Revision as of 13:47, 11 September 2006

Hacks and hacked objects are items that change certain aspects of gameplay, for better or for worse. This listing also includes links to cheats and instructions for tricks that work similarly to hacks or hacked objects.

Hack Management

Not hacks or hacked objects, but programs and utilities to help you manage your hacks.

• Hack Conflict Detecting Program: Paladin at SimWardrobe
• Hack Detector: Clean Installer (As Clean Installer has not been updated since approx. Oct. 2005, it will not detect all hacks, but can help).
• Hack and Duplicate Scanner: DJS Sims

Aging and Time

Hacks and hacked objects relating to the aging of sims, life stages, and time on the lot.

• Add/Subtract Aging Days: BlackSwan at MTS2
• Aging Controller/Individual Aging: Heirloom Cake by Inge at SimLogical
• Individual Aging: Monique at MTS2
• "Real-Time" Clock: Merola at MTS2
• Lot Timer (the closest thing possible to allow time to pass equally on all lots): JM Pescado at MATY
• Time Correct When Returning Home From Community Lot: The fact that one can leave home at noon, stay on a community lot for hours, return home, and it's still noon has vexed players since the game was released. However, there's a VERY GOOD REASON it's set up like this... If Joe goes to a community lot and leaves his wife Carol at home on the lot, and Joe's gone for four days (as is often possible especially with community sleep hacks), what does Carol do while he's gone? What if Carol's pregnant? What if Carol's almost an elder? What if she's about to get a promotion? What if they have kids - do they grow up while he's gone? One can use the InSIMenator to change the day of the week, and OfB includes a cheat to change the hour of the day, so you can simulate a return home at the correct time with that, but actually making it the "correct" time when you return home from a community lot is extremely unlikely/impossible as a hack.

Building, Buying, and Lots

Hacks and hacked objects for build mode, buy mode, lots, and construction.

• Apartments: There is no known "apartment" mod. However, one can simulate an apartment by using a set of the doors listed below (under Doors) to restrict sims from other sims' apartments.
• Buy Clothes/Groceries From Home: Monique at ModtheSims2
• Buy Clothes/Change Clothes/Change NPC & Townie Clothes at Home: christianlov at MTS2
• Build More Levels/Floors: Cheat/Trick
• Build Walls Right Up To Lot Edge: Not hackable - only Maxis could make this possible.
• Change Lot Sizes After Building: Not possible with hack/cheat, but is doable, with the LotExpander. Make sure you back up your stuff FIRST!
• Contents of Lot Stay When Moving Out: Stay-Things Shrub by Inge at SimLogical
• Doors - Clothes Change (Everyday/Formal), Family-Only, Pay, Bathroom, and Student-Only: Inge at SimLogical
• Doors - Security, Employees Only Pre-OfB, Restrict Sims from Certain Areas: Inge at SimLogical
• Doors - Keyholder, Clothing, Gender, Visitors, Family, Sim Limit Per Room: tunaisafish at MTS2
• Glass Elevators: (OfB) macarossi at MTS2. Pre-OfB or for a different look, you can simulate the look of glass elevators (make a convincing-looking fake one) using Numenor's Wall Windows, Targa's Ascension Stairs, and some suitable walls/floors/a door.
• Larger/Smaller Lot Sizes: Mary Lou Sims
• Mirrored Floors: BitzyBus at TSR
• Reflective/Shiny Floors: Reflex Sims ($$$ site, floors free in forums, registration required)
• Residential-to-Community and Community-to-Residential Objects: Extracted Maxis Objects and Collections. Recommended is the Iconed Residential-to-Community collection by Loverat at MTS2
• Stackable Open for Business Stages: Not possible with a hack, doable with build cheats and tricks (though very limited in usefulness). See tutorial here.
• Wall Limit Removed: Hard coded by Maxis - Not possible as a hack. However, you can use Numenor's Unlevel Walls, in addition to your normal walls, to circumvent it.

Business, Jobs, and Finance

This content is focused on items and hacks relating to jobs, careers, finances, business (including Open for Business-specific or useful items) and money.

• ATM: Monique at MTS2
• Banking/Loans: Monique at MTS2
• Bills Paid Automatically: Paladin at SimWardrobe
• Business Controller (cool business macros): JM Pescado at MATY
• Craft Objects from OfB Buyable: Windkeeper at MTS2
• Customer Limit Adjuster: Paladin at SimWardrobe
• Donate Money: Monique at MTS2
• Elders Can Have Adult Jobs JM Pescado at MATY (no age discrimination)
• Employees - Hire more/any: christianlov at MTS2
• Jobs - Get any job at any time (including custom careers), get promoted/demoted: christianlov at MTS2
• Mannequins for Clothing Stores: Besen's, SimsConnection ($$$), Rado's Sims 2, Sunair Sims, CocoSims, sgoobysnacks at InSIM
• No Friends Required for Career Advancement/Promotions: TwoJeffs at MATY
• Pay Door: Inge at SimLogical
• Rent/Mortgage: Inge at SimLogical
• Send Money Order: JM Pescado at MATY
• Sleep on Community Lots (for Hotels): Squinge at InSIM
• Tenant/Landlord Hack: Monique at MTS2
• Many business-related tweaks and hacks: Squinge at InSIM (including hacks to make customers stop doing autonomous fighting, playing with their handhelds, and other stupid things they shouldn't do while shopping)

College and University

This content is focused on items and hacks for college, university, and young adults.

• Adjust Skills, Grades, GPA, Semester, Major, Time Until Final, Secret Society: TwoJeffs at MATY, Carrigon at S2W, JM Pescado at MATY
• Adults go to College: christianlov at MTS2
• College Interactions on Any Lot: Squinge at InSIM
• College Forever (7200 Hours till Final Exam Hack): Carrigon at S2W
• Dress for Class (switch to Everyday): Cyjon at MTS2
• Faster Pledge Time: Squinge at InSIM
• Give Non-Graduate the Graduate 6 Wants & 2 Locks, etc.: JM Pescado at MATY, christianlov at MTS2
• Lifetime Wants for University Careers: Squinge at InSIM
• No College Obsession (College wants for teens and their parents): Squinge at InSIM, JM Pescado at MATY
• No College Performance Warning or Performance Deduction: Squinge at InSIM
• No Dormie Classes: Cyjon at MTS2
• No Final Exams at Night: TwoJeffs at MATY
• No Homework: Katy_76 at SMB
• No Visiting Campus: Squinge at InSIM
• Synchronize Sims on Lot to Same Semester: JM Pescado at MATY
• Went to College Memory Adder: Squinge at InSIM
• Write Term Papers Faster: Squinge at InSIM
• Young Adult Lazy Slouch Fix: TwoJeffs at MATY
• Young Adult Without College: Squinge at InSIM

Reproduction, Relationships, and Family

This content is focused on items and hacks relating to pregnancy, impregnation, babies, baby care, toddlers, children, sim relations and relationships, and family.

See this subcategory: Reproduction, Relationships, and Family

Pictures, Movies, Stories, and Poses

Hacks, hacked objects, and just plain useful items to make staging the perfect scene easier.

• Allmenus On Cheat (enables all interactions at all times!): Instructions from JD-Movies
• Animation Overlays (Do two animations at once!): Instructions from JD-Movies
• Better Camera Control (Closer Zoom, see the sky, whole neighborhood, etc.): GunMod at MTS2
• Better Lighting, Shadows, Sunrise, and Sunset: GunMod at MTS2
• Create-a-Sim (CAS) No Idle Animations: Squinge at InSIM
• Colored Spotlights: jgwhiteus at MTS2
• Desperation Interactions: Squinge at InSIM
• Fireworks: Fireworks by Katy_76 at SMB
• Flaming Kareoke (Smoke and Flame Effects): Carrigon at S2W
• Glow in the Dark/Neon Walls and Ceilings: jgwhiteus at MTS2
• Machinima Production Tool (Paul's Reaction Tester + More!): ceedj at MTS2
• Miscellaneous Movie/Picture Hacks: Squinge at InSIM
• Model Walk/Facial Animation Changer: Shaklin (18+)
• Nightmare, Think About a Certain Sim (Thought Bubble), Remove Zzzzzz's: TwoJeffs at MATY
• Open for Business Reaction Tester (OfB animations on command!): JD-Movies
• Loading Screen Poses, Picture-Taking Poses, and much, much more!: Dance & More by Squinge at InSIM
• Prop Attachment Hack: Jixs at MTS2
• Remove Thought Bubbles/Plumbbob Pre-NL (Nightlife and later EPs have a cheat for this): Inge at SimLogical
• Rose Petals on Floor: Lethe_s at MTS2
• Sim Effects (Smoke, Flies, Light, etc.): Eric at InSIM
• Slap (No Stars Around Head): Numenor at MTS2
• Slap (Single Slap instead of Multiple Slaps): Squinge at InSIM
• Sky Projector (Colourful Sky): Oberkorn's at MTS2 and Cloud filter by CormorantEnt
• Sky with Cloud Effects (New Weather Atmosphere): chris997 at MTS2
• Smoking Cactus (Smoke Effects): Carrigon at S2W
• Smoking Musical Sphere (Purple Smoke Effects): Carrigon at S2W
• Smoking/Fogging Snowflake: Carrigon at S2W
• Special FX Wall Speakers: Carrigon at S2W
• Squinge's Miscellaneous Movie/Story Mods: Squinge at InSIM
• Standing Talk/Conversation Hack: decorgal21572 at MTS2
• Starry Walls: Xanathon's Starlamps at MTS2
• Throw Up Interaction Enabled: Squinge at MTS2
• Toddler Poses: Squinge at InSIM

Need help, info, and tips on making great movies and staging great scenes? Check out Sims99. Tutorial on getting great poses by wazza966 at SS2

Sim Stats and Modifications

Hacks and hacked objects to modify sims skills, personalities, appearance, etc.

• Aspiration Level Adjuster: Merola at SimChaotics
• Censor Blur Removal: Invisible Censor Blur by Quaxi at SexySims 2 (18+), SeeThem2 at SimSky
• Censor Blur Specific Body Parts: the Censorizer by interfect at SexySims2 (18+)
• Control Any Sim: Merola at SimChaotics
• Copy/Clone Sim: christianlov at MTS2
• Elders Don't Sag (Use adult clothing instead of saggy elder meshes): Motoki at MATY
• Eye Colour Change In-Game: Not currently possible as a hack. There are full-face makeup contacts for changing eyes.
• Interests Adjuster: Merola at SimChaotics
• Lifetime Aspiration Change: the InSIMenator, Sim Slice ($$$), JM Pescado at MATY
• Needs/Motives - Max/Adjust: MP3 at MTS2, Merola at SimChaotics' Multi Painting and Energizer Painting, HystericalParoxysm at MTS2, the InSIMenator
• Adjust Skill Gain Speed: christianlov at MTS2, Katy76 at MTS2
• Max/Adjust Skills: christianlov at MTS2, Merola at SimChaotics
• Personality Adjuster: Merola at SimChaotics
• Period/Menstruation: Smonaff at MTS2
• Rename Sim (First Name Only): the InSIMenator, Merola at SimChaotics
• Skintone Change In-Game: christianlov at MTS2 (Maxis shades only - a skintone changer for custom skintones is not currently feasible. When/if modders figure out how to do it, a link will be posted here).
• Smarter Sims/Better AI: JM Pescado at MATY
• Summon Any Sim: Inge's SimLogical Teleporter, updated by Jordi at MATY

Supernatural Species

The base game and each expansion have all come with a supernatural/odd sort of playable sim. These are hacks and hacked objects relating to them.

Ghosts

From The Sims 2 (Base Game)

Zombies

From University (EP1)

• Zombify/Make Zombie: the InSIMenator

Vampires

From Nightlife (EP2)

• Child Vampires: Not possible. There are no animations, coding, or textures for child vampires. You can use custom content to make some creepy vampire-like kids though.
• Vampires Bite Anyone: Squinge at InSIM
• Vampires Can Function During Daytime (Daywalkers): Carrigon at S2W
• Vampire Food: Fireflies at S2W
• Vampires Look Normal (No Blue Vampires): TSN at MTS2
• Vampirize/Make Vampire: the InSIMenator, testingcheatsenabled, tuffield2003 at MTS2
• Vampire - More Interactions (Kill, feed, etc.): Shaklin (18+)
• Vampires Walk Normal: Smonaff at MTS2

Servos

From Open for Business (EP3)

Werewolves

From Pets (EP4)

Vices, Violence, and Weapons

Yeah, it's depraved. You know you want 'em.

• Axe (Holdable): Carrigon at S2W, RoseSims
• Beer: Carrigon at S2W, FireFlies at S2W, Sim Slice ($$$)
• Bomb: Paladin at SimWardrobe
• Bow & Arrow (Holdable): RoseSims
• Chainsaw (Holdable): RoseSims
• Cigarette ("Smokeable"): Carrigon at Sims 2 Workshop
• Curses from Spellbook: Wintermuteai1 at MTS2
• Fight Whenever You Want (Regardless of relationship): sanmonroe at MATY
• Guns (Functional, Holdable, and Decorative): VampCat at S2W, RoseSims
• Hitmen: DMA Sims
• Insanity: Wintermuteai1 at MTS2
• Knife (Holdable): Carrigon at S2W
• Lightsabers (Duelable with Sounds): Shaklin (18+)
• Lightsabers (Holdable): RoseSims
• Poison Potions: Wintermuteai1 at S2W
• Suicide Potion: Wintermuteai1 at MTS2
• Swords (Holdable): RoseSims
• Voodoo Bottle: Carrigon at S2W
• Voodoo Vase: Paladin at SimWardrobe
• Whip (Holdable): RoseSims

Visiting

Tricks and hacks that allow sims to go for visits.

• Pregnant Sims Can Go to Community Lots: Squinge at InSIM

To Visit Residential Lots:

1. Load the residential lot you would like your sims to visit.
2. Call the sims you would like to visit on the phone and invite them over.
3. Use testingcheatsenabled to make the resident sims unselectable, and make the visiting sims selectable (make sure to leave at least one sim selectable the whole time while you do this!!!).
4. Conduct your visit as you like.
5. When you're done, make the resident sims selectable again, deselect the visiting sims, save, and exit. Easy to do, and works just fine.

To Visit Community Lots with Toddlers:

1. You must have Open for Business or any later expansions.
2. CTRL-SHIFT-C to bring up the cheat console and enter "ageSimsCheat on"
3. In live mode, click on the toddler. You'll find there's a new pie menu entry. Age them up to child.
4. Take your family to the community lot as usual.
5. When you get to the community lot, use the cheat again to age them back down to toddler.
6. Conduct your visit to the community lot.
7. Before you leave, use the cheat again to age them back up to child.
8. Return home.
9. Use the cheat one last time to age them back down to toddler.

Weather and Seasons

Though Maxis told us we were getting weather in the base game (and indeed left some of the coding in) it didn't pan out. However, many modders have created items that both unlock the (rather buggy) Maxis coding for rain and storms, as well as created whole new hacks to enable weather and seasons.

• Weather/Seasons: Sim Slice ($$$), Weather by Katy_76
• Rain/Storms: Carrigon at S2W's Chicken Hat & Weather Obelisk

Miscellaneous Hacks & Hacked Objects

Items which didn't fit into any other category.

Hacked Objects

• Air Conditioner: Sim Slice ($$$)
• Ironing Board & Iron (Usable): by Katy_76 & Smithycpl
• Laundry (Usable Washer/Dryer): by Katy_76 & Smithycpl
• Magic Wand with Spells: Carrigon at S2W
• Transporter/Teleporter: Paladin at SimWardrobe, Monique at MTS2
• Vacuum (Usable): by Katy_76 & Smithycpl

Hacks

• Enable Save During Special Events: the InSIMenator
• Flush Toilet & Wash Hands Every Time: TwoJeffs at MATY
• Jealousy Adjuster: the InSIMenator
• Live-in Maid/Butler/Housekeeper: DMA Sims
• "Military Time"/12 to 24 hour Time Fix: Pilot76103 at MTS2
• No Autonomous (Whatever): Squinge at InSIM
• No Swooning at Romance Sims: TwoJeffs at MATY
• Phone Hack (adjustable ringer, ringer off and more): JM Pescado at MATY
• Plants Require No Care: TwoJeffs at MATY
• Prison: Nectere (from SimLogical)
• Reservable Beds: Squinge at InSIM
• School/Homeschool: Nectere (from SimLogical)
• School Bus Doesn't Come/No School: Carrigon at S2W
• School Type/Grade Adjuster: Merola at SimChaotics
• Sickness Immunity: helloitsjoe08 at MTS2
• Sickness Meter: dizzy2 at MTS2
• Sleep in Any Outfit: Smonaff at MTS2
• Tuck In Anyone: Squinge at InSIM