Ryan Cooper: from Zero to King

Several months of on-and-off work come together into this. It has been fun making this video, and also rather educational in many ways. Additional details about the contents of the vid can be found here.

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I've always envisioned the career of Pro Street as taking place only with Ryan Cooper's 240SX across all specs. Understandably, that's not very possible in the base game because of the way Blueprints work. Apparently the devs wanted the cars to actually have cross-spec capability with Blueprints, but due to apparent time constraints they were unable to implement it.

Pro Street also suffered from several issues that arose after installing the v1.1 patch. While it allowed for extra content to be played, it introduced a 30fps cap regardless of graphical settings, and, worst of all, the infamous Continue bug that would heavily delay if not halt progression. Only after installing the excellent Multifix Patch (available here: https://nfsmods.xyz/mod/2) could I really come back and experience this game in full. For an even bigger challenge, I went with manual and clutch, and found it most enjoyable and rewarding to play.

None of this still allowed for accurately replicating Cooper's 240SX livery, though, which is where the Pro Street Vinyl Unlocker (available here: https://nfsmods.xyz/mod/100) helped bring the dream to reality. Only small blemishes such as absent window stickers remain, which aren't so easily fixed apparently.

In the gameplay itself, I tried to keep interesting recorded segments while also fitting the flow of the soundtrack. I found this especially important to balance, because of the high emphasis the game has on audio design, and I wanted to do it justice in that regard.

Of course, Cooper's ride doesn't emerge fully unscathed from the journey, which hopefully makes it that much more interesting to watch.




Thank you for reading this, for watching, and for being supportive through my almost 10 years of YouTube. Time flies...

I'll be back with more content soon, hopefully.