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The Sims 2 Cheats, Codes & Guides

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The Sims 2 FAQs

The Sims 2 Cheats

Cheat Trophy

Entry location:
Top
While playing the game, press L, R, UP, A, Z. The cheat trophy will appear and the following cheats may now be enabled.


9,999 Simoleons


R, L, Z, Right, Left. Now select the cheat trophy and press give simoleons.


All Objects

This might not work but it worked for me. Press B, X, Down, Left, Up.
Editor's Note: Also recorded as Z, X, Down, Left, Up.


Set Skill Level

Press Y, X, B, Z, Left. Select the cheat trophy and select the skill you want to set.

Download Mods and Patches

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Cheats by the Book

These cheats are definitely correct because they came from the official game guide.

To open cheat window: ctrl + Shift + C ...but you already knew that right?!

1.) AddneighbortoFamilycheat [on/off]: With this cheat activated you can Shift + left click on an NPC to add one to the current household. This won't work on service NPCs engaged in their jobs, like the maid cleaning and what not, but it will work if that same NPC is visiting socially or hanging out after work. You can even add sims in excess of the customary 8 sim limit on families. This cheat doesn't work on NPCs like the Grim Reaper or Mrs. Crumplebottom.

2.) Forcetwins: With a pregnant sim selected, using this cheat transforms the pregnancy into a twin birth. (unlike twinsr2cute/twinzr2cute which, in my expirience, rarely works)

3.) Plumbobtoggle [on/off]: Makes the overhead plumb bob (the diamond thingy above their heads) invisible.

PS: Typing exit into the cheat window doesn't actually exit the game, it simply exits the cheat window.

PSS: The creator of the Sims is named Will Wright (sp?) and you can see a picture of him in sim form at the back of the create a sim room...ish place where you first make a family.

Cheat Perk

Entry location:
Buy perk screen
At any time in the game press select button and go to the perk screen and go to buy perks. you will see a selection of perks that you can buy. hold down the L, R and Square buttons for 3 seconds. A new perk will appear with a picture of a purple heart called cheat.

Refill the Alien-Killing Super-Drencher

Don't refill the super drencher with regular water - go to the desert and go to the strange glowing water in the very back. Load this into your Drencher and the gun will definitely kill aliens.

Alien Attack

First off, save your game, and turn your DS off. Then, turn it back on. Go to the menu on your DS and switch the time FORWARDS, say a couple of hours. Then play it again. The Concierge will pop up and say something like "You time-traveling idiot! The aliens are attacking! Run!"

DO NOT go near the aliens - they will get HUNGRY signs over their heads and try to eat you. Spraying them with your water pistol won't work either, because they will still try to eat you. Ouch.

Max all Attributes

Entry location:
Goal screen
Hold down the L, R and Square buttons and wait about 30 seconds.

(ed. note: Careful, there isn't much left to do in the game once everything is maxed out. This is unverified.)

Cheat Gnome

L, R, Up, A, Z

Haunted Hotel

Entry location:
Lobby
To get a haunted hotel first, buy a Cute Ghost Picture (1000 dollars). Then put it in the manager suite and admire it. Finally go out to the lobby there should be a ghost flying around. (look everywhere: on the stairs, in the walls)

Sims 2 Cheats

Entry location:
Pause game to enter the cheats. You must enter the gnome cheat first!
L1, R1, Up, X, R2 - Unlock Gnome (enter first)
R1, L1, R2, Right, Left - Give Money (9,999)
Circle, L2, Left, Circle, Up, Circle - Unlock All Lots
Circle, Square, L1, Up, Down - Advance clock 6 hrs
Triangle, Circle, Square, R2, Left - Set Skill Level
Up, Circle, Up, Right, L2 - Fill All Motives
R2, Square, Up, Down, Right, X - Unlock All Recipes
Square, R2, Down, Right, Square - Unlock All Clothing
L2, Circle, Down, Left, Up - Unlock all objects
R1, L1, R1, L1, Triangle - Horn Audio

Max All Motives

D-Pad Up, B, D-Pad Up, D-Pad Right, White

Changes Any SimÂ’s Skill

Y, B, X, Black, D-Pad Left

Gives the Household §10,000

R, L, Black, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Left

Go 6 Hours Forward in Time

B, X, L, D-Pad Up, D-Pad Down

Master Cheat

Entry location:
During gameplay
L, R, D-Pad Up, A, Black
(master code must be entered first to make cheat gnome appear at street, go up to the gnome and press A to activate)

Unlock All Story Mode Locations

B, White, D-Pad Left, B, D-Pad Up, B

Unlock All Clothes

X, Black, D-Pad Down, D-Pad Right, X

Unlock All Objects

White, B, D-Pad Down, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Up

Unlock All Recipes

Black, X, D-Pad Up, D-Pad Down, D-Pad Right, A

Snap to Grid

boolProp snapObjectsToGrid [true or false]

Move Objects

Moveobjects on/off

Filmmaking Help

boolprop enablepostprocessing true/false
Must be true for all filmic cheats to function.

Film Grain

filmgrain (0-1)
Computers video card must be able to handle pixel shaders. Creates a film graininess. Must first enter "boolprop enablepostprocessing true" cheat.

Letterbox

letterbox (0.0-0.4)
Computers video card must be able to handle pixel shaders. Creates a letterbox view of size specified. Must first enter "boolprop enablepostprocessing true."

Bloom Effect

bloom (r g b x)
Computers video card must be able to handle pixel shaders. Creates a filmic look in which everything's so bright it blurs together (a la sitcom flashbacks) "r" "g" and "b" are color values (0-255) and "x" is the amount of blooming from 0 to 255.

Alter Focus

vignette (centerx centery X)
Computers video card must be able to handle pixel shaders. Creates a filmic look in which a focal point is clear but everything around it is blurry. Must first enter "boolprop enablepostprocessing true" cheat.

Display information about indicated chea

help [cheat command]

No censor

intprop censorgridsize 0
Set to 8 to return to normal.

Remove all Sims

Entry location:
Use in neighborhood view.
deleteAllCharacters

Turn off DNA Blending

BlendLimits on/off

Max Party Invites

Entry location:
Use in neighborhood screen to invite more guests with a party
intProp maxNumOfVisitingSims [number]

Neighborhood Props

Entry location:
Set to false to remove props like rocks and towers from neighborhood
boolprop displayNeighborhoodProps [true or false]

Neighborhood Roads

boolprop displayNeighborhoodRoads [true or false]

Neighborhood Plants

boolprop displayNeighborhoodFlora [true or false]
Set to false to removes trees/plants from neighborhood

Neighborhood Water

boolprop displayNeighborhoodWater [true or false]
Set to false to remove water from neighborhood.

Neighborhood Houses

boolprop displayLotImposters [true or false]
Set to false to removes house graphics from neighborhood.

Neighborhood Bridges

boolprop displayNeighborhoodRoadsWithModel [true or false]
Set to false to remove bridges from neighborhood.

Lot Lighting

boolprop lotTerrainLighting [true or false]
Set to false and lots will not light up when highlighted in neighborhood.

Lot Water

boolprop lotWater [true or false]
Set to false to remove removes water (ponds) from lots.

Lot Terrain Paints

boolprop lotTerrainPaints [true or false]
Set to false to remove floorpainting on lot.

Adds 1,000 simoleons to your bank accoun

Kaching

Adds 50,000 simoleons

motherlode

Autopatch

Autopatch on/off
This allows the game to automatically look for game patches.

Aging

aging on/off

Improve Graphics

Vsync on/off
Turning it off improves game performance but with graphical errors.

Delete Neighborhood

deleteallcharacters

Show Cheat Help

help

Exit Game

exit

Expand Console Window

expand

Get Twins

Entry location:
Type in while giving birth to get twins
twinzr2cute or twinsr2cute

Tall Sims

StretchSkeleton [number]
Stretch sim size to number. 1.0 is normal size

Change Terrain

Entry location:
This can only be used in neighborhood view and toggles between 2 terrain types.
terraintype desert/temperate

Slow Motion

Slowmotion [0-8]
0 is normal speed and 8 is slowest.

Cheat Code Instructions

To open the cheat box, hold down Ctrl, SHIFT and C and press Enter. When on/off is specified only use one at a time.

Development Team Picture

At the title screen, press Right, Down, Right, Down, Right. A Sim voice will indicate correct entry.

Unknown Code

During gameplay, press Right, Up, Right, Down, Right, Up, Down, Right. A Sim voice will indicate correct entry.

Unknown Code 2

While playing a game, press Left, Right, Down, Right, Left, Right, Down. A Sim voice will indicate correct entry.

Free Harvested Food

Use the following trick if you are in need of food and have very little money. Buy an item that can have food harvested from it. Harvest the food from it, sell it back, then buy another. This will keep you from having to spend money on food. Unless there is more than one sim in your house, you do not have to worry about the other Sim wasting money buying non-harvested foods.

Save Money

If you have an objective that requires buying furniture, just buy it to complete the goal, then delete it to get your money back.

The Sims 2 Easter Eggs

Space man

Entry location:
Dessert
Go to the dessert. If you far enough out, you should come to a pool with loads of trees! behind that is a load of sand, as well as a space pod! (you can't travel to space in it).

Chocolate!

First you have to have the Lion Lounge or the Jazz Lounge, then when you have one go buy a bar of chocolate. Go to the farm where the cows are and feed one of the cows the chocolate! (DON'T GIVE IT TO THE BULL, HE DOESN'T DO ANYTHING) After you give it to the cow it should turn brown, then tip it and milk it and you get a chocolate milkshake!!! Also just milk it to get regular chocolate milk.

Mmmmm... Milkshake

At the cow's hangout, walk up to a cow and press "Tip" and your sim will push it over. When it is still on the ground, press "Milk" and you will get a milkshake instead of a plain old glass of milk. You can drink it or sell it to the Saloon lady. Pretty yummy, huh?

Secret Room

There is a secret room in your hotel! And you don't have to build it. Go down into the basement of the hotel. Go into the room where the door to the Alien Autotrospy is. In the back of the room is a pile of wood and stuff. Direct your sim to the RIGHT SIDE of the wood. It should flip open. Walk into the hole that appears. You have now saved Big Foot from his imprisionment. You need to feed him some food EVERY DAY. It makes your people happy. Otherwise, he might get upset and your people will go crazy.

The Sims 2 Glitchs

40000 Starting Cash in Free Play

Go to free play, choose the second familly and evict them. Now edit it. Delete them and create a new family. Now you have 40000$ as starting cash.

The Sims 2 Hints

Grim Reaper

Entry location:
Gameplay
In order to find(or get) the Grim Reaper you must kill one of the characters. My method is to bring the person outside and trap them(Objects, Walls, Fence)! For other ways, test different recipes. Puking is a sign of death, but not always.

Raising Your Energy

Entry location:
On a couch
To get your energy up quick use or buy a sofa.Then use power nap. It should raise it half way or more.

Angry People Give You Gifts and Money

To make big bucks, all you have to do is make someone angry and then calm them down. Usually when you calm someone down or restrain them, they will give you money or items such as fuel rods or gourds.

To make people angry, you can squirt your water gun at them. If you calm them down and then repeat the process over and over, you will have many gourds and fuel rods. And you might get some cash, too - out of all the characters, Jebediah S. Jerky is most likely to give you those dollas.

Become the Alien-Killing Rattinator

Go over to town hall and talk to the guy at the booth about building the Rat Cave. After 8 hours (yes, this is real time) Tristan Legend will have built the Rat Cave. He will call you down to the basement on your cell, and when you're down there, he will show you the Rat Cave. He'll explain how he was once the "Rattinator," but he gave it up. So now YOU get to be the Rattinator. Oh joy. Rat Man. LUCKY you. >snicker<

Keep your money!

Entry location:
curio shoppe
When you buy the house of Bella Goth do this to keep some of your money instead of giving it all away: Go to the cash register in curio shoppe and buy food until you can not buy anymore. Then go buy the house of Bella Goth. Go back to the cash register and sell all your items in inventory you won't have as much money back but you will still have some.

Twins Secret

if you want to have twins get one of the female sims pregnet, once she is pregnet... have her "try for a baby" or "woohoo" again with her husband. once she is about to have her baby(/babies), it will tell you if the cheat worked or not by saying "two babies are on the way..."

Free Books

In the Sims 2 buy a book case and then pull out a book then select put down. then sell the book case and there will be a book you will be able to read :D

To Kill Sims

There are many ways sims die, and also there are many ways to kill them on purpose. Here are two ways to kill them. One way is to have a small room with nothig inside. Make sure there is one door. Instruct the sims or sims that you want to kill to "go here" inside the room. If you are waiting for alot of sims to get in the room, and some of them try to leave, keep telling them to go here, and X off what they are going to do. Once they are all inside, and the door is closed, go into build mode and delete the door. Another way to kill sims is to make a pool with only one ladder, and nothing else. Tell a sim to get in the pool, and once they are all the way in, delete the ladder!

Getting Rid of the Second Ghost

After you get rid of the first ghost in your house, talk to your maid and she will tell you about the ghost in your master bedroom. To get rid of him, go to Deadtree and go into the Meeting House. Go out back and find the tombstone without words on it. Dig up the charm. Now go to the Nightowl and talk to the girl with the blonde pigtails.
*note*- when you are out in the graveyard, try to avoid the zombies!

How to Get the Estate Cheap!

In the first level, when Bella asks you for all your money, say you will come back later. Then go to Mambo Loa, buy all the energy bars they have, and return to her. She takes all the money you have - which is about seven dollars - and you have all the food you need when you get hungry!

Easy Money

Start painting until you get your crafting up to full. Then your player will paint by him/herself, and each time you will get $500 for selling your painting. Keep doing it until you have as much money as you want.

Selling Paintings

Build up your creativity skills and do a few paintings. They'll sell for 500 Simoleons a piece and you can sell as many as you want!

Bruin' while you're pooin'!

Do you want to unlock recipies without having to waste time? Well you can multi-task. When you go poo and press A there are 2 options: 1. Play Video Game; or 2. Read Magazine. If you choose magazine, after a little bit of pooing, sometimes you can unlock a recipe.

How To Get Your Sanity Bar Stronger

Entry location:
Anywhere....
If you have the FORTUNE Aspiration this is a easier way to get your sanity bar stronger....First you must have an SUPER DRENCHER (water gun) and spray people then calm them down each time you do that your sanity bar gets stronger.

The Freezer Teaser

Entry location:
The freezer in the basement
Ever wondered what the freezer in the basement's for?? No, it not just to save people...the meat makes your stamina go up. To do this you have to select to punch the meat like Rocky.

Fuel Rods and Squirt Guns

Don't use the water in your water gun, not on fires or aliens or anything, cause you'll need it to squirt Lord Mole

Start collecting feul rods fom day 1, try and make sure you have at least 20 by the time Optium Alfread Comes.

Build all rooms fast as possible to save money, you will get a lot because you won't have to spend on building rooms.

Free Harvested Food

Use the following trick if you are in need of food and have very little money. Buy an item that can have food harvested from it. Harvest the food from it, sell it back, then buy another. This will keep you from having to spend money on food. Unless there is more than one sim in your house, you do not have to worry about the other Sim wasting money buying non-harvested foods.

Hunger Satisfaction

More expensive refrigerators hold more food. They also add a bonus to hunger satisfaction. The more cooking skill you have, the higher the hunger satisfaction. Remember, hunger is the one need that can kill your Sim.

Controlling Dead Sims

Kill your Sim however you think is best--fires are easy. Once your Sim is dead, switch to direct control. As a dead Sim you can walk through walls and talk to living Sims. Terrorize, Wail, and Possess are the social options for dead Sims. However, you can only possess Sims in Social mode. You can also challenge the Grim Reaper to a Fiddle Challenge. If you win, your Sim will come back to life. You can also buy a Back To Life Ticket from the Grim Reaper for 100 Simoleons.

Food Locations


Dangleberries can be harvested in Sproutch Couch.
Other fruits are harvested on a Frood Tree.
Golden eggs can be won in the Chicken Checkers game.
Fish can be caught at the Manilla 1000 Aquarium
Some vegetables can be harvested in the GenoLife Garden Hutch.

Cool Car

When you get to level 7 on your sim job you can ride in a limo when you get to level 9 you get to ride in a helicopter

Jungen House

Fulfill Larry and Chantal's wants to put them in a platinum mood. When both are in a platinum mood they'll tell you the location of Jungen House.

Shoreline Trails

Buy a Foosball Table. When "Beat Torin at Foosball" appears as a Want, look for Torin playing the game, then click "Challenge" and beat him.

Sunset Canyon

Bring Helga, Billy, and Sheila back to life, build a kitchen, clean up the mess, build a bathroom, and give them beds to sleep in. They will then tell you the next location.

Tranquillity Falls

Become friends with Red S, then serve him some food. Then, move back to Sunset Canyon and make Red S and Helga fall in love and get married. Red S will now live there, and you can control him. When you get Red S into a platinum mood, he will tell you how to get to Tranquillity Falls.

Food Locations

Dangleberries can be harvested in Sproutch Couch.
Other fruits are harvested on a Frood Tree.
Golden eggs can be won in the Chicken Checkers game.
Fish can be caught at the Manilla 1000 Aquarium
Some vegetables can be harvested in the GenoLife Garden Hutch.

The Sims 2 Unlockables

Unlock HMS Amore

Fulfill Betty's Wants until she is Platinum. Then she will tell you where the next location is. One of her wants is to marry Captain Nelson.

Golden Egg

To get the golden egg buy "Prof. Feathers Chicken Checkers" in the "Skill" category and beat Professor Feathers.

Unlock Clothes

Each time you raise a relationship to 100, you will unlock a new item of clothing.

Aliens!

Buy the expensive telescope (FarStar E3 Telescope), and make your male adult sim stargaze in it every night until they turn into an elder. There's a 4% chance that your sim will get abucted and become alien pregnant!

Unlock Clothes

Each time you raise a relationship to 100, you will unlock a new item of clothing.

Unlock Locations

Cliffside Retreat - Fulfill Isabella's Wants and make her happy.

HMS Amore - Fulfill Betty's Wants until she is platinum. Then she will tell you where the next location is. One of her wants is to marry Captain Nelson.

Jungen House - Fulfill Larry and Chantal's wants to put them in a platinum mood. When both are in a platinum mood they'll tell you the location of Jungen House.

Shoreline Trails - Buy a Foosball Table. When "Beat Torin at Foosball" appears as a Want, look for Torin playing the game, then click "Challenge" and beat him.

Sunset Canyon - Bring Helga, Billy, and Sheila back to life, build a kitchen, clean up the mess, build a bathroom, and give them beds to sleep in. They will then tell you the next location.

Tranquillity Falls - Become friends with Red S, then serve him some food. Then, move back to Sunset Canyon and make Red S and Helga fall in love and get married. Red S will now live there, and you can control him. When you get Red S into a platinum mood, he will tell you how to get to Tranquillity Falls.

Unlock Cliffside Retreat

Fulfill Isabella's Wants and make her happy.

Unlock HMS Amore

Fulfill Betty's Wants until she is platinum. Then she will tell you where the next location is. One of her wants is to marry Captain Nelson.

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