SimCity 3000 Tips & Tricks

You will need to edit a game file for this cheat, make sure you create a copy of that particular file. Using your text editor to alter the "audio.ini" file in the "/game/res/sound" sub-directory in the game directory. Find the "SimCity 200 Theme" line in the file. Alter the numbers that follow that entry from "0, 0, 0, 1" to "0, 1, 0, 1". The music from SimCity 2000 will now accessible during the game from the preferences screen.

How happy your Sims are with your city (lower the better).

Crime level in your town (lower the better).

Flammability in your town (lower the better).

You need SimCity 2000 for this code. Make a city within SimCity 2000 using the "More money" cheats in that game. After accumulating enough money, save and exit the game. Start SimCity 3000, click "Load City" and load the recently created SimCity 2000 city. You will have the desired terrain with the money.

Build as much as you can at the beginning of the game until you go into debt. You'll receive an offer for a casino or prison. Most of the items you can get make your commercial sector suffer, but if you make the taxes in that area 1 or 2 percent the sector.

At the main screen, load a city created by the CPU. Metropolis is the best for this. Play with it until you get a lot of money. Next, pause your game, and destroy the city with demolitions. Save with the name you want and start playing. You will start with all the inventions, millions in money and a totally empty terrain.

You need SimCity 2000 for this code. Make a city within SimCity 2000 using the "More money" cheat in that game. After accumulating enough money, save and exit the game. Start SimCity 3000, click "Load City" and load the recently created SimCity 2000 city. You will have the desired terrain with the money.

To get everything for free including abandoned items, enter the "Powerplants" screen, then exit by clicking the "X". Then, go to the "Rewards" screen, and exit. Then go to "Garbage/Incenerators", and once again exit. Finally, go to the "Landmarks" screen. It should show everything listed from the game, including rewards, landmarks, farms, and airports except the things underground.

Services are the buildings found in the health, education, fire, and police menus. Remember that these buildings don't only cost you money to build, but also carry a monthly expense to pay for labor and equipment. Sims will have to hold out of the luxuries of having police and fire protection for the time being, since you don't have enough income to support these monthly expenses.