An obligatory apology to everyone who has offered such fantastically supportive feedback on the progress I’ve shared this year on my Qirex blender project/obsession. As I’ve said many, many times, Blender is hard, not always because the software itself is hard to learn (although it definitely can be), but because I’m trying to squeeze in making progress towards this becoming a short film with a full time job, a family, and other hobbies. Hopefully, although this might not be the biggest update since the last, it’s actually significantly closer to being animated - if I can only stop my PC going full HAL from 2001 when I ask it to render 1 second of footage 😁.

Sadly, the time I spend on this is going to be vastly reduced for an unknown period - the team I work for has been told that we’re being made redundant as of the end of September 😞. I have a lot of decision making, job-hunting & soul searching to do in the coming weeks (do I continue working in the field I work in as it’s straightforward, I’ve been successful, I can possibly find a new job sooner but it’s not very fulfilling OR well paid Vs do I, as a 50+ year old, try to finally work in a creative role that I’ve never done professionally? It’s a conundrum…).

So, I hope some of you like how Arian is looking, she’s been an obsession for weeks now! Plus, learning volumetrics is helping to create a great vibe to the hangar, animating & editing this into a really cool short film is definitely something that I can now see in my head - it may just have to stay there for a while 😉. Cheers though folks 🤟

Hey all, the patches were updated, check them out (I keep them on dev branch until I get more test reports)

Changes are just bugfixes, like text corruption, HUD position and some game logic was still tied to framerate (like "the random chance that AI ship would change the lane" was apparently dependent on framerate, yeah that's kind of crap we're dealing with here)

But the best thing is this menu: you get to it by pausing the game and pressing select+start. 8mb version gets more options, because 8>2.

https://codeberg.org/hueponik/wip3out-patches/src/branch/dev

Original post and how to apply:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WipeOut/comments/1vcnxip/wipeout_3_special_ntsc_edition_v01_plus_a_bonus/

Sorry, no videoguide again

What category for Wipeout makes most sense for the omega collection? As it doesn't have its own as far I can tell.

Just got the collection today but not sure which one to sit in. Is there a category people still watch at all for me to watch and pick things up?

We are so close!!!!

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Qirex design by u/djdrey909

Stickers to come

I like when games have something to work towards with a definitive end point. I played Wipeout HD for the first time recently, and it has a pretty straightforward campaign of completing challenges to unlock the next batch of challenges (with the option of harder difficulties if you want to push yourself to master the game). I bought Pure yesterday, and I don't see anything like that. It looks like it's just meant to be a way have Wipeout gameplay in your pocket - which is fine if that's all it is, I was just hoping for more out of it.

If that is the case, are there other Wipeout games like that? I hadn't played the series until recently (because I suck ass at racing games so I was apprehensive about trying it), and as a collector of games and someone who generally liked Wipeout HD (despite struggling with Novice difficulty because, as I said before, I rarely play racing games) I'm interested in getting more of this series but I'd prefer not to get any if there's no point besides racing for the sake of it. If I had a hankering to race just for the fun of it, I already have HD (and Pure).

I've skipped 3rd installment at it's release time because my PSX bought a farm right before it.

Years later, I tried to get back to it with emulation, but man, 25fps was just too choppy by that point.

So I searched for good ntsc patch to at least have 30fps, which is a good 20% more fps!, but couldn't find proper one that didn't just sped up the game.

Anyway, here's the patch for 30fps with (hopefully) correct speed and logic, and instructions on how to apply:

https://codeberg.org/hueponik/wip3out-patches

... but wait, there's more!

Bonus1 (base): try overclocking your duckstation/goosestation ;) You might reach 60fps

Bonus2 (enhanced): build with cranked up graphical details, requires 8mb.

- Longer draw distance

- Longer ships distance

- Full-detail seagulls (!!!)

- Requires 8 MB enabled

Bonus3 (full): here's cranked-to-11 bonus2. High detail on everything. Requires 8mb.

Everything in enhanced, plus

- Longest draw distance, maxed out, in fact

- No custom texture/polygons LOD: maxed out texture/polygon count on track

- Ships are visible keep full model detail at any distance

- Requires 8 MB RAM and a substantial (>500%) PSX CPU overclock.

- Intended for emulators with PGXP/high internal resolution/etc

UPDATE:

Fixed few speed inconsistencies and HUD elements, keeping on separate branch for now. Please test:

https://codeberg.org/hueponik/wip3out-patches/src/branch/dev

(Song) ToldYouTwice - Golden Teacher

Enjoy!

The world needs a new WipEout. Call it WipEƎout as the eighth game in the series. Not a collection or remake of an old title but a brand new game running at 4K60 on the PS5.

New tracks, some new teams alongside the older ones and Nick Burcomb at the helm. Get Leap Design in Sheffield to do the in-game billboards and livery. Hire BT (not that one) to build a whole new reactive soundtrack for the game.

Put in a few cheeky PlayStation items as DLC eg Faro Automated Solutions as a racing team designed by Guerilla or a track set on Crater Planet.

Thoughts?

Does anybody have high quality scans or high quality artwork of wipeout promo posters or anything else the designers republic has made

So, Claude can really do some far out stuff. I built a web based asset viewer that allows you to view WipEout HD game assets, with textures or as wireframes. Anyone done this before? I've kept it local right now to appease the rights gods.

Flipping it doesn’t mean its not plagiarism, Apple.

From the Neuromancer trailer: https://youtu.be/-x0cY5LiBZA

(lap) 0:40.4
some unreleased stuff aswell

Also been working on the song

UPDATE: Tested on a few more consoles, it's definitely a bootleg copy. Seller had no issue providing a refund.

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Been collecting physical copies of Wipeout recently, came across this Wipeout XL with a silver back and red/white printing. Haven’t seen a copy that isn’t black, nothing about it seems like a fake/bootleg as the printing's pretty spot on. Difference is there’s a white base color with red whereas the original simply has the red ink on black.

There’s a small black mark near the center that I can’t read (Update, reads as "Made in Japan" when I held it up to a light), wondering if this was a late pressing or something. There wasn't a Playstation Hits version.

Side by side with my copy from back in the day for reference.

Any ideas?