Change Characters Relationships and Names

I will show you how easy it is to change characters relationship to the main character (change "landlord" to "mother" or "roommate" to "♥♥♥ slut") and even change their names, without downloading any files or mods.

Guide

This guide explains the steps for Windows operating systems. The process will be the almost exactly the same for Mac, Unix, Android, but I won't help you with that. Google it.

1. Go to your Steam Library. In the list of games on the left, right click on Man of the House. In the pop-up menu hover your mouse over Manage and choose Browse Local Files.
   
2. That will open your File Explorer. In that folder will be a file called mapping.xml. Make a copy of that file (CTRL-C then CTRL-P) and rename the copy something like mappingBACKUP.xml. Now if you screw something up, you can look at the backup file to see what you did wrong, or copy it back to mapping.xml if you want to undo all the changes you made.
   
3. An XML file is really a TXT file you can open in Notepad or any word processor. It's a method for programs to store data and retrieve data that humans can easily read.
   
4. Right click on mapping.xml and hover your mouse over "Open With" and then click "Notepad".
   
5. Find the name of the character you want to edit. So for Claire change <Text>Claire</Text> to <Text>Mom</Text> or whatever you want. You can call her "Steve" or "♥♥♥ slut" or "♥♥♥♥ slave", whatever you want as long as you only change the words in between <Text> and </Text> and nothing else.
   
6. A little below that it will say:
   
   <!-- I am to her: -->
   <Text>tenant</Text>
   
   Same thing. Change "tenant" to "son" or "boyfriend" or "Master", whatever you like.
   The labels tell you what each field is for. So you can change her relationship to you:
   
   <!-- And she is to me: -->
   <Text>landlady</Text>
   
   Change "landlady" to say "mommy" or "neighbour" or "puppy" or "♥♥♥♥ buddy", anything you like.
   
7. Save the file and when you run Man of the House, start a New Game. You will not see any changes if you load a saved game.

NOTE: You can only change the relationships of three characters, Claire, Vanessa and Ashley. You can change all of the characters names.

Hope that helps anyone who was having trouble with it.

"HELP - I Screwed Something Up!"

If it's not working or you just want to UNDO ALL changes you made, here's what you do.

1. If you made a mappingBACKUP.xml just delete mapping.xml , then copy your backup xml file and rename it mapping.xml.
   
2. If you DID NOT make a backup file, first delete the mapping.xml file. Then go to your Steam library. In the list of all your games on the left side, find Man of the House and right click on it. Left click on Properties. Click on Installed Files and click on Verify integrity of game files...
   That will download a new mapping.xml file for you and everything will be back to the default. It might take a few minutes because Steam has to check every single file in the game folder.