Need for Speed Most Wanted Multi 16 languages selector mod

Description

Need for Speed Most Wanted with Multilingual cutscene and speech dub plus language changer mod.
Cutscene and speech dub files are extracted from various region and language of PC version Most Wanted, particularly the US version, EU version, Taiwan version and Japanese version. Best uses with Asian version.

Available languages:

Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian (Only compatible with Russian version exe)
Spanish
Swedish
Japanese (Only compatible with Asian version exe)
Korean (Only compatible with Asian version exe)
Simplified Chinese (Only compatible with Asian version exe)
Traditional Chinese (Only compatible with Asian version exe)
Thai (Only compatible with Asian version exe)

Requirements

Either US version, Taiwan version or a Japanese version Need for Speed Most Wanted will work, EU version might not be compatible due to PAL not compatible with NTSC issue.

Installation

Download NFSMWMulti16Core and choose which dub you wanted and extract the archive to your Need for Speed Most Wanted.
For language change:

If you're running on native installed game, use LangChange.bat to change your preferred language.
If you're using latest version of WideScreen patch, use LangChangeWS.bat to change your preferred language.
If you're using WideScreen patch with WriteSettingsToFile enabled, run LangChangeWS.bat first then change your preferred language via settings.ini. Alternatively you also can specify your preferred language in widescreen patch ini file after running the bat file.

Known Issues

ExOpts and certain mods might not compatible with the Asian and Russian exe due to these mod only focus on general released Western released exe.
Western released exe doesn't run on Asian and Russian language due to missing pointer and strings, recommended to use Asian and Russian exe to run the game.

Special Thanks

nnn's NFS MW Japanese Localization mod.
Gilmore Rockefeller and DALZER for providing Japanese dubbed cutscene and audio files.

Version Changes

1.0 Initial release.
1.1 Split dubbed audio and movie files into separate releases.
1.2 Fix Core file bat which points at the wrong path.
1.3 Accommodate changes made by widescreen patch.

Comments

BMWM3GTRE46 (April 22, 2026 @ 16:47)

Hi ! Can you please add arabic subtitle

KyoriAsh (December 17, 2025 @ 18:55)

@SPDisLIFE For Thai language to work with the Western 1.3 release, you might need to replace English.bin and relevant files in the Language and Global folder in order to works, or find Asian 1.3 release exe to run with it.