SC4 Extra Cheats DLL

[jj88 23]

Great work Buggi!

I have tried out now and the cheats are great, I espically like the snow one.

I wonder if we can make our own cheats now....

[waerth 1]

Cant a mod sticky this subject?

[redfox85 659]

Can someone post a screen shot of the snow cheat, its either a) its not working right for me or b) I'm not looking in the right spot...

[purpledaddy 6]

You know, one of the additional cool things that I am seeing already is that this is starting to bring in, if not bring back, some of the tech-oriented brains to uncover further secrets of the game.  In a way it kind of reminds me of releases of newly discovered Beatles material from a long time ago!   I hope this treasure hunt lasts a good long time!

[beebs 129]

Originally posted by: Buggi Maxis is keeping an eye on these forums! I'd like to post a response to the support from Paul, who's heading up all this awesome support!quote>

Cool! So you guys at Maxis do still exist!

Originally posted by: The Guy From Maxis (Paul?)So, I'm curious... were these cheats created by you or just weren't implemented in the game? And, possibly more importantly, can we make our own cheats now? 

What kind of cheats to people want to make? If I can get a list then I can decide how to best approach it.

quote>

Hehe... it was mostly just a general question. I'm sure if I thought about it for a bit, I could come up with some good ideas for cheats. Now that I see this massive list qurlix posted, I'm not sure if there's anything else that would be worth adding... I mean, doing a random disasters cheat or something like that would be sweet but it would probably require extensive work on the code, and not exactly possible/worth it at this point.. or am I totally off base on that.

[Neddiggis 1]

The cheat that will place transport using x and y co-ordinates... does that work with GLR? so we can place lengths of it?

[Menotyou 0]

Great work buggi. Really useful.

[755 0]

I ran into a small problem using the DrawPaths cheat last night, but it may have just been my computer.  I enabled it with the Avenue Y-stack about in the center of the screen, and then the game crahsed with a windows error message of a "visual driver failure," which required a full computer restart to get everything back to normal.  I wasn't able to replicate the crash though.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Pinned by request of Buggi.

[Edude7 1]

Originally posted by: Anung Mwka Can someone post a screen shot of the snow cheat, its either a) its not working right for me or b) I'm not looking in the right spot...quote>

See my post earlier in the thread (page one or two). The snow won't be seen on low level ground, and on mid level it will only be seen from a certain time of year, whereas on high level ground you will have it all year round...

[DioAngel 1]

I tried to snow.. but only fades away quickly. :-(

[Edude7 1]

it fades away according to time of year and elevation of your city. If you go to mountainous region it will stay for a long time throughout the year, if you have a plains-based region, you're not going to get much snow I'm afraid... Try it in different regions first and let a Sim Year pass...

[J0nnD0ugh 31]

Question about the water level cheat: Does it adjust the level for all cities or does it just place a maximum number? One thing I didn't like about the terrain is that you couldn't have rivers starting in the mountains, then traveling downward to the seas in your region. If you were going to have a mountain river you would have to have high cliffs as well.

[KingTitan 6]

I love the snow cheat....i like the idea you can use it, or get rid of it....

[jlemen 0]

Buggi.. You're my hero....This is great!!

How about hot keys for controlling the custom music playlist??

[marryescher 0]

I wish it would work for me. I get the box, but I can right click on it all day, and I dont get any list. I tried typing udriveit in the box, hit return and nothing.

[jj88 23]

Does any know what udriveit does?

For me it just makes the game freeze until I press Esc...

[warrior 169]

how does the UDI cheat work? And is there going to be a list of what all the cheats do?

But i still love the new cheats

[BattleField-2142 9]

Can someone answer my ?? I don't know how to install it.

[marryescher 0]

OK, I finally figured it out, you have to drag it out of the subfolder, into the main plugins folder.  Did you try that Battlefield? 

Now I was just going to ask how UDI works, but I see im not alone. I try clicking on the cruise ship or an airplane, but I can only drive the usual UDI missions. It gets stuck in UDI, and when I click on something, trying to drive it, I keep getting the symbol for $$residential, or $$industry. I have to close the city to get out of the UDI.

I also clicked on Casper, I think it was, and another one, and didnt see anything happen.

[BattleField-2142 9]

So, just open plugins and put it in there? No sub-folders? Thanks, Ill try that.

[Edude7 1]

I may be wrong, but I'd like someone with good graphics settings to try the Casper cheat and zoom in on the graveyards... I've seen the ghosts at night during gameplay before, but graphics are in overdrive now, and I don't have as much detail enabled...

I agree KingTitan: You can have the snow for 'whimsical' eye candy for a while, then get rid of it to build etc. It does get annoying when you are in an alpine city which never sees a thaw!! LOL.

[Lord Kronos 0]

This is a great development in the history of the game and of this web site, up there with the NAM!

LK

[smstevenms 7]

Going to download, and just when I thought I'd seen all there was to see. I don't cheat from the start but don't mind once I have proven myself worthy.

[Cougar2004 127]

Buggi, Love the work you are doing here. How will we know when a final release is out? Is there a place we can check, or a Simtropolis auto-notification system to use?

4 Suggestions for your project (if you allow):

* CTRL+[ ] hot keys to do most popular cheats in this dll

* Post a printable reference page (map) of all codes available to be used in this cheat dll

* Include in game descriptions of the effects of each

* Allow for User Customization of the List (or more desired, a Private Mayor List that includes only desired functions, keeping the list shorter and very usable) (perhaps submenus could work too)

Thanks for providing things like this to the community.

[LivingInThePast 364]

Originally posted by: marryescher I wish it would work for me. I get the box, but I can right click on it all day, and I dont get any list. I tried typing udriveit in the box, hit return and nothing. quote>

Are you a Mac user? Unfortunatly, it doesn't work for Mac at all. I feel the pain, too.

[simzebu 19]

Would it be posible for the snow effect to go farther down? At the highest point in my tallest city, there's only a light dusting for less than 2 months out of the year. Or could I make my next city with a higher water level, and then have it go to the coast? How far down does it go?

[marryescher 0]

Originally posted by: LivingInThePast

Originally posted by: marryescher I wish it would work for me. I get the box, but I can right click on it all day, and I dont get any list. I tried typing udriveit in the box, hit return and nothing. quote>

Are you a Mac user? Unfortunatly, it doesn't work for Mac at all. I feel the pain, too.quote>

 

Im not a Mac user, and I did get it working, sort-of. Figured out it cannot be in any subfolders, only directly in the plugins folder. However, most of them I dont see anything happen. The plop all buildings works, and the udriveit I could drive around just some boats. I never see snow, even on very high mountains in January, no ghosts, nothing. Wish there was an instruction booklet with it. Cant really use the cheats, since I cant figure what they are, or how they work.

[MrCinatit 30]

I could be wrong - and am probably simply overstating something which has already been said - but I believe some of the cheats are simply shortcuts and codes left in by the game developers.

Some of the cheats might not really do anything. or at least do anything obvious to us.

"Ghost" is a cheat used in First Person Shooter games to allow a person to go through the map without being killed - but that does not make much sense in this case. However, it could have a sort of similar use.

[Sir Gawain 1]

I wonder what SaveCityQuick means. Does it actually save the city faster than ctrl-s? If so, what problems could it cause?