Several missing music tracks and some useful information

[PoloniumRain]

The US PSX version is missing 3 music tracks from the EU/PAL PSX version, but there's also exclusive music tracks in the Saturn version.

Being as music is obviously a large part of Wipeout it makes way more sense to use the EU/PAL version so we can at least get the full original soundtrack from the PSX, and the devs and music are all from the UK anyway.

But for now there's three workarounds to get the missing music working:

1. The US PSX release still has in-game support for the missing EU tracks 10, 11 and 12, because they were only removed from the physical disc but not the games code. So open up the WipEout (USA).cue file in any text editor and add this to the very bottom of the file:

FILE "WipEout (USA) (Track 10).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 00:00:00
    INDEX 01 00:02:00
FILE "WipEout (USA) (Track 11).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 11 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 00:00:00
    INDEX 01 00:02:00
FILE "WipEout (USA) (Track 12).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 12 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 00:00:00
    INDEX 01 00:02:00

...Then you can copy over the Track 10, Track 11 and Track 12 .BIN files from the EU release and rename them to WipEout (USA) (Track 10).bin, WipEout (USA) (Track 11).bin and WipEout (USA) (Track 12).bin. Now place them in the 'music' folder of Wipeout Phantom Edition and they will work. This will also work for the US PSX version on real hardware.

2. Manually convert the extra EU PSX tracks to .WAV files, name them 09.wav, 10.wav and 11.wav. and place them in the 'music' folder.

3. Use version 1.1 of the EU PSX release. This will kind of work, the tracks will automatically be converted to .WAV files when you first run Wipeout PE, but it gives errors for a few missing files. I don't know if this breaks anything in the game.

So all of the above isn't ideal. It would be so much easier if you supported and recommended the EU version.

Exclusive Saturn music:
There's 3 new music tracks in the Saturn version. The best track is called Poison (by Cold Stroage who made most of the games music) and it's track 12 on the disc, but the other 2 (Brickbat and Planet 9) sound pretty shit and are nothing like Wipeouts soundtrack and i've no idea who made them, so i actually wouldn't use those 2.

None of these music tracks are on any PSX version of Wipeout and there's no release on any platform that has them all.

I don't know how it can be made easy for people to get both the EU PSX + Saturn tracks working? I've manually converted these tracks to .WAV files, but that's quite time consuming. It would probably be easier if people could just place all the Saturn and EU PSX .CUE/BIN files in the 'diskimages' folder and Wipeout PE does the rest for them.

Wipeout PE also does not display music track names in the audio options and pause menu. Currently it just has "track 1", "track 2" and so on, but the PSX/Saturn/DOS versions will show the names (Messij, Transvaal, Cairodrome etc).

Excellent work so far btw!

[pas-de-2]

Fwiw, the track names will display correctly ingame if you convert the .wavs to .mp3 or .ogg and give them title metadata. If you extracted the tracks from the PAL disc, they can be named like so:

01. Cariodrome
02. Cardinal Dancer
03. Cold Comfort
04. Doh T
05. Messij
06. Operatique
07. Tentative
08. Transvaal
09. Afro-Ride
10. Chemical Beats
11. P.E.T.R.O.L.

The Saturn exclusive tracks were all done by Rob Lord & Mark Bandola, who did most of Wipeout 64's soundtrack. As typicalgeek points out, the raw audio of Planet 9 found on the Saturn disc has a couple noticeable glitches, so better to rip AGwolf2097's fixed version.