The original PC port for Wipeout was very poor, looks like someone has made a proper PC port utilizing PS1 data: https://github.com/wipeout-phantom-edition
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I’ve been playing Wipeout 3 via an emulator on my steam deck, it’s fucking great. Well, the difficulty curve is brutal but it’s great fun and stands up today. The design elements are still fantastic.
Wipeout 2097 (XL in the US) is superior to Wipeout 3 imo, better music, better power ups, MUCH better Menü System (what were they thinking with that grey minimalist mess that is 3…).
2097 was cool (and groundbreaking) for sure, and I used to listen to a lot of the music that was in all the games and bands the designers had done artwork for.
But I love the design in wipeout 3. I know it’s not for everyone but it was the same designers as 2097, and a deliberate choice by them to try to create something minimal that would feel like a real racing league. I think they did a fantastic job. I love that there’s no logo.
If anything, I think it holds up better today than it did at the time.
Also touches like the birds on the first track are fantastic.
(Btw I’m not talking about the special edition where they made the text bigger and uglified it significantly)
I hate it when people use Github and pretend an application is open source when in fact they only host a couple of screenshots and a binary download. The “source code” download only contains the screenshots and the Readme.
I think the source code download is automatically added by GitHub when you create a release in a project, and I don’t know that there’s any way to remove it. So I don’t think the “source code” download is necessarily intentionally misleading, but apart from that, yeah, you’re absolutely right. It is a bit of a shitty way to use GitHub.
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I really wish there was a new one…
Checkout redout on steam!
It had a bit of a rough release, but I really like Pacer. It’s by a team that includes a number of people that worked on the Wipeout games. It’s not aiming at the same retro vibes as BallisticNG or the absolute speed over all else of Redout, it’s more like a modernised take on Wipeout 2097 or 3
This one I already had in my steam wishlist and I just saw it was previously called formula fusion… unfortunately I’m only on consoles!
BallisticNG is a spiritual successor to the PS1 originals (including optional texture warping). The aforementioned Redout is more targeting modern stylistic choices. Both games are good but I like BallisticNG more.
Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately I’m only on consoles (for now), but I’ve added it to my steam wish list.
There was wipeEout Omega Collection released for PS4 in 2017. It’s a remaster of wipEout HD (2008) and wipEout 2048 (2012)
I really enjoyed it, but I would enjoy a new one even more haha
