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January 2021

WipEout Pure DLC Region Converter
2021-01-01

A tool to convert free DLC for a 2005 PSP game between regions, so one can play all available content within a single-region release of the game. A description of how it works under the hood, as well as full source code is also included.

February 2021

Bytes vs unicode codepoint handling in Python 3
2021-02-21

Comparing Python 2's and Python 3's philosophy of unicode string handling, the upsides and the downsides as well as how other languages such as Rust deal (or not deal) with the problem, and how "counting bytes", "counting characters" and "counting on-screen glyphs" are totally different things.

September 2021

WipEout PSP WAD Utility 1.0.0 released
2021-09-17

A script and associated lookup table to work with WAD data files as found in the PSP WipEout games (Pulse and Pure) and their respective DLCs. This can be used to extract, inspect and update files easily.

December 2021

Why WipEout Pulse custom skins are named 16034453
2021-12-28

Custom ship skins in the 2007 PSP game "WipEout Pulse" have a file named 16034453 that contains the texture data for that ship. This value has a specific meaning.