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
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.
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
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.
Should have just made a spiritual successor
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.
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.
That’s what happens when you write comments at the end of a day. I blame their names to be too similar. lol