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Information about the game The Sims.

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About Sims
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Cheats
Hints and Tips
Technical Support

ABOUT SIMS

The Sims is the latest creation from the makers who really invented the word SIM. In their latest edition The Sims the object of the game is to manage and control people. While this concept may sound easy and maybe even boring to some people, The Sims is completely the opposite.  

You will find your self with several dilemmas as you first begin by buying or making your own house as well as very little money and items such as furniture or food in your house. The first task that you will be faced with is to get a job, getting a job you will begin to make a living and buy more advanced items for your house, enhancing your characters life and becoming more successful and happy.

In addition to maintaining you house you must keep your own Sims satisfied in such areas as social, entertainment hunger, cleanness not to mention various other areas.

The Sims is a must for anyone who enjoy simulation games or like to act out portions of their own or others life watching the consequences.

GAME INFORMATION
Released 02/04/2000
Game Name: Sims
Type: Strategy
GAME RATINGS
Game Play: 9.5
Graphics: 9.0
Sound: 9.0
Difficulty: 4.0
Overall Rating: 9.2
GAME REQUIREMENTS
Computer: 100% IBM Compatible
Processor: 233 MHz or faster Intel Pentium Processor
Memory: 32 MB RAM
Drives: 300 MB Hard Drive space
Sound: Recommended 100% Sound Blaster Compatible
Video: 800 x 600  Resolution
2MB PCI or AGP Video Card
Compatible DirectDraw (DirectX) video card.
Controls: Keyboard and Mouse
Operating System: Windows 95 / 98
Windows NT is not supported
DirectX: DirectX 7
Multiplayer:
Advisory: PC-13
Other: Valid Serial number is required for downloading patches and updates through the Web site.
Price: $40.00 - $50.00

Index

Category:
Games

Companies:
Electronic Arts

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UPDATES


Additional updates and patches can be found on The Sims page.

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SCREEN SHOTS

CHEATS

Some of the below cheats will not work after updating the game to a later release.

Cheat on those nasty Bills - Keep one of your unpaid bills until the mail carrier comes to deliver another bill once the flag is up pay the bill you currently have removing the other bill residing in your mailbox.

Cheat Console

While playing a game, press CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + C to display a prompt
box in the upper left corner of the screen. Once this box is displayed entering one of the below codes activates the appropriate cheat.

Addition Information:
Enter an exclamation point (!) at the prompt to repeat the last cheat entered.
Enter a semi-colon (;) between codes to enter multiple codes at the same time.

CHEAT CODE RESULT OF CODE
klapaucius (if patch version 'rosebud') 1000 Cash
hist_add Add new family history stat to the current family
write_destlist Appends the route destination list to AllRoutes.txt
water_tool Create moat or streams or swimming pools
shrink_text [font_size] [text] Create shrunk_text_#.bmp files.
edit_char Create-a-character mode.
draw_all_frames [off/on] Draw all animation frames disabled / enabled.
draw_origins Draw colored dots at each person's origin
core_dump Dump entire memory to core_dump_[date:time].txt file.
dump_happy Dump selected person's most recent list of scored interactions to a file.
dump_mc Dump selected person's motive contribution curve to a file.
debug_social Enable debug flag to show outcome choice dialogs for social interactions
sim_log end End Sim logging
cht [filename] Execute "file.cht" file as a list of cheats
draw_floorable [off/on] Enable or disable draw of Florrable grid
assert Force an asswert for testing
log_animations Log animations in the event log window
map_edit [off/on] Map editor disabled / enabled
move_objects Move any object
tutorial off No tutorial object generation when tutorial house is loaded
browser_failsafe Prevent web browser crashes
preview_anims [off/on] Preview animations diabled / enabled.
tile_info Programer stats
quit Quit game
#import Read in behavior tuning constants from Tuning.txt
rebuild_cp Rebuilds entire Control Panel/UCP from scratch
refresh_faces Refresh the BMP_resources for all people whose IFF files are writable
refresh_textures Rematch dependent textures and regenerate bitmaps for all user characters
restore_tut Restore tutorial
rotation [0/1/2/3] Rotates camera
route_balloons [off/on] Routing debug balloons disabled / enabled
fam_test [opcount] Run series of random operations on unhoused families
save Save currently loaded house
history Save family history file
plugh Say "plugh"
xyzzy Say "xyzzy"
draw_routes [off/on] Selected person's path hidden /displayed
log_mask Set event logging mask
autonomy [1-100] Set free thinking level
sim_speed [- 1000-1000] Set game speed
edit_grass [number] Set grass change value
grow_grass [0-150] Set grass growth
lot_size [number] Set lot size
sim_limit [milliseconds] Set maximum milliseconds to allow simulator
sim_speed [- 1000-1000] Set Sim speed
set_hour [1-24] Set time of day
bubble_tweak [z offset value] Set z offset for thought bubbles
[directory path] Sets the neighborhood directory to the path
lot_border [tl tr bl br] Sets up the borders on the lot with non-editable flag
allow_inuse Sets whether menu items appear for in use objects
memview Show memory view window in debug builds of the game.
sim_log begin Start Sim logging
swap_houses [house #] [house #] Swap the two house files and updates families
sweep [off/on] Ticks disabled/enabled
tile_info [off/on] Tile information hidden / displayed
visitor_control Toggle allowing visitors to be controlled using the keyboard.
report_assets Toggle assets report
auto_reset Toggle automatic object reset feature
sim_peak Toggle calls to PeekMessages within Sim loop
cam_mode Toggle camera mode
all_menus Toggle display of unavailable interactions in person control menus
obj_comp Toggle object compression in save file
quats Toggle quaternion transformations
sound_log Toggle sound log window
sound Toggle sounds
html Toggle web page creation
reload_people Total reload of people skeletons, animations, suits and skins
soundevent Trigger sound event
write_routes Write out an RTE file every time a route is found
#export Write out behavior turning constants to tuning.txt

 

HINTS AND TIPS

  1. Phone - As one of your first purchases it is recommended you purchase a phone and that it is placed in a commonly used location of your house. There are several phone calls made during the game where you are awarded money over the phone .
  2. Skills - Develop your Sims skills to help improve their chances of getting raises and bonuses from their job.
  3. Burglars - Purchase a security system to help prevent your house from being robed. In addition catching the burglars will be an additional money bonus for you.
  4. Other family members - Get other family members into your household to add extra income, while this can cause family problems it can be used to your advantage to get additional income.

   TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Reference Issue / Question
FORUM If your question is not listed here try our computer help forum.
GAMES General questions and answers for computer games.
CHGAME Basic game troubleshooting.
CH000156 I've lost my unique identification number can you give me one?
CH000786 General Sims questions and answers.

 

 

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