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Easter Egg: Painting Spore and More

When your Sim finally reaches the top level in painting, they begin to paint masterpieces. Look at the paintings for some nice suprises. One is an image of a Spore creature.

Hint: Mysterious Mr. Gnome

If on one of you sim travels you happen to find a Mysterious Mr. Gnome, DO NOT SELL HIM!!!!! Apart from being a very valuable item, he has some entertaining qualities. When you go to sleep at night he will move... not when you're watching of course but if you kick him and stand him up again he will change positions.

Cheat: Force Twins

Bring up the cheat console (See above cheats), click on a pregnant Sim to control it, then enter this code in the console to have twins: forcetwins

Hint: Guitarfreaks Glitch

If you want your Sim to master the guitar skill and learn all of the songs, Don't just play the guitar to reach level 10 because you want be able to learn new songs from books.

To learn the new songs just reach level 5 in the guitar skill, then put a level 5 book in your sims inventory and click on the guitar and select new song (to learn it).

When you reach level 6, do the same thing again for level 6 books. Keep repeating this process until you reach level 10 and your Sim will now know every song you've taught it.

Easter Egg: EA Games

When your Sims take a video game break, you can zoom in on the TV and identify various EA games on the tiny screen.

Hint: Cooking Skill Exploit

Note: This glitch requires a TV with a cooking channel and a video game system. First, have one Sim sit down and watch TV. Switch the TV over to the cooking channel so that the Sim can start earning its skill point. Now, have a second Sim go over and start playing video games. You should now notice that although the TV is displaying video games, the first Sim still has the skill meter above its head! Simply allow this Sim to sit there until it decides to go do another activity on its own. After that, the skill meter should stay above its head until you start another cooking skill activity. As an added bonus, you can train two skill points at once! i.e., Go work out and both the athletic and cooking skills will continue to rise.

Cheat: Using the "testingcheatsenabled" Command

This testingcheatsenabled cheat allows you to do several useful things when used properly. First, hold CTRL+SHIFT+C (CTRL+SHIFT+WindowsKey+C for Vista) and enter this code: testingcheatsenabled true

Now, hold SHIFT and click your letterbox. This will provide you with these options:

  • Make All Happy
  • Force Visitor
  • Set Career
  • Set level

You may also hold SHIFT and click on Sims to get these options:

  • Add Sim to House
  • Change Sim Traits
  • Force Aging

In Ground View mode, hold SHIFT and click a spot and your Sim will teleport to it.

Submitted by Ben Morrissey, Reynolds and pillsen

Cheat: Cheat List

During gameplay, press CTRL+SHIFT+C to bring up the cheats console. Enter the codes below for the desired effect.

  • force service sim [x] - A specific service Sim will show up, where [x] is a name
  • Add to Household - Add the active Sim to the current household
  • constrainFloorElevation [true/false] - Force terrain adjustments regardless of objects, Sims, and other structures
  • Force Event - Click on a Career Building for a random career event
  • Force All Events - Click on a Career Building to display all events for the career consecutively
  • Force Opportunity - Click on a Career Building to force an opportunity
  • force visitor - Summon a visitor
  • set career [x] - Give the selected Sim a career, where [x] is the career
  • Set Career [x] - Give the selected Sim any career at any level where [x] is the career / level
  • shazaam - Gives 2,500 Lifetime Happiness Points to active Sim
  • enableLlamas - Enables llamas, obviously
  • jokePlease - Summon a joke
  • hideHeadlineEffects [on/off] - Hide all meters and effects
  • Modify Traits - Bring up Trait Modification window
  • quit - Quit the game
  • help - Lists all available commands
  • Make Me Know Everyone - Everyone in your town becomes an acquaintance
  • make happy - Gives household perfect moods
  • make motives [static/dynamic] - Makes motives static or dynamic for whole Household
  • make friends for me - Selected Sim knows everyone in town
  • slowMotionViz [x] - Slow motion, where [x] is 0-8 (0 is normal)
  • resetSim [x] - Resets the named Sim with neutral motives, no moodlets, and teleports Sim back home where [x] is first and last name
  • Set Age [x] - Set the age of selected Sim, where age is [x]
  • fps [on/off] - Toggles frames per second in upper right of HUD
  • Edit in CAS - Edit the selected Sim in Create-A-Sim
  • freerealestate - Turn off house costs
  • napObjectsToAngle [true/false] - Toggles 45 degree angle object snap
  • snapObjectsToGrid [true/false] - Toggles snap to grid for placed objects
  • fadeObjects [on/off] - Toggles object fade when camera zooms
  • testingcheatsenabled - Turns on Testing Cheats, for Sims (Shift click) and objects
  • disableSnappingToSlotsOnAlt [on/off] - Hold Alt to avoid object snap when toggled
  • kaching - While on the lot, this gives you $1,000
  • motherlode - While on the lot, this gives you $50,000
  • moveobjects on/off - Move anything (including Sims) in your Buy/Build mode