Complete List of Cheats

[FlyHigh 181]

CHEATS

First, there are some points you have to take into account:

• When reading this document check carefully if there is spacing after the main command;
• Variable fields are indicated between [] and separated by |;
• After the code there is (or will be) a description as specific detailed as possible of what the cheat does;
• To open the cheat box where the following codes are to be inserted, simply hit Ctrl+X ingame
• For many of the cheats, the Extra Cheat Plugin is required and must be placed in the root Plugins folder, not a sub-folder.

--- Budget Related ---

weaknesspays - Gives you 1000 simoleans

riskymoney - adds 10.000§ to city treasures at a slight chance (1 in of an earthquake

Moolah [Number (1-1trillion)] - sets the current budget to the value you entered, easier than any other money cheat. if you enter a number which is too big for Moolah it will simply remove all your money and it becomes a - and you are told to run for Senator.

--- Game Info Editing Related ---

stopwatch - Stops / starts the 24 hour clock

ShowTime - opens a small window with the current system time, useful if you don't have a watch and want to keep track how many hours you spent in front of your PC again 

whattimeizit [number (1-24)] - Sets the time of day, where "number" is hour 1-24

SimDate [Value] - changes the in-game date to the value you entered, this is useful for testing seasonal props. Use a date after 12/31/1999 in the format SimDate 12 31 1999.

hellomynameis [name] - Changes your mayor name to "name"

SetMayorName [name] - Same as "HelloMyNameIs";

whererufrom [name] - Changes your city name to "name"

SetCityName [name] - Same as "WhereRUFrom";

dollyllama - Turns advisors into llamas

SetSeaLevel [number (1-200)] - Changes the sea level to height of "number".

--- Buildings, Lots and Zones Related ---

you don't deserve it - Unlocks all the rewards

zoneria [on|off] - Shows/Hides empty zones

BuildingPlop - opens window where you can select every building in the game for plopping, nice as plop cheat or for testing BATs

LotPlop - opens window for selecting every lot individually (similar to "BuildingPlop")

PlopAllBuildings - automatically plops all buildings in your city (caution, very resource intensive!)

PlopAllLots - automatically plops all lots in your city (caution, very resource intensive!)

Multiple Rewards - Right click on the reward and hold down, choose the location for the plop, and left click to place...repeat. I think there's a limit of 5 or so.

--- Requirements and Zooms Related ---

sizeof [number] - zooms the game to the value you entered, this allows "fractions" of zoom levels which might reveal more details

fightthepower - Causes buildings to no longer require power

howdryiam - Causes buildings to no longer require water

tastyzots - Toggles zots (zone "need" symbols: power, water, job, road)

--- Recording and photo Related ---

recorder - opens recorder window for capturing an image sequence, you can compile a movie or animation with those screenshots

animationRecorder - same as "recorder"

--- Debug and Help Related ---

terrainquery [on|off] - Adds terrain coordinates to cursor in query mode

renderprop [property name] [0|1] [true|false] - Activates/deactivates a prop or changes a property value

fps [number] - Sets ideal framerate to "number"

flora [off] - permanently removes flora from the city, and you can not enter "flora on" to get it back, save and exiting and going back into the city will not bring it back either.

GZWinMessageBox [text] [title] [options (0-??)] - where options is a number 0-5 indicating the buttons... for example 0 is ok button, 1 is ok+cancel, 2 is yes+no, etc.

ExecuteScript [scriptname.lua] - executes the lua script, if there is one.

ViewWebBrowser [web url] - opens the typed web page.

PlaceZone [zonetype, x1, y1, x2 ,y2] - Allows you to zone military, seaport, and a host of additional zones. 

CreateException - crashes the game immediately (caution!)

gol - Shows random "Game of Life" algoritm on map. Green splotches appear and "dance" in your city (probably a graphics performance test)

Tutorial - can at least be used to reset the tutorial of the city you are playing in (don't do this cheat if you are in a city that doesn't have a tutorial it will crash your game.) by typing "Tutorial reset", it won't reset any changes you've made to the city though.

WatchMeMove - unknown, apparently, it encourages more sims to move into your city

csitrigger [LUA IID] - Triggers a UDI pop up, the value being the id of the mission.so if you type "csitrigger 8c0ad6a8" a the UDI mission accept/decline box (like an adviser pop up but green) appears allowing you to accept or decline the School Bus Mission - Study for Profit (evil/Dr Vu), the 8c0ad6a8 is the id of the mission as defined in LUA scripts.

A complete list of all the LUA scripts from SC4 can be found <a href="https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=669.0">here</a> (It is a SC4Devotion link. You have to create an account and/or login).

--- Automata and transit Related ---

DrawPaths - shows automata paths on network items, useful for NAM debugging

HidePaths - disable paths that have been activated by "DrawPaths" cheat

udriveit - after entering it you can click on a vehicle and then you can drive it around. (It's a single use cheat, so its not like drawpaths which stays on till you turn it off)

--- Game Menus ‘Shortcut’ ---

SimSpeed[Pause|Slow|Medium|Fast] - Pauses game, Turtle speed, Rhino speed and Cheetah speed respectively.

PlaceNetwork [type(0-11)] [x1] [y1] [x2] [y2] - Draws network of type (0-11)

from x1,y1 to x2,y2

Zoom[Number (0-5)] - Sets zoom where x is from 0-5 (ie Zoom4)

Zoom[Out|In] - 

NoSCI - Hides the bubbles that appear over automata letting you know that automata is a UDI mission.

[Demolish|Toggle]SignsAndLabels - 

Label|Sign|Pipes|PowerLines|Subway|LightRail|Rail|Avenue|Highway|Street|Road|

TrafficQuery|Query]Tool - 

Open[ObliterateCity|CheatCode|Snapshot|PhotoAlbum||AudioOptions|GraphicOptions|

PlayOptions]Dialog - 

Toggle[Options|MySim|Mayor|God]Panel - 

ToggleTerrainContourDisplay - 

Toggle[uI|Grid]Visibility - 

SaveCity - 

QuitCity - 

SaveCityQuick - 

Enable[DayAndNight|NightOnly|DayOnly] - 

Place[Lot|FerryTerminal|College|HighSchool|ElementarySchool|Hospital|Clinic|

LargeFireStation|SmallFireStation|Jail|PoliceKiosk|LargePoliceStation|

SmallPoliceStation|SubwayStation|LightRailStation|FreightDepot|PassengerDepot|

BusStop]Tool - 

Dispatch[Police|Fire]Tool – 

DemolishTool - 

DeZoneTool - 

Zone[Landfill||HighIndustrial||MediumIndustrial|Agricultural|HighCommercial|

MediumCommercial|LowCommercial|HighResidential|MediumResidential|LowResidential]Tool

- 

CenterOnCursor – 

Scroll[up|Down|Right|Left] - 

Scroll[up|Down|Right|Left]Stop - 

Scroll[up|Down|Right|Left]Once - 

RotateLot[CCW|CW] - 

Rotate[CCW|CW] - 

--- Others ---

Adv - unknown

Barstuck - unknown, maybe related to the RCI bars

Casper - ghosts appear on the cemetery lots

Snow - snow appears on the mountains (like with the Christmas easteregg)

Controllers - unknown

Effect - unknown

ForceIdle - unknown, maybe for letting the game running in idle mode?

HeapCheck - unknown

RP - unknown

toll - some sort of invisible toll booth you can plop on any network though I have never seen any income from this

StepAnimation - unknown

PauseAnimation - unknown

FullScreenRefresh – unknown

Compiled by Maxwell Black (FlyHigh for the community) from numerous threads from Simtropolis, SC4Devotion and from basic web research. Thank you all.

January 2010.

[meister1235 92]

very nice list FlyHigh

but i want to correct something:

at the csitrigger [LUA IID] cheat you linked to a thread over at SC4D and you said that you can find all lua scripts there.

I didn't found a list with the lua scripts there, i only found a list of all rewards.

meister

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

One more little amendment is needed.  When the command option is a name (e.g. city name) containing spaces the option string must be encluded in quotes or the parser will cut off at the first space.

[Mikeaut1 261]

Great work ! This will be a handy Omnibus article once its completed. I believe we already have an article of all SC4 Cheats on the Omnibus, but we can amend it and update it based on your work.

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

Some of cheats require that mod, though, so take note of that..

[Xander Dax 310]

hi guys i have the standard version of Simcity 4 (Pal Australia) and im looking for a money cheat and i have tried like 6 of them and none of them work

help???

[meister1235 92]

you tryed the

Moolah [Number (1-1trillion)]

or the

weaknesspays

cheat?

[Vahr 343]

Standard SC4 (without Rush Hour or Deluxe) only supports weaknesspays, and the occasional rare cheat lot. You're better off having RH or D anyways.

[Violator31 13]

Standard SC4 (without Rush Hour or Deluxe) only supports weaknesspays, and the occasional rare cheat lot. You're better off having RH or D anyways.

I cannot get the "Moolah" code to work for me.

My cheat procedure is a little time consuming = right after I establish a city I type in "riskymoney", highlight "ctrl = C" then I tape the "ctrl" key down I alternate the "V" & the "ENTER" keys until I get the desired cash (or carpal tunnel - whichever comes first).

....but, does anyone know why the "moolah" cheat will not work for me?

[CaptCity 4,915]

Standard SC4 (without Rush Hour or Deluxe) only supports weaknesspays, and the occasional rare cheat lot. You're better off having RH or D anyways.

I cannot get the "Moolah" code to work for me.

My cheat procedure is a little time consuming = right after I establish a city I type in "riskymoney", highlight "ctrl = C" then I tape the "ctrl" key down I alternate the "V" & the "ENTER" keys until I get the desired cash (or carpal tunnel - whichever comes first).

....but, does anyone know why the "moolah" cheat will not work for me?

Are you typing Moolah ### - no quotes, brackets, parentheses, etc? And a space between the word Moolah and the value?

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

To make moolah work you must have the extra cheats .dll in your plugins at its root (no sub-folder). the proper syntax is:

CTRL+Xmoolah ###RETURN

where ### is an unpunctuated number to reset the value of the treasury. It must be separated from the command by one space.

  Edited May 28, 2011 by A Nonny Moose  

[Violator31 13]

To make moolah work you must have the extra cheats .dll in your plugins at its root (no sub-folder). the proper syntax is:

CTRL+Xmoolah ###RETURN

where ### is an unpunctuated number to reset the value of the treasury. It must be separated from the command by one space.

Thank you.

I knew nothing about the download. It all works fine now, so I'm off to cheat my butt off.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

To make moolah work you must have the extra cheats .dll in your plugins at its root (no sub-folder). the proper syntax is:

CTRL+Xmoolah ###RETURN

where ### is an unpunctuated number to reset the value of the treasury. It must be separated from the command by one space.

Thank you.

I knew nothing about the download. It all works fine now, so I'm off to cheat my butt off.

Actually, what you are doing is using debug commands. Be careful because some of them are rather permanent. If you have enough money, you don't need to 'cheat', just build and try and stay in the black. If you look me up on the STEX, you will find a couple of cheat lots for power and water. They work together, and they kill your pollution almost dead.

[qurlix 20]

So I was browsing the vanilla DAT files and I found something of interest in a certain keyconfig file... a clue to understanding a mysterious cheat. Perhaps this has been found before (certainly others have browsed the keyconfigs), but I could find no reference.

WatchMeMove - Activates the ability to pause all gameplay animations (props, effects, lights, automata, etc). After entering the code press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P to pause and unpause. While paused, pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F11 will step the animations forward a small amount (a few frames?).

Frankly I found this pretty exciting, but I don't know if anybody will be interested in actually using it. The one thing I thought of was CJ makers trying to get perfect screenshots with automata. Now you can just step a few frames at a time until you have the shot you want.

[gamzdude 57]

tank you thank you so much

you are very smart

[Eʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ 273]

So I was browsing the vanilla DAT files and I found something of interest in a certain keyconfig file... a clue to understanding a mysterious cheat. Perhaps this has been found before (certainly others have browsed the keyconfigs), but I could find no reference.

WatchMeMove - Activates the ability to pause all gameplay animations (props, effects, lights, automata, etc). After entering the code press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P to pause and unpause. While paused, pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F11 will step the animations forward a small amount (a few frames?).

Frankly I found this pretty exciting, but I don't know if anybody will be interested in actually using it. The one thing I thought of was CJ makers trying to get perfect screenshots with automata. Now you can just step a few frames at a time until you have the shot you want.

Incredible, finally the mystery of WatchMeMove has been solved. By the way, I tried this out and its great for perfect screenshots. Great Find!

[Loki77 0]

has anybody used the 'forceidle' cheat yet?... really curious as to what this does... I've read a description that says it forces the game to use as little computer power as possible, I'm wondering if it will have any negative effects on gameplay, graphics etc...

sc4 tends to overheat my laptop, even on lower graphic settings... only solution I've found to this problem, is a homemade cooling system I thought up, which is propping up my lap top over a vent on the floor with 2.5 pound dumbell weights under each corner, works like a charm

only It means I have to sit on the hardwood floor, which is quite uncomfortable after a few hours

so if this 'cheat' could save me from having to do that, I'd be one helluva happy clam!

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

That's a debugging command and of doubtful use in an actual game. Your cooling system is probably the only salvation for a laptop because the lack of plenum space for cooling is one of the great problems with these machines. The CPU will run at 100% much of the time, and since it is single threaded, the rest of your system is mostly idle if you have more than one core.

[saubr 7]

hello to all you guys!

 

there is a plugin to manage the commuters?

 

thanks

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

^ You are in the wrong place and should not have tagged this on here.  Please ask again in Can't Find It thread.

[SimCityBestGameEver 1]

On 28/05/2011 at 9:52 AM, A Nonny Moose said:

To make moolah work you must have the extra cheats .dll in your plugins at its root (no sub-folder). the proper syntax is:

 

CTRL+Xmoolah ###RETURN

 

where ### is an unpunctuated number to reset the value of the treasury. It must be separated from the command by one space.

Its not working what do i do ;-;

[huzman 445]

If I may help you:
1. Ctrl+X to bring the console up.
2. Type <Moolah> or right click the console to find the Moolah cheat.
3. After the cheat in the console type the amount you want. Just the amount. Ex: Moolah 5000000.  This will give 5 millions. No spaces, no comas, no £$€ signs.

Got it?

[SimCityBestGameEver 1]

1 hour ago, huzman said:

If I may help you:
1. Ctrl+X to bring the console up.
2. Type <Moolah> or right click the console to find the Moolah cheat.
3. After the cheat in the console type the amount you want. Just the amount. Ex: Moolah 5000000.  This will give 5 millions. No spaces, no comas, no £$€ signs.

Got it?

Thanks! I gonna see it!

[SimCityBestGameEver 1]

IT WORKS! FINNALY! THANK YOU!!

[huzman 445]

You welcome

[$wag 8]

Geat Work Bro..

[PONKOTSU62 0]

On 1/29/2010 at 6:36 AM, FlyHigh said:

DrawPaths - shows automata paths on network items, useful for NAM debugging

Dont showme nothing when  i type this. Its a bug o something ?

[Gurning_Chimp 398]

Has anyone got Uncivil Disobedience working (one of the extra extra cheats)?

[Taz the Mystic 51]

I am not new to SimCity 4 but I am new to the NAM version.  I have successfully installed NAM and the cheats.  I can get the cheats input box by pressing ctr-alt-shft-x.  When I enter a cheat in the box like Mulah 1,000,000 and enter the box disappears but nothing happens.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

14 minutes ago, Taz the Mystic said:

I am not new to SimCity 4 but I am new to the NAM version.  I have successfully installed NAM and the cheats.  I can get the cheats input box by pressing ctr-alt-shft-x.  When I enter a cheat in the box like Mulah 1,000,000 and enter the box disappears but nothing happens.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

It's ctrl+x and Moolah 1000000