The Best Cheats for the Sims 2 PC Game

The Sims 2 is the sequel to one of the most popular PC games ever, The Sims. Just like in the original, players get to play God to a community of little computer generated people who's currency is called Simoleons and speak a strange language called Simlish, which is also spoken by some people in the real world. One of the most popular things about gaming is cheat codes, little words you type into a special box that changes the game play, for better or worse. These cheat codes are for th base game The Sims 2 only and may or may not work with the expansion packs for The Sims 2, and are definitely not meant to be used with the original Sims or any of it's expansion packs.

To open The Sims 2 cheat code box on either the neighborhood screen or the individual house screens, press the Ctrl.+Shift+C keys on your keyboard and a screen appears on the top of the screen where you can type in the cheat codes.

Here's the list:

List most cheat codes: help

Display information about indicated cheat: help [cheat command]

1,000 more Simoleons for your Sims: Kaching

50,000 more Simoleons for your Sims: motherlode

No censor on Sims; set to 8 to return to normal: intprop censorgridsize 0

Have twin Sims when baby is born: twinzr2cute or twinsr2cute

Remove all Sims; use in neighborhood view: deleteAllCharacters

Toggle terrain types; use in neighborhood view: TerrainType [desert or temperate]

Objects can be placed anywhere in buy and build modes; hand tool can move any object: moveObjects [on or off]

Make Sims larger or smaller; 1.0 is normal: StretchSkeleton [number]

Prevent Sims from aging: aging [on or off]

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

Increase game performance with some graphics glitches: Vsync [on or off]

Turn off facial DNA blending in Create A Sim: faceBlendLimits [on or off]

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

Enable postprocessing cheats; requires video card that supports pixel shaders: boolProp enablePostProcessing [true or false]

Set to false to place objects out of grid: boolProp snapObjectsToGrid [true or false]

Toggle automatic game updates: autoPatch [on or off]

Set to false to remove props like rocks and towers from neighborhood: boolprop displayNeighborhoodProps [true or false]

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

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

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

Set to false to remove house graphics from neighborhood: boolprop displayLotImposters [true or false]

Set to false to remove bridges from neighborhood:
boolprop displayNeighborhoodRoadsWithModel [true or false]

Set to false and lots will not light up when highlighted in neighborhood:
boolprop lotTerrainLighting [true or false]

Set to false to remove water (ponds) from lots: boolprop lotWater [true or false]

Set to false to remove floorpainting on lot: boolprop lotTerrainPaints [true or false]

Set to true and cars will have more detail in neighborhood: boolprop carsCompact [true or false]

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

Set to false to remove shadows on objects outside house:
boolprop objectShadows [true or false]

Set to false to remove shadows on objects inside house: boolProp guob [true or false]

Set to true and walls will no longer cut away from selected Sim:
boolprop renderSelectedSimLevel [true or false]

Set to true to see the path where the selected Sim walks to: boolProp displayPaths [true or false]

Set to true and blocks appear on Sims faces and on parts where Sims look at:
boolprop displayLookAtBoxes [true or false]

Set to false to place floor tiles outside lot: boolprop locktiles [true or false]

Set to false to raise and lower floor even when covered with objects:
boolprop constrainFloorElevation [true or false]

Set to true to light up objects continuously instead of only when used:
boolprop allObjectLightsOn [true or false]

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 when lot is highlighted:
boolprop ShowLotPackageFilename [true or false]

To conclude I'd like to say that, although cheat codes are fun, try playing The Sims 2 normally for a bit, it's still a lot of fun, but when ever you feel like getting a little mischievous with your Sims, you have a great list of cheat codes to make game play even more fun.