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…
I mean, what? They’ll just shut it down and NOT make a remaster surely
I mean yeah, that’s typically how it works but…
He’s double dawg daring them.
You don’t just double dawg dare for no reason, you know
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?
Because corporations get the laws written.
Sadly true…
Games should be public domain after 25 years, everything else at 50.
Why not everything? Honestly even 25 years seems too long, make it 10.
some book series take longer than that to finish
Might give George Martin some incentive to finish Winds of Winter though.
I don’t think he even knows how to finish it
Oh yeah I agree. It’s got to be a challenge to bring all his characters and plot lines together. Sadly, I think the show is the only ending we are going to get.
I think it is the Lost problem. He’s got all these hints and foreshadowing going and no idea where they’re actually going. Disappointing and evidence of lazy writing, so I’ve stopped reading his works overall
Yeah but if someone wants to write their own sequel to a first book, before the series is done, that’s fine. Still not canon, just fanfic that can make a profit, and that sounds fine to me.
What happens when grifters generate a billion AI knockoffs and an artist can’t protect their intellectual property
The above was advocating for a 25-year period between publishing and public domain. They’ll have to somehow pay that mortgage with a quarter of a century of profit somehow.
New books get new protections anyway, so a 25-year-old series only loses book 1 to public domain. They can also release new editions of book 1 with new (canon) content, and those new things get new protections, too.
10, actually, is what he said
I think at a minimum if you stop publishing and supporting your own work you shouldn’t get to cry copyright whem somebody else does. For that context 10 certainly seems plenty long…
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.
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.
Should have just made a spiritual successor
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.
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
Redout is a bit closer to F-Zero, BeamNG is definitely a full blown Wipeout clone. It got even the pixel look from the first game.
Still not the greatest presence on the PC for this genre, unfortunately.
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)
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.
Please tell me that this thing is open source
The source code of the original game was leaked last year.
lol…. Threatening a major company with no leverage. Let’s see how this plays out.
Sony is going to ruin that dudes life.
You guys should check out Aero GPX, it hasn’t had a full release yet but the project looks promising.
+ 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.
While the variety, quality and especially scope isn’t great, I wouldn’t call it abandoned. Especially
BeamNGBallisticNG 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.BallisticNG 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 $/£/€: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-play-on-the-go-bundle
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!
Nah Fanatical is legit, they’ve got good sales and bundles now and then, I get alerts about them from IsThereAnyDeal.
Wait we’re talking about the same BeamNG right? Like BeamNG Drive? Last I checked that game is not in the same genre as Redout and WipeOut.
Pretty sure they mean BallisticNG, which actually a Wipeout-alike
That’s what happens when you write comments at the end of a day. I blame their names to be too similar. lol
Ahh, I see. I’ll have to check it out. :)
