Back-up of the original wipEout 3 website materials

[supersocks]

So, I've been sitting on this dump I made back in 2007 of kleber.net/wipeout3 mirror of the full original wipEout 3 website (wipeout3.com, not wip3out.com).

Since w3o is 20 years old now and every browser vendor is trying to kill Flash® until the end of the decade, I figured it's about the last change for the masses to enjoy and appreciate this gem of a web design from the last millenium. :D

https://omamoka.com/wipeout3/

Above contains some fixes under the hood to make the experience more smooth for modern browsers.

Original files: https://omamoka.com/wwww3.7z
Ruffle version: https://omamoka.com/wwww3-ruffle.7z

[eLhabib]

Thanks for sharing! What a timeless website - I was really impressed how it still feels contemporary. Quite a testament to the designers at tDR.

[carbonara2097]

just downloaded it and shared! thanks dude, it was really interesting.

[Sausehuhn]

Oh, wow.

I remember the time this site went offline. Flash based websites were a lost case for services like Wayback Machine. Thanks so much for preserving this – I might install Flash immediately.

I noticed wipeoutpure.com and wipeoutpulse.com are (long?) gone, too. Their domains must have been for sale, even. I do have raw copies of them, although I don’t know if they’re complete or even work offline. If you want to have a go at those too, let me know.

[supersocks]

If you encounter missing images or 502 Bad Gateway errors it's most likely just my host acting up recently. Refresh and try again.

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At some point few years ago I attempted to make a conversion to HTML5 technologies and vectorize all graphics. But since Google killed their Swiffy service and similar solutions seemed to go nowhere, I sort of lost interest in it.

But hey! At least I can run the team banners on my phone now and forever! :D

https://omamoka.com/wipeout3/html5-tests/

[AdHoc]

They’re the animations in the wipEout 3 intro, I tried to make a screensaver with them many years ago, but the quality was too low. Now I can, thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNXopiH70WU > gives me freaking chills every single time, my favourite intro after the Pure one.

[Amorbis]

Thanks so much for sharing this! I tried to track these down ages ago but could never get them.

[supersocks]

Added Ruffle (https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle) support to the above upload (https://omamoka.com/wipeout3/). It's not perfect, but hopefully will improve in the future :)