What Is The Best Way to Get Repackaged Old PC Games?

meong on 04/08/2024 - 08:46

Long story short, suddenly I feel like playing Need For Speed 2 SE as it was my first NFS game in high school.

I can find the ISO easily from Archive.org but I cannot find the solution to get it working on Windows 11 by emulating Glide features.

The original version also does not have the patch etc. So I assume someone must have made a patched version and packaged for Windows 11?

Some older games like Red Alert etc are already officially re-released so that is okay, but some other games are not easy to find.

Comments

meong on 04/08/2024 - 10:31

okay, searched around apparently there is a website called myabandonware
skid on 04/08/2024 - 11:46

Have you tried this patch?

https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/2448-need-for-…

This might work too:

https://github.com/zaps166/NFSIISE
- meong on 04/08/2024 - 20:09
  
  Let me try this, but apparently i found a full patched and repackaged version at myabandonware!
Bruceflix on 04/08/2024 - 19:34

http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide
Is this what you are looking for?
- meong on 04/08/2024 - 20:08
  
  +3
  
  Oh wow this is great! Thanks!
  
  Now i can relive the memory of spending the money I earned at Maccas on a Monster Voodoo 12MB!
FezMonkey on 05/08/2024 - 10:07

Surely you've checked GOG?
They go to efforts to get old games running on modern PCs and you can purchase legitimately and they are DRM-free.
- meong on 05/08/2024 - 11:01
  
  actually i wasnt aware that GOG actually tries to re-package older games for compatibility purposes so yeah ill check it out thanks!