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The Sims
Life Stories
Cheats and Codes
- Testing cheats mode

While playing the game, press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + C to display the console window. Enter
"boolProp TestingCheatsEnabled true" to activate testing cheats mode. This is a very powerful
cheat that enables many new things. In Create A Sim, after enabling this code, go into
debugmode by pressing [Shift] + N before making a Sim. You now have the following new
things in Create A Sim: skin tones, clothing, and some other options such as viewing the
skinfilenames. In the game itself, after enabling this code, hold [Shift] and left click on a Sim to
have lots of options, such as changing clothes, make your Sim fat or thin, set their aspiration
level, etc. This code also can spawn some interesting items, such as the tombstone of L(ife)
and D(eath), and family members.

Enable the "boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true" code, then go onto a different family. A
strange code will appear at the top right hand corner. If you go onto the Sims' needs, you can
click on each one and drag it up or down, whichever desired. You can also increase the skill
points of your Sims in the same way. This is useful if you want a promotion, if your Sim is
depressed, if you are teaching a toddler to walk, etc. You can also hold [Shift] and click on a
Sim. Click on "More", then "Spawn" and create the Tombstone of L and D. You can click on this,
then "More" then "Make everyone here friends with me", which helps if you need friends to get
promoted, or to complete an aspiration task.

Enable the "boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true" code, then hold [Shift] and click on a mailbox.
You will now have new options, such as forcing a burglar to rob, know all Sims in the
neighborhood (including NPCs and special Sims), force everyone you know to be friends, force
pregnancy relations, invite all neighbors over, and more.

- Cheat Codes

While playing the game, press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + C to display the console window. Then, type
one of the following case-sensitive codes and press [Enter] to activate the corresponding cheat
function:

Result Cheat Code

List most cheat codes help

Display information about

help [cheat command]
indicated cheat

1,000 more Simoleons Kaching

50,000 more Simoleons motherlode

Unlocks all career reward

objects for unlockCareerRewards
selected Sim

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Sets all motives to maximum for
all Sims maxMotives
on lot

Set amount of funds for the

named familyFunds [family name][value]
family

Add or subtract from current

familyFunds [family name] [+/-][value]
funds

Lock or unlock the aspiration

score of lockAspiration [on or off]
Sims on the lot

Toggle motive decay for all Sims

motiveDecay [on or off]
on lot

Toggle showing of plumbBob PlumbBobToggle

Toggle thought bubbles, speech

balloons showHeadlines [on or off]
etc.

Set the hour of the day setHour [0-23]

No censor; set to 8 to return to

intprop censorgridsize 0
normal

Have twins when baby is born twinzr2cute or twinsr2cute

Delete all characters in the

neighborhood;
deleteAllCharacters
only works when in the
neighborhood

Toggle terrain types; use in

TerrainType [desert or temperate]
neighborhood view

Objects can be placed anywhere

in buy and
moveObjects [on or off]
build modes; hand tool can
move any object

Make Sims larger or smaller; 1.0

StretchSkeleton [number]
is normal

Prevent Sims from aging aging [on or off]

Slow motion; 0 is normal, 8 is

slowMotion [0-8]
slowest

Increase game performance

with some Vsync [on or off]
graphics glitches

Turn off facial DNA blending in

faceBlendLimits [on or off]
Create A Sim

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

Enable postprocessing cheats;

requires
boolProp enablePostProcessing [true or false]
video card that supports pixel
shaders

Set to false to place objects out

boolProp snapObjectsToGrid [true or false]
of grid

Toggle automatic game updates autoPatch [on or off]

Set to false to remove props like

rocks and boolprop displayNeighborhoodProps [true or false]
towers from neighborhood

Set to false to remove roads

from boolprop displayNeighborhoodRoads [true or false]
neighborhood

Set to false to removes

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

Set to false to remove water

from boolprop displayNeighborhoodWater [true or false]
neighborhood

Set to false to removes house

graphics boolprop displayLotImposters [true or false]
from neighborhood

Set to false to remove bridges

boolprop displayNeighborhoodRoadsWithModel
from
[true or false]
neighborhood

Set to false and lots will not light

up when boolprop lotTerrainLighting [true or false]
highlighted in neighborhood

Set to false to remove removes

water boolprop lotWater [true or false]
(ponds) from lots

Set to false to remove

boolprop lotTerrainPaints [true or false]
floorpainting on lot

Set to true and cars will have

more detail in boolprop carsCompact [true or false]
neighborhood

Set to trueto show lot

boolprop lotInfoAdvancedMode [true or false]
information

Set to false to remove removes boolprop objectShadows [true or false]

shadows

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on objects outside house

Set to false to remove shadows

on objects boolProp guob [true or false]
inside house

Set to true and walls will no

longer cut boolprop renderSelectedSimLevel [true or false]
away from selected Sim

Set to true to see the path

where the boolProp displayPaths [true or false]
selected Sim walks to

Set to true and blocks appear on

Sims
boolprop displayLookAtBoxes [true or false]
faces and on parts where Sims
look at

Set to false to place floor tiles

boolprop locktiles [true or false]
outside lot

Set to false to raise and lower

floor even boolprop constrainFloorElevation [true or false]
when covered with objects

Set to true to light up objects

continuously boolprop allObjectLightsOn [true or false]
instead of only when used

Toggle grid in build or buy mode boolprop showFloorGrid [true or false]

Toggle shadows for Sims boolProp simShadows [true or false]

In neighborhood, shows
filename of house boolprop ShowLotPackageFilename [true or false]
when lot is highlighted

Create a new lighting file with

setLotLightingFile [filename]
specific lot lighting values

After typing "expand", will you

see the game gameVersion
version in the cheat box

Clear console window clear

Expand or contract console

expand
window

Close console window exit

Unknown boolprop lotTerrainCanvas [true or false]

- Postprocessing cheats

Use the following case-sensitive codes after enabling the Postprocessing cheats with the
"boolProp enablePostProcessing true". Note: Do not enable or use the Postprocessing cheats
unless your video card supports pixel shaders.

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Result Cheat Code

Blur effect; red, green, blue value must be

between
bloom [r g b x]
0 and 255, and x (bloom) between 0.0 and
1.0

Centered blur effect; centerX and centerY

are screen vignette [centerX
coordinates; x (vignette) must be between centerY x]
0.0 and 1.0

Grainy screen effect filmGrain [0.0-1.0]

Letterbox screen effect letterBox [0.0-0.4]

- Command lines

Start the game with one of the following command line parameters to activate the
corresponding cheat function:

Command Line
Result
Parameter

Fulll screen -f

Set screen
-r[width]x[height]
resolution

Windowed
-w
screen

Disable sound -nosound

The Sims 2
Cheats and Codes
- Testing cheats mode

While playing the game, press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + C to display the console window. Enter
"boolProp TestingCheatsEnabled true" to activate testing cheats mode. This is a very
powerful cheat that enables many new things. In Create A Sim, after enabling this code, go into
debugmode by pressing [Shift] + N before making a Sim. You now have the following new
things in Create A Sim: skin tones, clothing, and some other options such as viewing the
skinfilenames. In the game itself, after enabling this code, hold [Shift] and left click on a Sim to
have lots of options, such as changing clothes, make your Sim fat or thin, set their aspiration
level, etc. This code also can spawn some interesting items, such as the tombstone of L(ife)
and D(eath), and family members.

Enable the "boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true" code, then go onto a different family. A
strange code will appear at the top right hand corner. If you go onto the Sims' needs, you can
click on each one and drag it up or down, whichever desired. You can also increase the skill
points of your Sims in the same way. This is useful if you want a promotion, if your Sim is
depressed, if you are teaching a toddler to walk, etc. You can also hold [Shift] and click on a

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Sim. Click on "More", then "Spawn" and create the Tombstone of L and D. You can click on this,
then "More" then "Make everyone here friends with me", which helps if you need friends to get
promoted, or to complete an aspiration task.

- Maximum skills

To fill your skills to the maximum level instantly, enable the "boolProp
TestingCheatsEnabled true" code. Then, pause the game without going into build or buy,
and select your skills icon. When you are in the tab with the skill meter click and drag the
pointer over the desired skill bar to raise it.

- Gain skill without losing money

Use the following trick if you do not have a lot of money and want to buy goods or an object to
gain more skill to get a promotion. Buy the particular goods that will help you for a promotion
(for example, an exercise machine, or book shelf) and study the knowledge (for example,
cleaning). When you get a skill point, delete the item that you bought (sell it before 24 hours
have elapsed). You will a get full refund back from that object. If you sell after 24 hours, you will
get less money. By doing this, you will gain your skill without losing your money.

- Buy expensive houses

Use the following trick if you want your average Sim to buy a house that is above his or her
means. First start a family or load one, and find an empty lot. Move the Sim on that lot. Enable
the "motherlode" code a few times, just to the point where you can buy the expensive house.
Exit the lot, but save the game. Then, evict (move out) the family. Notice that your family is
displayed at the "Choose Family" window. You can now buy any house desired.

- Quick money

Get a friendship with a rich Sim (girl recommended). Ask them to to move in. The Sim will bring
at least 20,000 Simoleons with them. The money will be added in your account. Then, you can
make him or her move out.

- No job

When you first move into your new house (especially if you have any kids or plan to, or if you
have the Popularity, Knowledge, Family, or Romance Aspiration), do not get a job. If your Sim
has a Family Aspiration, then keep it at home to potty train, teach to work, or talk your toddler.
If you have Romance, you must keep up with them woohoos. Knowledge may require you to
get a job, but it probably will not be a power want. Popularity aspirations will keep you home
making friends (unless they work); stay at home and take care of your Sim, their family, and
their aspirations.

- Never pay bills

Go to buy or build mode and use the hand tool. Pick up the mailbox and delete it.

- Free groceries

Order for groceries and wait for the man to deliver the goods. When he arrives, do not greet
him. He will ring the bell two or three times and wait for you. When you do not answer, he will
place the goods there and not take your money.

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- Select a baby

Go into buy mode. Enable the "moveObjects on" code and click on the baby you wish to
select. Without deselecting the baby, use the "moveObjects off" code. Still without
deselecting baby, press [F1] to enter live mode. You will now be able to view the babies needs.
The baby can only perform one interaction. Click on it, and for a moment a menu will appear
that says "Grow Up". If you want an alien child or any child that looks like your family when you
adopt them, go to the certain family, and delete the entire the family except for the baby by
using the "moveObjects on" code . The social worker will arrive and take the baby. Go back to
your other family and adopt a baby. You will get the same child that got taken away.

- Build toddler skill four times as fast

Wear a Thinking Cap and feed Smart Milk to your toddler.

- Custom paintwork

Use the following trick to decorate your house with custom art. 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. Center it
on what you want to paint. You can also "paint" something that is not in the game by pressing
C to pause the game, then press [Alt] + [Tab] to switch outside the game. Start a graphics
program, such as Windows Paint, then load the original captured in-game picture at
"c:\mydocuments\eagames\thesims2\storytelling\snapshot.bmp". Then, open the picture or
image that you want to replace it with, and put in your game. You must resize your custom
picture to match the same resolution as the "snapshot.bmp" file. Copy your custom picture on
to the "snapshot.bmp" file, then save it. Press [Alt] + [Tab] to switch back to the game. Your
Sim will begin painting your custom picture.

- Custom radio music

Copy your own MP3 files to the "c:\mydocuments\eagames\thesims2\music\[radio station]\"

folder. Start the game, go to the options menu, select the music settings, then the radio station
option. You can now choose which songs you want to hear.

- Custom television show

Copy your own AVI files to the "c:\mydocuments\eagames\thesims2\music\[television station]\"

folder. Note: The AVI file must have a 128x128 resolution and a frame rate less than or equal
to 15 fps.

- Listen to game's audio

You can play a lot of the game's music and sound effects as MP3 files on your system. Enter the
"\tsdata\res\sound" folder. Then, copy any .PACKAGE file to some other location. Rename the
copy so that it has a .MP3 extension. The resulting file will be playable as a normal MP3 file. If
you want to get a specific track from within one of the larger files (such as the stereo music)
you will need a program capable of editing MP3 files.

- Invisible Sim

Enable the "StretchSkeleton" code and use the following value:

100000000000000000000000000000000000.0. Note: This will affect how tall the Sims
will be. 1.0 is normal. Your Sim will be so tall that they cannot be seen. Exiting out of the game
will deactivate the code.

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- Social worker does not leave

When you adopt a child, if you greet the social worker before she rings the doorbell, the social
worker will not leave your house. If this happens, you cannot buy items, build, or save the
game.

- Floating house

Place a lot of columns around the ground and build your house on top of it. When you are done,
delete all the columns. Note: Make sure you have a way to get to the house, or no one can get
in. Also, you can build a house up to ten stories high up. Make sure you put floor tiling on the
top of the column so you can put another column on top of it.

- Death and ghost types

Old Age: When a Sim reaches the end of his life. Results in a white ghost.

Electrocution: Three or more Needs hit -90 (red) while a Sim repairs an electrical object
with a low Mechanical Skill. Results in a yellow ghost.

Burning: Fire spreads into the square where the Sim is standing. Results in a red ghost.

Drowning: Energy Need hits -100 (all red) while swimming. Results in a blue ghost that
leaves puddles around the house when it appears.

Starvation: Hunger reaches -100. Kids and younger cannot starve. Results in a
transparent ghost that will take food out of the refrigerator.

Disease: If a fatal disease is not treated for ten days the Sim will die. Results in a green
ghost.

Flies: In a very messy room, when a Sim steps over a plate all flies may form a deadly
killer swarm. Results in a purple ghost.

Scared: When three Needs drop below -90 because of a ghost scare. Results in a pink
ghost.

Satellite: When a satellite falls on a Sim while Stargazing (without a telescope) or Watch
Cloud. Results in an orange ghost. Note: You can sell the Satellite in buy mode.

Note: Babies and toddlers are fire-proof and cannot die by any cause; the Social Worker
will instead take them away. Children can die of fire, drowning or disease. Rather than
starving to death, children in hunger failure will be taken away by the Social Worker.

- Cheat Codes

While playing the game, press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + C to display the console window. Enter one of
the following case-sensitive codes to activate the corresponding cheat function:

Result Cheat Code

List most cheat codes help

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Display information about indicated
help [cheat command]
cheat

1,000 more Simoleons Kaching

50,000 more Simoleons motherlode

No censor; set to 8 to return to

intprop censorgridsize 0
normal

twinzr2cute, twinsr2cute, or
Have twins when baby is born
ForceTwins

Remove all Sims; use in

deleteAllCharacters
neighborhood view

Toggle terrain types; use in

TerrainType [desert or temperate]
neighborhood view

Objects can be placed anywhere in

buy and
moveObjects [on or off]
build modes; hand tool can move any
object

Make Sims larger or smaller; 1.0 is

StretchSkeleton [number]
normal

Prevent Sims from aging aging [on or off]

Slow motion; 0 is normal, 8 is slowest slowMotion [0-8]

Increase game performance with

some Vsync [on or off]
graphics glitches

Turn off facial DNA blending in Create

faceBlendLimits [on or off]
A Sim

Use in neighborhood screen to invite

intProp maxNumOfVisitingSims
more
[number]
guests to a party

Enable postprocessing cheats;

requires boolProp enablePostProcessing
video card that supports pixel [true or false]
shaders

Set to false to place objects out of boolProp snapObjectsToGrid [true

grid or false]

Toggle automatic game updates autoPatch [on or off]

Set to false to remove props like boolprop

rocks and displayNeighborhoodProps [true or
towers from neighborhood false]

boolprop
Set to false to remove roads from
displayNeighborhoodRoads [true or
neighborhood
false]

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

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

Set to false to removes house

boolprop displayLotImposters [true
graphics
or false]
from neighborhood

boolprop
Set to false to remove bridges from displayNeighborhoodRoadsWithMo
neighborhood del
[true or false]

Set to false and lots will not light up

boolprop lotTerrainLighting [true or
when
false]
highlighted in neighborhood

Set to false to remove removes water

boolprop lotWater [true or false]
(ponds) from lots

Set to false to remove floorpainting boolprop lotTerrainPaints [true or

on lot false]

Set to true and cars will have more

detail in boolprop carsCompact [true or false]
neighborhood

boolprop lotInfoAdvancedMode
Set to trueto show lot information
[true or false]

Set to false to remove removes

boolprop objectShadows [true or
shadows
false]
on objects outside house

Set to false to remove shadows on

objects boolProp guob [true or false]
inside house

Set to true and walls will no longer

boolprop renderSelectedSimLevel
cut
[true or false]
away from selected Sim

Set to true to see the path where the

boolProp displayPaths [true or false]
selected Sim walks to

Set to true and blocks appear on

Sims boolprop displayLookAtBoxes [true
faces and on parts where Sims look or false]
at

Set to false to place floor tiles outside

boolprop locktiles [true or false]
lot

Set to false to raise and lower floor boolprop constrainFloorElevation

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even
[true or false]
when covered with objects

Set to true to light up objects

boolprop allObjectLightsOn [true or
continuously
false]
instead of only when used

boolprop showFloorGrid [true or

Toggle grid in build or buy mode
false]

Toggle shadows for Sims boolProp simShadows [true or false]

In neighborhood, shows filename of boolprop

house ShowLotPackageFilename [true or
when lot is highlighted false]

After typing "expand", will you see

the game gameVersion
version in the cheat box

Expand or contract console window expand

Close console window exit

boolprop lotTerrainCanvas [true or

Unknown
false]
- Postprocessing cheats

Use the following case-sensitive codes after enabling the Postprocessing cheats with the
"boolProp enablePostProcessing true". Note: Do not enable or use the Postprocessing
cheats unless your video card supports pixel shaders.

Result Cheat Code

Blur effect; red, green, blue value must be

between
bloom [r g b x]
0 and 255, and x (bloom) between 0.0 and
1.0

Centered blur effect; centerX and centerY

are screen vignette [centerX
coordinates; x (vignette) must be between centerY x]
0.0 and 1.0

Grainy screen effect filmGrain [0.0-1.0]

Letterbox screen effect letterBox [0.0-0.4]

- Command lines

Start the game with one of the following command line parameters to activate the
corresponding cheat function:

Command Line
Result
Parameter

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Full screen -f

Set screen
-r[width]x[height]
resolution

Windowed
-w
screen

Disable sound -nosound

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