Wipeout Pure VR v0.1.0-beta (Meta Quest + PICO)

The first beta of Wipeout Pure VR, a standalone VR port of Wipeout Pure (PSP, 2005) for Meta Quest and PICO, built on pure-recomp (a native port made by static recompilation, no emulator).

Asset: WipeoutPure-VR-v0.1.0-beta.apk, one APK for Meta Quest and PICO.

You need a disc image dumped from your own copy of Wipeout Pure, US Greatest Hits edition (UCUS-98612, version 2.00). The app checks it and refuses other editions and regions. The APK contains none of the game.

Features

• Races in stereo 3D with head tracking: look into the corners and over the edge of the track. The HUD floats in front of you; menus, movies and the port's settings are on a curved screen.
• 60 fps races at full game speed on Meta Quest 3, shown at 120 Hz: every frame exactly twice, no judder.
• Sharp picture: eye images at the headset's full recommended size, plus 2x MSAA.
• The HD texture pack by NR74W, downloaded by the app from its author's GitHub repository on the first start (about 450 MB, Wi-Fi). The game switches to HD by itself when it's done, no restart needed. Nothing of the pack is in the APK.
• Shader pipelines for the whole game ship with the APK and are prepared in the background, so races don't stop to compile shaders.
• Touch and PICO controllers; the menus also work with the left stick.

Install

1. Install the APK with SideQuest or adb install -r WipeoutPure-VR-v0.1.0-beta.apk. On PICO, turn on developer mode and USB debugging first, and install with adb.
2. Start Wipeout Pure VR once (Quest: Library > Unknown Sources), so it creates its folder. Then quit it with the Meta / PICO button.
3. Copy your disc image (an .iso, any name) into
   Android/data/online.portroyale.wipeoutpurevr/files/import/
   with a PC file manager (headset connected by USB, file access allowed), SideQuest's file manager or
   adb push WipeoutPure.iso /sdcard/Android/data/online.portroyale.wipeoutpurevr/files/import/
4. Start the app again. It checks the image, sets the game up in a few seconds and starts it. If the image is not the supported one, import/SETUP-ERROR.txt says why.
5. With Wi-Fi, the HD textures download in the background while you play; files/hd-textures.txt shows the progress. Don't want them: create an empty file files/no-hd-textures before the first start.

Saves and settings are in files/ too. Uninstalling the app deletes that folder: copy it to your PC first.

Controls

Controller	In a race	In the menus
Left stick	steer	move the cursor
Right trigger or A	thrust	confirm
Left trigger	fire weapon
Left / right grip	left / right airbrake
X	absorb the weapon (shield energy)
B	look behind	back
Y	change the camera view
Menu button or left stick click	pause
Right stick	D-pad	D-pad
Both stick clicks	the port's settings menu

Hold the Meta / PICO button to re-centre the view.

Headsets

• Meta Quest 3 / 3S: tested.
• Meta Quest 2 / Pro, PICO 4 / Neo 3: untested; they get lighter defaults automatically (smaller eye images, no MSAA).
• PICO 4 Ultra: untested. PICO needs PICO OS 5.9.0 or newer (the port uses the generic Khronos OpenXR loader).

If it doesn't start or the controllers do nothing on your headset, please open an issue and attach files/PureNative.log and files/PureNative-previous.log.

Known issues

• The first races on a new install may hitch briefly when an effect shows for the first time; it's remembered afterwards.
• Without an imported disc image the app shows the desktop setup screen, which can't be used in VR (install step 3).
• No online (ad hoc) multiplayer yet.

More: README-QUEST.md (settings for testers, building) and portroyale.online/wipeoutpure.html.

Credits

pure-recomp by erreib (GPL-2.0); PortableKit, Yakumo and PSPRecomp; the WipEout Pure HD texture pack by NR74W, re-uploaded by 0xf0xx0; SDL3, the Khronos OpenXR loader, FFmpeg (LGPL) and the DejaVu fonts.

Wipeout Pure was developed by Studio Liverpool and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. WIPEOUT is a registered trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment. This project is not endorsed, sponsored or authorized by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

SHA-256 of the APK: e0186270693c2b10f3fdf3a2ea7de03a3ba45f2db1373cdfc818ff91321e6f48