Use the following trick to change your Sim's age (toddler, child, teen,etc.) quickly. Buy a birthday cake from the grocery store and place it somewhere on your lot. Click the cake and select "Have Birthday". Then, choose the Sim to be aged. This is a good method to get past the baby stage.
Aging
Instead of using a cheat code to toggle "aging on" and "aging off" like in The Sims 2, you can de-activate the age in "Options", then "Game Options".
Avoid Death
Go to Pleasant Rest Graveyard. Near the gate is a bush called "Death Flower Bush". Harvest the flower from it and keep it in your Sim's inventory. If you die, that Sim will give that flower to the Grim Reaper and be resurrected. Although the flower will not reappear there again, if your Sim has level 7 Gardening they can plant the Unknown Special Seeds found in the graveyard and some other places that have a chance to grown as a Death Flower. Note: Having the Green Thumb trait to revive the plant may help.
Clothes
To get new clothes, you must first have to buy a dresser from "Buy Options". Once there click "Plan Outfit". You can put a total of three different clothes for each type (formal, every day, athletic, etc.)
Creating brilliant paintings or masterpieces
Create a stylized still life after it is unlocked. Choose "Genius" and make it in the largest possible frame. You will now have a much better chance of getting a brilliant painting or masterpiece.
Duck Time moodlet
Buy the Ducksworth of Bathington and place it in your bathtub. When a Sim uses takes a bath, they will get the Duck Time moodlet which results in a +15 boost for four hours.
Easy Cooking skill
This trick requires a television with a cooking channel and a video game system. Have a Sim sit down and watch television. Switch the television over to the cooking channel so that the Sim can start earning his or her skill point. Then have a second Sim go over and start playing video games. You notice that although the television is displaying video games, the first Sim still has the skill meter above their head. Allow this Sim to sit there for as long as they please until they decide to do another activity of their own. After that, the skill meter should stay above their head until you start another cooking skill activity. As an added bonus, you can train two skill points at once. For example, work out and both the Athletic and Cooking skills will continue to rise.
Easy money
Start writing novels on your computer. Write fiction novels as they take the least amount of time. They will not bring you too much Simoleons. When you write, your skill will automatically advance. If your skill is high enough you will be able to write more novel types/genres. The most money can be made from "Romance Novels". You will get royalties for six weeks once you finish a book. With the "Writing" skill maxed out, you can make about 40,000 Simoleons every week, which is more than the 34,800 Simoleons you can get by purchasing all neighborhood businesses, and takes less time to achieve. In three game weeks you should have a very high speed writing, 9 or 10 novels as best sellers and 100,000 Simoleons.
Electronic Arts game references
Have the video game system and have your Sims play it. Zoom in on the television to see that the games they are playing are various Electronic Arts titles.
Free bookcase skills
Buy a bookcase, then have your Sim begin to study. Interrupt the action so that the book is placed on the ground. Sell the bookcase. The book can now do everything the bookcase could have done for free.
Ghosts in your house
Start by going to the graveyard. Once there, click all the tombstones. With any of them that say "Pick Up" or "Take", do so. Once you are sure you have all the tombstones you can get, return to your house. Place them outside somewhere in your backyard. You now have a 70% chance of a ghost or two, or even a whole party of ghosts visiting your house each night. To improve your chances, write in the epitaph "Here Lies [Sim's name], The One Who Returns".
Hording pizza
Have a Sim call for pizza. When the pizza delivery man arrives, do not accept the pizza! The delivery man will eventually leave the pizza on the front porch, and it will never get stale. You can stack as many pizzas there as you want. If your Sims get hungry, just tell them to get a pizza from the front porch.
Increase chance for multiple births
To have an increased chance of having twins or triplets, have one or both parents have the lifetime reward of Fertility Treatment.
Increase chance to have boy babies
Have a pregnant female Sim eat apples to increase the chance of having a boy.
Increase chance to have girl babies
Have a pregnant female Sim eat watermelons to increase the chance of having a boy.
Learn all guitar songs from books
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.
Learn four skills at once
Read "Easy Cooking, Gardening, or Fishing Skill" by Tony Ortale. Keep repeating Tony's steps until each skill channel has been viewed. The Sim will keep learning the three skills as he or she goes on about their daily life, and four when doing skill activities.
Making friends
Buy a guitar. Play it to learn how to play guitar. Keep playing until you reach 5/10 level, which gives you the ability to "Play For Tips". When you have that ability, go to the park with the guitar in your inventory. When you are in the park, click the guitar in your inventory and select "Play For Tips". People watching you will become your friends if you keep playing. The higher your guitar skill, the faster they will become friends with you.
Protection from Death
Go to Pleasant Rest Graveyard, and near the gate, there is a strange bush called a "Death Flower Bush" - Harvest the flower from it. Keep this flower in your sim's inventory, and if you die, you will automatically offer this flower to the Grim Reaper, who will ressurect you in exchange for it. This flower will not reappear, but there are Unknown Special Seeds (requires level 7 Gardening to plant) dotted about near the graveyard (and a few other places) which may grow another Death Flower (and sometimes more if your Sim has the Green Thumb trait to revive the plant.)
Put your own music on the radio
Place the desired .MP3 files in the "/MyDocuments/EAGames/TheSims2/Music/[radio station] folder. Start the game, go to "Options" menu, select "Music Settings", then choose radio station. Select which songs you want the radio to play.
Put your own videos on the television
Use the following trick to watch your own videos on the Sim television. Place your video you want into the "/My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Movies/Broadcast/[television station]" folder. Turn on the television in the game and you can watch it. The video must be in .AVI format, with a resolution no larger than 128x128 pixels, and frame rate not greater than 15 frames per second.
Saving money
No matter how many times you use an object, if you sell it in the same day you can get all your money back. If your Sim is poor and needs body points or something else, buy a body machine and keep selling it back to get a refund of all your money.
Strange faces
There is a glitch in Create-A-Sim mode that allows to you to make very strange faces. Go to the face designing area. Select a face part such as the eyes and max out all the sliders one way or the other. Then go to a different face part and select one of the predesigned parts. Return to the eyes. The sliders will have reset to the middle, but the eyes will still look the same. This works for all of the face adjusting tabs. You can then continue to max out the size of the eyes and repeat. You can make eyes the size of dinner plates, very long cheekbones, huge noses, and more.
Testing cheats
Enable the testingCheatsenabled true code, then enter one of the following codes at the console window to activate the corresponding cheat function.
Effect
Code
Makes toddler that grows to child become an NPC
ageuptonpc
Give Simoleons to indicated family
familyfunds "[last name]" [number]
Toggle map tags
maptags [on or off]
Toggle all audio
playsounds [on or off]
Record video with specified size and quality
recordvideo
Set game speed
speed [0 to 4]
When the testingCheatsenabled true code is enabled, you can also hold [Shift] and click on the following objects to access new options.
Mailbox
"Make All Happy"
"Make Friends For Me"
"Make Needs Static" or "Make Needs Dynamic "
"Make Me Know Everyone"
"Force Visitor"
Various "Force NPC" options
Various "Set Career" options
Work place
"Force Opportunity"
"Force Event"
"Force All Events"
Ground
"Teleport"
Any Sim
"Trigger Age Transition"
"Modify Traits"
Active Sim
"Modify Traits for Active Sim"
Non-household Sim
"Add to Household"
Moodlet Panel
Remove a Moodlet from the Moodlet Panel. Note: If it is motive induced, the bar related to the negative Moodlet will be completely filled.
Various Codes
While playing the game, press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + C to display the console window. Then, type one of the following codes and press [Enter] to activate the corresponding cheat function.
Effect
Code
+1,000 more Simoleons
kaching
+2,500 lifetime happiness points to active Sim
shazaam
+50,000 more Simoleons
motherlode
Add active Sim to current household
add to household
Allow terrain adjustments
constrainFloorElevation [true or false]
Click career building to display all events for the career consecutively
force all events
Click career building you work at to force an opportunity
force opportunity
Click career building you work at to force an event
force event
Display console commands
help
Enable testing cheats
testingCheatsenabled [true or false]
Force a specific service Sim to appear
force service sim
Forces a neighbor to show up
force visitor
Full screen
fullscreen [on or off]
Give selected Sim a career
set career
Ignore the cost when buying a lot
freerealestate
Llamas enabled message
enablellamas [on or off]
Make several random friends for selected Sim
make friends for me
Objects can be placed anywhere in buy and build modes; hand tool can move any object
moveObjects [on or off]
Objects fade when camera gets close to them
fadeObjects [on or off]
Objects will not snap to slots while holding [Alt]
disableSnappingToSlotsOnAlt [on or off]
Quit game
quit
Random joke in console
jokePlease
Return Sims to safe and neutral state at home
resetSim [first name] [last name]
Selected Sim knows every other Sim
make me know everyone
Set age of the Sim
set age
Set motives static or dynamic for entire household
make motives [static or dynamic]
Set or clear traits
modify traits
Sets all mood/moodlets for everyone in the house to perfect; removes negative moodlets
