Comments on: SimCity SNES debug menu found

By: Judhudson

Judhudson — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:12:55 +0000

Amazing…I thought it came out in 92′, my mistake! I read your new section of the cheats on your site, nice breakdown I too would love to give it a shot on the Wii but I’m in the same situation – 1 controller!

By: pnaw10.com

pnaw10.com — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:46:33 +0000

Actually, it took more than 17 years to find… the title screen has a 1991 copyright date. According to Gamefaqs.com, SimCity SNES was released August 1991 in the US… April 1991 in Japan.

Pretty impressive, considering how Maxis and Nintendo both tend to be pretty open about leaking cheat codes.

Anyway, I’ve tested this on a copy of SimCity I have, and the Debug Menu definitely works. I just finished adding a brand new section to my SimCity SNES guide…
http://www.pnaw10.com/peters-simcity-for-super-nes-guide

Hope you find it handy… I’ve got explanations of what each feature does and a list of the songs in the Sound Test menu. Could use some help filling in some of the blanks, if anyone else tries it out.

By: Judhudson

Judhudson — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:34:41 +0000

Thank you, CM. I removed that line. I wish I had the game to try this out…Makes me want to head out to Play-N-Trade to see what retro consoles they have. I do have SimCity on the Virtual Console, but with the SNES you had that old feeling that I don’t get from the Wii.

By: cm

cm — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:53:51 +0000

“Normally users had to enable to cheat each time. ”

Incorrect, the debug menu was previously entirely unknown. A few sites online mention a code for a “debug mode” which is different, but it doesn’t appear to work on any versions of the cartridge.

By: JV

JV — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:06:14 +0000

HAHA, I also had a SimCity for Snes…
If only I still had it… lol