28 years later, hero modder gives Wipeout's godawful PC port the amazing shine-up it deserves

pcgamer.com:

In recent years Sony has woken up to the fact that, surprise surprise, it can make a lot of money by releasing decent versions of its games on PC. The core of its business will always be the PlayStation platform, so we're just gonna have to deal with waiting a couple of years (or in Bloodborne's case, forever), but the mood music has changed completely and that's great, because PlayStation makes a lot of top-tier games.

Funnily enough, this is also something of a return to PlayStation's earliest days. Sony became incredibly protective of its exclusives after the original PlayStation, but greenlit many of that console's most emblematic exclusives to release a PC version. One of them was Wipeout from the late great Psygnosis, except… well, the PC version was a bit rubbish (here's some YouTube footage of it running via emulator).

Quick note: I looked this up and Wipeout, often seen as WipEout or WipeOut, is apparently correctly stylised as wipE′out″. Well if Sony's 1995 marketing team think I'm doing that they can fucK'off".

Now an anonymous hero has gone back to right another wrong of the past. "Wipeout: Phantom Edition is an enhanced PC source port of the original Wipeout," writes… err, Github account name Wipeout Phantom Edition (first spotted by DSOGaming). «It uses game data from the PlayStation version and is much more comparable to the PlayStation version than the official PC port.»

Clearly there's someone out there who has a lot of love for Wipeout, wanted to play it in its full glory on contemporary hardware, but didn't want to lose their job over it. They're a hero.

The improvements made by Phantom Edition include an uncapped frame rate, high-res rendering for a massive improvement in textures, fade effects for