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Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by hwers » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 4:11 PM UTC

Waiting for the wasm version eagerly

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by Narishma » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 4:19 PM UTC

> Today we have released the source code to Wipeout by Psygnosis

Who is 'we'? Is this legal?

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by DoneWithAllThat » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 4:24 PM UTC

cammikebrown wrote: post #4

I’m a huge fan of the Designers Republic, the studio responsible for Wipeout’s brilliant aesthetic. Being from Sheffield, they also worked closely with Warp Records on a bunch of beautiful album artwork for Aphex Twin, Autechre and others. The studio shut down in 2009 sadly, but the website popped back online a couple years ago. I hope they keep making stuff! It seems slim that there will be more Wipeout, however. So…

TDR’a graphic design is still some of my favorite to this day. It was so iconic and instantly recognizable. Their album art for PWEI’s “This Is The Day…” and WARP’s “Blech 2” compilation for example are incredible.

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by LgWoodenBadger » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 4:35 PM UTC

Ftuuky wrote: post #12

Me as a kid discovering Wipeout soundtrack was truly mind-bending: Photek, Future Sound of London, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Orbital and so many other gems in one go. It was overwhelmingly cool!

Same with discovering that the in-game advertising for RedBull was actually for a real beverage

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by ydnaclementine » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 4:36 PM UTC

A modern spiritual successor to the wipeout series is Ballistic NG. No fluff anti gravity racing. Highly modable, which allows you to import the wipeout music into the game easily, custom race tracks, etc.

Just a fan, not associated with it

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by dal » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 4:43 PM UTC

I can't find any information about the license. Does anybody know how it is being released?

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by marcodiego » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 4:43 PM UTC

License?

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by haunter » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 4:44 PM UTC

dal wrote: post #26

I can't find any information about the license. Does anybody know how it is being released?

It's not an official release, probably sent by someone who worked on the game back then.

It's getting more common nowdays that the source code of abandonware games have been released by insiders.

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 4:45 PM UTC

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Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by phoboslab » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 4:49 PM UTC

Doesn’t seem like an official release, but really cool either way. Time to dig in and see what I got wrong in my 2015 reverse engineering[1] of the data format!

[1] https://phoboslab.org/log/2015/04/reverse-engineering-wipeou...