The Sims 2 (GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox)

The Sims 2
Developer: Maxis Publisher: Electronic Arts Platforms: GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox Released in US: October 24, 2005 Released in EU: November 4, 2005 This game has unused code. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden level select. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article This game has a bugs page

To do: According to a former EA developer on ModTheSims, this game originally started out as a sequel to The Urbz, but got reskinned into The Sims 2 due to poor sales. Dig through the files and see if there are leftovers worth typing for.

The Sims 2, now with the ability to control your sim with a joystick, make food recipes, and play in a story mode...in exchange for not having any multi-level houses, using more than four houses in free play, or seeing new generations be born and raised. This is the first Sims console game to not be released in Japan...but future installments would have their PSP ports localized instead.

Sub-Pages

Developer Options From options that give unused objects to various normally inaccessible cheats and debug options.

The Urbz Leftovers City life that was too advanced for Sims.

Prototype Info

Prerelease Info

Bugs

Build Tags

All of these are found in the executable.

Platform	Build Version	Sandbox Version
GameCube (USA)	F.09.12.0	1.mainline_SKU1.0.63
GameCube (EUR)	F.09.17.0	1.mainline_SKU2.0.100
PlayStation 2 (USA)	F.09.20.0	-
PlayStation 2 (EUR)	F.09.20.0	-
Xbox (USA)	F.09.12.0	1.mainline_SKU1.0.63
Xbox (EUR)	F.09.17.0	1.mainline_SKU2.0.100

Unused Graphics

Early Logo

ui_logo256_english_dark

This logo patched into The Urbz

An early logo, which seems to be the same shape as The Urbz: Sims in The City logo with the working title The Sims 2 Console. When hacked into The Urbz, it aligns perfectly with the logo, including the alpha channel to hide the gradient background.

E3 World Map

temp_worldmap_e3

A world map, which judging by the filename seems to have been used at E3 2005, only one month before The Urbz 2 was completely reworked. The map contains some interesting differences:

• Pleasantview, Strangetown and Melbourne aren't mentioned or seen at all.
• The map design originally had a big city center.
• The HMS Amore's dock was placed more towards the sea.
• The Biodome wasn't underwater, and instead was placed on a sort of hill.
• The Alien Crash Site was on top of a mountain, near the sea rather than in a desert area.
• The Cliffside Retreat seemed to have overlooked a big city.
• It seemed the city also had a suburban neighborhood, which is where Rockwell Acres is placed.

Eyetoy Icons

These icons were used during the development as the default Eyetoy icons. In the final game, it generates 5 different icons based on your own Sim. These later would end up returning in The Sims 2: Pets as paintings your Sim can draw in the GameCube version. They have a significantly earlier head style reminiscent of The Urbz.

• 

  rep_01

• 

  rep_02

• 

  rep_03

• 

  rep_04

• 

  rep_05

Fonts

Since this game was never officially translated and released anywhere in East Asia, it makes all of these font textures go unused.

Chinese
font_china_s24_p0	font_china_s24_p1	font_china_s24_p2	font_china_s24_p3
font_china_s24_p4	font_china_s24_p5	font_china_s24_p6	font_china_s24_p7
font_china_s24_p8	font_china_s24_p9	font_china_s24_p10	font_china_s24_p11
font_china_s24_p12	font_china_s24_p13	font_china_s24_p14	font_china_s24_p15

Japanese
font_japan_s24_p0	font_japan_s24_p1	font_japan_s24_p2	font_japan_s24_p3	font_japan_s24_p4
font_japan_s24_p5	font_japan_s24_p6	font_japan_s24_p7	font_japan_s24_p8	font_japan_s24_p9

Korean
font_korea_s24_p0	font_korea_s24_p1	font_korea_s24_p2
font_korea_s24_p3	font_korea_s24_p4	font_korea_s24_p5
	font_korea_s24_p6

Miscellaneous

To do: font_onestroke_script_s24_p0 is also present in Bustin' Out, as a leftover from TS1 Console.

Technically font_systemfont_s12_p0 is used but only visible when certain debugging options are enabled.

font_onestroke_script_s24_p0	font_systemfont_s12_p0

Unused Files

The BINARIES.ARC container has a few interesting files, such as a placeholder icon.sys file that's linked to saveicon.ico, copyicon.ico and deleteicon.ico, and unused slime#.ico save icons, where # is replaced with numbers 1 - 3. The three icons that the placeholder icon.sys is linked to are the same as the regular save icons you see after making a save.

The icon.sys has a blue gradient that's used by most Sims games on the PlayStation 2, with a placeholder filename that says 〈Game Title Here〉

Icon texture

The unknown/unused slime#.ico files are animated, and were clearly meant to be used as a regular save icon, a copy save icon and a delete save icon. The icon's texture might seem like it's corrupt, but the actual texture has a somewhat vague pattern to it.

slime1.ico	slime2.ico	slime3.ico

And lastly, for whatever reason copying the save file is prohibited on all PS2 Sims 2 games, meaning this copy save icon is never seen under normal circumstances.

copyicon.ico

Team Photo

A panoramic photo of the developers that worked on the video game can be viewed by pressing Right, Down, Right, Down and Right on the PlayStation 2 version during the credits on the main menu. They are stored in four different 256x256 graphics, and the displayed image is a recreation of the photo with all of them combined together.

Development Text & Code

All of these are found on the retail GameCube discs.

Download Logs File: TheSims2_GameCube-logs.zip (695 KB) (info)

version.h

The only thing that differs between the NTSC-U and PAL versions is the timestamp.

USA

//	The Sims
//	Copyright 2005 Electronic Arts Inc. 
//
//	\file	version.h
//
//	\brief	??
//

//
// This file defines the current build version. Used by the PS2 platform.
// Version string format: majorver, milestone, month, day, build (resets to 1 every day)
// This file is generated by code.
//

#ifndef VERSION_H
#define VERSION_H

// CM Versioning scheme.  Values do not change in checked in version.
#define BUILD_TIMESTAMP "2005-09-12-0502"
#define BUILD_USER "codebuilder"
#define BUILD_HOSTNAME "CM3-BUILD25"
#define BUILD_FILEVERSION 1,mainline_SKU1,0,63
#define BUILD_VERSION "1.mainline_SKU1.0.63"

/////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Sandbox versioning
#define SANDBOX_FILEVERSION	BUILD_FILEVERSION
#define SANDBOX_VERSION		BUILD_VERSION

/////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Build Versioning
//	first  Milestone letter(D=Development,P=PreAlpha,A=Alpha,B=Beta,F=Final), month, day, version that day
#define	VERS_LIST	'F',9,12,0
#define	VERS_STRING	"F.09.12.0"

#if EA_PLATFORM_PLAYSTATION2
	#define	V_LIST			VERS_LIST
	#define	V_STRING		VERS_STRING
#elif EA_PLATFORM_XBOX
	#define	V_LIST			VERS_LIST
	#define	V_STRING		VERS_STRING
#elif EA_PLATFORM_GAMECUBE
	#define	V_LIST			VERS_LIST
	#define	V_STRING		VERS_STRING
#elif EA_PLATFORM_WINDOWS
	#if EDITH_IN_SIMS
		#define	V_LIST			VERS_LIST
		#define	V_STRING		VERS_STRING
	#else
		#define	V_LIST			VERS_LIST
		#define	V_STRING		VERS_STRING
	#endif
#endif

#define BUILD_VER_NUMS		V_LIST
#define	BUILD_VER_STRING	V_STRING

#endif	// VERSION_H

EUR

//	The Sims
//	Copyright 2005 Electronic Arts Inc. 
//
//	\file	version.h
//
//	\brief	??
//

//
// This file defines the current build version. Used by the PS2 platform.
// Version string format: majorver, milestone, month, day, build (resets to 1 every day)
// This file is generated by code.
//

#ifndef VERSION_H
#define VERSION_H

// CM Versioning scheme.  Values do not change in checked in version.
#define BUILD_TIMESTAMP "2005-09-16-1725"
#define BUILD_USER "codebuilder"
#define BUILD_HOSTNAME "CM3-BUILD25"
#define BUILD_FILEVERSION 1,mainline_SKU2,0,100
#define BUILD_VERSION "1.mainline_SKU2.0.100"

/////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Sandbox versioning
#define SANDBOX_FILEVERSION	BUILD_FILEVERSION
#define SANDBOX_VERSION		BUILD_VERSION

/////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Build Versioning
//	first  Milestone letter(D=Development,P=PreAlpha,A=Alpha,B=Beta,F=Final), month, day, version that day
#define	VERS_LIST	'F',9,17,0
#define	VERS_STRING	"F.09.17.0"

#if EA_PLATFORM_PLAYSTATION2
	#define	V_LIST			VERS_LIST
	#define	V_STRING		VERS_STRING
#elif EA_PLATFORM_XBOX
	#define	V_LIST			VERS_LIST
	#define	V_STRING		VERS_STRING
#elif EA_PLATFORM_GAMECUBE
	#define	V_LIST			VERS_LIST
	#define	V_STRING		VERS_STRING
#elif EA_PLATFORM_WINDOWS
	#if EDITH_IN_SIMS
		#define	V_LIST			VERS_LIST
		#define	V_STRING		VERS_STRING
	#else
		#define	V_LIST			VERS_LIST
		#define	V_STRING		VERS_STRING
	#endif
#endif

#define BUILD_VER_NUMS		V_LIST
#define	BUILD_VER_STRING	V_STRING

#endif	// VERSION_H

Build Dates

[9/12/2005 0:05:53] Building Sims - GameCube...
[9/12/2005 0:05:53] Making QuickDatas...

Initial build date.

[9/12/2005 5:25:18] Building Datasets...
[9/12/2005 5:25:18] Making Datasets...

Finished intital Build Date.

Unused Text

code_version.txt

100138 
1.mainline_SKU1.0.63 

101050 
1.mainline_SKU2.0.100 

content_version.txt

100130 
1.Content.ML.145 

101074 
1.Content.ML.159 

Oddities

Flooring Error

One of the flooring, Fake Grass Mat, has an incorrect preview texture on PlayStation 2 and doesn't always appear in the Build/Floors section. Whenever it does appear, it reuses the texture from "Pave the Earth", but Xbox and GameCube displays it properly.

PlayStation 2	GameCube & Xbox

Plaank Bookcase Variants

For some reason there are two versions of the Plaank Bookcase. The one seen on the left is found pre-placed in Cliffside Retreat, Bio Dome and Andromeda Arms but cannot be bought, and the one on the right is the regular Plaank Bookcase that is purchasable by the player. The glass shelves for both objects are from the bookshelf_expensive model file, the books themselves for the purchasable bookcase are also from bookshelf_expensive, but the books for the "unused" bookcase are from a separate model named bookshelf_glass.

The Official Prima Guide for this game also shows that the early bookcase is supposed to be the same Plaank Bookcase.

Regional Differences

Loading Text

The loading screen text is slightly more verbose in the European release.

EUR	USA

Platform Differences

Start Screen

The level of politeness for telling you to press Start is different for each platform. What's also notable is the background gradient being more detailed on Xbox.

GameCube	PlayStation 2	Xbox

Language Select

While GameCube relies on the system settings to set the language, PlayStation 2 and Xbox has a language select menu for the European release. Xbox happens to have fewer languages, those missing languages being Danish, Finnish and Norwegian.

PlayStation 2	Xbox

Xbox Loading Screens

The Xbox version has unique loading screen backgrounds that can be seen. These textures also exist in the PS2 and GameCube versions, however they are 8×8 in size, and even if it's shown in-game there, there's no way it can be seen at that small of a size.

PlayStation 2 & GameCube	Xbox	PlayStation 2 & GameCube	Xbox
house_load0		house_load1
house_load2		house_load3
house_load4		house_load5
house_load6		house_load7