Accidentally found a cheat menu?

[Maveric]

So I have a cat, and the cat loves walking on my keyboard. I usually pause the game when she does this when I'm playing house flipper. About 20 minutes ago, she stepped on the tilde key while the game was paused, and I got an "Enter code" menu.

Being an old school gamer, naturally one of the first things I tried was old cheat codes, and I found that "iddqd" would enable developer shortcuts.

I wanted to ask the devs if this was left active by mistake, or if I should keep hunting for useful commands? (Also "noclip" freezes you unless you're in photo mode).

[garyh2462]

The police are on their way, stand still, step away from the pc. You are now under arrest.

[KoalaGracie]

brb bout to go try this

[KoalaGracie]

does anyone know how to get out of this mode? ive made my game portugese

[Maveric]

go back to the tilde menu and put the code back in.

I didn't find the command to change the language tho

[Reczberg]

Finally, someone was able to find this after 3 years.
We were awaiting the chosen one. Good job Doom player! <bows respectfully>

Take my award!
(Oh, the buttons "," and "." change the language )

[Grefia]

I kept finding it by accident since day one. Finally! I know which key I'm hitting that does it.. lol

[KoalaGracie]

okay but what do the developer shortcuts do

[kwiatkowskim28]

Originally posted by KoalaGracie:

okay but what do the developer shortcuts do

Type "help" once you enable the developer shortcuts. That will give you a list. Everything from adding money to enabling skills.

[House Doctor]

Originally posted by kwiatkowskim28:

Originally posted by KoalaGracie:

okay but what do the developer shortcuts do

Type "help" once you enable the developer shortcuts. That will give you a list. Everything from adding money to enabling skills.

you can do this in your saved files too...you don't need the developers codes.

[misanthropy]

Originally posted by Reczberg:

Finally, someone was able to find this after 3 years.
We were awaiting the chosen one. Good job Doom player! <bows respectfully>

Take my award!
(Oh, the buttons "," and "." change the language :cozycrashfish:)

First day I had the game my cats ran across the keyboard and found it, but I exited out cause I was new and didn't want to cheat yet...that was before 15 houses and no sale to that twerp with his green, bed and desk to study crude.

[Nite69]

Originally posted by misanthropy:

Originally posted by Reczberg:

Finally, someone was able to find this after 3 years.
We were awaiting the chosen one. Good job Doom player! <bows respectfully>

Take my award!
(Oh, the buttons "," and "." change the language :cozycrashfish:)

First day I had the game my cats ran across the keyboard and found it, but I exited out cause I was new and didn't want to cheat yet...that was before 15 houses and no sale to that twerp with his green, bed and desk to study crude.

use a small house, knock out all the center walls, paint everything spring green, and then add the requirements thats how I got him working as the buyer

If I remember right it was the house that burned house is the one I got working with him

[SirCuddlesWorth]

Originally posted by Maveric:

So I have a cat, and the cat loves walking on my keyboard. I usually pause the game when she does this when I'm playing house flipper. About 20 minutes ago, she stepped on the tilde key while the game was paused, and I got an "Enter code" menu.

Being an old school gamer, naturally one of the first things I tried was old cheat codes, and I found that "iddqd" would enable developer shortcuts.

I wanted to ask the devs if this was left active by mistake, or if I should keep hunting for useful commands? (Also "noclip" freezes you unless you're in photo mode).

Snitches get Stitches, you weren't suppose to tell anyone!

[Cougarmint]

Originally posted by Reczberg:

Finally, someone was able to find this after 3 years.
We were awaiting the chosen one. Good job Doom player! <bows respectfully>

Take my award!
(Oh, the buttons "," and "." change the language :cozycrashfish:)

This is why I love House Flipper's Dev Team so much. They are just so super chill and playful. :)

In any case, I might try this out myself. The only thing is I don't want to lose my achievements or corrupt my save doing so, so I might start a new profile to mess around with this.

[Local Cinnamon Roll]

I've tried using the "tilde" key before. Does it work on an American keyboard? I'm a huge cheater in a lot of games and I need these cheats :P

[SassyJo]

Originally posted by Reczberg:

Finally, someone was able to find this after 3 years.
We were awaiting the chosen one. Good job Doom player! <bows respectfully>

Take my award!
(Oh, the buttons "," and "." change the language :cozycrashfish:)

Reczberg, is there a way to undo the "CHEAT" that appears in my profile now? I used the "cheat" codes to regain my skills and money after the Steam backup did not restore my HF files when I had to reinstall Windows from scratch. I lost several years worth of work, the 154 houses I'd sold, and the over $19 million I'd earned --- suddenly I was back to not having finished the game, with only $400k in my account and only 5 houses sold. Oh, and I also lost all progress on the Luxury DLC, which I had finished and had repeated some of the jobs multiple times. (I was NOT looking forward to having to go through and complete those jobs again one by one, especially Jessica's Mansion. That's two hours of work on that job alone!)

You can go to my profile and see that I have over 1600 hours in the game, multiple videos of houses I've designed, and I achieved all the achievements in the base game and all the DLC's except the Pets DLC because until a few days ago.

Since I used the codes to regain my $19 million (NOT the gazillions the cheats use, because what's the point of that) and my top-level skills that I had already legitimately earned, now the game won't let me get any of the Pets DLC achievements, and my profile in the game says "CHEAT-Katie-K." Boo! :(

I would really love to get the Pets DLC achievements, so if there's a way to turn off that part without having to lose all my progress, I'd really appreciate knowing about it. Thanks!