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WipEout (PSX) Model Viewer

Coding project by Dominic Szablewski has ported levels from the Playstation game WipEout into web-compatible three.js format, allowing anyone to explore them in 3D in your browser:

In 1995 one of my all time favorite video games was released: the original WipEout for PlayStation. The brand new PlayStation produced 3D graphics previously unseen on living room TVs and WipEout exploited its capabilities like no other game at the time. It was one of the pioneering titles of the fifth generation console era.

WipEout’s art style was distinctively different from other games too. With the help of the UK based design studio The Designers Republic the game achieved a mature look that was in stark contrast to the comic style found in most other games.

… The finished WipEout Model Viewer loads all the original data files and does all the binary file reading, unpacking and scene creation in JavaScript. All in all, I wrote about 800 lines of JavaScript to load and draw 3D scenes for a 20 year old game.

You can check out the model viewer here, and if you are interested how this works, Dominic has written some background material here