Online-Resources of classic NFS titles

[MADMAN_nfs]

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).

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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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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

[noise]

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.

[Remko]

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. 

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

Will add more if I can find them.

[noise]

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.

[MADMAN_nfs]

@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) 

@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! 

[Remko]

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

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. More specifically, this section: http://www.bmwsport.net/downloads/cars

[MADMAN_nfs]

Wow, thats quite a bunch of links again 
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!

[Remko]

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.

[MADMAN_nfs]

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.


Anyone have this car for NFS4?

[Remko]

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. 

[MADMAN_nfs]

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

[Remko]

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. )

[JimDiabolo]

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

[noise]

Some more:

raphael.krempel-web.de (Memphis)

www.blaznmotorsports.com/index.php

[MADMAN_nfs]

Hey noise, these sites are a great addition. Totally forgot about Memphis' website, but it looks familiar now you named it  .
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