NFSHS not give up ... please!

[Freak-DS]

[qoute]Need for Speed High Stakes has been on my PC(s) almost continuously since January 2000, the longest time that it was absent was somewhere in 2008, after a re-install. My computer just feels naked without it. [/qoute]

I have my HS copy ever since NFS 4 was released, so May '99 or something, the longest time I've been absent was when my Windows ME machine (that my dad cared for way back then) refused to let it work.. that was about a year.
But yeah, I totally agree with you, NFS 4 is an essential part of a system setup to me

[noise]

I was not interested in computers in my schooldays.Shortly after I got my first computer (at 17 or so) I got a copy of nfs3 (and lost it shortly after) and that made a change.

I bought nfs4 and was totally happy.

Actually I wanted every game with cars involved.I had fun with nfs5 and 6 / GTlegends and Mafia (city of lost heaven).Tried many demo's of racinggames but.......no,

[Rafel]

I had a lot of problems with NFS HS and Win 7 x64. Then i owned a second PC (MSI G41M-P25, Pentium E5700 dual core, 4 GB RAM, Radeon HD 5450 (low Profile), Win XP Pro sp3) for retrogaming. I still play NFS HS every day.

[BMWsport]

I still play, actually.  Still working on a newer version of my track called "The Oval".  Mr. WiLL helped me originally with the textures on my Empire City:  High Speed track.  I started working on it a few months ago and had to wipe my PC, and start fresh.  Now I'm about to get it started again.

[BMWsport]

Side note - I did an update on my site recently and it killed my downloads.  Lost all of the index files and everything.  Today and tomorrow I'm working on a new download manager and re-indexing all of the cars and tracks.  Should take me a while, but I'll get it done.

[noise]

Good to hear your are still motivated.

[BMWsport]

Got NFS4 to work on my XP machine again - just started playing.  Racing on my "The Oval V3 Beta 1" track.  Going to release the final V3 in a few days.  Took a few days to get it working, but now I'm good to go.

[bucksavage]

if anyone could find a version of Giles Bett's City 2se that has been converted to NFSHS, I would really appreciate it.

[BMWsport]

Ask Mr. WiLL - he very well may have that track.  What's the exact track name? 

[Remko]

if anyone could find a version of Giles Bett's City 2se that has been converted to NFSHS, I would really appreciate it.

I don't know if this conversion was ever done (never saw it in the archives of Giles Bett' site anyway), but do you have the nfs3 versions of G-B's City tracks, at least?
I remember you brought them up 2 years ago in http://nfsaddons.com/forums/index.php?topic=1459.0
Not too long ago I browsed the archived version of NFSGB, and found out several of the NFS3-related links still worked:
http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://nfsgb.nd4spdworld.com/zip/nfs3/* (copy & paste the link in a new browser window, as the board can't make this link work..)
This includes City, City2 and City2se.

Just thought I'd mention it in case you're still interested.

[bucksavage]

I don't have the files anymore Remko.  I've switched PC's twice since I had them and they are gone now.  I wish I saved them, and I wish I could have loaded his Hockenheim track, but you had to email him to get it from him, but he never answered. 

checked that link, nothing came up.

[Remko]

checked that link, nothing came up.

http://web.archive.org/web/20061219124158/http://nfsgb.nd4spdworld.com/zip/nfs3/city2se.zip

try this, I just managed to download it fine (may take a few seconds for the download to pop up).
We still won't have an NFS HS version but at least we've got the base nfs3 file here.

[bucksavage]

I have yet to download it, but I have the link queued up in Getright to download later on.  But yes, at least now that we know it exists, it can be converted.  I wish he had completed version 3, cause with each revision, he really made it nicer. 

Also, if anyone has his Hockenheim track, that would be awesome.  That one may be hard to find.  He only gave it out to people who asked via email, but by the time I emailed him, he wasn't active anymore.

[BMWsport]

My Sebring track (shape) is complete - just needs the texture work to be done.  Needs a lot of that.  Shape is in place though...

[FerrariMan]

I know this thread's quite old but, I agree with its purpose despite being away for HS for a couple years now.
In an ideal world, we could get EA to make the game engine open source. There's a fair argument for them to do so; "id Software" did it with the original DOOM after they stopped making profit from its sales, and I would consider it now to be one of the most widely ported video games of all time. (I can play it on my first-generation iPod Nano, my TI nSpire, my iPhone, and the crappiest computers with the obscurest operating systems known to mankind.)

A significant portion of this desire comes from my recent involvement with Linux-based operating systems, it's become quite difficult for me to tolerate Windows since I began to understand open-source OSes.

And back when I was still active in the High Stakes community, I would have been more likely to actually ask EA for such a thing. It's been a while now though, and I realize such a request would be a futile waste of time, even if I could reach significant person from EA.

(Hell it's been a while, isn't the brand of NFS owned by some other company now? If I had any remote influence, I wish I could just hop over to the remains of EA Canada and get them to release the source for NFS1-5. There would be two significant issues with this: (1) no one would take it seriously, EA's not at all known for open source-ing anything, and if they actually had anything related to HS in their server archives, I would be genuinely (albeit pleasantly) surprised; and (2) HS was built for DirectX 6 on Win9x, and the program itself and physics engine written in god knows what, Visual C++ 1995?)

Ah well, sorry, semi-annual rant. See you all next time I need to procrastinate before exams.