WipEout Pure

Prototype Info Prerelease Info

Obscure Textures#

There are several strange textures in the game files.

On the left is photo of a kitten, which is cropped and horizontally resized from the original photo Kitten and scales by Greg Cuddiford. Likely randomly taken off the internet by the developers. original source.

On the right is a photo of Phil Harrison, former long-time executive of Sony Computer Entertainment.

Placeholder Music#

In the file /data/xml/songlist.xml, there is a temporary list of bangin' breakbeat tunes the developers would have tested with before fully sorting out their music licensing contract with Distinctive. This lists notably use albums instead of the labels like retail does.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<?Temporary song list - Marc?>
<SongList>
    <SongDef ArtistName="RJD2" TrackName="Intro" Filename="Data\Music\Rjd2.at3" AlbumName="Since We Last Spoke" Year="2004" />
    <SongDef ArtistName="Mylo" TrackName="Drop The Pressure" Filename="Data\Music\Mylo.at3" AlbumName="Destroy Rock And Roll" Year="2004" />
    <SongDef ArtistName="Groove Armada" TrackName="Madder" Filename="Data\Music\GrooveArmada.at3" AlbumName="Lovebox" Year="2002" />
    <SongDef ArtistName="Fatboy Slim" TrackName="Jin Go Lo Ba" Filename="Data\Music\Fatboy.at3" AlbumName="Palookaville" Year="2004" />
</SongList>

This list is also found in HD and 2048.

Regional Differences#

There are many differences between the different regional versions of WipEout Pure, many of which center around region-exclusive DLC. There is also a Korean version with downloadable content support, but no content was ever released and an Asian version with no downloadable content support at all.

North American version

• Playable in English, Spanish and French.
• The US Greatest Hits version adds the option to delete files from the Memory Stick at the load profile menu at the start of the game. This was carried over from the European version.
• This version has the following exclusive ship and skin packs that can be accessed by inputting a secret code at the Secret Packs screen in the Downloads menu:

European version

• Playable in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian.
• There is a "Teasers" section in the main menu that has a demo of Fired Up, a trailer for MediEvil: Resurrection and a demo of WipEout Pure to share with other players via GameShare.
• This version adds the option to delete files from the Memory Stick at the load profile menu at the start of the game.
• European-exclusive downloadable content:

For some reason, "Just Jack" by Armin Treiber's music.at3 is a duplicate of "Are You A Coconut" by Jordi Goberna.

Japanese version

• Japanese-exclusive downloadable content:

• The WIRE05 and Continue packs each have the following text string in their respective Definition.xml files:

  . Neither correspond to any known DLC for this version, and Saku Saku TV can refer to this.

• The Coca-Cola 1 track should have the text "WIPEOUT PURE meets special collaboration with Coca-Cola! Enjoy your Coke Style Special Circuit", similar to the Coca-Cola 2 track, but stringtable.xml at the root of the .wad is used to override it to say "Coca-Cola Special Circuit".