List of Empty and Cleaned-up Templates.

[Liveangel]

It's a pain in the ass having to dig through the original thread for templates, so I made a thread here.

Emma's 4shared.

I'm going to make the master list here. Links will fill in in a few minutes.
You need all of the clean templates for all of your games.
Base
University
Nightlife
Open for Business
Pets
Seasons
Bon Voyage
Freetime
Apartment Life

You also need to go here and click the link for your latest EP. Click 'hacks,' and then retrieve these.
antiredundancy
nossrepawn
nostrayrespawn
notownieregen
nodormieregen (this one is in the director's cut zip, not in the 'hacks' section)
Unzip and place in Downloads folder, preferably subfoldered under 'Essential' or some sort.

And follow Jordi's Clean Custom Neighborhood Tutorial for installing you new templates.

Remember, if you create a new neighbourhood and minimize and see character files in your characters folder, then something went wrong. Don't continue; see what you're missing or what step you missed.

Oh, and the box.net links are working for me, so I linked to SaraMK's originals.

List updates go here.
Comments go here.


Credits:
Kazzandra, for making the original list.
Jordi
SaraMK
Argon
IAmTheRad
Giggy


Moderator edit: I changed the links that pointed to this post to new download links for files now hosted on MATY.  All clean templates are now hosted on-site!  Thanks for making the new thread, Liveangel.

Further edit:  Did you screw something up while installing clean templates, and failed to make a backup?  Aren't you foolish!  Thankfully, Witch has kindly made all of the original templates available.  Get your Maxis original hoods here: http://moreawesomethanyou.com/bastdawn/maxishoods

[BastDawn]

All of the clean templates are now hosted on MATY.  The agreement for doing this was "MOAR Emma torture."

[Emma]

Oh, yes. That is pure torture.

*Emma giggles

[Sagana]

It would be good to add nodormierespawn to the list of needed hacks and mention that it's in the director's cut.

[jolrei]

All of the clean templates are now hosted on MATY.  The agreement for doing this was "MOAR Emma torture."

Yes, yes.  Standard contract clause and all that.  That said, THERE IS NO GOOPY!

I have all of the empty templates and even deleted all Characters, Lots, Storytelling and Thumbnails.. and I have all the hacks you listed here....

But still when I create a custom neighborhood, create a new lot and go into it, a character file is generated in my docs Characters file.

Make sure you have latest versions of notownieregen and antiredundancy for AL.  AL will create necessary NPCs (witches, etc.), same as any other EP, even with an empty template.  It also will create townies to fill apartments, as necessary.  It should not create all sorts of extra townies - it does not do so in my game.  If you are getting all kinds of extra townies showing up, you likely have tight pants.  Check your hacks.

[Emma]

Does Rod Humble create a character file?

[witch]

Yes, I saw it last night in SimPE.

[Emma]

There ya go then. Have you got the anti-Humble mod by Pescado, southy?

[jolrei]

If that doesn't solve it (and we all hope it does), you might try hunting for stray hacks in other parts of your Downloads folder.  I occasionally end up with a hack I did not want that sneaks in with a downloaded lot (even with clean installer), which causes amusing problems until I find it and remove it.  Inadvertent tight pants is still tight pants.

[mitchellcjs]

That "hideous custom content" piece is probably the bigfoot hair.

[Soggy Fox]

Oh, thank you so much for this - I really need to redo all my sims downloads, and redo the clean neighborhoods, because somehow I goofed with the BV ones and still have the Travellers in my bin.

[missaaliyah]

Thank you.    this has made finding the necessary files easier and pain free. 

OMG I just realised I am going to miss Goopy as well     NOT, LMAO, no fugly sims!

[Chinchillagrl]

This is great. I can't wait to get rid of all those fugly townies.

[june_bug]

I are having trouble. At least, I think so.  I've already downloaded all the empty templates, 'cept for the base 'hood, which I got the cleaned up version (with just the original playables). I followed jordi's instructions to the letter. Here's my problem: I use InSim to summon townies and such, and whenever I use the summoner, it shows extra families. I've since figured out that it is creating new families for all of the so-called "special" townies (Garden Club, Social Groups, etc) instead of making them part of the townie list. Is this normal? Is it dangerous? And how can I fix it?

[seelindarun]

Special families for certain townie groups is normal.  Spawning can be clamped with the use of noregen hacks.  Search if you need the latter.

[raynuss]

I'm haveing a problem with the links to the downloads.  The links for Uni, NL and OFB, are all for the same file...the NL empty template.  ??

[Emma]

Check out my 4shared folder (link in OP). If any are unavailable, give me a shout and I'll reupload.

[Nepheris]

As a good little puppy I use the cleaned up templates in my game, as well as the fixed Pleasantview, and keep backups of the original files.

Or at least, I thought I did. Something seems wrong with my backup of Pleasantview, as I get no lots at all and the families in the bin appear all screwed up. I must have unintentionally messed around with it. Would a kind person share their original Pleasantview N001 folder with me please? The one you find under Program Files, that is.

[witch]

Nepheris, I did a vanilla install of the sims last week. I backed up all original program files, the hoods and a clean sims 2 folder. They're on my external hard drive and as soon as I get up and load them on my big PC I'll upload N001 for you, if no-one else has by then.

I backed them all up after the vanilla install because I managed to get my files in a bit of a mess after playing round with clean templates and various config type stuff. I thought buggrit, I'm not going through the dance of the disks again anytime soon! 

[Jelenedra]

witch, I have no problem hosting that in mah bucket, if you don't want to use mediafryer.

[witch]

I'll see how it goes, not sure how big it is from memory. I think the entire prog files folder came to a couple of GBs.

Ta for the offer.

[Nepheris]

Thanks so much Witch You're a lifesaver. Looking forward to the files.

*Happily presses sheepy button*

[witch]

Talk about senility - the sims 2 program files folder comes to 13.4GB. No wonder I put it on the external HDD.

Anyway, just uploading N001 now, from the C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\UserData\Neighborhoods path. Hope that's what you wanted.

http://www.4shared.com/file/79507877/dc8b3569/N001.html 39MB

[Nepheris]

That's exactly what I needed. Baa!    My install discs thank you as well, as they are showing cracks in the middles and probably can't handle too many dances anymore.

*squirrels files away somewhere safe*

[witch]

Check your other hoods if you like, just in case ...