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.

  • Cagi@lemmy.ca
    14·
    7 months ago

    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.

  • Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    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.

  • ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    7 months ago

    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@lemmy.ca
    3·
    7 months ago

    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.

  • HeckGazer@programming.dev
    3·
    7 months ago

    I have the og NFS MW running via bottles. It wouldn’t install via isos so I installed it on a spare windows machine from isos and copied the folder over. Took a little fiddling to get the bottles profile into the right state but it is possible :)

  • Woof7610@programming.dev
    2·
    6 months ago

    I don’t own any NFS, but when i install an old game from iso, i first try bottles
    If it’s not working then lutris

    • andrew_bidlawOP
      1·
      7 months ago

      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.