JP Racing back online

I know this is off the topic, but, it looks to me that things arent really picking up in the NFS community lately. I think one of the reasons for this is that the only truly editable games like nfs3&4 are now way too old to keep up their popularity with the realism that new games provide.

I know this is a sad point, especially for those of us who have been around since the beginning, but I stopped making cars a while ago now because they just dont get dloaded enough. Even the very best cars arent used as much as they used to be.

just wanted to see what some of you think on my point???

Hi Memphis Nice Work you did on your NFS`3 RockyPass Track Looked like alot Work on the Power Line's Makes it Look better tho :) Keep up the Idea's Man! Take.. Care Me ;}

slimjim - Mike, Remko and I are about to change things here again. I like the old days, when we added 50 cars to the site in one night...could be soon.

I'm with ya slim. I haven't had NFS installed for ages, let alone played it. I think NFS as we oldtimers :P know it is dying, and being replaced by GT4, NFS:UG and other racing games. I still come here to check the news, but I'm afraid that's all I do in the NFS community :(

incredible for a 5 year run though, heh? I'76 didn't last that long, and I still have the game, and play every once and again.

I'm hoping to add some other stuff to the site, non-nfs related. Like wallpapers and things like that. Try and get the traffic back :-/

I think it's true that the NFS4 editing scene isn'tr as big as it used to be, but there is still some very good stuff being made and released.
The lack of updates here on the NFSgarage is really more because of my lack of time than anything else - perhaps I shouldn't spend so much time on playtesting, screenshotting etc. but I like to believe that a personal approach is a way to distinguish ourselves from other NFS download sites. :(

I think NFS4 editing has been so popular because it is realtively easy to get into, and it's been figured out pretty deeply. However, many editors have developed higher standards both graphically and performance-wise, and compared to modern games, NFS4 is pretty limited, so many of them have moved on to games like Racer Free Car Simulator.
I'm thinking that the NFS4 scene could be bigger still, if the game hadn't been such a hassle to get going with Windows XP (that includes the editing tools).

On a slightly related note, I added car number 1000 today, it's the completely bad-ass 1972 Dodge Challenger "X-Factor" made by Icekid and Venom, right here:

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To be honest, this doesn't mean that we have exactly 1000 cars on the site at the moment, as many have been removed over the years, but it's still a nice milestone.
It's also the 800th car for NFS4. ;)

not too many updates lately, I guess things have slowed down now that people are back to school.

Its nice to see the SOTD's back, and who's beautiful screeshot resides on the left of your screen today? - yours truly

'tis a might fine screenshot good sir. ;)

In fact, we could use some new SOTDs, we are slowly getting near the bottom of the well... although I thought that'd never happen :D - I think Benny alone accounted for 50% of all SOTD's since August 2002.

By the way: did you know that you can still go back all the way to 2002 in the SOTD Archive by clicking the > symbols?

I knew that :p

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