Open Road
Boots, lightly testedPC · 1998 · Racing · Engine recreation
A late-90s arcade racer on the OpenNFS engine: nine classic circuits and three new ones.
Controls
| W / S or Up / Down | accelerate, brake |
| A / D or Left / Right | steer |
| Space | handbrake |
| R | reset car, C — change camera, M — mute |
| Esc | menu |
| Gamepad | standard layout |
| Touch | on-screen controls on phones |
About this build
Open Road runs on OpenNFS, the open-source rewrite of the classic 1990s road-racing engine, compiled to WebAssembly and drawn with WebGL2. Nine classic circuits keep their track geometry while every texture is regenerated by the clean-room pipeline; three more circuits and the three cars are original. Car and brand names are generic, and sound is synthesised in the page.
- Built from
- the OpenNFS engine (MIT, C++), compiled to WebAssembly (WebGL2)
- Type
- Engine recreation
- Game files
- No original game files needed.
- Code licence
- MIT (OpenNFS/OpenNFS)
- Assets
- Regenerated clean-room assets; no retail data is distributed
- Source
- andrewnakas/opennfs-cleanroom ↗
What has been tested
Headless loads of all 12 circuits reach "ready", and an autopilot run drives the player's car around a race through the normal controls. Nobody has raced it by hand yet.
Last tested 2026-10-10 in Chrome (headless, muted). Full playthrough: not verified. How games are tested.
The build's own test log is in STATUS.md in its repository.
Known limitations
- Work in progress: regenerated textures differ from the original game by design.
- Cars are original generic models, not the licensed cars of the original.
- A start-up crash seen on some circuits during development is mitigated but its cause is not found; reload the page if a track fails to load.
- Sound is synthesised, with no recorded engine samples or music.
Saves
Nothing is saved between sessions.
