The Sims Pet Stories

The Sims Pet Stories
Also known as: Les Sims Histories d'animaux (FR), Die Sims Tier-geschichten (DE), Los Sims Historias de Mascotas (ES), The Sims Historias de Bichos (BR), The Sims Pet Story (JP) Based on: The Sims 2 (Windows) Developer: Maxis Publisher: Electronic Arts Platform: Windows Released in JP: July 12, 2007 Released in US: June 19, 2007 Released in EU: June 22, 2007 Released in AU: September 6, 2007 This game has unused code. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused music. This game has unused text.

This page is rather stubbly and could use some expansion. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue this article?

To do: A lot to cover. This game contains content from The Sims 2 and will be listed there once a large portion of the stuff in that game have been covered. Add information about cut content from forum thread "The Sims 2 development history" (russian: История разработки Симс 2) to this article. Add information about cut content and oddities from Tumblr blog "The Sims 2 Beta Library" to this article. More Leftovers! Base game - Elder Lifestate, skins, clothing, old age death, hula zombies, aspiration graves. Open For Business - Talent badges!!

The Sims Pet Stories is the second of the three spin-off Stories series, which is basically Life Stories with Pets, but without the Elder Life State. Just like the previous game, there's exclusive content available, along with two story modes and a Free Play mode.

Use SimPE: The simple DBPF-Package Editor and any text editor to research game files.

Sub-Pages

The Sims 2 Leftovers Yep, this again.

Hidden Sim Data Still no dead sims, but more hidden NPCs.

Development Oversights

The image at the end of Chapter 2 of Alice's Story shows the Delivery person giving Alice a boxed present, but in the final she gets a package instead.

Unused Graphics

Wall/Floor Textures

To do: Upload the wall and floor textures to this article.

There are wall and floor textures that are in the Textures.package file that go unused in both this game and its desktop counterpart (The Sims 2).

Unused Actions

To do: A lot of cover.

There are several removed interactions that exist within the file of the game. Some would be re-introduced in later expansions or games.

Ambulance

To do: Research more.

Like in The Sims 2, a game left a mention of the ability to call an ambulance, which was scrapped in The Sims 2. In the objects.package file, in the Behaviour function resource (BHAV), there is a BHAV CT - Call Ambulance.

Found In	Name	Type	Group
objects.package	CT - Call Ambulance	BHAV	0x7F1D0F49

(Source: История разработки Симс 2, post №754 - The Sims Creative Club)

Scrapped scenarios

Power Outage

To do: Research more.

Like in The Sims 2, a game left a mentions of Power Outage scenario, which was scrapped in The Sims 2. In objects.package file exist 2 Behaviour functions (BHAV):

Power Outage - Get Time

Found In	Name	Type	Group
objects.package	Power Outage - Get Time	BHAV	0x7FF37E31

Power Outage - Main Loop

Found In	Name	Type	Group
objects.package	Power Outage - Main Loop	BHAV	0x7FF37E31

(Source: История разработки Симс 2, post №754 - The Sims Creative Club)

Engagement

To do: Research more.

Like in The Sims 2, a game left a mention of Engagement scenario, which was scrapped in The Sims 2. In objects.package file exist Behaviour function (BHAV):

Engagement - Get Time

Found In	Name	Type	Group
objects.package	Engagement - Get Time	BHAV	0x7FF37E31

(Source: История разработки Симс 2, post №754 - The Sims Creative Club)

Grandchild

To do: Research more.

Like in The Sims 2, a game left a mention of Grandchild scenario, which was scrapped in The Sims 2. In objects.package file exist 3 Behaviour functions (BHAV): Grandchild - Main Loop

Found In	Name	Type	Group
objects.package	Grandchild - Main Loop	BHAV	0x7FF37E31

Grandchild - Get Time

Found In	Name	Type	Group
objects.package	Grandchild - Get Time	BHAV	0x7FF37E31

Grandchild - Has No Children?

Found In	Name	Type	Group
objects.package	Grandchild - Has No Children?	BHAV	0x7FF37E31

(Source: История разработки Симс 2, post №754 - The Sims Creative Club)

Unused Music

The sfx1.package, which is located at the path "TSData\Res\Sound" contain five full unused music tracks. This tracks can be found by extracting the contents of this package using SimPE into a folder. The extracted package will consist of 4 folders and one file. The unused music tracks are located in "2026960B - mp3 or xa Sound File" folder. The files in the "2026960B - mp3 or xa Sound File" folder need to be sorted by file size from largest to smallest. The five larger files are these tracks. You can listen to these music tracks below:

"Eeyooma Mana Muki Vop" from The Sims Bustin' Out
This music track is from The Sims Bustin' Out. Its original name is "Eeyooma Mana Muki Vop". The name of the extracted file is "94E6DF8B-0B8AB3CD-FF5B9FA4.mp3".

"Nahtreel Jazz" from The Sims Bustin' Out
This music track is from The Sims Bustin' Out. Its original name is "Nahtreel Jazz". The name of the extracted file is "CE84B784-0B8AB3CD-FFA134CC.mp3".

"sbo_bb4" from The Sims Bustin' Out
This music track is from The Sims Bustin' Out. Its original name is "sbo_bb4". The name of the extracted file is "011AB223-0B8AB3CD-FFDC58F1.mp3".

"Sim the Blues" from The Sims: Unleashed
This music track is from The Sims: Unleashed. Its original name is "Sim the Blues". The name of the extracted file is "09731966-0B8AB3CD-FF4E0CB4.mp3".

"SUL_Band2_M" from The Sims: Unleashed
This music track is from The Sims: Unleashed. Its original name is "SUL_Band2_M". The name of the extracted file is "647ABE94-0B8AB3CD-FF1C5809.mp3".

(Source: Found five full songs in base game's sfx1.package. Where do they play on? - Mod The Sims & That One Guy YouTube channel)

Unused Cinematic

There is an unused cinematic of the game's logo in the same vein as the previous Stories game called Sims_Pet_Stories_logo_whtie.movie, that goes unused for some unknown reason. There's no other language equivalents of the logo.

Regional Differences

Locale-Exclusive Radio Songs

Just like the mainline counterpart, some radio songs are exclusive to certain locales of the game. All of them are from the Pop station.

Song	Artist	Locales
Baby Let's Dance	The Smokebreakers	Russian
Can't You Be Mine	Krezip	Dutch, German
Dulce Locura	La Oreja de Van Gogh	Spanish
Never Coming Back	Roni	Finnish
Run Away	Finley	Italian, UK English
Sowiseo	Kisha	French, German
Suburbia	West End Girls	Danish, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, UK English
What If	Lene Marlin	Norwegian, Swedish