Empty Strangetown and Veronaville Templates

[Emma]

I made these for a small project I am planning to do and thought I'd share.

Installation Instructions for Empty Strangetown (N002) & Veronaville (N003). This only affects *brand new* Strangetowns & Veronavilles, not any already being played.
To generate new unplayed Maxis 'hoods, backup, then delete the 'Sims 2' folder in C:\Documents\EA Games.
Note: This works with all versions of the game-including just the base game. You may need to restore backups before installing any EPs or Patches.

Instructions in brackets are for Veronaville.

Open C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\UserData\Neighborhoods
Make a backup of the N002 (N003) folder by either zipping it into a zip folder or renaming to N002.bak. (N003.bak)
Open the N002 folder. Delete everything inside the Characters folder and delete the file N002_Neighborhood.package (N003_Neighbourhood.package)
Unzip the downloaded file, which is N002_Neighborhood.package (N003_Neighbourhood.package) . Place this into the N002 (N003) folder.
To uninstall delete the modified N002 (N003) folder and restore your backup.

For other clean and empty templates, visit this thread at MATY; http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,4306.0.html
Recommended: All by SaraMK: Empty U001, U002 & U003 (university), Empty P001 (pets), Empty D001 (nightlife),
                       Empty B001 (open for business), Empty G001 and G002 (seasons)
                       By Argon:  argon_BV-ocd (Empty V001, A001, T001, M001 - Bon Voyage)
                       You may also need this Vacation Local Fix for BV: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,9684.0.html

For best results follow Jordi's tutorial at MATY for Clean Custom Neighbourhoods and Townie Creation:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,5861.0.html

Thanks go to:

SaraMK for her tutorial on creating Clean and Empty Templates:
http://www.geocities.com/saramkirk/nhoods/nhoods.html and her instructions for installing.

Numenor for BaseGameStarterPro and AnyGameStarter, very useful!
http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=107015 & http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=250555

SimPe:
http://sims.ambertation.de/

Argon, for the inspiration to do this thing myself!

Download Empty Strangetown
Download Empty Veronaville
Each empty hood contains installation instructions.

I hope these will be useful for others

[baratron]

Thank you! I saw SaraMK & Argon's Templates, but also noticed they only included N001. I'm currently making a new EA Games\The Sims 2 folder for testing stuff separate from my main game, and I need it to be as small as possible.

I seem to have got it down to 252 MB, which is a win .

[Lord Darcy]

Download Empty Strangetown & Empty Veronaville Seperate download for each empty hood and both contain installation instructions.

Sorry for necro-ing, but the 4shared link in the first post is now dead. Emma, would you please reupload them?

[Emma]

Sorry, I forgot I moved them to a different folder Links fixed!

[Lord Darcy]

Thank you for fixing the link.