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The purpose of this thread is to collect valid links to sites that are STILL hosting files (mods, patches, demos, etc.)
for classic Need for Speed games and their special editions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Need_for_Speed_video_games) (NFS1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Need_for_Speed), NFS2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed_II), NFS3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed_III:_Hot_Pursuit), NFS4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed:_High_Stakes), NFS5 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed:_Porsche_Unleashed), NFS6 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed:_Hot_Pursuit_2)).

A history log containing websites that went down or changed the content, you can find in a seperate thread here (http://www.nfsaddons.com/forums//index.php?topic=1966.0).

This list is not intended to be exhaustive.  Updated 10/01/2024

Special thanks to: Remko, noise, ED9M, ExoticLover, Stifen_DY, Reight, Paul Spain, Zalcus20, AJ_Lethal, offroader_X
Thank you all for your support.

Fansites/Archives

Website	Files	Description
www.nfspolicehq.com (http://nfspolicehq.com/index.php?ind=downloads)	NFS 3|4|5|6	Large collection of police vehicles
www.lespittet.com (https://www.lespittet.com/legacy/jeux/need_for_speed/nfs_4/index_gauche.htm)	NFS 3|4|5|6	French fansite by Christian Pittet; big collection of files for various NFS titles
www.nfshome.com (http://www.nfshome.com/)	NFS 3|4|5|6	Here you find cars, tracks & tools
www.nfssupf.narod.ru (http://nfssupf.narod.ru/)	NFS 3|4|5|6	Russian site; Mirror or older version of nfs2003.msk.ru
www.nfs.scorpions.cz (http://nfs.scorpions.cz/hp2/index.php)	NFS 2|5|6	Czech site with cars and tracks, some rare NFS1 track conversions for NFS2
www.gamefront.online (https://gamefront.online/files/listing/pub2/Need_for_Speed_High_Stakes/)	NFS 4	Mirror of former Gamefront site... with cars, tracks and tools, mostly Pre-2001 stuff
www.lonebullet.com (https://www.lonebullet.com/games/need-for-speed-high-stakes-6719.htm)	NFS 4	Archive with cars, tracks and tools; mostly older files around year 2000.
Emergency-Planet (http://www.emergency-planet.com/files/category/52-need-for-speed-high-stakes-and-hot-pursuit-2-files)¹	NFS 4|6	Emergency vehicle website with cars, tools and parts for modding
www.nfsplanet.de (http://www.nfsplanet.de/en/)	NFS 5|6	German site with cars, tracks & tools
www.needforspeed.sk (http://needforspeed.sk/gameinfo.php?id=133)	NFS 6	Slovak site with cars, tracks & tools
www.nfsstreetdogs.de (http://www.nfsstreetdogs.de/)	NFS 1|2|3|4|5|6	Small selection of cars, tracks and demo versions - 97% of downloads deleted in Dec 2013
Le Royaume de Xander (http://royaume.xander.free.fr/accueil.htm)	NFS 4	Small French site with cars and tools
NFS Experience (http://anca.lenoble.chez-alice.fr/)³	NFS 4	French site with cars (http://anca.lenoble.chez-alice.fr/voitures_sup.htm), tools (http://anca.lenoble.chez-alice.fr/utilitaires.htm) and tutorials (http://anca.lenoble.chez-alice.fr/tutoriaux.htm)
www.leflic.net (http://www.leflic.net/bat.html)	NFS 3	Nice little site with some Pre-2000 cars - click the pictures to download
Luke's NFS3 page (http://www.angelfire.com/ab5/lukespage/home.html)	NFS 3	Small NFS3 website with tracks and cars (mostly by Ryuji Kainoh); partially offline
www.gamebanana.com (http://gamebanana.com/games/5165)	NFS 3 (http://gamebanana.com/games/6699)|4 (http://gamebanana.com/games/5165)	Small collection of older High Stakes cars
www.ds-servers.com (http://ds-servers.com/gf/?hl=US)	NFS 3 (http://ds-servers.com/gf/need-for-speed-hot-pursuit/)|4 (http://ds-servers.com/gf/need-for-speed-high-stakes/)|5 (http://ds-servers.com/gf/need-for-speed-porsche-unleased/)|6 (http://ds-servers.com/gf/need-for-speed-hot-pursuit-2/)	Russian game-server hoster - collection of semi-public files from years 2000-2010
www.nfs.com.ru (http://nfs.com.ru/games/nfs-high-stakes/downloads)	NFS 3|4|5|6	Russian site with cars, tracks and tools
www.nfsko.ru (http://files.nfsko.ru/index.php?cat=1)	NFS 5|6	Russian site, Categories from NFS1-NFS6 (and newer) but partially without mods
www.need4speed.ucoz.ru (http://need4speed.ucoz.ru/load/)²	NFS 3|4|5	Small russian site with a variety of mods, mostly utils
NFS Classic (http://nfs4.3dn.ru/load/)	NFS 3|4	Small russian site with some useful files, several dead links must be expected
N4S Tracks (http://www.geocities.ws/nfstracks/)	NFS 4	Small site with some rare tracks; first 6 of 16 listed tracks are downloadable
www.nfseditor.de (http://nfseditor.de/)	NFS 2|3	Several mods and tools for NFS2 and NFS3 from year 1999
www.nfscars.net (http://www.nfscars.net/highstakes/files/latest/desc/)	Offline	Largest collection of cars, tracks & tools
www.nfscheats.com (http://www.nfscheats.com/nfs4.php)	Offline	Small collection of files throughout NFS series
NFS3 Expansionpack (http://nfs3expansionpack.webs.com/)	Offline	Website of the NFS3 Expansion Pack with cars, tracks & fixes (Download as Package)
www.nfs2003.msk.ru (http://nfs2004.ru/nfs-high-stakes-start.php)	Offline	Russian site with a nice selection of cars (Машины), tracks (Трассы) & tools

Author Websites

Website	Files	Description
VEG's Blog (http://veg.by/)	NFS 3|4	Modern Patch (http://veg.by/en/projects/nfs4/) for NFS3 and NFS4; essential when using mods or a modern OS!
JimDiabolo's cloud (https://magentacloud.de/s/KeSopKEDMYFfN3p)	NFS 4	Tracks and Tools by Jim Diabolo, newest Expansion/Stock packs
NFS Rides CR (http://www.nfsridescr.blogspot.com/)	NFS 4	Cars & Tracks by AJ_Lethal - also visit AJ's Modder's Corner (http://nfsmodderscorner.blogspot.com/) for tutorials
Keiiko's Pirate Bay (http://xcx.4fan.cz/jak-na-need-for-speed-3-a-4-na-windows-7-x64/)	NFS 1|2|3|4	Czech site with tools & tutorials made by Keiiko
Team RSR's site (http://www.freak-ds.de/)	NFS 4	Website of Freak-DS, Cooya! and Memphis joint projects
Benjamin Trapp's site (http://www.gearfx.com/nfs/nfs_mycars.php)	NFS 4	Cars made by Benjamin Trapp (gearFX)
Roby Design (http://web.tiscali.it/Robydesign/index.htm)	NFS 4	Cars made by Roby Design (alternate link (http://web.tiscali.it/Robydesign/nfs/nfs.htm) - in case of display problems)
STD Design (http://std-design.narod.ru/e/qpv4/cars.html)²³	NFS 4|5	Adobe Flash - Ruffle plugin (http://ruffle.rs/) required!  Site of Sergi & Alex; Cars, tracks & tools by various authors
Econobrick's Cars (http://crud.toshiba-3.com/nfs4cars.shtml)	NFS 4	A bunch of cars made by Econobrick
www.fangio.de (https://sites.google.com/view/fangiogarage/start#h.3f4tphhd9pn8)	NFS 4	Creator of legendary 2in1 tracks - download various packages incl. GTmod demo
NetManiac's site (http://www.netmaniac.narod.ru/index1nfs.html)²	NFS 4	Russian site with traffic-replacements (mainly russian brands) & sundries by various authors
I.C.E. Design (http://members.rennlist.com/countach/icedesign.html)	NFS 4	Cars & Tracks made by Nick Iliff aka ICE in 2001
Oxi Designs (http://www.geocities.ws/oxi_designs/)²	NFS 4	Some cars made by Oxi Designs in 2002
www.digitalthunder.com (http://www.digitalthunder.com/nfs-pantera/index.html)	NFS 3	Homepage of Digital Thunder with the DeTomaso Pantera he made for NFS3
Denis Auroux's site (http://www.math.polytechnique.fr/cmat/auroux/nfs/index.us.html)	NFS 1|2|3|4	Home of FSH-Tool, T3ED and QFS-Suite (level as per 2002). Unofficial File Format Specifications.
Memphis' site (http://www.raphael.krempel-web.de/)	Offline	Cars made by Raphael Krempel plus projects/cooperations
Halfmoon's Webpage (http://www.halfmoon2.com/)³	Offline	Site with some Hot Pursuit (http://www.halfmoon2.com/nfs3/), High Stakes (http://www.halfmoon2.com/nfs4hs/) and Porsche (http://www.halfmoon2.com/nfs5pu/) cars
Zorro's Webpage (http://kfz.freepage.de/cgi-bin/feets/freepage_ext/339483x434877d/rewrite/twistercars/index2.htm)³	Offline	Some Cars (http://kfz.freepage.de/cgi-bin/feets/freepage_ext/339483x434877d/rewrite/twistercars/autos.htm) made by Zorro and other authors, small track-section (http://kfz.freepage.de/cgi-bin/feets/freepage_ext/339483x434877d/rewrite/twistercars/tracks.htm)
The Evil Realm (http://evilrealm.polygonized.com/nfs4/nfs1.php)	Offline	Website of PumaY2K with some cars
John Kahler's site (http://users.beagle.com.au/jmk222/nfshs.html)	Offline	Australian site with some unique mods and lot of info; some links point to external sites
2Torcs Labs (https://sites.google.com/site/2torcs/)	Offline	Information about NFS file formats, reverse engineering & Unofficial File Format Specifications

Online Racing

Website	Content	Description
IP-Lounge (http://www.iplounge.net/)	NFS 4|5	Developer site of the IP-Lounge for NFS4 and NFS5, recent Expansion/Stock packs
H.O.S.S. (http://www.hsscoring.com/)	NFS 4	Statistics of online-races, lots of links and information.
LIX Racing (http://hoovtech.net/lxr/HSreplaysearch.php)	NFS 4	High Stakes racing team, hosting replays of online records
EA Outlaws (http://www.hoovtech.net/EAO/)	NFS 3|4|6	Online presence of EAO clan
needforspeed3.racing (http://needforspeed3.racing/)	Offline	Community site for NFS3 Online Racing, using Veg's Modern Patch Releases

Webarchive
This section lists sites that are no longer available at the web, but have been (partly) preserved
by a webarchive service (like web.archive.org).

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Website	Files	Description
www.nd4spdworld.com (http://web.archive.org/web/20090417112413/http://www.nd4spdworld.com/)	NFS 3 (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nd4spdworld.com/nfshp/downloads/*)|4 (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nd4spdworld.com/nfshs/downloads/*)|5 (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nd4spdworld.com/nfspu/downloads/*)|6 (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nd4spdworld.com/nfshp2/downloads/*)	Once a large site with cars, tracks and tools - about 500 files have been captured
NFS G-B (http://web.archive.org/web/20080901035125/http://nfsgb.nd4spdworld.com/)	NFS 1 (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://nfsgb.nd4spdworld.com/zip/nfs1/*)|2 (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://nfsgb.nd4spdworld.com/zip/nfs2/*)|3 (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://nfsgb.nd4spdworld.com/zip/nfs3/*)|4 (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://nfsgb.nd4spdworld.com/zip/nfs4/*)|5 (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://nfsgb.nd4spdworld.com/zip/nfs5/*)|6 (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://nfsgb.nd4spdworld.com/zip/nfs6/*)	This was the site of Giles Bett, mainly provided tracks and tools - ca. 120 captures
JP Racing (https://web.archive.org/web/20091211185352/http://jpracing.racerplanet.com/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=33)	NFS 3|4|5|6 (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://jpracing.racerplanet.com/*)	Site had cars, tracks & tools ... some exclusive content - 93 captures
Aussie Muscle's site (https://web.archive.org/web/20041113054053/http://aussiemuscle.totalnfs.net/amnfs/index.html)	NFS 3|4 (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://aussiemuscle.totalnfs.net/amnfs/*)	Only files located at site-server preserved, many dead external links - 63 captures
NFS Xtreme (https://web.archive.org/web/20020325233113/http://nfs.hwextreme.com)	NFS 4 (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://nfsxtreme.com/nfs4/downloads/*)|5 (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://nfs.hwextreme.com/nfs5/downloads/*)	A hardware site that hosted cars, tracks and tools for NFS - 50 captures
RVD's Skinshop (https://web.archive.org/web/20080125163336/http://rvdsplace.150m.com/mcoskinsshop.html)	NFS 4 (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://rvdsplace.150m.com/*)	A set of skins (TGA files) that fit on Sniper's MCO conversions - 32 captures
Ramm's site (https://web.archive.org/web/20171116042355/http://ramm.webz.cz/)	NFS 3 (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ramm.webz.cz/*)	Czech site with some NFS3 cars (Auta) - 30 captures
NFS Bolide (https://web.archive.org/web/20060223104636/http://www.kcendra.com/nfsbolide/)	NFS 4 (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://hvs.free.fr/*)	This was the website of NFS Bolide aka Butch, files from external ftp - 22 captures
Stiff'n'Roll Mod (https://web.archive.org/web/20090318125137/http://fino.w6.ru/nfs4.htm)	NFS 4 (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://fino.w6.ru/gamers/nfs4/*)	Stiff'n'Roll (later 4Lower) mod, only track pack archived (Download as Package)
NFS3 Expansionpack (https://web.archive.org/web/20230902104653/https://nfs3expansionpack.webs.com/)	NFS 3 (https://web.archive.org/web/20230902104653/https://dl.dropbox.com/u/879355/NFS3%20Expansion%20Pack.7z)	Archived Website of NFS3 Expansion package by Exotic Lover (Download as Package)
Zacabeb's NFS site (https://web.archive.org/web/20050211202737/http://home.swipnet.se/zacabeb/)	NFS 4 (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://home.swipnet.se/zacabeb/downloads/*)	Some reworked track ini files and new license plate font made by Zacabeb in 1999
Electronic Arts FTP Server (https://web.archive.org/web/*/ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/ea/*)	NFS 1|2|3|4|5|6 (https://web.archive.org/web/*/ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/*)	Public EA server with official NFS patches (https://web.archive.org/web/*/ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/ea/patches/*), demos (https://web.archive.org/web/*/ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/ea/demos/*), etc. (https://web.archive.org/web/*/ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/ea/misc/*) (also MCO stuff (https://web.archive.org/web/*/ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/EACom/*))

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Big websites and archives are starting at the top, continuing further with webpages of authors and other interesting sites. I also added a brief description of what you can expect to find there.

You are free to post whatever you think fits in here  ;)

Comments/Suggestions/Notes are welcome.

Regards MADMAN

Great work.Didn't know streetdogs is (partly) back.Never saw the french and tjech sites either.

Maybe: http://www.iplounge.net for online racers, but also for questions about SP/EP pack and HSmixer.

On lespittet.com you only see carnames, no pic's.

On Fangio's site I found the GTmod demo which I thought was gone forever.

Also enjoyed Madness on youtube.

Wow, this is some excellent work.
After your suggestion a few days ago I had been wondering if I maybe should have started such a therad myself, but you've done a much better job than I ever could, much respect.  :)
I said I would sticky it... so I did.

Yeah, I had discovered Lespittet myself, a pretty amazing collection (most of it pre-2001), and equally amazing it's still around (his NFS3 collection is even bigger)
But yeah, there are no previews and there's no credit to the authors (most zips don't contain a readme) so you have to guess a bit which car you're downloading.

I honestly thought GearfX was gone, guess I bookmarked the wrong url. Quite a relief.
PassatNFS was a site I'd never heard of, thanks for sharing.

Suggestions:

http://nfseditor.de/  Site that seems to have been frozen in the year 1999, still holds several modes and tools for NFS2 (!) and NFS3.
ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/ea/  Official EA ftp that still holds official patchjes for the older games, including the official addon cars. Looking around that server you may also find some official MCO stuff, as well as screenshots and movies (look under patches, misc and movies).

http://members.rennlist.com/countach/icedesign.html
A single page with a few tracks and two cars, downloads still work.

http://www.jimi-w.de/NFS/nfs.htm
I don't even remember bookmarking this, but to my surprise the downloads still work. I honestly can't remember if the tracks are any good, though, maybe I should try to filter by quality a bit.  :P

http://nfstoolbox.suckosaurus.dk/  Home of Viv Wizard and NFS Wizard.

Will add more if I can find them.

Just tried Fangio's carpackage.Great pre war race cars, with nice dashes, which were only availible on streetdogs previously.Also VW Golf 1 by Gert Streidle, crappy body but surprisingly correct dash.

Downloaded a F355 from lepittet.Turned out to be crap, car had no interior (transparant windows) and bodycolors didn't work, and indeed no readme's.

@noise: Well, im not sure online-racing portals fit in this list but i guess it wont hurt to add them. So i will make sections for a better overview.
On lespittet you have indeed varying quality and a bad presentation but not everything is low quality (esp. if you keep in mind that most files dated 1999/2000)  :P

@Remko: Thanks Remko  :)
Your suggestions are much appreciated. Really interesting sites there (how I could forget about nfstoolbox   ??? ) ... the official EA server is also a good idea.

Also: I think its ok when i add JimD's dropbox folder

Keep it up!  ::)

Again, great job at organizing that list - I would be hopeless at that.  :P

Maybe Econobox' site would be worth a mantion, the one that Noise posted in the SOTD comment the other day - despite the fact that he's uploaded all his work here: http://crud.toshiba-3.com/ or http://crud.toshiba-3.com/nfs4cars.shtml more specifically.

Cheats.de was another good source I didn't know, here's a similar source, a filehosting service:
http://www.gamefront.com/files/listing/pub2/Need_for_Speed_High_Stakes
Again, most pre-2001 stuff, and no pictures, but at least proper descriptions and authors listed.
Tracks are in "Map-Levels-Missions", cars in "Modifications". Lots of tools too.
The site doesn't appear to have and NFS3 section, though. Not that I can find.

And I was thinking of mentioning this: http://www.dippold.org/nfs/showcarlist.php?z=a&s=d
but I guess it doesn't really count since you can't download the files. The owner only offers you the option of burning you a dvd with everything, for a fee.  :(
Still lots of information on each file, even if most mods are very old and basic by todays standards.

Silly me, I forgot about http://www.bmwsport.net/ site of Jeff, one of our own team. :mad: More specifically, this section: http://www.bmwsport.net/downloads/cars

Wow, thats quite a bunch of links again  :D
Duplicates are not a problem... I guess the vast majority of the files has been uploaded on the big sites but file-mirrors are a nice thing. And no website has everything.
Its good you mentioned Markus Dippold's site here, but i have to agree, makes no sense to add it.
Didn't know about the gamefront-folder and honestly never recognised the HighStakes section on bmwsport.net  lol :-[

Very nice!

Again thanks for the update. :)
I'll try and see if I can find anything else, but I get the feeling this is pretty much it. I went through my whole NFS and MCO bookmark folder and mostly got 99 variations of "This domain has expired".  :|
Who knows, maybe there are still sites in other languages.

Ok, another one: http://rvdsplace.150m.com/mcoskinsshop.html
It's only a set of skins (TGA files) that fit on Sniper's MCO conversions. I'm really scraping the bottom at this point, but I admit it's still more than I expected.

Ok, added the MCO skins.

I found another russian website... they have a few files and you can download a NFS4 game installer (full game!) russian version?. http://nfs4.3dn.ru/load/
Not sure though if i put it on the list...
Furthermore i found this site: http://www.atamcoolcars.narod.ru/carsaaa.htm - sadly all car-links are dead there :(
What attracted my attention is the Bonus Boxster from NFS5 factory driver.

(http://www.atamcoolcars.narod.ru/CARIMAGE/Porshe_Boxter_Sport.jpg)
Anyone have this car for NFS4?

I think you could add the first site - it seems focused on the 'classic' NFS games, and it's got a few interesting downloads.

Here's another little site that is mostly focused on NFS4 online racing. Offers a few downloads, but for singleplayers there are some interesting descriptions HS' career mode, for example. Maybe for the third category: http://nfshs.goodluckwith.us/

About the Bonus Boxster, it looks vaguely familiar, but there were always so many Porsches for NFS HS on so many sites that I had a hard time keeping track of them, so can't help you there, I'm afraid. Maybe we should  start a "looking for particular addon request" thread as well.  :P

Hey, Remko thanks again for your involvement here.
This website gives a nice insight of the online-racing community (also much general info about NFS4) but the download section only consists of links to iplounge.net and nfscars.net...

NFS Classic RU added.
STD Design added. (almost forgot this one  ::))
www.nfsko.ru added. (Special thanks to ED9M !)

Greetings

Nice work so far, thanks indeed to all who contributed.
As Madman said, the list wasn't meant to be exhaustive, but that doesn't mean we're not open to any new suggestions we may have missed. Feel free to name any.  ;)


(On a completely unrelated note, I decided to switch to a different set of emoticons because I really didn't like the current style myself - again, nothing set in stone, feedback is welcome. 8) )

Wow, the list is getting bigger and bigger. It's nice to surf around on (for me) unknown sites related to classic NFS games.

Some more:

raphael.krempel-web.de (Memphis)

www.blaznmotorsports.com/index.php

Hey noise, these sites are a great addition. :D Totally forgot about Memphis' website, but it looks familiar now you named it  :P.
Nice find!

raphael.krempel-web.de added.
blaznmotorsports.com added.

Greetings

@Remko: i like the new emoticons but some are listed twice (undecided, sad, shocked, rolleyes, cheesy, angry) - Firefox 28

In old readme files of addoncars you sometimes find sitenames.Found a lot but mainly deadlinks.

I remember: Powercity tuningteam , Fivespeed, Bubbachubs, Tritoch (hollandmodified), Martin Leps, BloOm..... all had their own site.

Found aussiemuscle's site on wayback.archive. you can still download cars (archived .zip files)

Thats a good advice, old readmes are a good source for sure.
I dont have anything against wayback.archive - its a very good way to surf on old websites and remember the great times of NFS  ;) ...and if youre lucky enough, they saved exactly the file you need. I just dont want to add them, because a dead site with lots of broken links is not of use to anyone.
BUT
it might be possible to add them in a way like this for a specific site:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.racerplanet.net/files/* (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.racerplanet.net/files/*)
under a new section for example ???

I leave that open for discussion...  :-*

I feel embarrassed that I forgot about Memphis' site, glad that's fixed now.  :-\

There's another author's website I should've thought of sooner: AJ_Lethal's http://nfsridescr.blogspot.com/

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Apr 13, 2014,  6:55 AM
@Remko: i like the new emoticons but some are listed twice (undecided, sad, shocked, rolleyes, cheesy, angry) - Firefox 28

Good point, that was the next thing I was going to look into.

Uhm, Remko can you check this link again. The site is keeping me redirecting to a fake java download - Norton Internet Security tells me: Web Attack PUP/Adware/ Fake Application Download (i dont want to post the exact redirection link here)  ???

edit: now its ok for me ... i think it was one of the advertisements there

Maybe it had to do with me not paying attention and blindly copy/pasting from my own url box, so ended in .nl instead of .com. ::)
I Dunno, anyway, fixed that url now. 

Hey, had the problem on AJ's site again... once you click the link you get immediately redirected to a malware/adware site - seems to occur occasionally though (which doesnt make it less annoying)
...might be my pc is infected but thats the only website i experience this.
Well, the internet is an evil place  >:D
And if your not completely starry-eyed this should be a minor threat... so

nfsridescr.blogspot.com added.

Greetings

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Apr 14, 2014,  5:21 AM
Hey, had the problem on AJ's site again... once you click the link you get immediately redirected to a malware/adware site - seems to occur occasionally though (which doesnt make it less annoying)
...might be my pc is infected but thats the only website i experience this.

It might be your PC, since Blogger does not do that kind of stuff.

Hello, sorry for late reply.
Im pretty sure its a advertisement at "Compartir/Share" thats causing this, like i assumed in one of my previous posts. Had the opportunity to test it on a friend's pc (different browser, recent AVP from Kaspersky Labs) with the same result. :o
If i abort loading the page before the add shows up everything is fine. Only thing remarkable that it only happens sometimes (infected advertisement?).

Greetings

PS: just telling facts, i know its not your intention to spread malware  ;)

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Apr 17, 2014,  7:07 AM
Hello, sorry for late reply.
Im pretty sure its a advertisement at "Compartir/Share" thats causing this, like i assumed in one of my previous posts. Had the opportunity to test it on a friend's pc (different browser, recent AVP from Kaspersky Labs) with the same result. :o
If i abort loading the page before the add shows up everything is fine. Only thing remarkable that it only happens sometimes (infected advertisement?).

Greetings

PS: just telling facts, i know its not your intention to spread malware  ;)

Found out that widget had ads, got rid of it promptly.

Guys, guys, I think I found something... it's not a full site, it's more like that Gamefront link, a filehost with mods listed, but no author, pictures or other information, you sort have to guess or rely on your memory from way back to determine what you're downloading.
Layout is a bit confusing too, not easy to search since it keeps listing everything by date - using the search function is probably the fastest way.

The positive site is that there's 200+ pages of cars for HS, 19 pages of tracks, and 5 pages of other mods.  :o :o
It lists NFS.OnlineWelten.com as the source, so this honestly looks like a backup of everything that used to be on NFS Streetdogs before it sized down. There's downloads for other NFS game too. Definitely interesting, wouldn't you say?

http://www.gigafront.de/downloads,780,1,need_speed_high_stakes.html

Hey, nice job Remko. Thank you for sharing this site.  :D
Too bad... looks like they didnt saved the tools section.

gigafront.de added.
gtrcars.net needs registration now (due to spambot issues)

Greetings

This thread needs the NFS3 expansion pack website. It was a collaboration, and I provided almost all existing files from NFSGB.

http://nfs3expansionpack.webs.com/

Hey all you guy's,just wanted say,it was Great Reading !
All that!. And Snagging all the Links!
Well, i haven't yet. But will some day i ever get-
My Pc Tower back.?? (I pay for)  :-[
Yes great work u all did,i wished i had better
Grammar skills,Gee but i do. some  :)
Okay.. Sure looks Great! thx Remko
i never seen the MadMan Vids yet.
Cheers... 8)

Found out the Wayback Machine could salvage a bit from old ND4SPDWorld.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nd4spdworld.com/nfshs/downloads/*

It works, but looking for something and only see the name of the zip file is not easy.

No it's not nothing is easy anymore ;) I looked threw much of them,
was much dead links too. but i Found an old nice FnF2 Car.
always liked,an. Few tracks too like Autumn Raceway was nice,
too get ba to get back thx Aj too. if i when i ever get more time.
I like too try Fixing up,a Track i found its the old Converted one.
need try fix them Road Flags too if it will alow.
was a nice Stroll down them Files :)

Thanks for pointing that out, nice find. It seems links after 2010 or so are usually dead (makes sense, because the site itself had already discontinued by that time).

It helps that the Internet Archive has got a filter option (top right corner) that helps to narrow the list down to utils, tracks, zips, jpg, whatever you're looking for.
I'll certainly take a good look around and see what interesting there is to grab.  8)

Happy new year 2015!

List updated. Added 2 additional sites i found.

• Old Page of Zorro in german language: kfz.freepage.de (http://kfz.freepage.de/cgi-bin/feets/freepage_ext/339483x434877d/rewrite/twistercars/index2.htm)
  (--> You have to add http://kfz.freepage.de to Java Security-exceptions to get the nav-menu working !!)
• www.nfscardownload.com (http://www.nfscardownload.com/category/nfs-high-stakes)

Odd cars there on Zorro's site.

nfscardownload is new isn't it? mainly cars by Reight in nfs4 section.

Thanks for the links.

another russian site:  http://nfs.com.ru/news.php

Hey noise,
did not see your post, sorry.
Maybe its just me but it seems the link isnt working. Can you check it plz?

Greetings

Hmm.. it's not working anymore.I found it in this post:

http://www.nfscars.net/forum/nfs-high-stakes/53449-4lower-game.html

Looks like it's back up now. But yeah, it was down a couple of hours ago.

Very well, lets hope it was just a temporary issue. Nice finding noise.

nfs.com.ru/news.php added.
direct-link to download sections for Ferrari Man's & Zorro's site added in description.

Yea,pretty cool site thx you 3 For Finding it.
I'm real glad for the Dutch button Translator.
or be lost for good on there.  :D thx

hi mates.does someone know the admin of that that site? http://www.nfscardownload.com
i sent him an e-mail but nothing happened.there is a car made by me but titled as another author :/
http://www.nfscardownload.com/nfs-high-stakes/nfs-high-stakes-maserati-a6-pininfarina.html

Your car is mixed up with Krystoff's Mercedes CLK DTM.

Did you give them permission to add you cars there?

No  :-\
He obviously didnt read the readme.

Hi i bookmarked,that Site i been too busy with my Life's. problems,Situations too look at it very long.
do they have any Nfs4 tracks buddy?
Oh Mondays are like a Smack in rhe face at times
don't like them i large amount,sry Reight for the Grabbers out there.. :/
Atleast i name Original Authors name: give Credit.
like a track I'm Fixing now,looked like Sh** did but
I'm Fixing too have more Function man :)
Its real old too think a 2000 Track i don't need here Smack from my so called,friends on this Site.
kwim cause i do a lot work

i wasn't saying you was saying,this Reight
i know people,need too Respect others,Work. like cars more...
but i think Tracks are Different from cars Rule?

I hope you get it all
Straight an,um good luck on your project!  ;)

http://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&ei=CJLiVMaWF5fToAS8wIFg&q=ferrari+250+gt+swb+pictures&oq=ferrari+250+gt+swb+pic&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.1.0.0i22i30l2.299.8085.0.14028.6.6.0.0.0.0.659.2173.4-2j2.4.0.clfr...0...1.1.61.mobile-gws-hp..2.4.2168.f7P7UeaM65g

Quote from: will...sry Reight for the Grabbers out there.. :/
Atleast i name Original Authors name: give Credit [...]
i know people,need too Respect others,Work. like cars more...
but i think Tracks are Different from cars Rule?

Well, I think permissions are a difficult topic.
Of course its not ok to take other peoples work, modify it and reupload without giving credit.

No matter if its a menu sound, car, track or whatever.

If the author is still active (even if not) or have a mail adress you must try to contact him for permission.
On the other hand in some cases it will be difficult (or impossible) to contact the author and ask for permission. Some might say, you cannot upload it then. Yes, true in a strict sense. But if i think of cars for example, a lot of modelers didnt ask the manufacturer in the first place. So cars have ferarri or porsche logo or other copyrighted emblems and brands. Car shapes are the product of months-long work of engineers and designers... so aren't we applying double standards here? (just something to think about :) ) Imo it isnt always black'n'white. Dont get me wrong, I have huge respect for the skilled car modelers and I know how much work it is to shape stuff into polygons!
As I said its a difficult topic.
All i want to say is, most of us moving in a grey zone when uploading modifications and we should not judge too hard because everyone here is doing this in freetime without making any profit. Imo it is more important to credit the original author thoroughly than to have permissions. Or to put it straight in a age-old game cite: 'Respect is everything.'

Quote from: Reighthi mates.does someone know the admin of that that site? www.nfscardownload.com
i sent him an e-mail but nothing happened.there is a car made by me but titled as another author :/

So to come back to Reights question, i am in no way related to any of the sites listed here nor im connected with any of the site admins.
Concerning www.nfscardownload.com it looks like other cars (also most of yours) seem to be credited correctly and all downloads seem to have original archives and readme's. Looks like an accidental slip to me. Maybe you can place a comment for the car, since I cant see other ways to get in contact with the admin there.

Greetings

Actually i tried to post a short comment madman.didnt work.ok.the cars beeing uploaded isnt a big deal.i was sad about the wrong autor thing.but noise said krystoff and my cars are unfortunatly confused.so ok...i didnt know that.
Its nevertheless a good thing to see a new nfs site with love for nfshs fans :)

Hi MMan_Nfs um,i understand,about what you said on there.
yes it's a little free time,an My Electric bill  :o
that i use for hours,with No-pay.. :P
I've always wished
i could get some kind of pay for the work/Hobby i do.
but i do,it just my own Satisfaction of Sorts. I'm tired it's late.
yes i credit the Authors? An try Contacting them.
but i did better than there first
Job on this Celtic track cya ;)

@ Reight
Hi um, yes Reight i agree too,about glad they have a Nfs4 website.
if they could get it Straight tho  ::)
an,ah i was able too make a Comment:
post.,so i was
Lucky on that? I wanted you too view that ,ttyl :-}
thanks Reight for your nice Comment. ;)

http://www.nfscardownload.com/nfs-high-stakes/nfs-high-stakes-maserati-a6-pininfarina.html#comment-27

Ty dear friend.

Well, looks like it's been corrected.  :)

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Feb 17, 2015, 11:51 AM
Well, I think permissions are a difficult topic.
Of course its not ok to take other peoples work, modify it and reupload without giving credit.

No matter if its a menu sound, car, track or whatever.

If the author is still active (even if not) or have a mail adress you must try to contact him for permission.
On the other hand in some cases it will be difficult (or impossible) to contact the author and ask for permission. Some might say, you cannot upload it then. Yes, true in a strict sense. But if i think of cars for example, a lot of modelers didnt ask the manufacturer in the first place. So cars have ferarri or porsche logo or other copyrighted emblems and brands. Car shapes are the product of months-long work of engineers and designers... so aren't we applying double standards here? (just something to think about :) ) Imo it isnt always black'n'white. Dont get me wrong, I have huge respect for the skilled car modelers and I know how much work it is to shape stuff into polygons!
As I said its a difficult topic.
All i want to say is, most of us moving in a grey zone when uploading modifications and we should not judge too hard because everyone here is doing this in freetime without making any profit. Imo it is more important to credit the original author thoroughly than to have permissions. Or to put it straight in a age-old game cite: 'Respect is everything.'

NFSBolide was facing charges by Ferrari. They forced him to stop building and remove his Ferraris for NFS4 off his website. That story could be read up somewhere, I don't remember where.
However, when I read that, I contacted the main manufacturer I build cars of - Porsche - and guess what? I got a permission to build their cars. That was back when the first Cayman appeared, mainly because I was trying to get blueprints of it, which they won't send. Porsche is cool about noncommercial projects, because it's free publicity for them. As far as I know, Ferrari is the only manufacturer so far, that tried to sue a modder of a racing game for making free publicity for them, which is idiotic. Car manufacturers profit of such things as racing game addons.

The point about permissions, and why Will's tracks for example, which were clearly made without permissions of the original authors are still online, is simply because everyone here tries to keep the NFS4 scene alive. I have thougt a lot about the permission and credits stuff in the past weeks, because Will pokes me all the time about it, and I figured that by strictly enforcing what is right, the scene is harmed more than it benefits from that. Since it's a personal concern for me to keep NFS 4 alive, I wouldn't want to do things that harm the scene.

Freak-DS said:

''figured that by strictly enforcing what is right, the scene is harmed more than it benefits from that. Since it's a personal concern for me to keep NFS 4 alive, I wouldn't want to do things that harm the scene.''

I like that,but I think people who steal also harm the scene.Could we say that mentioning the original author of a car is free publicity for him too?

And you really think Ferrari needs external publicity? Do you?

I mean, I find it rather awkward that a famous car manufacturer would even care about what happens in games, but the argument 'it's free publicity' for them doesn't hold. Do you really think that even a single Ferrari or other car was ever sold because someone saw it as a free add-on for a game?

Back to using some else's work, IMO credits should be sufficient, though I have always asked for permission myself if the original author said so in the readme.

Hi atleast i Gave  you Guys Something too talk about?  =D ;)

just some Humor,Cough, I know this is a Serious matter an i Understand all that you 4
guys are saying,an i do that best i can!...

It's real sad but I'm getting over it a nice Fixer track i was doing -
80+ Hours has Crashed bad! Sux, an JimD is trying too fix it for me.
i wish he be Successful on it? I'm thankful much for all JimD has done
for us all. i wished,i never would of messed with that
Global animation thing :(  so have a nice day...
thanks for explanations too.

Quote from: XJ220 on Feb 22, 2015,  4:13 AM
And you really think Ferrari needs external publicity? Do you?

I mean, I find it rather awkward that a famous car manufacturer would even care about what happens in games, but the argument 'it's free publicity' for them doesn't hold. Do you really think that even a single Ferrari or other car was ever sold because someone saw it as a free add-on for a game?

Back to using some else's work, IMO credits should be sufficient, though I have always asked for permission myself if the original author said so in the readme.

I didn't say they need it to exist, but why do you think it is appropriate to sue a modeler for making free publicity? What harm did it cause them then?


I also do not upload stuff that I could not get a permission for by the original author, because I wouldn't want that to happento my addons either. However, I cannot enforce this when there is no internal agreement upon asking for how to deal with this matter, so it'll stay the way it is right now and some addons remain hosted until we decide otherwise.

Quote from: Freak-DS on Feb 24, 2015, 11:24 AMI didn't say they need it to exist, but why do you think it is appropriate to sue a modeler for making free publicity? What harm did it cause them then?

That's what my second paragraph was aiming at. They should be like "couldn't give a darn" either way. But the argument "it's free publicity for them" is just as elusive to me.

Hi, guys. I'm a new member here. I found an old site containing a small amount of Ryuji Kainoh's NFS3 cars, with working download links. Here: www.angelfire.com/ab5/lukespage/cars.html (http://www.angelfire.com/ab5/lukespage/cars.html)

Btw, does anyone have a file from this link?

http://cid-fe00b20b7e44f0f3.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/P%C3%BAblico/rk-cars.rar (http://cid-fe00b20b7e44f0f3.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/P%C3%BAblico/rk-cars.rar)

It's a rar file containing a large number of Ryuji Kainoh's NFS4 cars (many of them are hard to find). I think the link was posted by AJ_Lethal in this thread: www.nfsaddons.com/forums//index.php?topic=1065.msg27364#msg27364 (http://www.nfsaddons.com/forums//index.php?topic=1065.msg27364#msg27364)

Quote from: Stifen_DY on Mar 03, 2015, 12:35 AMBtw, does anyone have a file from this link?

http://cid-fe00b20b7e44f0f3.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/P%C3%BAblico/rk-cars.rar (http://cid-fe00b20b7e44f0f3.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/P%C3%BAblico/rk-cars.rar)

It's a rar file containing a large number of Ryuji Kainoh's NFS4 cars (many of them are hard to find). I think the link was posted by AJ_Lethal in this thread: www.nfsaddons.com/forums//index.php?topic=1065.msg27364#msg27364 (http://www.nfsaddons.com/forums//index.php?topic=1065.msg27364#msg27364)

here's an updated link: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=fe00b20b7e44f0f3!193&authkey=!ABMw4Og74kYPkl4&ithint=file%2crar

Wow, thanks a lot, AJ_Lethal!

Welcome to the forum Stifen_DY and thanks for sharing.

Luke's NFS3 page (http://www.angelfire.com/ab5/lukespage/home.html) added.

Greetings

Quote from: MADMAN_nfsWelcome to the forum Stifen_DY and thanks for sharing.

Luke's NFS3 page (http://www.angelfire.com/ab5/lukespage/home.html) added.

Greetings

You're welcome! Btw, nice to meet you, MADMAN_nfs. :)

http://www.nfscardownload.com/category/nfs-high-stakes is not availible anymore.Tried it a couple a weeks but it is always down.

Hey,
thanks for the info noise. The site www.cheats.de was closed down, so these files are also gone.

List has been updated.

Hi, I like to add Roby design (with a little shame, how could I overlooked him)

http://web.tiscali.it/Robydesign/

Seems this site is dead... only displays the tiscali.it main page for me. Maybe check the link again and make sure its not loading from your browser cache.

Thanks for the input, though. Back then, RobyDesign (http://www.nfsaddons.com/nfshs/author/Roby%20Design/) has made some nice cars.

Greetings

Yeah, the site doesn't show here too, just the Tiscali main page, like Madman says. For some reason I can't make it show up on the Internet Archive either.

Then I googled the site URL and via via I came across this page: http://web.tiscali.it/Robydesign/nfs/auto.htm - which is still visible, surprisingly. So do http://web.tiscali.it/Robydesign/nfs/links.htm and http://web.tiscali.it/Robydesign/nfs/eutility.htm - It's as if it's only Robys mainpage that is disabled.

Eager to see if the download links still worked, I clicked some of them, but each one sent me back to the Tiscali mainpage. And then I saw each of those links had a backslash \ in them, instead of a normal / -slash.
If you copy each url and manually correct the 'slash' issue, suddenly the link works and you can download the stuff.   ???  Isn't that odd? I wonder if that happened recently or that it always was like that and I had to do the same trick to dl his files back in '02/'03, I honestly don't remember.
Strange stuff, but thanks for bringing it to our attention and now we're still able to grab his stuff after all these years.

Ah... thanks for the hint Remko.

Thats the main page i assume: web.tiscali.it/Robydesign/nfs/nfs.htm (http://web.tiscali.it/Robydesign/nfs/nfs.htm)

But you still have to apply Remko's trick to download anything. I will take a look into that afternoon.

Hmmm..everything works for me with the link I gave.I use Chrome browser b.t.w.

Yeah, you're right noise... works fine with Internet Explorer 8 and Google Chrome. So its a issue of firefox (Firefox 38) - thats really disappointing  >:( . Guess its time for me to change the browser.

Roby-Design added.

IE8? Really EIGHT? You're not using that one regularly, are you? (security advice ;))

OT: Site works fine in Opera (not surprising considering it's another Chromium browser).

Well I'll be damned, you guys are right, in Chrome all works fine, even the mainpage.  :o
I've been using Firefox since 2006 or so, all the time I assumed the site was gone, turns out it was just a browser issue, I never would have guessed.
I don't think I've ever come across links being fumbled like that because on account of what browser you use... Unlucky coincidence I guess, with a site that hasn't been updated since '02 (also explains why I had no problems all those years ago, I was still using IE then).

Nah, I'm not using Internet Explorer at all... thats why its not up to date  ;). But even this old IE, which has a pretty bad reputation concerning compatibility, displays the page perfectly fine.
Using Firefox as long as i can remember but recently i experience more and more issues with it. On my mobile devices i use chrome anyways.
Since it seems like the most compatible browser, i probably will switch to opera, too. Or use various.

But lets not start a discussion about browsers haha ... probably won't end peacefully  =D
Each to their own.

How about another authorsite:

http://free-zg.htnet.hr/scw/index.htm

on button ''Gamecars'' you find 4 nfs4 cars by scw

Thanks again,
but the download-links there aren't working (tested with different browsers  ;) )

Greetings

Hmm..don't work indeed.Don't include this site than, there's no update since 2004 and SCW cars are all availible on nfscars.net anyway.

www.nfsplanet.de added.

www.passatnfs.com is offline.

Almost nothing for nfs3/4 on nfs planet, why add it.

As stated in the description this thread is about NFS1 to NFS6 (classic nfs games). NFSplanet still hosts files for NFS:Porsche (NFS5) and NFS:HP2 (NFS6).

Greetings

Like to mention you can't download cars anymore at NFSunlimited.net, the links are not found or lead to GTAgaming.

Yes, I can confirm that. Seems they deleted all pre-2009/2010 files. So NFS 4-6 category is basically dead there.

Quote from: Freak-DS on Feb 21, 2015,  4:18 AMNFSBolide was facing charges by Ferrari. They forced him to stop building and remove his Ferraris for NFS4 off his website. That story could be read up somewhere, I don't remember where.

Butch had no problem with Ferrari. He rebuilt his Ferrari cars for GT Legends and released them on RacingFR website. His problem was with another brand, a currently defunct one, and the work of mischievous people looking to prey on an innocent artist for a quick buck.

Quote from: Freak-DS on Feb 21, 2015,  4:18 AMHowever, when I read that, I contacted the main manufacturer I build cars of - Porsche - and guess what? I got a permission to build their cars. That was back when the first Cayman appeared, mainly because I was trying to get blueprints of it, which they won't send. Porsche is cool about noncommercial projects, because it's free publicity for them. As far as I know, Ferrari is the only manufacturer so far, that tried to sue a modder of a racing game for making free publicity for them, which is idiotic. Car manufacturers profit of such things as racing game addons.

I don't think any honest manufacturer would object. Especially in your case since you're truly devoted to the marque.

Quote from: Freak-DS on Feb 21, 2015,  4:18 AMThe point about permissions, and why Will's tracks for example, which were clearly made without permissions of the original authors are still online, is simply because everyone here tries to keep the NFS4 scene alive. I have thougt a lot about the permission and credits stuff in the past weeks, because Will pokes me all the time about it, and I figured that by strictly enforcing what is right, the scene is harmed more than it benefits from that. Since it's a personal concern for me to keep NFS 4 alive, I wouldn't want to do things that harm the scene.

It's difficult to say what's "right". Many cars used to be exclusive to one site or another, but back then people didn't think about the long term. Also, more people built their own cars instead of converting so there was the artistic sense and intellectual property.

I've noticed lots of cars are exclusive to NFSCars (either by modder's will or by only being available there) and my last visit there wasn't very pleasant since I don't know what Mike Geise plans to do with the site. It feels abandoned and a pale shadow of its former self. My adblock plugin also registered no less than 71 instances of malware coming from the site and I could only freely navigate by disabling it. Even then, it was slow as fuck. Streetdogs also got nailed and lost most of its content, and most of the original NFS modding sites no longer exist.

I think there must be conditions for reupload. Original content must be intact, for one.

List updated:

- www.gigafront.de down.
- www.nfsstreetdogs.de down.
- Re-added registration hint for www.gtrcars.net

Wish you a nice christmas time and a happy new year and hope to see you again in 2016  :afro:

With Gigafront down, we lose a lot of nfs4 files.Glad I downloaded a lot there the past year.Happily Streetdogs isn't down yet.

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Dec 19, 2015,  3:49 AM
- www.gigafront.de down.

Aww. Guess that was only a matter of time, but still takes you by surprise.  :( Browsing was difficult because it would always re-set your filter options when you went to the next page and there was no info about the author unless you actually downloaded a zip and opened it, but still I'd like to have had the chance to look a bit longer.

Quote from: noise on Dec 20, 2015,  2:51 AM
With Gigafront down, we lose a lot of nfs4 files.Glad I downloaded a lot there the past year.Happily Streetdogs isn't down yet.

Noise did you get all their cop stuff for HighStakes? I got almost all the good ones (left the dippy ones) but there was one I couldn't get..It's a 1970 something Badenwürttemburg Polizei Porsche 911 Targa, It was plain white and I think only had POLIZEI on the front nose, A rare find. I've thought of just finding a old enough car and making it but if someone has it I'll use it instead.

Sorry Paul I don't know the car.And I'm not so much into policecars.

Geez, after watching this topic, I'm starting to feel extremely disappointed now. The classic NFS series is dying.

Now the Gigafront site becomes www.toplist-100.de (an online gaming clan site), what a letdown. We've lost so many NFS4 stuffs.

NFSCars site also becomes extremely difficult to navigate now. Its search function and file filtering system are butchered now.

What should we do now? I'm clueless now. :'(

Quote from: Stifen_DY on Dec 26, 2015,  2:52 AM
Geez, after watching this topic, I'm starting to feel extremely disappointed now. The classic NFS series is dying.

Now the Gigafront site becomes www.toplist-100.de (an online gaming clan site), what a letdown. We've lost so many NFS4 stuffs.

NFSCars site also becomes extremely difficult to navigate now. Its search function and file filtering system are butchered now.

What should we do now? I'm clueless now. :'(

I'm in the process of collecting as much NFSCars stuff as I can, the worthwhile stuff at least not the dozens of tuned NFS4 EA M5s. The problem is that it takes really long because I haven't found a way of mass downloading and the server probably wouldn't like it either. So it's difficult to get cars like Ryuji Kainoh's and NUH Creations' (Christian Xaver made a lot of unique cars you'll never see in modern games). And that's only for NFS4. NFS5 has a lot of new stuff that came out recently, NFS6 has many legacy conversions, and NFS3 has some vintage stuff.

Quote from: Zpectre on Dec 26, 2015, 12:16 PM

Quote from: Stifen_DY on Dec 26, 2015,  2:52 AM
Geez, after watching this topic, I'm starting to feel extremely disappointed now. The classic NFS series is dying.

Now the Gigafront site becomes www.toplist-100.de (an online gaming clan site), what a letdown. We've lost so many NFS4 stuffs.

NFSCars site also becomes extremely difficult to navigate now. Its search function and file filtering system are butchered now.

What should we do now? I'm clueless now. :'(

I'm in the process of collecting as much NFSCars stuff as I can, the worthwhile stuff at least not the dozens of tuned NFS4 EA M5s. The problem is that it takes really long because I haven't found a way of mass downloading and the server probably wouldn't like it either. So it's difficult to get cars like Ryuji Kainoh's and NUH Creations' (Christian Xaver made a lot of unique cars you'll never see in modern games). And that's only for NFS4. NFS5 has a lot of new stuff that came out recently, NFS6 has many legacy conversions, and NFS3 has some vintage stuff.

Good idea. We do what we can at NFS Police HQ as well. Do you know if Christian (NUH) is even still making stuff? I tried long ago to contact him about making some police conversions of his vehicles by leaving a comment on NFS Cars..Never got a reply from him. And this seems to be happening alot with files on NFS Cars so we adopted a policy of try it and if they (makers) complain we can always take it down later.

BTW I know of NO mass downloading way with these files..You just have to download them one by one sadly. Now you used to be able to browse around alot of old sites using Archive.Org but they screwed it all up now and it only shows pages and pics..No download links found using it work now days since they changed to that beta crap.

Commenting is propably the most inefficient way to ask an author for permission, specially when they made as many cars as Christian Xaver (NUH). He disappeared from the surface years ago, I used to chat with him on ICQ but he simply didn't come back online at some point, neither respond to emails. No idea if he is still alive either.

http://www.nfs.gen.tr/category/nfs-high-stakes/
Hi fellas :)
Here is another site to dl various nfshs cars.it's in turkish language tho.nvm to me ehehe ;)
Wishing everyone happy holidays  ;)

Quote from: Freak-DS on Dec 27, 2015,  5:34 AM
Commenting is propably the most inefficient way to ask an author for permission, specially when they made as many cars as Christian Xaver (NUH). He disappeared from the surface years ago, I used to chat with him on ICQ but he simply didn't come back online at some point, neither respond to emails. No idea if he is still alive either.

Wow. About like Ryuji then. I think I found his FaceBook but he never responded to messages so I don't know. this is why we started going by the motto of giving credit where it's due but otherwise..gohead and use that file until they say otherwise them selves.

Quote from: Reight on Dec 27, 2015,  6:05 AM
http://www.nfs.gen.tr/category/nfs-high-stakes/
Hi fellas :)
Here is another site to dl various nfshs cars.it's in turkish language tho.nvm to me ehehe ;)
Wishing everyone happy holidays  ;)

Wow..I found some rare stuff on that indeed. Almost amazes me no one tried to make pursuit versions on some of the cars.

Hey, welcome back Reight nice see u here again 😎
This may be a Silly Question,how do I DL. The nice F1 McLaren from the Turkish site on my phone I don't read it well. What do I click on nothing's working for me :(
An I agree with you to Paul Spain, about the files an ever getting any permissions, unless they have to make a 'big Sqeele' about it... 😲
I'm trying to make a Winter track look nicer in time... An fix any road lines of ai. So lmk ok on this thanks Rieght for the link on that happy new year too! 😀  yup.

Thnx Reight for the link.Found nothing new, but every link is welcome now.

Dosyayi lndir = download

Click it and in next window click it again.
Than you see the .zip file in google drive.
Than click on the arrow on top.

Hi Noise I did all you said,an even got farther but on my Device it's being a Pos? I hold down. that arrow on top to try save As. But it crashs out? I'm not on a pc so.. Blows.. But if you know any other way I can get the McLaren it be nice... Sure looks great is that high poly?  Thanks for trying.
Hate when things won't work out rite...on my Device 😨

Just downloaded the Mc laren succesfully on turkish site (only got a car.viv b.t.w.).But the car is by Onager, his cars are also on addons and nfscars.

Did you... Yes that's his name, I seen. the Mp4 one he did? I got that I guess.. not sure if I got his, blue one, with stripe.  @ nfscars last nite. Anyway, better than Defaults for sure.

Thanks for sharing Reight.  :)

- www.nfs.gen.tr added.

Found another small site with some older cars...

- nfshs.gamebanana.com (http://nfshs.gamebanana.com) added.

@Stifen_DY: Indeed, maintanence at nfscars.net seems minimized atm. I mean moderator/admin support was never really good there, but i think now there is only one person responsible for everything and he is busy with RL.
A shame gigafront.de went down now. Couldn't save much from there. Don't have the time to go through all links and neither do i know a good way to batch downloading stuff.  :(

Greetings

edit: fixed link

Hey... Madman thanks for the New Late Christmas Gifts from the Banana Site. I got the nicer F355 Spider Sweet... An oh, Diablo Gtr race,an the Little Fonzi's Corvette. Cheers for that. Jack Frost is beating on my back door now! Ugh, here.. Guess it had to come back here. 😜   at least I can read it an DL. This time. 😺  😎

Sometimes I think NFS4 modding should've gone the Ben Trapp/C-959/Yuriy Antipin way instead of using polygons for detail instead. C-959's revised 959 and XJ220 look amazing, but the low res DirectX menu hurts their quality. :(

Hmm...funny,''Gamebanana'' uploaded 2 not so old Reight/Noise cars 3 years ago.The very old cars were uploaded 5 months ago.Anyway thanks for sharing.

yea,I agree in ways with ya Zpectre on that, do you mean we're the car spins round in showroom floor that?  thx : }

yeah, that game banana, site. They are old an Low poly cars most them I got. But makes my Frame Rate better. Was nice just looking at them again,sure been awhile. Is a Funny name site to agree with Noise.
Dang phone on typos edit: 😉

The list has been updated.

- High Stakes gamefront folder (http://www.gamefront.com/files/listing/pub2/Need_for_Speed_High_Stakes) has been deleted.

- High Stakes page at gamebanana (http://nfshs.gamebanana.com/) has been deleted.

- JimDiabolo's webpage (http://www.tsabrowski.de/NFS-HS) is linked now. I didn't know you have a small website JimD, why haven't you told us?  :)

Thnx for update.Why is gamebanana deleted?

Good question noise.
Some research made me notice, that they have just changed the link.
So this site is still there actually.

HighStakes@gamebanana (http://gamebanana.com/games/5165)

Biggest issue I have is that lots of stuff are being lost because of this refusal to reupload things the authors probably don't even care about anymore. Some people have left this community more than a decade ago...

This is probably why we don't see at NFSAddons stuff that was common at certain websites, and even NFSCars does not have trivial stuff like the Cheat Enabler.

I came across this place by accident, the D/L categories are listed on the right of the page. It seems all pursuit/emergency related, so there may be overlap with other Pursuit focused sites such as Nfs Police HQ, I'm not sure. Oh, and you can only download if you sign in as a member. But anyway:

http://www.emergency-planet.com/files/category/52-need-for-speed-high-stakes-and-hot-pursuit-2-files/

Oh, and this site doesn't really offer any downloads, but I just liked it because it's a long list of tips and tricks for NFS3 and the author is just so enthusiastic. ;) Somewhat typical of how NFS fansites for NFS used to be some 15 years ago...

http://rajazone.tripod.com/docs/nfs/nfscheat.html

Great find Remko.

On emergency-planet there are over 400 nfs4 cars and all files are submitted on jan.28 & 29.Lots of tools also (including Totalpatch)

On rajazone the author warns us that there are no rehab clinics for this addiction.Interesting and funny to read.No idea when this document was written.

Hi there today,yea, Nice Finds there Remko great for other people too here. :)
is the  MikeyPI' Guy the Author: of all them Civilian Cars? nevermind it says he's the, Moderator there.
or is he just the uploader guy at the site.
Never heard of him much owell But i sure like the old, 1996 Dodge Ram 1500 an so on.  8)
yeah, I'm still trying to be, enthusiastic about it also.

Quote from: Remko on Aug 23, 2016,  4:59 PM
I came across this place by accident, the D/L categories are listed on the right of the page. It seems all pursuit/emergency related, so there may be overlap with other Pursuit focused sites such as Nfs Police HQ, I'm not sure. Oh, and you can only download if you sign in as a member. But anyway:

http://www.emergency-planet.com/files/category/52-need-for-speed-high-stakes-and-hot-pursuit-2-files/

Oh, and this site doesn't really offer any downloads, but I just liked it because it's a long list of tips and tricks for NFS3 and the author is just so enthusiastic. ;) Somewhat typical of how NFS fansites for NFS used to be some 15 years ago...

http://rajazone.tripod.com/docs/nfs/nfscheat.html

Interesting. I tried to register on the site (www.emergency-planet.com), but i do not get any confirmation e-mails. Contacting an admin also failed so far.
Do you have an account on that site? Can you confirm that the displayed downloads are actually working?

For the other site:
I think there is quite an amount of sites like this, where just the webpage can be viewed. I could make a new section, like "Memories" or "Nostalgia" where we could list them. Im just worried it will bloat the topic unnecessarily...
What you guys thinking? Remko, how about you making a new topic for this kind of sites? :)

Quote
Interesting. I tried to register on the site (www.emergency-planet.com), but i do not get any confirmation e-mails. Contacting an admin also failed so far.
Do you have an account on that site? Can you confirm that the displayed downloads are actually working?

Oh, I have to admit I haven't tried to register either, I'll give it a try myself and see how it goes. I just looked at the forum index and it says the newest member joined only 12 minutes ago, so I don't think they closed it to new members.

Update: I just signed up and received a validation link via email that I had to click to activate my account, and I can download files now.
Maybe something went wrong during your registration process? I noticed they had a lot of security checks, they made you agree with their ToS, etc. Maybe they've had lots of spam in the past.

About that second site... I didn't really mean to have it added to the list, I agree that it would bloat the list too much, perhaps I should have made that more clear. ;) It was more of an interesting find, even if it offers tips and cheats. But I'm fine with simply having it included in the comments here.

I wonder if there are enough of these sites left active that it would make sense to have a separate section though, I honestly don't know too many of these myself. I sometimes come across them by accident while looking for anything NFS3/4 related. Ironically they remain while the big sites are gone (makes sense since they're often used on free webspace from their IP, or services like Tripod while big online collections cost money to host)

Here's another such a site: from a czech NFS fan: http://ramm.webz.cz/autanfs.htm
Again, not an actual suggestion for the list since the cars aren't that great. Just interesting since it features some unique models (and the links still work)
But if others have several such sites listed in their Favourites, I see no problem in making a new topic. Perhaps combine it with some trips in the Wayback Machine.
Such as: https://web.archive.org/web/19991012180920/http://needforspeed.com/ ;)

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Aug 27, 2016,  6:15 AM

Quote from: Remko on Aug 23, 2016,  4:59 PM
I came across this place by accident, the D/L categories are listed on the right of the page. It seems all pursuit/emergency related, so there may be overlap with other Pursuit focused sites such as Nfs Police HQ, I'm not sure. Oh, and you can only download if you sign in as a member. But anyway:

http://www.emergency-planet.com/files/category/52-need-for-speed-high-stakes-and-hot-pursuit-2-files/

Oh, and this site doesn't really offer any downloads, but I just liked it because it's a long list of tips and tricks for NFS3 and the author is just so enthusiastic. ;) Somewhat typical of how NFS fansites for NFS used to be some 15 years ago...

http://rajazone.tripod.com/docs/nfs/nfscheat.html

Interesting. I tried to register on the site (www.emergency-planet.com), but i do not get any confirmation e-mails. Contacting an admin also failed so far.
Do you have an account on that site? Can you confirm that the displayed downloads are actually working?

For the other site:
I think there is quite an amount of sites like this, where just the webpage can be viewed. I could make a new section, like "Memories" or "Nostalgia" where we could list them. Im just worried it will bloat the topic unnecessarily...
What you guys thinking? Remko, how about you making a new topic for this kind of sites? :)

I have downloaded the tool, "Car Checker", from there. The fact I was forced to register to download anything pissed me off to the point I don't even remember my username and password there. Probably the confirmation system got bugged after that day.

Dunno, i tried really hard to register on the www.emergency-planet.com site, even by creating a new mail account at aol.com (even used a simple name without space, dots or other special characters...) but without success.
I dont get any mails from their automated system, not even to spam/junk folders, simply nothing.

I'm going to add it to the list anyways, but i would like to ask everyone to give some feedback, on how this site is working for you.

- www.emergency-planet.com added.

I discovered another small french site not on the list yet.
- royaume.xander.free.fr (http://royaume.xander.free.fr/index.htm) added.

Also added the page -=The Running Racers=- (German) (http://the-running-racers-clan.ath.cx/) to Online Racing, which seems to have activity still (in 2016 at least).

Other nostalgic sites:
- an early Warez-site :D (don't worry, the links aren't functional anymore) (http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/david.s/saturn/weekly2.htm)
- Marko's NFS HS page (http://free-os.htnet.hr/nfs/index.html)
- NFS Sports Gaming (http://nfs.sports-gaming.com/nfs4.shtml)
- Reesy's NFS page (http://members.tripod.com/~reesy05/need.html)
- unBtable's NFS:HS Site (http://www.friendly-pc-gamers.net/PCG-UB/index.php)
- NFS TRACKS`N MORE (http://members.tripod.com/nfs3_tools/)
- Team Xtreme Speed (http://anca.lenoble.chez-alice.fr/index.htm)
- YiannisPanako's site (http://www.angelfire.com/games/YiannisPanakos/)

Webarchive:
- JP-Racing (http://web.archive.org/web/20050305203153/http://jpracing.racerplanet.com/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=110)
- Need For Speed G-B (http://web.archive.org/web/20080901035125/http://nfsgb.nd4spdworld.com/)
- Total-NFS (https://web.archive.org/web/20051108135959/http://www.totalnfs.net/info.html)

edit: link fixed

Tried to register on emergency-planet. But what does Xfire mean?

Like I said earlier, I have no explanation why the registration just won't work, for me it was a matter of seconds. Maybe I was just lucky. Once you sign in, each item gets a blue "Download" button at the right of the screen. But then you get another Disclaimer screen you have to OK before you actually get your file.
It works, but there's a lot of hoops they make you jump through.  :-\ It's also not too user-friendly that the 300+ Emergency Vehicles for NFS4 don't seem to be sorted in any subcategories; all you can do is sort by name, DL count, upload date, etc. but not by brand or location, for example.

Quote from: noise on Sep 04, 2016,  8:44 AM
Tried to register on emergency-planet. But what does Xfire mean?

Xfire (I had to look it up) is a freeware instant messenger that was used a lot for connecting online gamers. It also had voice chat at one point, but it was shut down last year.
I'm guessing that box was for entering your entering your XFire ID, just like you can enter your ICQ or AOL ID here and on other forums, if you want. I left it empty.

Impressive search work on those nostalgic sites though, There were several I had never heard of, and I already consider myself someone who would spend more time hunting old NFS stuff than a sane person would.  :D

I agree that kind of stuff would probably be fine for a separate, dedicated thread, call it the NFS Wayback Machine perhaps? Maybe not very original.  ;) And I agree it could also include Internet Archive links, as long as the archived sites aren't too broken.
Possibly some earlier versions of the official Needforspeed sites, the official Porsche Unleashed page was preserved pretty well: https://web.archive.org/web/20010203061900/http://www.needforspeed.com/porsche/pc/index.html

Just signed up and downloaded a car.

The site and forum is only interesting for Emergency game, can't find anything related to nfs4 except the downloadsection.

Quote from: Remko on Sep 05, 2016,  5:10 PM
Like I said earlier, I have no explanation why the registration just won't work, for me it was a matter of seconds. Maybe I was just lucky. Once you sign in, each item gets a blue "Download" button at the right of the screen. But then you get another Disclaimer screen you have to OK before you actually get your file.
It works, but there's a lot of hoops they make you jump through.

Yeah, like you said the "newest member" readout indicates, it is working for some people. But i would really like to know what technical oddity is preventing me from getting registered there...

Quote from: Remko on Sep 05, 2016,  5:10 PM
I agree that kind of stuff would probably be fine for a separate, dedicated thread, call it the NFS Wayback Machine perhaps? Maybe not very original.  ;) And I agree it could also include Internet Archive links, as long as the archived sites aren't too broken.
Possibly some earlier versions of the official Needforspeed sites, the official Porsche Unleashed page was preserved pretty well: https://web.archive.org/web/20010203061900/http://www.needforspeed.com/porsche/pc/index.html

NFS Wayback-Machine - Sounds good to me :)

btw: Totally overlooked the czech nfs3 site (http://ramm.webz.cz/index.htm) in your other post. Seems fully functional to me. I will add it to the list of course. ;)

also: anyone knows whats up with gtrcars.net? Getting linked to a hoster page saying "This domain name expired on 8/27/2016 and is pending renewal or deletion." Do they have an alternate internet adress?

Concerning gtrcars.net I found this:

http://drivingpassion.net/archive/downloads.php?do=cat&id=19

About Emergency-planet, I found 4 (police)cars that are not availible on any other site, so it's a usefull addition.

Thanks for the information noise.

I just managed to get registered now at emergency-planet with another mail adress using Strato Webmail.
The mail providers aol.com, aol.de, web.de and gmx.de did not work for me. Not sure at which point or from which side there is a denial. Maybe they use some old security protocols that are blocked by the big providers (no encryption or whatever... we will never know probably) ?

Glad you finally got through. Hope it doesn't disappoint you after all that work.

Quote from: noise on Sep 06, 2016,  1:47 AM
Concerning gtrcars.net I found this:

http://drivingpassion.net/archive/downloads.php?do=cat&id=19

Yeah, that took me by surprise as well, even though I hadn't been much to GTR lately. I used to post there occasionally a year or 2 ago, but I stopped because there was a bit too much drama going on for my tastes.
According to the most recent post on their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/drivingpassion.net/ they are almost done with transferring to the new location, so they may be live again pretty soon.

Is there much activity about nfs4 on facebook anyway?
I have no account, so....

Too Bad.... :(
I can't DL the Regaetton RS Murcielagos (This is as a JPRACING F40 Rescalled that webarchive said "can't find the archive")

The poly of Both those cars really fit for this game :3 ....(4500-5500 poly)
That's what i want.....

The F40 is availible (download works) here on nfsaddons, it's actually 6069 polies b.t.w.
The Lambo has broken link on nfscars.net.But I can send you the car if you like.

Quote from: noise on Sep 07, 2016,  2:02 AM
Is there much activity about nfs4 on facebook anyway?
I have no account, so....

About NFS4, not that much that I know of, aside from the authors themselves (like Freak-DS or AJ) posting screenshots from their releases or WIP. Even the official NfsAddons page does little more than post the SOTD each day.
I've got people in my friendlist from my early TotalNFS/Racerplanet days, but that contact is mostly non-nfs related now. ;)

Most NFS related activity on FB these days is based on recent games such as Rivals, 2015 and No Limits.

Quote from: noise on Sep 08, 2016, 12:52 AM
The F40 is availible (download works) here on nfsaddons, it's actually 6069 polies b.t.w.
The Lambo has broken link on nfscars.net.But I can send you the car if you like.

Alright....i want it :D
Thank you Noise....But, where do you share it to me with message ? Or link ?
(ahh...Regaetton Murcielago RS also i want...)

I can PM a dropbox link

Alright....i'll be waiting for it.....(now still 0 private message on mine)

List has been updated.

- www.gtrcars.net aka www.drivingpassion.net is back online - links have been updated.
- www.ramm.webz.cz added.

Hi dear Mates.can someone help me out and contact guys over at drivingpassion pls ?
I cant log in to the forum/site.looks like i lost my pw.
Remko i would wish Nfsaddons and Drivingpassion was friends.yeah true..there was alot drama once.but that's all past behind now.

Quote from: DrivingPassion@facebook https://www.facebook.com/drivingpassion.net/Drivingpassion.net is nearly up and running, if you had an old account with gtrcars.net, you may continue to use your old username, however the passwords were not transferred so use the forgot password to reclaim your account. The forums are not yet open, last minute tweaking needs to be finished first.

Ty ;)

It's nice to see some working old NFS sites I never know before! =D

Btw, can someone upload every NFSHS cars with unique characters (like é) from NFSCars to NFS Addons? It annoys me so much that I can't download cars like Reggaeton RS' Murciélago LP640 (http://www.nfscars.net/highstakes/file/17370/) and PrivetDan_14's HSV GTO Coupé (http://www.nfscars.net/highstakes/file/10134/) from NFSCars after all this time. So many years have passed and NFSCars' bugs are still not fixed . :(

Sorry for double post, but I've found a third party mirror of Gamefront called gamefront.online. That site has saved the NFSHS files from the now-defunct official Gamefront website! Check this out: https://gamefront.online/files/listing/pub2/Need_for_Speed_High_Stakes/ (https://gamefront.online/files/listing/pub2/Need_for_Speed_High_Stakes/)

Great find  :)

Will add this asap.

At the same time i have to report that RVD's Skins Shop is offline. Site is timing out since several weeks.

I've found a website with some NFSHS tracks. Check this out:
http://www.geocities.ws/nfstracks/ (http://www.geocities.ws/nfstracks/)
Keep in mind that only Stonetown, Daytona, Atlantica 2, Durham City, and Firetown are downloadable. The rest are dead ND4SPDWorld links.

And a bit off-topic:
The management of NFSCars is getting worse. The files with names containing the character é, á, and ó are still not downloadable. There are many stealers who upload other people files (and claim those files as their works) and the admins don't even remove those stolen files from the site. Yuck! >:(

Interesting find. Thanks for sharing Stifen_DY

- www.geocities.ws added.

Well, atm nfscars is basically unattended i guess (no moderator names at newly approved files, last official news post from April 28th, 2016). I wonder what happens if there is some hacking attempt or other technical difficulties... 

You're welcome, MADMAN_nfs. ^-^

Some new findings:
OXI DESIGNS (http://www.geocities.ws/oxi_designs/) -> Small site with 4 unique NFSHS cars
Leflic 3D Cars (http://www.leflic.net/bat.html) -> Small site with some unique NFS3 cars

You are right about the current state of NFSCars. Sad but true. :'(
I hope NFSCars gets better soon. That's all I can say about it.

Very nice. Good job Stifen_DY
2nd update for today - keep it up :)

- Oxi Designs (http://www.geocities.ws/oxi_designs/) added.
- www.leflic.net (http://www.leflic.net/bat.html) added.

Greetings

NFSCars has been relaunched in new layout! Check this out: http://www.nfscars.com/ (http://www.nfscars.com/)
And here's the screenshot of the new layout: https://postimg.org/image/amty2d9bv/ (https://postimg.org/image/amty2d9bv/)
It's still slightly buggy, though. Many files (like the files with names containing the character é, á, and ó, among others) have their download link deleted (maybe until Mike343 transfers those from the old site to the new site). Still, It's better than nothing. :D

I like the new design of nfscars, looks more like the one that they had before the white redesign. Also the sort functions seem to work properly now and the "more by this author" option is back.
As for the lost files im less optimistic. My guess is they have to be reuploaded, otherwise they vanish from the site forever.

As for the lost files, most of them are from 'Tools" section, though it'll be a huge loss if Mike343 can't recover them from the old NFSCars. :-\
At least the site doesn't end up like the relaunched ND4SPDWORLD, which has almost none of the files from the old ND4SPDWORLD. Not to mention that ND4SPDWORLD hasn't been updated since 2013, so ND4SPDWORLD's relaunch is quite pointless IMO. :(

Hey guys, I've been just checking out some of my external-HDD archives with all kind of stuff and recently found some really interesting models for High Stakes. Like '69 Riviera in civilian and police variants, '38 Corsair and '69 Daytona from Ground Shaker; '63 Avanti from Wingnut and '62 Bel Air from BigBlock. Looks like complete zips fortunately.
But it appears that now I can't find them anywhere online. Is anybody aware that there are still some running resources where I can find other cars from these authors, if there were some?

Quote from: Rider66 on Nov 28, 2016,  7:17 AM
Hey guys, I've been just checking out some of my external-HDD archives with all kind of stuff and recently found some really interesting models for High Stakes. Like '69 Riviera in civilian and police variants, '38 Corsair and '69 Daytona from Ground Shaker; '63 Avanti from Wingnut and '62 Bel Air from BigBlock. Looks like complete zips fortunately.
But it appears that now I can't find them anywhere online. Is anybody aware that there are still some running resources where I can find other cars from these authors, if there were some?

Can you put those up for download? I love 1960's-1970's police cars.

Quote from: Paul Spain on Nov 28, 2016, 12:34 PM
Can you put those up for download? I love 1960's-1970's police cars.

Paul, I just sent a link to Google Drive, contains all 6 cars.

Hey and welcome to the forums Rider66.
The cars you listed were downloadable at jpracing.net but went down with the site. I doubt you can get them for download now anywhere. Very quality cars, a shame they are not available anymore.
Maybe we can reupload them here at nfsaddons?

Good idea, I think. If it's not against the rules. Studebaker looks fine in terms of reuploading without archive changes, aswell as others too. Only prohibitions I see is to either convert or change archive contents.
Probably I also got some more - missing Bel Air 2-door '57 from Shaundaddy, '55 Thunderbird from Marcel Hennersdorf, '67 Cadillac by Buck Murdock and probably some others too - but need to double-check on what I have.
Sent messages to emails included in readmes just to double-check. Ground Shaker doesn't seem to be responding - it appears email included is quite old, and not working anymore. Thunderbird was exclusive for nfs-zone.de, and there are no contact info in Bel Air '57 and Cadillac.

Hi, Welcome Rider66, and thanks for wanting to contribute to the collection. I appreciate that you're trying to do the right thing by getting the original author's OK. But yeah, most of the time such email accounts aren't valid anymore, and the 'exclusive to a site' factor alo doesn't really hold anymore I think, if that particular site stopped existing long ago.
If you've got the original ZIP archives, readme's and all, then I'm not stopping you from uploading them here. (If only because I'm a fan of vintage American cars myself ;)) If you're unsure if a zip is original, then I can look in my own archives and see what I can find.

The 55 T-bird by MH  is already here, though: http://www.nfsaddons.com/nfshs/cars/Ford/211/

Only ones I'm not sure of is GroundShaker/JokinenDesign's stuff, because he DID have his stuff hosted here in the past, but then after a few years he asked me to remove it all. So I did, although he never gave me a reason why.
I admit I'm not too sure what the 'right' thing to do is in this case...

Quote from: Remko on Nov 29, 2016,  5:04 PM
Hi, Welcome Rider66, and thanks for wanting to contribute to the collection. I appreciate that you're trying to do the right thing by getting the original author's OK. But yeah, most of the time such email accounts aren't valid anymore, and the 'exclusive to a site' factor alo doesn't really hold anymore I think, if that particular site stopped existing long ago.
If you've got the original ZIP archives, readme's and all, then I'm not stopping you from uploading them here. (If only because I'm a fan of vintage American cars myself ;)) If you're unsure if a zip is original, then I can look in my own archives and see what I can find.

The 55 T-bird by MH  is already here, though: http://www.nfsaddons.com/nfshs/cars/Ford/211/

Only ones I'm not sure of is GroundShaker/JokinenDesign's stuff, because he DID have his stuff hosted here in the past, but then after a few years he asked me to remove it all. So I did, although he never gave me a reason why.
I admit I'm not too sure what the 'right' thing to do is in this case...

Thanks, well, I'll start to upload them one-by-one. As for GroundShaker's files, yes, I remember that I saw him here some time ago. Can't say for sure how to handle such situation. Anyway, I guess either we can keep officially for preservation purpose, or just keep them somewhere in attachments/outside, being available only by request.

I don't know if it's been covered or not but I found STD Design's site out of Russia ,Lots of old cars and tracks there.

I can add it once I get home from work.

Hey Paul Spain,
do you talk about www.std-design.narod.ru by Sergi and Alex? That site is already listed at the Author websites.

Greetings

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Dec 03, 2016,  5:43 AM
Hey Paul Spain,
do you talk about www.std-design.narod.ru by Sergi and Alex? That site is already listed at the Author websites.

Greetings

Yeah that's it. Do you have this one too? Net Maniac. It's in their links and has some good NFS HighStakes files as well but unlike STD there is no English option, One must use Chrome's translate option.

http://www.netmaniac.narod.ru/

Ok cool,

- www.netmaniac.narod.ru added

At the same time i noticed Jimi Wichs site is timing out

- www.jimi-w.de is down

List has been updated.

Found an author website. UnBtable's home page with some of his tracks.

http://www.friendly-pc-gamers.net/PCG-UB/index.php (http://www.friendly-pc-gamers.net/PCG-UB/index.php)

Well,
i guess i can add that, although there is only his "Canyon" track downloadable.
The rest are links to other websites.
I wonder what happend to the Redrock Mod project.

Greetings

List has been updated.

Remember the Detomaso Pantera that was made for NFS3 (and the Qvale Mangusta for NFS4) by Digital Thunder?

That site still exists: http://www.digitalthunder.com/nfs-pantera/

The d/l for the nfs3 Pantera still works, the Qvale doesn't (but it's still available at NFSCars)

Still fun to see it survive. ;)

Found Zacabeb's old NFS site with a couple of mods in it:
http://home.swipnet.se/zacabeb/

Also, the 4lower's download link is broken

Last news update 5 dec 1999 on zacabeb's site, mainly cynism and poetry.Nice reading

2 interesting track tweaks though. So good find anyway.

Quote from: AJ_Lethal on Dec 27, 2016,  1:29 PM
Found Zacabeb's old NFS site with a couple of mods in it:
http://home.swipnet.se/zacabeb/

Also, the 4lower's download link is broken

AJ do you mean the Stiffenroll thing? I have it and can post it up if you would like, I never played with it yet though.

Neither the Stiffnroll or 4lower is not what I recommend to test (i created it).

If you would like to find a sim related (very accurate) handling (and probably test it it on a favorite model), go there http://www.nfscars.net/forums/topics/nfs-high-stakes/43643/2/ and get a Corvette C6 and Zonda early alpha (nearly the latest post).

I can easly say, my prevoius oncreation to handling was piece-of-trash (stiffnroll and all the flowers)
Really

Once I'll trace a B class (Challenger RT to be sure). You guys will get full toolkit to mess with.

Thanks for the input guys. Never saw Zacabeb's site before. Nice find.

Geminiyo, I wouldn't consider your older handlings a "piece-of-trash". I like the mass/weight transfer you created with the new handling that makes the car swerve. Though, the use of a controller/analog doesn't make much difference now. The steering now is a bit too weak for my taste (tested with Corvette C6).

The 4Lower site is still working. Version 1.0 is still downloadable but the "Key To The Highway" link, that contains new addon tracks and loading screens, is broken atm.

Geminiyo, are you related with that site (www.fino.w6.ru/nfs4.htm) or is someone just hosting your old mod?
Do you have an own homepage or public hoster-folder that we can link here? :)

List has been updated.

- Zacabeb's NFS site (http://home.swipnet.se/zacabeb/) added.
- www.digitalthunder.com (http://www.digitalthunder.com) added.

Greetings

@MADMAN_nfs
I have all 4lowers archives on th personal computer. I havent tested em Recently.
https://box.unet.by/f/13/13814_f5d.jpg
But I still think its piece-of-trash b/c  even if/and anything out of release condidates was fun, it wasnt as realistical as Recent statement (of configurations). Im quite sure about the lack for atleast 5 realistical feautres (or maybe even more) in previous 4lowers. Now its just nearly the perfect. Perhaps you dont believe that.

"The steering now is a bit too weak for my taste (tested with Corvette C6)." - thats true and I know that  but if to make it faster, it will ruin the overal realism. /// About Analog use: It can be use but for most people who playing online it will seems a TOO hard to handle.

fino.w6.ru/nfs4 - yea, its my site. I dont have an access to FTP b/c the hoster closes the free-hosting. I think it will live until 2099 but im sure no one would ever get access to it. I dont have anyother web-pages.

^
Well today i thought in brains: what if, I will (mistakenly) populise the ratios to all 50 cars. Make the OAT (which is probably a dead feature asides with handbrake use). Well if you have seen "Dumb High Stakes Drivers" video you will understand about it (whe g-transfer parameter in high plus, the allowness of OAT remaining unknown for - I havent tested Opponent Acceleration Tables since last 4lower build. Too much lazy to do that (perhaps). ...
... Aaand what if I fix Fedata, and make it ready to be played in CAREER. Gain to 4lower's cars similar serial numbers that original has, and so, make the "Chevy" tournament or "Porsche" be playable with its closest cousins...
...Get out the porper car Prices somehwere (I have no idea about that)...
...Take out perfect shadow, smoke and tire traces. Also fix the shadow transparancy (under the car) to each track: original and additional.  Put it all in, and release it as 4lower v5

... but something telling me. It will take some time.

An update once again.

Website "Unofficial Need for Speed Resources" of Denis Auroux (http://www.math.polytechnique.fr/cmat/auroux/nfs/index.us.html) added.

If anyone is interested, I was able to find C-959's first versions of the Porsche 959 and Jaguar XJ220 on Gamefront. He eventually rebuilt them from scratch with photorealistic textures at a reasonable polycount but, if you'd like an even lower poly version, there's his early models.

The Jag in particular comes with a very cool upgrade that turns it into the XJ220C, which achieved a class win at Le Mans before being unfairly disqualified by the ACO officials.

List updated.

- www.nfshome.com (http://www.nfshome.com/) stopped hosting files.
- needforspeed3.racing (http://needforspeed3.racing/frontpage.php) added at Online Racing section.

edit: checked the affiliates site at nfshome again
- added www.needforspeed.sk (http://needforspeed.sk/gameinfo.php?id=133) with Hot Pursuit 2 content.

Thanks for adding our nfs 3 website. :)

Yes sure, with prior knowledge of the site it would have been part of the list already :)

If you know any site that might fit this topic, you can always suggest it here. The more people contribute the more complete the list that is given...

Great madman ;)

Thanks MADMAN, this is actually a great project. I knew NFSHome stopped hosting files, but I was under the impression it was just a temporary issue.

Unfortunately, most of the new websites that appear at this point just mirror stuff that we have already, though it's worth adding more of them for the odd file.

WTF is up with NFS Home? Seems alot of these sites close cause people get bored with it and stop having them open, Like was the case with old ND4SPDWORLD I once spoke to Texnolith (I think that's how you spell it) to see if he'd release any of his cop vehicle or other files, Says he got bored and gave it up so he could go into what people call "ricering" cars and I have saw pics of them before. Still though even if it was never updated could have atleast kept the links working I think.

I think I have the perfect solution to keep from loosing these treasures, We ALL band together and form a unique NFs modder's club, See HotMail lets everyone share files and it's FREE no website costs, Only have to worry about paying your ISP's bill to keep your net. We'd have our own secret thing going, We could mention our selves and what not and if people wanna join up with it they have to pass a short exam to make sure they're trust worthy, Then they can join in too. Easy huh :).

Well, that guy who popped up here claiming to have tried to purchase Markus Dippold's NFS3 DVD has never returned my message asking for help in the restoration of the RK cars... Some people don't seem to like teamwork.

I'm hearing you,  buds an Being Trust worthy,is hard to find? :)
Yeah,.I think others don't want Team, work for all the Responsibility, involved an,
Stress pressure, ? I'm trying to have a better, day an Learn my nicer two programs I got
  Good post there PaulSpain.

Quote from: Paul Spain on Mar 19, 2017,  2:47 AM
WTF is up with NFS Home? Seems alot of these sites close cause people get bored with it and stop having them open, Like was the case with old ND4SPDWORLD I once spoke to Texnolith (I think that's how you spell it) to see if he'd release any of his cop vehicle or other files, Says he got bored and gave it up so he could go into what people call "ricering" cars and I have saw pics of them before. Still though even if it was never updated could have atleast kept the links working I think.

I think I have the perfect solution to keep from loosing these treasures, We ALL band together and form a unique NFs modder's club, See HotMail lets everyone share files and it's FREE no website costs, Only have to worry about paying your ISP's bill to keep your net. We'd have our own secret thing going, We could mention our selves and what not and if people wanna join up with it they have to pass a short exam to make sure they're trust worthy, Then they can join in too. Easy huh :).

Agreed. Moreover, when it comes to some community-based projects, it's time to think about some subversion systems. Bitbucket, probably, or similar source. Won't be too hard to proceed with any updates for any project that way. As for the things that's going offline - the question is more about copyright issues with original authors.

Quote from: Rider66 on Mar 20, 2017,  1:13 PM

Quote from: Paul Spain on Mar 19, 2017,  2:47 AM
WTF is up with NFS Home? Seems alot of these sites close cause people get bored with it and stop having them open, Like was the case with old ND4SPDWORLD I once spoke to Texnolith (I think that's how you spell it) to see if he'd release any of his cop vehicle or other files, Says he got bored and gave it up so he could go into what people call "ricering" cars and I have saw pics of them before. Still though even if it was never updated could have atleast kept the links working I think.

I think I have the perfect solution to keep from loosing these treasures, We ALL band together and form a unique NFs modder's club, See HotMail lets everyone share files and it's FREE no website costs, Only have to worry about paying your ISP's bill to keep your net. We'd have our own secret thing going, We could mention our selves and what not and if people wanna join up with it they have to pass a short exam to make sure they're trust worthy, Then they can join in too. Easy huh :).

Agreed. Moreover, when it comes to some community-based projects, it's time to think about some subversion systems. Bitbucket, probably, or similar source. Won't be too hard to proceed with any updates for any project that way. As for the things that's going offline - the question is more about copyright issues with original authors.

Well if speaking of vehicle models to use, Unless they are 100% fantasy made like some of Chris Xavier's or like Rockstar does in GTA games then ultimatly the vehicle manufacturers hold all copyright on that, Tracks is diffrent, I think these could truely be entirely claimed by the maker as I don't think countries or cities are CopyRighted, Might be wrong there though. I myself don't believe in CopyRight though as I find it often times to be too restrictive, I prefer Creative Commons and wish that's what all fell under, That is a thing where as long as you accknowledge you didn't create something and are only using it and as long as you are not trying to profit off it's use you can use it. Creative Commons is the way to go in my opinion as it's less restrictive and is a principal of share and share alike while still forcing the sharer to give credit where due upon.

I hear an Agree to what you said,PaulSpain,an Rider66 but I'm doing better on my last Final project whenever i get Finished on her. I'm able to make,edit,my own Textures. I'm taking out NfsMW,an UG'2 more now,.so I'm glad a friend car maker,told helped, me learn these two programs, now. Its because I haven't had them, yrs ago.. An I'm glad I've Finally mastered, Some, of, this Ability  8) but I still like to use others Texs, but I can color them, sharpen, a not just" so called take others Textures... its fun fixing Fsh tool errors, ::) good day guys.
Yes I like that Shared Commons, idea more.

I noticed something funny about www.nfshome.com.... while the website has indeed changed so that the files aren't accessible anymore, it seems the files (or most of them) are still on the server. Check http://www.nfshome.com/downloads/ to see what I mean, you can still access the files for each game by browsing the folders.

Could be that the site wasn't actively shut down, but merely that the database somehow got corrupted.

Guess we got a second chance to browse the collection for anything we want to save, in case the site actually does close down in the future. ;)

Oh great, i did not notice that. Yeah i assume the page did not receive much maintainance in the past years. Last file update was in March 2009.
Someone knows staff of that site who could fix the database? Or who could clarify if the site is about to shut down or not?

List updated.

Yeah, I found out by accident, when I was viewing the site in the Internet Wayback Machine. To my surprise, many image and download links still worked. Probably still an easier way to actually browse the collection.  ;)

I believe the webmaster to be Dutch (Martin Kollaard), but I'm not familiar with him (can't find a Staff or Contact page on the website either)

Didnt wanted to create special topic for this message.
Do anyone heard of this truely Fantastical programm to High Stakes and Hot Pursuit ?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwmqNtDg30G6VnZzVW44eHo3YmM/view?usp=sharing

I found it on harddrive. Somehow i have never installed it before the Today.

...Its not only allows to set the colors to prevented .fce's, but many other things that is relative .FCE files (damged fce's, count of polygons, the car parts names, driver movement...)

Yes i know the prog. Especially useful for color editing since you can independetly set the opacity of a color. Tiny and simple to use. It is running without installation too (just dat and exe file). The author is Rocket.
Still downloadable at nfscars.net -> http://www.nfscars.net/need-for-speed-high-stakes/2/files/view/5231/

FCE Converter is standard tool in every author's kit, haha. :D It's also important for setting rotateable vertices in the driver.

However, I prefer to set the base color in FCE Colors by Klaus Heyne and only after that fine tune it in FCE Converter.

I never used that program to convert files to HighStakes from NFS 3, I simply opened them in CarCad and then saved as NFS4 FCE.

Looks like nfshome.com is functional again. Guess the database was fixed.

List updated.

List updated.

- www.need4speed.ucoz.ru (http://need4speed.ucoz.ru/load/) added
- John Kahler's site (http://users.beagle.com.au/jmk222/nfshs.html) added

John Kahler also has a journal at deviantart.com --> JohnK222 (https://johnk222.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=%2F&edit=0&q=need+speed)

what's happen of Econobrick's website...even rr2000.toshiba3..........
both of that author, 404 not found what i got......

Quote from: dandresden on Aug 28, 2017, 12:59 AM
what's happen of Econobrick's website...even rr2000.toshiba3..........
both of that author, 404 not found what i got......

Indeed, http://crud.toshiba-3.com is completely offline. So Econobrick's NFS and Carmageddon files are no longer available.

I will also remove Ferarri Man's site http://fmhsmod.wordpress.com, since it is missing the key aspect of this thread now. His dropbox account was suspended due to exceeding traffic limits, so the only remaining and working links there point to external sites like nfscars.net. To change that it would require him to actively reupload the affected files and update his blog which is, quite likely, not going to happen.

Finally Veg's site found a way on the list. Not because i forgot about it all the time... i simply wasn't sure where to place it :)
In my opinion the modern patch changed everything from top to bottom. So i even thought about making a new section for it or integrating the sitelink in the description somewhere...

Howsoever, just hoping this list provides a somewhat consolidated overview of available sites and is useful in one way or another.

- http://crud.toshiba-3.com/nfs4cars.shtml offline
- http://fmhsmod.wordpress.com hosted files offline (dropbox)

- http://veg.by/en/ added

I tried http://crud.toshiba-3.com/nfs4cars.shtml just now, and it seems to be up again... it loads slow, but if you give it a minute, it loads (and the links work). So I'm guessing its downtime was temporary, whew.

Thanks for keeping the list updated, tho.

Oh thats great, Econobricks site is back online again.
Will add the site back to the list at its proper place asap.
So hopefully it was just a temporary issue...

wow, seems like there are still a few who like the classics? thought I was the only one.

Its been some time since I hit the forums, but I have a PC with working titles of NFS SE all the way to NFS Rivals. This includes Motor City Offline and NFS World Offline.

Im an old timer in the NFS series, so ask me any questions about them.

Also I am up for racing in any of the series, though that can be a challenge for some of the games at this point.

I also wonder, is anyone else crazy enough like me to have all the NFS games running on their PC? Is there interest in having a PC that could run all the NFS games?

Sneaky/Darklocket

List updated.

- www.dippold.org (http://www.dippold.org/) added
- www.drivingpassion.net (http://www.drivingpassion.net) got suspended

Official statement from Driving Passion at their facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/drivingpassion.net/):
"Server has expired, may not be renewed."

When someone asked if this is the final goodbye they replied "the mods are safe and sound", though.
So this is not clear to me. Someone knows any details?

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Sep 22, 2017,  8:52 AM
List updated.

- www.dippold.org (http://www.dippold.org/) added
- www.drivingpassion.net (http://www.drivingpassion.net) got suspended

Official statement from Driving Passion at their facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/drivingpassion.net/):
"Server has expired, may not be renewed."

When someone asked if this is the final goodbye they replied "the mods are safe and sound", though.
So this is not clear to me. Someone knows any details?

We forgot to pay for the hosting, lol.

Nik did back up the site contents, so there's a possibility of going back online although IDK when.

I miss drivingpassion now.

Quote from: AJ_Lethal on Sep 22, 2017, 10:00 AM
We forgot to pay for the hosting, lol.

Nik did back up the site contents, so there's a possibility of going back online although IDK when.

Thanks AJ for clearing things up.  :)
Hope it will be possible to keep the site alive... btw do you know how many GB of space are neccessary to run the website?

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Sep 23, 2017,  9:08 AM
Thanks AJ for clearing things up.  :)
Hope it will be possible to keep the site alive... btw do you know how many GB of space are neccessary to run the website?

The whole site is around 24GB of size ATM

List updated.

- www.lonebullet.com (https://www.lonebullet.com/games/need-for-speed-high-stakes-6719.htm) added
- NFS Experience (http://anca.lenoble.chez-alice.fr/) added
- The Evil Realm (http://evilrealm.polygonized.com/tdr/tc1.php) added

- www.drivingpassion.net (http://www.drivingpassion.net) links updated
- Ramm's site (http://ramm.webz.cz) offline
- Fangio Design (http://www.fangio.de) offline

Evil Realm link leads to TDR cars, better use:

http://evilrealm.polygonized.com/nfs4/nfs1.php

Thanks for advice noise. That TDR link only got in my reply somehow. The list on the first page has the suggested link already.

Greetings

Instead of crossing them out, please provide a link to the internet archive version of those sites.

https://web.archive.org/web/20041014020814/http://www.fangio.de:80/index2.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20171116042355/http://ramm.webz.cz/

Would be a good idea for madman to visit those sites every once in a while and try to preserve files. That will make it much easier for people in the future to retrieve files they want. Otherwise, they would have to find someone like us to give them lost files. I know I had to find someone to retrieve long-lost game mods for a game that doesn't exist anywhere in the interweb, and it was a pain.

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Apr 05, 2014,  5:31 AM
The purpose of this thread is to collect valid links to sites that are STILL hosting files (mods, patches, demos, etc.)
of classic Need for Speed games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Need_for_Speed_video_games) and their special editions (NFS1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Need_for_Speed), NFS2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed_II), NFS3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed_III:_Hot_Pursuit), NFS4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed:_High_Stakes), NFS5 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed:_Porsche_Unleashed), NFS6 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed:_Hot_Pursuit_2)).

This list is not intended to be exhaustive.  Updated 04/26/2018

Special thanks to: Remko, noise, ED9M, ExoticLover, Stifen_DY, Reight, Paul Spain, Zalcus20, AJ_Lethal
Thank you for all your support.

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Website	Files	Description
www.nfscars.net (http://www.nfscars.net/highstakes/files/latest/desc/)	NFS 3|4|5|6	Largest collection of cars, tracks & tools
www.nfspolicehq.com (http://nfspolicehq.com/index.php?ind=downloads)	NFS 3|4|5|6	Large collection of police vehicles
www.lespittet.com (http://www.lespittet.com/old/jeux/need_for_speed/nfs_4/index_gauche.htm)	NFS 3|4|5|6	French site with cars (Voitures) & tracks (Circuits)
www.nfshome.com (http://www.nfshome.com)	NFS 3|4|5|6	Here you find cars, tracks & tools
www.emergency-planet.com (http://www.emergency-planet.com/files/category/52-need-for-speed-high-stakes-and-hot-pursuit-2-files/)*	NFS 4|6	Collection of pursuit vehicles, similar to nfspolicehq
www.nfs2003.msk.ru (http://nfs2004.ru/nfs-high-stakes-start.php)	NFS 3|4|5|6	Russian site with a nice selection of cars (Машины), tracks (Трассы) & tools
www.nfssupf.narod.ru (http://nfssupf.narod.ru/)	NFS 3|4|5|6	Russian site; Mirror or older version of nfs2003.msk.ru
www.nfs.gen.tr (http://www.nfs.gen.tr/category/nfs-high-stakes/)	NFS 3|4|6	Turkish site with a nice selection of cars (Araba)
www.dippold.org (http://www.dippold.org/nfs/showcarlist.php?s=e)	NFS 3	Old archive of Markus Dippold with cars and tracks; site reactivated in 2017
www.gamefront.online (https://gamefront.online/files/listing/pub2/Need_for_Speed_High_Stakes/)	NFS 4	Mirror of former Gamefront site... with cars, tracks and tools, mostly Pre-2001 stuff
www.lonebullet.com (https://www.lonebullet.com/games/need-for-speed-high-stakes-6719.htm)	NFS 4	Archive with cars, tracks and tools; mostly older files around year 2000.
www.nfsplanet.de (http://www.nfsplanet.de/en/)	NFS 5|6	German site with cars, tracks & tools
www.needforspeed.sk (http://needforspeed.sk/gameinfo.php?id=133)	NFS 6	Slovak site with cars, tracks & tools
NFS3 Expansionpack (http://nfs3expansionpack.webs.com/)	NFS 3	Website of the NFS3 Expansion Pack with cars, tracks & fixes (Download as Package)
www.nfsstreetdogs.de (http://www.nfsstreetdogs.de/)	NFS 1|2|3|4|5|6	Small selection of cars, tracks and demo versions - since Hoster-contract expired 97% of downloads deleted in Dec 2013
Le Royaume de Xander (http://royaume.xander.free.fr/accueil.htm)	NFS 4	Small French site with cars and tools
NFS Experience (http://anca.lenoble.chez-alice.fr/)	NFS 4	French site with a bunch of cars and tutorials
www.leflic.net (http://www.leflic.net/bat.html)	NFS 3	Nice little site with some Pre-2000 cars - click the pictures to download
Luke's NFS3 page (http://www.angelfire.com/ab5/lukespage/home.html)	NFS 3	Small NFS3 website with tracks and cars (mostly by Ryuji Kainoh); partially offline
nfshs.gamebanana.com (http://gamebanana.com/games/5165)	NFS 4	Small site with some older High Stakes cars
www.nfs.com.ru (http://nfs.com.ru/news.php)	NFS 3|4|5|6	Russian site with cars, tracks and tools
www.nfsko.ru (http://files.nfsko.ru/index.php?cat=1)	NFS 5|6	Russian site, Categories from NFS1-NFS6 (and newer) but partially without mods
www.need4speed.ucoz.ru (http://need4speed.ucoz.ru/load/)**	NFS 3|4|5	Small russian site with a variety of mods, mostly utils
NFS Classic (http://nfs4.3dn.ru/load/)	NFS 3|4	Small russian site with some useful files, several dead links must be expected
N4S Tracks (http://www.geocities.ws/nfstracks/)	NFS 4	Small site with some rare tracks; first 6 of 16 listed tracks are downloadable
www.nfseditor.de (http://nfseditor.de/)	NFS 2|3	Several mods and tools for NFS2 and NFS3 from year 1999
www.nfscheats.com (http://www.nfscheats.com/nfs4.php)	NFS 1|2|3|4|5|6	Small collection of files throughout NFS series
Electronic Arts FTP Server (ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/ea/)	NFS 1|2|3|4|5|6	Public EA server with official updates, addons, demos, etc.
www.drivingpassion.net (http://drivingpassion.net/site/index.php?page=downloads&type=misc&id=need-for-speed-series)	Offline	Last chance for backups: Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drivingpassion.net/) / Discord (https://discord.gg/hs5Pezb) / google-drive (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mUTPN1OP0QSWr35brySbshIRgOha6QAU)
Ramm's site (http://ramm.webz.cz)	Offline	Czech site with some NFS3 cars (Auta) - click the pictures to download

Author Websites


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Website	Files	Description
VEG's Blog (http://veg.by/en/projects/nfs4/)	NFS 3|4	Modern Patches for NFS3 and NFS4; essential when using mods or a modern OS!
JimDiabolo's site (http://www.tsabrowski.de/NFS-HS)	NFS 4	Tracks and Tools by Jim Diabolo, newest Expansion/Stock packs
NFS Rides CR (http://www.nfsridescr.blogspot.com/)	NFS 4	Cars & Tracks made by Ariel Aguilar Orozco aka AJ_Lethal
Keiiko's Pirate Bay (http://xcx.4fan.cz/jak-na-need-for-speed-3-a-4-na-windows-7-x64/)	NFS 3|4	Czech site with tools & tutorials made by Keiiko
Team RSR's site (http://www.freak-ds.de/)	NFS 4	Projects of Freak-DS, Cooya! and Memphis plus recent Expansion/Stock packs
Blazn Motorsports (http://www.blaznmotorsports.com/index.php)	NFS 4	Cars & Tracks made by blaznmotorsports
Memphis' site (http://www.raphael.krempel-web.de)	NFS 4	Cars made by Raphael Krempel plus projects/cooperations
Benjamin Trapp's site (http://www.gearfx.com/nfs/nfs_mycars.php)	NFS 4	Cars made by Benjamin Trapp (gearFX)
Roby Design (http://web.tiscali.it/Robydesign/index.htm)	NFS 4	Cars made by Roby Design (alternate link (http://web.tiscali.it/Robydesign/nfs/nfs.htm) - in case of display problems)
STD Design (http://std-design.narod.ru/e/qpv4/cars.html)**	NFS 4|5	Website of Sergi and Alex; download cars, tracks & tools by various authors
Econobrick's Cars (http://crud.toshiba-3.com/nfs4cars.shtml)	NFS 4	A bunch of cars made by Econobrick
NetManiac's site (http://www.netmaniac.narod.ru/index1nfs.html)**	NFS 4	Russian site with traffic-replacements (mainly russian brands) & sundries by various authors
NFS Toolbox (http://nfstoolbox.suckosaurus.dk/download.phtml)	NFS 3|4	Developer site of Jesper Juul-Mortensen with essential tools
Zorro's Webpage (http://kfz.freepage.de/cgi-bin/feets/freepage_ext/339483x434877d/rewrite/twistercars/index2.htm)	NFS 4	Some Cars (http://kfz.freepage.de/cgi-bin/feets/freepage_ext/339483x434877d/rewrite/twistercars/autos.htm) made by Zorro and other authors, small track-section (http://kfz.freepage.de/cgi-bin/feets/freepage_ext/339483x434877d/rewrite/twistercars/tracks.htm)
I.C.E. Design (http://members.rennlist.com/countach/icedesign.html)	NFS 4	Cars & Tracks made by Nick Iliff aka ICE in 2001
Oxi Designs (http://www.geocities.ws/oxi_designs/)**	NFS 4	Some cars made by Oxi Designs in 2002
John Kahler's site (http://users.beagle.com.au/jmk222/nfshs.html)	NFS 4	Australian site with some unique mods and lot of info; some links point to external sites
4LoWeR Mod (http://www.fino.w6.ru/nfs4.htm)	NFS 4	4Lower mod with some unique cars & handlings (Download as Package)
The Evil Realm (http://evilrealm.polygonized.com/nfs4/nfs1.php)	NFS 4	Website of PumaY2K with some cars
unBtable's NFS:HS Site (http://www.friendly-pc-gamers.net/PCG-UB/index.php)	NFS 4	Website of unBtable with his track "Canyon" for download
www.digitalthunder.com (http://www.digitalthunder.com/nfs-pantera/index.html)	NFS 3	Homepage of Digital Thunder with the DeTomaso Pantera he made for NFS3
Zacabeb's NFS site (http://home.swipnet.se/zacabeb/)	NFS 3|4	Some reworked track ini files and new license plate font made by Zacabeb in 1999
Denis Auroux's site (http://www.math.polytechnique.fr/cmat/auroux/nfs/index.us.html)	NFS 1|2|3|4	Home of FSH-Tool, T3ED and QFS-Suite (level as per 2002). Unofficial File Format Specifications.
Fangio Design (http://www.fangio.de/ilch11/index.php?downloads-1)	Offline	Cars & Tracks made by Gert Steidle aka Fangio (Download as Package)

Online Racing


 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Website	Content	Description
IP-Lounge (http://www.iplounge.net)	NFS 4|5	Developer site of the IP-Lounge for NFS4 and NFS5, recent Expansion/Stock packs
H.O.S.S. (http://www.hsscoring.com/)	NFS 4	Statistics of online-races, lots of links and information.
needforspeed3.racing (http://needforspeed3.racing/)	NFS 3	Community site for NFS3 Online Racing, using Veg's Modern Patch (http://veg.by/en/projects/nfs3/) Releases
German eXtreme Racers (http://www.team-ger.net)	NFS 4	German clan racing in various games, including High Stakes
LIX Racing (http://hoovtech.net/lxr/HSreplaysearch.php)	NFS 4	High Stakes racing team, hosting replays of online records
EA Outlaws (http://www.hoovtech.net/EAO/)	NFS 3|4|6	Online presence of EAO clan

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Big Websites and archives are starting at the top, the bottom section lists webpages of authors and other interesting sites. I also added a brief description of what you can expect to find there.

You are free to post whatever you think fits in here  ;)
Just don't link webarchives (like web.archive.org) please.

Comments/Suggestions are welcome.

Regards MADMAN

^{If a link is not working properly, please send me a private message.}
_{I will try to keep this first post up-to-date, i.e. I will add new links to the list and remove dead ones.} 

Quoting this for internet archive purpose. Don't mind that since the last update for this thread in Wayback Machine is in 2017. This should be standard procedure each 4 months.

Quote from: ExoticLover on Apr 28, 2018,  9:27 PM
Instead of crossing them out, please provide a link to the internet archive version of those sites.
[...]

I'll check your suggestion. The thing is, the goal of the service web.archive.org mainly is preserving website-texts.
As was said before, it's a great way to visit old sites with information that is no longer available on "live-servers". Gathering those links would be great for a nostalgia thread, but the intention of this topic is different.
On Fangios site for example you can only access Outback and Congo. The rest of the site is dead. (and these tracks can also be downloaded from various other sources - like nfscars or nfshome).
Other sites have exactly null archived files. I see absolutely no point in listing them here.
But i agree that on the other hand some sites got preserved almost completely, like Ramm's site. So i will look into that.... probably that needs to be decided individually depending on the website.

Quote from: ExoticLover on Apr 28, 2018,  9:27 PM
Would be a good idea for madman to visit those sites every once in a while and try to preserve files. That will make it much easier for people in the future to retrieve files they want. Otherwise, they would have to find someone like us to give them lost files. I know I had to find someone to retrieve long-lost game mods for a game that doesn't exist anywhere in the interweb, and it was a pain.

Well, gathering old apps and files for old games is a pain and will always be a pain. I do check the links when updating the list. But sometimes mistakes can happen.
If one notices a problem, i will be glad if someone points that out politely, so i can fix it.

In case they ever want to revisit those sites for memory, that's reason to support links to archive with commentary about the state of being of those files, but instruction to get there could work as well. Hmm, it seems that there needs to be two separate threads if the intentions are different. Really well preserved sites should be an auto-include, no doubt.

Also speaking of fangio's site, that Landstrasse Track special Version 1.3 is really interesting, too bad it doesn't exist.

I checked the old links. I think there are about 3-4 sites that are preserved in a way, that they are still usable and maybe useful.
Guess i will make a seperate webarchive section for them...

So you can suggest well preserved web.archive sites to be added on the list.
But as a rule of thumb i find following conditions reasonable:
-Website should have at least 50% of the initial available files preserved
-Files are rarely or not available from other sources

About the other sites (about 18 URL's) im not sure what to do with.
Of course I understand the wish for a kind of "history" log or a nostalgia section. Although, these sites ARE listed in the replies of this thread, i also understand a sort of overview would be better.

Unfortunately this will bloat the first post extremely.  :-\

The forum here at nfsaddons sadly has no spoiler function to hide a section.
Maybe a admin could add an empty reply under the first post that i can edit to make "nostalgia" section... idk?
Just feels like the topic might become very confusing when adding all that stuff, into one post.

Opinions?

I agree w/ ExoticLover, two different threads are the most useful thing. I.e. someone who wants to search something he needs will have its search way easier if the links offered are all functional than waste time on those unhelping sites.
In case someone wants to look for "historical" sites, or just because he's curious then he can refer to the other thread.
Later, the time you spend updating this main thread will make it stay at the top, despites if both threads are stickied.

Alright.... i squeezed everything into the first post, by making a new section.
If you ever wanted to know, how many characters are allowed in a post on nfsaddons.com - i now have the answer for you!  =D

Quote
The message exceeds the maximum allowed length (20000 characters).

So, for future editing it would be nice if Remko, or any admin, could add a reply under my first post so i can copy the History section there...
Or i have to start a new thread alternatively...

During that process i found 2 "alive" sites that i have added now
- halfmoon2.com (http://halfmoon2.com) added
- Ortwind1st's Homepage (http://home.cablesurf.de/ortwin/index_low.html?/ortwin/nfs4/nfs4.htm) added

List of added Wayback-Machine and Nostalgia sites (dead websites):
- www.nd4spdworld.com (http://web.archive.org/web/20090417112413/http://www.nd4spdworld.com/)
- NFS G-B (http://web.archive.org/web/20080901035125/http://nfsgb.nd4spdworld.com/)
- JP Racing (https://web.archive.org/web/20091211185352/http://jpracing.racerplanet.com/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=33)
- RVD's Skinshop (https://web.archive.org/web/20080125163336/http://rvdsplace.150m.com/mcoskinsshop.html)
- Ramm's site (https://web.archive.org/web/20171116042355/http://ramm.webz.cz/)
- www.bmwsport.net (https://web.archive.org/web/20130908114601/http://www.bmwsport.net/downloads/cars)
- www.cheats.de (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://pc.cheats.de/cheats_nurtitel_typ.php?titelonly=Need+for+Speed+4&system=PC&typ=Add-On)
- www.fangio.de (https://web.archive.org/web/20041014020814/http://www.fangio.de/index2.htm)
- FM HS Mod (https://web.archive.org/web/20100127200510/http://fmhsmod.wordpress.com:80/downloads/)
- Marko's NFS HS Downloads (http://free-os.htnet.hr/nfs/index.html)
- www.gigafront.de (http://web.archive.org/web/20140728140424/www.gigafront.de/downloads,780,1,need_speed_high_stakes.html)
- www.gtrcars.net (https://web.archive.org/web/20160722131613/http://gtrcars.net:80/forum/downloads.php?do=cat&id=7)
- JimiWich's site (https://web.archive.org/web/20160316144215/http://www.jimi-w.de/Nfs/nfs.htm)
- NFS Tracks (http://members.tripod.com/nfs3_tools/)
- www.needforspeed.com (1999) (https://web.archive.org/web/19991012180920/http://needforspeed.com/)
- www.needforspeed.com (2000) (https://web.archive.org/web/20000510175441/http://www.needforspeed.com/porsche/pc/index.html)
- www.nd4spd.de (https://web.archive.org/web/20021015091345/http://www.nd4spd.de/main.php3)
- RS Network (https://web.archive.org/web/20100621061854/http://nfs.sports-gaming.com/nfs4.shtml)
- www.nfsunlimited.net (https://web.archive.org/web/20141225043359/https://nfsunlimited.net/)
- www.passatnfs.com (https://web.archive.org/web/20141218030354/http://passatnfs.com/)
- Raya's NFS3 page (https://web.archive.org/web/20110825145818/http://rajazone.tripod.com/docs/nfs/nfscheat.html)
- Reesy's NFS3 page (http://reesy05.tripod.com/)
- www.totalnfs.net (https://web.archive.org/web/20121223072915/http://www.totalnfs.net/info.html)
- Yiannis Panakos' site (http://www.angelfire.com/games/YiannisPanakos/)

Good old times.

Wow 20,000 letters good job on that Madman :D  an all.

Wow, a few site just died recently. Blazin Motorsports, and what else? It was in the same category. Time to use Wayback Machine to archive as much as I could. Zacabeb site no longer accessible.

Also, I found Urban Germany for NFSHS!

Site found - http://www.geocities.ws/_Mad_Max_4073/

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Damn, the site I found had only dead download links, but I think I'll archive it anyway in case any one wants to redo those cars which I don't think it'll happen, but whatever. On the bright side, there's that Aussie Muscle site which can be found via Wayback machine, but there's more download links there.

Also, I found a few of those cars with Aussie Muscle Wayback Machine. - https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://aussiemuscle.totalnfs.net:80/*

Thanks for the info ExoticLover, i will update the list when i have time.
I will also make a new topic for the history/nostalgia section since everything got too bloated (like i feared) and also the forums post-length restriction is reached.

Yea, noticed that with Zacabebs as well. Actually the linked site was part of a, well, swedish version of the Wayback Machine (www.internetmuseum.se). Seems they shut down lot of sites, cause of a new EU guideline.

Urban Germany was made for High Stakes only, so i not really understand your excitement there.  :)
Currently it seems to only be available at the streetdogs site. http://www.nfsstreetdogs.org/downloads,id2270,urban_germany.html
I think its not on the big sites, cause of author policy, only allowing upload exclusively.

The Madmax site is dead long time, unfortunately. But its a good addition for the history thread indeed.
AussieMuscle site has many files archived. Thanks for info again.

Greetings

List updated.

Moved list of Wayback-Machine and Nostalgia sites to new Nostalgia/History thread (http://www.nfsaddons.com/forums//index.php?topic=1966.0).

-www.nfs.scorpions.cz (http://nfs.scorpions.cz/hp2/index.php) added
-2Torcs Labs (https://sites.google.com/site/2torcs/) added
-Aussie Muscle's site (https://web.archive.org/web/20041113054053/http://aussiemuscle.totalnfs.net/amnfs/index.html) added to Webarchive section

-Blazn Motorsports (http://www.blaznmotorsports.com/index.php) offline
-Zacabeb's NFS site (http://home.swipnet.se/zacabeb/) offline

edit: another update... Zacabebs site was completely preserved at archive.org
-Zacabeb's NFS site (https://web.archive.org/web/20050211202737/http://home.swipnet.se/zacabeb/) added to Webarchive section

-4LoWeR 1.0 Mod (http://www.fino.w6.ru/nfs4.htm) offline
-EA finally put down their old FTP (http://ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/ea/) with many files for some vintage games, including the NFS series

There's everything on the FTP server here - https://web.archive.org/web/*/ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/ea/*

Literally everything.

Indeed,
seems many (if not all) files have been captured from the EA FTP. While most NFS related things are in the "pub/ea/" path, beware that some files have been stored in different locations.
(for example the Voodoo3 patch for NFS3 is at ftp.ea.com/pub/easports/patches/ (https://web.archive.org/web/*/ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/easports/patches/nfs3hp/*))

- EA FTP (https://web.archive.org/web/*/ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/ea/*) added to webarchive section

In that case, the better link would be https://web.archive.org/web/*/ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/* as it allows you to have access to 142 pages of files. Plus, this would benefit whoever out there is looking for the FTP link and stumbles upon this thread which includes people that are looking for things for other games other than the NFS series, but that's a bonus.

Just in case someone doesn't know, you have to copy/paste the whole link and not just double click it.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/*

The archived link to the pub-section of EA's FTP is in place under 'Files'.

For fino.w6.ru (4Lower mod) one rar file, the 'Key to the highway 1.8', has been archived; containing 19 tracks (including loading screens and edited text files for proper menu names).
Guess i will add it to the webarchive section as well.

NFSunlimited (Old NFS site on wayback) is unsafe, I have no access...what to do?

Hey, since nfsunlimited is still up and running, i directly linked to their site, so its not going over archive.org.
NFSUnlimited is using an unencrypted http connection, so your browser is probably simply warning you not to give sensible data away on that site.
If the warning comes up, simply click "Advanced" and "Continue to nfsunlimited.net" (message may slightly differ dependeing on your browser).

Thanks, it works now

 I had  just  found a way to play motorcity     offline  and its a blast  .to bad it took so long .

I admit I haven't checked the whole topic to see if it was mentioned, but to my surprise this site is still up, though it hasn't been updated since 2000 (and the downloads no longer work) 
http://nfs.sports-gaming.com/
Might be one of the first NFS related sites I ever came across since I got internet. Also somewhat nostalgic to see its old style message forum (before sites started using Forum software like SMF, vBulletin, etc.) http://nfs.sports-gaming.com/forum/index.shtml

Hey Remko,
this site is listed in the other thread (Old NFS Websites - Nostalgia & History (https://www.nfsaddons.com/forums/index.php/topic,1966.msg36145.html#msg36145)) at "RS Network" in the list. Because, like you noticed, no files can be downloaded anymore. I linked to archive.org, but indeed the site is still online and it will be easier to navigate the site with a direct link. Going to update the link.

By the way Remko, thanks for making the topic sticky :)

edit: btw archive.org saved one valid zip file for this page (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://nfs.sports-gaming.com/*). A '97 Honda Accord mod for NFS II made by Mattheüs Patty ...

Well, that does give me nostalgia. You could go into edited cars and see screenshot of cars.

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Oct 28, 2018,  2:53 PM
Hey Remko,
this site is listed in the other thread (Old NFS Websites - Nostalgia & History (https://www.nfsaddons.com/forums/index.php/topic,1966.msg36145.html#msg36145)) at "RS Network" in the list. Because, like you noticed, no files can be downloaded anymore. I linked to archive.org, but indeed the site is still online and it will be easier to navigate the site with a direct link. Going to update the link.

Ah, guess I overlooked it anyway. Seemed unlikely that I had managed to find a site that you'd have overlooked.  ;)  I came across it by pure coincidence, while looking up something NFS-related.

Quote from: ExoticLover on Oct 28, 2018,  4:17 PM
Well, that does give me nostalgia. You could go into edited cars and see screenshot of cars.

Certainly nice to see some of the big names from the NFS3 editing heyday: Tom Egelkraut, Patrick Wisselo, Scott Linfoot, Eric Arroyo (who went to actually work for EA on NFS: Motorcity) etc.

Update.

- changed layout of the list, additional tweaks for the new site-design.
- "NFS Bolide" added to Webarchive section (files linked to external ftp, which has been partly archived)

- JimDiabolos cloud folders expired again (www.tsabrowski.de/NFS-HS) - i contacted him via PM

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Aug 12, 2018,  6:03 AM
While most NFS related things are in the "pub/ea/" path, beware that some files have been stored in different locations.
(for example the Voodoo3 patch for NFS3 is at

Do you know where to find NFS 5 updates? I need the official one, mainly 3.5.
I'm 100% sure the one that is on iplounge.net is not the official one as it has a cracked exe.
And exe is from 26.6.2000 and readme from 10.8.2000, so it was certainly packed later.
I also found the same one on Game Front and NFS-Planet, and slightly modified zip on Patches Scrolls.

Hm,
in the "expected" place, at patches folder, you will only find the DLC-cars.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/ea/patches/nfs-porsche/* (https://web.archive.org/web/*/ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/ea/patches/nfs-porsche/*)
The misc folder only has the game soundtrack as mp3's...
https://web.archive.org/web/*/ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/ea/misc/nfs5/* (https://web.archive.org/web/*/ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/ea/misc/nfs5/*)

Looks like they aren't there... so either we looking in the wrong place, the files have not been archived or they were never on this FTP (instead at other EA server).
To be sure we would need an old link to an official source, or at least the exact original filename respectively.
According to mobygames, the 3.5 patch was released on Jan 13, 2002 (?).

Well, also cant come up with a trusted file from an unofficial source... e.g. the patch at nfsplanet.de seems untouched: https://www.nfsplanet.com/patch.php
Have you checked that, does it already contain a crack?
Additionally the file dates display August 2000... when the patch actually has been released...? So i understand your dilemma - which file/info can be trusted?  ???

Greetings

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Nov 09, 2018,  9:20 AM
Have you checked that, does it already contain a crack?
Additionally the file dates display August 2000... when the patch actually has been released...?

As I said, I checked all that I could find on internet.
I also checked the official sites in the topic "Old Need for Speed Websites - Nostalgia & History". They only have the demo and the 4 cars.
Sites that I mentioned have the best version of this update, but it's still not original.

Every other file except the exe and the 3 txt files is dated 3.4.2000.
I also found cracked updates 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 from MYTH.
3.3 is very rare, never heard of this one before, but I always wondered if it existed. Reason is it was never released in stores, from NFO: "The european store final had 3.0, USA had 3.2.". And then there was also v3.4 CD. I don't think there's a CD version of v3.3 and v3.5.

v3.3 - 3.4.2000
v3.4 - 3.5.2000 (only exe is changed from v3.3)
v3.5 - 26.6.2000, properties.txt 27.6.2000 01:38 (only exe is changed from v3.3)

I presume version.txt wasn't changed, so official ones were released on the same day.
In v3.5, every file is the same as the one from iplounge, only it doesn't have the ReadME!.txt from 10.8.2000.
So this update from iplounge (and Game Front and NFS-Planet) is certainly not the official one and was repacked from MYTH release in august 2000.

If not on internet, what's left is CD's from PC magazines from 2000. I had them, but I threw them away in 2012.

Hm, maybe there is no official package or installer? NFS Porsche had an ingame update function, which probably loaded files on the fly from some EA source.

Seperate packages you can find now seem to be user-made, probably by comparing disc and hard-drive files after an update, then packing and uploading changed files.

Gotta say, at that time (2000...2001) i had modem connection and never used any online functions of NFS5. Guess later on i always used patched, user-edited files from the various NFS sites around.
So if there were official patch packages they seem to be wiped from the web...
Magazine cds seem a good idea, although they often are a compilation of stuff from the internet. Anyways, I dont have a cd from that time with a Porsche update.
But i can confirm that later cd-batches of NFS Porsche had the 3.4 patch integrated.
Keiiko collected isos of EU v3.0 and v3.4 ... maybe ask him for a link. By comparing  differences on these cds its should be possible to get (trusted/unchanged) files of the 3.4 update.

Greetings

I am satisfied with your answer.
If there was a downloadable update, it would be on their official site. At least it is for HP2.
On NFS3 website I also found there was an Auto-Patcher.

I already know the differences between 3.0, 3.2, 3.4 and 3.5. And I already downloaded all the CD's from Keiiko's Mega link.

SafeDisc doesn't work on Windows 10 anyway, so this 3.5 official exe is no good to me anyway, same for cracked exe's. We already solved which files you need in the thread Difference of patches.
It was more for comparing official to cracked, but at least I did this for v3.4.
Reason for this was I first thought EA used Myth's crack, as it says official update on iplounge.net, but it's not official.
That wouldn't be the first case of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_(warez)
So now I have all the information and all the files that exist for NFS5.

EDIT:
I downloaded all PC Zone CD's from 2000 from archive.org, from July to December (demo is on June's), and there's only a NFS HS update 4.44. But it's an exe. I always found it strange how come the NFS5 one comes in a zip and you have to manually copy files to different folders.
Now I know, it's third party.

EDIT2:
If you download 35nocd.zip from iplounge.net, it has the files from EAUpdate, proof is in the file update.log.

For some reason Emergency-planet link is gone, it still works.

http://www.emergency-planet.com/files/category/52-need-for-speed-high-stakes-and-hot-pursuit-2-files/

Update.

- www.dippold.org (http://www.dippold.org), all downloads are disabled
- www.nfs.gen.tr (http://www.nfs.gen.tr), is down
- www.drivingpassion.net (http://www.drivingpassion.net), is down & removed from listing
- Ortwin1st's Homepage (http://home.cablesurf.de/ortwin/index_low.html?/ortwin/nfs4/nfs4.htm), is down
- unBtable's NFS:HS Site (http://www.friendly-pc-gamers.net/PCG-UB/index.php), is down
- nfstoolbox.suckosaurus.dk (http://nfstoolbox.suckosaurus.dk), the homepage of NFS-Wizard dev Jesper Juul-Mortensen seemingly down too
- www.team-ger.net (http://www.team-ger.net), also down unfortunately  :'(

Due to the inevitable end of flash player support, some flash-reliant websites are simply doomed in near future. Files are still hosted, but site navigation is unusable. I will provide direct links if possible - especially STD-Design relies so heavily on Flash, its practically down without flash-player access.
This also applies to NFS Experience (http://anca.lenoble.chez-alice.fr/) and www.halfmoon2.com (http://www.halfmoon2.com) sites.

Like to tell that on nfscars.net some interesting nfs4 cars were uploaded (by who?)

4 cars by D.Schwabenlandt which are not availible here.

A very nice Vespa scooter made in 2000 but still good.

There is a rather decent NFS:HS rendition of the Mount Panorama Circuit (Bathurst). May have been released in 2000. I've looked everywhere, but cannot find it. Loved that one. Based on one of the Raceways. Anyone remember?

Hello bfut,

that track was made by AccadaccA (& Nite) and hosted exclusively on totalnfs.net -> Link (https://web.archive.org/web/20070923022859/http://www.totalnfs.net/nfs4/tracks/index.html)
Unfortunately web.archive.org did not save this file from that page.

At lonebullet.org (https://www.lonebullet.com/maps/download-bathurst-need-for-speed-high-stakes-map-level-free-28030.htm) and gamefront.online (https://www.gamefront.com/games/need-for-speed-high-stakes/file/bathurst) you will find the Bathurst track for download, however this is the original release from 1999 - there was an updated version too.
Can't find any links to the updated version, but i sure can upload that for you from my backups -> Google Drive (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jz0fkdC9L0pkwj2vZhGDzaUJN1jIUKX7)

Greetings

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Mar 07, 2021,  1:54 AM
Hello bfut,

that track was made by AccadaccA (& Nite) and hosted exclusively on totalnfs.net -> Link (https://web.archive.org/web/20070923022859/http://www.totalnfs.net/nfs4/tracks/index.html)
Unfortunately web.archive.org did not save this file from that page.

At lonebullet.org (https://www.lonebullet.com/maps/download-bathurst-need-for-speed-high-stakes-map-level-free-28030.htm) and gamefront.online (https://www.gamefront.com/games/need-for-speed-high-stakes/file/bathurst) you will find the Bathurst track for download, however this is the original release from 1999 - there was an updated version too.
Can't find any links to the updated version, but i sure can upload that for you from my backups -> Google Drive (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jz0fkdC9L0pkwj2vZhGDzaUJN1jIUKX7)

Greetings

didn't know there was an updated version of that track, all I had was the 2000 version of it

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Mar 07, 2021,  1:54 AM
Hello bfut,

that track was made by AccadaccA (& Nite) and hosted exclusively on totalnfs.net -> Link (https://web.archive.org/web/20070923022859/http://www.totalnfs.net/nfs4/tracks/index.html)
[...]
Can't find any links to the updated version, but i sure can upload that for you from my backups -> Google Drive (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jz0fkdC9L0pkwj2vZhGDzaUJN1jIUKX7)

Greetings

Highly appreciated, thanks. All those tracks on there were quality products.

It's just sad the U.S. Gov. Archive site went so shitty now, They used to save files from ANY site they archived but I'd say 10 or so years back they went to this new Beta crap and that got rid of the saver..Now they just save pics and articles mostly vs actual downloads..Stupid really..No point in archiving stuff from a game mods site if you don't even bother to save the actual downloads themselves and keep them available..But that's Archive.Org for ya! There's a old saying: If it ain't broke don't fix it..Thus had they not went to that Beta crap all the stuff would have worked (links,downloads,etc.) but they felt they just had to change the site. I used to use Acrive.Org alot to grab things from PursuitInc.,NFS StreetDogs,and Aussie Muscle's site,etc.

I'm happy to report that RP-Design is back online: http://rp-design.lintu.dyndns.org/
Nappe1 contacted me earlier this evening and shared that he revived his more than 20-year old site containing NFS3 and NFS4 cars, tracks and tools, as well as his more recent GT Legends mods (although the links for the latter files don't work at the time of writing). Bringing the site back online at an anniversary is a tradition of sorts.  ;)
Another tradition is a 'wayback-machine' page of the site as it was in 1999: http://rp-design.lintu.dyndns.org/way-back-machine/ (links to the Volvo and Jaguar are dead, but they work in the current site above)

Quote from: Remko on Mar 17, 2021,  4:46 PM
I'm happy to report that RP-Design is back online: http://rp-design.lintu.dyndns.org/
Nappe1 contacted me earlier this evening and shared that he revived his more than 20-year old site containing NFS3 and NFS4 cars, tracks and tools, as well as his more recent GT Legends mods (although the links for the latter files don't work at the time of writing). Bringing the site back online at an anniversary is a tradition of sorts.  ;)
Another tradition is a 'wayback-machine' page of the site as it was in 1999: http://rp-design.lintu.dyndns.org/way-back-machine/ (links to the Volvo and Jaguar are dead, but they work in the current site above)

That is awesome! I wonder if nappe1 would mind if we archive the rest of his stuff here?

I see the link to "Hacked Speed" on the wayback version of his site. Fun fact, the chatroom on Hacked Speed is where NFSAddons/NFSGarage got it's start. Unfortunately the archive.org versions of it are lost

Quote from: Remko on Mar 17, 2021,  4:46 PM
I'm happy to report that RP-Design is back online: http://rp-design.lintu.dyndns.org/
Nappe1 contacted me earlier this evening and shared that he revived his more than 20-year old site containing NFS3 and NFS4 cars, tracks and tools, as well as his more recent GT Legends mods (although the links for the latter files don't work at the time of writing). Bringing the site back online at an anniversary is a tradition of sorts.  ;)
Another tradition is a 'wayback-machine' page of the site as it was in 1999: http://rp-design.lintu.dyndns.org/way-back-machine/ (links to the Volvo and Jaguar are dead, but they work in the current site above)

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I got a neat piece of news: you can use the Ruffle browser extension (https://ruffle.rs/#downloads) to render STD-Design's site (http://std-design.narod.ru) functional.

Came across this russian site with old nfs3 cars. I didn't see it  in the list. Download links seem to be working.

https://en.ds-servers.com/gf/need-for-speed-hot-pursuit/

Update.  8)

- www.ds-servers.com (http://ds-servers.com/gf/?hl=US) added
- www.fangio.de (https://sites.google.com/view/fangiogarage/start#h.3f4tphhd9pn8) (risen from the ashes) added
- nfs3expansionpack.webs.com (http://nfs3expansionpack.webs.com), moved to Webarchive section - Interestingly the dropbox file seems to have been archived by the Wayback machine!

- www.nfscars.net (http://www.nfscars.net/highstakes/files/latest/desc/), seems the site ultimately departed Cyberspace in June 2024
   Fortunately at least, in 2021 someone crawled a backup of the whole site, as mentioned by Offroader_x in the "What happened to all those NFS modding websites?" (https://www.nfsaddons.com/forums/index.php?msg=40998)-thread.
- www.lespittet.com (http://www.lespittet.com/old/jeux/need_for_speed/nfs_4/index_gauche.htm), all NFS files got wiped
- www.nfs2003.msk.ru (http://nfs2004.ru/nfs-high-stakes-start.php), home of the (never finished) "High Stakes 2008" mod is down - abondoned URL nfssupf.narod.ru still accessible, though
- www.nfscheats.com (http://www.nfscheats.com/nfs4.php), is down
- 2Torcs Labs (https://sites.google.com/site/2torcs/), down but preserved at archive.org 
- www.halfmoon2.com (http://www.halfmoon2.com/), is down
- Zorro's Webpage (http://kfz.freepage.de/cgi-bin/feets/freepage_ext/339483x434877d/rewrite/twistercars/index2.htm), is down
- The Evil Realm (http://evilrealm.polygonized.com/nfs4/nfs1.php) by PumaY2K, down too
- John Kahler's site (http://users.beagle.com.au/jmk222/nfshs.html), is down
- Memphis' site (http://www.raphael.krempel-web.de), gone too :'(
- needforspeed3.racing (http://needforspeed3.racing/), is down

Thanks AJ for mentioning the Ruffle Plugin, gotten to know this and using that a lot ever since.

Christian Pittet's old site is still up, it can be accessed here: https://www.lespittet.com/legacy/internal/index.htm

Oh wow, thanks AJ :)
Seems the files got moved, haven't noticed the "Héritage"-button.

Putting www.lespittet.com (https://www.lespittet.com/legacy/internal/index.htm) right back into the list with updated link!

Has anyone downloaded the entire NFS Cars 2021 archive yet? I'll have it soon as my net reset to it's annual 200GB limit late last night and the archive was 90% done when I burned my limit last time so I started it before I went to bed last night, it'll likely be finished by the time I get off duty..Looking at it it looks to be ALOT of YouTube vids,pics,and forum posts, I have yet to find the actual files, After it's done I'll open it up and try to separate files from the other stuff, As is though it's a jumbled mess  :P .

I downloaded the 2021 crawl.
All the files are in numbered subfolders inside the "nfscars-assets" folder. The files are not sorted by game, there are also a lot of empty folders. The assets folder contains 15.802 files in 18.480 folders and is 44.5 GB in extracted size.
So yes, the majority of that 160GB archive is actually showroom pictures - they are in the "media" subfolder inside "www.nfscars.net" folder and sum to roundabout 121GB of extracted size.

The good news is, the "www.nfscars.net" folder has index files that are sorted by game. Inside these folders you find the numbers that correspond to the "assets" Folder (at "%game-id%\files\view\%mod-id%" subfolders).

The index files are html text versions of the download page and contain info about the mod - game, category, name etc.
So in Theory it should be possible to sort all files by game, by separating corresponding Folder numbers accordingly.

I attached a listing of that file structure.

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Oct 03, 2024,  3:10 AMI downloaded the 2021 crawl.
All the files are in numbered subfolders inside the "nfscars-assets" folder. The files are not sorted by game, there are also a lot of empty folders. The assets folder contains 15.802 files in 18.480 folders and is 44.5 GB in extracted size.
So yes, the majority of that 160GB archive is actually showroom pictures - they are in the "media" subfolder inside "www.nfscars.net" folder and sum to roundabout 121GB of extracted size.

The good news is, the "www.nfscars.net" folder has index files that are sorted by game. Inside these folders you find the numbers that correspond to the "assets" Folder (at "%game-id%\files\view\%mod-id%" subfolders).

The index files are html text versions of the download page and contain info about the mod - game, category, name etc.
So in Theory it should be possible to sort all files by game, by separating corresponding Folder numbers accordingly.

I attached a listing of that file structure.

Thanks

Quote from: MADMAN_nfs on Oct 03, 2024,  3:10 AMI downloaded the 2021 crawl.
All the files are in numbered subfolders inside the "nfscars-assets" folder. The files are not sorted by game, there are also a lot of empty folders. The assets folder contains 15.802 files in 18.480 folders and is 44.5 GB in extracted size.
So yes, the majority of that 160GB archive is actually showroom pictures - they are in the "media" subfolder inside "www.nfscars.net" folder and sum to roundabout 121GB of extracted size.

for large numbers of VIV archives, I run analytics via Python script.

download: https://github.com/bfut/fcecodec/releases/download/1.11/fcecodec111_scripts.zip

check the  utils/bfut_PyScripts/bfut_VivFceAnalyze subfolder...
gives you all you need to know about VIV archives, FCE files and, if available, FEDATA

According to last screenshot,Bcam and B911 have 12 upgrades???

the upgrade property is a 4-bit value. vanilla bonus cars have 0xC = 12 which was not specifically implemented at screenshot-time. :) it is not the number of upgrades

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