[!IMPORTANT]
SpeedBreaker is an unofficial fan project by project(u). It is not affiliated with, endorsed
by or sponsored by Electronic Arts Inc., the Need for Speed brand or Valve Corporation.
No game files are included or distributed. To play, you need your own legally obtained
backup (a disc image) of your own Xbox 360 disc of Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005). The
in-app installer verifies it and installs it. Please don't ask for, or share, game files or
disc images. See the full legal notice.
Contents: What it is · Highlights ·
Download · Quick start · How to update ·
Setup by platform ·
Controls · Settings · Tips ·
FAQ · Known issues · What's next ·
For developers · Credits · License ·
Legal notice
What is SpeedBreaker?
SpeedBreaker is an unofficial static recompilation of the Xbox 360 version of Need for Speed:
Most Wanted (2005): a native port, not an emulator. It runs as an ordinary app on your device
(see how it works).
It is built from the Xbox 360 version of the game, not the PC version: it runs the Xbox 360
release's own code, translated ahead of time, and it installs only from the Xbox 360 disc.
You bring the game: SpeedBreaker installs it from a backup of your own disc and checks every
file. Then you race, with things the Xbox 360 couldn't do: up to 4K, ultrawide and tall screens,
and a settings menu you can open mid-race.
Highlights
- Up to 4K. The 3D scene renders at 1x, 1.5x, 2x or 3x the console's 720p (1.5x is 1080p,
3x is 3840x2160). Auto picks a scale for your screen and device.
- Ultrawide done right. On 21:9 screens the view gets wider instead of stretched, the HUD
and the rear-view mirror stay in place, and the sun's shadows reach the screen's edges. A 4:3
iPad, a 3:2 screen or the 16:10 screens of the Steam Deck and many Macs show more above and
below instead, and fill the screen at their own resolution: a Steam Deck renders 1280x800 at
1x, pixel for pixel.
- Up to 60 fps, locked to your 60 Hz display. You can also pick a steady 30 at full game
speed, or Auto, which drops to 30 only while a device is hot or can't hold 60. On a Mac with
a 120 Hz screen, and on a SteamOS or Linux PC with a 120 Hz or 90 Hz one, Smooth Motion draws
up to 120 fps (off by default; not on the Steam Deck).
- Two-player split screen (Quick Race > Split Screen), with two controllers.
- Cops in Quick Race (new). A Cops row in Custom Race's race options (Off by default) puts the
police in Circuit, Sprint, Lap Knockout and Speedtrap races, in single player.
- USB steering wheels (experimental). Tested with a Logitech G29 on a Mac, force feedback
included; the steering feel is still being tuned.
- Two discs: USA and European (PAL) Spanish. One app plays either; the PAL disc brings its
Spanish movies and police radio, and installs beside a USA install, each with its own saves.
The German (PAL) disc plays in a build from source (new).
- Ten languages. English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Polish
and Finnish, from the disc's own text (Settings > Game > Language). On the USA disc the movies
and the speech stay in English; on the PAL disc they're Spanish.
- HDR (new). On an HDR display (a Mac with one, SteamOS and the Steam Deck OLED with HDR on,
or a Windows or Linux PC in HDR) the sun, headlights and lit signs go brighter than white,
while the rest of the picture stays as it was. Off by default.
- The sun glare is back. The low sun glows in open sky and fades behind buildings, as it did
on the console.
- The original look: sunlit roads and shadows as on the console, the picture a real Xbox 360
sends to a TV (the game's own display gamma), correct colours on Apple devices, proper car paint
and mirror reflections, and distant textures that don't shimmer. Anti-aliasing, sharpening,
FSR 1 upscaling, a Brightness setting, up to 16x anisotropic filtering, sun shadows at up to
twice the console's resolution and a cooler colour balance are also available.
Screenshots: SpeedBreaker v0.1.2 on a Mac Studio (M4 Max). They are unedited frames from the
game's own output, except that the licence plates in the top image and the first race image are
blurred. The game content in them
belongs to its owners.
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