NFS 4 Detroit Muscle Mod

[nfsfan83]

Guys help me find this mod for NFS4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReZf-94Mhqo

[FranknFurter]

Hello Slawek

some well known cars and tracks among there .. heard of that, a short search found this so far:

on a Polish forum:

http://forum.programosy.pl/nfs-detroit-muscle-vt14982s9540.html

Dutch forum thread with also a listing of cars:

https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/28740

on our own forum also a short discussion:

http://www.nfsaddons.com/forums//index.php?topic=64.5

for example the 'Michigan license plate' tool as a part of 'Detroit Muscle Mod':

http://www.nfsaddons.com/nfshs/tools/758/

Cheers
Frank

[nfsfan83]

Cars I have, this is for friend. But I know that was a mod that make menu and adding cars from MC to NFS4??? Anybody have this mod in rar file?

[Keiiko]

it looks indeed like Detroit Muscle Mod after some googling

[Zpectre]

It seems to be mostly a (well made) menu mod with some slightly modified tracks. The cars can easily be found here and in other places.

I'd love to get my hands on that menu, though.

[MADMAN_nfs]

This also was discussed on iplounge.net forums in 2010. At that time Remko uploaded the mod. So i think if we ask him nicely, he can host it somewhere again

This was the original site of the mod: http://web.archive.org/web/20010401053814/http://www.nfsmods.com/cars.html

For some time it was hosted on nfs2000.de i think, but well... that site is also history.

[Paul Spain]

This also was discussed on iplounge.net forums in 2010. At that time Remko uploaded the mod. So i think if we ask him nicely, he can host it somewhere again

This was the original site of the mod: http://web.archive.org/web/20010401053814/http://www.nfsmods.com/cars.html

For some time it was hosted on nfs2000.de i think, but well... that site is also history.

Well if Remko still gots it or anyone else has it they could just put it up on here, NFS Cars,or our site ofcourse . If I can find it I'll do that.

[Remko]

Guys help me find this mod for NFS4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReZf-94Mhqo

That is an interesting variation on the Detroit Muscle mod, and by 'variation', I mean that it has several cars and tracks included, which were never in the original release back in 2001.
In fact, there were no new tracks in DM to begin with. And that 'Highway of Fortune' track in the beginning of the video is something I've never seen before.  Doesn't look half bad, actually. What a pity that the uploader of that video is giving no info on where he got it, and also disabled the comments on his YT page.
Detroit Muscle *ufo* edition, it says on the loading screen... honestly never heard of it.

Dutch forum thread with also a listing of cars:

https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/28740

on our own forum also a short discussion:

http://www.nfsaddons.com/forums//index.php?topic=64.5

Funny to see that last thread brought up, including that short argument I had with a poster I'd completely forgotten.
Also that Dutch thread, with Sander Prinsen (founder of NFSCars) peeking in as well. 

I could give a bit of history about this mod, but I think I already did in the past, so I'll save that for another post, for now I'll give you the files you're looking for.

It seems people are interested in the Menus, etc. more than the cars. Unfortunately, the mod was created so that you had to install the car packs first and then run the separate DM Installer file. This last installer is the one with the loading screen, new slides, menus, white smoke patch and Michigan license plate in it.

I don't know if there's a way to get those from the Installer.exe alone, maybe someone with more programming knowledge than myself would be able to find a way.

Here's a pack with all the necessary files included:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ztfh3la3n4ti4j9/Detroit%20Muscle%20Pack.zip?dl=0  (45 mb)
Inside are all 6 carpacks 1a-1f, as well as the latest official installer 1.10 and a DOS version of the same.
Two more things are included: a folder with two 'fixed' versions of two menus that are bugged in the original installer, you will have to add those manually.
Also there's a fixed dash.tga of one of the generic dashboards that were included in the mod. (IH8COPS made replacement dashboards for the cars that didn't have one initially) That last one isn't 100% necessary, it just looks less distorted.

As for the installation instructions, please see https://web.archive.org/web/20030410085318/http://detroitmuscle.racerplanet.com/downloads.php (complete with 'please read the instructions' popup) as the DM team tried to do everything as fool-proof crash-free as possible.

Now, to be honest, I haven't installed the full DM mod myself in years, so I don't know if after all these years, the installation will work flawlessly (especially on modern Windows OS).

If all goes well, it creates a second install next to your original High Stakes one, complete with separate desktop shortcut.
If all works right, it should also be possible to delete DM without it affecting your original HS game.

But as you can hopefully understand, I cannot 100% guarantee all this. For that reason it is probably a better idea to back your original NFS:HS up, or try it out on a second installation of the game, to reduce the risk of having your game messed up and having to re-install, or worse, losing files.

One more tip: once you've installed the mod, there's a chance the game will hang at the new, red "Loading" screen... as stated in https://web.archive.org/web/20030621172340/http://detroitmuscle.racerplanet.com/help.php just hold down any key down for a few seconds until it resumes.

Sorry there is no easier way to look at the mod itself, as I don't have the menu files etc. separately. Good luck and if you've any questions, let me know.

edit: corrected the dropbox link

[Zpectre]

Actually, Remko, there are quite a few interesting cars in the zip file you provided. I said that because it looked like most of the cars in the video were available as separate downloads. The mod was effectively a collection of the top American muscle releases in the early 2000s wrapped up in a nice package. Those cars, to my knowledge, could be found as separate downloads even back then.

Installation is not necessary, as 7-zip can unpack the executables.

[Remko]

To see which cars are included see here (click the 1A, 1B, etc. links for more details and images:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030808172354/http://detroitmuscle.racerplanet.com/cars.php

To be honest many of those cars are from late '99 - early 2001, so may not all be up to today's standards. Lots of other good muscle cars were made later that year, and planned for a second release, but that never happened. They all were available separately anyway (like Bigblock's '62 Impala, Smokey's Charger Daytona, etc.)

To see some ingame and menu screenshots, see here (surprisingly, almost all images survived on the archive):
https://web.archive.org/web/20030808180322/http://detroitmuscle.racerplanet.com/screenshots.php
Most of these were made by yours truly I was somewhat involved in this mod, but really only as a PR guy/beta tester.
The loading screen was created by Silver, the design for the in-game manus by SVT_Man, and the programming by RunR.

[Remko]

Actually, Remko, there are quite a few interesting cars in the zip file you provided. I said that because it looked like most of the cars in the video were available as separate downloads. The mod was effectively a collection of the top American muscle releases in the early 2000s wrapped up in a nice package. Those cars, to my knowledge, could be found as separate downloads even back then.

Installation is not necessary, as 7-zip can unpack the executables.

True, if it's only the cars that you want, then any zip/rar program will let you open the exe's as an archive. Full install is only when you want to see the Loading screen, menus, slides, etc.

And yeah, this early release has mostly cars that were already available at the time from Authors like Badfish, Cougar, Cvette, Profesorn. Some of the pursuit vehicles are probably unique for this mod, though.

[Zpectre]

True, if it's only the cars that you want, then any zip/rar program will let you open the exe's as an archive. Full install is only when you want to see the Loading screen, menus, slides, etc.

And yeah, this early release has mostly cars that were already available at the time from Authors like Badfish, Cougar, Cvette, Profesorn. Some of the pursuit vehicles are probably unique for this mod, though.

This mod actually has some gems, worth a separate install along with further cars like Smokey's Challenger R/T. ProChevelle's cars would feel quite at home here as well. Quality is inconsistent, because lots of people contributed to it, but some of them stand out and aged quite well, such as Shaundaddy's '57 Bel Air, Smokey's '68 Charger which to my knowledge cannot be found anywhere, RunR's Thunderbird, Justin Martin's '57 Olds, Cougar's Mercury Cougar Eliminator, Ryan T's Mustang and Road Runner, Profesorn's '63 Corvette and, my favorite, Jason Trusty's Pontiac Firebird Formula.

This mod was intended as a replacement of the original game, so the cars' identification is the same as EA's own cars. I'll try to change it for my personal use, but if anybody wants it I can share the untouched unpacked contents of the installers I was quickly able to compile. There was some stuff like EXE patchers which aren't needed anymore, so I didn't include them in the folder.

[WiLL]

Thanks, Remko, an Others, for that D.M. mod, History talks of course the site links,.was real cool reading all about this. But, I need go library to ever download, all the Gems : }  was good readings...yup

[Dark One]

Oh my. I remember this one. And I think that people were trying to bring it back ever since (like that MCO total conversion based off of it, that was already mentioned elsewhere), so it's great to see it again after all this time.

Thanks for sharing it with us, Remko.

[nfsfan83]

Thanks a lot guys for help