#crystal the urbz

[thesimquarter]

Gosh, this world is so big and amazing. It must be like two or three thousand pixels across!

Headshots + misc under the cut.

Happy 20th Anniversary, The Urbz: Sims in the City (GBA)!

I re-did my set of The Urbz in TS4 a few weeks ago, and I thought this would be a great opportunity to motivate me to share them and put the finishing details on! I also have a completed set of The Sims: Bustin' Out (GBA) Sims and The Sims 2: Pets (GBA) Sims, the latter of which were uploaded to the gallery already.

Misty, Dusty, and Daddy should be the same/very similar to how they looked in my last post. Luthor and Giuseppi were re-done though.

These WILL be uploaded... eventually. I was thinking about putting the download link on this post. If you are reading this, I did not end up doing that.

I'm going to be completely honest: I tried to get a wheelchair working in CAS (for Lincoln Broadsheet). I got a wheelchair pose working in CAS... and I converted one to an accessory, but it refused to be where I wanted it to be! I'm not sure why. The UV_1 was right. The weights were right. SimRipper did it right! But in-game said no, so Lincoln is stuck standing. Sad.

[alelelesimz]

crystal~

fashion icon, hardcore streetie and strawberry tiramisu enjoyer. you better make her like you if you wanna get into club xizzle!

1~ hair - hat - top - bottoms - underwear - chain - shoes

2~ headphones - top - bra - bottoms - shoes

3~ hat - top - bottoms - fanny pack - shoes - socks

4~ hat - top - gloves - bottoms - underwear - chains - shoes

[simnationlifebefore]

Journalism is a hard game.

[yeehawbvby]

Nintendo and EA I am begging on my hands and knees for a Switch version of GBA Urbz and Bustin Out (and Sims 2 too I guess) I will suck off anyone I need to for this pls

[strange-boolprop]

I ship them so much

[urbania-resident]

Ruby Diamond and her daughter, Crystal

Layout:

Ruby — Baby, Child, Teen, Young Adult/College Age, Adult, Senior (Last Name: Diamond)

Zodiac: Romance

Major/Job: Business owner - owns Club Xizzle

Aspiration: fortune

Story Notes: Gets (re)married — to Lottie Cash’s dad

Bio (optional): N/A

Crystal — Baby, Child, Teen, Young Adult (college), Adult, Senior (Last Name: Diamond)

Zodiac: Libra

Major/Job: Drama/Show Business

Aspiration: Pleasure? Popularity?

Story Notes: Falls in love with Kris, is BFFs with Lottie Cash, her mom (Ruby) gets married to her bf

Bio (optional): A fashionista from out of town, Crystal has come to Miniopolis to check out the scene and steal some good ideas.

[lyneht]

Rediscovering my love for The Urbz on the DS and wanted to redesign Crystal ❤️

[simminglytimeladies]

✉️ ☘️ 🧸 🍨 🌱 for the ask game because I'm curious kjkjljkj

And your curiosity shall be piqued, Anon!

✉️How big is your mods folder?

It depends on which game are you talking about. I'll do Sims 4 first and:

Looks like it's kinda bigger than Baldur's Gate 3?

As for Sims 2:

It's mostly the skins, accessories and cosmetics. I prefer to use Sims 4 clothing when I make Sims 2 renders anyway.

☘️Do you have any other social media where you post sims related content?

I did attempt an simstagram but it didn't work as I like it to be. Same username as here but I don't recommend following it as it's pretty out of date.

🧸Favorite townie? (any sims game)

Let me do a quick list up on who is my favorite townie based on the sims games I've played!

Sims 2: Crystal Vu

Sims 4: Erwin Pries and Morgyn Ember

Urbz: Lincoln Broadsheet

Sims 2 PSP: Dominic Newlow

🍨Do you have a sim self? If yes, do you play with them?

I used to have one but I don't have them anymore and I'm not gonna bother recreating them. It's mostly because I rather render my OCs lol.

🌱Do/Can you relate to any of your sims?

To some degree, I do relate to my sims. I could even take some traits after them for some reason.

[starsimmer722]

Crystal 🔮

The sims: Urbz in the City 🌃

[thesimquarter]

Some Unused Urbz (GBA) Dialogue

I was looking through the string table in the Urbz for GBA and noticed some dialogue that goes unused in the actual game and decided to catalogue it and share it because I just love things like this.

If you see an '@1', in the dialogue, that's just a placeholder for the player's name (or at least for all of THESE. Sometimes it's used for other things.)

As a side note, the dialogue for this game is pretty well-organized and all the characters have distinct enough voices (TS2GBA DO NOT INTERACT) that it's incredibly easy to figure out who said what. There's also a lot more unused strings, but I'm just focusing on the dialogue right now

First of all, all characters, not just those you can have as a roommate, have roommate acceptance dialogues. So, here are all the unused ones.

BAYOU BOO: Gosh, that's fine idea. Don't mind if I do. BERKELEY CLODD: Sure I'll move in with you. What a splendid way to meet a whole new set of clients. LINCOLN BROADSHEET: Sure, I'll live with you, buddy. But be warned: I stay up late. CRAWDAD CLEM: You know, It'd be real fun to share accommodations with you for a bit. Sure. EPHRAM EARL: To haunt your house with your permission, this I will do. PRITCHARD LOCKSLEY: Sure, so long as you help me memorize my lines. HARLAN KING: Of course I will. How wonderful! LOTTIE CASH: Okay! That'd be killer! We're going to have such an awesome time. LUTHOR L. BIGBUCKS: Sure, why not. It'll be just like college all over again. MAMBO LOA: I would gladly share accommodations with you. When do I move in? Now? MAXIMILLIAN MOORE: Sure, why not? So long as you don't mind the smell of bleach. OLDE SALTY: You're darn tooting! I'd be your roommate any day. CRYSTAL: Okay! I can't wait to redecorate your dumpy pad. POLLY NOMIAL: Yes. To maintain a domicile with you would be most enlightening. GIUSEPPI MEZZOALTO: Why not, right? It'll be loads of fun. I'm moving in today! ROXANNA MOXIE: Sure, why not? It'll be fun, you know? A real laugh. THERESA BULLHORN: Yes! I would love to share your life of glamour and fame. DARIUS: Heck yeah, dawg. We can kick it together. DADDY BIGBUCKS: You betcha! DET. DAN D. MANN: It's an interesting proposition. Hm… Consider it done! LILY GATES: An excellent plan! Your place is much closer to where I work! KRIS THISTLE: You want me to move in with you? After all I've done? Wow. You're great. GRAMMA HATTIE: What a grand idea. Your house will be a great place to hold meetings.

There is also an unused set of rep group-related dialogues. These ones most likely being used if you managed to get an exceedingly poor rep with your rep group.

DARIUS: Hey, @1. Check yourself before you wreck your Rep. The Streeties are getting sick of you hanging around. LUTHOR L. BIGBUCKS: Sorry to be the one to break this to you, @1, but the rest of the Richies think you're getting a tad uppity. Clean up your act or we'll boot you. POLLY NOMIAL: Our patience with your gradual assimilation into our social sphere is waning. Progress or be excommunicated from the Nerdies. ROXANNA MOXIE: A few words of advice @1. Shape up or ship out of our group. End of story.

These MAY not be unused, but I've never heard of anyone getting any of these messages, and, for the life of me, I could not get them to activate through my own twiddling. There exists no dialogue for actually kicking you out of the rep group. So even if this WAS used, it would just be an empty threat. (I mean… it's implied that it was your rep group that picked you up after you crash landed in Miniopolis, which is why you're apart of it despite not really knowing anyone.)

As a side note, when I was going through getting to -10 rep points with the Richies, after about -6, every time I lost a rep group point, Roxanna Moxie kept on giving my silver plaques. RICHIE silver plaques. Using the Artsie silver plaque dialogue. By the time I was done testing things out, I had five of them. Strange glitch?

So, the Urbz GBA, for whatever reason, doesn’t let us romance the elderly. That doesn't mean that there isn't flirting and kissing dialogue for the unromancable characters! The first dialogue is flirting, and the second one is refusing to accept a kiss.

EPHRAM EARL: A piece of human interest seems to be the loving way. EPHRAM EARL: I cannot kiss that which I cannot touch. HARLAN KING: Eh? Does that have a saucy secondary meaning I am not aware of? HARLAN KING: Ugh! No! Your breath smells like everything but fresh! OLDE SALTY: Arrr, you've cracked my barnacle encrusted heart! OLDE SALTY: I'll kiss no one! Not until you proves your devotion! DADDY BIGBUCKS: Hello there… do you mind if I buy you a small island? DADDY BIGBUCKS: Get away from me, you pest! I'd sooner kiss a sneezing dog. GRAMMA HATTIE: Stop it this instant. I know you're just trying to fool with an old woman's mind. GRAMMA HATTIE: Ack! Help! Help! Police! This boy is trying to inhale me!

Related, when a character accepts a hug or a kiss in-game, they don't say anything. However, there is actually unused dialogue for this event. Almost all of it is just "Aw!". However, there's a few exceptions.

BAYOU BOO: Aw! BAYOU BOO: Plant one right here, girl! BERKELEY CLODD: Come hither and embrace me, @1! BERKELEY CLODD: Ah! LINCOLN BROADSHEET: Come here, you! LINCOLN BROADSHEET: Oh! EPHRAM EARL: If arms were ribbons consider this my bow. EPHRAM EARL: Ah! EWAN WATAHMEE: Hugs are free, yes. But they are also round. EWAN WATAHMEE: Ah! PRITCHARD LOCKSLEY: It's so good to see you too! Let's do lunch. PRITCHARD LOCKSLEY: Ah! LOTTIE CASH: It's fun to be this close to me, huh? LOTTIE CASH: Oh! LUTHOR L. BIGBUCKS: Wrap your arms around me, baby. LUTHOR L. BIGBUCKS: Yeah! MAXIMILLIAN MOORE: You washed your hands before you hugged me, right? MAXIMILLIAN MOORE: Eek! CRYSTAL: Gee, thanks. You're sweet. CRYSTAL: Oh! OLDE SALTY: That's right, give poor Olde Salty a nice hug. OLDE SALTY: Yay! DADDY BIGBUCKS: Normally I don't let people touch me if they're not wearing an expensive coat. But for you'll I'll make an exception. DADDY BIGBUCKS: Normally I don't let people kiss me if they're not wearing fruity lip gloss. But for you'll I'll make an exception.

The first dialogue here is accepting a hug; the second is accepting a kiss. All characters not listed here just has "Aw!" as a response to both being kissed and hugged.

There seems to be a scrapped interaction, most likely called 'Talk about Pets.' from the subject of the replies and the fact that it was tucked between 'Talk about Ninjas' and 'Talk about Politics,' which would make the placement alphabetical. I wonder why it went unused!

Not every single character had a line for this. The following characters do not: Bayou Boo, Crawdad Clem, Ephram Earl, Ewan Watahmee Harlan King, Luthor L. Bigbucks, Mambo Loa, Misty Waters, Olde Salty, and Theresa Bullhorn. Some of these characters do have other lines that refer to owning a pet; they just don't have a dialogue here.

BERKELEY CLODD: I looked into buying a talented chimpanzee, but very few know how to pick pock- er, pick their nose. LINCOLN BROADSHEET: I have my pet rabbit to thank for my interest in journalism. Why? Well… isn't it obvious? PRITCHARD LOCKSLEY: I was so proud my pet lizard Harvey was cast as the lead in a new gladiator film. Sure he beat me for the role… but he was wonderful! LOTTIE CASH: I have a cute little pug named Paris. You don't think I'll get sued for that, do you? I hope not. MAXIMILLIAN MOORE: Sooner or later, every disease that pets get will jump to humans! The end is near! CRYSTAL: I totally want a pet dolphin so it can protect me from sharks. PHOEBE TWIDDLE: My mom was a cat lady and my dad was a dog guy, so I learned to love pets very early on. But I'll never forget the smell. POLLY NOMIAL: Your colorful colloquy is highly amusing. GIUSEPPI MEZZOALTO: If I tell you I like snakes, you'd better not make any jokes. Got it? ROXANNA MOXIE: Come by the carnival sometime! There are lots of needy animals there. SUE PIRNOVA: I'm not organized enough to take care of another creature. The best I can manage is feeding ants. DARIUS: I like goldfish. What? DADDY BIGBUCKS: Yuck! There is nothing worse that a sniveling, drooling, hairy servant who cannot follow orders. DET. DAN D. MANN: When people don't clean up after their pets, who do you think has to do it for them? Huh? I'm asking you because I don't know the answer. LILY GATES: Every time I buy a pet, I get so busy I forget to feed it. And then… well… I shouldn't own any pets. KRIS THISTLE: Don't remind me! My landlord doesn't allow pets, so when I moved here I was forced to sell my ferret. CANNONBALL COLEMAN: I owned a crow a few years ago. He made enough noise to scare ghosts away. I miss that old bird. GRAMMA HATTIE: I'm definitely a cat person. And a dog person. And a chicken person too. I'm really a pet person. DUSTY HOGG: I used to own a small python and a small dog. Now I just own a bigger python.

'Talk about Pets' does not show up in the list of interactions earlier in the string set.

Lincoln Broadsheet has some mission dialogue that, again, may not be unused, but I have never seen, and I have never seen anyone else talk about it.

YOU: Mister Broadsheet, would you help me write a thesis? LINCOLN BROADSHEET: Gosh, I would if I wasn't so busy. Tell you what I can do though: I'll let you use my computer to log in to my research database. That should give you some good ideas. LINCOLN BROADSHEET: Hey, have you heard the recent news? A local TV station is filming a new Reality Television Show. YOU: Interesting, but I don't watch much TV. LINCOLN BROADSHEET: Me neither, but don't let that stop you from going up to Paradise Island and signing up. If you do well I could write a big article about you. YOU: Are they still letting people sign up? LINCOLN BROADSHEET: I think so. Head up to Paradise Island and see for yourself. And if you do well Id love to write an article on you.

Note: I have been informed that the first two lines in this section actually can happen in-game!

It is also appears he would have given the player the Reality TV Show plotline.

And finally, ‘The Bad Ending.’

DADDY BIGBUCKS: People around here call me Daddy Bigbucks. If you like what you see in Miniopolis, it's a good bet I own it.

This is actually listed next to all the character introductions, so this would have been how Daddy Bigbucks introduced himself, if he were to actually introduce himself. There are placeholders for the other characters who don’t get to say a proper introduction as well (Kris Thistle, Det. Dan D. Mann, Crawdad Clem, Harlan King), but they’re just placeholders. No text of relevance.

[alelelesimz]

STREETIES

Darius - Crystal - Kris Thistle - Ewan Watahmee

[simnationlifebefore]

[annalrk-art]

best girls in the sims urbz hands down

[darkazzer]

I really love the urbz..wish the remake it

[urbania-resident]

Streeties, with their dorm behind them

Headcanons and plans for these Sims:

Darius is still very much the leader. I’ve had it a past Sims 2 Urbz play through that Darius is older and was setting Kris up to be the next in the line to lead the Streeties, but they’re all the same age here

On a related note, Kris was aware of this, but also struggled with the fact that she wants to get into the natural scientist career track and focus on her passions there

I’m planning for Kris and Crystal to fall in love, and get married down the line. I even have a grungy apartment building for them to move into (Mokey loves in the basement apartment and Busta Cruz will live in the attic space, so they’ll have interesting neighbors). Anything after that is up to fate, otherwise known as whatever I choose for them lol

Oh! Also, you can see here, Ewan’s hair is not tied back— yet. As a teen, he had long hair, and now as a young adult he’s got longer hair. When he gets into full adulthood, he’ll tie it back. I also gotta remember to have him get his ears pierced with small gold hoops 🤔

[lollyracket-archive]

sims 4 + urbz: the streeties

featuring darius, crystal, kris thistle, and ewan watahmee

i’ve recently become obsessed w/ doing townie makeovers. i got this idea from @okruee who reminded me of my love of the gameboy game urbz: sims in the city. i was so obsessed with that game. i used to play it all the time and beat the game more than once lol. i decided to remake the urbz in sims 4. the first group is the streeties.