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Subject: Mon in All SimCity 2000s
From: [e-mail] (Ralph Baumgartner)
Date: Wed,  1 Mar 95 10:49:00 -0800
To One and All,

I have finally found the elusive way to get extra cash in the windows
version of SimCity 2000.  Found this out after talking to one of the tech
guys at Maxis yesterday.

Generate a city in 2000, using any version of 2000 you want (dos, windows,
mac).  Do NOT try this with a city you import from classic - no matter how
many times I tried, I could not get it to work on a simcity classic city
that was converted.  Make sure that you have highlighted the icon bar on
the left side right before you are going to do this - seems to be a key.
Type the following:

buddamus

It seems to work only with caps lock off - lower case only.

Each time you do this, it gives you $500,000 more funds and turns on all
the rewards (mayor's house, city hall, statue, dome, and all the arcos)
without regard to the date or population you are at.  This seems to be
very much the same as on the mac when using porntipsguzzardo or
topsguzzardo (depends on which mac version you have).

Interesting idea for both pc and mac situations (for the mac, you luckily
do not have to switch as on the pc between dos and windows versions,
otherwise do the same):

Start a new city in 2000 for dos but do NOT do any building or other stuff
yet.  Type FUND and take the bond at 25% interest; repeat again.  Now open
the budget window and then the bond window - take out a bond.  The bond
offered will be at .% interest.  If it is not, you did something after
starting your city up which you can not do to get this to work right.
Accept the bond at .% and immediately pay back the other 2 bonds at 25%
interest ONLY.  Close the bond window and forget the bond window forever
for this city.  You will now have an income of over $1.4 million (pc) /
$1.3 million (mac) every year of your city's being.  Go a head and lower
your tax rate to either 1 or 0% - you will have more than enough funds for
this city for the rest of its life so you dont have to worry about income
from your citizens and they will more than move in.

Now save your city and start 2000 for windows and load your city from the
previous step (for the mac, just continue working on your city).
Highlight the icon bar on the left side and type the magic word for your
system for an additional $500,000 as well as all the rewards being
available.  The major item a lot of people would be interested in at this
point, it would seem, are all the different arcos.  Imagine building a
city with a date of 1900 and making all lauch arcos for the whole city all
at once???  I dont generally build cities with arcos but I know a lot of
people who just love them for the large populations.  So now the pc folks
have the same capabilities as the mac folks do for 2000.  Just repeat the
magic word for more $500,000 incomes real quick if you want.  If you do
the earlier, you probably will not if you wait a few years to build up
your funds.

Now you can either save your city and go back to 2000 for dos (for speed)
or just keep in windows and continue on your way.  Since I have access to
both 2000 for dos and windows, this seems a great way to go for cities
made in 2000.  Have not tried, but would be interesting to see what
happens with cities that used these ways and were imported to the other
platform (pc to mac or mac to pc).

Have fun and build lots of cities

[e-mail]


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 * WinQwk 2.0b#0 * Unregistered Evaluation Copy





Here are the codes you've all been whinging for...

Type in C-A-S-S to get a small amount of money, but beware, for if you type
it in too often you will get a fire storm (Hint: Just stick with the Double
F-U-N-D code!).

Type in P-O-R-N to hear a guy say "I can't get enough!"

Type in V-E-R-S to see what version of SC 2000 you own.

Type in M-E-M-Y to see how much free memory you have.

Type in D-A-M-N, D-A-R-N, H-E-L-L, or H-E-C-K and all you residential zones
will form into churches (Don't do this cheat, for there is no way reverse the
process).

To get 500,000 and all the rewards Click on the toolbar like you were going
to move it and then type B-U-D-D-A-M-U-S.

If you have a MAC, just type in PORNTIPSGUZZARDO and you will become 500,000
dollars richer! Do it as much as you wish.

Here are some cheats:

This works early in your city. When industrial, comercial, or residencial
drops to zero or into the negative, save your city. Then reopen the city from
FILE. After one month passes BANG, your demand shoots up. If that's not
enough for you, do it again and BANG, all three get another shot in the arm.

PHANTOM WATER PUMP TRICK
Here is a way to fool SimCity 2000 into thinking you
always have a water surplus and make those water shortage
messages go away. Before you add any water pumps to your
city, do the following:
1. Pick an area on the outskirts of your city and de-zone
   a 3x3 grid
2. Place a single water pump in the center of this grid
3. Connect the water pump to power
4. DO NOT connect any pipes to this pump
Now go back to building your city. Pretty soon you will
see the water shortage messages go away and if you open
your graph window and select water, you will see that
the line has shot up to maximum capacity. E-Mail me if you have any questions
or comments!

MAGIC ERASER
One of the undocumented features of Sim City 2000 is the
ability to "erase" a structure that you have built and
then be able to re-use that land space while still
retaining the population values from the original
structure.  I have been able to use this technique to
"erase" 140 Launch Arcos and rebuild over the reclaimed
land space. When to use the query tool, the sim still
tells you it "sees" an arco. Here's how you do it:
1. Make a backup copy of your city in case you mess up
2. Click on the water/tree icon
3. Select trees
4. Hold down the shift key and the left mouse button
5. Slowly drag the mouse cursor over the tiles you want
   to erase while continuing to hold down the shift key
   and depressing the mouse button.  You will see your
   structures "disappear".
6. Make frequent use of the rotate view tool to make sure
   you only erase the tiles you have selected
7. If you release the shift key or mouse button by mistake,
   go back to step 2 and start over.

To do this code you need a Binary File Disk Editor like Norton's Disk Editor.
 Open Up Your City File From Here and Go To The String Of 4 Hexidecimals that
looks like this:

00 02 4E 20

Change The 00 to a 7F which will give you $2,139,029,504.00 to your city's
funds.  And don't worry ... it's not illegal !!!

debugger menu--type "oigevald"

By Julius Roberts ([e-mail])





The Mega-Cheat for SIM CITY 2000 DOS!



Updated to include V1.1.



This cheat will give you $500,000 and all technologies and rewards.



V1.0:



You might want to pause the game first, to avoid being interrupted

by some event before you've completed the whole sequence.

Then follow these simple instructions...



1. Press Ctrl-F3.

2. Click on the Rotate Counterclockwise icon.

3. Click on the Resize box (lower right corner of City Window).

4. Click on the Status Window.

5. Click on the Population icon.

6. Click anywhere inside the City Window.

7. Pull down the Disasters menu and select the horizontal line between

   Riots and No Disasters.



V1.1:



Just type TORG.

Yo can also try typing FISH, but it doesn't appear to do anything useful.