SimCity 2000

More money:

Start a new city and type fund to issue a bond at 25% interest. Select the "Yes" option to confirm. Repeat this step to issue a second bond. Enter the budget window and issue a real bond. The interest should be displayed as ".%". Select the "Yes" option to confirm. Your city should now receive approximately $1 million per a year.

Press [Ctrl] + [F3]. Click on the "Rotate Counterclockwise" icon. Click on the resize box in the lower right corner of City Window. Click on the status window. Click on the "Population" icon. Click anywhere in the city window. Pull down the "Disasters" menu and select the horizontal line between "Riots" and "No Disasters".

Type imacheat to receive $500,000 in the Windows 95 version.
Kurt.

Shoot down helicopter (DOS and Windows versions):
Click on the centering tool, then click on the helicopter.

DOS version cheat mode:
Type the following codes during game play to activate the corresponding cheat function. Note: Some codes are version specific and may not work as stated.

Effect	Code
Display version	vers
Lose $3,000	porn
Pirate Squid Club picture	joke
Memory check	memy
Memory test	test
Residential areas rezoned to churches1	damn, darn, or heck
Gain $250 (85%) or disaster (15%)	cass

Note: Using the "Gain $250" code more than twice in a year may result in a fire.

1. Various other obscene words can also be entered to activate this cheat.

Some Alex Clay.

Effect	Code
Debug mode1	oivaizmir
$500,000 and all rewards	buddamus
Pirate Squid Club picture	joke
Start a fire	mrsoleary
Start a flood	noah
Stop a flood	moses
Start a nuclear disaster	gomorrah
Receive a military base	gilmartin
Gain $250 (85%) or disaster (15%)	cass
$1 million income per year	torg
Residential areas rezoned to churches	damn, darn, or heck

1. Select "Debug" for the following options : show version info, more money, add all gifts, add all inventions, melt down, microwave, volcano, fire storm, mass riots, major flood, toxic spill, graph kludge.

Scooter.

Effect	Code
$500,000, all rewards	imacheat
Gain $250 (85%) or disaster (15%)	cass
$10,000 bond at 25% interest	fund
Pirate Squid Club picture	joke
Receive a military base	gilmartin
Start a flood	noah
Stop a flood	moses
Debug menu	priscilla

Some KLEMDS33, Shaq485, and AcE911211.

View tile coordinate:
Hold [Shift] + [Alt] and click on a tile in your city. The x, y coordinates will be displayed in a dialog box. The coordinates are based on the tile grid, ranging from 0 to 127 (the grid is 128x128). This trick is useful when symmetrical cities.
Shaq485.

Erase objects:
Select "Trees/Water" and choose "Trees". Click to make the trees go on the city. Press [Shift] while clicking to erase things from your city. The population will remain and you can add more objects over the erased buildings.
daniel.

Create and change current game graphics:
Note: This procedure involves editing game files; create a backup copy of the files before proceeding. Enter the SimCity 2000 directory and the bitmaps sub-directory. Take off the read only attributes of the files to edit them as desired, but do not change the filenames.
Robert Essen.

Hint: Develop armed forces (Windows 95 version):
Enable the "Debug menu" code, and activate all gifts and inventions. If a disaster happens, there will be a military, but you will not be able to use any. Enable the "Receive a military base" code, then wait. When the base appears, you will be able to use the military troops.
Patriot376.

Hint: Space launch:
Accumulate a large amount of money and keep adding Launch Arcos to the map. Keep filling the map with them until see them launch into space. A message stating that you will be compensated for the Launch Arcos will be displayed. Note: This can be done in both the DOS v1.1 and Windows v1.0 versions of the game.
Alex Clay.

To see the launch Arcos fly off into outer space, choose to the "Load city" option in the file menu. Open the "349arco" file. Set the speed to "African Swallow" and wait. You will receive as much money as the Arcos were worth.
Ed Krug.

Hint: Baseless military:
Enable the "Receive a military base" code, then zone over it. You now have a military for disasters, but no missile silos.
Casey "Falcon".

Hint: Get Sims to walk:
Sims will not walk more than three squares for commercial, residential, or industrial zonings. You can get around this by building small two-tile roads every six tiles in your larger zones. You do not, however, need to do this for arcologies, police/fire stations, airports, seaports, water pumps, power plants, etc.
Casey "Falcon".

Hint: Unusual statue:
Build a lake with a marina in it. Make sure there is a two-tile extension of the lake. When a boat enters the farthest tile, bulldoze the entrance. The boat is now basically a permanent statue until you bulldoze the water under it.
Casey "Falcon".

Hint: Maximum prison security:
Build prisons on islands. Block their only access to the mainland by a police station. A separate power and water supply for the prison is also recommended.
Casey "Falcon".

Hint: Cave:
In "Edit New Map" mode, make a hill. Next, make a waterfall tile where you want the "cave" to be. Raise the water level until the waterfall is covered. Lower the water level back to normal. The result will be a single tile in the side of the mountain that is flat. 1X1 tile buildings and zones can be placed here.
Sayna.

Hint: Floating mountain:
Using the "Cave" trick, one can make a "floating mountain" by making every sloped tile on the hill or mountain into a cave. Zones and buildings can be placed here, but the result of building a road or power line onto the floating mountain will look odd.
Sayna.

Hint: Swamp or trees on water:
Make a small pond, lake, or river. Lower the water or sea level, then raise it back up to normal. You can now place trees on those water tiles. It works just the same if you raise the water level as long as you do not cover up the pond, lake, or river water tiles.
Sayna.

Hint: Hydroelectric power without a waterfall:
Note: This can only be done using the SimCity Urban Renewal Kit, which works with SimCity 2000. In SimCity Urban Renewal Kit, you can build a hydroelectric power plant on any pond, lake, or river tile and not just a waterfall. This is useful for saving space, because it allows for water pumps to be built completely surrounded by water (for maximum output) and a power source at the same time. Save your city in SimCity Urban Renewal Kit, then go back to playing in regular SimCity 2000.
Sayna.

Hint: Superhero:
If you decline to build a military base in your city, you may be assisted by Maxis Man in a disaster. He will fly around and attempt to stop the disaster.
Sayna.

Hint: Nessie:
Occasionally a sailboat from the marina will be attacked by the Loch Ness monster.
Sayna.

Hint: SimCity Two Cows:
In some versions of SimCity 2000, there is a different picture than the Pirate Squid Club picture when the word joke is entered during game play.
Sayna.