NFS Underground - Leaderboard Time Attack vs Ghosts with Virtuallenge.com WR Client

Описание: Recently I was contacted by a friend from many years ago called INFEL8. In the past he created software for various racing games that would automatically detect your best lap times and allow you to post them on a website. I never used his programs much in the past because they were only for games that I didn't care much about but now he actually made one for NFS Underground, one of my top 3 favorite NFS games, so I was excited to give it a try and after helping a bit with finding bugs I can now present the software to you guys as well. :) Here you can see me doing some laps with it on two different tracks.

Timeline:
0:00 Free Run Time Attack on Atlantica
7:09 Free Run Time Attack on Olympic Square vs my previous best
12:50 Telemetry View of my best lap from this run vs my previous best

The software works for all 4 race modes in the game with Circuit, Sprint, Drag and Drift. Circuit is done via the Free Run option and nitrous is turned off for it. Sprint and Drag are done normally. For Drift the software will capture your lap times and not your score.

As you can see the software automatically shows and updates a purple ghost with your fastest lap of the run. You can also load ghosts from previous runs or even from other players, like I did with the red one in my second run here, which is a ghost that I saved in the past.

For Circuit there are two different types of records, lap records and lap series records. Your lap series record is your fastest total time in 10 consecutive laps. These can be any 10 consecutive laps. They don't have to be the first 10 laps of your run and of course you can easily be a lot faster by doing 10 flying ones. Being really fast in all 10 laps requires a lot of consistency though and should be a challenge for even very good players.

The website shows not only the fastest times ever but also the fastest times of each week, so there is always something to do.

To use the software just go to https://virtuallenge.com/games/racing... and register on the site. Then download the software, follow the instructions on the download page and you are ready to go. You just need a copy of the game of course and it should be an English language copy with the latest patch applied.

On the website you can see the records for each track and you can look at the setups that were used for them and download their ghosts if the players allow it. In the telemetry section of the software you can load these ghosts to display them ingame. I can't really give detailed instructions for every single step here but I think everything is easy enough to figure out and if you have a specific problem you can always ask about it of course.

Hopefully there are some other people besides me who are also still enjoying NFS Underground and who will set some times for this new website because I think it's a great project that deserves to see some activity. In the past we only had sites like speedrun.com which were not really ideal for Time Attack on individual tracks because everything had to be reviewed manually. Now we have a much better solution for NFS Underground thanks to the great work of INFEL8. And who knows, if this project is successful, then he might even add further games in the future like NFS Most Wanted or Carbon. Seeing how much he was able to do with NFS Underground here I definitely think that he would have the programming skills to do it. We just need to give him a reason to. :)