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userjoao
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#1 Old 15th Jun 2017 at 8:48 PM
Once again, a thread about Sims 2 Beta
I didn't want bring some other thread back from the dead just to post this, but I was digging sims 2 beta stuff online because I was bored and I found some site with old screenshots from the game that I had never seen before. Apparently the needs panel was supposed to be vertical and there were L shaped staircases! (on the right side of the house, next to the bar) and the sidewalk is also a little closer to the road:



Link to the site: http://thesim2home.4t.com/Screenshots2.htm
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Bulbizarre
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#2 Old 15th Jun 2017 at 9:15 PM
That's pretty cool.
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JDacapo
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#3 Old 15th Jun 2017 at 9:22 PM
I wish it was available to the public - then we could have the real Sedona and other beta worlds, and all those accessories that had been deleted before the game that was released.
GabyPurpleB
Field Researcher
#4 Old 15th Jun 2017 at 10:27 PM
Quote: Originally posted by JMarcos123
I didn't want bring some other thread back from the dead just to post this, but I was digging sims 2 beta stuff online because I was bored and I found some site with old screenshots from the game that I had never seen before. Apparently the needs panel was supposed to be vertical and there were L shaped staircases! (on the right side of the house, next to the bar) and the sidewalk is also a little closer to the road:



Link to the site: http://thesim2home.4t.com/Screenshots2.htm

Wow, those screenshots are from really early betas I never haven' seen those, they must be quite rare
GabyPurpleB
Field Researcher
#5 Old 15th Jun 2017 at 10:37 PM Last edited by GabyPurpleB : 15th Jun 2017 at 11:17 PM.



http://thesim2home.4t.com/Screenshots2.htm

Look at the designs of the notifications, this site has some pictures of beta that I never have seen :O
JDacapo
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#6 Old 15th Jun 2017 at 10:46 PM
@GabyPurpleB please upload the pictures as attachments - the site you're remote linking from isn't having any of that nonsense.
marka93
Mad Poster
#7 Old 15th Jun 2017 at 11:05 PM Last edited by marka93 : 15th Jun 2017 at 11:17 PM.
The clunky looking ones are from the 1st-2nd Sims 1 game engine and the others are from the 1st-4th beta of the Sims 2 game engine.

Most of the one's with TSR on them are from the closed E3 session just before the 1st day of E3.
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GabyPurpleB
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#8 Old 15th Jun 2017 at 11:18 PM
@JDacapp Sorry, I will be more careful next time, I rarely make posts like that, Thanks for the advice
JDacapo
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#9 Old 15th Jun 2017 at 11:58 PM
Don't be sorry - was just giving you a little humourous heads-up. I mean, a site not having any of that nonsense? It was meant to kinda anthropomorphize the site and make it look obstinate is all. I don't bite.
DezzyDoesThings
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#10 Old 16th Jun 2017 at 12:59 AM
I remember these. I even had a cd with interviews and behind the scenes footage. Came with Makin Magic. Anyone else remember that?
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Gremily_
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#11 Old 16th Jun 2017 at 1:15 AM
I didn't have Makin' Magic as a standalone, but I had Complete Collection (and still do, but currently waiting on a new part for that computer so I can play it again). Complete Collection came with a teaser trailer for the base game AND university. If you look at the Uni one , around 37ish seconds you can catch a glimpse of THOSE BLUE STUDY BOOKS ALL OVER THE FLOOR. As per usual.

Those beta images are super cool, though. Can't believe how much the game has evolved from those stages!
marka93
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#12 Old 16th Jun 2017 at 2:45 AM
There is still Sims 1 content in the package files, once they got the Sims 2 engine they started porting it over.
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marka93
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#13 Old 16th Jun 2017 at 3:07 AM
Its just something I read a very long time ago that Maxis was using the Sims 1 engine to start putting together Sims 2.

Where I read it I can not remember now.
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userjoao
Lab Assistant
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#14 Old 16th Jun 2017 at 6:14 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Gremily_
I didn't have Makin' Magic as a standalone, but I had Complete Collection (and still do, but currently waiting on a new part for that computer so I can play it again). Complete Collection came with a teaser trailer for the base game AND university. If you look at the Uni one , around 37ish seconds you can catch a glimpse of THOSE BLUE STUDY BOOKS ALL OVER THE FLOOR. As per usual.

Those beta images are super cool, though. Can't believe how much the game has evolved from those stages!


I think those are just assignment notebooks lol
Kankritty
Scholar
#15 Old 16th Jun 2017 at 6:47 PM


tempui-ui_txtr_1024x768.png and build_mode_post_txtr_64x64.png (found in Base Game Objects06.package file)
Not sure if the build mode one is Beta.
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userjoao
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#16 Old 16th Jun 2017 at 7:07 PM Last edited by JMarcos123 : 16th Jun 2017 at 9:10 PM.
Cool! I think that one is probably an old icon for the deck foundation.

Edit: does anyone remember this male outfit being in the game? I think the pants are, but I've never seen this hoodie before.

userjoao
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#17 Old 16th Jun 2017 at 11:35 PM Last edited by JMarcos123 : 16th Jun 2017 at 11:57 PM.
And two Dons lol. I figure they just got rid of Waterside because of redundancies like this. It was also pretty much made entirely of copies of the bin lots. Or perhaps they got rid of the neighborhood and used the lots to fill up the premade lot bin?

Edit:
Quote: Originally posted by frogz2007
2 particular parts would be of interest. at 1:43 in the video you can hear a voice which sounds a lot like the Therapist. Where it was coming from in the game is beyond me. Then, at 1:18 someone asks if something was present (can't hear it) and she said it was "hidden for the purposes of the demo".

I think the person asked about the needs panel or the rest of the UI. And something tells me that voice was actually what the teen voices were supposed to be.
userjoao
Lab Assistant
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#18 Old 17th Jun 2017 at 12:29 AM
Quote: Originally posted by frogz2007
I'd be freaked out if the teens sounded like the Therapist.

Same, it sounded kinda off. But that's the only explanation, the Therapist is nowhere to be seen in the video, and it sounded more like someone talking normally and kind of forcing a childish voice, not the Therapist lines . Maybe it was the same voice actor.
Also, in this video (the original version of the one you edited i think) if you pay really close attention, even the adult voices sound kinda different. Maybe all the voice tracks at that point were just placeholder?
GabyPurpleB
Field Researcher
#19 Old 17th Jun 2017 at 1:11 AM
@Kankritty WOW I never haven seen this pictures of the beta game, I'm interested on that since 2015, when I discovered about this beta. I even have a whole folder of pictures on my other computer.
userjoao
Lab Assistant
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#20 Old 17th Jun 2017 at 1:18 AM
Quote: Originally posted by frogz2007
On a side note: I think EA might've used the idle animation seen in this video here for the idle stance which Sims do in 3.

LMAO. EA recycled way too much stuff from 2. Even literal unused animations.
Also, I think idle animations were a really nice detail they should've kept in the game. The girl in the red top in this video for instance (instant 1:05 she has her arms crossed and is tipped to the side). I think they just scrapped them for shorter animations because the player would had to wait for the animation to be complete for the sim to do the next task.
Quote: Originally posted by GabyPurpleB
I even have a whole folder of pictures on my other computer.

Same.
GabyPurpleB
Field Researcher
#21 Old 17th Jun 2017 at 1:30 AM
I found this site with more interesting pictures: http://sims.gry-online.pl/serwis/viewpage.php?page_id=4
GabyPurpleB
Field Researcher
#22 Old 17th Jun 2017 at 1:47 AM
I also found this beta version of BodyShop: https://www.fileplanet.com/140517/1...op-Starter-Kit-
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AmandieLove
Forum Resident
#23 Old 17th Jun 2017 at 2:14 AM
It seems redundant that Pleasantview and Waterside would coexist because there would be two Dons and two Dinas, but even in the final, we have two Bellas*. So it wouldn't surprise me. Maybe they stuck one of the Dons and one of the Dinas in as a placeholder to be replaced closer to release? I dunno.

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userjoao
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#24 Old 17th Jun 2017 at 2:57 PM
You guys, I think the back of this hair from the base game is a leftover of the beyhive hair.

mixa97sr
Top Secret Researcher
#25 Old 17th Jun 2017 at 6:38 PM
That old UI had sims chooser as a pop up menu:



Also, some of the irrelevant, but interesting images:
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