Sims 2 Resetting Neighborhoods - "Templates" Folder?

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Back in the day with the original The Sims 2, there used to be a Templates folder that had copies of the original Pleasantview,&nbsp; Strangetown, and Veronaville neighborhoods.&nbsp; If a player wanted to 'restart' a playthrough of these neighborhoods, all we had to do was copy the N001 template files into our neighborhood directory in the Sims 2 (overwriting the the existing neighborhood), and voila! Fresh start.&nbsp; &nbsp;I've been looking for the Template folder in my current install and am not seeing it. As I remember,&nbsp; &nbsp;it&nbsp; used to be installed in a completely different directory,&nbsp; but&nbsp; I'm afraid that the Legacy edition may not even HAVE it because I"ve searched both my main C drive as well as the Sims 2 stuff in Documents.&nbsp;

smellincoffee · Answer

Renaming the folder appears to have done the trick! Thanks! There was nothing related to Sims 2 in my Program Files or Program Files x86 folders, but the rename did what I wanted. For some reason I prefer endlessly replaying the first 1-2 generations of Pleasantview to continuing... XD

ladygray01 · Answer

The files you are looking for are in Program Files. There will be a copy of the EA folder in there with everything. For future use, you can also make copies of all of the fresh neighborhoods and put them in another file on your desktop or a flash drive. I do both. But my neighborhoods are clean neighborhoods I created.

If you aren't using clean or custom neighborhoods, you can just generate new ones simply by changing the game folder in documents to Sims 2 Legacy.bak. Then when you start the game, it will generate a fresh folder. Then you can go into the old folder and copy over your mods if you have them and replace the settings files to keep the settings you had. Once you've loaded up and confirmed that everything is good, you can delete the bak file.

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