Fan Ports PlayStation Classic, Dares Sony To Shut Him Down And Make Its Own
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Beloved PS1 launch game WipeOut is now playable for free in your web browser

WipeOut was Sony’s initial first-party exclusive for the original PlayStation when it launched back in 1995. The anti-gravity racing game was phenomenal. Now it’s abandoned. So one dedicated programmer took it upon himself to excavate the game’s leaked source code and make it playable for free in any web browser.

“Either let it be, or shut this thing down and get a real remaster going,” he told Sony…

  • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    1 year ago

    Why can’t we get a law going that if you stop supporting some software product, game or otherwise, you should open source it and hand over control to the public?

          • Sendbeer@lemm.eeEnglish
            14·
            1 year ago

            Might give George Martin some incentive to finish Winds of Winter though.

              • Sendbeer@lemm.eeEnglish
                5·
                1 year ago

                Oh yeah I agree. It’s got to be a challenge to bring all his characters and plot lines together. Sadly, I think the show is the only ending we are going to get.

                • Cleverdawny@lemm.eeEnglish
                  41·
                  1 year ago

                  I think it is the Lost problem. He’s got all these hints and foreshadowing going and no idea where they’re actually going. Disappointing and evidence of lazy writing, so I’ve stopped reading his works overall

          • Khanzarate@lemmy.worldEnglish
            52·
            1 year ago

            Yeah but if someone wants to write their own sequel to a first book, before the series is done, that’s fine. Still not canon, just fanfic that can make a profit, and that sounds fine to me.

            • Cleverdawny@lemm.eeEnglish
              42·
              1 year ago

              What happens when grifters generate a billion AI knockoffs and an artist can’t protect their intellectual property

              • Khanzarate@lemmy.worldEnglish
                71·
                1 year ago

                The above was advocating for a 25-year period between publishing and public domain. They’ll have to somehow pay that mortgage with a quarter of a century of profit somehow.

                New books get new protections anyway, so a 25-year-old series only loses book 1 to public domain. They can also release new editions of book 1 with new (canon) content, and those new things get new protections, too.

        • TeoTwawki@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I think at a minimum if you stop publishing and supporting your own work you shouldn’t get to cry copyright whem somebody else does. For that context 10 certainly seems plenty long…