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Rosetta is transparent right? So macOS would start Rosetta to translate amd64 Wine into ARM, and then Wine would be translating the Windows ABI into something macOS can handle.

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Yep this is how it works, Rosetta has supported it since day 1 (for both 32- and 64-bit Intel code, important since The Sims is a 32-but app)

Oh, that transparency would be new. But a behaviour like that would be ideal. I do not have a copy of the Sims to try it thou...

I do, but my M2 Max machine is still in the mail, I'll report back when I get it.

Working fine on M2 Max :)

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