Electronics

This is a sub-page of The Sims 2 (Windows)/Unused Textures/Base Game/Buy Mode.

TV Screen#

Evidently The Sims 2 would have followed The Sims in having TV screens that were static, before transitioning to large textures that would have been animated in-game, before finally settling on using full video files.

Found In	Instance	File Name	Notes
Sims3D/Objects07.package	0xFF27EFD8	electronicvideogamesystem-games-sportssocceranimation0_lifo	This series of images shows footage of a buyable game that doesn't appear, FIFA 04. Footage of the game would later be seen in The Sims 2: University on the Sports channel.
Sims3D/Objects07.package	0xFF3CA621	electronicvideogamesystem-games-ssxstartscreen0_lifo	A series of images that shows the character select screen of SSX. A game that does not appear in the final game, having been replaced by SSX 3.
Sims3D/Objects07.package	0xFFC42380	electronicvideogamesystem-games-ssxgameanims0_lifo	Same as above, showing gameplay of a race.
Sims3D/Objects07.package	0xFFB68B8F	electronicvideogamesystem-games-ssxendscreen0_lifo	Same as above, showing the end results. Where the player evidently got 3rd place.
Sims3D/Objects09.package	0xFFF74F6E	tv000_lifo	Of note is that these images are taken from actual Television shows and commercials, including I Love Lucy and a campaign commercial for US President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1964.
Sims3D/Objects09.package	0xFFCCDEE2	tv010_lifo	Same as above.
Sims3D/Objects09.package	0xFF9230EE	tvscreenanimations-screen-simscommerical0_lifo	These depict a real-life commercial for The Sims Livin Large that originally aired in December 2000; the original commercial can be viewed in full here. The graphic can also be seen in footage from E3 2003.
Sims3D/Objects09.package	0xFF0EE388	screen0_lifo	An unused screen texture graphic, likely intended for any of the computers. It shows a computer being modeled in Alias\|Wavefront Maya.
Sims3D/Textures.package	0xFF230DAD	tvglass0_lifo	An unused effect for the TV glass, which is displayed in a blue hue in comparison to the used black hue.

Wall Speakers#

Found In	Instance	File Name	Notes
Sims3D/Objects09.package	0xFF8DF6CE	stereowall-ash0_lifo	This texture is used for the Neukem Systems Wall Speaker, but has no public speaker counterpart. It may have been an earlier version of the Heavy Metal Speaker, which uses a different model and texture in the released game.
Sims3D/Objects09.package	0xFFCA21FD	stereowall-white0_lifo	This texture is used for the Neukem Systems Wall Speaker, but has no public speaker counterpart. It was later repurposed for the Shopping genre speaker in Open For Business.
Sims3D/Objects09.package	0xFF036C85	stereowallclassical-surface0_lifo	The texture for the unused classical wall-mounted speaker. A separate, and completely different one would appear in Nightlife.