Sylvester
Vice Admiral
Fellow Wingnuts! I've decided to give a small slice back to the CIC Tech Support world after benefiting from it so much over the last 12 (12!?) years. I've noticed people having some difficulty in transferring their WC1 characters between SM1 and or SM2. To that end, I have modified the autoexec file that GoG provided to easily switch between the games.
When you launch the Wing Commander shortcut after installing it from GoG, you'll see a DOSBOX window open and will be prompted with 3 choices:
1) Wing Commander with Secret Missions
2) The Secret Missions 2: Crusade
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3) Exit
The original game's TRANSFER.EXE and TRANS2.EXE are included in the download, but running them would normally require that you mount the location of your installation manually in dosbox and run them individually. What I have done is change the autoexec file provided so that when you launch Wing Commander, you'll get these options instead:
1) Wing Commander with Secret Missions
2) The Secret Missions 2: Crusade
3) SM1 Transfer Utility
4) SM2 Transfer Utility
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5) Exit
The CIC forum won't let me upload a .CONF file so copy the following text to your dosboxWC_single .CONF file to make the change:
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
@Echo OFF
mount C ".."
c:
cls
ECHO [1;33m[42mÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»
ECHO º ------------------------------------------- º
ECHO º Wing Commander º
ECHO º ------------------------------------------- º
ECHO º 1) Wing Commander with Secret Missions º
ECHO º 2) The Secret Missions 2 - Crusade º
ECHO º 3) SM1 Transfer Utility º
ECHO º 4) SM2 Transfer Utility º
ECHO º ------------------------------------------- º
ECHO º 5) exit program º
ECHO º ------------------------------------------- º
ECHO ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ[0m
choice /c12345 /s Which game do you want to run? [1-5]: /n
if errorlevel 5 goto exit
if errorlevel 4 goto trans2
if errorlevel 3 goto transfer
if errorlevel 2 goto sm2
if errorlevel 1 goto sm
:sm
cls
loadfix -1 wc
exit
:sm2
cls
loadfix -1 sm2
exit
:transfer
cls
transfer
exit
:trans2
cls
trans2
exit
:exit
exit
Hopefully this will make it even easier for wingnuts to ensure that your 200+ kills and 12 Bronze Stars transfer properly from game to game. Happy flying!
When you launch the Wing Commander shortcut after installing it from GoG, you'll see a DOSBOX window open and will be prompted with 3 choices:
1) Wing Commander with Secret Missions
2) The Secret Missions 2: Crusade
==============================
3) Exit
The original game's TRANSFER.EXE and TRANS2.EXE are included in the download, but running them would normally require that you mount the location of your installation manually in dosbox and run them individually. What I have done is change the autoexec file provided so that when you launch Wing Commander, you'll get these options instead:
1) Wing Commander with Secret Missions
2) The Secret Missions 2: Crusade
3) SM1 Transfer Utility
4) SM2 Transfer Utility
==============================
5) Exit
The CIC forum won't let me upload a .CONF file so copy the following text to your dosboxWC_single .CONF file to make the change:
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
@Echo OFF
mount C ".."
c:
cls
ECHO [1;33m[42mÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»
ECHO º ------------------------------------------- º
ECHO º Wing Commander º
ECHO º ------------------------------------------- º
ECHO º 1) Wing Commander with Secret Missions º
ECHO º 2) The Secret Missions 2 - Crusade º
ECHO º 3) SM1 Transfer Utility º
ECHO º 4) SM2 Transfer Utility º
ECHO º ------------------------------------------- º
ECHO º 5) exit program º
ECHO º ------------------------------------------- º
ECHO ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ[0m
choice /c12345 /s Which game do you want to run? [1-5]: /n
if errorlevel 5 goto exit
if errorlevel 4 goto trans2
if errorlevel 3 goto transfer
if errorlevel 2 goto sm2
if errorlevel 1 goto sm
:sm
cls
loadfix -1 wc
exit
:sm2
cls
loadfix -1 sm2
exit
:transfer
cls
transfer
exit
:trans2
cls
trans2
exit
:exit
exit
Hopefully this will make it even easier for wingnuts to ensure that your 200+ kills and 12 Bronze Stars transfer properly from game to game. Happy flying!
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