Online-Resources of classic NFS titles

[MADMAN_nfs]

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

HighStakes@gamebanana

[Zpectre]

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.

[Remko]

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

[noise]

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.

[WiLL]

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. 
yeah, I'm still trying to be, enthusiastic about it also.

[MADMAN_nfs]

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?

[Remko]

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/

[Zpectre]

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.

[MADMAN_nfs]

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 added.

Also added the page -=The Running Racers=- (German) to Online Racing, which seems to have activity still (in 2016 at least).

Other nostalgic sites:
- an early Warez-site (don't worry, the links aren't functional anymore)
- Marko's NFS HS page
- NFS Sports Gaming
- Reesy's NFS page
- unBtable's NFS:HS Site
- NFS TRACKS`N MORE
- Team Xtreme Speed
- YiannisPanako's site

Webarchive:
- JP-Racing
- Need For Speed G-B
- Total-NFS

edit: link fixed

[noise]

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

[Remko]

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.

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. 

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

[noise]

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.

[MADMAN_nfs]

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...

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 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?

[noise]

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.

[MADMAN_nfs]

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) ?