Links

There aren't many Singles 2 sites out there in English (several in German and French), but this page is kind of obligatory, so here goes (all links open in a new window or tab, so make sure your pop-up blocker is turned off):

Deep Silver: the folks who brought you the game (the link is to the English homepage)

Rotobee: the website of the game's developers (it's in German)

Singles Forum at Deep Silver: Tips, Hints, Help, News and whatnot; be nice and they'll be nice to you

Singles 2: the official website; but the forums moved to Deep Silver's site

CafeMax's Singles Blog: She's the moderator on the English forum at Deep Silver - articles are in both French and English (just click the American flags if you're seeing French) - she's a very nice lady, so behave.

Singles 1: the official website for "Singles: Flirt Up Your Life"

FAQ at GameFAQs.com: sbermeister's Singles2 FAQ - it's incomplete, but covers Josh's story pretty well.

There are a couple of groups for Singles 2 at groups.yahoo.com, but except for a flurry of activity when the game was released, they've pretty much died off. Perhaps they'll come back up, perhaps not.

A note on extensions in general: All of the extensions that you'll find through these links come in .zip files. If you are running Windows XP, it will handle them natively and there is nothing else you need to extract them. If you are running any other version of Windows, you will need an unzipping utility. There are over 100 different unzipping utilites out there and most of them are free. Check out Shareware.com or Download.com, but make sure that whatever you get can handle .zip files.

Once you have downloaded the extension and uncompressed it, place the uncompressed folder into your \singles2\extensions folder and you should be ready to go (the Booster has a texture file replacement, but the rest don't). For furnishings, it has been my experience that these items never show up on the main menus in build-mode, but do show up when you look at particular categories. So just hit the appropriate category button(s) and you should find your new furniture. Clothing seems to show up without a problem. None of these extensions are native English, so perhaps it's just an oddity that involves the game's language files. Note that some of the extensions install new features and menus into the game and most of the ones from the German sites are in German. So if you don't read the language, you'll either have to do without or play with it until you figure out what it does.

Singles 2 Booster: Adds some new sexual activities, removes a lot of the nudity restrictions (in photo mode, for example), lets you control NPCs, and whatnot. The radial menus are a little odd (transliterated German, so the grammar might seem strange), but easy enough to figure out. Unzip it into your extensions folder. Tthere is one GameLogic texture file that has to be replaced - read the readme and the file is in the "_Diese Datei ersetzen" ("substitue this data") folder, but everything else runs from the extensions folder. You only need to substitute the new data file if you want the retextured genital areas on your characters. If is not something you're terribly interested in, you can skip replacing the texture file. If you do decide to replace the file, just rename the original and then drop the new one in. If you decide later that you don't want it, just delete the new file and change the old one's name back.

The file is hosted at http://singles2-extensions.kloss-steffen.de/. The site is in German, but the Booster is the only extension with a link that says "Download". The "Singles2 Booster Optionen" utility lets you turn cheats and features on and off without having the game running and will not work without the Booster being installed. Just unzip it into the extensions folder and then run the executable - nothing else to install, but you really do need to be able to read German to use it. Explore other extensions on the site: tons of clothing, retextured furniture, retextured eyes, clothing, and graphic utilities galore. Very pretty and very well done.

Bonsai of Life: this one is hosted in a couple of places, but I don't mind burning Deep Silver's bandwidth. Unzip it into your extensions folder, then purchase the Bonsai of Life (in Domestics and Appliances: Candles and Decorations) and place it somewhere that will be easy to click on. Add some quick money, experience points, skill points, manipulate needs and relationships, add other Singles as roommates, etc.

Character Changer: This is a great little utility by SteveXY, who hosts the singles forums at Singles-foren.de. The forums themselves are in German, but it's pretty easy to figure out what to click to download it. You will have to register a username to download it from the forum page (may take a few minutes for the confirmation email to arrive), but he won't spam you. Anyway, he's added a good dozen or so new female meshes (no males, sorry) and has done a mighty fine job with it. The utility runs outside the game and has German, English and French menus (click the appropriate flag to choose the language). It works great, but whatever you do, don't delete the character changer until you have restored all of the original characters or you'll lose them (it completely replaces the character meshes in the game folders). There is a third expansion pack that you can add. Unzip it to the \charchanger2 directory. The Character Changer is about 23MB (zipped) and the expansion pack is a bit over 5MB (zippled). Unzipped, they are a bit more than 57MB.

Many of SteveXY's extensions are also hosted at CafeMax's site. Since her site is also in English, you might find it a little easier to read the descriptions. Look for the "Triple Trouble" link under "Additions" on the left side of the page.

SpitfirePat's Singles Site: The link points directly to the downloads page where you'll find patches and extensions for Singles 1 and Singles 2. The home page is at www.spitfirepat-singles.net. The site is in French, but he's got some nice stuff in there.