The Ultimate Sims 2 Abbreviation & Acronym Guide
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| Content Types & Styles | ||
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| CC | Custom Content |
Literally everything the Sims community makes that didn’t come from Maxis. Clothes? CC.
Hair? CC. A clutter pack with 57 items you’ll use once and never delete? Yup—CC.
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| Alpha CC | Realistic-style custom content |
Hyper-detailed CC with textures, shadows, and realism. Sometimes includes animations to
make the CC appear even more realistic. Textured clothes, realistic hair with movement,
lashes full to the gods—you get the idea. Can sometimes refer to genetics (like skin &
hair or eye color). It’s pretty, but can sometimes clash with the default Sims 2 look
(or slow your game down if your computer’s already on life support). Be sure to check
the poly count before downloading it to your game.
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| MM | Maxis Match |
This is custom content that blends in with the game’s original art style. Think smooth
textures, bold colors, and cartoony vibes that make it look like Maxis themselves made
it. Great if you like your Sims looking polished but cohesive.
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| Default Replacement | Default Replacement |
A special kind of CC that replaces the game's original stuff—like skins, eyes, food, and
clothing—the
replacement overrides the game's default content usually to improve the appearance,
texture, or color.
For things like skins and eyes specifically, default replacements often (but not always)
pass down genetically too, so Sims born
in-game will inherit the new look. Cleaner game, cuter townies. Win-win.
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| 4T2 | Sims 4 to Sims 2 |
This means someone took Sims 4 content—like hair, clothes, or furniture—and converted it
to work in The Sims 2. It’s kind of iconic. Usually you’ll need the “shadow file” to
make it show up correctly in your game, but don’t worry—you only need that file once and
you’re set.
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| CAS (Create A Sim) | ||
| AF, TF, U, etc. | Adult Female, Teen Female, Unisex, etc. |
These acronyms typically show up when downloading/creating clothing. Once you learn the
format, it’s
actually pretty easy to decode.
AF = Adult Female YF = Young "Adult" Female (for Uni age students) TF = Teen Female CF = Child Female Swap the “F” for an “M” and boom—you’ve got the male version (AM = Adult Male, YM, TM, CM, etc.). The wildcard here is U, which means Unisex—usually for items that work across multiple genders. In C-A-S you’ll be able to apply the item across multiple Sim genders (you’ll see this a lot with baby/toddler CC). Easy once you know it, confusing when you don’t.
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| Build Mode & Cheats | ||
| MOO | MoveObjects On |
A classic Sims cheat that lets you move or delete most anything, including
Sims. It's perfect
for building, and sometimes re-setting Sims. Technically, it’s a cheat code you type
into the console,
but since you’ll occasionally see people refer to it as just “MOO,” I’m including it
here so no one’s
left confused mid-tutorial.
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| Want more helpful cheat codes? Browse the full Sims 2 Cheats Database → | ||
| Gameplay Challenges | ||
| BACC | Build a City Challenge |
A long-term gameplay challenge where you start with an empty neighborhood and build it
all from scratch;
the lots, Sims, backstories... everything! You set your own rules (or follow one of the
classics), and
slowly grow your town into a full-blown city. Warning: Can be very fun, addicting, and
lead to the use
of an alarming number of spreadsheets.
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| Software | ||
| SimPE | Simple Package Editor |
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