The Sims 1 Re-Release Cheats List: Every Code That Actually Works in 2025

The Sims 1 Legacy Collection is back, and so is the original game’s unforgiving difficulty. Here’s what you need: press Ctrl + Shift + C in-game to open the cheat console, type your code, and hit Enter. The top-five cheats you’ll actually use are rosebud (money), move_objects on (object manipulation), set_hour (time control), autonomy (free will toggle), and sim_speed (pace control). All codes below are tested on the EA App version of the 2025 re-release.

Fair warning upfront: there’s over 25 years of accumulated Sims 1 cheat misinformation floating around the internet — forum posts from 2003, codes written for console ports, cheats from expansion packs that never made it into the base game. This list cuts through all of that. If a code isn’t here, it either doesn’t work in the Legacy Collection or it has no real practical use.

How to Enable Sims 1 Cheats

Open the cheat console with Ctrl + Shift + C while in Live Mode or Build/Buy Mode. A text field appears in the upper-left corner of the screen — type your cheat exactly as written and press Enter.

One small but genuinely useful difference from newer Sims games: The Sims 1 will actually tell you if a cheat doesn’t exist or if you’ve typed it wrong. The Sims 4 silently ignores bad inputs. Here, you get an error message, which makes troubleshooting much faster. If a cheat isn’t working, double-check spacing and underscores — move_objects with an underscore, not a space.

Cheats entered during Live Mode apply immediately. Build/Buy Mode cheats like move_objects on take effect as soon as you switch into that mode after entering the code.

Sims 1 Money Cheats

There’s no motherlode here. The Sims 1 predates that cheat by several games, so rosebud is your only money option — but you can chain it for larger sums using the ;! syntax.

Each ;! appended to rosebud adds another 1,000 Simoleons on top of the base amount. So rosebud;! gives you 2,000, rosebud;!;! gives 3,000, and so on. Count your ;! pairs carefully — it’s easy to lose track and wonder why you got 8,000 instead of 10,000.

For a truly obscene amount of money, just open the console repeatedly and enter rosebud;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;! as many times as you need. There’s no single “give me everything” command, which is honestly very on-brand for a game from 2000.

Sims 1 Live Mode Cheats

These are where The Sims 1 pulls ahead of its successors in terms of actual control. The sim_speed and set_hour cheats give you granular manipulation that the in-game UI simply doesn’t offer.

set_hour is more useful than it first appears — but it works differently than you might expect. Setting the hour forward doesn’t simulate the passage of time. Your Sims won’t accumulate 12 hours of needs decay if you jump from 7 AM to 7 PM. The clock moves; the simulation doesn’t catch up. That makes it genuinely useful for skipping to morning without dealing with consequences.

sim_speed is the hidden gem in this list. The interface only gives you three speed settings. The cheat lets you set any value from 1 to 1000, which means you can run the game at a precise crawl — useful for watching specific interactions or capturing screenshots without the blur of fast-forward. Default speed is 800, so anything below that is slower than normal, anything above is faster.

The autonomy cheat overlaps with a setting already in Options > Play Options, so you probably won’t need it often. But if you want to dial free will to a specific value between 1 and 100 rather than just toggling it, the cheat gives you that control.

The Move Objects Cheat, and Why It’s Not What You Think

This is where Sims veterans from 3 and 4 get caught off guard. move_objects on does not work like it does in later games.

In The Sims 4, bb.moveobjects lets you place items anywhere in Build Mode — clipping into walls, floating mid-air, stacked on top of each other. It’s a builder’s tool. In The Sims 1, move_objects on does something fundamentally different: it lets you pick up and interact with objects that are normally untouchable.

Practically speaking, this means you can grab and delete puddles, trash, or dirty dishes directly instead of waiting for your Sim to deal with them. You can also move furniture that a Sim is actively using — pick up a bed while someone’s sleeping in it, reposition a shower mid-use. The infamous “delete the shower while your Sim is inside it” trick from the early 2000s? That’s this cheat. We’ll leave the why of that to your imagination.

What it won’t do: let you freely place objects with no grid restrictions, build outside lot boundaries, or clip items through walls. If you came here hoping for that, it doesn’t exist in The Sims 1.

Is There a Sims 1 Needs Cheat?

Short answer: not a reliable one, at least not in the 2025 EA App version.

Sims 4 players are used to sims.fill_all_commodities or testingcheats true followed by shift-clicking a Sim to fill their needs. Nothing equivalent exists in The Sims 1. There’s no console command that instantly maxes out hunger, hygiene, energy, or fun.

You might find older sources claiming that using move_objects on and then deleting your Sim resets their mood and needs entirely. Some versions of the original game did allow this. In the 2025 Legacy Collection re-release, community testing suggests this either doesn’t work consistently or has been patched out — exact behavior unconfirmed across all household types.

The honest workaround? The game was designed to be managed through scheduling. If your Sims are constantly bottoming out on needs, the autonomy 100 cheat combined with a well-stocked home is the closest thing to a needs solution available.

Frequently Asked Questions About Sims 1 Cheats

Does testingcheats work in The Sims 1?

No. testingcheats true and its variants are Sims 2 and later features. The Sims 1 has no testing cheats mode, no shift-click interactions on Sims or objects, and no debug UI accessible through console commands.

Is there a Sims 1 cheat to unlock all build items?

No catalog-unlock cheat exists in The Sims 1. All buy and build items are available from the start as long as your household budget allows. There’s nothing hidden behind a cheat unlock.

Why does rosebud give §1,000 instead of the §1,000,000 I’ve seen online?

You’re thinking of a misremembered or fabricated variant. rosebud has always given §1,000 Simoleons in The Sims 1 — no version of the original game ever had a rosebud variant that gave one million. Use the ;! chain method to accumulate larger sums quickly.

Do Sims 1 cheats affect saves or achievements?

The Legacy Collection re-release doesn’t have achievement support tied to cheat usage in a way that’s been officially documented as of January 2025. That said, using cheats is noted in the save file — the same behavior as the original 2000 release.

Can I slow the game down below normal speed without cheats?

The in-game speed controls only go down to the standard three presets. For any speed below the slowest interface option, you need the sim_speed cheat — values between 1 and 800 all produce speeds slower than the default setting of 800.