NightCollective
The 2005 street racer, rebuilt to run natively on PC and Android.
Native, not emulated
Night Collective is a static recompilation of the original Xbox game.
San Diego, Atlanta, Detroit and Tokyo are all there, with every car, every race and the career, as they shipped. What changes is what the old hardware held back.
You need your own copy
Night Collective contains none of the game. You point it at your own copy of the Xbox disc, and it builds everything it needs from that on your machine.
Not affiliated with or endorsed by Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive.
Features
High frame rates
60, 120 or unlimited. The game's timing is fixed where it assumed 30, so traffic, pedestrians and physics keep their speed.
Any screen shape
16:9, 16:10 and ultrawide, switched live from the settings, with the HUD kept in proportion.
Online free roam
Drive the city with everyone else on the server. Their cars show up with their own paint, wheels, nitrous and headlights, and their names above them.
HD textures
An optional pack with every texture in the game upscaled 2x. Download it from the settings and it switches on when it lands.
Handhelds first
Runs on Android handhelds like the Ayn Thor, with the map and mirror on the second screen.
Settings made for a controller
One overlay for graphics, display, audio and online, easy to drive with a pad. Render scale, borderless fullscreen and the rest change without a restart.
Play online
In the game, open the settings, go to Online and pick a server. These are up now:
| Server | Region | Players | Address | Join into |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loading the server list | ||||
Get it
Builds and the setup guide are on GitHub. The Discord is where to ask for help, report bugs and find people to drive with.
Hosting a server
The relay is one small program that runs on Windows, Linux or Android. Players join it by its address from the game's settings.
Coming soon: registering your server in the main server list, so players find it in the game's server browser and on this site.
The HD texture packs are hosted separately.