Yamaha S-YXG50 was released in 1997. First versions were shipped with the simplified 2MB version of the wavetable, and the full 4MB version was published only in 2001. It seems that the cause of this is low amount of RAM in the computers of 90s. Both versions of the wavetable files were created in 1996 (4MB in February, simplified 2MB in July). Possibly, the full 4MB version is a dump of the WAVE ROM of the Yamaha MU80 / MU50 / QS300 / DB50XG / DB60XG / SW60XG / MU10, because the Yamaha S-YXG50 soft synthesizer is very similar to this series of hardware of 1994-1996.
Need For Speed III Modern Patch v1.4.0 and v1.5.0
- No more non-rotating wheels in the rear view mirror and in the split screen mode (when Car Detail is High).
- Rear View Mirror can display better 3D model, clouds, lightnings, and light from the headlights of cars and from the flashers of cops. “Rear View Mirror” detail setting was added. Better proportions of the objects in the rear view mirror.
- An ability to enable or disable the fog effect directly from the graphics settings menu.
- No more "Render_GetTm() raM out of raN" error for high poly cars. Corresponding buffer is 10 times larger now.
- The View Angle setting allows to enable wider view angle, which is useful for the widescreen resolutions. New set of options: Narrow, Normal (former Wide), Wide.
- 10 times faster gameplay loading on modern systems. To skip loading animation just press any key.
- An ability to use port 9803 for the network games. It solves the problem when you can't start a network game because port 1030 often is used by system services.
- Built-in screenshoter. Just press Print Screen key, and a screenshot will be saved into the screenshots subdirectory in the JPG/PNG/BMP format.
- Improved keyboard support in the menu. Now it is much more consistent. You can also use the Tab and Shift+Tab to switch between elements.
- Consistent sounds in the menu. Volume of all menu sounds will be same. Also you can set Menu Sounds Volume separately from the volume of the ingame special effects.
- About 100 small changes in the v1.4.0 and v1.5.0. See the readme file for more details.
Download: nfs3_modern_patch.7z (1.5MB). Project page →
Need For Speed III Modern Patch v1.3.1
A small update of the Need For Speed III Modern Patch.
- Windows 98/Me support (it's recommended to use DX6 thrash driver with these OSes).
- Better handling of running the game alternately on different displays with different maximum resolutions.
- A couple of insignificant optimizations.
Download: nfs3_modern_patch.7z (1.5MB). Project page →
Hello, world!
Welcome to the English version of my blog! I had seen that some users were using Google Translate to read the Russian version of my blog. I hope that my English is a little bit better than automatic translation, and it is more understandable for you. I'm not going to translate all my old posts, so some of my projects are available only in the Russian version of these pages. But I plan to publish here the most useful projects for international users.