Cheats

WARNING: Some of these cheats may not work due to patches, etc. While others are probably not intended to be used by game players and may screw up your system. Use them at your own risk. While playing the game hit CTRL+SHIFT+C to bring up the cheat box. Type in the codes below to get the needed results. If you type a space then exclamation mark, your cheat will repeat. Using a semi-colon in between, you can use multiple exclamation marks ie. rosebud !;!;!; You may pull up the window and type CTRL-Z to repeat the previous cheat.
CHEAT	RESULT
klapaucius (enter 'rosebud' if patched or with Livin' Large)	1000 Simoleons
hist_add	Add new family history stat to the current family
write_destlist	Appends the route destination list to AllRoutes.txt every time a route is found
auto_level	Architecture tools automatically set the level as needed
import [FAM file]	Automatically import and load indicated FAM file
house [house number]	Automatically load indicated house, no questions asked
prepare_lot	Check and fix required lot objects
flush	Completely flush app to VM file when running Windows NT
crash	Crash game
water_tool	Create moat or streams
shrink_text [font_size] [text]	Create shrunk_text_#.bmp files
edit_char	Create-a-character mode
interests	Display personality and interests
draw_all_frames off	Draw all animation frames disabled
draw_all_frames on	Draw all animation frames enabled
draw_origins	Draw colored dots at each person's origin
core_dump	Dump entire memory to core_dump_[date:time].txt
dump_happy	Dump selected person's most recent list of scored interactions to a file
dump_mc	Dump selected person's motive contribution curve to a file
debug_social	Enable debug flag to show outcome choice dialogs for social interactions
sim_log end	End sim logging
cht [filename]	Execute "file.cht" file as a list of cheats
draw_floorable off	Floorable grid disabled
draw_floorable on	Floorable grid enabled
assert	Force an assert for testing
log_animations	Log animations in the event log window
map_edit off	Map editor disabled
map_edit on	Map editor enabled
move_objects	Move any object
tutorial off	No tutorial object generation when tutorial house is loaded
browser_failsafe	Prevent web browser crashes
preview_anims off	Preview animations disabled
preview_anims on	Preview animations enabled
tile_info	Programmer stats
quit	Quit game
#import	Read in behavior tuning constants from Tuning.txt
rebuild_cp	Rebuilds entire control panel/UCP from scratch
refresh_faces	Refresh the BMP_ resources for all people whose IFF files are writable
refresh_textures	Rematch dependent textures and regenerate bitmaps for all user characters
restore_tut	Restore tutorial
rotation <0-3>	Rotate camera
route_balloons off	Routing debug balloons disabled
route_balloons on	Routing debug balloons enabled
fam_test [opcount]	Run series of random operations on unhoused families
save	Save currently loaded house
history	Save family history file
plugh	Say "plugh"
xyzzy	Say "xyzzy"
draw_routes on	Selected person's path displayed
draw_routes off	Selected person's path hidden
log_mask	Set event logging mask
autonomy [1-100]	Set free thinking level
sim_speed [-1000-1000]	Set game speed
edit_grass [number]	Set grass change value
grow_grass [0-150]	Set grass growth
lot_size [number]	Set lot size
sim_limit [milliseconds]	Set maximum milliseconds to allow simulator
sim_speed [-1000 - 1000]	Set sim speed
set_hour [1-24]	Set time of day
bubble_tweak [z offset value]	Set z offset for thought bubbles
[directory path]	Sets the neighborhood directory to the path
lot_border	Sets up the borders of the lot with non-editable flag
allow_inuse	Sets whether menu items appear for in use objects
memview	Show memory view window in debug builds of the game
sim_log begin	Start sim logging
swap_houses [house number] [house number]	Swap the two house files and updates families
sweep off	Ticks disabled
sweep on	Ticks enabled
tile_info on	Tile information displayed
tile_info off	Tile information hidden
visitor_control	Toggle allowing visitors to be controlled using the keyboard
report_assets	Toggle assets report
auto_reset	Toggle automatic object reset feature
sim_peek	Toggle calls to PeekMessage within sim loop
cam_mode	Toggle camera mode
all_menus	Toggle display of unavailable interactions in person control menus
music	Toggle music
obj_comp	Toggle object compression in save file
quats	Toggle quaternion transformations
sound_log	Toggle sound log window
sound	Toggle sounds
html	Toggle web page creation
reload_people	Total reload of people skeletons, animations, suits and skins
soundevent	Trigger sound event
write_routes	Write out an RTE file every time a route is found
#export	Write out behavior tuning constants to Tuning.txt