You can unlock unlimited Simoleons, change the game’s appearance, and do all kinds of extra stuff with these cheats for The Sims 2. It’s an old game, so if you’re tired of all the things you can do naturally in the game, why not use some Sims 2 cheats and codes to spice things up?
Open the cheat window in The Sims 2 by pressing CTRL, Shift, and ‘C’. Type in any of the cheats below to see the effects.
- Kaching: Deposit 1,000 Simoleons into your bank account.
- motherlode: Adds 50,000 Simoleons.
- AddneighbortoFamilycheat [on/off]: With this cheat activated you can Shift + left-click on an NPC to add them to the current household. Unlike service NPCs engaged in their jobs, such as maid cleaning, this will work on NPCs visiting socially or hanging out after work. Even more, sims can be added than the customary 8 on a family. It does not work on NPCs like the Grim Reaper or Mrs. Crumplebottom.
- Forcetwins: When a pregnant sim is selected, this cheat turns the pregnancy into twins.
- Plumbobtoggle [on/off]: Transforms the diamond above people’s heads into an invisible plumb bob.
- boolprop enablepostprocessing true/false: Must be true for all film cheats below to work.
- letterbox (0.0-0.4): Creates a letterbox view of the specified size. The first thing you need to do is enter “boolprop enablepostprocessing true.”
- filmgrain (0-1) Film Grain: Creates film graininess. The “boolprop enablepostprocessing true” cheat must be entered first.
- Moveobjects on/off: Move Objects.
- boolprop lotWater [true or false]: Creates lots of water, plus you can remove water (ponds) from lots.
- boolprop displayNeighborhoodWater [true or false]: Neighborhood Water. Set to false to remove water from the neighborhood.
- boolprop displayLotImposters [true or false]: Set to false to remove house graphics from neighborhood.
- boolprop displayNeighborhoodRoads [true or false]: Neighborhood Roads.
- intProp maxNumOfVisitingSims [number]: Use the neighborhood screen to invite more guests with a party.
- help [cheat command]: Show information about the indicated cheat.
- deleteAllCharacters: Use in-neighborhood view to remove All Sims.
- BlendLimits on/off: Turn Off DNA Blending.
- intprop censorgridsize: 0 Set to 8 to return to normal.
- Slowmotion [0-8]: Slow motion. 0 is normal speed and 8 is slow.
- expand: Expand Console Window.
- StretchSkeleton [number]: Stretch Sim size. 1.0 is the normal size.
- Vsync on/off: Disabling it improves game performance, but results in graphical errors.
- deleteallcharacters: Delete Neighborhood.
- aging on/off: Aging
- Autopatch on/off: The game looks for patches automatically.
- bloom (r g b x): Bloom Effect where 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.
- boolprop lotTerrainLighting [true or false]: Lot Lighting. Set to false and lots will not light up when highlighted in the neighborhood.
- boolprop lotTerrainPaints [true or false]: Lot Terrain Paints. To remove floor paint from a lot, set it to false.
- boolprop displayNeighborhoodRoadsWithModel [true or false]: Neighborhood Bridges. Set to false to remove bridges from the neighborhood.
- boolprop displayNeighborhoodFlora [true or false]: Neighborhood Plants. To remove trees/plants from the neighborhood set it to false.
- boolprop displayNeighborhoodProps [true or false]: Neighborhood Props. Set to false to remove props like rocks and towers from the neighborhood.
- terraintype desert/temperate: Change Terrain. This can only be used in neighborhood view and toggles between 2 terrain types.