The Sims Stories

The Sims Stories
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The official logo for The Sims Stories

Not to be confused with The Sims or The Sims Social.

The Sims Stories (originally known as The Sims 2 Stories) is a product line of the laptop-friendly versions of the The Sims 2.

There were 3 titles prepar500px|lefted for The Sims Stories product line, they are The Sims Life Stories, The Sims Pet Stories and The Sims Castaway Stories. It is (along with The Sims 2) the last game to support Mac OS X 10.3/10.4 and PowerPC (But not PowerPC G3 Macs as The Sims 2 and The Sims Stories do not support them) Macs as The Sims 3 and The Sims Medieval only runs on Intel-based Macs.

The Windows version can be run on Windows 7 (Not officially supported however) and on an Intel-based Mac, it is possible to use Bootcamp to run the game.

Like other games on Windows and Mac OS X, the games are not region locked and can be played on any computer regardless of what country the game, Windows/Mac OS X copies or computer came from.

Differences between The Sims 2 and The Sims Stories

• The Sims Stories does not support Windows 98, Windows 2000 or Windows Me while The Sims 2 did.
  • However, the Mac OS X version retains 10.3 support and PowerPC (G4/G5)
• The Sims Stories does not support The Sims 2 expansion packs or stuff packs (although some custom content made for The Sims 2 will work)
• Although based on The Sims 2, The Sims Stories does not have a "2" after "The Sims". This is shared with The Sims Medieval
• The Sims Stories official content isn't in Sims2Pack form, it is in SimsLSPack for The Sims Life Stories, SimsPSPack for The Sims Pet Stories and SimsCSPack for The Sims Castaway Stories.

Differences between The Sims console versions and The Sims Stories

• Unlike the console versions of The Sims 2 and The Sims 2 Pets, The Sims Stories (with the exception of The Sims Castaway Stories) does not feature rain.
• Unlike in the console versions of The Sims, you cannot enter build mode during story mode. (you can enter Buy Mode however)
• You do not need to unlock basic objects in The Sims Stories.
• You do not have object restrictions like that in the console versions. (such as limiting a number of objects that you can place)
• The Sims Stories features a "Free Play" mode similar that of the console versions.

Trivia

• It is interesting to note that the releases of The Sims Stories are similar to the console releases of The Sims 2, with The Sims 2, The Sims 2 Pets, and The Sims 2 Castaway being released. On Windows, The Sims Life Stories, The Sims Pet Stories and The Sims Castaway Stories are released in that same order.
• As The Sims 2 and The Sims Stories do not require a G5 Mac, it can be run on G4-only Macs (which never had a G5 processor) such as the iBook, PowerBook and the pre-2006 Mac Mini.
• The Sims Pet Stories is the only The Sims Stories game in which the boolproptestingcheatsenabledtrue cheat doesn't work.
  • It's also the only game in which the elder stage is completely removed.