Just a guess but the unused vinyl "Stuff" could be based on Stuff magazine, which is a mens mag and features, part clothed, models, but also vaguely adjacent to car culture at the time in the UK, it would have been cut for not being age appropriate.
All the vinyls shown are from UG1, it's basically leftovers from sponsor cars from UG1 - Rob zombie, Mystikal, Petey Pablo and so on, these can be also restored with mods.
15:14 - The radar dish is meant to say SETI - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 20:10 - The vinyl names are leftovers from Underground 1 - that game had special cars for the artists whose songs were used in the soundtrack, Eastsiders vinyl name also gives that away.
Plus the Stuff vynil was definitely in one of the Underground games. I've seen it in the vanilla game, it just says "Stuff" in a red font on a hay background. Not a very spectacular vinyl, actually.
The cabin neon was cut most likely because EA saw 2 fast 2 furious and how Brian's Skyline had blue cabin neon and tried to imitate that, but fell short because of how light works. Brian's Skyline's interior was cool because the neon light would spread inside the car, giving it a blue tint, whereas in Undergrounds 2 cabin neons look like bright colored bars inside the car rather than actual light sources. In the end it's likely they gave up on them because the car interiors were too low-detail to be brought to light anyway.
Hi HIF, mechanic here, an insight into your closing repair shop story. Sometimes when we accept a job and start the repair or examining the process of the repairs more closely we may realize we either underestimated the complexity of the work, can't source the correct parts we need, under-quoted ourselves to the point of the job not being profitable for us or affordable for you. Or require specialized tooling to complete it that we might not be able to source or is too expensive to buy for a one time use. Really enjoyed this episode, sunk many teenage hours into this game.
10:00 actually, the Black 350z is from the Japanese Sha_do release, which was separate from the normal release in Japan. Sha_do is an artist who made the livery on that 350z as well as 7 Vinyls that replaced some contest Vinyls!
Regarding the map's evolution, I always wondered about the inaccessible horseshoe-shaped loop on the south side of Pigeon Park. I suppose it was just a planned part of the area that was ultimately scrapped, and the devs simply forgot to remove it from the navigational map. NFSU2 was my favourite racer back in the day, even surpassing its immediate successors MW '05 and Carbon. I always love to see the game get coverage, especially when we can discover something new about it too.
One thing i noticed while playing the ps2 demo, when you fill your second "nos bottle", the hud should show a pulsing yellow colour instead of light blue. this pulsing yellow colour still can be seen in drag races in final build.
imagine desert drive and it's dunes may have been why we had suv's, It's possible suv's were required for offroad racing there maybe but were removed because the devs thought being forced to drive a specific vehicle would hinder player choice and instead opted for the optional route for suv's since the models were already finished.
@@MrMetropolis nope, widebody fender options wouldn't make sense since the wide bodykits option still exists, like from a developer point of view, wide fenders are a bad idea unless they are forced into a whole kit, imagine putting a wide fender option and all the front bumpers are modeled for regular fender fitments 😂, worse case scenario they would have to make twice as many bumpers to cover the differences
@@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim The wide-body kits can't be mixed with regular customization and are fairly limited tho (at least I think so, idk if anything changed since Underground 1's wide-body kits cuz I've never actually finished Underground 2). But yeah, it would require a horrendous amount of resources and time to make multiple variations of each bumper just to make it work, and they especially didn't have enough time considering they were doing yearly NFS game releases lol
Man this video is absolutely outstanding, ive been into this "Unused/removed" stuff for a while but never seen things like the Paint shop graphics, the car meet spot theory (purple lights), ballons which is some really impressive idea for its time. You did great on this one :D
These videos have been amazing. I love how quick they feel without skimping on the details. Also you mentioned a Rob Zombie vinyl name that you found in the game. That could be a leftover asset considering NFSU featured a Rob Zombie special vinyl, or maybe they were planning to bring it back for the sequel.
Randomly come across this but its good for someone else that hasn't seen any underround 2 vdeos on this stuff. I knew a fair bit already but good stuff really. Do more lol.
@mydogzty Yeah, I knew a lot of this as well prior to doing research but hey, it's here for the people who haven't seen much information about this game. Did you know about the textures? Those were all new to me lol
@@HackingIsFreedom yea I knew that hotel one but no worries still a good video keep them coming. You should showcase some mods, and anything extra to know about the game from your expirence.
@@HackingIsFreedom oh thanks! Ye the Lock car was just an april fools. The model is actually in GLOBALB, along some other models like the GPS arrow and possibly some debug cubes
7:54 if you look closely at the comics/cutscene at the beginning of the game when arriving to the garage with Rachel's car, the drawn interior is of the RX8. Meaning it was changed to the 350Z pretty late on in development. I wonder why.
3:19 and Canards or Wide body flares. We got wide body, but only preset kits... so that wouold be a further option, front / back fenders from different sets ect.
- There's a build of the game that still has the "spaghetti bowls" mostly intact, but also some that are invisible. There are screenshots of what they looked like before they were cut as well. - Also, there are a few barriers in place when you free roam in the final version of the game, but are removed for select races. With a few changes you can fully remove these barriers for both the races and free roam. Doing this will give you access to roads that aren't even accessible outside of those races.
Really loving the content ! Dual Hearts is a pretty obscure PS2 games and it also has debug symbols available. Might have some cut content left as it's a pretty unexplored game.
Can't believe that this old masterpiece still has some secrets to be found! 15:07 the fifth text, second word looks like "Shop" so maybe some shop of sorts?
Cool overview. The Rob Zombie Vinyl (as well as Petey Pablo and Lostprophets) is certainly a carryover from NFSU1. Shame that NFSU2 only got vinyls for Chingy and Capone. A Mudvayne Vinyl would have been my favourite! And if a mechanic refuses to do work on your car, then he most certainly considers your car a safety hazard, regardless of effort put into its repairs. You're probably best off getting another ride entirely.
u can get some of those cut content wheel rims when in career you beat racers in free roam and you get 1 of those stars on the map where u race to some shop where u get to choose a free item from a few options
Those early shops backgrounds seems to be a placeholder/concept before they build the 3D final versions, you can notice they are a 2D image with the cars on it.
The unused vinyls towards the end of the video are all the vinyls used on the unlockable special cars in the first underground game. I also wanted to mention in the full game there's a part of road unaccessible. Perhaps by pigeon park. I remember seeing it often and wondering if it was part of the map removed. This video could potentially prove my theory right, I just don't remember the details exactly
7:00 I don't think that they were doing anything with bikes or things like that because if you look close enough, you'll see that all attachments are attached to the geometrical center of the object with is what usually is done to avoid game crashing when something unexpected is happening to given model. You can find this sort of thing in many other games where you can modify or add something, and there is an unused object.
the lock thing. i know from ripping models form NFS UG, that things get put at 0,0,0 in the cars 3d space if there's no defined point for them to show up at. that's why all the parts for the lock and right at the center
I think the fender and hood icons would've represented carbon fibre variants of the stock parts. Maybe vents for the fenders too, but if you've played UG2 like I have, you know how this feels like it would make sense.
6:46 The Charger was in the PSP rendition titled "Underground Rivals", not the DS version. UGR also added the SVT Mustang, 1968 Mustang Fastback, & even the Corvette C5 as Muscle cars which rival the tuners
20:08 nfs games starting from underground 1 up to carbon share the same structure at core, thus you see familiar names and files when looking through them these mentioned vinyls were all used in the underground 1 but were cut here cause they were exclusive to that game.
17:08 actually this isn't the "final" final map, but a version that is more known as "ghost city" or "race city" The only difference is the highway intersection in the middle of City Core is open on the south, whereas it's closed in the final map. You do drive on this version in one of the drag races, where you even drive through that very intersection.
@Mamac2006 Well, they obviously had plans to make them selectable like the rest of the rims but that didn't happen. Therefore, they were cut from the list.
I think the reason why the Dodge Charger data is in Underground 2 is due to it’s inclusion in Underground Rivals for the PSP, which more or less runs on the same engine as Underground 1 & 2 i think, cars in that game retain their UG1 engine audio but UGR has the UG2 soundtrack
9:59 not entirely true, this vinyl was exclusive to the Sha-Do version of NFSU2 which only released for the PS2, there was also a regular PC japanese UG2 release with a green 350z and everything else just like the EU version. I'm not sure if there was a non-Sha-Do NTSC-J release for PS2 though. It was the case with UG1 and UG1 J-Tune but I don't remember ever seeing a regular PS2 release of UG2.
Hey, nice video man! I have e question: so i have my NFSU2 installed with the right exe SPEED file and I have extra options mod. But when I go to debug menu and find option for hood decals it shows like 198 options, but as I cycle through them not a single one show on the hood. If i choose other decals through debug menu - they work fine. Did you encounter such problem?
I remember there was a small spot in the park area which was placed on a minimap but there was nothing in the game. I recall trying to look over the bushes when I was a kid. I wonder what was this all about.
Yeah, I had to think of that when he said "Hyde Park is already finished", thinking Hyde Park isn't even finished in the final release of the game, since there is a short path on the mini map that's not accessible. That spot drove me wild as a child, I kept thinking there must be some secret way to unlock it and kept trying and later googling for it.
I believe the advan rg and the racing v2 was in the regular game for ps2 it was called konig hurry and i forget the other one however the rg and the hurry looks exactly the same in the game but in real life look totally different like konig hurry is actually ugly n looks old the advan rg looks dope
hey hey. i had a strange bug on my xbox version actually highlighting outside of the map for a drift race in the hights area. it was to the left out to sea, similar to that dot on the map. but the arrow still brought me to the race in heights.
Is there anyone who can recreate in mod at least that background in the 2D style of the workshops like the conceptual art style of the betas for underground 2?
I've played a bit of The Godfather on PS2. Yeah, it runs on the same engine as The Simpsons Game, there's a ton of leftovers from The Godfather in The Simpsons Game if you didn't know. I actually covered them in my WWC Simpsons Game episode.
