Oh yes, names ARE gibberish. I play russian version, most of townies named like Drazdaperma (acronym for LongLiveFirstMay), Palpatine (UNLIMITED POWER), really outdated name's, that's no one uses for centuries, like Fedot, Prohor, Fekla etc. Last names are terrible too. Even pre-made sims are not safe, and towns too. Pleasantview is translated as Newsettled, for some reason. And Pleasants are, logically, Newsettlers. Strangetown is Kitezhgrad, roughly translated as Wondercity, in russian folklore - long forgotten and lost town of immense beauty, full of treasure's. Pollination Technician 9 is translated as Bouquet of Gillyflowers 9. Curious are translated as Know-it-alls. Even street names are butchered, names of furniture too.
Даже как адаптация, Китежград - это плохой вариант. Китежград всё таки ассоциируется больше со сказками и волшебством, но никак не с пришельцами и экспериментами учёных.
Don't forget about that family in Belladonna Cove which has dad and child girl's names switched, so she's Timothy, and he's Sally, but their bio says the opposite
Re: name generator i mean, it has a huge database and sooo many different name origins including historical and mythological names. Its literally the best
For more variety, I think changing their gender or mixing them together in CAS would also be a pretty effortless way to get some unique looking townies!
I was also thinking that as there are different premade sims for each age, picking say a premade kid and aging them in CAS to adult would be a good way too!
Beware of broken face templates! When you're not sure if the Sim has a broken face, age them down to children and see if they look very different (e.g. have elf ears). My video about broken faces → ua-cam.com/video/HxfTTP21ZU0/v-deo.html
Russian townie names is the most questionable and ridiculous thing in the world Like there's an old lady with male name Sergey as her last name, or girl with last name that means cannabis Why?
That's true, the names's generator is absolutely ridiculous 😂 I play in Brazilian Portuguese and they have strange names like Paitolo, Robervaldson and they have a few sims who have my first name as last name 🤷♀️
I had been playing in Russian for a long time (I didn't understand English as a child at all), and I remember there had been two different game translations: official and non-official (pirate one). Non-official version has normal names, Caliente was Caliente, etc. And an official... oh boy. But, If you ask me, I like official names more. Why? Well, they was frivolous and ridiculous sometimes, but they were in some way international? Like, yeah, that was a Russian translation, but It looks like translators kept in mind that those version gonna be used by a bunch of people from post-soviet countries, so they did really diverse namepool. Sometimes there was native names and last names from those post-soviet countries, and sometimes they were from all over the world, combined in silly combinations. And, maybe, translators didn't know that -enko and -jko is typicall Ukrainian last name endings and just thougth It sounds funny, but nonetheless I was simply glad to incounter Ukrainian last names (even made up). Hovewer, yeah, that was a bad translation in the sense of passing the meaning (like Caliente traslated as Gongadze, It's georgian last name with original meaning no close to the literal meaning of the word caliente). Anyway, situation like that seems to be pretty rare in Russian traslation now, I guess that was some chaotic 2005's things. P.S. Obviously I'm still bad at English, sorry. P.P.S. English tenses is my personal hell.
Btw Sims 3 Russian translation is just fine, complete international (with an accent on standart English though) namepool with no silliness, also large number of variants. And Sims 4 namepool is absolutelly garbage. It has arround 20-30 names and about the same number of last names, ridiculous in awful way and pretty much alike, because they use only Russian naming tradition. I feel like the first Russian mod for the Sims 4 was name mod and almost everyone now is playing with It, because otherwise It's unbearable.
I deleted my reply by accident but it's so awesome the names are so diverse isn't it! There are even some tatar, bashkir and belarus names. It makes so much sense cuz it's likely that the russian translation will be played by people of all kinds of roots. The quirkiness of the Sims 2 translation was that rare case when the translation's creativity was actually creative without being annoying xd I loved reading through your comment, it made me feel nostalgic for some reason) And your English is excellent!
@@leon_atrewo OMG you said all I wanted but in better language :'D (but thanks for the compliment!) Yeah, I remember Bellorussian and maybe a bit of Polish and Moldovan? And some of them might be belonging to several native traditions (remember Лопата?). And I can fully relate - this adaptations never annoyed me.
I play sims 2 in Spanish and we kinda have weird names for townies too. The game uses names that actually exist, but first names are... really old-fashioned, I'm not sure if it makes sense 😂 Something that really bothers me is that Spanish version has a big lack of names and last names (like 30-40 names for males and 30-40 for females) and everyone ends up having the same name, it's pretty common to have 3 or 4 pair of sims with the same name/last name combination, I don't know if that thing also happens in other languages. So making your own townies seems like a pretty good idea for me! I didn't know how to create them or if it was save to do them, thank you for the video!
Polish Sims 4 has this problem of very few names! I even made a mod to add more and delete weird names. Sims 2 has a lot of them in Polish, but also the first names are very old-fashioned, sometimes even names that hardly anyone knows.
@@Marticore While reading comments here I'm starting to think that English version also use what they could consider "archaic names" and the translation stuff in the different languages did an extremely good job adapting old-fashioned names to their own language 😂😂😂
@@edumeleroverdu8509 Yeah, that's something really interesting too. We have not only Spanish names/last names, but Catalan, Basque, Galician and other languages too. This is something I really appreciate and make some really interesting cultural mixes, I have a townie called Yoosung Celaya, Korean name, Spanish last name, and the darkest skin tone 😂
I am SO glad you mentioned that the last name cheat in-game (the testing cheats one) will corrupt the Sim, because when I was looking up how to change a Sim's last name, that cheat popped up. I was kind of suspicious that changing something like that would mess up the Sim and just decided to not risk it. Very glad I didn't. Now if last names bother me enough I'll just download SimPE lol. Also this tutorial was really helpful! In some of the clean neighborhoods from meetmetotheriver's Tumblr (as amazing as they are), there are no townies and this seems more likely to add unique-looking townies than game-generated ones would. Great video!
Happy to help! If you're tired of creating Sims in CAS, I also recommend Townie Generator by Nopke, you can control the number and gender of Sims to generate, so it's a fantastic tool if you're using NoTownieRegen! simfileshare.net/download/368778/
Names in the russian version are ridiculous as well. They are real names, but often the very rare/archaic ones. There are some Polish names in there too I think :D But my favourite "adaptation" of the name is Olive Specter, whose last name is... Necronomicon! Just because I guess. Very useful video, thank you!
Thanks so much for this. Got to admit, I just assumed all those premade sims were just template-faces so I have ignored them all this time. Now I want to make them all and have my town full of them!
I'm seeing a lot of people comment that the game gives people weirdly archaic names in other languages... which is funny, since it kind of does the opposite in English. I expect my vampire counts to have some kind of archaic European names with nobiliary particles in the surnames, but instead we get things like Count Travis Landry or Contessa Cheryl Jayapalan.
Czech version dont even bothers to translate some names or surnames of Townies :D So you have sometimes wierd names such as Sheldon Jeřábek, Joe Smutný or Krista Procházka
@@Marticore Sounds funny even in czech :D this one is just Joe Carr ... base game townies have decent czech/international names , but 50% of Apartment Life townies,Downtownies,Vaccation Townies have this problem :D
Dude randomised sim-names in danish (well ts3, it's been a while in sims 2) are wildin' out. It's straight up sounds like a wattpad 'I Think this language is beautiful and want my OC to have this name' and i love every second of it.
Thai sims are well translated, it has its own fierceness of item's description and some small details like memories and stuffs. The playable sims remained the same as English. But the townies are a mix of Westerners' names and Thai names such as Suttichai McGill or Miranda Kamleung I find it charming though ngl.
Yeah and it makes sense, considering that a lot of the townies are ethnically ambiguous. (Just all skin colors and face templates mixed and matched) It makes them seem like they have diverse backgrounds?
I’m always scared what those extreme slider changes will do to the next few generations. Even though the process has you tone them back to more reasonable features, sims genetics are not trustworthy.
Wow, I had no idea about the game corrupting if you change names with testingcheats! I guess I've never tried to do it with testingcheats. I tend to do it with SimPE or Insim, if I *must* do it right then and there.
I play the spanish version of this game since i'm little bc i'm myself from south america and is my mother language, and you cannot even imagine my confusion when i hear english videos about the game with the english version of the townies names, i don't recognice many of them until i see the pictures or gameplay, i swear to god i don't! The only ones that haven't changed much are Nina and Dina Caliente(bc their names are already in spanish) and Don Lothario, but the others have various names that are quite funny to be honest.
I think that when it comes to firstname you should also change the string file in SimPe in order to avoid corruption. It's useful tho, because you can copy this name to all strings and it will be the same in all languages!
I did the same in one of my neighborhoods, and also used the CAS young adults for my college Sims too. I would also suggest adding downtownies as they tend to have unique faces, just by adding a Downtown. I don't know if the Testingcheats Townie Maker corrupts the game or not but if you don't want to make a Downtown and you have Nightlife, when you use it to make NPC service Sims, it uses the downtownie faces for them which is also pretty nice.
Great and informative video! However, debug mode (boolProp testingcheatsenabled true) doesn't corrupt your game, that's just a very common misconception. It causes issues if you do silly things with it, such as add universal NPCs (Grim Reaper, Mrs. CrumpleBottom, ideal plantsim, etc.) and NPCs with incomplete character data (Social Worker, Repo-Man, etc.) to an active household. In short, debug mode itself is completely harmless, it's what the user does with it that causes issues. Having it on in the background does not corrupt your game and changing first names with the Tombstone of Life and Death is safe; changing surnames is not possible with the tool. I've heard that changing surnames with SimPE causes issues and is not advised. I use the Last Name Copier to do that.
I've always played the Sims 2 in German, and I can confirm that a large amount of names are ridiculous. There are some that work, but most of the time they're weird and nonsensical.
I play Sims in Finnish, and most townie names are fine IMO. There are also those that are real names but sound rather funny and/or archaic. Some names are completely random, sometimes sims have last names as first names, and a few times there have been female sims with male names and vice versa. Pets have a lot of random and weird names.
I think all languages have their fair share of... interesting names. For example, in Spanish, Bella Goth is named Elvira Lápida, which translates to Elvira Gravestone.
Oh yeah, the names in the Russian version are just as ridiculous as you might expect them to be in TS2. And I absolutely love it, it makes townies look like fiction characters or smth. Most of the times it's easy to understand the meanings of the names, but they sound either exaggeratedly creative or just foreign. Also very often you'll have sims with normal Russian names accompanied by last names that are typical for other languages. There's something great about it, don't you think so? It creates a special atmosphere in the game. In TS4 this feature is completely gone, the names are far too realistic, and it doesn't match my gaming preferences at all :( Sorry EA, you've made your best in 2004.
I'm so thankful to have found your channel it's so usefull and great and your personality is so nice to listen to :3!! I'm just sad because I've been playing with some families for 10years and I was very young did a lot of dumb things with cheats, and now corruption is showing.... 😭I'm playing in french btw and yeah the names are really funny sometimes xD
Dużą rozrywką jest dla mnie zgadywanie akcentów ludzi, kiedy oglądam filmiki i szybko zorientowałam się że jesteś Polką, co mnie ucieszyło, fajnie że robisz kontent po angielsku, powodzenia z kanałem
I actually keep the family relationships of my townies. To me, townies are just like any sim, just sims I don't play. I also see townification as a way to end the story of sims I find boring. Too many kids? townify some of them! Old sim is useless? townify!
@@Marticore Oh I just age them up whenever I think is appropriate. Or make them into apartment residents and use NPC aging. I just need to make sure they are outside their apartment at 6 PM, which isn't hard. I use those apartments that have only beds, so they need to come out to take care of their needs. A bit of an elaborate setup but it smoothes out the aging. I still suck though, because I end up liking my townies too much, turn them into playables and always have too many lol
I play The Sims 2 in Finnish and what I've noticed is that names are pretty normal. Of course, in The Sims 3, the names may not be quite conventional, but they're 100% better than in The Sims 4, where there are hardly any names other than well-known (Like the surnames of celebrities), but not ordinary. And so all the games are in Finnish.
Play in Sims 2 in Russian, the names are very realistic. upd: i've read the comments of Russians and want to add, that the names that used in ru sims 2 might not often be using in real life in Russia, but still that names are exist and nothing wrong with them except they are a bit rare. the surnames might sound funny sometimes but they are still pretty realistic 70/30 imo.
I have never used the Saved Sims bin much, but looks like it's more useful than I thought :) Oh, and if you want your SimPE in English, you can delete the 'pl' catalog from the SimPE folder and the language will switch.
Names in my part of the world work a bit differently than others. There isn't like "common names" or anything, instead our names are composed of one or two different characters (there are over 50K characters). That's not to say there's not "weird" names but there's a ton of variety to start with. In my language's version they're usually translated literally or somewhat literally (like most in other languages options). This results in plenty of surnames you wouldn't actually see as there really is a list of surnames, some of which are two characters but mostly one however there are a lot of characters never used in surnames and a few only used in surnames.
In my language (Danish) my townies have surnames like "privet hedge", "bicycle mosquito" (I'm not kidding), Villa Villekulla (which is the name of Pippi Longstocking's home), but also common Danish names and, for some reason, names that (to me) look Russian, Polish and Chinese??
I'm playing the German version and most names are from the English version except the plot Sims (playable) The townies mostly have their names except Armando cox (English) his name is Angelo Lange in German for some reason And I always use the Simblender to make townies-
I have a question about the broken faces in sims 2. Are we putting in Downloads folder or another folder? English isn't my first language, so when I read the site I couldn't understand.
Hey, I know I'm probably late but if you still have trouble with the names you can change them to English by settings> SimPe settings> Default language> change it to 0x01 - English It worked for me so I hope it will work for you as well
So these townies, can you still call them? Also, I used to play the game in Swedish and one of the teens, her English name is Meadow Thayer but her Swedish name Is Maud Torell xD Maud is like an old lady name, one of our most famous politicians are named Maud Olofsson. I just find it funny to see the hippie-ish name of Meadow turn into a grandma, but whatevs.
Yes, you can call them, they are normal townies :D Meadow is actually an active Sim in the gameplay I needed these townies for! :D In the Polish version her last name is "Straw" xD and "granny" names are also common in our translation 😂
I play the game in Brazilian Portuguese and there are names that are strange for real life. For example "Nóia" is one of those. It can either mean someone who is paranoid or someone who use drugs.
Nice! I tried to get the surname's mod, but the painting did not appear in my game :( I downloaded the folder and excrated it well. What else should I do? Thanks in advance!
It is in CAS, it's always only available in game. I don't know exactly how the rainbow icon appeared in my game, but it includes a few Maxis hairs, but with some colorful elements, like one pink highlight or something.
@@Marticore it's impossible, it's not in the game, you have to have something installed like another "bin" or something. Never seen that and I was wondering how to do that :D I have store content in my game and all colorful hair is behind the "custom" button. Weird :D
I play in spanish and some names are so weird?? Like, Brandy Broke is Begoña Simblanca (I never heard the name Begoña in my life and Simblanca doesn't mean anything)
Simblanca puede ser un juego con "sin blanca", que en algunos países significa no tener dinero. Hubiera sido mejor si el equipo de traducción hubiera usado juegos de palabras en un español más universal sjjsjsjs
@@vaskleio5479 entonces estaría bien traducido, estar broken en inglés en una de sus acepciones es " arruinado" o sin dinero, de ahí lo de sin blanca jajajaja
@@cristinavalle5225 O sea, dije que la traducción era buena, pero muchos países en Latinoamérica no usan "sin blanca", entonces la intención de los traductores se pierde. Me refiero a que se podría haber buscado otra expresión con el mismo significado pero que se use en más países de habla hispana.
Wiem, że ten film jest stary (i wybacz, że piszę komentarze na twoim angielskim kanale po polsku XD ale skoro wiem, że rozumiesz, to nie widzę potrzeby pisać po angielsku), ale właśnie mi uświadomiłaś, że skoro mam moda, który nie usuwa wspomnień towniesów po wprowadzeniu do rodziny, to facet jednej z moich simek, stworzony dokładnie tak, jak pokazałaś na filmie, ma wspomnienie o "urodzeniu" szóstki swojego rodzeństwa or sth XD damn
@@Marticore nie ma wspomnienia nowy członek rodziny? Serio? 🙈 Okej. To rodzi nadzieję, że tylko ich matka ma wspomnienia, że ich wszystkich urodziła XDDD
On my game, some of townies has last names of our coutries old poticians(also most of the last name even don't cooperate with our culture either, so from few month I am playing in English) or some female sims have their name with some spicy part(original name came after shortlifying few words) so most of them have sperm part in their names. And of course for sims that look nothing our locals(not shame on race, shame on that fact that they live their best life in this game) its giving our local names that just don't campare to sims neigborhoods😂
The fact that your SimPE changes the names is somehow hilarious to me. Is that a randomly generated name? Because I don't understand why Russel translates to Waleria. Or "T" to Wredota. lol
Yep, it's hilarious. My moderation group has nicknames inspired by SimPE names from Planet Alades xD A lot of NPC names on PA are actually inspired by the Polish translation, lol. It's not always random. I think there are some names that have Polish counterparts. I once had a townie named Player and his Polish name was Gracz, so an exact translation. And very often the first letter of the name is the same! Or the first name is an equivalent of the English one.
You can create a neighborhood in game. SimCity is only for making a custom map, but you can also download them off ModTheSims if you don't like the default ones!
@@Marticore I know but I would like to create my own terrain, with its streets and style. So my idea was to get some tool that would replace the SimCity 4 since I only want that and not play SC4 itself
Can you PLEASEEE review your downloads folder and cc?? I desperately wanna know the cc and defaults you use. I want to play a very maxis save so I want maxis looking hairs and textures etc.. And I'm curious about what you have!
The game generates a lot of townies with Chinese or other Asian surnames and as a Chinese person it really annoys me when it fails to generate a sufficiently Chinese looking sim to go with their surname
when I tried to make 2 sims of 4 into townies the house was corrupted and I lost my other sims remains in that house, but in that house there are 3 young adults that dissapear after a while I need to change house I used boolprop testingcheatsenabled true cheats for make sims as townies
@@Marticore but did you know that if you change the cas lot then make the custom cas lot to be the on for cas if you have seasons the sim can freeze while your creating them
Oh yes, names ARE gibberish. I play russian version, most of townies named like Drazdaperma (acronym for LongLiveFirstMay), Palpatine (UNLIMITED POWER), really outdated name's, that's no one uses for centuries, like Fedot, Prohor, Fekla etc. Last names are terrible too. Even pre-made sims are not safe, and towns too. Pleasantview is translated as Newsettled, for some reason. And Pleasants are, logically, Newsettlers. Strangetown is Kitezhgrad, roughly translated as Wondercity, in russian folklore - long forgotten and lost town of immense beauty, full of treasure's. Pollination Technician 9 is translated as Bouquet of Gillyflowers 9. Curious are translated as Know-it-alls. Even street names are butchered, names of furniture too.
Русская локализация, великая и беспощадная (возможно ещё и бессмысленная)
Hi! Nice to meet you, my name is UNLIMITED POWER
Not Palpatine 😭😭
Даже как адаптация, Китежград - это плохой вариант. Китежград всё таки ассоциируется больше со сказками и волшебством, но никак не с пришельцами и экспериментами учёных.
Don't forget about that family in Belladonna Cove which has dad and child girl's names switched, so she's Timothy, and he's Sally, but their bio says the opposite
Behind The Name's name generator has saved my life more than a few times lmao
Re: name generator i mean, it has a huge database and sooo many different name origins including historical and mythological names. Its literally the best
There's a name generator in the sims 2?
No, there isn't. It's a website for naming characters in general :)
Ohhh yes, i love this site!
@@Marticore ohh thanks
For more variety, I think changing their gender or mixing them together in CAS would also be a pretty effortless way to get some unique looking townies!
I was also thinking that as there are different premade sims for each age, picking say a premade kid and aging them in CAS to adult would be a good way too!
The names are mostly ridiculous in any language, except for a few premade playable families
Beware of broken face templates! When you're not sure if the Sim has a broken face, age them down to children and see if they look very different (e.g. have elf ears).
My video about broken faces → ua-cam.com/video/HxfTTP21ZU0/v-deo.html
I always age them to a elder. If they have a broken template they have a completely different face.,
Russian townie names is the most questionable and ridiculous thing in the world
Like there's an old lady with male name Sergey as her last name, or girl with last name that means cannabis
Why?
We have a last name that literally means "Oh momma!" XD
Don't forget that townie named literally Sim xD
The best name I saw in Russian version was Krymhilda xDDDD
August Sim is Amin Sims in English, so very similar :D
@@laudia4639 there's legendary Dazdraperma Sukailo
Everything about this name is perfect
That's true, the names's generator is absolutely ridiculous 😂 I play in Brazilian Portuguese and they have strange names like Paitolo, Robervaldson and they have a few sims who have my first name as last name 🤷♀️
PRA CARALHO
Branca Pisa, minha favorita npc da universidade ahaha
@@ember9361 sério os nomes são super aleatórios 😂
@Ada Guedes já vi vários tbm 😂😂😂
tem o Pao Melao kkkkkk eu racho
I had been playing in Russian for a long time (I didn't understand English as a child at all), and I remember there had been two different game translations: official and non-official (pirate one). Non-official version has normal names, Caliente was Caliente, etc. And an official... oh boy.
But, If you ask me, I like official names more. Why? Well, they was frivolous and ridiculous sometimes, but they were in some way international? Like, yeah, that was a Russian translation, but It looks like translators kept in mind that those version gonna be used by a bunch of people from post-soviet countries, so they did really diverse namepool. Sometimes there was native names and last names from those post-soviet countries, and sometimes they were from all over the world, combined in silly combinations. And, maybe, translators didn't know that -enko and -jko is typicall Ukrainian last name endings and just thougth It sounds funny, but nonetheless I was simply glad to incounter Ukrainian last names (even made up). Hovewer, yeah, that was a bad translation in the sense of passing the meaning (like Caliente traslated as Gongadze, It's georgian last name with original meaning no close to the literal meaning of the word caliente).
Anyway, situation like that seems to be pretty rare in Russian traslation now, I guess that was some chaotic 2005's things.
P.S. Obviously I'm still bad at English, sorry.
P.P.S. English tenses is my personal hell.
_Т о л с т о п я т к о_
Btw Sims 3 Russian translation is just fine, complete international (with an accent on standart English though) namepool with no silliness, also large number of variants.
And Sims 4 namepool is absolutelly garbage. It has arround 20-30 names and about the same number of last names, ridiculous in awful way and pretty much alike, because they use only Russian naming tradition. I feel like the first Russian mod for the Sims 4 was name mod and almost everyone now is playing with It, because otherwise It's unbearable.
@@deemah3602 ок, проблески безумия встречаются и в третьей части, но блин, тепер под слоем ностальгии оно воспринимается мило
I deleted my reply by accident but it's so awesome the names are so diverse isn't it! There are even some tatar, bashkir and belarus names. It makes so much sense cuz it's likely that the russian translation will be played by people of all kinds of roots. The quirkiness of the Sims 2 translation was that rare case when the translation's creativity was actually creative without being annoying xd
I loved reading through your comment, it made me feel nostalgic for some reason) And your English is excellent!
@@leon_atrewo OMG you said all I wanted but in better language :'D
(but thanks for the compliment!)
Yeah, I remember Bellorussian and maybe a bit of Polish and Moldovan? And some of them might be belonging to several native traditions (remember Лопата?).
And I can fully relate - this adaptations never annoyed me.
I'd played my native language before. Some are common, but some are weird like people having Thung (meaning 'Bucket' in Thai) as a last name 😂
Lol, in Sims 4 we have "Wiaderko" that means Little Bucket. That name doesn't exist irl 😂
@@Marticore but that's super cute!
I play sims 2 in Spanish and we kinda have weird names for townies too. The game uses names that actually exist, but first names are... really old-fashioned, I'm not sure if it makes sense 😂 Something that really bothers me is that Spanish version has a big lack of names and last names (like 30-40 names for males and 30-40 for females) and everyone ends up having the same name, it's pretty common to have 3 or 4 pair of sims with the same name/last name combination, I don't know if that thing also happens in other languages.
So making your own townies seems like a pretty good idea for me! I didn't know how to create them or if it was save to do them, thank you for the video!
Polish Sims 4 has this problem of very few names! I even made a mod to add more and delete weird names. Sims 2 has a lot of them in Polish, but also the first names are very old-fashioned, sometimes even names that hardly anyone knows.
What do you mean? Tulia Elzáurdia es un nombre perfectamente normal!
@@Marticore While reading comments here I'm starting to think that English version also use what they could consider "archaic names" and the translation stuff in the different languages did an extremely good job adapting old-fashioned names to their own language 😂😂😂
@@edumeleroverdu8509 Yeah, that's something really interesting too. We have not only Spanish names/last names, but Catalan, Basque, Galician and other languages too. This is something I really appreciate and make some really interesting cultural mixes, I have a townie called Yoosung Celaya, Korean name, Spanish last name, and the darkest skin tone 😂
@@martacafeva5564 Yeah, at least you have a lot of variety! Townies in TS1 also tended to have strange or archaic names. Or even English ones!
I am SO glad you mentioned that the last name cheat in-game (the testing cheats one) will corrupt the Sim, because when I was looking up how to change a Sim's last name, that cheat popped up. I was kind of suspicious that changing something like that would mess up the Sim and just decided to not risk it. Very glad I didn't. Now if last names bother me enough I'll just download SimPE lol. Also this tutorial was really helpful! In some of the clean neighborhoods from meetmetotheriver's Tumblr (as amazing as they are), there are no townies and this seems more likely to add unique-looking townies than game-generated ones would.
Great video!
Happy to help! If you're tired of creating Sims in CAS, I also recommend Townie Generator by Nopke, you can control the number and gender of Sims to generate, so it's a fantastic tool if you're using NoTownieRegen! simfileshare.net/download/368778/
@@Marticore Ooh thanks! I'll have to check it out.
Names in the russian version are ridiculous as well. They are real names, but often the very rare/archaic ones. There are some Polish names in there too I think :D But my favourite "adaptation" of the name is Olive Specter, whose last name is... Necronomicon! Just because I guess. Very useful video, thank you!
Oh yeah, my fav is Dazdraperma Sukaylo 👍 And I still have no idea why they renamed Darren and Dirk Dreamer into Walter and Hans
@@sanya8081 Walter and Hans, oh god. Someone had a laugh...
In the Polish version, Dirk is suddenly Szczepan.
How about Saint-Eclaire when it comes to Roth family? That's craaazy :D
German Bella Goth, aka Julia von Spinnweb, aka Bella Grusel, aka Bella Goth (wait...) has entered the chat!
love these informative type of videos on the sims 2 from you. they’re so addicting to watch. i come back to them over and over.
Playing in Italian and names are pretty chill, but then again, Italian translators decided not to translate most of them :D
Thanks so much for this. Got to admit, I just assumed all those premade sims were just template-faces so I have ignored them all this time. Now I want to make them all and have my town full of them!
17:32 The names in French are fine. I find that the game has received a very good translation in French, there are some good puns
Same with German! I only can think of maybe two translation errors.
I'm seeing a lot of people comment that the game gives people weirdly archaic names in other languages... which is funny, since it kind of does the opposite in English. I expect my vampire counts to have some kind of archaic European names with nobiliary particles in the surnames, but instead we get things like Count Travis Landry or Contessa Cheryl Jayapalan.
Czech version dont even bothers to translate some names or surnames of Townies :D So you have sometimes wierd names such as Sheldon Jeřábek, Joe Smutný or Krista Procházka
In Polish there's Joe Samochodzik :D
@@Marticore Sounds funny even in czech :D this one is just Joe Carr ... base game townies have decent czech/international names , but 50% of Apartment Life townies,Downtownies,Vaccation Townies have this problem :D
Yes, you pronounce Oreilly right. There was tv series MASH and one of the characters had this surname and they pronouced this as you did.
Good! Thanks :D
Had a massive nostalgia hit seeing these premade Sims
Wow
Dude randomised sim-names in danish (well ts3, it's been a while in sims 2) are wildin' out. It's straight up sounds like a wattpad 'I Think this language is beautiful and want my OC to have this name' and i love every second of it.
Thai sims are well translated, it has its own fierceness of item's description and some small details like memories and stuffs.
The playable sims remained the same as English. But the townies are a mix of Westerners' names and Thai names such as
Suttichai McGill or Miranda Kamleung
I find it charming though ngl.
Yeah and it makes sense, considering that a lot of the townies are ethnically ambiguous. (Just all skin colors and face templates mixed and matched) It makes them seem like they have diverse backgrounds?
This was very useful. I have been contemplating doing a new neighborhood for a while but was concerned about the townies situation
Maybe try Pooklet's metod of creating Sims? Cindy from Pleasant Sims uses this metod in her Edgewood series
I don't like it
Marticore how come? :O
@@VeryBlueberrry it's a bit complicated to do
I’m always scared what those extreme slider changes will do to the next few generations. Even though the process has you tone them back to more reasonable features, sims genetics are not trustworthy.
I always use it and my sims have never been prettier, especially their kids
Wow, I had no idea about the game corrupting if you change names with testingcheats! I guess I've never tried to do it with testingcheats. I tend to do it with SimPE or Insim, if I *must* do it right then and there.
I play the spanish version of this game since i'm little bc i'm myself from south america and is my mother language, and you cannot even imagine my confusion when i hear english videos about the game with the english version of the townies names, i don't recognice many of them until i see the pictures or gameplay, i swear to god i don't!
The only ones that haven't changed much are Nina and Dina Caliente(bc their names are already in spanish) and Don Lothario, but the others have various names that are quite funny to be honest.
Your best video on your English channel so far! Periodt.
I think that when it comes to firstname you should also change the string file in SimPe in order to avoid corruption. It's useful tho, because you can copy this name to all strings and it will be the same in all languages!
Btw is deleting memories by those candles safe?
I did the same in one of my neighborhoods, and also used the CAS young adults for my college Sims too.
I would also suggest adding downtownies as they tend to have unique faces, just by adding a Downtown. I don't know if the Testingcheats Townie Maker corrupts the game or not but if you don't want to make a Downtown and you have Nightlife, when you use it to make NPC service Sims, it uses the downtownie faces for them which is also pretty nice.
Great and informative video! However, debug mode (boolProp testingcheatsenabled true) doesn't corrupt your game, that's just a very common misconception. It causes issues if you do silly things with it, such as add universal NPCs (Grim Reaper, Mrs. CrumpleBottom, ideal plantsim, etc.) and NPCs with incomplete character data (Social Worker, Repo-Man, etc.) to an active household. In short, debug mode itself is completely harmless, it's what the user does with it that causes issues. Having it on in the background does not corrupt your game and changing first names with the Tombstone of Life and Death is safe; changing surnames is not possible with the tool.
I've heard that changing surnames with SimPE causes issues and is not advised. I use the Last Name Copier to do that.
11:25 well that explains why my neighborhood got corrupted that one time, couldn't load my household and also one sim disappeared.
the whole memory thing sounds like some wierd science experiment
I play the game in german, and so far I’ve seen pretty reasonable names.
I've always played the Sims 2 in German, and I can confirm that a large amount of names are ridiculous. There are some that work, but most of the time they're weird and nonsensical.
I play Sims in Finnish, and most townie names are fine IMO. There are also those that are real names but sound rather funny and/or archaic. Some names are completely random, sometimes sims have last names as first names, and a few times there have been female sims with male names and vice versa. Pets have a lot of random and weird names.
YESSSSSS I NEED MORE SIMPE TUTORIALS THERE ARE 0 AND IM PRETTY SURE I USED TESTING CHEATS TO CHANGE MY SIMS NAME FML
more townie related content!
I think all languages have their fair share of... interesting names. For example, in Spanish, Bella Goth is named Elvira Lápida, which translates to Elvira Gravestone.
Oh yeah, the names in the Russian version are just as ridiculous as you might expect them to be in TS2. And I absolutely love it, it makes townies look like fiction characters or smth. Most of the times it's easy to understand the meanings of the names, but they sound either exaggeratedly creative or just foreign. Also very often you'll have sims with normal Russian names accompanied by last names that are typical for other languages. There's something great about it, don't you think so? It creates a special atmosphere in the game. In TS4 this feature is completely gone, the names are far too realistic, and it doesn't match my gaming preferences at all :( Sorry EA, you've made your best in 2004.
I'm so thankful to have found your channel it's so usefull and great and your personality is so nice to listen to :3!! I'm just sad because I've been playing with some families for 10years and I was very young did a lot of dumb things with cheats, and now corruption is showing.... 😭I'm playing in french btw and yeah the names are really funny sometimes xD
Have you seen the PleasantSims tutorial on making townies? It takes a lot longer, but they look even more different when you're done.
You mean the Pooklet method? I don't like it.
@@Marticore
How come?
It's too complicated to me and the Sims turn out to be weird looking, Idk xD
Dużą rozrywką jest dla mnie zgadywanie akcentów ludzi, kiedy oglądam filmiki i szybko zorientowałam się że jesteś Polką, co mnie ucieszyło, fajnie że robisz kontent po angielsku, powodzenia z kanałem
Dzięki, ale polski też mam, i to dużo większy :D
I actually keep the family relationships of my townies. To me, townies are just like any sim, just sims I don't play. I also see townification as a way to end the story of sims I find boring. Too many kids? townify some of them! Old sim is useless? townify!
And then they don't age and stay townies forever, when their siblings die? :O I would only do that with vampires.
@@Marticore Oh I just age them up whenever I think is appropriate. Or make them into apartment residents and use NPC aging. I just need to make sure they are outside their apartment at 6 PM, which isn't hard. I use those apartments that have only beds, so they need to come out to take care of their needs. A bit of an elaborate setup but it smoothes out the aging. I still suck though, because I end up liking my townies too much, turn them into playables and always have too many lol
@@sinachiniforoosh wait how do you use npc aging?
Yeah! The brazillian portuguese names are so funny. Love them!!
I play The Sims 2 in Finnish and what I've noticed is that names are pretty normal. Of course, in The Sims 3, the names may not be quite conventional, but they're 100% better than in The Sims 4, where there are hardly any names other than well-known (Like the surnames of celebrities), but not ordinary. And so all the games are in Finnish.
Play in Sims 2 in Russian, the names are very realistic.
upd: i've read the comments of Russians and want to add, that the names that used in ru sims 2 might not often be using in real life in Russia, but still that names are exist and nothing wrong with them except they are a bit rare. the surnames might sound funny sometimes but they are still pretty realistic 70/30 imo.
I have never used the Saved Sims bin much, but looks like it's more useful than I thought :)
Oh, and if you want your SimPE in English, you can delete the 'pl' catalog from the SimPE folder and the language will switch.
Names in my part of the world work a bit differently than others. There isn't like "common names" or anything, instead our names are composed of one or two different characters (there are over 50K characters). That's not to say there's not "weird" names but there's a ton of variety to start with. In my language's version they're usually translated literally or somewhat literally (like most in other languages options). This results in plenty of surnames you wouldn't actually see as there really is a list of surnames, some of which are two characters but mostly one however there are a lot of characters never used in surnames and a few only used in surnames.
The Chinese name of the game itself literally translates to "simulate (human) life"
In my language (Danish) my townies have surnames like "privet hedge", "bicycle mosquito" (I'm not kidding), Villa Villekulla (which is the name of Pippi Longstocking's home), but also common Danish names and, for some reason, names that (to me) look Russian, Polish and Chinese??
Lol xD
Russian, Polish and Chinese names are also in the original name pool, maybe that's why :D
I'm playing the German version and most names are from the English version except the plot Sims (playable)
The townies mostly have their names except Armando cox (English) his name is Angelo Lange in German for some reason
And I always use the Simblender to make townies-
Funny how your system didn't recognize the name Helen. My great grandmother was Polish and Helen was her first name.
Wasn't it Helena?
I have a question about the broken faces in sims 2. Are we putting in Downloads folder or another folder?
English isn't my first language, so when I read the site I couldn't understand.
Hey, I know I'm probably late but if you still have trouble with the names you can change them to English by
settings> SimPe settings> Default language> change it to 0x01 - English
It worked for me so I hope it will work for you as well
Already did that, but thanks!
YAY! A new video for breakfast 😊
Omg you make me miss sims 2 ;-;
Well I quite luckily have the discs of Sims 2.
(Some, at least.)
So these townies, can you still call them?
Also, I used to play the game in Swedish and one of the teens, her English name is Meadow Thayer but her Swedish name Is Maud Torell xD Maud is like an old lady name, one of our most famous politicians are named Maud Olofsson. I just find it funny to see the hippie-ish name of Meadow turn into a grandma, but whatevs.
Yes, you can call them, they are normal townies :D
Meadow is actually an active Sim in the gameplay I needed these townies for! :D In the Polish version her last name is "Straw" xD and "granny" names are also common in our translation 😂
I play the game in Brazilian Portuguese and there are names that are strange for real life. For example "Nóia" is one of those. It can either mean someone who is paranoid or someone who use drugs.
Nice! I tried to get the surname's mod, but the painting did not appear in my game :( I downloaded the folder and excrated it well. What else should I do? Thanks in advance!
I'm doing a clean custom neighbourhood , but I wanna know if I can also do customs NPC like a maid, exterminator, burglar, etc. Or is it dangerous?
You can let the game spawn them and then edit them using SimPE, it's safe, they only need their behaviors intact.
@@Marticore oh, I was planning on create them on body shop but maybe It' a bad idea. thanks for replying ❤️
I don't think it's possible to give Sims those behaviors, so editing is the only way
Hi I recently learned that you can change Simpe settings and reload the neightborhod to show their english names
Yep, already did that, but thanks
Love your videos! Just wanted to let you know that you can change the language in SimPE to english in settings. It avoids the weird names 😂
My SimPE is in English, only the names stayed in Polish.
@@Marticore you can change that too in settings, I changed the names from danish to english version and it made it a lot easier for me to use SimPE 😊
Oh wow, thank you! It worked :D
@@Marticore awesome 😍😍
Is it possible to turn a townie or made Sim into a maid or gardener? Once I was looking for a information or something but I didn't find anything :(
I didn't find anything either :c
Hey Marticore! Do you play the Sims 2 with Disks or The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection?
UC
@@Marticore Thank you for the reply!
Hey Marticore, what is that rainbow hair colour option in your CAS, next to custom symbol? For example 7:31
How this works, what is behind it?
CC or Store content, it's colorful hair
@@Marticore and the star button is hidden?
It is in CAS, it's always only available in game. I don't know exactly how the rainbow icon appeared in my game, but it includes a few Maxis hairs, but with some colorful elements, like one pink highlight or something.
@@Marticore it's impossible, it's not in the game, you have to have something installed like another "bin" or something. Never seen that and I was wondering how to do that :D I have store content in my game and all colorful hair is behind the "custom" button. Weird :D
Another idea is the CAS camera mod I have, like improved UI, maybe that came with the rainbow icon :D
I play in spanish and some names are so weird?? Like, Brandy Broke is Begoña Simblanca (I never heard the name Begoña in my life and Simblanca doesn't mean anything)
Simblanca puede ser un juego con "sin blanca", que en algunos países significa no tener dinero. Hubiera sido mejor si el equipo de traducción hubiera usado juegos de palabras en un español más universal sjjsjsjs
@@vaskleio5479 entonces estaría bien traducido, estar broken en inglés en una de sus acepciones es " arruinado" o sin dinero, de ahí lo de sin blanca jajajaja
@@cristinavalle5225 O sea, dije que la traducción era buena, pero muchos países en Latinoamérica no usan "sin blanca", entonces la intención de los traductores se pierde. Me refiero a que se podría haber buscado otra expresión con el mismo significado pero que se use en más países de habla hispana.
hello, can you please show where you got the sever family ties mod and the memory wipe mod
InSimenator and Memory Manipulator
Why we shouldn’t boolprop test?
Just listen to what I said
7:30 What's that color at right of red and how do I get it?
I'm pretty sure it's either CC or Store content
That's the "custom" (not cc, means unnatural hair) hair, and the widescreen CAS fix that op is probably using (chris hatch's on MTS) unlocks it.
This is a great video!
iirc you can change your default language in simpe settings
Wiem, że ten film jest stary (i wybacz, że piszę komentarze na twoim angielskim kanale po polsku XD ale skoro wiem, że rozumiesz, to nie widzę potrzeby pisać po angielsku), ale właśnie mi uświadomiłaś, że skoro mam moda, który nie usuwa wspomnień towniesów po wprowadzeniu do rodziny, to facet jednej z moich simek, stworzony dokładnie tak, jak pokazałaś na filmie, ma wspomnienie o "urodzeniu" szóstki swojego rodzeństwa or sth XD damn
Rodzeństwa? Nie ma się wspomnień o narodzinach rodzeństwa xD Chyba dzieci? :D
@@Marticore nie ma wspomnienia nowy członek rodziny? Serio? 🙈 Okej. To rodzi nadzieję, że tylko ich matka ma wspomnienia, że ich wszystkich urodziła XDDD
Polecam Memory Manipulator, żeby ukryć wszystkie wspomnienia :D
On my game, some of townies has last names of our coutries old poticians(also most of the last name even don't cooperate with our culture either, so from few month I am playing in English) or some female sims have their name with some spicy part(original name came after shortlifying few words) so most of them have sperm part in their names. And of course for sims that look nothing our locals(not shame on race, shame on that fact that they live their best life in this game) its giving our local names that just don't campare to sims neigborhoods😂
The fact that your SimPE changes the names is somehow hilarious to me. Is that a randomly generated name? Because I don't understand why Russel translates to Waleria. Or "T" to Wredota.
lol
Yep, it's hilarious. My moderation group has nicknames inspired by SimPE names from Planet Alades xD A lot of NPC names on PA are actually inspired by the Polish translation, lol.
It's not always random. I think there are some names that have Polish counterparts. I once had a townie named Player and his Polish name was Gracz, so an exact translation. And very often the first letter of the name is the same! Or the first name is an equivalent of the English one.
This question might sound silly but, Would this work to make child townies too?
Yes! But remember you have to make one parent and sever their family ties.
Is there a tool to create worlds in the Sims 2 without depending on SimCity 4?
You can create a neighborhood in game. SimCity is only for making a custom map, but you can also download them off ModTheSims if you don't like the default ones!
@@Marticore I know but I would like to create my own terrain, with its streets and style.
So my idea was to get some tool that would replace the SimCity 4 since I only want that and not play SC4 itself
Marticore, when you finish the Legacy Challenge, will you restart the neighbourhood and families from family bin?🤔😀
Can you PLEASEEE review your downloads folder and cc?? I desperately wanna know the cc and defaults you use. I want to play a very maxis save so I want maxis looking hairs and textures etc.. And I'm curious about what you have!
Go to my Pinterest, it's in the description
how is the mod for no townies spawn called?
It's in the video description, NoTownieRegen
@@Marticore tyy!
The game generates a lot of townies with Chinese or other Asian surnames and as a Chinese person it really annoys me when it fails to generate a sufficiently Chinese looking sim to go with their surname
Yes! Sometimes it makes sense that they could be mixed/of Asian descent, but usually they don't look like it at all
when I tried to make 2 sims of 4 into townies the house was corrupted and I lost my other sims remains in that house, but in that house there are 3 young adults that dissapear after a while
I need to change house
I used boolprop testingcheatsenabled true cheats for make sims as townies
It's always safer to do it with mods. Some features of testingcheats can be corrupted.
Always and forever Otylia Wyspiarz
did you know that the place where cas is at is a lot
Yep
@@Marticore but did you know that if you change the cas lot then make the custom cas lot to be the on for cas if you have seasons the sim can freeze while your creating them
Oh, that I didn't know! Creepy :O
@@Marticore and I found that out in this it was called 10 things you should never do in the sims 2
My English townie names are weird lmao
a ja szukałem tego filmu u merty ;-;
Tam też jest, nawet bardziej rozbudowany
To uczucie kiedy masz The Sims 2 tylko na konsolę bez tych fajnych detali, bez dzieci i bez cutscenek :'D
Mam pytanko metra daj polskie napis albo anguelskie
To nie jest pytanko
FIRST!!!