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Twins

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Geting twins is very easy, it is only a 2-step prosses!!
1) get a female sim pregnet
2)after her stomach grows twice make her woo-hoo again and she should have twins

(sorry for any spelling errors)

Above submission added on: 11th Apr 2008 | id number: 12414
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How to make an all-purpose sim

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Having an all-purpose sim that does everything your working sims don't have time to do themselves would be a dream come true... Especially if you didn't even have to take care of that sim. It doesn't have to be a dream anymore.

This requires around three to four steps, depending on how multi-functional you'd like the all-purpose sim to be.

Step one. This requires about three cheats, so if you have no problems with that, then bring up the cheat window, use boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true. Hold shift and click on any sim in the house. Click on "Spawn." Choose "The Tombstone of L and D." Next go to the tombstone and click on Adult Female/Male, your choice. A new member of the house has been made. It's randomized and has it's own name, look, clothes, personality, and aspirations. (Though I've found that females are always Aries with the Popularity aspiration.)

Step Two: Hold shift again and right click him or her. Click "spawn" again, click on "sim modder." This will produce a little baby doll that has the power to make sims' lives much easier. From there, you will begin a series of programs and settings to make your live-in all-purpose sim the perfect nanny, cook, maid, friend-maker all wrapped up in a nice neat package.

Step Three. With your new sim in control, click on the baby doll. Go to motives. You'll get a choice to max the sim you're controlling, another sim, or the entire house. For this, you'll select "Me/(name of sim)" Click "Max All." All motives will then have full green bars. Hit "motives" again on the sim modder baby doll. Choose the controlling sim, and click the option for "make static". This means that the motives will never decay, thereby fixing this single sim into having no needs. They don't need sleep, food, bathroom breaks, socializing, or showers (unless they spend time on the exercise machine). And the needs will never decay except for Hygene if using the exercise machine. But if you keep the Sim Modder baby doll, that can be fixed with a quick visit back to it.

Step Four: And this I only recommend if you want the most efficient all-purpose sim available but it's not entirely necessary. Use the Sim Modder again and this time click on "Skills." Choose the controlling sim for the skills, then select "max all." And now you have the perfect cook, maid, repairman, and outstanding joke-teller. (High charisma goes a long way in the friendship department). He or She will also paint anything and sell it for a high price. Good for when you don't need them for anything and want to park them somewhere and forget about them for a while. Remember, their needs NEVER decay!

Repeat step four for personality and interests (still optional but doesn't hurt) and max them as well. Now you have a live-in all-purpose sim that does just about everything you need without needing anything for themselves. If you want to be especially neglectful, you can also set it's aspiration to the "grilled cheese" aspiration (using the doll again) and fulfill it's wants with mountains and mountains of grilled cheese. Be careful though: A sim that eats when it's not hungry will get fat very quickly. If that's not a problem for you, then I say the more the merrier!

Me personally? I like to set their aspiration to pleasure because those wants are easier to fulfill than anything else. They're happy with bubblebaths, toys, and jumping on the couch all day. And that aspiration isn't as likely to lead them to a heart attack later on in life!

Above submission added on: 17th Dec 2007 | id number: 11928
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How to copy a house you have just built

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After you have finished building your ideal house, go back into the Neighbourhood screen. Select your house you want to make a copy of. Then select the 'Package Lot' icon, then select 'Package Lot to a file' icon. You will be then told where your file (your house) has been saved to. The folder where it has been saved will be My DocumentsEA GamesThe Sims 2Packaged Lots.

After you have done this, you must exit the game. Look in the 'Packaged Lots' folder, and you will see your house file (whatever name you gave it). Copy this file into the 'Downloads Folder' (EA GamesDownload Folder). You will now see your file (your house).

Double-left-click your file, a screen will appear asking do you want to install the following content, click on the 'Install Button'. After a short while your file will be loaded, then click the OK button, to confirm. If you want more than one copy of your house, then keep on Double-left-clicking your file. Start The Sims 2 game and which ever neighbourhood you are in, just select the F2 button and you will see your house or houses. You can even copy all types of buildings by using the above hint. Happy Siming.

Above submission added on: 30th Oct 2007 | id number: 11731
Author: Tim3321 | Verify above submission Tick to add to printer friendly selection.

French Maid & Don

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I think his name is Don... Anyways, instead of putting him with Cassandra, put him with the french maid. They get along way better.

Above submission added on: 24th Oct 2007 | id number: 11712
Author: ZipZap2 | Verify above submission Tick to add to printer friendly selection.

Cheesy twins

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If you want twins, have one of the adults learn to make a cheesecake. Then have them try for a kid. If she gets pregnant then after she expands once, have her eat a piece of the cheesecake. This last may not always work: if the man started the woohoo, the twins will be girls, if the woman did the twins will be boys and sometimes they are both.

Above submission added on: 6th Apr 2007 | id number: 10973
Author: selene13of2007 | Verify above submission Tick to add to printer friendly selection.

Really random clothes and hairstyles/hats

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Enter boolprop testingcheatsenabled true while in the neighbour hood view.
Go into Create a Family and press Shift + N.
A box will come up in the corner saying "The sims 2 is now in de-bugging mode" (etc). To turn it off press shift + M.
(By the way the two letters could be the opposite way round, but I'm positive it's N & M.)

Above submission added on: 15th Jan 2007 | id number: 10607
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Get Twins

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To get twins just open the cheat box and type forcetwins, for this to work you need to have a pregnant sim already, as long as that's true it'll work every time.

Above submission added on: 12th Jan 2007 | id number: 10586
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Maxmotives

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In the cheat menu put in "maxmotives" all your characters are feeling very good!

Above submission added on: 5th Jan 2007 | id number: 10557
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Access all career rewards!!

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Type 'UnlockCareerRewards' in the cheat box to gain access to ALL the career rewards. I do not yet have a cheat for unlocking aspiration rewards but I'm going to check if there's such a thing!

Above submission added on: 2nd Jan 2007 | id number: 10533
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Extra money- better than the rest!

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This hint gets you loads of money, it's much better than the motherlode and kaching cheats.
What you do is type 'familyfunds (name of family) (amount of $$$)' into the cheat box.
For example, if you're playing with the Smith family; 'familyfunds Smith 100000'

It's great, all my families are millionaires!

Above submission added on: 2nd Jan 2007 | id number: 10532
Author: kinkytoast | Verify above submission Tick to add to printer friendly selection.

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When using the Boolprop testingCheatsenabled true cheat if you want to be able to drag mood bars to green, increase skills or personality, etc then it has to be either in the Neighbourhood screen or the Create a family screen other wise if you do it while on a lot you can only shift click.

Above submission added on: 2nd Jan 2007 | id number: 10527
Author: Bloom | Verify above submission Tick to add to printer friendly selection.

How to get your kids into public school

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If you want to get you sim(s) into public school first invite the headmaster useing the phone. It will say he will be there at 5:00. So far really easy. Well the kid(s) are at school get one of your adults to study cooking (So you can prepare better meals for him) Do this until 1:00 then make them happy. With the other(s) adults do what ever to them (I make them sleep) When the kids get home make them really happy and if they are already happy make them start there homework just to have them doing something useful. To make the house look nice use the move_objects or the Boolprop testingcheatsenable true cheat and delete all puddles, bowls, garbage ,ect. When the headmaster gets there make one of the kids greet him and invite him in. Click him do the one that starts with a S (I forgot what the word was Lol) Do that about 5 times then give him a tour of the house. Well the kid is giving him the tour make the adult cook the meal and as soon as the food is ready end the tour (By clicking on the headmaster) and entertain him by clicking call for dinner. After he eats your sims should be in! Works for me.


`!i~?()Janelle()?~i!` x[ Sorry it's so long x]

Above submission added on: 1st Jan 2007 | id number: 10523
Author: Janelleybean | Verify above submission Tick to add to printer friendly selection.

Max Skillz

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If you use the awesomest sims2 cheat ever (BoolProp testingcheatsenabled true) then you can do pretty much wut ever you want. Including moving the skill bars up and down, but everybody already knows that. If you move the bars up and down while you're sim is gaining skillz then a notice will come up saying the your sim gained skills doing ____, that way if your sim wants to be at _ skill level then they get the aspiration points. Of course if you're already using the most awesomest cheat ever then you probably don't care to much about aspiration points. Wutever. YAY!!

Above submission added on: 30th Dec 2006 | id number: 10513
Author: Gangsta Chimp | Verify above submission Tick to add to printer friendly selection.

Some hints/cheats

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How to tell how sims died by the colour of their ghost:
White- old age
Blue- Drowning
Yellow- Electric shock
Red- fire
Transparent- Starvation
Orange- sattelite fell whilst stargazing
Purple- Swarm of flies
Pink- Fright
Green- illness

Brong up cheat window:: press shift and ctrl and c.

Boolprop allow45degreeangleofrotation true - Allows 45 degree rotation of objects

Move_objects on - allows to put objects anywhere, eg. Middle of road, or move your sims.

Aging off - stops sims growing old. NB Babies will not grow up either. To turn back on "aging on" (no quotes)

Money:
Kaching $1000
Motherlode $50000
Don't overuse the money cheats! It takes the fun out of the game!

Type help in the cheat window to list some cheats.

Enter help [enter cheat name] to find information about a certain cheat.

Above submission added on: 26th Dec 2006 | id number: 10487
Author: Arsenal#1 | Verify above submission Tick to add to printer friendly selection.

Various Cheats

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To get debug mode in the make-a-sim section, type in the name feild IMGONNABE. By doing so you will get all clothing (hats/faces & full set only) such as, bunny suits, grim reaper, blue skeleton and NO CLOTHES. This will only work untill the name is changed.

Cheat Menu Alt+Ctrl

5000 money: type motherlode inthe cheat menu

Debug mode: type boolprop testingcheatsenabled true in the cheat menu. To use hold shift while clicking on an item to get various commands. While using this cheat you may also drag bars (friendship, skills & personality) up or down.

Above submission added on: 6th Dec 2006 | id number: 10410
Author: everaston | Verify above submission Tick to add to printer friendly selection.

How to get lots of rewardpoints and keep the mood up!

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Open cheat window: crtl+shft+c.
Write: BoolProp Testingcheatsenabled true
Exit cheat window.
Look at the wants and fears of a sim. Press ctrl and click on something the sim wants, and voila; mood is going up, and new rewardpoints are added!
I use this a lot!
Annoula

Above submission added on: 26th Nov 2006 | id number: 10287
Author: annoula | Verify above submission Tick to add to printer friendly selection.

Bunch of cheats!

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Boolprop Testingcheatsenabled True -allows you too bring up health and skills

Motherlode - gives you 50,000 seminols every time you type it in

Moveobject on - allows you to delete sims and delete well stuff you couldnt delete before

Above submission added on: 8th Nov 2006 | id number: 10092
Author: SweetieP409A | Verify above submission Tick to add to printer friendly selection.

Money

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If you didnt already know Motherlode= $50,000 and Kaching= $1000 so quick ways of making money


Im not sure where to say this but if you turn aging off does it make your lady sim not have children?

And can you turn aging off for 1 or 2 sims?

Above submission added on: 26th Oct 2006 | id number: 9905
Author: stelaandspike | Verify above submission Tick to add to printer friendly selection.

Get pregnant with alien baby without being abducted

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Type in boolprop testingcheatsenabled true (please note spaces) after pressing ctrl + shift + c

Press enter and hold shift and click on a sim.
Go onto Spawn then Life and death tomestone.
A tomestone should appear next to the sim. Then click the correct sim you want to be pregnant and select Pregnant with Alien.

You will now be pregnant with an alien baby. If you want to speed the pregnancy up select the tomestone and click Speed up my pregnancy. You will have a baby that day (warning: it's quite quick so i'd keep an eye on the game)
Thanks
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Above submission added on: 16th Oct 2006 | id number: 9814
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Getting that Job or The career Rewards

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DO you want that job that gives you that one reward you want well it's as simple as this. Press ctrl+shift+c and enter BoolProp Testingcheatsenabled true.

Then hit esc or type in exit. After which point while holding down shift click on the newpaper you should see adult jobs and the career rewards.

If you choose a Career rewards you can select a career after this go to you career rewards and you should see the reward

:)

Above submission added on: 24th Sep 2006 | id number: 9579
Author: gamegodess862005 | Verify above submission Tick to add to printer friendly selection.

To speed up your pregnauncy! And More ...

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Pull up cheat menu .This can only be done if you have already have put in the cheat "boolProp testingcheatsenabled true" : click on shift button and left click on mouse. Go to " spawn" from there click on " tombstone of L & D "
This gives you different options besides speed up pregnauncy ..

Above submission added on: 10th Sep 2006 | id number: 9497
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Choose your babies gender

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This is not tried & true but I read a cheat for the first game that said if you wanted to get a boy the man had to initiate the kiss and when I first started my family I wanted a boy but got nothing but girls ( one & then twins) both times I had the man intiate the "Try for baby" so I thought maybe they did it backwards. I started my family over & I had my woman intiate "Try for baby" sure enough I got a boy. So now my sim is pregnant again & this time the man intiated I'll see if it's true it's not fully tried & true but maybe this will help someone

Above submission added on: 9th Sep 2006 | id number: 9493
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Bits and Bobs

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Use SimVac on strangers to earn quick skills.

Wear Noodlesoother to work to get promoted faster.

Wear the Cool Shades when you use the lovetub to help score the impossible wants.

Make sure your Sim is in Platinium Aspiration when they become an elder and their life will be extended.

Above submission added on: 30th Aug 2006 | id number: 9408
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HAPPY MOOD AND NO MORE STUDYING AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Open cheats window and enter "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true" then save your house and leave back to the neighbourhood then go back in to that same house and drag your study and mood up.


Above submission added on: 23rd Aug 2006 | id number: 9350
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Deleted Characters

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If you delete your sims by accident you can get them back, just hold down "control" and "Z" at the same time and they will come back. This only works if deleting the sim was the last thing you did, and you are still on that lot. Otherwise they're gone! Hope this helps someone

XxXPheebzXxX

Above submission added on: 21st Aug 2006 | id number: 9335
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Servos... Need Making Business, and Nightlife

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Okay I learned this by pure accident, if you buy a robot desk thing and have your Sim get a golden badge on it (It takes a while but it's worth it).

Then have your sim make Servo once you choose it's name and gender. It can do just about anything a sim can except have babies.

The coolest part is if you have your Servo meet a vampire you can turn the servo INTO a VAMPIRE.

It looks a bit goofy with big walrus fangs and a red eye.
But I'm not sure what happens to it during the day.

Above submission added on: 18th Aug 2006 | id number: 9304
Author: Evillittlegriffin | Verify above submission Tick to add to printer friendly selection.

HOW TO DELETE HOMEWORK!!!!!

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If you want to delete your kids homework and still get the best grades then follow this!
When your child comes back from school and places their homework down, pick it up using buy mode( ypu may have to type in the cheat moveobjects on first though.) and place it on a table or counter then using the eyedropper tool select the table or counter you are using to delete the homework, and place it somewhere in the room( this is so you still have a table and counter in it's place), then delete the table or counter with the homework on top and there you have it the homework goes along with it!!!!
Hope it helps,
-Xx-coolcats-xX-

Above submission added on: 14th Aug 2006 | id number: 9293
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Money cheat (easy)

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Motherlode then press enter then up then ener and do this as amny times as you wish every sequince gives you $50,000.

Above submission added on: 18th Jul 2006 | id number: 9071
Author: Mr flibbles | Verify above submission <