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Just a little heads up for an awesome fan project - the development already is quite advanced.
Not related to the Need For Speed franchise, but still a milestone in the history of racing games: Driver
Released in 1999 by GT Interactive for the Play Station and later ported to PC.

Now a HD Remake of the first Driver game is available. Author of the project is SOAP.

I'm really impressed by this project. The development started around 2013 and is still going. The current build is pretty advanced and offers a complete menu and different missions. It's playable. And it feels great. The physics, the sound and the city - all caried over to a modern game engine.
It's completely free. The download is around 75 MB.
Absolute must-download.
The download link can be found at drivermadness.net in the PROJECT THREAD.

edit: @Mike/Remko: video embedding still doesnt work it seems 

[Here you find links of sites no longer available at the web, as well as broken sites with low relevance. Still these websites and the people behind them will be remembered.The NFS franchise is going til today - these classic games and their community started it all.]

Here you find links of sites no longer available at the web, as well as broken sites with low relevance.
Still these websites and the people behind them will be remembered.
The NFS franchise is going til today - these classic games and their community started it all.
Browse gaming history here, find interesting content and cherish the memories!

Listed sites hosted content for at least one NFS game from the classic era (NFS1-NFS6). Links to webarchive services (like archive.org or internetmuseum.se) are provided, if available. Sites are listed alphabetically according to URL (official EA sites listed first).

Feel free to give feedback and contribute!
Archive services occasionally might have files backuped for the listed sites. So if you happen to find something interesting or rare, don't hesitate to reply and share info here.
But note, if you searching file downloads take a look at the thread Online-Resources of classic NFS titles.

Website	Description
www.needforspeed.com (1999)	Official Need For Speed website with EA's most important racing titles back then
www.needforspeed.com (2000)	The site in 2000 with the old Motor City Online logo (as part of the NFS series)
www.needforspeed.com (2002)	The website shortly before the redesign with release of "Hot Pursuit 2"
NFS3 (1998) Gamepage	Hot Pursuit Website, not well preserved - html errors and overlapping nav-bar
NFS4 (1999) Gamepage	High Stakes site for the PSX version, website of PC version was here: Link !
NFS5 (2000) Gamepage	Porsche Unleashed website, suprisingly well preserved - mostly functional (PC+PSX)
NFS6 (2002) Gamepage	Hot Pursuit 2 page with a teaser, wallpapers and screenshots preserved
NFS MC (2000) Gamepage	Pre-Release site of NFS Motor City, later MCO at these domains: 2001, 2002-2003
www.japan.ea.com (1999)	Official EA site for the japanese version of Need For Speed High Stakes
Addict Arts	Author page with cars and utils made by Addict
www.all4speed.de	Once a big german site hosting cars, tracks and tools for NFS series
www.americanmuscle.net	Website by Matt Knapp, hosted content for Hot Pursuit, High Stakes and Porsche
www.aussiemuscle.totalnfs.net*	Author site of Aussie Muscle - with aussie and movie cars
www.blaznmotorsports.com	Nicely designed author site of Blazn Motorsports, closed in 2018
www.bmwsport.net	Partner site of nfsaddons, formerly hosting a selection of cars and tracks
www.btwracing.com	Former main page of the "Behind The Wheel" Network hosted by Jason G. Trusty
www.nfspontiac.btwracing.com	Here was Jason G. Trusty's Pontiac site with cars he created
www.patwodesign.btwracing.com	Small author site featured various games - sadly most captured files are corrupted
www.tomsgarage.btwracing.com	Author page by Thomas Egelkraut with cars for NFS3 and NFS4
www.trackstudio.btwracing.com	Website of Max Custer - joint project with Jason Trusty, Nappe & others
BV-Design	Author site of BenV and KleinHellerchen
www.cheats.de	German cheat site that hosted various user uploads including tracks and cars
CM Racecars	Author site CMR - offered downloads for NFS3 and NFS4 by various authors
www.crazynfs.narod.ru	Russian fansite - small but well preserved
Speed Mania	Nice little fansite with NFS2-5 content - info & official releases mostly
The Drive-In	Nicely designed MCO fansite that hosted some NFS4 cars and tracks
www.eaoutlaws.com	Clan site of EAO, the EA Outlaws
www.fangio.de	Homepage of german author who created legendary 2in1 tracks
Stiff'n'Roll Mod*	Old site of the Stiff'n'Roll (later 4Lower) mod
FM HS Mod	FerrariMan's High Stakes Mod, which was a compilation of quality NFS4 mods
www.franks-highway.de	German fansite/archive dedicated to the NFS series
www.freakforspeed.com	Tutorials that were made by Freak For Speed
www.gamefront.com	Filehosting service that stored many files of classic NFS titles; mirror site exisiting
www.garage.nfsstudios.com	NFS Porsche fansite by Claus Bruun
Mad Max & Mopar Cars	Jon Gibbs' Movie & Mopar cars for NFS3; some polished versions of other authors
www.highstakeshp.cjb.net	High Stakes Highway Patrol - this site offered police add-on cars for NFS4
Zacabeb's NFS site*	Zacabeb's homepage from year 1999
NFS-Bolide*	Former homepage of Butch/NFS-Bolide with cars he made
Marko's NFS HS Downloads	A small private page, that was centered around Online Racing
www.gigafront.de	Once a large german filearchive, similar to gamefront
www.gtrcars.net	Formerly a big modding community for various racing games, including the NFS series
www.hotrods.nfscheats.com	Precision Hot Rods - joint-venture by multiple authors focused on Muscle cars
www.jimi-w.de	Website of Jimi Wich, a german author of tracks and cars
www.jpracing.racerplanet.com*	Site had cars, tracks & tools; unique mod releases by page-staff - part of RPN
Killuncle Cars	Author website (Killuncle) with cars and vidwalls for NFS4
www.mdesign-net.com	Author site "Millenium Design" (Dave Katyher)
NFS Tracks	Old fansite "NFS Tracks`n more", once hosted files for various NFS games
Captain Design	Author site dedicated to NFS3
Midnight Garage	Fansite/archive that hosted files for NFS3-5
www.mozzispeed.com	Italian fansite/archive that was hosted by Massimiliano Caroti
www.musclemotors.com	Site Motor City Hotrods by Steven Carter with NFS3-4 content
www.n4s.de	German community site for NFS4 and later titles
www.nd4spd.de	Back then, the largest german community page for NFS3 and NFS4
www.nd4spdworld.com*	Once a large site with cars, tracks and tools

* significant amount of files have been captured for this website by an internet archive service!
Check out my other thread Online-Resources of classic NFS titles for more details

Well, i'm not only a fan of Mad Max and the Dukeboys, but also the original Gone in 60 Second movie from 1974.  It was an independent production (today you would probably call it "indie") with a high trash factor, but it has a 30 min realtime chase scene with many handmade stunts and actual accidents!

In 1989 a sequel was planned "Gone in 60 Seconds:2" and filming started. Tragically director Halicki (who also was the main character in his movies) died during a stunt.
Since then some unfinished film material has been released, showing the star of the second part: The Slicer.

https://www.youtube.com/v/dReW8_Ugd_M&t=4s

(This car also inspired the Flip/Ramp car from the Fast and the Furious 6)

Now i thought that would be a great first "from scratch" project for me. For lack of blueprints or any reliable data respectively, it was a little difficult to recreate the shape. So its not entirely accurate, probably

Its outright a fun car. Super fast, heavy with perfect handling. In memory of the "freight train" cheat from Driver and the Carmageddon series...

https://www.youtube.com/v/wUK-DxeleYc

Also thought about creating a NFS3 version. Download is not available yet.

[Stretch Limo (with pool)]

Im looking for some cars from the old nd4spd.de website. The site went offline around 2002. Maybe someone has a backup stored or even knows a online-source for a file? It is not necessary to provide original zip files!

Mainly these 4 cars bound my attention:

	Stretch Limo (with pool)	made by Zorro	(webarchive-link)	found a conversion to ReVolt, but it has no interior (LINK)
	BMW 2002 Racing	made by unknown author	(webarchive-link)
	Polizei Audi A4	made by unknown author	(webarchive-link)
	1970 Camaro for NFS3	made by Chris Bernard	(webarchive-link)

Another interesting thing is the "Track Addon" at the track section of High Stakes (webarchive-link). The description says "3 new tracks, that will not replace any other tracks". Someone remembers if this was worth downloading? I assume its just a kind of "click-bait" title, unfortunately the comments have not been archived

Many thanks in advance. Greetings

Good news for NFS3 fans. You now got the chance to grab some gems, potentially...

Seems all files at Markus Dippold's homepage are currently available for download again.

www.dippold.org

It's not clear if this will stay that way in the long-term or if it is temporary only.
Also not sure how long the downloads are available already, i recently discovered they are working.

Greetings

Im tinkering on another movie car and wanted to show off some pics.

It's the famous '69 Charger "General Lee" from the "Dukes of Hazzard".

Base-car is the great NFS-Carbon conversion from Reggaeton RS.
Guess most of us got along with Addict's version so far, which is a great car, but it was created in 1999 (!).

In the meantime there was a lot of development in the scene, so im wondering no one considered a repolished version of this classic





Exterior body work and appearance are almost done. Still working on the wheels though (one work-in-progress-wheel can be seen). Used Blender and the method from this tutorial to create basic wheel shape.  Thanks due Freak-DS, who (very very patiently) explained some basic Z-Modeler stuff to me in the past, im getting more comfortable with Z-Modeler and did most detail work with it (e.g. texture-mapping, Push-Bar and the crossed flags at rear window).

The car's interior still misses lot of detailing. I plan to add a rollcage, 2 drivers, animated steering wheel and a new antenna.

[What are you willing to donate for a modernized Need For Speed High Stakes?]

Evgeny "Veg" Vrublevsky is a programmer from Belarus, and if you are fan of classic Need For Speed titles, like Need For Speed 3 and 4, it is about time you get to know him 
He is the author of the NFS3 modern patch which makes the game Portable, supports modern OS and adds numerous of crucial improvements to the game.
LINK

His projects are free, and completely non-commercial.
Due to the similarities of the games, he is now about to port these features to Need For Speed 4.

Veg already released a NFS4 Modern Patch Beta, which adds awesome features like Portability and removes the high poly limit ("Render_GetTm()raM out of raN" error).
LINK
Unfortunately he does not see a way to realise this project the way he used to before.
The resons are explained on this page
LINK

So here is the chance for the community to aid Veg. With his previous projects he proved that he has the skills to realise his promise.

What are you willing to donate for a modernized Need For Speed High Stakes?

Hey guys,

i wondered why its not possible to embed youtube videos in the forums (or is there a way i dont know of?).
I understand HTML code is disabled for security reasons, but there are always ways to make stuff, like embedded videos, work via BBcode.
Since the embed-code is always the same, you could realize some "youtube" button, where users only have to enter the unique video code (which can be found in youtube-links after "..watch?v=") ...for example:

Thats really something i already missed here, when it would have been much easier showing something instead of long explainings.
Embedded videos do not automatically start playing - so its not really a bandwith problem either; especially by today's standards. 

Greetings

[Track section]

Hello!
I think all of you know the track Monolithic Studios from NFS2 (which has been converted for High Stakes too)
Ever wondered which movie references the creators had in mind?
The track is divided into "stages" marked by a blue sign with a number...

Here you have my assumptions for each of these stages.   

Track section	Game pic	Film pic	Title	Info
Stage #01			Unknown	A dusty western town. Maybe a general homage to western movies?
Stage #02			Star Wars	This stage looks like the "trench" of the death star from Episode IV. Might be a Homage to the original trilogy (Episodes IV - VI)
Stage #03			Unknown	Sci-Fi, A Holographic map of some sort... who knows?
Stage #04			Star Trek	Definitly Sci-Fi, maybe a reference to Star Trek (looking like a "warp core"...)?
Stage #05			Unknown	Sci-Fi, those towers are pretty distinctive... but i have no idea
Stage #06			The Fith Element	A huge futuristic city, flying cars... The Fifth Element. Game and movie were released in the same year.
Stage #07			Unknown	An oil rig with sea mines around it? Dunno this flick.
Stage #08a			Jurassic Park	The trade mark of this film is blocking your way, the T-Rex. Must be Jurassic Park. Based on the 1990 novel of the same name, filming took place in California and Hawaii between August and November 1992, post-production rolled until May 1993
Stage #08b			Jaws	The famous scene from Jaws 1. The shark wolfing down the boat ^^
Stage #09			The X-Files: Fight the Future	Well, if i think of UFO's i think of Roswell and the X-Files. Script was written at the end of 1996, filming began in 1997 following the end of the show's fourth season.
Stage #10			Unknown	Not sure on this one. Maybe the final scene of Terminator 2 (1991) when they hide in the steel mill?

Now your turn... what ya thinking?             

[Mad Max II - Breaking the siege]

Finally,
after 30 years the post-apocalyptic Mad Max series is revived - by none other than Director George Miller himself.
Mad Max 4 'Fury Road' starts in cinemas on May 14th.

As little 'appetizer' you can download the famous Mack rig from the 2nd Mad Max movie for Need For Speed High Stakes soon... 

The truck is not meant to be an 1:1 replica of the original - I tried to include much details as possible, though 
Since I'm not an experienced modeler I did not build this from scratch.
Everything is based on BeniC's 'Road Train' (Western Star truck). I have permission to modify his truck - so thanks again BeniC.
The Road Warrior Truck features damage, custom sound, custom performance and a modified cockpit view to fit its new appearence. Due to the custom sound files it will be neccessary to operate the game in stereo mode or delete all bnk-files from the viv-file.
The archive will also include vidwalls, a full showcase with pictures and data of the actual Mack used in the movie.

Here is a little film clip to get you in the mood 

Mad Max II - Breaking the siege



... and some ingame pics 

















Sites to check

www.madmaxmovie.com
www.imdb.com
MadMax2 Clips

[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 (NFS1, NFS2, NFS3, NFS4, NFS5, NFS6).]

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 (NFS1, NFS2, NFS3, NFS4, NFS5, NFS6).

A history log containing websites that went down or changed the content, you can find in a seperate thread here.

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	NFS 3|4|5|6	Large collection of police vehicles
www.lespittet.com	NFS 3|4|5|6	French fansite by Christian Pittet; big collection of files for various NFS titles
www.nfshome.com	NFS 3|4|5|6	Here you find cars, tracks & tools
www.nfssupf.narod.ru	NFS 3|4|5|6	Russian site; Mirror or older version of nfs2003.msk.ru
www.nfs.scorpions.cz	NFS 2|5|6	Czech site with cars and tracks, some rare NFS1 track conversions for NFS2
www.gamefront.online	NFS 4	Mirror of former Gamefront site... with cars, tracks and tools, mostly Pre-2001 stuff
www.lonebullet.com	NFS 4	Archive with cars, tracks and tools; mostly older files around year 2000.
Emergency-Planet¹	NFS 4|6	Emergency vehicle website with cars, tools and parts for modding
www.nfsplanet.de	NFS 5|6	German site with cars, tracks & tools
www.needforspeed.sk	NFS 6	Slovak site with cars, tracks & tools
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	NFS 4	Small French site with cars and tools
NFS Experience³	NFS 4	French site with cars, tools and tutorials
www.leflic.net	NFS 3	Nice little site with some Pre-2000 cars - click the pictures to download
Luke's NFS3 page	NFS 3	Small NFS3 website with tracks and cars (mostly by Ryuji Kainoh); partially offline
www.gamebanana.com	NFS 3|4	Small collection of older High Stakes cars
www.ds-servers.com	NFS 3|4|5|6	Russian game-server hoster - collection of semi-public files from years 2000-2010
www.nfs.com.ru	NFS 3|4|5|6	Russian site with cars, tracks and tools
www.nfsko.ru	NFS 5|6	Russian site, Categories from NFS1-NFS6 (and newer) but partially without mods
www.need4speed.ucoz.ru²	NFS 3|4|5	Small russian site with a variety of mods, mostly utils
NFS Classic	NFS 3|4	Small russian site with some useful files, several dead links must be expected
N4S Tracks	NFS 4	Small site with some rare tracks; first 6 of 16 listed tracks are downloadable
www.nfseditor.de	NFS 2|3	Several mods and tools for NFS2 and NFS3 from year 1999
www.nfscars.net	Offline	Largest collection of cars, tracks & tools
www.nfscheats.com	Offline	Small collection of files throughout NFS series
NFS3 Expansionpack	Offline	Website of the NFS3 Expansion Pack with cars, tracks & fixes (Download as Package)
www.nfs2003.msk.ru	Offline	Russian site with a nice selection of cars (Машины), tracks (Трассы) & tools

Author Websites

Website	Files	Description
VEG's Blog	NFS 3|4	Modern Patch for NFS3 and NFS4; essential when using mods or a modern OS!
JimDiabolo's cloud	NFS 4	Tracks and Tools by Jim Diabolo, newest Expansion/Stock packs
NFS Rides CR	NFS 4	Cars & Tracks by AJ_Lethal - also visit AJ's Modder's Corner for tutorials
Keiiko's Pirate Bay	NFS 1|2|3|4	Czech site with tools & tutorials made by Keiiko
Team RSR's site	NFS 4	Website of Freak-DS, Cooya! and Memphis joint projects
Benjamin Trapp's site	NFS 4	Cars made by Benjamin Trapp (gearFX)
Roby Design	NFS 4	Cars made by Roby Design (alternate link - in case of display problems)
STD Design²³	NFS 4|5	Adobe Flash - Ruffle plugin required!  Site of Sergi & Alex; Cars, tracks & tools by various authors
Econobrick's Cars	NFS 4	A bunch of cars made by Econobrick
www.fangio.de	NFS 4	Creator of legendary 2in1 tracks - download various packages incl. GTmod demo
NetManiac's site²	NFS 4	Russian site with traffic-replacements (mainly russian brands) & sundries by various authors
I.C.E. Design	NFS 4	Cars & Tracks made by Nick Iliff aka ICE in 2001
Oxi Designs²	NFS 4	Some cars made by Oxi Designs in 2002
www.digitalthunder.com	NFS 3	Homepage of Digital Thunder with the DeTomaso Pantera he made for NFS3
Denis Auroux's site	NFS 1|2|3|4	Home of FSH-Tool, T3ED and QFS-Suite (level as per 2002). Unofficial File Format Specifications.
Memphis' site	Offline	Cars made by Raphael Krempel plus projects/cooperations
Halfmoon's Webpage³	Offline	Site with some Hot Pursuit, High Stakes and Porsche cars
Zorro's Webpage³	Offline	Some Cars made by Zorro and other authors, small track-section
The Evil Realm	Offline	Website of PumaY2K with some cars
John Kahler's site	Offline	Australian site with some unique mods and lot of info; some links point to external sites
2Torcs Labs	Offline	Information about NFS file formats, reverse engineering & Unofficial File Format Specifications

Online Racing

Website	Content	Description
IP-Lounge	NFS 4|5	Developer site of the IP-Lounge for NFS4 and NFS5, recent Expansion/Stock packs
H.O.S.S.	NFS 4	Statistics of online-races, lots of links and information.
LIX Racing	NFS 4	High Stakes racing team, hosting replays of online records
EA Outlaws	NFS 3|4|6	Online presence of EAO clan
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).

☞  Parts of these sites might not be available or files can be corrupted!
☞  Only see blank page? Reload/Refresh the page several times.
☞  Files: sort by MIME Type; try filtering the results - enter common archive types like .zip, .ace, .rar and also .exe files

Website	Files	Description
www.nd4spdworld.com	NFS 3|4|5|6	Once a large site with cars, tracks and tools - about 500 files have been captured
NFS G-B	NFS 1|2|3|4|5|6	This was the site of Giles Bett, mainly provided tracks and tools - ca. 120 captures
JP Racing	NFS 3|4|5|6	Site had cars, tracks & tools ... some exclusive content - 93 captures
Aussie Muscle's site	NFS 3|4	Only files located at site-server preserved, many dead external links - 63 captures
NFS Xtreme	NFS 4|5	A hardware site that hosted cars, tracks and tools for NFS - 50 captures
RVD's Skinshop	NFS 4	A set of skins (TGA files) that fit on Sniper's MCO conversions - 32 captures
Ramm's site	NFS 3	Czech site with some NFS3 cars (Auta) - 30 captures
NFS Bolide	NFS 4	This was the website of NFS Bolide aka Butch, files from external ftp - 22 captures
Stiff'n'Roll Mod	NFS 4	Stiff'n'Roll (later 4Lower) mod, only track pack archived (Download as Package)
NFS3 Expansionpack	NFS 3	Archived Website of NFS3 Expansion package by Exotic Lover (Download as Package)
Zacabeb's NFS site	NFS 4	Some reworked track ini files and new license plate font made by Zacabeb in 1999
Electronic Arts FTP Server	NFS 1|2|3|4|5|6	Public EA server with official NFS patches, demos, etc. (also MCO stuff)

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³ site navigation limited due to outdated plugins or damaged main page (use Ruffle for old Flash sites)
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

Hey, I found some pics on my backup-hdd and dont remember where i got those.   It reads "©Sergi" in two of the pictures. I wonder if anyone recognises this track... Was it ever released or is it still downloadable ?

Thx4Reading







Greetings

[DOWNLOAD HERE]

Hey,
I uploaded a x-mas version of my track.

DOWNLOAD HERE (see description):
http://youtu.be/VqKke023QFA

Feel free to comment and leave some feedback.



So long.


Happy new year !