NFS 2015 but it's 2014 | GenesisPreProd Build Exploration

[@Brawltendo]

To check this build out yourself, download RPCS3 and then get the build from here: archive.org/download/nfsr_builds/game_debug%20%2804-02-2014%29.7z 1. Once you've installed RPCS3 somewhere on your PC, extract the build's "FROSTTEST" folder to "dev_hdd0/game/" in your RPCS3 folder. 2. After that's extracted, go into "dev_hdd0/game/FROSTTEST/USRDIR/" and create a new folder named "Scripts". Inside the new folder create a file named "Ps3Game.cfg" and paste the line from this link into it: pastebin.com/8jc42aFT This will guarantee maximum stability and better performance. If you want to load up the other test level, replace the "-level" command with "-level PreProd/Levels/Ronnie_PreProd/Ronnie_PreProd/Ronnie_PreProd". 3. Next, rename "EBOOT.BIN" to "EBOOT.BIN.BAK", as we don't want the emulator trying to start the game from this file (it'll throw an error). After you've done that, make a copy of "Race.Main_Ps3_final.self" and rename it to "EBOOT.BIN". It's very important that you use this exact file; any other self will crash on startup. 4. Start up RPCS3 and if Rivals shows up in your game list, right click it and select "Create Custom Configuration From Default Settings". When the config window opens up, change the settings to the same ones found here: wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=Need_for_Speed_Rivals You'll also want to go to the I/O tab and change the Keyboard Handler setting to Basic. This will let you open up the debug menu and command console later. 5. Go back to the RPCS3 directory and open the "patch" folder. Create a new file called "patch.yml" if it doesn't already exist. Then paste the contents of this into that file: pastebin.com/6XKySggz In RPCS3, go to Manage -> Game Patches, and enable the cheat. If it asks to update patches just press no. 6. Now you should be all set, just launch the game and hope for the best. If you want to open the debug menu, press B on the keyboard (might need to do it twice), and if you see a black bar with some text pop up at the top, you can now press P on the keyboard or L3 on the controller to cycle through the different menus. Arrow keys/right stick moves between menu items and tabs, and pressing O + P will open up the command console (press ~ to close it). If you get random freezes when doing things like opening Easydrive or starting races, press circle to unfreeze it (the emulator doesn't show the assert that's supposed to be there). One more note, after the first 30 secs or so after loading the map, the game will lag out for around a minute. Just wait it out and everything after that will run fine.

[@xSpicySaltx]

i wonder if its possible to load this map into newer games

[@7ndrew]

Ngl it's weird that there exists a pre-production NFS15 build for the PS3

[@spongebobfan78]

It was like seeing Until Dawn being a PS3 w/ PS Move 3rd person game before it became a PS4 cinematic story game.

[@xSpicySaltx]

@@spongebobfan78wow

[@SakyGTR]

last gen NFS 2015 could be possible and still looked damn good for their low settings they brought available

[@joshuaandrewson3091]

Honestly, seeing how a game like GTA V manages to fit on the PS3 it's not really impossible for EA to try and push 2015 into late console release. But it sure as hell would be quiet expensive.

[@Silva_GP]

Finally another KZbin channel talking about beta and prototypes of NFS games. I remember back on 2018-2019 existed a youtuber who talked about unused content from old NFS games, but he stopped posting about this.

[@ANGEL_117TM]

Hazey Viperz, I miss him

[@Silva_GP]

@ANGEL_117TM What happened to him?

[@phenomenedits5903]

@@Silva_GP EA sent him Hitmans. He knew too much

[@omerozer9667]

I got very disapoonted when i watched a video and learnd the nfs 2012 was so close to being a actual most wanted sequel

[@NEO_NoiseBomb]

This is insane. It is strange that a build of 2015 was even on a PS3. I don't think this means they were planning for NFS 2015 to be released on 7th gen consoles.

[@nrtmv2605]

I’d love for the gamescom/e3 builds to get leaked

[@notinorderdecent]

This is like finding a golden egg video YES

[@blinkachu5275]

This looks actually driveable unlike what 2015's physics did :')

[@summitier22]

I wish they just kept MW12's handling, it was close to perfect save for the input lag

[@nfsiiihp]

I always liked Rivals more than actual NFS2015 in (almost) evrery aspect especially the snow borough and the ferraris

[@joshuaandrewson3091]

​@@summitier22 I don't really get why they removed 2012's control scheme and rebuild a new one from scratch to be honest. It certainly would've made 2015's driving experience much better.

[@VeilsideTofu]

Skill issue

[@STRIDER_503]

NFS15 *_IS_* drivable if you know how to steer.

[@AhmadWahelsa]

So they were aiming to have whole LA in 2015 instead of small portion of it like in retail.... perhaps we could get it if EA gave them another year or two, i don't think they are even limited by hardware too, if their plan is only for next-gen consoles at the time

[@Brawltendo]

I’d hold off on all the speculation, we have hardly any information to go off of besides a couple of test maps that just show that they were already looking for a more urban setting, and that they had _possibly_ already settled on the general LA area as inspiration for the setting. Some of the roads in TestLevel_SantaMonica are just ripped straight from the real life Santa Monica, like the bell shaped residential area in here is a nearly 1:1 copy of Rustic Canyon. There are 7 districts (8 if you count the test track which is set up as its own district) in the map compared to the final game’s 6: 1. Upper Village 2. Lower Village 3. The Valley 4. North City 5. South City 6. The Beach 7. Shady Heights X. AndyDriftChallenge

[@Silva_GP]

No, its more a test map, not a real idea since doesn't exist any open world NFS game which set in a real city like Midnight Club Los Angeles did.

[@smashkiller64]

Welcome back dude! Love this video! It’s so wild to see the difference between what they started with and what we ended up with!

[@MaxLazy10]

Incredibly cool! Brawl my friend thanks for doing this! Always cool to see what 2015 looked like in its earliest form!

[@458italiap]

lol this makes me wanna just take the One:1 and drive it all over the map. This is pretty cool, and it’s neat to see how NFS 2015 was made.

[@Grabuss]

Very interesting video, amazing job that you managed to actually make it work, kudos to you.

[@altrd_mango]

Well, well... it's always great to see some new nfs builds

[@bluetuber982]

4:52 A message for people who hate crash screens (look at the red text).

[@ArthurLopes39]

Awesome. I wonder if they were aiming to drop 2015 on the then last-gen as well or if they were just exploring with what they had.

[@xSpicySaltx]

it's just a early build. to test what they had and expand on it. they never intended to put it on last gen. esp with the way the final graphics look

[@thealifrs4_463]

imagine several hypercars from rivals didn't left in 2015

[@JustAnyone]

finally someone was able to run it! good job

[@Ryosucc25]

Can you do an exploration of the inaccessible "Downtown" area with all the skyscrapers in NFS 2015? always wanted to see what that area would look like from the inside

[@xSpicySaltx]

i took a camera back there, theres nothing back there, sorry to burst a bubble. Mainly just block out textures and see through floors and tall fake buildings with low detail

[@arandominternetperson4462]

7:21 Honestly the no-b2d handling looks way better than the final game's handling

[@Ryosucc25]

It still looks too understeery tho, kinda like the grip handling of NFS payback

[@sagealvarez1266]

@@Ryosucc25 It's effectively the same. The tire behavior is still tuned with drifting in mind so its heavily biased towards understeer.

[@nagatoro9718]

When the prototype has better handling than the final game

[@arredon1181]

Wowzers! This is such a find bro, good one! Do you know if it could run on real hardware like MW12 builds? Or it would just crash?

[@Brawltendo]

Atm I only have a PS3 superslim, so I could only try it on HFW which just crashed like the other Rivals builds. I've heard that it could run on a DEX enabled PS3, although they never got into the test levels. You'd have to apply my patch to the self and then use Target Manager to launch it either with the level command or with Ps3Game.cfg containing the level command.

[@qburanp]

as I have long understood, the whole coolness of NFS is a very good game camera and sound design. physics of cars, and the maps themselves in the game are not particularly valuable

[@AhmadWahelsa]

The map in 2015 is so lackluster compared to literally any NFS, it's just 25% of LA, even Olympic City feels bigger due to variety, all i remember in 2015 was just a random hood area, a dockyard, and a touge

[@JCBOiii]

What a gross misinterpretation

[@D3VYN3]

I honestly think Rival's story would've worked better in a more urban environment.

[@ElaboratorOfToast]

still looks better than most recent games

[@rustbloodeclipse]

3:36 BeamNG Gridmap

[@radicaIized]

I wish the city was accessible in 2015

[@arnaud79797979]

very cool and interesting

[@m0narchhyyyy]

If Possible, can you make a video showcase of what cars, menu, or anything that inside this build? really wanted to try seeing it myself but didn't have the hardware that could run the game

[@Brawltendo]

This build is so early that everything else is identical to Rivals, so there isn't really anything else to go over unfortunately. The only other "notable" change is that weapons don't work even though they're still in the HUD and debug menu.

[@androxx5264]

how did you get easydrive to open? every time i try to do so, it just freezes the game and wont do anything past that.

[@Brawltendo]

You can press circle when that happens and it should unfreeze. There's an assert that's supposed to be there but it doesn't show up in the emulator.

[@androxx5264]

@@Brawltendo that worked, thanks!

[@WolfPack27NFS]

I notice that these cars look like they have a red light reflecting off of them (look at the windows) this is same as when you fall off the map in Rivals, the entire world incuding your car will appear red for a few seconds before returning to normal. I wonder whar kind of strange connection there is.

[@Brawltendo]

Dynamic reflections fall back to a solid red texture if they’re disabled (which I did here for performance reasons). When you fall out of the world and the game tries to respawn you, the dynamic reflection entity ends up getting unloaded along with many other visual effects till the “visual environment” (essentially Frostbite’s version of a post process volume that you’d see in Unreal or other engines) is loaded back in.

[@ZipZapTesla]

I love how they made the trees, looks like Roblox lol

[@xSpicySaltx]

when i boot into eboot.bin from the description, is it suppose to load the intro sequence every time?

[@xSpicySaltx]

and my screen is fuzzy. i followed everything from the description box

[@IDUNKNOWN]

guess you re not first person to discover here,there is 2 or 3 (if speedyheart already know but lazy post them) persons 1st person discovered long ago (not maxlazy10) upload them to yt but video is shadowbanned but then later the channel gone and terminated in early 2024 (mostly false gta 6 source code or piracy),i can't remember name 2nd person is gz,i saw them these screenshot from nfs 2015 build but no hud and from his dicord server,idk is real or not so carefully doing something in yt 2024,it just keeping worse can ruin your life and they no longer giving any strike to take care for instead terminate whole channel

[@xSpicySaltx]

am i the only one who likes this map more then the final game.

[@Ziimbiian]

Is this the build with the customized Green Mustang?

[@dapottis]

unfortunately that green mustang isnt in this build

[@Brawltendo]

I wanted this to be that build so bad back when it was first found lol. Hopefully there's still more 2015 builds out there that won't get hoarded

[@ElaboratorOfToast]

which mustang

[@flawlesspwrs]

i like how they downgraded the physics for the final build

[@andreigtx1711]

7:22 After all this time the theories are correct, Frostbite is perfectly capable of running actual grip physics! Ghost and Criterio were too busy trying to modify brake2drift into a messy shitfest when the solution was right in front of them smh

[@NeoGarlick]

the real question is, if the blackbox nfs the run physics still in frosbyte, why ghost din't take notes from that handling model cus' all the fanbase at that time was disgusted with the b2d

[@Brawltendo]

This is still very much in the realm of B2D, but yeah it was never a secret. The game engine wouldn’t limit what handling styles they could design and program. Considering that this handling model debuted before they switched to Frostbite, plus The Run exists and plays completely different, I don’t know why this idea that the engine was incapable of other handling styles ever took off lol. Not only that but lots of mods (including my own) have been disabling the drift portion of the handling model for years now.

[@rohanalias9053]

Brother if you've played the battlefield series , you would realise any driving physics is possible in frostbite

[@andreigtx1711]

@@rohanalias9053 I know, I played a lot of BF4, I was referring to the fact that many people used to say that Frostbite couldn't handle realistic car physics as an excuse to defend brake2drift being shoved in every nfs game since hot pursuit

[@sagealvarez1266]

@@rohanalias9053 They've never used Battlefield physics in NFS. Not even close.

[@Theforzacrew916]

Looks like rivals

[@dymoslaw]

nfs beta comfirmed

[@Frothy_Board25]

do more nfs 2015 beta builds :(

[@PurpleArcher102]

Youve come so far 🥹

[@exstaticzzz9272]

Genesis is not Genesys right?

[@Brawltendo]

GeneSys is the internal name for Chameleon core engine stuff (and GameChanger was the name of the editor), while Genesis is NFS 2015’s development codename.

[@user-bp5py6bh3g]

Awesome!

[@dakshfr]

holy macaroni

[@tedhouse265]

We got NFS Movie in video game before NFS. I should never comment like this again.🏳️‍🌈

[@faridrezayat8546]

To be fair maps seems like payback a little

[@xSpicySaltx]

holy shit

[@Lvneth]

holy shit indeed