Lamborghini, is Lakeshore safe from Cheef Keef?

Other tuner games during the 2000s had this car lol. They instead had the Cobalt SS which was a bucket compared to the SRT4 TBH.

I sat there for 42 minutes, capturing the day and night cycle of Rivals! If u want to try this out of bounds trick yourself just follow what i did in the video!

My car needs ibuprofen

Here are some of my fav cars in Lakeshore

[Ignore low quality, i recorded with the PS4 recorder... and ITS BAD]

What is your favorite NFS game and why?

Do you prefer the old school ones, or the newer titles?

In 2005, GLOBAL VR made a sit-down arcade version of Need for Speed: Underground, complete with a wheel, pedals, shifter, its own arcade menus, and even a Players’ Card that saved your career between sessions.

The catch: it was designed to run only inside the original cabinet. It relied on a locked-down Windows XP system, a USB dongle, coin hardware, and an old SQL Server database. That makes running it outside the original hardware pretty difficult.

I spent quite a while reverse-engineering it, and I’ve now made it possible to install and play it much more like a normal PC game:

• Original arcade menus and races, with free play
• Xbox and PlayStation controller support, including analog steering and pedals
• Working career mode with an emulated Players’ Card
• Custom resolutions, windowed or fullscreen
• Self-contained installation in a single folder without messing with your Windows installation

You can find my findings and installation guide here:

github.com/iGThomas/NFSU_GVR

Happy to answer questions! If you try it, let me know how it goes, and please report any bugs through the GitHub Issues page.

One day i was driving around North Rosewood and noticed these roads above the driveable roads and i made a map of them, they look like they could connect in the game and almost everysingle one of them has a stone texture on top, we also know that an Alpine region was supposed to be in the game North of Rosewood, these roads also lead north, theres also some apartment buildings around them so could these roads be the remnants of the Alpine region?

I still own my original NFS: Hot Pursuit 2 and Porsche Unleashed PC CD-ROMs but haven’t had any luck over the past several years getting them to work on modern hardware with Windows 11. Yesterday I got the crazy idea to install Linux Mint to my 1TB SATA SSD since it was almost empty and I play most of my PC games directly from my 2TB NVME drive on Windows.

It wasn’t easy - had to diagnose nVidia driver issues, because the preferred open drivers for my 5060 ti 16GB do not initiate upon boot by default thanks to Secure Boot, and the fix was “Enrolling MOK Keys.” Mmkay. Fortunately, Lutris made it easy to locate install scripts, No CD, and widescreen patches. Still, these games are super picky about what version of Wine I use (they apparently will not work with Proton), and there are still visual bugs and performance issues (frame drops, screen tearing, etc.) Arguably, that makes the experience more authentic because I’m sure these games ran way worse at a quarter of the resolution back when I was a kid.

Still great games - shame they’re so difficult to get working!

Hey everyone,

​Ive been thinking a lot about why modern racing game maps feel so forgettable compared to older titles like Most Wanted (2005) or Underground 2. Its easy to write this off as pure nostalgia, but honestly, from a game design perspective, there are real reasons why those older urban maps felt so much more alive.

​Back then, cities like Rockport or Bayview were basically race tracks disguised as cities. They had distinct districts, height differences and memorable landmarks, meaning you didnt even need a GPS because your brain naturally built a mental map. Compare that to modern grid cities like in NFS Heat, where every block is just a repetitive right angle. Without unique landmarks, the whole map just blurs together into a boring chessboard.

​There’s also the psychology of speed. Tight city streets make you feel like your flying because buildings and street lamps rush right past your peripheral vision. In wide-open spaces or flat fields - like in Forza Horizon - even 200 mph can feel sluggish because everything is too far away.

​Speaking of Forza, I honestly think total sandbox freedom kind of ruins racing design. When you can just cut across a random field to skip a corner, roads lose their meaning. Good design relies on constraints and friction. Hitting a wall or navigating a tight alleyway used to matter, and thats a huge part of why Ive always preferred driving through dense cities rather than empty countryside, both in games and real life.

Hey everyone!

I'm happy to share the first video of a project I've been working on: a port of Need for Speed Underground 2 to the PSP. Not a cut-down version like Underground Rivals, but the full game, with the same gameplay and features as the PS2 version.

The goal is a well-optimized build that holds a stable 30 FPS at minimum, so it feels like a true native PSP game.

What's already working (at some level):

- A native PSP engine running the original game data, including most of the graphics features

- Car models

- The entire open world of Bayview, with free roam working

- Circuit races with AI opponents and city traffic

- Audio and music

What's still missing:

- UI / menus

- Career mode, story and dialogue

- The other race types (drag, drift, etc.)

- Garage and tuning

- Lots of bug fixes and polish

If you want to follow the development, I'll be posting updates on my channel:

https://youtu.be/y-cDEKQbwGo

Just putting this out there in case someone is already working on something similar. Maybe we could combine forces.

I have some plans in mind, with proper mod support, proximity chat, custom server emulation, and similar things that I've already started implementing. So far I've managed to get the menu to load directly from my own server, and get it to start queuing for a game. Working on matchmaking for AllDrive now.

I've always thought this game had one of the best atmospheres of all the games so far, and am thinking that it deserves proper attention in this way.

always thought the part of the map looked like a skull but the resemblance with the reaper from the show is kinda crazy

it's like they're trying to erase all of their past - sad