Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks that Criminal Minds is awesome since Herculean has taken the trouble of making all five major character from the show, Special Agents Chief Aaron “Hotch” Hotchner, Jennifer “JJ” Jareau, Emily Prentiss and Derek Morgan.

If you want Prentiss’s hair to show up in your game like it does in this picture then you’re going to need to follow the link that’s listed on the Overview page. Everything else is included in the download…and there’s a heck of a lot of custom content that’s included.

The five from Criminal Minds will be a great addition to any Sims 2 game.

Have fun with your own storyline.

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Zelda is one of those games that will live forever and if/when it dies, people will still talk about it.

Because of this well known fact, I bring you Princess Zelda-Sim style.

This is a Sim that is all inclusive. No worrying about downloading meshes from some other website. Just make sure that you have your settings turned up high enough so that her ears show up correctly.

Click here to download Princess Zelda.

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They’re short. They’re flirty. They’re colorful.

These summer dresses are such wonderful additions to any Sims’s wardrobe that you should head over there and download them immediately.

You’re still here? I thought I told you to go download these dresses? 

The dress is made from a top from H&M stuff and looks great!

Bring on Summer cause this dress is PERFECT.

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I told you yesterday about EA releasing a patch to fix broken crap issues in Apartment Life.

Today, I realized that I’ve never mentioned what to do before you install a patch or well…just about anything that alters the original game.  [That includes all of the really cool downloads/content that I find for you.]

When you install a patch or other new content, your changing your original game.  [I know that seems really obvious, but stick with me.]  Now, imagine if you will, that you’ve been playing on Sims 2 since it was released back in 2004.  All of this time, you’ve been playing the same family – generation after generation – and building your neighborhood.

You’ve installed all of the expansion and stuff packs with no problems and have never backed up your game [gasp].  “Who really needs to back up a game”, you think.  “Nothing’s ever happened before”.

Then you download the Apartment Life patch and install it.

You reboot the computer and your game is dead.  All of your sims are gone and you’re officially screwed.

Something happened while you were downloading the patch and the download was corrupted but you didn’t realize it.  Since you didn’t back anything up – EVER – you’re now left to start all over.

That doesn’t sound like much fun, does it?

Didn’t think so.

Here’s what you need to know to backup what you have so that you don’t loose it all.

This is all assuming that you did a typical install of the game and that you didn’t mess with the location for install.  If you screwed with the location then figure it out yourself cause I have no way of knowing where you put stuff.

The safest place to put a backup of the game is somewhere other than on the computer you have your game installed on.  What’s the point in having a backup if the backup and game get killed by a power surge?

Figure out where you want your backup to go before you do anything.  If you don’t have access to an external hard drive or DVD/CD then create a new file called “Backup” or whatever blows your skirtup.

Now that you’ve figured out where to put your sims, go find your game data.

It’s most likely gonna be found here:

C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2

Look around in there and find these four files:

Copy and save them all to their new home and you’re done.

Pretty easy, huh?

If you’ve taken pictures of your sims or made any movies then you’re gonna want to find those files as well.  Movies are found in C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Movies and pictures are hiding in C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Storytelling.

Have fun with all of the great expansions and custom content…just don’t forget to backup your game often to prevent a Sims 2 apocalypse.

Image Source – Amy Tucker © 2008

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Apartment Life has a patch ready and waiting for you.

The patch fixes 50 + things that are going wonky or just plain wrong with the game including issues with pets and witches and issues with moving into lots.

Click here to download the patch and fix the broken stuff.

Image Source:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/67146024@N00/2600230653/sizes/m/ and Amy Tucker © 2008

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I don’t know what the weather’s like where you live, but around here it’s getting mighty chilly.

In the spirit of Fall  and the coming cold weather, I’ve tracked down some really cool sweaters for your teen girl sims.

These great sweaters are a take on the sweater dress that comes with Apartment Life.

Click here to download and warm up your sims.

Image Source: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=300068

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