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

Will Wright talks about his house that was brough down by a big fire in 1991. Eventually, it was the inspiration for The Sims. See? Everything bad leads to something good.

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.

Lately I’ve been having some trouble with my iPod classic, which is now luckily fixed, and I wasn’t really in mood of getting some new music, because, honestly my iTunes Library is quite crowded with music anyway. A lot of good albums have been released recently (like Coldplay’s Viva La Vida, The Street’s Everything Is Borrowed and many more) and I wasn’t about to switch any of those song.

But anyway, let’s get to the point: as a huge fan of Apple products, I couldn’t notice an artwork of Datarock, the band that was featured in The Sims 2 Free Time EP. I really really loved the Fa-Fa-Fa song, it seemed funny and when I just saw the cover on Apple’s site, it was a huge temptation to get Datarock’s album. And now I really don’t feel bad about having it.

The music is not really what I listen to in general, it’s kind of a electro-rock, but it’s really good. Get it if you can! Or at least Fa-Fa-Fa, it’s just too good to not have it!

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.