These are the cheats that I find most useful on 'The Sims 2'
To use the cheat open the cheat window by doing ctrl shift c then type boolprop testingcheatsenabled true.
To turn the cheat off again open the cheat window by doing ctrl shift c then type boolprop testingcheatsenabled false.
SOME IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER
This isnt strictly speaking a cheat, it is a debugging tool used by the game developers. You need to be a bit careful about how you use it, some things can have a bit of a detrimental affect on the game, but if you remember these 3 things you should be ok.
If you get any error messages ONLY press Reset, DO NOT press cancel or delete
DO NOT invite the NPC remote control car as it isnt a character and I havn't yet found a way to get rid of it once you got it, unless you bulldoze your house. It may sound cool but it isnt a sim, it isnt even a car, it just becomes an invisible member of the family and may stop your sims going to work or school. If you accidently invite it just quit the house without saving.
If you get an option to Force Error then Dont click it, its just asking for trouble!
In Create A Sim
Will allow you to access all NPC clothing, and all the career clothing.
When you are in Neighbourhood view, type the cheat into the cheat window, then enter Create a Family mode. Before you do anything else press Shift N. You will then be able to access all the NPC clothing and Career clothing. You can also make Aliens as you can access the Alien skin
MAX OUT THINGS
You won't need any of the special objects to max out skills and needs, just the Mailbox to max out everyones needs.
To max out Skills, left mouse click on the skill bar and drag the cursor across the bar. REMEMBER, if you have typed the boolprop cheat in when you were in the house you MUST save, exit to neighbourhood and then go back to the house to make this work. It may be easier to get into the habit of typing the boolprop cheat in neighbourhood view BEFORE going into your house.
To max out Needs, left mouse click on the need and drag the cursor across the bar.
To Max out everyones needs, including visitors, Shift click on the Mailbox and click on 'Make All Happy'
To max out Personality and change Zodiac Sign, left mouse click on the personality bars and drag the cursor across the bar, as the personality points change you will see the Zodiac Sign change. It can be useful to change your sims Zodiac Sign to make them more compatable with another sim that may have a conflicting Zodiac sign
To max out Aspiration Meter, shift click on the sim, then select *Set Aspiration... You will then see various levels that the aspiration can be set to.
To max out a friendship, left mouse click on the realtionship bar and drag the cursor across the bar
To change Aspiration shift click on the sim, then select Set Aspiration... You will then see the different Aspirations NOTE, there are 2 seperate but similar options here, *Set Aspiration and Set Aspiration, make sure you get the correct one
To get Aspiration points and fulfill the Aspiration meter, press and hold CTRL then click on any one of the Wants to fullfill it. You will get the aspiration points and the aspiration meter will go up. You can also do this on the Fears for the same effect except you will lose aspiration points and put your sim into aspiration failure if you do it several times.
MAKING FRIENDS
If you want a lot of friends, invite the whole neighbourhood over! Shift click the Mailbox and select *Invite All Neighbours
You can now choose from 3 levels of frienship, 2 are on the Mailbox and 1 is on the Tombstone.
Shift click the Mailbox and select Make Me Know Everyone, this makes your relationship with everyone at 25/25. If you select Make Friends For Me your relationship with everyone will be 55/55.
A word of warning, Make Me Know Everyone is a bad option to use, because the relationship is below the friendship level, once you select this, the phone will simply not stop ringing. If you do decide to go for this option I strongly suggest you sell back the phone and just buy one when you need one.
To make a higher friendship score click on the Tombstone click More then click on Make Me Friendly to Everyone Here, this will set the relationship at 90/90
Remember this only works with sims that are actually at your property, whether they are household members or visitors.
MAKING FRIENDS WITH JUST ONE SIM.
Maybe you just want to improve the relationship with 1 sim instead of many. You can drag the relationship bar across with the cursor in the same way that you can when you increase skills. The important thing here to remember is that if you typed in the code while you were in the house, you must save and then leave the house. THEN go back into the house and you can increase the relationship bars.
RENAMING A SIM
Make the sim active by clicking on their Icon, then click on the Tombstone of Life & Death and select More then select Rename Sim
To rename Babies you first need to make them selectable. With another sim active, shift click on the baby, then click on Make Selectable. This will make the baby's icon dissapear from the list so you have to do it again, click on the baby then click Make Selectable. The baby's icon will reappear and you can now select them. Make the baby active by clicking on their icon, then click on the Tombstone of Life & Death and select More then select Rename Sim
When the baby is selectable you can see their needs, personality/zodiac sign and interests, and change them if you want to.
ALIEN ABDUCTIONS AND PREGNANCY OPTIONS
For these options you will need the Tombstone of Life & Death and the Telescope for abductions, any telescope will do the cheap one works just as well as the expensive one.
To get the Tombstone of Life and Death, shift click on an adult sim then click More then click Spawn then click Tombstone of L and D.
Pregnancy options
Click on the Tombstone of Life & Death then click More. There are 2 pregnancy options
Get pregnant with
Make me Alien Pregnant
Get Pregnant with, allows your adult Sim to get pregnant with anyone who happens to be on the property at the time, even innaproppriate sims such as close relatives and children. This works equally as well for male sims as well as female sims, although the birth cinematic for males is the same as the alien birth cinematic (even though the baby is not alien). This means that same couples CAN have a baby.Make me Alien pregnant allows adult sims to have an Alien baby, even female sims.
Speed up Pregnancy
With the newly pregnant sim active, click on the Tombstone of Life & Death, click More then click Speed up My Pregnancy. Within a sim hour or so, your sim will have the first bump quickly followed by the second bump then birth. Sim will give birth within 2 sim hours of becoming pregnant.
Alien Abduction
Shift click on the Telescope and select DEBUG Get Abducted. Your sim will then use the telescope and the abduction cinematic will start. Sims are abducted for approx 3 sim hours. Male sims will return pregnant, female sims will not (as far as I have been able to ascertain).
CAREERS AND CAREER REWARDS
For this section you need the Newspaper and the Mailbox if you dont have a Newspaper. You will also need the Chance Card Tester if you want to force chance cards while at work.
Force a Newspaper delivery
Shift click on the Mailbox and select Force Paper Delivery. The paper boy should arrive within 1 sim hour.
Get any Career at any level
Shift click on the Newspaper and select Adult jobs (if an adult sim is active) or TeenElder Jobs if a teenager or elder is active. Then choose from any of the careers shown.
To get to a higher level in the career. shift click on the Newspaper again and click on *Set Job Level to... Then choose which level you want. 1 is lowest 10 is highest.
Unlock Career Awards
Shift click on the Newspaper and select *Career Awards. Repeat this step selecting each career award in turn and then click on your sim career awards and all Career awards will be available to use. This only works for adult sims.
Force Chance Cards
Shift click on your sim then click More then click Spawn, select Chance Card Tester. This will create a large yellow box with a red arrow on it. Click on the box, select Force Chance Card then click On Each time your sim goes to work a chance card will come up.
To off the Chance Card, click on the box, select Force Chance Card then click Off
Note: There is also an option on this box to Force Outcome, you can select Success, Clear or Fail. But as my sim lost their job the first time I used this, I dont think it works
NOTE: I found these cheats at
http://groups.msn.com/TheSims2Database/4careersandcareerawards.msnw