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Don't scrub, some languages translated, some not. Notes: Contains ascii character for TM which may be a problem with double-byte langauges^(sic) that use this character

0x0005

Sims2 - Needs Translation - batchCaSIE3 Notes: Added the "Inc." per legal 7/28

Notes: Contains ascii character for (c) which may be a problem with double-byte langauges^(sic) that use this character

0x0006

EA GAMES™ is an Electronic Arts™ brand.

The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - BatchCaSIE3

Notes: Contains ascii character for TM which may be a problem with double-byte langauges that use this character

0x00000099#

String Number	Early String	Final String	Description (As found in the files)	Notes
0x0007	The application has crashed. A stack and minidump are saved in the same directory as the EXE. The application will now terminate.	The application has crashed. The application will now terminate.	The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - BatchCaSIE3 When the application crashes, this dialog will come up. Deleted mention of the stack and minidump for translation - smp 3/12/04
0x0008	Direct3D returned an error: %s! The application will now terminate.		The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - BatchCaSIE3 Note the format specifier (%s). is a variable. This string is used in a sprintf.
0x0009	The application has crashed. A stack and minidump are saved in the same directory as the EXE. The application will now terminate.	The application has crashed. The application will now terminate.	The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - BatchCaSIE3 When the application crashes, this dialog will come up. Deleted mention of the stack and minidump for translation - smp 3/12/04
0x000A	Failed to enumerate any DirectX 9 compatible graphics adapters in this system! Please make sure you have a DirectX 9 compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest manufacturer provided driver. The application will now terminate.	Failed to find any DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters in this system! Please make sure you have a DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest drivers provided by the manufacturer. The application will now terminate.	The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - BatchCaSIE3 Updated string 7/25 for new Direct X version support. - now "DirectX 9.0c"
0x000B	Failed to enumerate any display monitors in this system! Please make your desktop is configured properly. The application will now terminate.	No display monitors found in this system. Please make your desktop is configured properly. The application will now terminate.	The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - BatchCaSIE3
0x000C	The graphics adapter in this system experienced an internal error! Please contact your graphics adapter manufacturer for technical support. The application will now terminate.	The graphics adapter in this system experienced an internal error. Please contact your graphics adapter manufacturer for technical support. The application will now terminate.	The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - BatchCaSIE3
0x000D	The application experienced a rendering error! The application will now terminate.		The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - BatchCaSIE3
0x000E	The startup neighborhood is invalid. The application will now terminate.		The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - BatchCaSIE3
0x000F		Please make sure that The Sims 2 and The Sims 2 Body Shop are not running before installing this content.	The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - Batch23 Generic error for installing content while either Body Shop or the game are running	Early String is blank.
0x0011		Please enter a project name at least 3 characters long.	The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - Batch23

Tutorial.package#

Rest of the strings are identical to final, where their untranslated-language equivalents don't exist, but have the same Description below.

String Number	Early String	Final String	Description (As found in the files)	Notes
0x0003	Advanced Structure Building Description	The Sims 2 adds even more features to building a home, including raised foundations and decks. New Building Tools will introduce you to the latest and greatest trends for Sim architects.	The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - Batch20	Placeholder description.

MusicTitles.package#

There are strings that put the song composition dates to various points of development.

0x00001C7F (CAS)#

[Text Lists]
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`0x0000`
`0x0001`
`0x0002`
`0x0003`
`0x0004`

0x000043BF#

While there is a UK English equivalent, the list is otherwise identical along with "The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - Batch22" marked for all the song titles.

[Text Lists]
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`0x0000`
`0x0001`
`0x0002`
`0x0003`
`0x0002`
`0x0002`

Strangely, the scrapped Sim Bop song is translated in other languages, with specific ones receiving different translations.

[Text Lists]
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`0x0001`

0x000524B#

While there is a UK English equivalent, the list is otherwise identical along with "The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - Batch22" marked for all the song titles.

[Text Lists]
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`0x0000`
`0x0001`
`0x0002-4`

0x0005803#

[Text Lists]
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`0x0000`
`0x0001`
`0x0002`
`0x0003`
`0x0004`
`0x0005`
`0x0006`
`0x0007`

Oddly, the duplicated Man's Fire string is different in several languages between entries, suggesting they are an earlier translation of the title.

[Text Lists]
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`0x0002`
`0x0003`

0x0006C7A#

[Text Lists]
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`0x0000`
`0x0001`
`0x0001`
`0x0001`

0x0006DCE#

[Text Lists]
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`0x0000`
`0x0004`

0x0000772B#

[Text Lists]
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`0x0000`
`0x0001`
`0x0002`
`0x0003`

0x00077D1#

Unused...

[Text Lists]
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`0x0000`
`0x0001`

...But they were translated in other languages. The translated titles suggests that the credits theme originally used Sim Heaven on loop. xxx

0x0007FC2#

Unused song titles for...splashing? All the other-language entries are empty.

[Text Lists]
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`0x0000`
`0x0001`

Neighborhood.package#

Neighborhood Aspirations#

**`Text/Neighborhood.package`**
Instance	String Number	String	Translation Notes
0x00000086	0x001B	Neighborhood Aspiration	The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - Batch16
	0x0022	Choose a Neighborhood Aspiration	The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - Batch16 For Create a Neighborhood
	0x0023	Family
	0x0024	Wealth
	0x0025	Romance
	0x0026	Popularity	The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - Batch19 For Create a Neighborhood
	0x0027	Knowledge	The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - Batch16 For Create a Neighborhood

When creating a neighborhood the player would have been able to assign an aspiration to it like they would a sim. It is unknown how this would have affected gameplay, if at all as these are the only remains of such a feature left in the game.

Neighborhood Score#

**`Text/Neighborhood.package`**
Instance	String Number	String	Translation Notes
0x00000086	0x001A	Neighborhood Score	The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - Batch16 Neighborhood chooser tooltip

Neighborhoods would have had some sort of score assigned to them, it is unknown how this would have worked or what this score would have kept track of. Evidently this score would have appeared in the Neighborhood Selection menu that greets the player on startup.

Neighborhood Population#

**`Text/Neighborhood.package`**
Instance	String Number	String	Translation Notes
0x00000086	0x000D	Population	The Sims 2 - Needs Translation - Batch 9b

The game would have displayed a population count in the neighborhood screen, but this feature was scrapped. This can be seen in some early screenshots.

Population Generation#

**`Text/Neighborhood.package`**
Instance	String Number	String	Translation Notes
0x00000086	0x0019	Sims from far and wide are flocking to the new neighborhood to fill a variety of positions, some are even lining up just to see what type of community centers you'll build for them to visit. But as eager as they are, this one-time process might still take awhile. Please be sure to save your game once the process completes.	The Sims 2 - Needs ReTranslation - Batch23 was in Batch20 - pending edits. Appears when creating a new neighborhood while generating Sims.

Similarly to its predecessor, the game would have displayed a message for the player to read while generating NPCs and townies to populate a neighborhood, the provided translation notes state that this message would have appeared when the player creates a custom neighborhood. It is worth noting that when creating a custom neighborhood however, the game will copy NPCs and townies from Pleasantview, rather than generating new ones.

Although such a message is irrelevant as rather than generating NPCs and townies en masse, the game generates them only when necessary, such as when the player tries to hire a maid, but there are no existing maids to hire.

Neighborhood Manager#

To do:
Some of the z_ neighborhoods are referenced in testing scripts included with The Sims Life Stories. Look into this and add information to the notes column.

Duplicates of the names and descriptions for Pleasantview, Strangetown, and Veronaville exist within this package, completely identical to their used counterparts, which are located in their individual N00X_Neighborhood.package as Catalogue Descriptions rather than Text Lists.

All neighborhood names, apart from the three mentioned above as well as Waterside, listed with this package are prefixed with z_. The reason for this is unknown.

**`Userdata/Neighborhoods/NeighborhoodManager.package`**
File	Instance	String Number	String	Given Description	Notes
rowspan="10" style="text-align: center; background-color:#FFF1D1\|`NeighborhoodManager.package`	0x0000004	0x0000	z_Sedona	rowspan="10" style="text-align: center; background-color:#EAECF0\|N/A	A premade neighborhood terrain included with the game for creating custom neighborhoods. It apparently would have been a fully playable premade neighborhood.
0x0000006	0x0000	z_Tuning	rowspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color:#EAECF0\|Neighborhoods made during development to test functions within the game.
rowspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color:#EAECF0\|0x0000007	0x0000	z_Automation
0x0001	Enter a neighborhood description here . . .	Evidently the description for z_Automation. This is identical to a newly created neighborhood that the player has not written a description for.
0x0000008	0x0000	z_Riverside	A neighborhood featured in some pre-release previews of the game.
0x0000009	0x0000	z_OEPlayground	rowspan="3" style="text-align: center; background-color:#EAECF0\|Neighborhoods made during development to test functions within the game.
0x000000B	0x0000	z_Lighting
0x000000C	0x0000	z_ObjectReview
rowspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color:#EAECF0\|0x000000D	0x0000	Waterside	A neighborhood featured prominently in the game's showcase at E3 2004, it was ultimately scrapped before release.
0x0001	Don, Sarah, and little Alex settled down in Waterside. Sarah wants a bigger family, but Don still craves the romance of his youth. Can you hold this family together, or will these Sims just grow apart?	The biography for the Baxter Family, who were featured in the game's E3 2004 Demo. Evidently this may have also doubled as the description for Waterside as a neighborhood. Given that Pleasantview, Strangetown, and Veronaville feature their descriptions in their respective Text Lists.

N001-03 Neighborhood.package#

Early Lot Names#

Each Lot in game that is made in a given premade Neighborhood has a name associated with it. It's usually is a street address, but on occasion it is an actual name. A unique quirk that only exists with the premade Neighborhoods that are available with the base game, is that for Residential Lots, the Lot's name was copied into the Lot's description field. Something that is only available for Community Lots in the final game, and does not occur with user placed lots. It is also worth noting that there are a scant few Residential lots that exist in the premade Neighborhoods that have an empty description field, suggesting they were either wiped, or were created after this unique quirk was removed.

In the Lot's description is an early name for the Lot, which suggests that the Neighborhoods' layouts were adjusted at some point during their development. These can be observed in the fanmade hacking tool; SimPE, by opening the Lot Description (LTXT) in the Neighborhood's respective package files. All lots with an early variant will be documented below, divided by individual Neighborhood.

Pleasantview#

**`N001_Neighborhood.package`**
Lot ID	Early Name	Final Name	Notes
\|`N001_Lot11.package`	110 Sim Lane	165 Sim Lane	Occupied by the Goth Family.
\|`N001_Lot16.package`	130 Main Street	150 Main Street	style="text-align: center; background-color:#EAECF0\|(N/A)
\|`N001_Lot18.package`	150 Main Street	170 Main Street	Occupied by the Lothario Family.
\|`N001_Lot22.package`	170 Main Street	30 Lakeside Drive	Occupied by the Caliente Family.
\|`N001_Lot32.package`	1 Lakeside Road	10 Oak Street	Lakeside Road does not exist in the final version of Pleasantview.
\|`N001_Lot36.package`	11 Sim Lane	55 Woodland Drive	Occupied by the Broke Family.
\|`N001_Lot38.package`	7 Sim Lane	40 Woodland Drive	rowspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color:#EAECF0\|(N/A)
\|`N001_Lot40.package`	10 Sim Lane	35 Woodland Drive
\|`N001_Lot49.package`	30 Main Street	195 Main Street	Occupied by the Dreamer Family.
\|`N001_Lot51.package`	110 Main Street	70 Middle Lane	rowspan="7" style="text-align: center; background-color:#EAECF0\|(N/A)
\|`N001_Lot53.package`	190 Main Street	50 Middle Lane
\|`N001_Lot55.package`	111 Sim Lane	190 Sim Lane
\|`N001_Lot57.package`	90 Sim Lane	170 Sim Lane
\|`N001_Lot59.package`	71 Middle Lane	105 Sim Lane
\|`N001_Lot64.package`	67 Sim Lane	225 Main Street
\|`N001_Lot66.package`	111 Middle Lane	130 Sim Lane
\|`N001_Lot68.package`	70 Middle Lane	215 Sim Lane	Occupied by the Pleasant Family.
\|`N001_Lot70.package`	61 Sim Lane	95 Woodland Drive	rowspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color:#EAECF0\|(N/A)
\|`N001_Lot77.package`	150 Wright Way	210 Wright Way

Strangetown#

**`N002_Neighborhood.package`**
Lot ID	Early Name	Final Name	Notes
\|`N002_Lot25.package`	49 Road to Nowhere	57 Road to Nowhere	rowspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color:#EAECF0\|(N/A)
\|`N002_Lot27.package`	107 Road to Nowhere	91 Road to Nowhere

(Source: Китежград (Стренжтаун), post №295 - The Sims Creative Club)

Veronaville#

Veronaville uniquely has placeholder names for most of the early lot names, rather than just an earlier revision of the street address.

**`N003_Neighborhood.package`**
Lot ID	Early Name	Final Name	Notes
\|`N003_Lot128.package`	137 Chorus Court	95 Bard Boulevard	rowspan="16" style="text-align: center; background-color:#EAECF0\|(N/A)
\|`N003_Lot133.package`	corner tudor	54 Via Veronaville
\|`N003_Lot135.package`	Generic Tudor 3	40 Via Veronaville
\|`N003_Lot144.package`	VillageBldg 3	26 Via Veronaville
\|`N003_Lot149.package`	generic tudor 1	30 Poet Place
\|`N003_Lot153.package`	Generic Tudor 3	50 Poet Place
\|`N003_Lot157.package`	tudor, schmudor	45 Bard Boulevard
\|`N003_Lot159.package`	VillageBldg 3	35 Bard Boulevard
\|`N003_Lot164.package`	generic tudor 1	20 Via Veronaville
\|`N003_Lot166.package`	TudorVillageBldg_001	100 Via Veronaville
\|`N003_Lot168.package`	Generic Tudor 3	84 Via Veronaville
\|`N003_Lot171.package`	TudorVillageBldg_001	28 Bard Boulevard
\|`N003_Lot175.package`	generic tudor 1	46 Bard Boulevard
\|`N003_Lot179.package`	corner tudor	7 Chorus Court
\|`N003_Lot181.package`	TudorVillageBldg_001	19 Chorus Court

(Source: Веронавилле (Верона), post №112 - The Sims Creative Club)

D001 Neighborhood.package#

Hidden strings in Downtown lots#

To do:

Check for other Downtown lots containing hidden text strings and document them.

Some lots of Downtown subhood from The Sims 2: Nightlife expansion pack contains hidden text strings in their files in Downtown (D001) neighborhood template folder. These can be observed in the fanmade hacking tool; SimPE, by opening the Text Lists (STR#) resource. Interesting that this is not only in the residential lot but also in the community lot.

Found In	Lot Name	String Number	String (English)
Lots/D001_Lot97.package	38 Greaves Avenue	0x0000	City Dwelling 3
Lots/D001_Lot106.package	Hans' Trap Door Corp	0x0000	43
Lots/D001_Lot106.package	Hans' Trap Door Corp	0x0001	Created by Rain

(Source: История разработки Симс 2, post №2427 - The Sims Creative Club)

F001 Neighborhood.package#

Hidden strings in lots from Desiderata Valley#

Some lots from Desiderata Valley in The Sims 2: FreeTime expansion pack contains hidden text strings in their files in Desiderata Valley (F001) neighborhood template folder. These can be observed in the fanmade hacking tool; SimPE, by opening the Text Lists (STR#) resource. Interesting that this is not only in the residential lot but also in the community lot.

Lot ID	Lot Name	String (English)
F001_Lot11.package	1050 East Leisure Lane	4BR, 3+BA Colonial Revival
F001_Lot14.package	196 Main Street	TrainTable3
F001_Lot16.package	244 Hillside Pass Road	1BR, 1BA Cape Cod
F001_Lot18.package	189 West Pleasure Path	3BR, 2+BA A-Frame
F001_Lot20.package	1026 West Dreaming Drive	2BR, 2+BA Bungalow
F001_Lot22.package	1097 West Dreaming Drive	2BR, 1+BA Bungalow
F001_Lot24.package	Gustav's Grocery	Train Station
F001_Lot26.package	290 Hobby Drive	Trad 2bed 2bath Den
F001_Lot28.package	111 East Pleasure Path	Trad 2bed 2ba Bonus Room
F001_Lot30.package	250 Main Street	3BR, 2+BA 4Sq w in-law
F001_Lot32.package	1042 East Dreaming Drive	Train House 2-2
F001_Lot34.package	153 Main Street	TrainTable1
F001_Lot36.package	175 East Pleasure Path	Traditional 3bed 2half bath
F001_Lot38.package	Mostly Modern Art Museum	Modern Loft2
F001_Lot40.package	1051 West Leisure Lane	Lot 3 - 2BR 1.5BA
F001_Lot42.package	1080 West Leisure Lane	Lot 2 - 1BR 1BA
F001_Lot44.package	1055 East Leisure Lane	Lot 1 - 2BR 1.5 BA