NFS Underground 2 Recompiled

codepdbh/nfsu2-recompiled is the oldest and most active of the three: started October 6, 2026, 11 releases in this data, 222,245 downloads and issue numbers past #2833. It recompiles the PC SPEED2.EXE of Need for Speed: Underground 2 into C and ships it for Android as Underground 2 Android Evolved.

Download Underground 2 Recompiled v0.14.13

Published November 6, 2026, 14:38 UTC. arm64 for nearly every phone; ARMv7 only for 32-bit Android (not yet tested on a phone by the project).

In v0.14.11 both APKs are the same 70,369,847-byte arm64 file (identical SHA-256). If you installed that “armeabi-v7a” APK on a 32-bit phone and it would not open, use v0.14.13.

What’s new in v0.14.13

• Complete file reads: the most likely cause of repeated crashes when loading areas and menus is fixed.
• PowerVR fallback for MediaTek phones whose Vulkan driver failed at the first graphics pipeline.
• Less clipping in the mixer, game threads pinned to the big cores, and the A button doubles as Enter while driving.
• Tested at 120 FPS on a Samsung Galaxy S25 (arm64); the ARMv7 build has not been tested on a phone.

v0.14.12 fixed lights and reflections drawn as streaks and made the launcher say which file is missing. v0.14.10 made sound steadier on MediaTek, Mali and Unisoc (a 40–100 ms audio buffer instead of 4–10 ms) and stopped looping sound on loading screens.

Performance on real phones

The v0.14.7 profile found the drawing thread idle 56% of the time, waiting for its turn on the shared emulated CPU; handing over less often gave the gains above. v0.14.8 removed a linker option that crashed v0.14.7 at start on Android 13 and newer (16 reports) while keeping the speed-up.

Project status

Copying your PC game to the phone

Internal storage/nfsu2/       ← /sdcard/nfsu2
  SPEED2.EXE                ← from your own PC installation
  GLOBAL/  TRACKS/  CARS/  FRONTEND/  LANGUAGES/  MOVIES/  SOUND/  …
  WidescreenFix.dat         ← optional (proportional HUD)
  android_registry.dat      ← the game’s video options, written by the port

Open NFSU2 Android Evolved, grant file access, choose language, resolution and FPS cap, and launch. Graphic options set in the game are kept between starts since v0.14.9 (resolution and anti-aliasing stay under the launcher’s control, so a value that crashes a phone does not crash it every start). Step-by-step for all three ports: install guide.

Touch controls

A drag-and-drop editor with button scaling and saved layouts; Clásico, Xbox and PlayStation styles; gyroscope tilt steering; dedicated steering, handbrake, nitrous, brake/reverse and throttle buttons. Since v0.14.8 the controls hide again as soon as you keep playing with a Bluetooth or USB pad. See controllers.

Which phones are reporting

From the 93 most recent reports with device data on November 9, 2026 (the launcher’s report form fills it in):

Android versions from 10 to 17; most reports are on v0.14.13. The release notes list as still open: frame drops after a few seconds on some Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Dimensity phones, and external controller buttons that are not detected.

Building from source

The README’s pipeline: initialise MSVC x86, normalise SPEED2.EXE (restores the relocation directory without changing the original), scan vtables and RTTI for seeds, build the function catalog (about 5 minutes), lift to C (about 90 seconds), then scripts/build.sh and scripts/run.sh for the Windows host or ./gradlew assembleDebug in android/ for the APK. The tooling is MIT-licensed; no game code is in the repository.

Release history