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| Paladin |
Life Stories Content for Sims 2This isn't 100% official content but I thought I'd post this for those interested.A couple of content creators at www.modthesims2.com have taken the Life Stories exclusive objects and careers from Life Stories and converted the files for The Sims 2. Objects: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=220834 Jobs: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=220833 Personally I like this content as I was disappointed to find that Life Stories had *exclusive* content which could have been quite easily implemented into The Sims 2 by Maxis (Particulary the new TV). Still I suppose it's just another of EA's ploys to get you to buy another pack for the sake of Sims exclusives. |
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| giggy6004 |
the objects link doesn't work because they removed it | ||||
| Paladin |
Hmm... So they have...
Well I'll leave the link up for a couple of days and if they don't put the items back up in the same or a different page, I'll remove it completely. |
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| era506 |
I think they won't put them back, they said that they where prepared to remove all the objects if EA asks them to do it, you know because of copyright... |
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| giggy6004 |
 should they be uploaded here?
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| era506 |
Mmm... maybe. I have them all, I could contribute. Let's wait if they re-up them at MTS2. |
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| Paladin |
Yeah that's a possibility, however neither of the content's creators have announced anything officially at this time. Real shame too since I was only able to download 3 of the object .rar files. 
Wouldn't mind but in my case, I've bought Life Stories so it's not like I've not paid for the items. If only Maxis/EA could convert the new content officially for The Sims 2, that'd be nice. 
And if EA are so interested in milking every possible penny from us... They could easily restrict the downloads to people who have purchased Life Stories. Not that the items wouldn't get shared at all. 
But I bet something like that would increase the sales of Life Stories. Or possibly even make a Life Stories "Stuff Pack" for The Sims 2. Both are possibilities... But nothing's official until EA says so. Just seems a shame to me to create all this great new content and then restrict it to Life Stories simply for the purpose of trying to shift more copies of Life Stories, however profits will always come before the loyal customers. 
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| Paladin |
That'd be nice.
Just a shame about the whole thing... If EA pulled the plug on Life Stories then that essentially prevents anyone from doing the same with Pet Stories and Castaway Stories when they come out.
(Or if it doesn't prevent them... They'd have to distribute the material a lot quieter...) |
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| hw7905 |
Yup, Paladin's got that right. If those stuff are to be distributed, it must be done in a quiet way. And I'm also wondering if Maxis will manage to stop people from extracting the files from their upcoming Stories packs.
FYI, most of the files from Life Stories were compatible with the original Sims 2 game. All you need to do is to look into the .package files and extract the relevant contents with a tool called SimPE. I've extracted some files from LS and made them into Sims 2 before and they just worked fine! Right now, I wish I had the time to do the same for the Life Stories walls, floors and roofs. |
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| giggy6004 |
the big question is...
will they change the packaging for pet stories and Castaway stories? |
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| Paladin |
Well it appears as though they've now taken down the files for 2 careers too.
As for changing the packaging for Pet Stories and Castaway Stories... I don't think they will, it'd involve completely redesigning their packaging system in such a limited time to keep to the current release schedules, a system which someone would learn to extract from soon enough anyway. |
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| era506 |
Bad news guys. I was going to upload the Life Stories objects and careers today, but my sister was using my computer yesterday, I wasn't in my house, and apparently she was "playing" with my it and I don't know what she did but everything in my HD is gone!!! I lost all my files from the last two weeks (I made a back up two weeks ago). AAHHH!! I'm so mad to my sister that I'll probably won't talk to her in months. 
Anyway, I'm sorry for those of you who were waiting for them. I have a friend that I know he has the objects and I'll tell him to upload and post them here. (That way I can download them again) |
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| Skyfallkavu |
How old was she? I would of whipped her if she was my sister. >_> | ||||
| era506 |
She is 15. I think I won't speak to her again. | ||||
| giggy6004 |
It's ok
I've backed them up on a yahoo group. http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/TS2LSpack/ |
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| era506 |
Thank you so much for this!!! 
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| LammashtaOtaku |
I've finally added the walls on that group. | ||||
| dundertaker2002 |
.Thanks giggy6004
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| Min_92 |
I was wondering if someone is going to convert the Pet Stories objects, expecialy the pet-show items. Perhaps on moreawesomethanyou? But i havn't found anything yet.
Please tell me if you found Pet-Story conversions somewhere! |
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| giggy6004 |
The pet show objects may or maynot be converted due to the aimation on the objects.
The rest depends but it may well be easy to do |
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| Saiyne |
Umm... The walls look like... music!? | ||||
| deCorvo |
Maybe someone could hack those petshow objects somehow. |
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| Paladin |
It's possible...
However as giggy6004 said, the problem lies in the fact that there's no available animations within The Sims 2 that are associated with the pet show objects. I've no idea if there's any way to transfer the animations over or what it would take to write the animations from scratch, however considering we've yet to see any pet show objects for the Sims 2 surface anywhere yet... It's probably safe to assume that it's *very* difficult. Another problem is that each object has it's own associated skill bar and training methods that go with them. Again that's an entirely new database full of code which probably isn't compatible with The Sims 2. So quite honestly I doubt we'll be seeing these objects put into The Sims 2 by anyone other than Maxis themselves, however since there's been no mention of Maxis creating anymore pet related content for The Sims 2, it's unlikely we'll ever see them. At best the only foreseeable way I can see these objects in The Sims 2 is as user created static decorations and nothing more. Although if someone can prove me wrong, that would be awesome.
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| deCorvo |
Well it's fine than. I'm still have some hope for those objects, maybe as simple decorations.
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| karrere |
I was unable to get Pet Stories to run past chapter two, so I looked into the file packages and discovered some are labeled Exp 6.
Bon Voyage is being released next month, so I am expecting some of these items will then be portable into the Sims 2 game or be part of Bon Voyage. Since pets if I am correct will not be going on vacation, the training items probable will not make this expansion pack and decorational may be our only avenue for having them in our game. Still it would look really cool to see the items in a park. I would like to see the vending machine myself, as it would work great on community lots for serving food and be more realistic in employee break rooms. |
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| Havoc |
There are 3 download servers : http://chii.modthesims2.com/ http://freya.modthesims2.com/ http://files.modthesims2.com/
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