The Sims Tips & Tricks

PS2 version has a 2-player mode.

You can't have a second floor in any part of this PS2 game unlike the PC version.

All expansion pack items (from PC versions) are not included just a variety of items from expansion packs and the original.

You must remember that a character can fall out of love with your Sim just as quickly as he falls in love. Also, beware of jealous lovers as they can get ugly if you flirt in a crowded room where it's difficult to keep track of existing lovers. When you aren't working on a relationship, look around the room and take one of your opponent's sweeties. In Taylor's Place (2-player) after a love queen is crowned, all the guy races to the stereo and starts stripping to the music. The losing party will become depressed since she will be the only one with clothes on and suddenly has no boy toys (Jimmy Eat World Video without the happy ending).

This trick can be one in Get A Life and Play The Sims modes. If something breaks down and your Sim is too depressed to study Mechanics, simply sell it and buy a new one. REMEMBER: If fixing the object is one of your goals, this will not work.

This trick only works in Play The Sims mode. If you do not want to pay your bills, evict your family from the house every two days then move them back in.

Easy money? It\'s never been easier than having Freeall on and moving your family into an empty lot. Once you do that, you buy tons of the most expensive stuff and move out. Your assets will be liquidated, you\'ll have tons of money, and you can buy that crazy dream house you\'ve built buy can\'t get anyone rich enough to more into.

In buy mode, sell anything which isn't a necessity, until you are over $800.

Prevent a thief from escaping in Get A Life mode to unlock the Life Of Crime career path in all modes.

Upon evicting a family their moods go up immediately after you move into another house. Once you get in a house, study, work out, and on & on.


When your energy or any other stats get low, evict yourself from the house. Reenter the house and all your stats will return to defaults.

If you do not want your child to go to school and do not want to keep hearing the bus honk every few seconds, just let your child stand in the middle of the road where the bus waits everyday. Then the bus will not appear, and your child will not go to school.

Call Major Dormo, then put a fence around his tree house after he leaves it. He will remain with you much longer, but will still eventually disappear.