#Sim Archive Project

[simnostalgia]

Garden Of Shadows - All Custom Content

I've successfully scraped all of the available Custom Content that was linked on GOS from Mediafire, Box, and SimFileShare. (Mirrors on 4shared not included)

Of course, I can't go back in time to retrieve things that are already long gone but here's a .zip of 49 GBs of content. This is everything from the beginning of GOS to September 2023.

If you saw HugeLunatic's post, my response is here.

[simsnostalgicarchive]

Alternative the sims 1

[menacingmanatee]

Not a brave man, but at times a very stubborn one

(Limited color palette assignment for my oil painting class. I love college <3)

[mortal-kingss]

wanted to draw them in some fits ive worn ^_^

[occudo]

Childhood dreams~

This ask made me think about how Jon would talk about his past (also trieing to word build in actual comic form for a change :'D )

The Magus Archives on ao3

(Also fyi, Lonely Knights have a special armour that can be removed without help, normally)

[applesaucesims]

1930s Horror Film Posters

This was a huge project, and now they're finally all together: A collection of 10 posters for horror movies from the 1930s - with a personal, legally distinct twist! Having my legacy feature actors in the 1930s gave me the perfect idea for Simblreen. Horror movies (especially monster movies) were a huge genre in that decade, so I just had to make my characters star in some of the most famous ones. The text is entirely in Simlish, but the (main) actor names have been changed to the ones of the sims shown on the respective poster, while the others names are the same. Also, whenever a studio is credited, I've changed it to the Plumbob Studio.

bgc

4 swatches each (bg poster frame colours)

custom thumbnails

merged, zipped and separate files to pick and choose from

DOWNLOAD [sfs] (alt. link [gdrive])

Disclaimer: If you've previously found and downloaded the Mummy poster, please redownload, as I've noticed an editing mistake, which has been fixed now.

Comparisons between the original posters vs. mine below.

[therainbowtea]

Based on the "it is pride month" drawing. My roommate wanted me to draw on the spot and this is what I got. And even though Tim bisexual, I think Jon would call him a "gay ass" lol

[annamationsart]

everyone loves talking about little jon in correlation to mr. spider but no one ever talks about how insufferable this kid was. i wouldn’t wish sitting next to him in class upon my worst enemy

[cypresswood3]

I've seen several people post about it and I'm so happy this is a thing because.

Jon having a historical crush on Jonah Magnus is my favorite flavour of jonelias. S1 Jon naming docs he doesn't want to work on 'do it for Jonah Magnus'. S1/2 Jon speaking to Jonah's portrait in his office when he needs to think out loud. S1 Jon looking through statements and going, "what would Jonah Magnus think about it?" Having embarassingly extensive knowledge about Jonah Magnus' lore. Finding his first 'letter to Jonah Magnus' statement and feeling his heart flutter as he tries to comprehend that Jonah Magnus read those exact words and held that letter in his hands. Idolizing Jonah Magnus to a point he's more of a fictional character in Jon's head than anything else.

Elias Sees and Knows and drinks it all in and it's blissful.

[spookyspeks]

Ace people who make stuff about Jon having sex you are braver than any US marine

[perl-in-my-head]

I've always had my issues with season 5 of tma and the way the eyepocalypse works, so basically it just called for an AU!

The gist of it is basically that instead of the world being seperated between the entities, Jon triggers the biblical apocalypse.

As the first seal is broken, the four horsemen arrive. (I guess I got rid of the horse part though lol) Of those four, the first one that Jon and Martin encounter is Jane Prentiss, The Crawling One aka Plague.

The entities are a lot more free and tangled with eachother in my version, and there are no seperate domains. Also I will revive characters at random, don't be surprised lmao

[simnostalgia]

@hugelunatic Hi, it's me, the person who scraped GOS! Sorry I couldn't reblog the original post so, here is my response.

First of all, I wanted to say. Thank you for everything you do for our community. You've really been a major part of The TS2 community from the beginning!

Second, you'll stop me from archiving when you pry the archiving software out of my cold, dead hands.

Do you know about Plumb Bob Keep? That's a real question because as the TS2 modding community gets ever smaller and becomes more and more insular it gets harder to know who is on what moderation team and who co-runs what. However, if you do know Plumb Bob keep you'd know that recently the owner died. Which meant that suddenly the entire community had to scramble.

Fortunately, they were able to get in contact with the family (in their time of mourning) to ask "Hey, sorry about the dead girl, can I has password please? I need my fix of virtual doll clothes"

I don't blame them for this. They'd obviously put a lot of time into this and the reason I know that is because I got approached to see what I could do when the site was offline and they were still trying to figure out what to do. Unfortunately, when a site's only existing documentation exists in the WayBackMachine that makes it basically impossible to scrape.

And this isn't even the first time this happened, when Yahoo Groups shutdown, ArchiveTeam had trouble talking to MOST older simmers because they were so fucking touchy about their content. Literally our community has a reputation for being obnoxious about TOUs and 'rights' to the point where they'd basically given up trying to archive anything that had to do with The Sims.

So if you thought that this was because I was concerned that you were running into the ground. Rest assured, I'm doing this in case you get in a fatal car accident so we don't have to call your mourning loved ones to ask the very cringe question: "Do you know about the forum from 2008 that your spouse/son/father/sister/daughter/mother ran? Can we have access to it please. I have recolors that I'd DESPERATELY love to get back."

As far as bandwidth goes, I do my best to make sure that I scrape with as little intrusion as possible and your load is lighter since you don't host any of the actual CC or even 75% of your own images.

Now, we could talk about what this really is: a pissing contest. But don't worry. I have no real interest in encroaching on your territory of running an alternative style sims 2 forum from 2008. I love GOS, or I wouldn't have made sure that it didn't fucking disappear into the ether.

But believe me, no one is choosing to look through a list of 10,000 zip files without images or descriptions as a replacement for a fully functional forum with like... images of the items. My archive of GOS is pretty much only for creators and people who know EXACTLY what they're looking for.

And that goes similarly for everyone worried about their precious TOUs in the comments of the original post. No one, and I mean no one, prefers to dig through an entire fucking ass ton of files labeled shit like "[POOKLET] SKYSIMS MESH 007 - UNNATURAL COLORS"

In fact, I've had several creators thank me because the scrape unearthed some shit they'd thought they'd lost. And if you don't like it, or me, get in line. I assure you there is metric fuck ton of people from patreon who hate me far more.

However, I would like to say that whenever you / or any other creator who is mad about this / literally any simmer, is searching for a dependency because someone got in some obscure internet drama and deleted all their cc or Mediafire got shut down by the RIAA or whatever the fuck.

You, for as "annoyed" as you are, will remember the big ass zip file and CTRL + F your ass to what you're looking for. And I'm going to say it now, for when that moment comes:

You're welcome. No hard feelings.

[simsnostalgicarchive]

Superstar_download.exe - «Elle Woods sim NPC celebrity» from Amazon preorder for "the sims superstar ⭐️" 2003

Still lost media dlc for sims 1!

This issue has been discussed in detail on various Internet forums, but to no avail, unfortunately;(

Sources:

[thewordslastcowboy]

Diy Magnus Archives keychain bc I was bored and I can’t find any merch 😭‼️

[vanilla-extracter]

The eye opens

[sweetmapple]

Chat we’re so back