When you’ve got insomnia, and you are a Wipeout fan awake at 4am, too tired to fly at 850KM/h, what do you do?

You obsess over a custom skin using wipeout-game.com’s unbelievably clunky Shockwave-powered online skin editor. Which requires you to run your Mac browser under Rosetta emulation of all things, because almost no one uses fucking Director anymore so Adobe would just as soon not have to port the goddamn plug-in from PowerPC, kthx!, poking and prodding and manually assigning each pixel by hand to the crummy 3d model until you pass out on your keyboard, thus inflicting both 2nd-degree waffle-face on yourself as well as filling your last open Dashboard sticky with many 7’s.

(If you need to know how to do it: close your browser, then do a Get Info on the app icon; then check the Open Under Rosetta Emulation checkbox. This will allow you to run the editor with the Shockwave plug-in. Make sure you remember to turn it off after you are done.)

But you end up with a custom Wipeout skin the next morning (ok, afternoon), and to a series fan like myself… this was worth it. I love Team Piranha but the yellow/red colourscheme has always been a little too McD’s for my taste.

It would be appropriate to link to the downloadable skin file if I could figure out how. The site is, shall we say, a bit under-nourished.