Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser

Huge fan of bringing back older games and updating.

But I think it's highly dubious to accept let alone solicit donations for copyrighted content.

Oh, I really didn't expected it to play smoothly on my six years old phone (Samsung S20+),Kudos!

I didn't play much NFS back then, the two racing games that I played mostly in the past were Screamer 2 & Test Drive 6.

This is great, I have been thinking about revisiting this old game. Unfortunately, it is not available for sale anywhere (probably for music licensing issues, see other games such as Alan Wake), and older versions don't run as well as they could.

I do find it legally dubious to also host the assets, but at least they make it easy to jump in.

Free roam with online players is such a great concept! However, playing in the browser is not ideal. Are the extra features (name claims, multiplayer free roam, etc) available in a native version? It is unclear to me whether https://github.com/TalhaMudo/NFSU2Recomp includes these extra goodies.

A relatively good resource to discover game recompilations is https://recomp.gg/, but there is no obvious way to contribute, and no search functionalityy.

It played perfectly for me, very nostalgic. Amazed how it just worked.

https://voxelblox-notes.pages.dev/play/

This stuff is fun lately, I've been working on an engine for a while and ported a little game over to the browser here. It's a voxel kart racer as a browser project. Think classic kart racing, but with a voxel aesthetic. It's a fun little experiment, so I figured I'd share it here!

I remember playing this on a PC when it came out. Graphics still looks good today and is surprisingly playable on a 8 inch tablet.

Wow, that brough back some memories, thank you for sharing this :) are there more available?

Can I selfhost this game locally? I have the suspicion it won't stay online for long.

Riders on the storm ...

I guess this was made with automatic shift in mind? There are no controls for manual shifting on-screen. Did not find an easy way to enable this. Stutters often due to asset loading. Not a very pleasant experience...

For me performance is poor, it's unplayable. To run the game, I had to turn on Chrome's enable-unsafe-webgpu setting.

The chaos of all of the other players joining in career mode is really funny.

I still am not sure whether wasm/webgl is suitable for 3d games with some complexity. You'll eventually have some GC pauses during game play. This one included, despite the rest of the game being smooth.

serious question: how is this legal?

Give us Porsche Unleashed ... that was proper great NFS.

i really worry about what the big game developers are going to do to fight against these types of projects. wondering if we are fucking up the future of game preservation because people want to generate web versions of games they like

thats so cool bro and how is the performance like? Also can you use a controller?

It's 2026, and we still haven't solved the aliasing problems.