The Sims 2

The Sims 2 is, as you may have guessed, the sequel to The Sims.

Unused Accessories
Some Sims in the game have hairstyles and outfits not available in the final game, even with the testingcheatsenabled cheat active. While most of the content that was cut from the base game was included in later expansions, such as Seasons and Nightlife, some of it was never reintroduced. A few of the unused hairstyles are similar to ones that are used in the final game, however.

Since her ghost takes the appearance a male Sim, and the icon for her head shows a teenage girl, Melissa Sims (one of the dead Sims in Olive Specter's garden) has a hairstyle that goes unused.

Placeholder Object
This placeholder object exists in the game and is the form taken by several debugging objects when they are spawned in-game. Oddly enough, whilst this placeholder object is not obtainable by normal means, it can be seen on the KidzTube station on a Sim's TV.

The Sims Leftovers
Images of Brigit the Maid, a character from the first Sims game, are present in the files of some of the default Maid NPCs.

Debugging Features
By pressing CTRL + SHIFT + C and typing "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true" and pressing Enter while in cheat mode will enable several debugging features;


 * By clicking a Sim while holding down SHIFT, a menu pops up with debugging options. They include making Sims grow up instantly (or killing them if they're old), changing their Aspiration or Traits, and making many Sims either selectable or unselectable. Objects also have a debugging menu, in which they can be reset to their original form or deleted.
 * Holding SHIFT + N in Create-A-Sim mode will allow the player to access clothing and hairstyles that are normally unused.

ideal plantsim
ideal plantsim is a hidden Sim whose only purpose in the game is to provide genetics towards all PlantSims born via the 'Spawn PlantBaby' option, technically making him the father of all PlantSim children (despite not appearing on their family trees). He can be added to the household via the boolprop testingcheatsenabled cheat without any negative effects on the game. Interestingly, despite being a PlantSim, he lacks the leafy hair and green skin of said life state.

Big Boss
Unlike ideal, Big Boss cannot be added to the household and was removed from the final game, although his icons and all of the files relating to his scenario still exist within the game. His scenario would've worked similar to the "Invite Headmaster" scenario, in which Sims would have to invite him over for dinner while trying to earn points by schmoozing and giving him a house tour, except the schmoozing part was not needed to win the scenario. The Big Boss and his scenario were most likely scrapped in favor of Chance Cards. Oddly enough, the Big Boss' icons show him with no face.

He would've arrived via helicopter at 5 PM, much like how the Headmaster arrives in a minivan at the same time. For some reason, if you summon his NPC through mods, he appears as a female Sim with a male voice.

Unused Aspirations
By using the testingcheatsenabled cheat and spawning the object "Sim Modder", it is possible to set a Sim's Aspiration to Power, a scrapped Aspiration without an icon. It appears it would have been a combination of both Popularity and Fortune, as many of the Wants for Power are similar to the Wants in the Popularity and Fortune Aspirations.

Another unused Aspiration called Craft exists in the game's files. Unlike Power, it cannot be set as an Aspiration for any Sim.

Removed Cheat
intProp censorgridsize, a cheat which removed the mosaic blur that appears on Sims while they take a bath or shower, was removed in the University expansion. It was revealed by EA that the cheat had been removed due to the game being accused of having in-depth sexual content.

Removed Features
Within the files of the game are several removed features from the game.


 * Weather was planned to be included in the base game, but was removed due to how buggy it was. An unused scenario relating to weather is in the files of the game, in which a power outage would have occurred. Weather was later re-introduced in the Seasons expansion, but the power outage scenario still went unused. The early version of weather, along with its unused scenario, can be re-accessed with mods.
 * Watch play-in is a scrapped computer action. Judging from its name, which referred to sex in the first game, it could have allowed a Sim to look at porn on the computer. The code for the game removes 20 simoleons from a Sim's savings if this action is done.
 * Wash clothes is a self-explanatory action. It is only referenced a few times in the code.
 * Hospital births were also going to be in the game, but only some code remains of it. There is a mod by Chris Hatch of Backalleysims which enables this. This idea was also reintroduced in the third game.