Asayyeah
25th September 2005, 12:47 AM
My XL trip
It all started 6 months ago when I organized a 2097 I-link tournament with a bunch of my fellow French wipeout addicts. When this amazing weekend has come to an end, I had decided to lend my XL copy ( which wouldn't run with my non-modded playstation ) to Del-stpho ( Stéphane Cellier, a young wipeout talent ) with his promise to be invited by him if my copy worked on his modded Playstation. Unfortunately I was obliged to decline his previous invitation due to personal problems I was having, but last week I phoned him explaining I would be around the north of France, and asked him if I could drop in. His answer was - ‘ c’mon dude , of course you’re welcome!! “
It's immposible to describe my excitement concerning that kind of adventure: “ Exploration of XL : the new Graal is coming up soon “ I was like a little boy who couldn't wait to open his presents !! During all my way to Steph's place I was thinking about all the tips and comments I received from Al, Mano, Steph, Shem & Stevie about huge differences between XL and 2097 ( my Fav Luv Wipeout ) : floatiness of the ships was to be different, shortcuts, that seemed to be impossible because of the ships, that 'sticked' to the track, the difference between the speed of XL and 2097, and many other details of that kind. But of course, it's always better to experiment on your own, to work out your own analysis, or in other words : to get the Answers.
I'll try to get you familiar with the circumstances of our experiment : we've spent 15 delirious hours playing Wipeout XL ( + 3 or 4 multiplayer tournaments in Pure but that’s not important at the moment, Steph and me will talk about that in the Pure forum later ). Most of the time we were playing inside his college room ( 9 m² ! lol ) , listening to Techno/Trance from his laptop built-in speakers, sitting on his bed, staring into a small portable TV ( around 17" wide ) and playing XL in B&W : Goshh it was a really oldschool, 'back to the roots' feeling for me. I simply went back in time to 1996, the time when I discovered my 'preciooouuuussss' game, that changed my life for ever.
I will let Stéphane give you other details about our meeting, but IMO it was just marvellous and fantastic!! This experiance was also too short for me: even though I managed to do a quick adaptation to XL, I still thought of challanging Al's, Mano's and Steph's records.....and the final result was very satisfying!! My aim was to perform 3 attempts in a row in TT ( Phantom only..... Lance should feel lucky ;) ) then switch to SR ( 3 attempts as well ) and move onto another track. With few tracks it felt like a hallucination : I thought, that it's unbelivable, that I can fly all the flying paths, that I just couldn't in 2097!!!! It was like a lucid dream for me!!. After getting rid of the feeling of not being able to move much around the track ( just like I couldn't move much in the cramped room that I was in at that time ) I have started to improve my times massively ( you can check the update from me and Steph on XL tables in a few moments )
Just to give you few examples :
Talon’s tt lap time : 14.6
Valpa sr race time : 2.06.8
Phénitia sr lap time : 23.4
Odessa tt race time : 2.03.1 / sr lap time : 23.9
All the race times can be under 2 min …, it's a future challenge for me when I get a modded ps …why not?!
And now Steph's part of the story… :D
EDIT : Many thx about Shem's help for correcting my english mistakes :wink:
It all started 6 months ago when I organized a 2097 I-link tournament with a bunch of my fellow French wipeout addicts. When this amazing weekend has come to an end, I had decided to lend my XL copy ( which wouldn't run with my non-modded playstation ) to Del-stpho ( Stéphane Cellier, a young wipeout talent ) with his promise to be invited by him if my copy worked on his modded Playstation. Unfortunately I was obliged to decline his previous invitation due to personal problems I was having, but last week I phoned him explaining I would be around the north of France, and asked him if I could drop in. His answer was - ‘ c’mon dude , of course you’re welcome!! “
It's immposible to describe my excitement concerning that kind of adventure: “ Exploration of XL : the new Graal is coming up soon “ I was like a little boy who couldn't wait to open his presents !! During all my way to Steph's place I was thinking about all the tips and comments I received from Al, Mano, Steph, Shem & Stevie about huge differences between XL and 2097 ( my Fav Luv Wipeout ) : floatiness of the ships was to be different, shortcuts, that seemed to be impossible because of the ships, that 'sticked' to the track, the difference between the speed of XL and 2097, and many other details of that kind. But of course, it's always better to experiment on your own, to work out your own analysis, or in other words : to get the Answers.
I'll try to get you familiar with the circumstances of our experiment : we've spent 15 delirious hours playing Wipeout XL ( + 3 or 4 multiplayer tournaments in Pure but that’s not important at the moment, Steph and me will talk about that in the Pure forum later ). Most of the time we were playing inside his college room ( 9 m² ! lol ) , listening to Techno/Trance from his laptop built-in speakers, sitting on his bed, staring into a small portable TV ( around 17" wide ) and playing XL in B&W : Goshh it was a really oldschool, 'back to the roots' feeling for me. I simply went back in time to 1996, the time when I discovered my 'preciooouuuussss' game, that changed my life for ever.
I will let Stéphane give you other details about our meeting, but IMO it was just marvellous and fantastic!! This experiance was also too short for me: even though I managed to do a quick adaptation to XL, I still thought of challanging Al's, Mano's and Steph's records.....and the final result was very satisfying!! My aim was to perform 3 attempts in a row in TT ( Phantom only..... Lance should feel lucky ;) ) then switch to SR ( 3 attempts as well ) and move onto another track. With few tracks it felt like a hallucination : I thought, that it's unbelivable, that I can fly all the flying paths, that I just couldn't in 2097!!!! It was like a lucid dream for me!!. After getting rid of the feeling of not being able to move much around the track ( just like I couldn't move much in the cramped room that I was in at that time ) I have started to improve my times massively ( you can check the update from me and Steph on XL tables in a few moments )
Just to give you few examples :
Talon’s tt lap time : 14.6
Valpa sr race time : 2.06.8
Phénitia sr lap time : 23.4
Odessa tt race time : 2.03.1 / sr lap time : 23.9
All the race times can be under 2 min …, it's a future challenge for me when I get a modded ps …why not?!
And now Steph's part of the story… :D
EDIT : Many thx about Shem's help for correcting my english mistakes :wink: