Developer Options

This is a sub-page of The Urbz: Sims in the City (GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox).

To do: There's likely more options to come!

Hidden in the executable are many different options meant to be used by the developers while testing the game.

The ASIA column is prefixed with (J) for the Japanese version (SLPM-65807), (K) for the Korean version (SLKA-25099), and (A) for the Rest-of-Asia version (SLAJ-25052).

Create-An-Urb Options#

enable_npc_editing#

If true, extra character configuration options will be available in CAS.

Note: The Japanese version requires two codes to avoid a hang caused by attempting to render malformed Unicode characters in an attempt to convert to ASCII.

Unlocks all clothing/tats/hair/accessories, options not available normally including un-used, and specific NPC outfits.

If NPC is loaded, and you exit the clothing store, you will have their appearance.

Unavailable NPCS & Clothing: Captain Catastrophe, Slim Freddie (Robot Street Performer, Scotty Almost/Bouncer are objects)

If cheat active before initial Sim Creation, this will display only NPC faces as the available options. Includes Darius, Officer Sludge, Bobo, Black Eyed Peas, and many more for Male. Female faces are limited to 2 options including Fergie (possibly also Kiki?).

Does not add unincluded sections to stores (for example piercings). Does not add clothing selection to CAS (but you can load NPC).

R1 loads the next NPC: (R on NGC. No R2 to save on NGC)

Character 1 and Character 2 are pre-filled with the default female sim. One is named "Chris Newbie".
Character 3 and Character 4 are pre-filled with the female from the trailer and beginning cinematic, "Jayde".
NPC Named Ghost looks a lot like S.A. Loco, with lighter skin.

NPCs not included:

• Darius (face available)
• Robot Street Performer (is an object)
• Kiki Blunt (all items available)
• Harry Snivel (all items available)
• Urangoo McBain (tattoo not available?)
• Officer Sludge (all items available)
• Scotty Almost (is an object)

All clothing items for all characters are available, aside from clothes belonging to unique size/shape characters such as: Darius, Robot Street Performer, Slim Freddie, Captain Catastrophe, Bobo Hobo and Scotty Almost.
It is possible some un-used clothing exists, and it can be noted that its subculture will read "Nobody" if "cas_extra_debug_info" is enabled.
There are at least a dozen in-accessible options in the following sections, and at least 3 un-used outfits: Shirt, Pants, Hats, Hair, Shoes
There are no un-used tattoos, piercings, beards, makeups, glasses, or belts. There are un-used 3 bracelets, at least 1 of those being bugged sunglasses.

enable_default_as_male#

If enabled CAS starts off with a male character as default.

enable_cas_extra_debug_info#

Enable the availability of extra CAS debugging info, including subculture affiliation and the L1 debug menu.

Lets you go through 5 pages worth of debugging information for the currently selected Urb.

Subculture values are as follows:

Gameplay Options#

enable_edith_debug_interactions#

If enabled all edith interactions flagged as debug only will be available.

Enables various debugging options primarily for the Cheat Gnome, but also for various objects and Urbz.

--Objects

• Break Bulb
• Force Fire
• Break
• Make Dirty
• Debug Meals
• Make JJ Appear
• Job Levels
• Cash Register Give Powersocials

--Urbz

• Show Needs

--Cheat Gnome

• Sim
  • Kill Sim (Captain Catastrophe!)
  • Lower All Motives (Min Motives)
  • Make Sim Visitor
  • Kill em all (Captain Catastrophe!)
  • Fill Everything (Max Motives)
  • Make Me Hate Everyone And Be Miserable
  • Force Attack ??
  • Make everyone selectable
  • Complete All Goals (All Current Goals)
• Change Subculture ??
• Do I Exist? ??
• Toggle Sanity Checks (Find Sims w/ Autonomy >50? Performs frequent Dialog boxes describing things about a sim?)
• Send XAM Message (Test all XAM Messages)
• Time (Adv, Morning, Noon, 4:20, Night)
• Degub Actions...
  • Enable Social Choice Dialog (Choose Success or Fail of Social Interactions)
  • Show All Dialogs (Test All Story Dialog Boxes)
  • Turn On All Lights (Turn All Lights on lot)
  • Disable Social % Dialog (X is no longer your friend)
  • Test Job HUD (Shows job needs)
  • Goto CAS (New UI only) (CRASHES ON EXIT!!!)
  • Enable Social % Dialog (X is no longer your friend)
• Debug Actions
  • Disable Social Choice Dialog (Dont Choose Success or Fail of Social interactions)
• Create (Bulldog, HouseCat, Repoman, Monkey)
• Relationship Particles (test Hearts/Anger/Star Particle Effect)
• PopBalloon (test Thought Balloon Particle Effect)

enable_all_player_cheats#

If enabled, gnome is revealed and all player cheats are enabled.

Cheat Gnome:

• Max Motives
• Give Sim Money ($9999)
• Max Physical Skill
• Max Artistic Skill
• Max Mental Skill
• Unlock All Districts
• Unlock All Socials
• Jump Ahead 6 Hours
• Give All Powersocial Items
• Reputation... (Add or Sub)
• Skill Objects... (All 3, Upgrades)

enable_object_catalog#

If enabled the inventory has all the objects in the game available.

Can Not "Put In Inventory" With this active. Does not permanent break inventory.

Can browse pages using L1 and R1 within categories. Many unintended items will become permanent , or in multiple places. Save Often when using this.

--Items Inventory

• Categories
  • -Misc (Wardrobes, Exits, Unique Items, Bouncer, Dumpster, Bar, Jobs)
  • -Power Socials & Skill Equipment
  • -Decor & Visual Effects (Traffic)
  • -Electronics (Stereos, Cars, Vending Machines, Cash Register)
    • CASH REGISTER HAS ALL PURCHASABLE ITEMS
  • -Appliances (Stoves, BBQs, Printing Press, Small Appliances)
  • -Lights, Clothes Stores, Effects
    • CLOTHES STORES DON'T WORK. THIS ELEVATOR DOES WORK
  • -Surfaces
  • -Seating / Bedding
  • -Plumbing (Flies Swarm, Fountains)

--Build Inventory

• Categories
  • -Walls (Bars, Fence, Wooden Fence mis-labeled)
  • -Wallpapers
  • -Flooring (edit-oggler tile included!)
  • -Doors (THIS elevator doesn't work)
  • -Windows (Fence can't be moved without enable_all_objects_moveable)

enable_unlock_all_xam_items#

If enabled all ringtones and xam skins appear in the xam.

enable_all_objects_moveable#

If enabled all objects can be moved.

Visual Options#

Camera Information#

Rendering Information#

Lists a bunch of options related to rendering on-screen, but the values seem to always remain at 0 (NaN). This is only available in the GameCube version.

display_performance_metrics#

Used to display the FPS and CPU.

Displays stats about the hardware usage. All three systems at minimum display FPS and CPU counters, but PlayStation 2 also displays Ren and Vrt stats along with it and GameCube displays a whole heap of memory usage statistics, albeit non-functional for the most part, as it always stays at zero, just like enable_display_mem_usage.

enable_display_mem_usage#

Used to display the amount of current free memory, largest free memory block, size of the last save games and the percent of available space used by the save game.

While it displays the overlay properly most of the time, the actual values aren't updated and always stay at zero.

enable_display_anim_names#

Used to display the current animations being played. Warning: doesn't work on PS2 currently.

Despite the cheat subtitle saying it doesn't work on PlayStation 2, this does work on all three platforms. It displays the last 5 animations that were played.

enable_test_text_screen#

Enable to get text test screen instead of main menu.

Displays test text on the main menu (instead of replacing it) that differs depending on the currently selected language. Some languages such as British English don't have any test text string.

The text is also for the most part hidden behind the Urbz logo, the strings below are extracted from the game's data (urbzui\NewUIStrings\test_text). They're left fully intact, with their parameters and all to get an idea of what effect a specific section of the string would have.

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.

Skips the EA logo and the opening video. Doesn't skip the Maxis logo, though.