Online-Resources of classic NFS titles

[MADMAN_nfs]

www.nfsplanet.de added.

www.passatnfs.com is offline.

[noise]

Almost nothing for nfs3/4 on nfs planet, why add it.

[MADMAN_nfs]

As stated in the description this thread is about NFS1 to NFS6 (classic nfs games). NFSplanet still hosts files for NFS:Porsche (NFS5) and NFS:HP2 (NFS6).

Greetings

[noise]

Like to mention you can't download cars anymore at NFSunlimited.net, the links are not found or lead to GTAgaming.

[MADMAN_nfs]

Yes, I can confirm that. Seems they deleted all pre-2009/2010 files. So NFS 4-6 category is basically dead there.

[Zpectre]

NFSBolide was facing charges by Ferrari. They forced him to stop building and remove his Ferraris for NFS4 off his website. That story could be read up somewhere, I don't remember where.

Butch had no problem with Ferrari. He rebuilt his Ferrari cars for GT Legends and released them on RacingFR website. His problem was with another brand, a currently defunct one, and the work of mischievous people looking to prey on an innocent artist for a quick buck.

However, when I read that, I contacted the main manufacturer I build cars of - Porsche - and guess what? I got a permission to build their cars. That was back when the first Cayman appeared, mainly because I was trying to get blueprints of it, which they won't send. Porsche is cool about noncommercial projects, because it's free publicity for them. As far as I know, Ferrari is the only manufacturer so far, that tried to sue a modder of a racing game for making free publicity for them, which is idiotic. Car manufacturers profit of such things as racing game addons.

I don't think any honest manufacturer would object. Especially in your case since you're truly devoted to the marque.

The point about permissions, and why Will's tracks for example, which were clearly made without permissions of the original authors are still online, is simply because everyone here tries to keep the NFS4 scene alive. I have thougt a lot about the permission and credits stuff in the past weeks, because Will pokes me all the time about it, and I figured that by strictly enforcing what is right, the scene is harmed more than it benefits from that. Since it's a personal concern for me to keep NFS 4 alive, I wouldn't want to do things that harm the scene.

It's difficult to say what's "right". Many cars used to be exclusive to one site or another, but back then people didn't think about the long term. Also, more people built their own cars instead of converting so there was the artistic sense and intellectual property.

I've noticed lots of cars are exclusive to NFSCars (either by modder's will or by only being available there) and my last visit there wasn't very pleasant since I don't know what Mike Geise plans to do with the site. It feels abandoned and a pale shadow of its former self. My adblock plugin also registered no less than 71 instances of malware coming from the site and I could only freely navigate by disabling it. Even then, it was slow as fuck. Streetdogs also got nailed and lost most of its content, and most of the original NFS modding sites no longer exist.

I think there must be conditions for reupload. Original content must be intact, for one.

[MADMAN_nfs]

List updated:

- www.gigafront.de down.
- www.nfsstreetdogs.de down.
- Re-added registration hint for www.gtrcars.net

Wish you a nice christmas time and a happy new year and hope to see you again in 2016 

[noise]

With Gigafront down, we lose a lot of nfs4 files.Glad I downloaded a lot there the past year.Happily Streetdogs isn't down yet.

[Remko]

- www.gigafront.de down.

Aww. Guess that was only a matter of time, but still takes you by surprise.  Browsing was difficult because it would always re-set your filter options when you went to the next page and there was no info about the author unless you actually downloaded a zip and opened it, but still I'd like to have had the chance to look a bit longer.

[Paul Spain]

With Gigafront down, we lose a lot of nfs4 files.Glad I downloaded a lot there the past year.Happily Streetdogs isn't down yet.

Noise did you get all their cop stuff for HighStakes? I got almost all the good ones (left the dippy ones) but there was one I couldn't get..It's a 1970 something Badenwürttemburg Polizei Porsche 911 Targa, It was plain white and I think only had POLIZEI on the front nose, A rare find. I've thought of just finding a old enough car and making it but if someone has it I'll use it instead.

[noise]

Sorry Paul I don't know the car.And I'm not so much into policecars.

[Stifen_DY]

Geez, after watching this topic, I'm starting to feel extremely disappointed now. The classic NFS series is dying.

Now the Gigafront site becomes www.toplist-100.de (an online gaming clan site), what a letdown. We've lost so many NFS4 stuffs.

NFSCars site also becomes extremely difficult to navigate now. Its search function and file filtering system are butchered now.

What should we do now? I'm clueless now.

[Zpectre]

Geez, after watching this topic, I'm starting to feel extremely disappointed now. The classic NFS series is dying.

Now the Gigafront site becomes www.toplist-100.de (an online gaming clan site), what a letdown. We've lost so many NFS4 stuffs.

NFSCars site also becomes extremely difficult to navigate now. Its search function and file filtering system are butchered now.

What should we do now? I'm clueless now.

I'm in the process of collecting as much NFSCars stuff as I can, the worthwhile stuff at least not the dozens of tuned NFS4 EA M5s. The problem is that it takes really long because I haven't found a way of mass downloading and the server probably wouldn't like it either. So it's difficult to get cars like Ryuji Kainoh's and NUH Creations' (Christian Xaver made a lot of unique cars you'll never see in modern games). And that's only for NFS4. NFS5 has a lot of new stuff that came out recently, NFS6 has many legacy conversions, and NFS3 has some vintage stuff.

[Paul Spain]

Geez, after watching this topic, I'm starting to feel extremely disappointed now. The classic NFS series is dying.

Now the Gigafront site becomes www.toplist-100.de (an online gaming clan site), what a letdown. We've lost so many NFS4 stuffs.

NFSCars site also becomes extremely difficult to navigate now. Its search function and file filtering system are butchered now.

What should we do now? I'm clueless now.

I'm in the process of collecting as much NFSCars stuff as I can, the worthwhile stuff at least not the dozens of tuned NFS4 EA M5s. The problem is that it takes really long because I haven't found a way of mass downloading and the server probably wouldn't like it either. So it's difficult to get cars like Ryuji Kainoh's and NUH Creations' (Christian Xaver made a lot of unique cars you'll never see in modern games). And that's only for NFS4. NFS5 has a lot of new stuff that came out recently, NFS6 has many legacy conversions, and NFS3 has some vintage stuff.

Good idea. We do what we can at NFS Police HQ as well. Do you know if Christian (NUH) is even still making stuff? I tried long ago to contact him about making some police conversions of his vehicles by leaving a comment on NFS Cars..Never got a reply from him. And this seems to be happening alot with files on NFS Cars so we adopted a policy of try it and if they (makers) complain we can always take it down later.

BTW I know of NO mass downloading way with these files..You just have to download them one by one sadly. Now you used to be able to browse around alot of old sites using Archive.Org but they screwed it all up now and it only shows pages and pics..No download links found using it work now days since they changed to that beta crap.

[Freak-DS]

Commenting is propably the most inefficient way to ask an author for permission, specially when they made as many cars as Christian Xaver (NUH). He disappeared from the surface years ago, I used to chat with him on ICQ but he simply didn't come back online at some point, neither respond to emails. No idea if he is still alive either.