Any tips on installing old NFS games, and what's you favorite one?

I guess the meta is installing them via Lutris\Bottles and then launching them via Steam to have a modern controller support and overlay, is that’s so? Does emulation make it better in any way (it seems easier)? What would you use playing them now?

I’ve watched a couple of vids on games from NFSU to Pro Street forming some kind of a saga, and felt nostalgic enough to once again jump in this cringe pool.

I won’t spoil my own opinion on these games besides one point: Pro Street was probably the last one to have a decent, influential OST. Won’t lie, they’ve introduced me to my current favs and made me research their genres further. For that I can excuse EA, or rather BlackBox from crticizing too much, although wanting to play their older games instead of new ones says it all.

ElectroLisa,
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You can just add them to Steam as a third-party game and select Proton as a compatibility tool. Regarding NFS ProStreet, 1.1 cracked version doesn’t work on Wine/Proton, for whatever reason

PerogiBoi,
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I’ve had some good success just playing old games in a Windows XP virtual machine. Doesn’t need much resources and if you set up file share between your regular OS and your virtual machine, you can download the ISOs and load them as virtual disk drives. Easy peasy installation without any WINE configuration or emulators.

Spiralvortexisalie,

I forgot the details but the 2005 Most Wanted has an unofficial update pack that brings widescreen and other creature comforts. It was well supported except I could never get lan-play to work on my Win10 hosts. I wish I had a link but everything I find is piecemeal and the patch I had years ago combined the popular ones to one patch.

just_another_person,

No tips or tricks, really. Check protondb. I know a few of those older games have works sure to EA launcher and such.

andrew_bidlaw, (edited )

I’ve tried a couple modern ones, but after posting that and deciding to start with pre-Steam games, seems like for now PCSX2 serves me well.

launchpad.net/~pcsx2-team/+archive/…/pcsx2-daily

Cagi,

Porsche Unleashed! That game taught me how to do real life 180s and 360s and that may favourite car colour is deep green. Great race replays too.

PerogiBoi,
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I loved Porsche unleashed. Played the absolute crap out of it and learned some German words!

kurcatovium,

Schwarzwald!

Sagar,

Porsche 2000 was amazing! :D

kurcatovium,

I’m no big fan of car games (unlike my brother), but I played tons and tons of Porsche Unleashed. Awesome game for sure.

SatansMaggotyCumFart,

Hot pursuit used to be my favourite but I don’t know how it held up.

andrew_bidlaw,

The 2010 one? It’s physics are as good as Burnout’s ones or even better, gfx are still nice, but god I hate these endless cutscenes like I’m playing some lootbox sim. I’ve tried it and noped out because of that constant spam. Whatever you liked about that game, it feels Burnout: Paradise or Blur may be a more enjoyable experience.

The older ones? Barebones, rough, but if you get into a right mindspace of playing just an arcade racing game, they are pretty great. Some OST jewels are there as well, like Rush, Pulse Ultra, Hot Action Cops and Course of Nature in the second game.

SatansMaggotyCumFart,

The 1998 one is the one I played the most.

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