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Real Music
Note: This trick requires a music recording/downloading program. Record/download the music of your choice. After that save the music file(s) to The Sims game in the path "/Maxis/The Sims/Music/Stations/" followed by "Rock", "Classical", "Latin", or "Country". This can also be saved so that the TV plays the music by selecting the "SoundData/TVStations" path instead of "Music", then choosing "Mystery", "Romance", "Comedy", or "Action".
Submitted by: Anonymous User
Added: 11 Jan 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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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.
Submitted by: Anonymous User
Added: 11 Jan 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Less Bills
Keep an unpaid bill until the mailman delivers the next set of bills. Pay the original bill when your mailbox is filled with the next set of bills. This should cause the bills inside the mailbox to disappear.
Submitted by: Anonymous User
Added: 11 Jan 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Easier Relationships
Create a family with a male and female adult that are of the same category (such as Virgo and Virgo) and move them into a house (or created house). Immediately after selecting live mode make them kiss approximately ten times in a row to set their relationship meter to 100. If you continue kissing the female, she should ask to have a baby.
Submitted by: Anonymous User
Added: 11 Jan 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Get Outdoor Items Indoors
Use this trick to place a grill, playground, basketball court, or other outdoor items inside your Sim's house. While building the house leave part of the wall open. The CPU will consider that room as part of the outside. Place your outdoor item in the room, then close the wall. NOTE:It only works in one room at a time.
Submitted by: coz
Added: 06 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Easy Garbage
Buy the 30 simolian garbage can. Order the Sim to empty it, then cancel the order just as they remove the bag. Then order them to pick up the mess that they just created. Your Sim will return the bag to an empty can. This saves you the time needed to take it to the street
Submitted by: coz
Added: 06 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Two Phone Messages
Place more than two phones in your house. When the phone rings direct two of your sims to answer the phones. By doing so, two messages will appear for each of your sims. Sometimes resulting in a more generous amount of money.
Submitted by: coz
Added: 06 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Another Baby Chance
If you want to keep a baby from being taken by a social worker wait for them to show up. Just before she goes inside, enter house edit mode and delete all the doors that lead into your house. A screen saying you have a new baby will appear and prompt you to name it OR As soon as the social worker appears, quickly pause the game. Enable the move_objects on code and enter build mode. Select the hand, pick up the social worker, and delet her. A new baby will appear in the room.
Submitted by: coz
Added: 06 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Buying Multiple Items
When buying items, such as lamps, that you require multiple numbers of, hold [Shift] to repeatedly place the item where desired without having to always re-select it.
Submitted by: coz
Added: 06 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Free Snacks And Pizza
Have your sim get a snack, and when they take it our, cancel the order before the money message appears. Then pick it up and eat it. Order a pizza, and when the pizza man arrives, do not greet him. Before he leaves, use the move_objects on code to move the pizza out of his hands and place it inside your house.
Submitted by: coz
Added: 06 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Center Screen
When playing you can center the screen on anything by right clicking on the object you want to center.
Submitted by: kleon333@hotmail.com
Added: 15 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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No More Bills
Use the code "move_objects on" and don`t forget the "on" at the end. Then select and delete the mailbox. No more bills!
Submitted by: kleon333@hotmail.com
Added: 15 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Slow Down (or Stop) The Decreasing Of Sims' Needs
On the bar on the bottom of the screen, there are the Sim's faces. If you watch their needs when you rapidly click their faces, the needs wont decrease that much. The little red arrow that indicates that the Sim needs that need more will come quickly then leave right away. This works effectively but you cant really do anything while your clicking.
Submitted by: Brakker Z Ryan Rider
Added: 21 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Hidden Cartoon
When you insert the game CD-ROM and asks whether you want to start or visit various web sites, move the pointer over the gray Maxis symbol in the bottom left corner. It will change into colored text. Click on it to see the hidden cartoon.
Submitted by: b-boy 82
Added: 27 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Friendship/Lovers
If you are trying to get a Sim to like another Sim ,and you want to propose, somtimes the game will respond, "I can't think on an empty stomach". Before the Sim arrives, make a meal. If it gets late, delete the doors, then they cannot leave.
Submitted by: b-boy 82
Added: 27 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Faster Skill
Select the create a family button.Create three to eight kids(boys or girls). When you finish creating, change the kids into adults. Then click the finish creating button and move them into any lot. You will find that your characters will already have skills. Some will have full skills such as cooking, etc.
Submitted by: b-boy 82
Added: 27 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Selling The Dead
This is a useful trick if you had a Sim die. When Sims die, they leave an urn or a gravestone behind them which your Sim will mourn for 24 hours. After this time you can pick it up in furnish mode and sell it. You only get about 3 to 10 Simoleans for it, but it is better than turning your garden into a cemetery.
Submitted by: b-boy 82
Added: 27 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Keep Sim Sleeping
If your Sims are asleep and you do not want to disturb them with a loud noise that is coming from the television or somthing, enter build mode, delete the object that is making noise, and buy a new one.
Submitted by: b-boy 82
Added: 27 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Keep Baby Easier
To keep a baby without social services taking it away, just have one of the parents (the person in the lower rank of their job is recommended) to miss work two days in a row to get fired. They can now pay 24 hour attention to the baby.
Submitted by: b-boy 82
Added: 27 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Ghosts
When someone dies in a family, and there are still family members remaining, they will be haunted by the ghost of the Sim that died.
Submitted by: b-boy 82
Added: 27 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Cheaper Wallpaper And Floors
Get money for old wallpaper before you paste new wallpaper in a room. Sell the old wallpaper, then paste the new. This also works on floors.
Submitted by: b-boy 82
Added: 27 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Revive Dead Sims
If one of your Sims dies, sell everything in the house. Then, evict the family and buy the house again. When the house loads, all of the Sims will be alive with full mood bars.
Submitted by: b-boy 82
Added: 27 Aug 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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How To Make Sims Happy
If your sim is really sad or just sad, do this code: Hold [ctrl]+[shift]+[c] and type in the box that shows up "move_objects on". Click on your sim in buy objects and delete them, go back to play and left click on their face in the box. It will make them 100% happy.
Submitted by: Blades
Added: 03 Sep 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Swim In The Floor
Build a house and make sure it has a swimming pool. Next put in the move_objecs on code and go to the tool mode and use the hand to move anybody you have in your family into the pool. Then put it back on live mode and the character(s) you moved in the pool will be in the house swimming in carpet! Note: It might take a few tries to do this.
Submitted by: Matthew Kohn
Added: 07 Oct 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Fill All Your Streeses And Your Stats
To get all your stuff filled like stress, hunger, social, fun, energy and stuff all you have to do is put in the code MOVE_OBJECTS ON and then go to the tool mode and get the hand and click on any character. After that DELETE the character. After that click on the character's picture that you deleted 2 times really fast and then they will come back with everything filled up!
Submitted by: Matthew Kohn
Added: 07 Oct 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Replacing Something
every time something gets full(the garbage can)or gets to hard to take care of(the fish tank/guinea pig cage)or breaks(a lighbulb) you can just sell it. it you want another one, then buy it back again, and it will be new.
Submitted by: Gail
Added: 07 Oct 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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No Bus Or Work Car
You have to put the code Move_objects on and get the hand then when the bus comes pick up a table like thing but you can't see it and press Delete.
Submitted by: Buddly
Added: 12 Oct 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Tutorial Money
Play the tutorial. Right after the lady comes in don't follow the directions in the box. Until you complete the tutorial none of the need bars go down very fast. Have each of the sims take a job. Their needs won't go down. You can put free will on and turn the speed up to 3. Then you can go do something else and when you come back you will be rich. This is a nice alternative to cheating. But who needs an alternative?
Submitted by: Danode
Added: 12 Oct 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Disasters
If there is a fire, burglary or death in your game that was unexpected and you wish never happened, just do not save the game. Go out to the "neighbourhood" and go back into the house. Everything will be the same as it was the last time you saved. WARNING: Sometimes, you may have worked a long time on a game. If you do this hint, you would have wasted all the "hard" work because you will restart from the point you left off when you started working on the game. To prevent putting time to waste, if a disaster comes, save every once in a while. That way, you won't be disappointed.
Submitted by: Rodeo Chick
Added: 13 Oct 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Stairs Glitch
You need to put in the move_objects code by pushing shift+ctrl+C and then enter the code. Next you have to have a 2 story house. Then when someone walks up the stairs get the hand from the build mode then click the stairs and delete it. Then go back on live mode and the person will go through the ceiling on invisible stairs.
Submitted by: matthew_kohn@hotmail.com
Added: 13 Oct 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Power Up
To give your sim full happiness and all needs at full enter the code (move_objects on) make sure the sim is siting down, then go to buy mode and delete the sim or the chair or couch go back to live mode and look for the sim by clicking on their face and they will be good as new!
Submitted by: mechwarrior
Added: 21 Nov 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Tax Evasion
When the mail arrives, have your Sim receive it. Then tell him to 'Pay Bills', and when he's on his way to the mailbox with the bills in his hands, pause the game. Spend money in the buy mode until you don't have enough to pay the bills. Than unpause the game, and watch how the Sim puts the bills in the mailbox, and you lose no money! To get the money you just spent on items back, simply sell the items you bought. Since you have just bought them, you'll get a full refund!
Submitted by: HawkDawg
Added: 24 Nov 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Never Miss Work
This cheat is kind of like the never pay bills cheat. First put on the move objects code. Then move your trash can out in the middle of the road. When the car drives up, it will stop moving and start honking!
Submitted by: HawkDawg
Added: 24 Nov 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Sleep Forever
If you want to watch your SIM squirm around in bed when they need to use the bathroom or they are hungry, just put a chair or any large object on each side of the bed and they will not be able to get out. I am sure that if left there long enough, it will kill them! Hope you guys enjoy.
Submitted by: super_man363
Added: 20 Dec 2001 		Report this Hint as:
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Work Car
Never Delete a car if you don't want to go to work. Just wait till it goes away. If you do, it will go away forever and you won't be able to go work anymore. To delete the Car you would have to use the Cheat Code: move_objects on. Warning Do not delete the work car.
Submitted by: Squirt88
Added: 18 Jan 2002 		Report this Hint as:
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Free Furniture
Use a sim to buy a whole bunch of good furniture and accessories. Then, when you've used all of your money, make him drown in a pool by going to build mode and taking away the ladders. All of the furniture will still be there for the next sim.
Submitted by: fuzzy14
Added: 17 Aug 2002 		Report this Hint as:
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Great Parties
When you throw a party, go to build mode and remove all doors. Replace them with walls. Now the people in your house will stay until you put the doors back!
Submitted by: atraingunner
Added: 29 Jan 2009 		Report this Hint as:
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