Case study

wipEout Rewrite: reimplementing the 1995 PlayStation game

wipEout Rewrite reimplements the 1995 PlayStation racing game in C. It provides SDL2 and Sokol platform backends, OpenGL and software rendering options, and expects original game textures and models to be supplied separately.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 3.0k
Last commit: 2026-09-27
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

Copy as Markdown View JSON Cite

Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

How evidence classes are assigned

Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Original wipEout game data is required; the repository does not contain the assets.
Prerequisites: Building requires CMake or Make and the chosen platform backend's dependencies.
Limits: The project is a work in progress and warns of bugs.
License: No licence file in the repository.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{wipeout-rewrite-case,
  title = {{wipEout Rewrite: reimplementing the 1995 PlayStation game}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite}},
  url = {https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/wipeout-rewrite-case/}}
}

Plain text

wipEout Rewrite: reimplementing the 1995 PlayStation game. https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/wipeout-rewrite-case/

Useful? Star Awesome REA on GitHub2.4k

About this entry

The description was reviewed against primary sources.

Report an outdated entry Suggest a translation fix

Primary sources

README.md GitHub · phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite · Revision b425ecb