# NFS III: Hot Pursuit — Android

Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, the 1998 PC game, running natively on Android
phones.

It is not an emulator. The original Windows executable is recompiled into
portable C++ — a static recompilation, built on
[motor-dev/nfs-recompiled](https://github.com/motor-dev/nfs-recompiled) — and
the Windows, DirectX and Glide calls it makes are reimplemented on SDL3 and
OpenGL ES. This project makes it a phone game: a launcher, touch controls, two
gamepads with split screen, vibration, widescreen races and
full-colour textures.

Network races work: phone with phone over Wi-Fi (IPX or TCP/IP), and phone
with a PC running the Modern Patch over TCP/IP in both directions (host and client).

The game's data comes from your own disc: its folders, a ZIP of them, or an
image of the disc (ISO or BIN/CUE), which the launcher reads directly.

<img src="screenshots/title.jpg" alt="the title screen" width="49%">
<img src="screenshots/car-select.jpg" alt="choosing a car" width="49%">
<img src="screenshots/multiplayer.jpg" alt="two phones in a network race lobby" width="49%">
<img src="screenshots/race-widescreen.jpg" alt="a widescreen race" width="49%">
<img src="screenshots/race-touch.jpg" alt="racing on the touch controls" width="49%">
<img src="screenshots/pause-menu.jpg" alt="the pause menu over a race" width="49%">
<img src="screenshots/split-screen.jpg" alt="split screen for two players" width="49%">
<img src="screenshots/race-snow.jpg" alt="a snow track with the touch controls" width="49%">


## Playing

You need:

- a device with Android 8.0 or newer, a 64-bit ARM processor (ARMv8,
  arm64-v8a) and OpenGL ES 3.0 graphics;
- the game's data from your own copy: the `FEDATA` and `GAMEDATA` folders of
  the 1998 retail disc, or an image of that disc (ISO, or BIN/CUE).

1. Copy both folders to the phone, for example to `/sdcard/YOUR_FOLDER`, or
   copy the disc image there.
2. Install the app, open it and import that folder, or the image's `.iso` or
   `.bin`.
3. Play.

How it works, building it, and every setting: [TECHNICAL.md](TECHNICAL.md).

Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit is the property of Electronic Arts. This
repository contains no game content.