# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite/blob/b425ecb3b3250e4fdcb4462b72c3fb9679a1eb59/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/wipeout-rewrite-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/wipeout-rewrite-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/wipeout-rewrite-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite/blob/b425ecb3b3250e4fdcb4462b72c3fb9679a1eb59/README.md>

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