Here's another one from me. Wipeout was an ultra cool game. This is from 1995 and is still in fantastic condition, box and game inside are barely touched (how do you add multiple pics on here?). Wipeout featured a fantastic soundtrack featuring Orbital, Chemical Brothers and Leftfield amongst others. It was probably one of the earliest games to show what the PS1 was really capable off and blew away anything the competition had.
I owned this game, it was one of the only "longbox" games I kept around because it was so good. That being said the sequel Wipeout XL (aka Wipeout 2097) was superior in basically every way so it got a lot more play time. Fun fact, there was a native PC port for Wipeout XL that looked and ran amazing even at the highest resolution it supported (1600x1200 I believe).
Is it this? https://github.com/wipeout-phantom-edition/wipeout-phantom-edition
It seems based on the original Wipeout, but I can't find a similar XL decomp/rewrite project, just emulation.
Nope, it is definitely Wipeout XL. I quite literally still have the old rar file (25MB or so, crazy tiny), though I don't know if it would run properly as it is a early Direct3D title.
Looks like you can get it here https://www.myabandonware.com/game/wipeout-xl-cok
Probably gonna run just fine via proton/wine
If you give it a shot and have success, please let everyone know. I'll do the same since I no longer use Windows, but I'm unlikely to be playing with it anytime soon.
I imagine you might just need to add the .exe to Steam as a non-Steam game, make sure you've got some version of Proton selected under "Compatibility" in the game properties (on Steam), and then run it.
It really is that easy these days for most old Windows games. There's often no "playing with it" needed.
As I said to another person, it is more due to the age of the title than it being an exe. It's a shame that this game isn't still available somewhere like gog. It's probably in some sort of licensing limbo.
Oh I know, I'm just saying it's literally that easy to play old Windows games on Linux now. That's literally all you need to do for most of them in my experience.
It'll probably work on Proton then
I've not had good luck with old (late 90s) Direct3D titles on modern systems, even within Windows. Then again, at this point Proton might be better at the legacy games than Windows.
No, I think Proton is absolutely better for old games than Windows these days. That's kind of what my point was.
I'm not sure if Steam on Windows gives you the same Proton compatibility options as Linux, but it's often as simple as adding the game to Steam and clicking "start"
No, XL had official releases on Windows and Mac.