Sim City SNES - 951,200 Citizens (NO zone stacking!!)

[CescoPisicoli]

name of song?

[CristaliaMi]

...wtf, it cut me off. I used the $999,999 glitch, did zone stacking, and played on easy mode, but cut me some slack. I haven't played since age 7.

[CristaliaMi]

I just thought I'd share my megalopolis story. After several failed attempts (Aumsville, Origami, Sirius, and Tulipa), I wasn't going to let the city of Yoshi join the list of failed "forever a metropolis" cities. It wasn't looking good, either, because I had 430,000 people and was running out of space. I was desperate, so I had to resort to zone stacking. Slowly but surely, the population increased, and the city of Yoshi has peaked at 523,000. I still have a little room to spare, too. Yes, I u

[PESOPIXEL]

Forever Alone

[virtualboy2558]

What the heck is zone-stacking?

[TheZunar123]

@virtualboy2558 Zone stacking where you destroy part of a zone and build another zone in it. There is a great guide on it at gamefaqs.com.

[TheLetsPlaya]

Well its not possible he used debug. The debug menu wasn't discovered until 2009.

[thesnare100]

@TheLetsPlaya Unless you were one of the programmers who put it in the game

[redheaddavey]

I keep hearing people throw the words, "Zone stacking" around. Mind enlightening me to exactly what that is?

[TheZunar123]

@redheaddavey Zone stacking is a process where you demolish part of a zone and build another zone in it. There's a great guide on it at gamefaqs.com.

[panzer10533]

year 5051?!!

[eraider60]

Geez... I salute you, man.

[imtheonlysane1here]

In the category at :16 it say Megaroporis...does it always have that typo?

[tepples]

@imtheonlysane1here The #Engrish spelling "Megaropolis" is in the cartridge, and it appears even without cheating.

[ogicabp4u]

Ive got 700,000 with zone stacking...but without cheating (It says in the manual you CAN zone stack) with every zone connected with one another without using debug mode like you have.

[RespectMyHate]

watch my video popsicle masterpiece

[Bartalon]

His description claims to have reached 1,027,000 which is impossible because the money and population counter maxes out at 999,999.

[shaytalis]

Obvious hack is obvious

[999videogamefreak]

0:18 "Megaropilis"

[Denon3333]

That's an excellent city! :)

[geterdonein01]

Stupid bastards, how hard is it just to play the game right?

[kirokyukan]

Who cares if you used zone stacking or not, you still cheated your ass off.

[Roland9x]

.....

[mrsketch008]

this is an emulator hack or something. the railways are built on water, which leads me to believe you had an all water map, and used unlimited landfills and gifts to raise land value. the sad thing is, you still didn't break a million.

[Mikeys9607TE]

@mrsketch008 You can do that without cheating.

[mrsketch008]

@Mikeys9607TE how can you get unlimited landfills and use an all water map w/o cheating?

[Kwasi5179]

You can't. First off, I used land map 061 and a Game Genie code I created for unlimited gifts (ie: Landfills).

[mrsketch008]

thats what i thought.

[MrODOJ]

@Kwasi5179 no game genie required, go to the load save menu, choose quit, on the goodbye screen put in this code on the second controler:

left a right y up b down x select start start select r r l l

this will bring up the debugging screen and u can set it so you can delete areas that have water into regular land. remember to change the bottom option (memory) to set using the d pad, then press b, and reset the snes. u can turn any map into a no water map.

with no water the seaport works fine ;)>

[KaiserVadin]

Sorry buddy thats zone stacking !

[Kwasi5179]

Nope, all zones are whole... none have been built over.

[21DieselBoy21]

How many hours of your life were wasted because of this?

[Craplatte]

Well spent hours i'd say, this is a great game and lots of fun. Let the man do what he enjoys!

[21DieselBoy21]

@Craplatte I didn't ask for a crap latte, I asked for a good one!

[Craplatte]

Sorry, didn't notice :-)

[Jackd91]

^lol

[leeon5050]

you get land reclamation so you turn some water into land

[bmwsux4]

I've played simcity before; but what is zone stacking?

[MidnightWonko]

Low-level residential zones have only houses on them.  Once one side completely fills with houses, bulldoze the houses and you can build a zone on top of where the houses used to be. Now you can bulldoze the center of the residential zone to remove one side of the zone you just built. This is well used on utilities like power plants or airports to reduce their size but not their influence.

[Josyphilis]

debug mode - on controller two, after choosing " end game " option, hit left, a, right, y, up, b, down, x, L, R,R,L, se, st, st, se ... i think. Bulldoze WATER!!!

[partydude9999]

Ive had this game for over about 10 years now,and I finally got 1.5 million! This is a really impressive city btw! =D

[123TauruZ321]

@partydude9999 Without cheating, on map 61? How the hell did you do that???

[JohnnyHGT]

CHEATER!!! YOU JUST BUILT YOUR CITY OVER WATER USING SOME KIND OF TERRAIN XIT! SO FAKE AS your lies......

[Kwasi5179]

Enhance your calm Johnny

[JohnnyHGT]

Sorry Man!

[Kwasi5179]

No problem, God bless!

[zane757]

what is zone stacking? and what is the max population u can get?

[MrODOJ]

@zane757 1310700 for the population, then the count starts at 0 again, jumps back up really quickly tho :)

[MidnightWonko]

I think I see what you mean. His zones are all built next to underwater rail tunnels, and the single-tile up-down 'rivers' are too convenient to be coincidental (remember that water = improved land value).

[gjd4u2nv]

This is like Alex Rodriguez hitting 1000 homeruns and using steroids the whole time. so what emulator did you use

[Bebothereaper96]

emulators dont give cheats...but you can put cheats on them but its really hard to do. i have an emulator and they don't give pre-made cities either...

[bjornx2]

i've only reached 450k on map 000. well, that's good enogh for me, but any tips?

AMAZING city by the way! 5 stars

[Armalizilto]

If you exceed the 999999 limit or gotten to it, the entire game congratulates you by showing four Warrens celebrating in honor of you.

[Kwasi5179]

...you mean at the 600,000 mark.

[Armalizilto]

Oh I thought it was the 999,999 limit, thank you very much for telling me.

[mrdead7412]

what cheat did you use for this max land value

[Josyphilis]

My only answer, to his magician-like " I don't tell secrets ", like if he dies with the programming secrets, he'll be like AbraCadabra, is that he built rails over floods, after creating floods purposely. The water raises land value, so he used the million dollar cheat code, built zones into the correct pattern, initiated floods, coerced the water, built gifts next to industry to lower pollution, raise land value, etc.. but I still can't figure out how the fuck he go rid of water.

[mulletboater]

how come industry only %4?and why r roads in water? is it a cheat? if so u mite as well zonestacked anyway

[illrasta79]

I don't get it, what's the accomplishment if you cheat?

[Kwasi5179]

Cheating / tweeking, what have you... I get a rise if I'm able to bypass parameters in games... especially if I do it myself. Yay!

[Armalizilto]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

[bigme100]

whats a "Megaropolis"? Is this the engrish SimCity?

[wwwwwwwfe]

This game sucks and understanding the programming is indeed key. I assume the sequels are less contrived, but that's what I'm looking to find out.

[movieguy1985]

awsome

[CaptainArcaus]

It's quite painfully obvious that you hacked this city. All of your railroads are going through water, meaning you hacked all of your land (or used Debug, at the very least) so all of your property would be waterfront.

[Kwasi5179]

What's so painful about it? Yes, I created all the Game Genie codes to hack the game. Specifically, when you build railroad, it actually builds railroad over water. This land is actually map 061. I hacked the game for unlimited landfills, until all the water was built over, then took the procedures to painstakingly create everything else. Took quite a while.

[Mattwhizerd]

I envy you. WOW!!! lol

I had the feeling you used the unlimited refill, but I wasn't sure how in the world you got the water in the rigth place....Flooding it purposly, of course!!!

[tangram108]

@CaptainArcaus This is yet another example of a youtube user using misleading titles / descriptions. He didn't stack hack.....but using cheat codes is acceptable! Go figure.

[firewallsniper]

@CaptainArcaus ya i agree his a Cheater lol....

[Espresso337]

Holy cow,5051, thats big man

[movieguy1985]

Woa 5051?

[slayer8889]

what's up with the railroads?

[zazimasouck]

how u make fast money on this game?

[MaxOfS2D]

What's Zone Stacking?

[Crazyerics]

Zone stacking, as the name implies, is a technique of building a zone within the bounds of an existing zone. This effectively cheats the system into thinking that two full zone's exist even though the original has been reduced in size. This is commonly done by recovering a zone from a fire and building on top of its missing components.

[ArturikGDL]

completly hacked!!

[canecamillo]

Crime rated is squared ahahahah

[imtheviewer]

u only need 4% Industry to get that far?... wow am i fucking up

[Crazyerics]

He's dropped to 4% industrial from a previously higher value. Once the education value of your citizens is high, commercial zones rise in demand and industry drops.

[robbin182]

wtf its the year 5051 :P

[notyoursavior78]

Holy shit. None of us are going to see 5051 that's for sure.

[silentlamb21]

There is a map without water in the scenarios if you played through the 6 regular ones. Only people who never really played sim city through won't know this ;)

so NO.. this is obviously not a cheat.

[mouche2000]

I'm not agree...yes there is a map without rivers after the 6 scenarios... but you can't get any gift in this map but you can see gifts in this one.

So this is a cheat :)

[Skeleten]

I'm impressed. Obviously cheats are used, and in a few weeks I will be attempting to rival this...

[qwer2190]

Obviously cheats are used.....so do you !

[Skeleten]

I don't know what you're talking about

lol

[imtheviewer]

...lolz

[BrainDecrease]

the zones look pretty stacked to me.

[Saxes13688]

what is zone stacking????

[WILSONR86]

how did you get a map with no water? cheat?

[Kwasi5179]

There's only water where there is railroad.... yeah a cheat, but I officially created the cheat on Game Genie

[troy2000me]

Nice accomplishment based on cheating and using GG codes. So virtually worthless.

[Kwasi5179]

Please tell the ways in which I can EAT YOUR FACE!!

[Skeleten]

Hahahaha, what a reply...

[clov56]

I don't think your population density is high enough. :D

[DestroyerX61]

Why does it say Megaropolis

[Maciejzawadzki]

This is a great City!

I'm trying to reach the 500000 on map 61, but somehow i got problems. How an it be, that you have so few factories? i have more than you and still huge unemployment. Do commercial zones also decrease unemployment? If you have any basic tips, i would apprecaiate this :)

[LemmingsMaster]

It's strange. Assessed value is only 13 million (which is relatively cheap for a city of that size;) "megalopolis" is spelled "megaropolis", net migration of last year is zero, and the pattern of areas with maximum land value don't match the pattern of different zones or their sizes or the water/railroads. That would be cool if after the population reaches 1,000,000 the category changes, the music, etc. Does ? = LAND? Do the codes prevent people from leaving but not entering? A googolplex stars!

[Kwasi5179]

Thanks, I've learned that R's are much more sensitive for degrading than C's (part of the reason population remains the same). I've officially discovered many beneficial gg codes for this game, considering my fascination with hex to bin programming. Have any cool cities you wanna share??

[LemmingsMaster]

Sure. I've uploaded several Lemmings videos how to pass some of the levels and I have a lot of skill in that game.

[qwer2190]

I'm presently working on the smallest island of the game, im pretty sure i can make it to the megapolis level...40 % of land, no zone stacking. Soon will be uploaded

[weisson001]

WOW great! question, how did you do build over water?

[Kwasi5179]

Hehehe..... took many many hours of trial and error with the Game Genie

[maddiechristy]

i realy want to know...

[IAmAVeryFatMan]

...WOW! I couldn't even beat this with all of my cities put together (2 at one time, one has about 100k, other about 40k. deleted my 300k accidentally). put up a vid about your 1M city!

[kiltedanaconda]

Yeah it is easier to achieve + 500K on non-freedom level from what i have heard. you dont get ANY bonuses on freedom....unless someone can tell me how!

This is definitely the top city i have ever seen!! nice work.

[GaryGarratt]

That...is...insane! All I can say is very well done, my record is around the 580,000 mark. A mere mortal figure as apposed to over 1,000,000!! 5 stars!

[Imperar]

Absolutely mind blowing. This is more or less a similar degree to which I took SimCity 3000 by building the biggest.

Congratz to you- and good luck on breaking the +1 Million barrier.

[akadmin]

Now Japan will want to steal your population density secrets!

Watch for suspicious Hondas...

[akadmin]

Incredible city! I can't even imagine the effort that went into doing this. You are the undisputed Ruler of Sim City! I'd keep the codes secret... at least for a while, or until someone offers to buy you a ticket on Virgin Galactic.

[lookigotanewusername]

wow 950K no zone stacking thats definitely impressive i finally got past 500K my record now is about 555K no zone stacking no cheats minus the money cheat of course and on map 061 i also dare someone to beat 950 id like to see it

[qwer2190]

interesting interesting...two tumbs up for all your tops ! it would have be nicer if you have had let us see a little bit more of your city (all land travel) im sure the water beside the zones is helping to reach top level (still waiting for the code)

With your top zone technique and my zoning patern: «3Rc twine rails» you could reach

1 000 000 surly...

let's share infos between us

cia and nice job !!!

[Kwasi5179]

Yeah... probably true. Be sure to read the "About this video" ...ttys!!

[Kwasi5179]

One word: PAINSTAKING!! This Megalopolis has been tediously refined by means of trial & error and clever strategy for over a year now. Sure, the water raises land value, but there is MUCH more to it for achieving such development! I am curious to see the comments from all you guru's...

[akadmin]

How many codes have you developed? What are some of the effects?