Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser

(nfsu2.xyz)

73 points | by fluxusars 2 hours ago

11 comments

  • theropost 13 minutes ago
    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!

    • hexad74 10 minutes ago
      This is fun. It reminds me a bit of Lego Racers from 1999.
  • MayeulC 1 hour ago
    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.

    • gonzalohm 31 minutes ago
      What do you mean about Alan Wake? It's available in online stores
      • sufficientsoup 12 minutes ago
        It was temporarily removed some years back
  • polytely 3 minutes ago
    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
    • jareklupinski 1 minute ago
      its not a definite, but it seems that the projects that get taken down the quickest are the ones that try to run ads / monetize the work

      the people that just put out a cute site and stay low tend not to attract lawyers

  • zacian 5 minutes ago
    Riders on the storm ...
  • senfiaj 19 minutes ago
    For me performance is poor, it's unplayable. To run the game, I had to turn on Chrome's enable-unsafe-webgpu setting.
    • KMnO4 5 minutes ago
      For comparison, I get a perfect frame rate on an iPhone 14.

      Whatever computer you’re using must be slower than a 4 year old phone.

      • senfiaj 3 minutes ago
        Just enabled a couple of flags (#enable-vulkan, #default-angle-vulkan), now it's good.
  • gbraad 1 hour ago
    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... and likely very illegal to distribute/host (though I 'own' this game).
  • bajard 7 minutes ago
    It's 2026, and we still haven't solved the aliasing problems.
  • Dries007 1 hour ago
    The chaos of all of the other players joining in career mode is really funny.
  • sgt 1 hour ago
    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.
  • tevlon 46 minutes ago
    serious question: how is this legal?
    • hobofan 43 minutes ago
      It's not
      • Ampersander 8 minutes ago
        It could become legal in the future. I don't see how we can have machine god and copyright, and it's clearly copyright that has to budge.
        • serf 5 minutes ago
          >It could become legal in the future. I don't see how we can have machine god and copyright, and it's clearly copyright that has to budge.

          one could say it seems to already have budged.

    • thrownawaysz 3 minutes ago
      It's not but who cares at this point when regular people see that the big tech companies commiting the biggest robbery of the century and nothing happens.

      Steal a game and you are a pirate.

      Steal 1000 games and you are OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/[insert big tech company name here]

  • 7Chinguun7 1 hour ago
    thats so cool bro and how is the performance like? Also can you use a controller?