Recently, players once again remembered the classic arcade racing game Need for Speed Underground 2. The reason was a post by an enthusiast under the nickname danticoverse on a social network.
He showed how to run Need for Speed: Underground 2 on the hybrid console Nintendo Switch. This does not use streaming capabilities or an emulator. This was made possible by Wine-NX. This is a port of the Wine 11 compatibility layer for the Nintendo Switch operating system "Horizon OS".
Gameplay footage of Need for Speed: Underground 2 on Nintendo Switch can be viewed at the following link. In the game, you can get from 20 to 45 FPS with an overclocked processor.
During the discussion of the prospects of this line of work, danticoverse published another post – he showed a snippet of a scene and gameplay example from the strategy game Warcraft III (also on Nintendo Switch).
There are no new parts or remasters of the Need for Speed: Underground 2 series yet, but the indie studio Sealime is currently developing Heatwarped – an arcade racing game made in the style of classic NFS franchise games.