Tutorials

So you're stuck with The Neighborhood Handler, and don't know exactly what to do? Here are some tutorials for the main functions of the program.

Tutorial Explanation
Creating Back-ups This tutorial explains how you create back-ups from neighborhoods. The following functions is explained:
  • Creating a Back-up (Chapter 5)
  • Restoring Back-ups This tutorial explains how you restore back-ups to neighborhoods, so you can play it again. The following is explained:
  • Restoring a Back-up (Chapter 6)
  • Overwriting neighborhoods (No chapter)
  • Multiple Neighborhoods This explains how you can get multiple neighborhoods (up to 99) without having an expansion pack using The Neighborhood Handler. The following is explained:
  • Refreshing a Back-up (Chapter 14)
  • Starting The Sims (No chapter)
  • Creating new Hoods 1 This explains how you can make new (empty) neighborhoods with an expansion pack or The Sims Deluxe installed. The following is explained:
  • Creating an empty Back-up or Neighborhood (Chapter 10)
  • Creating new Hoods 2 This explains how you can make new (empty) neighborhoods without having an expansion pack or the Deluxe edition installed. The following is explained:
  • Changing Details (Chapter 4)
  • Copying/Moving a Back-up or Neighborhood (Chapter 7)


  • Related chapters (elsewhere in the manual, not tutorials!):
  • Chapter 5: Creating a Back-up
  • Chapter 6: Restoring a Back-up
  • Chapter 7: Copying/Moving a Back-up or Neighborhood
  • Chapter 10: Creating an empty Back-up or Neighborhood
  • Chapter 14: Refreshing a Back-up