The Sims 2 Hints & Cheats

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• The Sims 2 Game Guide

Sometimes putting other people's lives in order is more fun than managing your own. This
guide to the Sims 2 will help you do that, with tips on building your sim, creating your
house, and managing your sims.
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The Sims 2 Cheat Codes

Misc. Codes
Press CTRL + SHIFT + C to access the cheat window, then enter the following:
Cheat Effect
exit closes cheat window
expand expands or contracts cheat window
kaching get 1000 cash
help -all list cheats
autopatch (on/off) lets you know if theres a patch
moveobjects (on/off) moves objects and deletes you couldnt before
vsync (on/off) increases game performance but lowers graphics
StretchSkeleton makes your sims larger or smaller
aging off turn off aging
aging on turn on aging
motherlode 50,000 simoleans
turns off facial bounding limitations. It prevents the
faceBlendLimits (on/off) normal corrections the game will make for two
parents with very different facial structures.
boolProp snapObjectsToGrid true/false You can place objects outside the grid.
intProp maxNumOfVisitingSims 8 You can invite more people to your parties.
boolprop constrainFloorElevation false Allows you to change elevation of floor tiles.
boolprop constrainFloorElevation true Disables the ability to change elevation of floor tiles.
Clears all cheat codes on the screen, but codes are
clear
still in effect.
Puts the game in slow motion. Enter any number that
slowmotion
0 through 8 (0=fastest and 8=slowest)
Set to false and lots will not light up when
boolprop lotTerrainLighting (True/False)
highlighted in neighborhood
boolprop Set to false to remove bridges from neighborhood.
displayNeighborhoodRoadsWithModel
 Cheat
(True/False)
boolprop displayLotImposters (True/False)
boolprop displayNeighborhoodWater
(True/False)
boolprop displayNeighborhoodFlora
(True/False)
boolprop displayNeighborhoodRoads
(True/False)
boolprop displayNeighborhoodProps
(True/False)
boolprop lotWater (True/False)
boolprop lotTerrainPaints (True/False)
boolprop carsCompact (True/False)
boolprop lotInfoAdvancedMode (True/False) Set to true to show lot information
boolprop objectShadows (True/False)
boolProp guob (True/False)
boolprop renderSelectedSimLevel
(True/False)
boolProp displayPaths (True/False)
boolprop displayLookAtBoxes (True/False)
boolProp simShadows (True/False)
boolprop ShowLotPackageFilename
(True/False)
boolprop locktiles (True/False)
boolprop allObjectLightsOn (True/False)
RoofSlopeAngle (15-75)
boolProp testingcheatsenabled true/false if set to true ALL other cheats work.
familyfunds (Family's last name) XXXX
unlockcareerrewards
gameVersion
help [cheat command]
Neighborhood Only Cheats
Bring up cheat window by pressing Ctrl + Shift + C
Effect
Set to false to removes house graphics from
neighborhood
Set to false to remove water from neighborhood
Set to false to removes trees/plants from
neighborhood
Set to false to remove roads from neighborhood
Set to false to remove props like rocks and towers
from neighborhood
Set to false to remove removes water (ponds) from
lots
Set to false to remove floorpainting on lot
Set to true and cars will have more detail in
neighborhood
Set to false to remove removes shadows on objects
outside house
Set to false to remove shadows on objects inside
house
Set to true and walls will no longer cut away from
selected Sim
Set to true to see the path where the selected Sim
walks to
Set to true and blocks appear on Sims faces and on
parts where Sims look at
Toggle shadows on/off for Sims
In neighborhood, shows filename of house when lot
is highlighted
Set to false to place floor tiles outside lot
Set to true to light up objects continuously instead of
only when used
Changes the slope angle of a roof
Alots any amount of money you desire to any sim
family (remove parenthesis in the family's last name
and replace the XXXX's with any amount you want)
unlocks career rewards.
Version in the cheat box.
Displays information about indicated cheat.
 Cheat Effect
At neighborhood view only, removes every Sim from the
deleteAllCharacters
neighborhood.
TerrainType Only for use in neighborhood view, toggles between the two terrain
(desert/temperate) types.

More Codes
Press Ctrl + Shift + C to access the console.
Some cheats require you enter the Postprocessing cheat.
Cheat Effect
slowMotion # Make you set the game speed. (# = 0 to 8, 0 is normal)
boolProp enablePostProcessing
Turns Postprocessing on.
true
boolProp enablePostProcessing
Turns Postprocessing off.
false
Sitcom flashback blur effect (# = 0.0 to 1.0) (require
bloom rgb #
postprocessing on)
Blurry bits at the edge of the screen. (# = 0.0 to 1.0) (require
vignette # # #
postprocessing on)
Makes the screen grainy. (# = 0.0 to 1.0) (require postprocessing
filmGrain #
on)
Adds a letterbox effect to the view. (# = 0.0 to 0.4) (require
letterBox #
postprocessing on)

Other Parameters
Add these to the shortcut's parameters for other helpful things. Some have code counterparts.
Cheat Effect
-w Windowed Mode
-r[width]x[height] Start with desired resolution (in pixels).
-f Fullscreen Mode
-nosound Disables sound

Debug Mode
Open the cheat menu by pressing Ctrl + Shift + C, then entering the following:
boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true
While in Create-a-Sim, press Shift + N before creating your first sim to enable skintones, clothes,
and hairstles that would normally be used only by NPCs. Press Shift + M to disable it.
While in Live mode, Shift + Click on a sim to bring up the debug menu.
The Sims 2 Secrets

• Custom Painting
To decorate your house with custom artwork, first your sim must have a creativity level of 5
and be able to paint a still life.
Have your sim paint and a frame will appear that you can center on whatever you want to
paint. If you want to paint a picture of something outside the Sims 2 game, just press C
anywhere at this time. This will pause the game.
Use Alt + Tab to exit the game, then open a picture program such as Paint and open the
snapshot you just took, it will usually be in the folder: C:\My
Documents\EA\Sims2\Storytelling\Snapshot.bmp
Then, you also have to open the picture you want to have in your game. If your picture is too
large resize it so it will fit in the original snapshot from the game.
Copy your custom picture on to your snapshot from the game, then save the picture. Use Alt
+ Tab to get back to your game and your sim will start painting your own custom picture.
Using this trick you can put pictures of your friends or family, web pictures, or anything else
in your Sims 2 game.

• Listen To Mp3's On Sim Radio

First get whatever Mp3's you want to put on the game, then open up
MyDocuments/EAGames/TheSims2/Music/(whatever RadioStation you want your song on).
Then, Drag your MP3 into the folder. Now, start Sims 2 then go to options menu, then music
settings, then the Radio Station, then pick witch songs you want the radio to play. You can
now listen to your favorite songs in your Sims game.

• Use your own videos for the TV

It's possible to watch your own videos on the Sim-TV. You must put the video you want into
My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Movies\Broadcast (the TV sender you want). If you
then turn on the TV in the game you can watch it! The video must be .avi-clips and the clips
shouldn't be larger then 128x128 pixel also it shouldn't have more then 15 frames per
second.

• Listen to music included with game

First, open your The Sims 2/TSData/Res/Sound directory. The names of radio stations, plus
a few more including Build mode and Neighborhood music should be here in *.package
files. Copy and paste the file corresponding to whatever you want to listen to into another
folder. Rename it from [File].package to [File].mp3. You can now listen to the sound/songs
included in the file.

• For Poor Families

The trick is that no matter how many times you use an object, if you sell it in the same day,
you can get all your money back. So if your Sim is poor and needs body points or
something, buy a body machine and keep selling it back to refund all your money.
 • Saving Pizza
Have a sim call for pizza. When the pizza delivery guy comes DON'T accept the pizza! The
pizza delivery guy will eventually leave the pizza on the front porch, and the pizza will
never get stale. You can stack as many pizzas as you want, so if your sims get hungry, just
tell them to get a pizza from the front porch.

The Sims 2 Glitches

• Disgusting Faces
There is a glitch in character creation mode where you can make absolutely disgusting faces.
The trick is that if you go to the face designing area and you select a face part such as the
eyes and max out all the sliders one way or the other, then go to a different face part and
select one of the PREDESIGNED parts, and then come back to the eyes, the sliders will
have reset in the middle, but the eyes will still look the same. This works for all of the face
adjusting tabs. Exploiting this, you can make eyes the size of dinner plates, cheekbones 4
feet long, and a HUMUNGOUS nose, to name a few.

• free bookcase skills

Buy a bookcase, then have your sim start to study. Interrupt the action so that the book it
placed on the ground, then simply sell the bookcase. The book can then do everything the
bookcase could have done for free.

The Sims 2 FAQs & Walk-Throughs

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