Fan Ports PlayStation Classic [WipeOut], Dares Sony To Shut Him Down And Make Its Own

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨soyagi@yiffit.net⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://kotaku.com/sony-playstation-wipeout-remaster-free-pc-port-ps-plus-1850728999

WipeOut was Sony’s initial first-party exclusive for the original PlayStation when it launched back in 1995. The anti-gravity racing game was phenomenal. Now it’s abandoned. So one dedicated programmer took it upon himself to excavate the game’s leaked source code and make it playable for free in any web browser.

“Either let it be, or shut this thing down and get a real remaster going,” he told Sony…

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Frogster8@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I mean, what? They’ll just shut it down and NOT make a remaster surely

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- Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I mean yeah, that’s typically how it works but…
  
  He’s double dawg daring them.
  
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  - Retrograde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You don’t just double dawg dare for no reason, you know
    
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ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Why can’t we get a law going that if you stop supporting some software product, game or otherwise, you should open source it and hand over control to the public?

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- nomecks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Because corporations get the laws written.
  
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- Cleverdawny@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Games should be public domain after 25 years, everything else at 50.
  
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  - infotainment@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Why not everything? Honestly even 25 years seems too long, make it 10.
    
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Aesk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The WipeOut games for the PSP were pretty great. Shame this whole genre has vanished from big publishers. A new WipeOut and a new F-Zero would make my year.

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DingoBilly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Guy is a moron.

Better to be quiet about it than to try and bait the multi-billion company whether they’re willing to chase up their copyrighted game or not.

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eleefece@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
How about this: I shut down the game, don't release anything and sue you to oblivion... Yeah, I'll probably do that - Sony (most likely)

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dpkonofa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Sony will just shut it down, seize his code, and then release it as paid content. He has no legs to stand on. It’s a damn travesty.

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- Eezyville@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Should have just made a spiritual successor
  
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  - dpkonofa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    This is more of a preservation thing, I think. The guy is clearly not interested in the theft or harm of the game. He’s doing this because he thinks this old-ass game is so good that more people should play it.
    
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  - Skua@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    To be fair there are already quite a few of those. Pacer (which used to be called Formula Fusion), Redout, and BallisticNG are all already out
    
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Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
lol…. Threatening a major company with no leverage. Let’s see how this plays out.

Sony is going to ruin that dudes life.

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yoyogamer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Please tell me that this thing is open source

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- soyagi@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The source code of the original game was leaked last year.
  
  phoboslab.org/log/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout
  
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DarkThoughts@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
While the variety, quality and especially scope isn't great, I wouldn't call it abandoned. Especially BeamNG has been one of the more successful ones and Redout 1 was also fairly well received. There generally hasn't been a big presence for this genre on the PC unfortunately.

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- Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  BeamNG is awesome, and so is Redout. FYI Redout and all DLC tracks is part of Fanatical’s Build Your Own Play on the Go Bundle right now, get it and two other games for $5: fanatical.com/…/build-your-own-play-on-the-go-bun…
  
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  - gerryflap@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Damn that’s a very good deal. From the price I suspected that it was just another grey market key seller, but from all that I can find it’s actually legit. Thanks for sharing!
    
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- Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Wait we’re talking about the same BeamNG right? Last I checked that game is not in the same genre as Redout and WipeOut.
  
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  - Skua@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Pretty sure they mean BallisticNG, which actually a Wipeout-alike
    
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Wanderer@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You guys should check out Aero GPX, it hasn’t had a full release yet but the project looks promising.

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- DarkThoughts@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Looks a lot more F-Zero X inspired in regards to tracks & pace.
  
  The graphics are terribly cartoonish. It looks like its target audience are toddlers.
  
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