Currently there's really only 2 versions of the offline version of the game, every other verion will have too many missing features for them to be worth while. There's v1.8 which came out in or around June 2015, and has been updated over time to its final 1.8.3 build. The other version is v1.9.3, which people will use for multiplayer because it comes with the online server as well as an updated online launcher that you have to log into every time you want to play, even offline. It came out pretty recently, sometime in 2017, and gets decent update support.

Now why do you need to know this if you're new to this game or even an old player who wants to simply do ILs? v1.8.3 has cheats built into the launcher for getting yourself to max level, all the money you want, all the boost you want for powerups, all the slots you want (you get the point),instantly. You don't even need to have 5 minutes into the game and you can have every top tier car with elite parts & skills to submit runs here as long as you use someone else's profile. By profile I mean you can import someone else's cars if they give you the right files, then boom you have their cars in your game.

You don't have the freedom to do this in v1.9+ builds, probably because they linked offline and online servers together into that new launcher. So if you just wanna run some track that takes 2 minutes to do that you may or may not have played 500 times before, you need to actually grind the game to get anywhere. The problem here is 90% of people who might consider submitting their times here won't care enough to grind a dead game that already died in July 2015. For multiplayer maybe, but for offline ILs against bots? Why even bother?

What's the big deal though? Can't you download the old 2015 verion from somewhere? All I gotta say to that is good luck doing that anymore. You use to be able to get the whole verion just by googling it from the one site that has the v1.1, v1.2, v1.3, and v1.4 installers. v1.3 being the v1.8.3 final build, and the current and only available v1.4 installer with the v1.9.3 current build. The site for some I'm sure great reason deleted the ability to download any of the other installers besides the new one, so the only way for you to get the build you want for ILs is by goolging around and piecing an old version of the game together, which isn't too hard to do, but again, why bother?

And now even less people will ever consider downloading this free game to beat someones run. Since I'm willing try to get more people to submit runs here, just do a basic google of where to find the v1.8.3 files. There's maybe 3-4 new runs submitted to nfs world every ~2 years, it's just sad really. For a game that at its peak had thousands upon thousands of people trying to be 1 micro second faster to get a WR, I gotta do something so even if 1 more person gets into it in the next year I feel like I'd have accomplished my job.

After you do the goolging, discord me @ edy#7695 and I'll help you set the game up.

While I wait for my legal copy of the game to come in the mail so I can start speedrunning v1.2, I've made this vid to show you how well the mid game level cars do against each other.

Sound got messed up during youtube's upload so that sucks but oh well. I have terrible upload speed so I can't be bothered to upload a different version. I will try to make another video once I get my current save file past blacklist #4 or 3 so that I can test out some of the other cars versus the ones I already tested. I was watching kurus any% run and he mentioned how he'd want to know if the porsche 911 or DB9 are any faster than the elise, and while he may or may not have figured that out already, I want to make another video showcasing just that along with some of the other later cars.

All of the cars I've tested will have their track times recorded in the youtube desc.