WipEout-Game.com Archive

[Light Buster]

They are only available in Europe.

I knew it. I knew that this would happen. Oh well, at least I can save money.

[Szei]

It's been forever since I've been to that site so I don't recall. Is the site itself necessary to download skins or can they be uploaded via another site for download on PC and then transferred to PSP?

[Darkdrium777]

I believe it was necessary to create skins, hence my suggestion of someone working on an alternative if they thought it were possible. However I don't know at all if it was required to send skins to other people (ie I have no idea if the downloads I propose will work on your PSP without going through the site).

[covelmo9242]

Not sure if anybody knows (or even cares ) but, you can access most of the site through web.archive.org

http://web.archive.org/web/201012261...html/main/Home

[Ricanebleu]

Hello guys, it has been a while. Life seems to ask for its token of days. I see that what I feared back in 2008, when the site was just being put into service, has happened , just as with the Fusion site . So , because of a stupid management of this game on behalf of Sony now we have no way of inserting any skins in the game , as the cover and ingame loading screens, so boldly, are stating. And even more, for some reason, which I will never understand, Studio Liverpool has been shutdown, so no one, officially, can make a stand alone skin manager. So, is it ever possible, technically and legally, for anybody to make an alternative to wipeout-game.com skin manager?

EDIT: So no answer, I suppose people don't care that much about skins anymore. Too bad, so much work gone wasted.

[Xander Ze iTec]

EDIT: I suppose people don't care that much about skins anymore.

Heck no, i would do anything to get ship skins back. its a shame i got really into the wipeout franchise after a few months ago, If only sony had one job and it was to not even touch the websites.

[Amaroq Dricaldari]

Dude, thread-necro. Not cool, man.

Don't worry though, I'm sure we'll figure out the skins. I think they're in .PCT format (I'll need a conversion tool), but high-definition versions are available in .TGA format from the PS2 files. If you want, I can convert them to PNG and put them up on Google Drive.

As far as I know, you can still view skins on the first page from the archived website, but the download links aren't working, just a series of dead-end redirects.

[Autian]

I have looked at the skins of the OP some time ago and it looks like a skin has three uncompressed indexed textures with 16-color (4 bit) palettes. That's what I think after loading the skins as a raw format in GIMP and Wipeout and comparing them. I have the capability to write a small commandline tool working for both Linux and Windows, but I still need to analyze the file format further.

[Connavar]

Not sure if anybody knows (or even cares ) but, you can access most of the site through web.archive.org

http://web.archive.org/web/201012261...html/main/Home

Unfortunately most of the data in unavailable. Many records from Talon's Junction and Outpost 7, but nothing from De Konstruct, Tech de Ra, The Amphiseum etc. I'd say about 85% of the top 10 records are missing :/

Edit: took all the records from the archived and uploaded them here, with glitched times removed:
https://www.wipeoutrankings.com/#c=a...rall&x=ranking

(That's the overall ranking page for Pulse)

In total, 4973 records.