Developer Options

This is a sub-page of The Sims 2: Pets (GameCube, PlayStation 2, Wii).

Various debugging options and such left hidden in the game.

Create-A-Sim/Pet Options#

enable_clothing_catalog#

If enabled the CAS has all the clothing in the game available:

Gives a bunch of extra clothing options that normally aren't available in the Create-A-Sim.

disable_kp_unlocks#

Unlock all Kissing Point unlocks.

Unlocks all the pet items.

enable_costumes_editing#

If true, costumes configuration options will be available in CAS.

Lets you select any premade costume such as job outfits and pajamas, and edit it.

enable_sim_npc_editing#

If true, NPC configuration options will be available in CAS.

Lets you cycle through, select and edit any NPC Sim that exists in the world. It also cycles through pets, but they are invisible in this mode which is what enable_pet_npc_editing is for.

enable_pet_npc_editing#

If true, NPC configuration options will be available in CAP.

Just like above, except now the Sims are invisible and the pets are visible.

enable_random_pet_editing#

If true, random pet editor functionality is enabled (for Pet Purveyor random pets).

Lets you select and edit any of the hundreds of random pets that can show up in the Pet Purveyor.

enable_pet_breeds_editing#

If true, pet breeds editor functionality is enabled.

Lets you edit any of the default breed presets.

enable_grandparent_editing#

If true, grandparent configuration options will be available in CAS.

Lastly, a broken option that seems to have no other use, other than displaying the text at the bottom.

enable_cap#

Enable Create-A-Pet

And lastly two similar options that lock the game in only loading one of these Create-A-* menus, and not the other.

enable_cas#

Enable Create-A-Sim -- old Create-A-Roommate

Gameplay Options#

Developer Pause Menu#

A pause screen likely meant to be used by developers... Or just an early pause menu. It hides the HUD, lets you use an infinite amount of Simoleons*, and best of all - allows you to build in Town Square! Once enabled and paused, you cannot exit the menu, requiring the additional codes to manually enable and disable this option. If this code is enabled and a popup box shows up in-game while not paused yet, the game may softlock.

* Instead of keeping the amount of Simoleons unchanged like enable_free_items, it gives you the amount that you spent instead.

• R3 + UP / DOWN enables and disables it on PlayStation 2.
• Z + UP / DOWN enables and disables it on GameCube.
• C + UP / DOWN enables and disables it on Wii.

enable_all_objects_moveable#

If enabled all objects can be moved:

To accompany the previous option above this, none of the already pre-set Town Square objects are moveable by default. This option will "solve" that little issue as well.

disable_pet_wants_balloons#

If enabled allow pets to have a wants panel in HUD:

Doesn't show the pop-up balloons above the pets.

enable_pet_wants_panel#

If enabled allow pets to have a wants panel in HUD:

Lets you press DOWN on the D-Pad when a pet is selected, viewing its wants like you would for a Sim.

enable_player_selectable_pets#

If enabled allow pets to be selectable by the player:

Lets you move and control the pets yourself, instead of relying on their terrible AI.
This feature would later be introduced in the Sims 3.

enable_build_past_fire_code#

If enabled can build without regard to fire code:

May get really laggy if you go really insane with this option.

enable_3d_wall_fade#

If enabled the 3d wall fade system is used instead of 2d system:

Disables the fading walls that are near the currently selected Sim.

enable_free_items#

If enabled all items don't cost any money when bought:

show_selector_names#

If true, the build buy dialog shows selector names:

Shows the internal names for objects, as they're named in DATASETS.ARC.

enable_modal_dialog_timeout#

Used to let modal dialogs timeout for autotesting.

Makes every notification message with a button selection stay on the screen for only 1 second.

disable_object_highlighting#

If set object highlighting is disabled:

force_rain#

Used to force rain effects on:

Visual Options#

Camera Information#

Displays the camera position, its target position, current, maximum and minimum allowed field of view and the camera director state while in-game.

Rendering Information#

A somewhat broken option that's only present on the GameCube and Wii releases. The values always seem to remain at 0 (-nan) or 0 (nan), and maybe occasionally briefly flashing a value in one of the entries.

display_performance_metrics#

Used to display the fps and cpu.

Displays the framerate, performance and hardware usage in the top left corner. All three platforms display FPS and CPU stats, but PlayStation 2 also displays Ren and Vrt statistics alongside.

display_text_boundaries#

Used to highlight the boundaries on the TV where text can't touch:

enable_flash_bounding_boxes#

Enable colored bounding boxes used by flash text:

Miscellaneous Options#

skip_startup_movies#

If enabled the intro movies won't be played:

skip_maxis_logo#

If enabled the intro movies & maxis logo won't be played:

Normally this game doesn't show the Maxis logo, however it can be brought back by disabling this option which is set to on by default.

enable_sound#

If set enables sound. Otherwise sound is turned off:

As expected, this option is switched on by default but it can be disabled. Doesn't seem to disable all sounds though, a few still play.