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Rewriting wipEout

199 points by erupt7893 3y ago

padjo 3y ago
Brings back happy memories of playing this on the demo unit in the shop across the road from my house every day after school because I couldn’t afford to buy the console.
DrNosferatu 3y ago
<3 Designers Republic <3
- illwrks 3y ago
  100%. WipeOut was my first clear memory of "experiencing" design. The branding was so different and futuristic, the ships, the music, even the console itself.
- Minor49er 3y ago
  "A to Z of The Designers Republic" is finally getting a much-needed reprint next January https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/a-to-z-of-the-designers-republic-hardcover https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/a-to-z-of-the-desig...
  - Thaxll 3y ago
    Amazing, thank you!
ChrisArchitect 3y ago
A perfect thing to release on "Zero Cool Day"
- mips_r4300i 3y ago
  Just noticed that. Very appropriate!
bityard 3y ago
> Each new release was decidedly worse than the previous one. Compare the original PSX version (video) to the DOS release (video): The vertex lighting on the track is gone, everything looks flat, there is no transparency and the speedometer was redrawn by a programmer. The ATI Rage Edition (video) carried this mess forward, introduced visible seams in the geometry everywhere, somehow corrupted the software z-sorting and then screwed up the text rendering with ghastly letter spacing. I played a lot of Wipeout XL on the Playstation in my late teens/early 20s. I mean a LOT. The only thing I really wished for (other than less frustrating maps and smarter AI) was a higher resolution and farther draw distance. At some point, I found the Windows version in a bargain bin at some store and snatched it up. 640x480 Wipeout XL would be glorious! Unfortunately whoever ported it was brand-new to programming or something because they pinned the game speed to the CPU speed, or screen refresh rate or similar. Net result was that it ran way too fast even on a modest computer at the time. It's like nobody even bothered to test it. There was a patch floating around to fix the speed at one point, but there are so many other problems with it that's just far easier to run the PSX version in an emulator and call it a day.
- bityard 3y ago
  I played the WASM version and the controls/physics feel about right! For the other Wipeout aficionados out there, note that there IS a modern game on Steam called BallisticNG. Supposedly created by (some of?) the original Wipeout developers. It was one of the first things I bought for my Steam Deck when it arrived. Unfortunately, I can't make heads or tails of it. It doesn't seem to be the kind of traditional Wipeout game where you start off with slow ships on slow maps and unlock more as you work your way up. In Ballistic NG, it seems like you just sorta pick your ship and and your map and then go racing against the AI. Or something like that. Maybe I just can't figure out the menus, I'm not sure. All of this is a long-winded way of saying I support this rewrite and hope to see it evolve to adopt Wipeout XL/2097 features and maps eventually. (But not Wipeout 3, that was a disaster.)
  - jareklupinski 3y ago
    i play ballisticng when i have 10-15 min to blow in between other things i kind of like booting a game, going into a race, and just having it "go", kind of rare these days i guess
vmladenov 3y ago
This is so cool! My first entry in this series was WipEout Pure on PSP; such a great experience and remastered twice with HD and Omega Collection. Impressive how the PS1 original can run at 60 fps in a browser.
wodenokoto 3y ago
I loved everything about Wipeout, except the racing. The controls where impossible and the difficulty ridiculous. But the music, the art style, the concept and attitude of that game was awesome. I spent many hours playing it on PSX as an early teenager.
- unixhero 3y ago
  I agree
- qingcharles 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Designers_Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Designers_Republic
spicyjpeg 3y ago
> The PSX devkits came with a library called LIBGPU, which handled the rendering. Since the PSX GPU didn't have a z-buffer, all primitives you wanted to draw (triangles, quads and sprites) needed to be submitted into an “ordering table” or OT for short. This table had (typically) 8192 slots allowing for 8192 different z-levels. The GPU would then rasterize the list back to front. The result would not be perfect (in some situations neither of two polygons will have all pixels in front of the other one), but close enough. This is actually implemented in a slightly funky way on the PS1. The DMA unit responsible for sending commands to the GPU allows for a display list to be built in memory as a linked list of variable-length packets, each of which can hold zero or more commands. What Sony's libraries do is essentially generating the ordering table as an array of 8192 empty packets linked to each other, then allowing actual command packets to be allocated elsewhere (typically using a simple bump allocator) and "spliced" into the link from one empty packet to the next one. The PS1's vertex transformation coprocessor, the GTE, also keeps track of the Z coordinates of the last 4 vertices processed and has an instruction to quickly average them out so that the resulting value can be used as an index into the ordering table. I wrote a few SDK-less bare metal C examples showing how to build an ordering table [1] and leverage it for 3D polygon sorting [2], should anybody want to check those out. [1] https://github.com/spicyjpeg/ps1-bare-metal/blob/main/src/07_orderingTable/main.c https://github.com/spicyjpeg/ps1-bare-metal/blob/main/src/07... [2] https://github.com/spicyjpeg/ps1-bare-metal/blob/main/src/08_spinningCube/main.c https://github.com/spicyjpeg/ps1-bare-metal/blob/main/src/08...
- zero_shift 3y ago
  So when you're drawing triangles on the PSX, do you basically get the GTE hardware to figure out your coordinates, before putting those into the appropriately indexed packet? I'm guessing this explains the PSX-specific artefacts you would see when rotated triangles would "clip" into each other at the seams of models. The ordering would just come from the average Z coord of the plane.
  - spicyjpeg 3y ago
    You are right: unlike modern platforms with vertex shading capabilities, the geometry pipeline runs entirely on the CPU and GTE. The GPU is a "black box" that operates exclusively in screen space and only gets access to transformed X/Y coordinates, which is also why it cannot calculate the depth of each pixel and use it to apply perspective correction to projected textures [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_mapping#Affine_texture_mapping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_mapping#Affine_texture...
dwroberts 3y ago
I would love to see an analysis of the original source without the attempt to try and critique and ‘improve’ it
SillyUsername 3y ago
The Amiga might finally get a port! IIRC related one of more of the hardware designers of the Amiga went on to do the Playstation 1 hardware.
- trollied 3y ago
  A 680x0 CPU+copros aren't capable of running it.
j1elo 3y ago
I've lately been playing Redout (Redout: Enhanced Edition) on the Steam Deck, and it is a quite fun game in the spirit of the old Wipeout game. Consider giving it a go if you are into that sort of speed-over-everything-else racing games!
- viraptor 3y ago
  I've been also enjoying GRIP racing, which while it's a bit more conventional and has wheels, (follow up to Rollcage) gives me similar pleasure. It's very fast, simple, and the gravity is often just a suggestion.
mips_r4300i 3y ago
Looks really cool and props for fixing a huge amount of spaghetti code. Now, I wonder if I can make a 3d rasterizer on a FPGA and run the CPU side on a RISC-V... If anyone else is intrigued by this let me know.
AlbertoGP 3y ago
WOW! Just a `git clone`, download and unpack the .zip with the assets (end of the blog post), type `make` and it compiles on Linux without warnings into `wipegame`, run it and it works first time! You need a joypad/joystick, I was surprised that I could plug it in after the game had started and it picked it up, insted of having to restart the game as I remember being the case with other games on Linux years ago.
- ekaryotic 3y ago
  what controller did you use? my dualshock 2 with usb adapter is not being picked up surprisingly.
  - AlbertoGP 3y ago
    It is the Apollo Joypad (re-release of the SpeedLink Xeox Pro, http://www.apollo-computer.com/peripherals.php#Joypads http://www.apollo-computer.com/peripherals.php#Joypads) that I bought because it is compatible with the Vampire Amiga V4+ which means it has a very standard protocol, and it is set to DirectInput mode: it has a physical switch between Xinput and DirectInput mode. I guess any proper DirectInput joypad would work just the same.
NKosmatos 3y ago
Yesterday’s submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37075916 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37075916 It’s strange how some HN submissions fail to get noticed, and a duplicate submission after a few hours (or even next day) gets upvoted and is more visible.
- dang 3y ago
  It's just randomness, so perhaps not so strange. The dupe detector only gets strict if a previous post has already had significant attention. It's more important to give good articles multiple cracks at the bat, than it is to prevent repeat URLs. When we see cases where an earlier submission "loses", we sometimes look through that submitter's previous posts and see if there's another good article that we could invite a repost of. Those go into in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so they get a random placement on HN's front page.
stuaxo 3y ago
It's funny there aren't any texture packs for the original WipeOut yet. It would be good if this code would could would work with whatever the standard format for texture packs on PS1 emulators is.
nazgulsenpai 3y ago
Its always so fascinating to see source code from console games of the 5th generation when most started using C vs assembly. The ratio of lines of code to "game" for something like this or Mario 64 just seems so incredibly high.
trollied 3y ago
Source repo: https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite The web version is WASM, from C/SDL sources.
- elpocko 3y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082304 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082304
simonbarker87 3y ago
Yep, just as hard as I remember it being - fun though
throwaway888abc 3y ago
This is great. Sidenote, there should be some amazing games capable of running browser now. Is there any list or any recommendation ?
- nix0n 3y ago
  > there should be some amazing games capable of running browser now The first one that really blew me away was the demo of Superhot[0]. [0]https://superhotgame.com/superhot-prototype https://superhotgame.com/superhot-prototype
- soupfordummies 3y ago
  There was one I saw on here a few weeks ago that excited me but I don't have time to dig through my bookmarks at the moment. Of course there's the original Diablo also. And don't forget all of the DOSBox stuff on Archive.
- astlouis44 3y ago
  Try these out, they're made in Unreal and compiled to WASM. Note that the second link (space game) will take a bit longer to load, as there's no loading screen. https://vehiclegame.tiwsamples.com/ https://vehiclegame.tiwsamples.com/ https://play.spacelancers.com/ https://play.spacelancers.com/
gsanderson 3y ago
Impressive. Really smooth. Brings back memories!
infp_arborist 3y ago
Just a reminder that BallisticNG is an equally addictive Wipeout clone and available on all Steam platforms. A Nintendo Switch port was also announced. https://store.steampowered.com/app/473770/BallisticNG/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/473770/BallisticNG/
- msephton 3y ago
  No news on the Switch version after 2.5 years?
finikytou 3y ago
to me wipeout 3 was the pinnacle of the genre. never matched after.
- tetrisgm 3y ago
  Are you aware there is a Wipeout 3 Special Edition? It's got more tracks and also tracks from the previous games
alrex021 3y ago
Link to the original soundtrack https://archive.org/details/wipeout_psx_soundtrack https://archive.org/details/wipeout_psx_soundtrack
- ethbr1 3y ago
  And wipeout: fusion https://archive.org/details/wieput_fusion_soundtrack-2002 https://archive.org/details/wieput_fusion_soundtrack-2002
  - exikyut 3y ago
    wie put no 'o' in the URL :'(
- markx2 3y ago
  Support Tim Wright https://coldstorage.bandcamp.com/ https://coldstorage.bandcamp.com/ http://coldstora.ge/ http://coldstora.ge/
pgt 3y ago
What are the keys? I can't figure out how to accelerate.
- tiltowait 3y ago
  It says at the top. X accelerates.
pmarreck 3y ago
The writeup is pretty impressive https://phoboslab.org/log/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout https://phoboslab.org/log/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout As a sign of what you're getting yourself into, though (you knew this was coming though, didn't you?): "The leaked source has a few hundred global variables scattered all over. Many of these are brought in to different source files (using `extern int something;`) and there was little logic to where they were defined."
coolliquidcode 3y ago
I was wondering how he didn't get shutdown immediately and read his post about it linked in the top right. https://phoboslab.org/log/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout https://phoboslab.org/log/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout This part is great: > If anyone at Sony is reading this, please consider that you have (in my opinion) two equally good options: either let it be, or shut this thing down and get a real remaster going. > I'd love to help!
adamrezich 3y ago
programmers who don't understand seasoned game developers' views on manual memory management (and aversion to garbage collection) might want to take a look at the "Rewriting the memory management" section—look at how simple that is, both to implement and maintain!
bufio 3y ago
The code is a pleasure to read.

199 points by erupt7893 3y ago

Brings back happy memories of playing this on the demo unit in the shop across the road from my house every day after school because I couldn’t afford to buy the console.

DrNosferatu 3y ago

<3 Designers Republic <3

illwrks 3y ago
100%. WipeOut was my first clear memory of "experiencing" design. The branding was so different and futuristic, the ships, the music, even the console itself.
Minor49er 3y ago
"A to Z of The Designers Republic" is finally getting a much-needed reprint next January https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/a-to-z-of-the-designers-republic-hardcover https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/a-to-z-of-the-desig...
- Thaxll 3y ago
  Amazing, thank you!

ChrisArchitect 3y ago

A perfect thing to release on "Zero Cool Day"

mips_r4300i 3y ago
Just noticed that. Very appropriate!

bityard 3y ago

> Each new release was decidedly worse than the previous one. Compare the original PSX version (video) to the DOS release (video): The vertex lighting on the track is gone, everything looks flat, there is no transparency and the speedometer was redrawn by a programmer. The ATI Rage Edition (video) carried this mess forward, introduced visible seams in the geometry everywhere, somehow corrupted the software z-sorting and then screwed up the text rendering with ghastly letter spacing. I played a lot of Wipeout XL on the Playstation in my late teens/early 20s. I mean a LOT. The only thing I really wished for (other than less frustrating maps and smarter AI) was a higher resolution and farther draw distance. At some point, I found the Windows version in a bargain bin at some store and snatched it up. 640x480 Wipeout XL would be glorious! Unfortunately whoever ported it was brand-new to programming or something because they pinned the game speed to the CPU speed, or screen refresh rate or similar. Net result was that it ran way too fast even on a modest computer at the time. It's like nobody even bothered to test it. There was a patch floating around to fix the speed at one point, but there are so many other problems with it that's just far easier to run the PSX version in an emulator and call it a day.

bityard 3y ago
I played the WASM version and the controls/physics feel about right! For the other Wipeout aficionados out there, note that there IS a modern game on Steam called BallisticNG. Supposedly created by (some of?) the original Wipeout developers. It was one of the first things I bought for my Steam Deck when it arrived. Unfortunately, I can't make heads or tails of it. It doesn't seem to be the kind of traditional Wipeout game where you start off with slow ships on slow maps and unlock more as you work your way up. In Ballistic NG, it seems like you just sorta pick your ship and and your map and then go racing against the AI. Or something like that. Maybe I just can't figure out the menus, I'm not sure. All of this is a long-winded way of saying I support this rewrite and hope to see it evolve to adopt Wipeout XL/2097 features and maps eventually. (But not Wipeout 3, that was a disaster.)
- jareklupinski 3y ago
  i play ballisticng when i have 10-15 min to blow in between other things i kind of like booting a game, going into a race, and just having it "go", kind of rare these days i guess

vmladenov 3y ago

This is so cool! My first entry in this series was WipEout Pure on PSP; such a great experience and remastered twice with HD and Omega Collection. Impressive how the PS1 original can run at 60 fps in a browser.

wodenokoto 3y ago

I loved everything about Wipeout, except the racing. The controls where impossible and the difficulty ridiculous. But the music, the art style, the concept and attitude of that game was awesome. I spent many hours playing it on PSX as an early teenager.

unixhero 3y ago
I agree
qingcharles 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Designers_Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Designers_Republic

spicyjpeg 3y ago

> The PSX devkits came with a library called LIBGPU, which handled the rendering. Since the PSX GPU didn't have a z-buffer, all primitives you wanted to draw (triangles, quads and sprites) needed to be submitted into an “ordering table” or OT for short. This table had (typically) 8192 slots allowing for 8192 different z-levels. The GPU would then rasterize the list back to front. The result would not be perfect (in some situations neither of two polygons will have all pixels in front of the other one), but close enough. This is actually implemented in a slightly funky way on the PS1. The DMA unit responsible for sending commands to the GPU allows for a display list to be built in memory as a linked list of variable-length packets, each of which can hold zero or more commands. What Sony's libraries do is essentially generating the ordering table as an array of 8192 empty packets linked to each other, then allowing actual command packets to be allocated elsewhere (typically using a simple bump allocator) and "spliced" into the link from one empty packet to the next one. The PS1's vertex transformation coprocessor, the GTE, also keeps track of the Z coordinates of the last 4 vertices processed and has an instruction to quickly average them out so that the resulting value can be used as an index into the ordering table. I wrote a few SDK-less bare metal C examples showing how to build an ordering table [1] and leverage it for 3D polygon sorting [2], should anybody want to check those out. [1] https://github.com/spicyjpeg/ps1-bare-metal/blob/main/src/07_orderingTable/main.c https://github.com/spicyjpeg/ps1-bare-metal/blob/main/src/07... [2] https://github.com/spicyjpeg/ps1-bare-metal/blob/main/src/08_spinningCube/main.c https://github.com/spicyjpeg/ps1-bare-metal/blob/main/src/08...

zero_shift 3y ago
So when you're drawing triangles on the PSX, do you basically get the GTE hardware to figure out your coordinates, before putting those into the appropriately indexed packet? I'm guessing this explains the PSX-specific artefacts you would see when rotated triangles would "clip" into each other at the seams of models. The ordering would just come from the average Z coord of the plane.
- spicyjpeg 3y ago
  You are right: unlike modern platforms with vertex shading capabilities, the geometry pipeline runs entirely on the CPU and GTE. The GPU is a "black box" that operates exclusively in screen space and only gets access to transformed X/Y coordinates, which is also why it cannot calculate the depth of each pixel and use it to apply perspective correction to projected textures [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_mapping#Affine_texture_mapping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_mapping#Affine_texture...

dwroberts 3y ago

I would love to see an analysis of the original source without the attempt to try and critique and ‘improve’ it

SillyUsername 3y ago

The Amiga might finally get a port! IIRC related one of more of the hardware designers of the Amiga went on to do the Playstation 1 hardware.

trollied 3y ago
A 680x0 CPU+copros aren't capable of running it.

j1elo 3y ago

I've lately been playing Redout (Redout: Enhanced Edition) on the Steam Deck, and it is a quite fun game in the spirit of the old Wipeout game. Consider giving it a go if you are into that sort of speed-over-everything-else racing games!

viraptor 3y ago
I've been also enjoying GRIP racing, which while it's a bit more conventional and has wheels, (follow up to Rollcage) gives me similar pleasure. It's very fast, simple, and the gravity is often just a suggestion.

mips_r4300i 3y ago

Looks really cool and props for fixing a huge amount of spaghetti code. Now, I wonder if I can make a 3d rasterizer on a FPGA and run the CPU side on a RISC-V... If anyone else is intrigued by this let me know.

AlbertoGP 3y ago

WOW! Just a `git clone`, download and unpack the .zip with the assets (end of the blog post), type `make` and it compiles on Linux without warnings into `wipegame`, run it and it works first time! You need a joypad/joystick, I was surprised that I could plug it in after the game had started and it picked it up, insted of having to restart the game as I remember being the case with other games on Linux years ago.

ekaryotic 3y ago
what controller did you use? my dualshock 2 with usb adapter is not being picked up surprisingly.
- AlbertoGP 3y ago
  It is the Apollo Joypad (re-release of the SpeedLink Xeox Pro, http://www.apollo-computer.com/peripherals.php#Joypads http://www.apollo-computer.com/peripherals.php#Joypads) that I bought because it is compatible with the Vampire Amiga V4+ which means it has a very standard protocol, and it is set to DirectInput mode: it has a physical switch between Xinput and DirectInput mode. I guess any proper DirectInput joypad would work just the same.

NKosmatos 3y ago

Yesterday’s submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37075916 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37075916 It’s strange how some HN submissions fail to get noticed, and a duplicate submission after a few hours (or even next day) gets upvoted and is more visible.

dang 3y ago
It's just randomness, so perhaps not so strange. The dupe detector only gets strict if a previous post has already had significant attention. It's more important to give good articles multiple cracks at the bat, than it is to prevent repeat URLs. When we see cases where an earlier submission "loses", we sometimes look through that submitter's previous posts and see if there's another good article that we could invite a repost of. Those go into in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so they get a random placement on HN's front page.

stuaxo 3y ago

It's funny there aren't any texture packs for the original WipeOut yet. It would be good if this code would could would work with whatever the standard format for texture packs on PS1 emulators is.

nazgulsenpai 3y ago

Its always so fascinating to see source code from console games of the 5th generation when most started using C vs assembly. The ratio of lines of code to "game" for something like this or Mario 64 just seems so incredibly high.

trollied 3y ago

Source repo: https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite The web version is WASM, from C/SDL sources.

elpocko 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082304 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082304

simonbarker87 3y ago

Yep, just as hard as I remember it being - fun though

throwaway888abc 3y ago

This is great. Sidenote, there should be some amazing games capable of running browser now. Is there any list or any recommendation ?

nix0n 3y ago
> there should be some amazing games capable of running browser now The first one that really blew me away was the demo of Superhot[0]. [0]https://superhotgame.com/superhot-prototype https://superhotgame.com/superhot-prototype
soupfordummies 3y ago
There was one I saw on here a few weeks ago that excited me but I don't have time to dig through my bookmarks at the moment. Of course there's the original Diablo also. And don't forget all of the DOSBox stuff on Archive.
astlouis44 3y ago
Try these out, they're made in Unreal and compiled to WASM. Note that the second link (space game) will take a bit longer to load, as there's no loading screen. https://vehiclegame.tiwsamples.com/ https://vehiclegame.tiwsamples.com/ https://play.spacelancers.com/ https://play.spacelancers.com/

gsanderson 3y ago

Impressive. Really smooth. Brings back memories!

infp_arborist 3y ago

Just a reminder that BallisticNG is an equally addictive Wipeout clone and available on all Steam platforms. A Nintendo Switch port was also announced. https://store.steampowered.com/app/473770/BallisticNG/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/473770/BallisticNG/

msephton 3y ago
No news on the Switch version after 2.5 years?

finikytou 3y ago

to me wipeout 3 was the pinnacle of the genre. never matched after.

tetrisgm 3y ago
Are you aware there is a Wipeout 3 Special Edition? It's got more tracks and also tracks from the previous games

alrex021 3y ago

Link to the original soundtrack https://archive.org/details/wipeout_psx_soundtrack https://archive.org/details/wipeout_psx_soundtrack

ethbr1 3y ago
And wipeout: fusion https://archive.org/details/wieput_fusion_soundtrack-2002 https://archive.org/details/wieput_fusion_soundtrack-2002
- exikyut 3y ago
  wie put no 'o' in the URL :'(
markx2 3y ago
Support Tim Wright https://coldstorage.bandcamp.com/ https://coldstorage.bandcamp.com/ http://coldstora.ge/ http://coldstora.ge/

pgt 3y ago

What are the keys? I can't figure out how to accelerate.

tiltowait 3y ago
It says at the top. X accelerates.

pmarreck 3y ago

The writeup is pretty impressive https://phoboslab.org/log/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout https://phoboslab.org/log/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout As a sign of what you're getting yourself into, though (you knew this was coming though, didn't you?): "The leaked source has a few hundred global variables scattered all over. Many of these are brought in to different source files (using `extern int something;`) and there was little logic to where they were defined."

coolliquidcode 3y ago

I was wondering how he didn't get shutdown immediately and read his post about it linked in the top right. https://phoboslab.org/log/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout https://phoboslab.org/log/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout This part is great: > If anyone at Sony is reading this, please consider that you have (in my opinion) two equally good options: either let it be, or shut this thing down and get a real remaster going. > I'd love to help!

adamrezich 3y ago

programmers who don't understand seasoned game developers' views on manual memory management (and aversion to garbage collection) might want to take a look at the "Rewriting the memory management" section—look at how simple that is, both to implement and maintain!

bufio 3y ago

The code is a pleasure to read.