NFS Underground - Lap Records on all 8 Circuit tracks (Forward) - RetroAchievements

Описание: I recently discovered RetroAchievements, which not only adds achievement support to many old games but even time attack leaderboards for individual tracks or levels. Here you can see me setting a new lap record on every Circuit track (Forward) in the PS2 version of Need for Speed Underground.

Timeline:
0:00 Olympic Square
1:05 Atlantica
2:11 Inner City
3:18 Stadium
4:33 National Rail
5:37 Market Street
7:05 Terminal
8:18 Port Royal
9:25 Car Setup

NFS Underground is one of my favorite racing games of all time and it was the first video game that I ever played competitively, all the way back in 2005, so I was excited when I saw that RetroAchievements not only has achievements but also time attack leaderboards for it.

There are now at least 3 websites that offer leaderboards for the game and each one has upsides and downsides.
Speedrun.com has a big userbase and you can use the PC version of the game but your times won't get detected automatically and instead have to be tediously submitted manually with video proof
Virtuallenge.com has automatic detection and even telemetry and you can use the PC version of the game but it has a very small userbase even years after I promoted it
RetroAchievements.com has automatic detection and a reasonable userbase but you have to use the PS2 version of the game via emulator

The PS2 version that you have to use for RetroAchievements has worse graphics and performance than the PC version but overall I probably enjoyed this option the most so far, since there is automatic detection of your times and with around 100 players on the leaderboards the times feel at least somewhat meaningful. And maybe my videos will encourage even more people to join.

In this video you can see my laps on all the Forward Circuit tracks, which are the tracks where I have by far the most experience. I probably did hundreds of laps on all of these tracks over the past 20 years. The only thing that I had to figure out was where to use my nitrous, since I only did flying laps without nitrous in the past.