History Trivia / TheSims2

** Early screenshots of the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS game show the player holding a letter from Daddy Bigbucks just outside of the hotel's entrance, in which he declares he's [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere had enough of]] trying to run the hotel and that it's yours. In the final game, no names are mentioned for the previous manager, who takes off the day before the player arrives.

** Writing "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true" (the last word replaced with "false" to deactivate the code) activates a [[DebugRoom debugging mode]]. It's supposed to be entered in the neighbourhood, before entering the desired family (it only takes effect after a lot change) and lets you now mess around with it how much you want. You hold in "shift" and click on a sim to suddenly get very out-of-place options and go from there. You can spawn all from wishing wells to tombstones, turn them into vampires, mess with the sims' genders or names as well as make a girl pregnant with ''anyone'', even her [[BrotherSisterIncest brother]]. This is not recommended though if you have a crash-tastic computer as these cheats can make it hang. Also, no matter what language you play in, the options will always be in English.

** Writing "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true" (the last word replaced with "false" to inactivate the code) activates a [[DebugRoom debugging mode]]. It's supposed to be entered in the neighbourhood, before entering the desired family (it only takes effect after a lot change) and lets you now mess around with it how much you want. You hold in "shift" and click on a sim to suddenly get very out-of-place options and go from there. You can spawn all from wishing wells to tombstones, turn them into vampires, mess with the sims' genders or names as well as make a girl pregnant with ''anyone'', even her [[BrotherSisterIncest brother]]. This is not recommended though if you have a crash-tastic computer as these cheats can make it hang. Also, no matter what language you play in, the options will always be in English.

** Jake Simpson, one of the developers, [[https://twitter.com/JustJakeSimpson/status/1377715876216991744 mentioned]] on Twitter that a expansion pack similar to the Superstar expansion for The Sims 1 has considered, but scrapped, because of the hassle in creating [=NPCs=] for real life celebrities. In that thread, other scrapped ideas are also mentioned, such as giving sims superpowers or replacing the plumbob with icons indicating what the sims wanted or what they were doing.

** Jake Simpson, one of the developers, [[https://twitter.com/JustJakeSimpson/status/1377715876216991744 mentioned]] on Twitter that a expansion pack similar to the Superstar expansion for The Sims 1 has considered, but scrapped, because of the hassle in creating NPCs for real life celebrities. In that thread, other scrapped ideas are also mentioned, such as giving sims superpowers or replacing the plumbob with icons indicating what the sims wanted or what they were doing.

** Playable, open hospitals (and hospital births) were planned at some stage for the base game, as well as breastfeeding. Hospitals would phisically appear from The Sims 3 onwards and breastfeeding on The Sims 4; but modders Chris Hatch and Pescado, respectively, reintroduced this features on mods.

** Playable, open hospitals (and hospital births) were planned at aome stage for the base game, as well as breastfeeding. Hospitals would phisically appear from TS3 onwards and breastfeeding on TS4; but modders Chris Hatch and Pescado, respectively, reintroduced this features on mods.

*** In the game istelf, there remain clues indicating at least two more unreleased neighborhoods: Sedona (mentioned above), and Europa, which probably was an early version of Veronaville, and which has a flythrough coded into the game, but not a map.

** Early on in the game's development, a neighborhood called Riverside was meant to be the only one featured in the game. Later on, Maxis/EA Games decided to scrap it to make room for the three base game neighborhoods. [[https://modthesims.info/d/503756 A recreated version]] was completed in 2014.

*** In the game istelf, there remain clues indicating at least two more unreleased neighborhoods: Sedona (mentioned above), and Europa, which probably was an early version of Veronaville, and which has a flythrough coded into the game, but not map.

** There exists ''lots'' of speculation on the original story and characters of Veronaville: at least five characters were originally meant to be alive (and are dead on the game), several characters would have different relationships between them, and even one character was DummiedOut: Olivia Monty, teenage sister of Romeo and Mercutio.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: This is ''very'' much a time capsule of the [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]] with its various hairstyles, fashions (ie Baggy pants, long shorts), and [[TechnologyMarchesOn pieces of bulky and outdated technology]].

** Not to mention the abundant rumors that female Sims could [=WooHoo=] (and be impregnated) by the Grim Reaper. Though, the truth in that rumor is that a female sim can be impregnated, via cheats, by Grim. Though actual Woohoo is impossible as it would be game-corrupting.