to write a comment!

1. Plasticbox from MTS has written a post where s/he says that users playing The Sims 2 with their “Tiger” Mac OSX (version 10.4.11) might have trouble running the game after QuickTime is updated to version 7.6. I’m not a Mac user (unfortunatelly), but I though this could be useful information for some of you.
2. One of our readers - maxmack - has posted a comment today that Maxis will release some information about the “re-evaluation” of the release date. S/he says that Maxis should give official info tomorrow. I’m not sure if that’s true, but I’m really curious because I’ve already pre-ordered the Collector’s Edition. What do you think?
3. I’ve been getting emails and comments asking about accessories in The Sims 2. Simmers are looking for downloads that are Bon Voyage compatible i.e. accessories display under “Jewelery” slot, not under “Glasses”. Do you know of any site that offers any accessories labeled as “Jewelery”? If so, let us know, please!

Here it is! New creepy Art Deco objects from Sims 2 Store. I usually like the new Maxis objects, but for some reason, I don’t think these turned out really well. Maybe if the objects had other colors? Maybe. There are also some new hairs and skins, but I think the previous ones were much better. Anyway, I hope we’ll see something better next time.

The official sites runs a new showcase this winter!

Guidelines:

• Submit your Sim, Lot or Story using our Exchange.
• If you have a video/machinima piece, you can upload it to YouTube. Please let us know when you’ve uploaded it by emailing us at simsvideo@ea.com
• Make sure to include “Holiday Showcase 2008″ somewhere in the title or description.

Deadlines:

• We’ll be taking submissions through midnight PST Sunday December 21st.

Are you going to participate? More info here!

The Sims 2 Store brings some new items for your Sims! The newest set includes 116 new items inspired by Asian style. There are new living room objects, plants, tables, lot of nice skins for females, so-so hairs and something for males, kids and teens, too.

Click here to see the brand new items!

I think you all know that The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff is already in stores now in the USA, but should be by this time also in German and hopefully in other countries, too. I can’t wait to get my copy of the game and hopefully find some time to put my hands on it, because recently I haven’t been able to play the game as much as I wanted.

One of the best things that come with the game is a new cheat setQuarterTilePlacement [on | off]. What does it do?

Basically, it makes the buy/build mode grid just like the one in The Sims 3! Yup! With the cheat, objects can be placed anywhere on the grid. It is so cool. To better explain, you could say it dives the current grid into 4 more pieces so there is 4 times the amount of grid to place objects on. I took two pictures to show an example of how easy it is to use and how cool it makes rooms.

Pictures here and here.

Make sure to press CTRL + F before typing the cheat! It won’t work without it!

EAxis has also made a new trailer for the game.

Just a short post for all of you, Tweeters – EA Games has created official Twitter Sites for The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. You can now join them to tweet with other Simmer around the world about your favorite game.

Look! The gardens of eden! The new screenshots from The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff really make me excited. I love making landscaping in The Sims. It’s one of my favorite parts when building new houses, because without it, the lots look really dull. But nice flowers and plant can make it very colorful and full of life. One day I want to have a big garden (but please no vegetables, that’s the annoying part of gardens!). For now I can build it in the game. Or at least I’ll be able to give it a lot of new options soon.

The new build themes look spectacular. I’m glad that EAxis has decided to cover the art-deco theme. I wonder how the mansard roofs work like? I hope they’re habitable just like any other dormers. That would be really nice.

Also, speaking of building and stuff like that, I shouldn’t forget to announce that tomorrow there’s a new interview with Tanja from Lifestyle for Sims. She builds awesome architecture pieces and if you visit Spring4Sims more regularly, then you’ve probably noticed her houses in the Top Downloads category. So make sure to welcome her tomorrow and write a nice comment if you like her site!

Just a quick note for everyone who’s interested: there’s an interview with Gabriella Cilmi on the official site. She’s a UK-base Aussie songstress. Her song Sweet About Me that is featured in The Sims 2 Apartment Life made her the youngest artist featured in the soundtrack of the game in age of only 17!

Read the interview or watch the video on YouTube!