The Sims

The Sims Tips & Tricks

• Improve your Sim Status

  You need to have Sims Unleashed. Go into a section without a family and build a house and put all your fav furniture into the house. Make a family and make them buy your new house (You may have to buy a cheaper section and use the money cheat if the house is to expensive). When your new family can afford the house, move them into it. When all their moods eventually get really bad evict them. When you move them back in they will have full green bars, and all the furniture will still be there too!

• Meals

  Make your Sim prepare a meal, and when you see the things they use to make it, go to buy mode and use the "move_objects on" cheat* and put the meal somewhere: then make them prepare it: they wont pay. Tip: if you want them to use the food processor put it on the FLOOR close to the food processor. *this might work without the cheat.

• How to get free food: snacks

  Make your Sim get a snack then when he/she is "in" the fridge, and then cancel the action: The Sim should have dropped the snack. Then make them eat it: They wont pay.

• Get abducted by aliens

  If you buy a telescope (turn off free will) and look in it for ages. Eventually your Sim will be abducted by aliens, and eventually he'll come back. Site owner recommends between the hours 7pm and 2am.

• For a big garden

  Make a house, first and second stories, but don't decorate the first story. Make the second story as usual, and when you have finished, delete the walls of the first story. You will notice that the house can still stay up, with no posts, and all you have to do is put a couple of sets of stairs! Now you have a big house (upstairs) and you can build a big garden with a huge pool (downstairs).

• Kiss a loved one

  If you wanted to have your Sim study or kiss their loved one but their not in the mood or they're pushing them away, you can use the cheat code move_objects ON. Next go to objects then delete the Sim then go to live mode and simply click on there face icon and they will appear on the lower level. Their mood bar will be fully restored then you can make them study or kiss.

• How to Make Your Sim Happy

  First you put the cheat code bar up (Ctrl+shift+c) then type move_objects ON, and then go to buy-mode then you click on the unhappy Sim, and at the bottom it will say push delete to dispose of . Then you press delete and go to live mode and click on the Sims face icon and VULA the Sims mood bar is one block from the top almost completely happy now the Sim can study.

• Skill boost

  When creating a Sim, first make them a child. Click done then edit them and make them an adult. When you move them in, they will have a skill boost.

• Paying the Bills

  Simply keep a bill, unpaid, until the mail carrier delivers the next set. When your flag is up (your mailbox is full of more bills). Pay the first one (i.e., bring it out to the mailbox). When you do this, the newer bills disappear. Using this cheat, you will only have to pay every other bill, instead of every one.

• Flying Bull

  Push Ctrl+Shift+C, type move_objects, push Enter and then tell one of your Sims to get on the bull. When it starts to move hit the buy button grab the bottom out from under the Sim and the bull part of the device will float and buck fill free to take pictures.

• Kill your Character

  Make a swimming pool, send he/she in and then take the ladders and diving board away.

• Unlimited snacks

  If you want easy cash or unlimited snacks, make your Sim "Have a Snack" from the refrigerator. When the yellow ring goes around the action and your Sim is taking the snack from the refrigerator, stop that action. Although your Sim is still taking the snack out of the refrigerator, you will not have to pay for it. Your Sims instead will just place the snack on the floor. After this, use the "move_objects on" cheat and delete the chips. This way, you will get $15 without paying for the snack.

• For more friends

  Build your neighborhood and fill every house w/ at least 4 people. Then play the other houses and make them throw a party to meet your main person. Have them invite them over later. Have them make friends with you so that their moods go down, not yours. Save the game and when you go back to your house you will have them as friends. You can do this with every house. In every neighborhood.

• Perfect Sim

  First, make a Sim with no personality points, and then make a yellow potion with the chemistry set. When they drink it, their personality will be completely opposite. They will have: neat 10; nice 10; outgoing 10; active 10.

• Misery Clown

  If you get the misery clown, then just buy the clown painting, and put it over a fire. Keep making your Sims light a fire beneath it, until the carpet sets on fire. This will burn the painting and the clown with it. Look for the clown to watch it burn, baby, burn.

• Instant Refreshment

  Save your game. Use the "move_objects on" cheat and delete your Sim, and then go to live mode and click on that characters icon to bring them back. Once they are back they should have all of their motives maxed except for Room.

• More fun with move_objects_on

  When your Sims carpool to work, freeze the game and do the "move_objects_on" cheat. Then pick up the car and surround it with walls where ever you want a garage the car won't be able to escape. If you want to get fancy you can make a driveway with road tile. You can have more fun and catch the school bus!

• Santa Clause

  First you need to buy a fire place, a plate of cookies (make sure you have a table to put them on), and a Christmas Tree all in the same room close to each other and Santa will come and bring presents.

• TV Programs

  Sims with different personalities will prefer different TV programs. Here's a quick list of preferences: playful = cartoon; grouchy = horror; active = action; outgoing = romance.

• Gardening For Profit

  When creating your yard, flowers and trees add almost equivalent value to room score, but trees don't require any maintenance. The gardener can water flowers for you, but you will save a lot of money in the long run if you use trees and not flowers.

• Make Friends

  If you are tired of talking to people yet you want to get a career as a movie star go to magic town, buy honey dragon tears and pixie dust. Put them in the charm maker and you can make anyone you want your friend after you greet them. If you mix honey and pixie dust you can get a relationship boost but make sure that you use it only on somebodies cause if you use it on anybodies the mystery man will come and get you.

• Always have a maid for free

  This trick requires the Making Magic expansion. First buy a bag-o-bones skeleton closet. Usually you would knock on the closet and she would come out, clean up and go back. It can be time consuming to knock every time though, so what you should do is knock on the the closet and when she comes out delete her closet. She will have nowhere to go and when she has nothing to do she will just stand somewhere until there's something to clean up.

• Unlimited Money Cheat/Move Objects/Others

  Cheat Bar: To enter any cheat code, you need to press down CTRL-SHIFT-C at the same time. If you look in your top left hand corner you should see a greeny box. This is the cheat box and if you click on it, it is writeable. Unlimited Money: Depending on your version of the Sims, into the cheatbar, type in "rosebud" or "klapaucius" (Without the "). You should see the money has been raised by $1000. Now, re-open the cheat bar and then type in, !;!;!;!;!;!;!; and then four spaces then hold enter.

• make santa mad

  Leave Santa's cookies on the counter til they spoil, then when santa goes to get the cookies he'll have an angry sign over his head and he'll leave presents your sims hate.

• Floating Sim

  Send your Sim to bed and then when they're sleeping, use the move_objects cheat and move the bed. Your Sim will be floating in midair and snoring.

• Instantly happy sim

  In the cheat window, do the following and your sim will become instantly happy.

• How to kill a Sim

  Enclose your victim within a wall, and make sure it cannot escape (make sure there are no doors) Place one or more fireplaces in the room (the more there are the quicker the death). Place any kind of furniture directly next to or in front of the fireplace (i.e. a sofa or a rug), and get your sim to light the fire. Within seconds, the furniture should catch fire, leaving your Sim no option but to be burnt alive. Expect a visit from the grim reaper!

• Loads of Money

  If you want loads of money go to the Goth family. Evict them and edit themand if you want delete them, but don't delete Mortimor because he has a good job and you get loads of money from him.

• Move_Objects Cheats

  What you do is you put move_objects on in the cheat bar and then you click on you Sim delete it and then click on its face it will re-appear. Another cheat is delete your dustbin when a sim goes to put something in the bin tell her to pick it off the floor this will make your rubbish disappear! another cheat is deleting your letter box! you don't have to pay bills and you get away with missing work.

• Magic garbage bag

  The following trick will save the time needed to take the garbage to the street. Buy the 30 simolian trash can. Order your Sim to empty it, then cancel the order just as they remove the bag from the trashcan. Then, order them to pick up the mess that they just created. Your Sim will return the full bag to an empty can. Repeat this each time it fills and trash will never have to be brought outside again.

• Missing work and not getting fired

  When your sims carpool arrives go to buy mode make the cheat code (ctrl shift c) pop up type in (move_objects on then delete the car and the next day skip work without cheat code but don't answer the phone when you have skipped a day of work you wont be fired.

• Floating house cheat

  Build a ground floor house shape don't decorate it or anything then build an upstair, put in the all floor and walls you need buy stuff, and then deleat the ground floor put in stair and you will have a floating house.

• Free pizza

  First, order pizza. Then use move_objects on cheat to take the pizza out of his hand! then delete the pizza guy. If you enter the cheat 'kid' (without the ' ') your kids will be able 2 do adult stuff. Freak out the maid (makin` magic only). First,hire a maid then buy the skeleton closet and make sure the maid sees one of the skeletons and she will freak out and quit. then hire her again.

• Full Green Bars

  First bring up the cheat window, then type in the ''move_objects on'' code. Now, save the game, and when that's done, any time you want to regenerate happy fully-green-bar sims, pause the game, select them and delete them. Now press play, and click on thier heads, and they should pop up somewhere, with all of thier bars fully green. PLEASE NOTE-if you are working on their skills like charisma and whatnot, you MUST save the game BEFORE deleting them! If you do not save the game, they will appear again as if you restarted the game, and thier skills will be lost!!

• How to make ghosts

  First you have to kill some sims, then put a fence around their grave so the sims won't mourn them. (or just stop them from mourning.) Then (this may take awhile) around midnight the ghosts come out. REMEMBER: Ghosts can't hurt you they just float.

• Slot Machine Tip

  The downloadable slot machine is a money cheat. If your Fun motive is low, your odds of winning simoleans are very high.

• Delete Misery Clown

  First put on the cheat box on (ctrl+shift+C). When the misery clown comes, enter move_objects on, and then get the hand tool pick up the clown then press delete. Beware because he still might return.

• Delete fire

  If you are using the genie lamp, and the genie makes a mistake and in the dialogue box it says that there is a fire, immediately pause after pressing OK. Look for where fire usually is in your house (or where the genie has created fire before - its always in the same spot) and use the move_objects on cheat to delete the fire.

• Alien Abduction

  Put stoves, a refrigerator, and a grill around your Sim and make the grill burn so that a fire will start. When the sim is on fire and the grim reaper comes, do the move_objects cheat and move the reaper away. Aliens will come and steal your Sim.

• Floor Swimming

  Place your Sim in a pool and then use the move_objects cheat to pick the Sim up and place it on the floor. Your Sim will be swimming on the floor, making for great picture-taking opportunities.

• Tombstone

  First, type "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true" into the cheat bar and press Enter. Then, hold down Shift and click on a person (usually the mother). Click more and you'll get an option that says "the tombstone of L and D".

• Build Money Faster

  Enter code: !;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!; It will say there is no such cheat, but it will build your money up a lot faster than the normal.

• Stop your babies crying

  If your Sim baby is crying, try this method. When the baby starts crying, have your Sim feed the baby twice in a row, then sing to it. The baby should stop crying.

• Get away with neglecting your baby

  If you have a baby, and the Social Worker comes because you have neglected the baby, use the move_objects on cheat to delete the social worker. That way, a new baby will appear and you can have another chance. Also take advantage of this is you want a boy, but got a girl, and vice versa.

• Easy Money

  An easy way to get a ton of money with no job is to exit the game, browse to the folder you installed the game in. Open the UserData Folder and copy the Houses folder to your desktop. Reopen the game, and sell everything in your house! Then exit the game and copy the houses folder from your desktop over the old houses folder in Userdata. When you open the game again you will have everything back, and still have the money from selling it all. You can repeat the process over and over again! You can also move houses by changing the numbers in the houses folder. Be sure you backup your houses folder first!

• Social Services

  If the social services are coming to get your baby, hold down CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + C. Then type in: move_objects on. Then click ENTER. Go on the BUY MODE and click on the woman who comes to collect your baby. Then press delete and the woman is deleted, your baby is reborn and you can rename it as well.

• Never Pay Bills

  Don't delete your mailbox. You will still have to pay bills, but the mailman will not come to deliver the bills. In a while the dreaded Repo-man will come and take all of your expensive items.

• How to miss work

  Miss work without being fired! [You won't get paid, but at least you'll get vacation!]. Make an addition to your house, on the street. If you live on the corner, make it on both streets. Youll hear your carpool honk, but it won't be able to get to your house.

• Floating house

  Construct pillars to hold up a huge 2nd story. Then when your 2nd story is done go to the 1st story and remove the pillars.

• Raise Sims Mood Bars

  When using the move_object cheat you can restore your Sims mood bars by getting your Sim to sit in a chair, pausing the game and deleting the chair that your Sim is in. Your Sim will disappear. Unpause the game and click on your Sims face icon and your Sim will reappear with some restored bars.

• Life Of Crime career path

  Prevent a thief from escaping in Get A Life mode to unlock the Life Of Crime career path in all modes.

• Getting easy skills

  Upon evicting a family their moods go up immediately after you move into another house. Once you get in a house, study, work out, and on & on. When your energy or any other stats get low, evict yourself from the house. Reenter the house and all your stats will return to defaults.

• Keep child home from school

  If you do not want your child to go to school and do not want to keep hearing the bus honk every few seconds, just let your child stand in the middle of the road where the bus waits everyday. Then the bus will not appear, and your child will not go to school.

• Keep Major Dormo longer

  Call Major Dormo, then put a fence around his tree house after he leaves it. He will remain with you much longer, but will still eventually disappear.

• Change clothes faster

  When a Sim puts up the curtain to change, press L1 to pause game play. They will change, but time will freeze.

• Alien abduction

  Buy the telescope and use it for too long. Your Sim will be abducted and disappear. It will reappear some hours later, with different stats.

• Zombie Sim

  Kill a Sim and wait for the Grim Reaper to appear. Plead for his or her life. The Grim Reaper will either ignore your plea, turn your Sim into a Zombie, or revive your Sim. If your Sim was revived, kill him or her again, then try again. The outcome is random. Note - Do not save the game if the Grim Reaper kills your Sim. Reload the game and try again. Zombie Sims do not have any features different from normal Sims other than a green color.

• Easy Money

  To get lots of money type FREEALL in the cheat box by pressing L1-L2-R1-R2 to make the cheat box appear at the main menu, select play the sims mode then enter your house and buy as much stuff that cost the most and REMEMBER ALWAYS HAVE A BURGLAR ALARM and at night time when everyone is sleeping A BURGLAR WILL COME \"OH KNOW WHAT WILL I DO?\" WELL YOU WONT DO ANYTHING SIMPLY THE ALARM WILL GO OFF AND THE BURGLAR WILL BE caught by the police and she will award you with $1000 for catching the burglar and if they take something (even a cactus) the police officer will award you with $10,000!!!

• Raise your stats

  Get happy to do this evict yourself then move back in and your stats will raise

• Get A Life Chapter 1 - Borrow $800 from Mom

  In buy mode, sell anything which isn't a necessity, until you are over $800.

• Never pay bills

  This trick only works in Play The Sims mode. If you do not want to pay your bills, evict your family from the house every two days then move them back in.

• Differences between PC and PS2 versio

  PS2 version has a 2-player mode. You can't have a second floor in any part of this PS2 game unlike the PC version. All expansion pack items (from PC versions) are not included just a variety of items from expansion packs and the original.

• Attracting other Sims in 2-player

  You must remember that a character can fall out of love with your Sim just as quickly as he falls in love. Also, beware of jealous lovers as they can get ugly if you flirt in a crowded room where it's difficult to keep track of existing lovers. When you aren't working on a relationship, look around the room and take one of your opponent's sweeties. In Taylor's Place (2-player) after a love queen is crowned, all the guy races to the stereo and starts stripping to the music. The losing party will become depressed since she will be the only one with clothes on and suddenly has no boy toys (Jimmy Eat World Video without the happy ending).

• Broken items

  This trick can be one in Get A Life and Play The Sims modes. If something breaks down and your Sim is too depressed to study Mechanics, simply sell it and buy a new one. REMEMBER: If fixing the object is one of your goals, this will not work.

• Stop Baby Crying

  If you have a baby instead of doing lots of things to stop it crying just simply feed it then sing to it and it will stop crying.