Need For Speed Underground

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Need for Speed: Underground 2

Developer(s)EA Black Box
Publisher(s)Electronic Arts
SeriesNeed for Speed
Platform(s)GameCube
Release date(s)NA November 15, 2004
EU November 19, 2004
JP December 22, 2004
AUS July 27, 2005
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player, Multiplayer (2)
Input methodsGameCube Controller
Compatibility4
Playable
GameIDsGUGP69, GUGF69, GUGD69, GUGE69, G2NJ13
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It's Time to trade in the Ray-Bans and Soft Rock driving anthems CD for a puffa jacket and earrings, because, as those rear-window stickers of many a teenage Nova SRi driver proclaim, Need for Speed is on a mission. Yes, whereas the previous NFS outing, Hot Pursuit 2, indulged us with Ferrari fantasies amid the rolling hills of a tropical fantasy world, Need For Speed Underground. Probably one of the best games ever released in the Need For Speed game series is Underground 2, as it completely features a different style of gameplay. Open world map is always a charming feature to have in a racing game, Need For Speed Underground 2 free download features a vast open world map, where players can roam freely. Play Instructions: Install the game - Full Installation. Apply the official NFS: Underground 2 v1.2 Patch.; Replace the original SPEED2.EXE file with the one from the File Archive.

Jan 23, 2021 Need For Speed Underground PC Download is a streetcar racing game. It is a fast-paced street car racing game that is, for sure, an addiction for the racers and speed lovers. It lets you show your speed and pace in the well designed and impressively tracked Olympic city by using a range of cars present in the game.

Need for Speed: Underground 2 (NFSU2 or NFSUG2) is a cross-platform racing video game published and developed by Electronic Arts. Released in 2004, it is the direct sequel to Need for Speed: Underground, and is the eighth installment in the Need for Speed series.

The game is based around tuning cars for street races, resuming the Need for Speed: Underground storyline. Need for Speed: Underground 2 provides several new features, such as a broader customization, new methods of selecting races, the 'explore' mode (free driving). Underground 2 also introduces several SUVs, which could be customized as extensively as other Underground 2 vehicles and used to race against other SUV racers.

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Emulation Information

16:9

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Need for Speed: Underground 2 has a native 16:9 display option, but it requires enabling it in its internal options and setting Dolphin's Aspect Ratio graphics setting to 'Force 16:9'. Using the widescreen hack with this title is not recommended.

Problems

VP6 Videos

Need for Speed: Underground 2 uses the VP6 video codec, common in Electronic Arts' titles, causing its videos to have vertical line artifacts and other glitches on NVIDIA graphics cards. The Software Render will display VP6 video correctly, but is typically too slow. VP6 rendering also reacts poorly to the Force Texture Filtering enhancements (and Anisotropic Filtering on NVIDIA), causing further scrambling.

Configuration

No configuration changes are known to affect compatibility for this title.

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Need for Speed: Underground 2 since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

Need For Speed Underground 5

5.0-14259(current)
2.0(r5384)
Compatibility can be assumed to align with the indicated revisions. However, compatibility may extend to prior revisions or compatibility gaps may exist within ranges indicated as compatible due to limited testing. Please update as appropriate.

Testing

This title has been tested on the environments listed below:

Test Entries
Revision OS Version CPU GPU Result Tester
3.0-692Windows 7Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.5GHzAMD Radeon HD 6850Perfect: FPS sometimes drops below 30 when there are a lot of vehicles on screen. Resolution:1680x1050, Aspect Ratio:Stretch, Internal Res:Auto, AF:16xZheka
4.0-5238Ubuntu 14.10Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.3GHzNVIDIA GeForce GTX 650Playable. Gameplay is perfect at 85-100% speed. HLE accurate, car lighting reflections work, and the nitrous meter is fixed, but cutscenes are garbled. Entering tuning at the garage, my car somehow fell off of the dyno and was hanging off the side of it but after entering a test race and coming back it fixed itself; also there's minor texturing issues, most noticeable around foliage or the letters when naming your profile. While actually racing though these problems are either not present or barely noticeable.Xerxes
5.0-2464Windows 10Intel Core i5-4690 @ 3.5GHzNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070Game runs nearly perfect aside from cutscenes which have some lines through them. No noticeable slowdowns or stuttering. (Vulkan renderer, Internal Res:8x Native, AA:4x MSAA, AF:16x)KT

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GameCube
  • Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2(2002)
  • Need for Speed: Underground(2003)
  • Need for Speed: Underground 2(2004)
  • Need for Speed: Most Wanted(2005)
  • Need for Speed: Carbon (GC)(2006)
Nintendo Wii
  • Need for Speed: Carbon (Wii)(2006)
  • Need for Speed: ProStreet(2007)
  • Need for Speed: Undercover(2008)
  • Need for Speed: Nitro(2009)
  • Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit(2010)
  • Need for Speed: The Run(2011)
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