SimCity 2000 cheat patch -- anyone remember it?

[This Does Not Compute]

It's perhaps no secret that I'm a huge fan of SimCity 2000. I remember long ago having a cheat patch that could be applied to the application that maxed out your budget to something like $10 million, and also unlocked *everything*. This was *not* the porntipsguzzardo cheat code, it was definitely a patch for the SimCity program itself and didn't need to be invoked after it was installed. I've had no luck finding it again (the Zip disk I stored it on forever ago is long gone, and the usual Mac download sites don't have it), so I'm curious if anyone else remembers this and maybe has a copy?

 

[Kai Robinson]

Hmm - it's not either of these, is it?

http://websites.umich.edu/~archive/mac/game/gameutil/simcitybank.cpt.hqx

http://websites.umich.edu/~archive/mac/game/gameutil/simcitydollarspatch1.1.cpt.hqx

I do remember how to edit the DOS version, using debug:

debug newcity.sc2

e 127 7f
w
q

 

[eric]

Maybe this?

http://ftp.vim.org/ftp/ftp/infomac/game/com/

(found via googling sim city 2000 cheat hqx)

 

[This Does Not Compute]

Hmm - it's not either of these, is it?

http://websites.umich.edu/~archive/mac/game/gameutil/simcitybank.cpt.hqx

http://websites.umich.edu/~archive/mac/game/gameutil/simcitydollarspatch1.1.cpt.hqx

I tried both of those files, but they just extract to .cpt files. Not sure what to do with them?

View attachment 1657

Maybe this?

http://ftp.vim.org/ftp/ftp/infomac/game/com/

(found via googling sim city 2000 cheat hqx)

This is getting me closer. After going through StuffIt Expander Hell (forgot I didn't have both older and newer versions on my SheepShaver disk) and patching the program, it's indeed giving me the (almost) $10 million I remember:

Bummer is, it didn't unlock everything (archologies, etc). Reading through the notes, it looks like this patch was written by someone else after it was found that the original one didn't work on anything newer than SimCity 2000 1.0 (which I do remember being a requirement long ago -- in fact, I think I kept both the patched 1.0 and normal 1.2 versions on my machine, so I could start a city with the money/items, then reopen it in 1.2 to avoid all the crashing/bugs). I wonder if the author of this 1.1 patch didn't remember to unlock the items too (or it wasn't a priority), or if I'm somehow remembering all of this wrong.

 

[benfranske]

I played SC2K only on PC. Does the Mac version not have the cheat codes that open up a Debug menu which you can use to activate everything and continue adding money? Just something you type into the game? I think depending on version it was OIVAIZAMIR or PRISCILLA on the PC version. I have an SC2K Power, Politics, and Planning guide around somewhere that has a bunch of cheat codes listed. I'll have to try and dig it out.

 

[Bolkonskij]

Don't know of that debug mode. Wasn't even aware of that patch. But there's the FUND cheat as I've documented here on my Mac OS cheats emporium that keeps pouring "investment money" into city

For special nostalgia flash, open the above page from *within* your sheepshaver Mac OS install using some version of Netscape 3 or 4 or whatever

 

[rjkucia]

Not to hijack this thread (but actually doing it anyways), but do you know what the minimum specs are for SimCity 1 & 2000 on 68k? I've been having trouble finding them and I was hoping to try out at least 1 on my SE but there seem to be a lot of re-releases of each of them.

 

[Bolkonskij]

On your SE you'll want to play the original b&w Mac release, first download here:

http://macintoshgarden.org/games/simcity

As for Sim City 2000, we used to run it on our family LC back in the day! It became painfully slow when the city grew (i remember waiting a minute or so for changing the view angle) but it worked! But I'd say a fast 68030 Mac really is what you want as a minimum.

 

[viking272]

I'm not sure on the Mac version but my old Atari ST version had MONEY in caps ... which would add $10,000
It seems each version has different cheats....fund comes up quite a lot for the Mac version though.