Testing cheats in The Sims 4: the one switch every other cheat waits on

Testing cheats is a switch inside the game's command layer rather than a cheat in itself. Flip it and other commands stop refusing to run. Everything below is registered in the code that ships with build 1.126.73.1030, at the module and line named in the last column.

Every command registered in this section

Thirty-one commands, sorted the way the extraction returned them. Sort by pack to see what belongs to the base game and what arrived with a pack.

The misspelling in ui.dialog.pick_result_definiton_and_count is the game's, not a typo on this page. Type it as printed or it will not resolve.

Turning the switch on, by platform

Opening the console is the step that differs between platforms. The command you type once it is open does not.

The command is one line, and it is the first thing you type in any session where a cheat needs to work.

If a cheat did nothing, check this before you check your spelling or the pack you own. The command body calls the cheat service to enable or disable cheats and echoes back Cheats are enabled. or Cheats are disabled., which is why it is a separate step from the command that needs it.

How to read the table

Type

Type is the command type recorded in the registration, not a judgement made here. In this section every entry is registered as Live. Other sections carry commands registered as Cheat, and those are the ones most obviously tied to the switch above.

Effect

The shipped registration carries no description for any command in the game, so every filled cell here is our own sentence and an em dash means we have none to offer. That does not make the command fake or broken; the module and line in the last column prove the game registers it. It means only that nobody here has a sourced sentence about what the command does, so the cell stays empty rather than filling with a guess.

Arguments

The arguments column is the signature the game expects. Several entries here take a dialog id or a protobuf value, which the interface supplies while a dialog is open on screen. Those commands are reachable in the sense that the game registers them, but typing them by hand gives them nothing to act on.

Pack

Pack repeats the code the command is registered under. Four codes appear in this section: EP17, EP19, GP12 and EP13. This page prints the codes rather than pack names, because the registration does not name them and mapping a code to a shop listing would be a guess.

Two things the table shows that a hand-written list would not

There is a second switch

AutomationTestingCheats is registered in the same module as testingcheats, further down at server_commands.cheat_commands:51, and it takes the same single boolean argument. The registration carries no description for it, so this page will not tell you what it enables or whether it overlaps with the first switch. It is listed because it exists; the code does not explain it.

A third of this section is autosave plumbing

Six of the fifteen misc_options entries concern autosave: status, frequency in real time, frequency in Sim time, saving on travel, saving when leaving build and buy, and the save reminder. That is a cluster of switches for a feature most cheat lists never mention, and it is visible here only because the table is the extraction rather than a rewrite of somebody else's list.

What this page deliberately leaves out

Three things, all for the same reason. The registration line does not enumerate the accepted values for arguments such as <aspiration_track> and <affordance>, so this page does not list them. Players report the shift-click menu behaviour and the code says nothing about it, so it carries a community-reported label wherever it appears.

And the build-mode strings that other guides file under testing cheats are not in this table at all. Those live in the game's native executable rather than in the registered command set, which means a different kind of citation. They are documented where that citation belongs rather than folded in here under a build stamp they do not qualify for.

Where the rest of it lives

The full command reference by category sits at sims 4 cheats list, and the console entry differences for PS4, PS5 and Xbox are covered in more detail at ps4 cheat code. If clicking a value is more appealing than typing a command, ui cheat covers that route instead.