Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit [PS1/PSX] - TR02B (Empire City expert variation) hot pursuit mode

TR02B is an unfinished, hidden, and cut track from the PlayStation version of this game; it was supposed to be the expert variation of Empire City. To play this track, you have to select Empire City and enable this code:
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301F8D6D 0041
301F8DA9 0041
301FAB0B 0042
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[@LilDiabloRob]

Ahhh yea my 90s childhood!!!! Miss you so much!!

[@HGAMES69]

Love how good the rain effects and thunder lightning looks for a PSX game.

[@damiank9443]

1:17 well, those looks different compared to default variant.

[@GamerGee]

I’m heated we didn’t get this officially. I always wondered about this. EA needs to release this completed.

[@MaGiKRat420]

I'm thinking it's because the performance of the map is bad enough without the trees along the road that are supposed to be in this. It could have been implemented in the pc version though, so yeah, they should have done that.

[@WhimsicalCalamari]

You'd have better luck finding someone who knows how to mod this game. If a finished version _ever_ existed on EA Vancouver's servers, it's long gone now.

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

They figured out how to mod high stakes and gt2 so I reckon someone would be able to fix up at least the ai and basic roads on this track

[@hudsonk1racer]

​@@WhimsicalCalamariYou'd be surprised how likely it is that more than one version of this map still exists on EA's servers/hardware.
I doubt there's any that are more finished, but Halo's Digsite, multiple Gigaleaks between Nintendo & Valve, as well as the surprise discovery of lost development rom's from that era, tells me that all the assets are out there.

[@thatoneotherotherguy]

Very interesting to finally see. Would be cool if a modder finished the graphics on PC, assuming this half done track is even in the PC game files. Played this game since I was a child at its release, always wished for just a little more content.

[@dse763]

Unfortunately, It's only in the PS1 version.
All the graphics have to be updated to be in the PC version.

[@thatoneotherotherguy]

Also interesting to see how easy it would be to accidentally go the wrong way once the alternate track hooks back up with the main track shared between both versions, it looks tempting to go left at the intersection where you have to go right.

[@NathanTran]

Remember for 8 laps

[@GamerGee]

What music section would have played here for interactive music for the unreleased route.

[@crimsonkate8241]

The NFS 3 soundtrack has 2 songs for each track. 1 for the standard version & one for the extended version. It's been a while since i played the game so I can't remember if the game switched between the 2 "empire City" songs when you played that particular track, as the extended version wasn't normally accessible. The 2 songs are "Warped" & "Flimsy" & can be found on TH-cam. "Flimsy" is the longer of the 2 so iguess that was originally intended for "Empire City's" extended route. IMO "Flimsy" is the better of those two songs & it's shame we never got it with Empire City 2 fully developed. Hope that helps! :)

[@GamerGee]

@@crimsonkate8241 it does. Someone has to ask the team about the scrapped track.

[@crimsonkate8241]

@@Dave_Albright I get ya, thanks for the correction. It's been awhile since I played it & I only played it on PS1.

[@t2pantelli]

​@@Dave_AlbrightPrior to the release of Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, some pre-release material hint that the course's name could have been "Coal Harbour". 🤔

[@afrosaiyanpro4718]

@@crimsonkate8241 👍😏

[@zas993]

gameshark pawaaa!!!

[@muhammadzul-haqim6835]

Sounds like PPAP!!

[@GamerGee]

The PC version has cyclops cops.

[@MidnightApex-ml6jc]

They're robots.

[@Rampage9951]

First. 🤪