SimCity 3000 Extra Cheats DLL Plugin

[Null 45 3,048]

A DLL Plugin for SimCity 3000 that adds new cheat codes.

Cheat Name	Arguments	Description
dotcom	none	Adds 1 million simoleans to the city funds.
moolah	<number>	Sets the total city funds to the specified value.
SimDate	<month> <day> <year>	Sets the in-game date to the specified value, e.g. SimDate 1 1 1840.

The moolah cheat argument can be either a positive or negative number, e.g. moolah 2000000 or moolah -100000.
The SimDate cheat has a minimum date of 1 1 0001, but it displays the leading zeros in the year as spaces.

The dotcom cheat is a port of a Maxis developer cheat that was left in the Linux version of SimCity 3000.
The moolah and SimDate cheats are ports of the Maxis developer cheats from SimCity 4.

Download: https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/36338-SimCity-3000-extra-cheats-dll-plugin/

Source Code: https://github.com/0xC0000054/sc3k-extra-cheats

Installation

1.  Close SimCity 3000.
2. Place SC3KExtraCheats.dll in the Apps folder in the installation directory (the folder that contains the SimCity 3000 executable).
3. Start SimCity 3000.

If you would like to make voluntary contributions to support me in continuing to create more content for SimCity 3000, I accept donations via PayPal: https://paypal.me/0xC0000054

Thanks to the few people who have donated to me.

[CorinaMarie 29,619]

Looks delightful! Thanks so much for all you contribute to the games!

[The Thinker 479]

Oooh!  May have to try this out, experiment a bit...

 

Questions: With the date cheat, are there be any deleterious effects for setting the calendar to before the year 1900?  Or is it just a case of having to wait a bit longer for any technological advances?

[Null 45 3,048]

6 hours ago, The Thinker said:

Questions: With the date cheat, are there be any deleterious effects for setting the calendar to before the year 1900?  Or is it just a case of having to wait a bit longer for any technological advances?

Cori tested this a few years ago using a hex edited city save file, and it appeared to work fine:

On 6/10/2017 at 6:10 PM, CorinaMarie said:

Yep. Surprisingly I can plop either Coal or Oil Power Plants. (I'm letting it run with a population of 276 to see if it goes goofy cause of the date change. Tis July, 1493 now and all is well.)

[The Thinker 479]

Just given this a bit of test run, and I've noticed an interesting affect.  Ran the "SimDate" cheat in a freshly created city, calendar date changed accordingly, but I noticed that the news ticker started displaying the fluff messages that it usually shows whilst the simulator is running, despite the simulator being paused.  Same thing happened with a random already established city.

Phenomenon doesn't occur with either of the money cheats.

[Null 45 3,048]

1 hour ago, The Thinker said:

Just given this a bit of test run, and I've noticed an interesting affect.  Ran the "SimDate" cheat in a freshly created city, calendar date changed accordingly, but I noticed that the news ticker started displaying the fluff messages that it usually shows whilst the simulator is running, despite the simulator being paused.  Same thing happened with a random already established city.

I noticed that as well. It looks like the cSC3City::SetDate command has some side effects when the game is paused, not sure why that is.