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No, I didn't mean that. Maybe I misunderstood you, but I thought what you meant with: There's a list of completed-but-unreleased games as long as my arm that are lost to history because Origin didn't have some system for preserving them (Wing Commander 2 SNES, Bioforge Plus, Ultima 8 Lost...

Wow. They lost so much stuff even in the Wing Commander 3 era? Crazy. They had enough money to pay off the actors, but not some spare dolloars to buy a a decent server together with backup software? How did the EA managers allow this to happen so many times? Origin was under EA supervision...

Great news. Though, there is a problem: Most people don't have a joystick these days. So they need to tweak the controls so, that it will be enjoyable to play with a mouse.

What I meant: What if you have German WC IV CDs but you're running this DVD project in English? (set the exe switch to English language) As far as I can remember, the WC IV Win95 patch (for the CD version) *displayed the decision parts in English, if you ran the Win95 exe with the...

Nice job with the DVD patch. But, does this all work with Windows 98? My only joystick uses the gameport and my primary PC doesn't have one. So I am stuck with an old P3 with Windows 98 for all joystick based games. (including WC). Of course, I could buy a new joystick, but, since...

Hm, is it possible to make the decision parts appear in English too? I mean, if the movies you're watching are in English, but the voice over options in the movies are in German.. kinda distracting. Haven't tested it for several weeks, but I think the windows 95 patch for the cd version of WC...

Does this patch work, if you have a non-English WC4 CD version? I am aware, than the movie themselves would be still in English of course...

Ok, I don't know why I will write this now, but I am kinda bored. So, my problems with the SW prequels: Lightsaber obsession: "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter" It's implied in the OT, that those who are extremely powerful with the force, are above the mere physical. That...

I've said it here multiple times: I don't like the pilgrim stuff in the movie and I wished the movie would never introduce them. It just doesn't fit. If Blair would have been a pilgrim, a hated minority, then there is just no way, that that super cockey Maniac in WC3 wouldn't use it against him...

Actually the description of this patch is a bit missleading. https://www.wcnews.com/files.shtml#wc4 Fixes 16-bit SVGA palette problem with some old PCI video cards It sounds as if the patch is only for mid 90s PCI cards. The readme gives the same impression. But, I've had this...

Yea, although I know now the pilgrim background story, I am still not a big fan of that. What always intrigued me though is the "Utopian Underground of 2200" that is mentioned in the Victory Streak manual: http://wingcommander.by.ru/VS/Streak05.html Utopian Underground sounds very...

Thank you for the background information.

Ah, right! Now I remember. It's been a few years since I've seen the move the last time. Does that mean that the series bible for WCA was invalidated by the movie? ftp://ftp.wcnews.com/files/academy/series_bible_11-27-95.pdf In that, a scientist in the 22nd century discovered the jump...

Another problem with the pilgrims is that their "ability" is odd. So, they can calculate jump coordinates without a nav computer... who cares? Who really needs this? Every starship is fitted with a computer anyway, so their abilities are redudant. We have people today that can recite pi...

Let's forget the Blair-Maniac relationship - what about Paladin? That's where the movie completely departs from WC1. In WC1 Paladin was just a fighter pilot on the brink to retirement and he was a Major. In the movie he was.. what was it? Commodore? Not only that, movie-taggart is already...

This may be slightly off topic, but I find today's CGI sometimes worse than the effects in Jurassic Park or T2. Today's CGI in movies looks often very uninspired and "quick". As if they don't put much effort into it any more. In opposite to when the technology was new.

I admit, I haven't played much WC IV and Prophecy, but in WCII Blair's saying that Earth is his "home". Maybe they changed it later that his birthplace was another planet. Is WC Academy canon? The hair issue is actually quite important. In the games, the Kilrathi made always a big...

Of course the movie has contradictions: (if you place it into the same timeline as the games) Blair's from Earth in the games. (at least that's what one cutscene in WC II told me) Blair's first assignment to the Tiger's Claw was in WC1, that's where and when he met Maniac. The Kilrathi...

A new commercial wing commander in the near future is very unlikely, a wing commander with the pilgrim-war as story is absolutely impossible! The pilgrim plot only reared its head in the wc movie, and let's face it, the movie is the most disliked product in the franchise. No way in hell...

As I said, I have no purple lines. The other symptoms are identical though. What is skipping is the sound. The video in the movies is normal.