Bug reports

[wich]

I was thinking it a good idea to make a thread for bug reports so that our beloved devs can have a nice overview of the kind of things we encounter. Though before I get to the bug that I wanted to report today I wanted to ask our devs whether there will be any chance of a download patch some day in the future, is the game designed to accomodate such? Please give us a response on this instead of a long deadly silence, as it'd be a waste of time to produce an overview of bugs if there is no possible way they will ever be resolved for us.

Anyway, on to my bug for today:

• PSP: Phat
• FW: 3.71 M33-4
• MS: SanDisk Ultra II 4GB
• Pulse: EU
• DLC: Mirage/Icaras/Harimau/Auricom
• Custom Sountrack: yes
• Custom skins: no
• Custom grids: no
• Options: 0% music, 100% sfx, random, internal, flat, tags on, ghost off, load off, lang en

Okay, I was on the Harimau grid, just did the Orcus White SR venom, moved my cursor over to the Gemini Dam Black TT Flash and put the PSP in sleep. I turn my PSP back on and I enter the TT event I was on, instead of the TT event I get the Gemini Dam Black SL Venom, but with the TT 2.06 time limit for gold instead of the SL 0.35 time limit. I complete the event (with a shameful 0.35.75 fastest time) and I get a weird grid, which seems to have only one event, but the game doesn't seem to know what type of event (says NONE), here's a picture of the corrupted grid. I'm like huh, reboot my PSP and go back to the Harimau grid and see that I now have a gold medal for the TT event with a time of 0.35.75. (picture of the grid after reboot)

Bootnote: As I was writing this bug report I wanted to check the Harimau grid, so I go to race campaign and try to open the Harimau grid and I get a crash, the load screen appears, after a while there is just a straight line instead of the jumping one and a couple secs later my PSP turns off.

P.S. if other people want to add bug reports to this, please use the vbCode template below, and remember the 50k image rule, link to images or keep them small:

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[*]PSP: Phat/Slim
[*]FW: 
[*]MS: 
[*]Pulse: EU/NA
[*]DLC: Mirage/Icaras/Harimau/Auricom
[*]Custom Sountrack: yes/no
[*]Custom skins: yes/no
[*]Custom grids: yes/no
[*]Options: % music, % sfx, sequential/random, internal/close/far, default/concave/flat/off, tags on/off, ghost on/off, load on/off, lang en/fr/de/es/it
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Your bug description here

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[infoxicated]

I think the idea of this thread is a good one. Should Sony ever deem us worthy enough of receiving a WipEout Pulse Special Edition with all the content on one disc and the bugs fixed, then I think it's worthwhile for the people who play the game with most scrutiny to compile a comprehensive bug report.

So the format above is good, and if you're going to reply using the format suggested then that's also good. But if you're not going to reply in that manner then I'll delete your post.

Let the bug reporting commence. Let the debate be elsewhere.

[Lion]

• PSP: Phat
• FW: multiple, both cfw and standard. currently 3.90 m33-2
• MS: SanDisk 1Gb (the fluoro yellow one)
• Pulse: EU
• DLC: None
• Custom Sountrack: no
• Custom skins: yes
• Custom grids: no
• Options: close, default hud, tags on, lang en

When hosting a race, changing the track forces the ship appearance back to default.
Applies whether attempting use of a custom skin or one of the native alternates.

[mdhay]

• PSP: 1003 Series
• FW: 3.90
• MS: SanDisk 1Gb (Pro Duo)
• Pulse: EU
• DLC: None - I'm skint.
• Custom Sountrack: yes
• Custom skins: yes, but not for Feisar.
• Custom grids: yes, but not using.
• Options: close, default hud, tags on, lang en

. Autopilot turns the ship into a fish on Mag - Strips, particularly on De konstruct's 180ºover track thingy.

[defor]

PSP: 2000 Series
FW: 3.90
MS: Sony 4Gb
Pulse: EU
DLC: No
Custom Sountrack: No
Custom skins: Yes
Custom grids: No
Options: Varied

Not sure if it's a bug... anyone want to clarify:
If I switch to concept skin, every other team uses concept skin as well. With Eliminator/Alternate skin choice, this doesn't happen...

I also find it interesting that while I do have a tiny bit of load time on switching to custom skins, I see a HUGE amount with the first time in ship selection that i choose the concept skin.

[rdmx]

• PSP: Phat
• FW: 3.71
• MS: 4gb sony
• Pulse: EU
• DLC: None
• Custom Sountrack: 30 tracks
• Custom skins: One ag sys skin
• Custom grids: no
• Options: 100% music, 100% sfx, sequential, close, flat, tags on, ghost on, load on, lang en

Disappearing HUD glitch when you have played too many races (without going back to XMB), leading to subsequent freezes. Notably, this happens far far far less on my Slim, possibly due to extra memory?

[Delci]

• PSP: Slim
• FW: 3.92
• MS: PRO Duo
• Pulse: NA
• DLC: None
• Custom Sountrack: Yes
• Custom skins: No
• Custom grids: No
• Options: 100% music, 100% sfx, random, far, concave, tags on, ghost off, load on, en

Not sure if this is really a bug, as much as it is a coincidence...a really weird one at that...but I was in the far right Eliminator event on Grid 10, in The Amphiseum Black, and just before I left the corridor that leads to the huge U-turn, the warning-voice spoke up, and said, "Quake. Quake. Quake. Quake. Quake."
Surely this couldn't mean there were five Quakes headed towards me. I thought it was just warning me that one of the contenders might use a Quake, and their craft was passing in and out of 'warning' range, which caused the warning to repeat itself.
I was wrong. I was hit by five - yes, five - Quake blasts, one after the other, each after I thought it was over (and yes, I was eliminated). This struck me as incredibly odd...that five of the A.I. would have the same weapon? Maybe it was a glitch in how the weapons are randomized?

[mdhay]

• PSP: 1003 Series
• FW: 3.90
• MS: SanDisk 1Gb (Pro Duo)
• Pulse: EU
• DLC: None - I'm skint.
• Custom Sountrack: yes
• Custom skins: yes, but not using.
• Custom grids: yes, but not using.
• Options: close, default hud, tags on, lang en

When I try to take a picture/ view results the game crashes and switches off completely.

[Primal-Convoy]

I cannot get online for multiplayer. It says my ID doesnt exist. Ditto for the online skin generator.


EDITED: Due to message below.

("bug" Fixed: Playstation store and Playstation game sign-ins require two different sign up sessions/passwords and are NOT the same. Gomen)

[Darkdrium777]

• PSP: Slim
• FW: 3.90 M33-3
• MS: 4GB Sony
• Pulse: NA
• DLC: None
• Custom Sountrack: yes (30 tracks)
• Custom skins: yes
• Custom grids: no
• Options: 100% music, 100% sfx, random, close, concave, tags on, ghost on, load on, lang en

Racing on Basilico White Phantom speed in single race with Goteki 45 (A custom skin, skin slot 3 if I must be precise), I got a leech beam warning and my energy slowly decreased (At least I think it did), my ship taking the skin of the leech beam effect as if it were hit. However, the lightning bolt did not appear, the camera didn't become filled with static and the ship didn't become hard to control like it used to do (Which is by the way). It was just showing my custom skin with the blue energy overlay skin of the leech beam hit effect. Afterwards, on the other lap, when I passed the same area where I was supposedly hit by the leech, my ship turned blue again as if I were hit once more, except I was +5.0 secs in the lead, and my energy didn't decrease that time. I forgot to take a screenshot of it but I remember it happened two times on the same race near the same area.

[judus]

• PSP: Phat
• FW: OFW 4.01
• MS: SanDisk PRO Duo (1Gb)
• Pulse: EU
• DLC: Mirage/Icaras
• Custom Sountrack: no
• Custom skins: no
• Custom grids: no
• Options: 100% music, 75% sfx, random, close, concave, tags on, ghost off, load on, lang en

Bug description (2 bugs)

I'll describe reproduceable steps, but these bugs maybe reproduced via other shorter methods.

1: Select custom event->speed lap(phantom). Select EdgeWinter Black. Select Icaras with 'alternative' skin. Once the race starts pause the game and switch the console power off. Switch Power on again and select 'restart race'. The ship skin has changed to 'default'. Pause and quit the game and select the same options from the menu again and you'll notice that Icaras 'alternative' skin has dissapeared from the selection.

Switching the power off whilst in the menu and switching it on again causes the game to reload the menus, which appears to fix the above issue and brings back the 'alternative' skin. This leads to bug 2.

2: After reloading the menu to fix the skin selection issue, go through the same steps (EdgeWinter black, phantom speed lap, Icaras alternative). When you confirm the ship, instead of loading the level, the game brings you back to the main menu (almost as if there are 2 front end modes on the stack due to the reloading failing to delete the old mode)

[Primal-Convoy]

(Before everyone starts, I DO own a custom firmware PSP and YES, the game is a BACKUP of the game (I live in Japan and we cant yet buy it over here, but I'm British and I have folks who bought it for me back home and its easier to just keep the original at home and play the backup in Japan).

If it makes everyone feel better, I use my original Wipeout Pure UMD to load my backup of WO: Pulse.

I have put my neck on the block here to let people know about the bugs I have with regards to my version. Perhaps they are only backup copy bugs or genuine. I leave that for others to find out as I haven't got a clue).

Thanks!

* PSP: Phat 1000 (Japanese)
* FW: 4.01 M33-2
* MS: Sony 4GB (271GB of free space)
* Pulse: EU (backup)
* DLC: No Downloaded Craft
* Custom Soundtrack: yes (30 tracks - and they )
* Custom skins: One
* Custom grids: None
* Options: 100% music, 75% sfx, sequential, close, flat, tags on, ghost on, load on, Lang en.
* Any of those accursed hacked cheats, you back-up using, scumbag?

None at all. Cross my weapon pick-ups and hope to be eliminated! Honest!

* Ever played online so we can gun you down like the custom-firmware using code-monkey that you are?

Nope. Its hard to join the EU site from here in Japan, I think. Correct me if Im wrong though! Id like to race a bit to see what it's like!

BUGS:

1/ Some music tracks will NOT load, even if they are changed, bitrate changed, quality changed, reconverted into another file format and changed back to MP3, etc.

2/ Some music tracks are listed in the game and recognised (ie: appear in the list) but will not play.

3/ The "computer voice" will say "three kills remaining" during the start of eliminator, even though I have only killed 2/3 out of 10 .

4/ My position in the race (top right of the HUD) wont show sometimes and usually at the same time, if I go to the sub-menue and select a track, some or all of the music tracks, custom or otherwise, will not show (but they will display in the "now playing" bottom of the HUD display screen and they DO play regardless).

5/ Sometimes, after a race has finished and I am returned to the main menu, the game freezes (but doesn't seem to reset, or crash the PSP unit so I have to remove the battery).

If this happens to your original UMD version, start to panic!then

[Primal-Convoy]

I also noticed today that the spoken introduction to some of the tracks gets cut.

Its as if the script and the alloted time for the introduction are at odds with each other.

Anyone get the impression that:

- Pulse was made in a bit of a rush?

- The developers are not keen to fix any of/any more of the bugs and thats why their skin generator doesnt load AT ALL?

- The makers are probably more interested in the PS3 version now and so dont care about anything involving the PSP version?