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Alchemist
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#1 Old 3rd Jul 2021 at 3:58 PM Last edited by Victor_tor : 13th Jun 2022 at 12:28 PM. Reason: rar updated
House Party and Unleashed Hot Date Downtown Mash-up


As you know, for some default Downtown Lots, how they look and what is on them depend on wich expansion packs are installed, and may depend upon the order in which they are installed. Pet-related items from Unleashed may not appear unless Unleashed or later expansion pack was installed before Hot Date. Tiki, disco, and "country" items from House party may not appear if any expansion packs were installed between House Party and Hot Date, or if Unleashed or later expansion pack is installed.
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The Sims Complete Collection contains Unleashed versions of lots, meaning that the items from House Party will not appear by Default but the items from Unleashed will.
This pack of lots is custom made mash-up of two versions of lots that has both Unleashed and House Party items. That means your sims now can have Unleashed pet stores togehter with Houseparty items for hang out.
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All Houseparty items were placed on Unleashed version lots in strong accordance to original. Except some miserable things that tool place on Barrett's Boardwalk. Its first floor has been made one tile shorter and all of the windows were removed in House Party Version. I did not delete 2nd floor windows and did not change the size of entire building.
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The list of the lots that included:

House24.iff - Wresday's
House26.iff - Landgraab Mall
House27.iff - Old farm Square
House28.iff - Barrett's Boardwalk
House29.iff - SimCity Beach
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Feel free install them all or in party into your C:\GAMES\THESIMS\USERDATA\HOUSES
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Next minor changes were made to lots:
  • Wresday's - has more exhibit decorations
  • Landgraab Mall - has tiki theme restaurant instead of Burger Clown
  • Old Farm Square - "generic upscale" decor, one pool table intead three, DJ Booth instead of jukebox
  • Barrett's Boardwalk - small dance floor and DJ booth instead of outdoor seating area, tiki themed bar and swimsuite store
  • SimCity Beach - swimsuite have Hawaaian theme instead of generic retail store
Other the then that were made a lot of different tweakings like wall speakers replace,
walls repainting and miserable changes to placement of furnishing that existed. And again, all in accordance with House Party lots for Downtown.
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Hot Date, Houseparty and Unleashed EPs are required
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Next informational recourses are used to make changes autentic. Many thanks to people who provided
pictures of Downtown lots from House Party:
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Downtown_(The_Sims)
SariaFan93 and lifestream video of tiki-theme downtown lots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBdIVShpCX4
inujade for lifestream video of House Party lots in downtown: https://inujade.wordpress.com/2013/...s-1-hot-date-7/
Special thanks to Sortyero29 for keeping interest in Original Sims game
and her great creations for the Sims 4 and making comparison pictures

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Updates:
  • 21/07/03 21:05: Whoopsie! I had two tiki wall templates left in Landgraab Mall candy store. They were vanished
  • 21/07/03 03:09: Landraab Mall water closet was repainted according to House Party version of lot that has cyan tikki wallpapers in it.
  • 22/06/13 14:00: Few changes in Boardwalk to match its autenticy: Hot shrimp stall from Superstar has been replaced by Cheap Eats Counter fron Hot Date, tiki store had two types of wall speakers in one room and now has one which plays Easy Listening.

I reshare edited rar with each update.
However I don't update pictures so they show a little bit wrong information.
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Regards, Victor_tor ^_^
MTS, 2021
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Attached files:
File Type: rar  TemplateHPU_Downtown.rar (360.6 KB, 248 downloads)

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Test Subject
#2 Old 3rd Jul 2021 at 7:43 PM
thanks!
Test Subject
#3 Old 26th Jul 2021 at 5:40 PM
Thanks, i didn't even know i needed something like this.
Alchemist
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#4 Old 27th Jul 2021 at 1:26 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Fedhirweg
Thanks, i didn't even know i needed something like this.

You are welcome.
I started this only because I realy miss House Party lot amenities so much. And found they are really good merging with stores that appeared with Unleashed. To be honest I don't like Unleashed stores in Downtown at all. But unless they do not supplant House Party items, I decided to keep them both. And share what it has become.
But now I also feel that I need to share it as close to House Party version as possible. So there might be a bunch of updates of rar archive on the way. I expect no more then 5 in total.
I just found another mistake in one lot. rar file was replaced.

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Test Subject
#5 Old 12th Aug 2026 at 11:30 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Victor_tor
You are welcome.
I started this only because I realy miss House Party lot amenities so much. And found they are really good merging with stores that appeared with Unleashed. To be honest I don't like Unleashed stores in Downtown at all. But unless they do not supplant House Party items, I decided to keep them both. And share what it has become.
But now I also feel that I need to share it as close to House Party version as possible. So there might be a bunch of updates of rar archive on the way. I expect no more then 5 in total.
I just found another mistake in one lot. rar file was replaced.


Hey, do you think you could make a slightly fixed version of the House Party Downtown without the Unleashed objects (for those who just want the House Party stuff in Downtown but not the pet items), and also do a comparison between the vanilla version of Vacation Island, and the Unleashed version, just to show where pet objects were placed and how the layout might have changed in a minor way?
Field Researcher
#6 Old 12th Aug 2026 at 11:45 PM
If it helps, these are the Downtown houses from my all-EP setup which had Hot Date installed BEFORE Unleashed (I installed in EP release order): http://www.simfileshare.net/download/6030129/

They don't seem to have pet objects Downtown, so I suspect they're House Party versions. (I shared these for someone who had Complete or Legacy and wanted the version of the houses that would come from installing all EPs in order.)
Alchemist
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#7 Old 13th Aug 2026 at 5:39 AM Last edited by Victor_tor : 13th Aug 2026 at 5:56 AM. Reason: The last one note
Hello guys. I should note for all who is still there, that I made this mash-up before Legacy official release. I just don't know what version do you have same as I don't know what versions included in there.

When you install Unleashed after Hot date and Vacation, and you follow complete installation from both CDs, it should overwrite both town templates so I don't quite understand the source you were using.

But I won't argue either. Maybe such happens to local versions which sometimes shrinked content from the full ones.
In my country we never had an official release and localisators made translations were sold on pirated black markets. And I happened never to have Unleashed versions Vacation Island but somehow had Houseparty-only version of Downtown when I installed ALL discs I had from our markets back in a times of weak internet bleeping in table phone speakers when dial-up modems tuned on. Now, as you can see, I have Complete Collection, and just-Unleashed version of both is there.

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Alchemist
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#8 Old 13th Aug 2026 at 11:48 AM
Quote: Originally posted by purplewowies
If it helps, these are the Downtown houses from my all-EP setup which had Hot Date installed BEFORE Unleashed (I installed in EP release order): http://www.simfileshare.net/download/6030129/

They don't seem to have pet objects Downtown, so I suspect they're House Party versions. (I shared these for someone who had Complete or Legacy and wanted the version of the houses that would come from installing all EPs in order.)

House Party version has DJ sub-woofers and dancefloors at Boardwalk and those Ranch restaurant to up and right on the map, don't remember its exact name, but I hope you understand. Well it actually do have all the items I drescribed at the head post. You can determine it by those items.

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Field Researcher
#9 Old 13th Aug 2026 at 6:14 PM
Yeah, at the time I shared it with whoever had been asking, I know I was able to confirm the copy I had appeared to be a House-Party version of Downtown (as opposed to the probably-Legacy person's version that seemed to match the no-HP version, which makes some sense as Legacy matches content wise with Complete). I just wanted to make sure I had elaborated on the specifics for the person I was bringing it up for, since its original intent was for someone who just wanted an every-EP-in-order one so I hadn't closely double checked whether it contained any Unleashed objects--at the time I believe I had mostly checked if this specific lot in one of my neighborhoods matched the HP screenshot here: https://www.thesimswiki.com/wiki/Old_Farm_Square
Alchemist
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#10 Old 14th Aug 2026 at 4:46 AM
Quote: Originally posted by purplewowies
Yeah, at the time I shared it with whoever had been asking, I know I was able to confirm the copy I had appeared to be a House-Party version of Downtown (as opposed to the probably-Legacy person's version that seemed to match the no-HP version, which makes some sense as Legacy matches content wise with Complete). I just wanted to make sure I had elaborated on the specifics for the person I was bringing it up for, since its original intent was for someone who just wanted an every-EP-in-order one so I hadn't closely double checked whether it contained any Unleashed objects--at the time I believe I had mostly checked if this specific lot in one of my neighborhoods matched the HP screenshot here: https://www.thesimswiki.com/wiki/Old_Farm_Square

That is true. EA never made a new content with more than one EPs, even when shipped with bundles. It makes sence for me to make special versions of sims or houses for bundles, but they never came this way.

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Test Subject
#11 Old 14th Aug 2026 at 5:53 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Victor_tor
That is true. EA never made a new content with more than one EPs, even when shipped with bundles. It makes sence for me to make special versions of sims or houses for bundles, but they never came this way.


EA never tried shipping "hybrid lots" by default in a pack again after Sims 1 Unleashed, and never really again after Sims 2 Nightlife and Sims 2 Bon Voyage. They sort of gave up on that idea, and in The Sims 3 era, they would only add lots from other packs into worlds by default, but not add items from the other packs into the worlds' default lots.
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