Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser

sgt

I still am not sure whether wasm/webgl is suitable for 3d games with some complexity. You'll eventually have some GC pauses during game play. This one included, despite the rest of the game being smooth.

MayeulC

This is great, I have been thinking about revisiting this old game. Unfortunately, it is not available for sale anywhere (probably for music licensing issues, see other games such as Alan Wake), and older versions don't run as well as they could. I do find it legally dubious to also host the assets, but at least they make it easy to jump in. Free roam with online players is such a great concept! However, playing in the browser is not ideal. Are the extra features (name claims, multiplayer free roam, etc) available in a native version? It is unclear to me whether https://github.com/TalhaMudo/NFSU2Recomp includes these extra goodies. A relatively good resource to discover game recompilations is https://recomp.gg/ , but there is no obvious way to contribute, and no search functionalityy.

7Chinguun7

thats so cool bro and how is the performance like? Also can you use a controller?

gbraad

I guess this was made with automatic shift in mind? There are no controls for manual shifting on-screen. Did not find an easy way to enable this. Stutters often due to asset loading. Not a very pleasant experience... and likely very illegal to distribute/host (though I 'own' this game).

Dries007

The chaos of all of the other players joining in career mode is really funny.

tevlon

serious question: how is this legal?

senfiaj

For me performance is poor, it's unplayable. To run the game, I had to turn on Chrome's enable-unsafe-webgpu setting.

theropost

https://voxelblox-notes.pages.dev/play/ This stuff is fun lately, I've been working on an engine for a while and ported a little game over to the browser here. It's a voxel kart racer as a browser project. Think classic kart racing, but with a voxel aesthetic. It's a fun little experiment, so I figured I'd share it here!

bajard

It's 2026, and we still haven't solved the aliasing problems.

zacian

Riders on the storm ...

polytely

i really worry about what the big game developers are going to do to fight against these types of projects. wondering if we are fucking up the future of game preservation because people want to generate web versions of games they like

tap-snap-or-nap

It played perfectly for me, very nostalgic. Amazed how it just worked.

ReptileMan

Give us Porsche Unleashed ... that was proper great NFS.

rustyhancock

Huge fan of bringing back older games and updating. But I think it's highly dubious to accept let alone solicit donations for copyrighted content.

tarruda

I remember playing this on a PC when it came out. Graphics still looks good today and is surprisingly playable on a 8 inch tablet.

andix

Can I selfhost this game locally? I have the suspicion it won't stay online for long.

assadkhan84

Wow, that brough back some memories, thank you for sharing this :) are there more available?

redbell

Oh, I really didn't expected it to play smoothly on my six years old phone (Samsung S20+),Kudos! I didn't play much NFS back then, the two racing games that I played mostly in the past were Screamer 2 & Test Drive 6.

macNchz

I played this when it was new, taking turns at the keyboard of my friend’s gaming PC. Kind of wild to revisit on my phone today and have it work perfectly. I wish the circumstances around abandonware games weren’t so tenuous, there’s so much great stuff out there and reverse engineering with AI unlocks all sorts of cool possibilities. The multiplayer features here have me thinking about other old games that could be brought online and how fun it could be. SimCity 2000 where all the neighboring cities are real and operated by other players…

graso

It is surprising that it works decently on an old Android phone (A525G)