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I'm gonna go ahead and go with Wing 3 as my favorite. They just looked so real to me back then. I haven't played WC4 or Prophecy/SO yet, but I remember thinking: "Wow, cool!" when I saw the cockpits in WC3 after having played all of WC 1-2.

Finally done with the conversion of the first three pages! I hadn't gone that far into the WC2 page, but I've still got a decent amount of conversion ahead of me for that page. However, I added new screen caps to the SM2 page, as well as new text. It looks so much better now.

No, I hadn't tried that. Thanks for the tip, it works swell! After a few days break, the conversion is coming along swimmingly. I've only got 4 more sets of caps to re-take before I start converting everything I had for WC2 to PNG files, and then moving forward with the project again, finally...

The .PNG files I've been using have not been abnormally huge; they are less than 500kb so far, I think. I'm pleased to say that I've finally converted the Secret Missions page. I have also tweaked both pages so far to get rid of those annoying blue lines that were on the sides of the images...

There. Finally got everything on the first page converted to .PNG files, except for the chalkboard, which was taken before I transferred my character over to Secret Missions, and is thus unchangeable without re-playing the entire game. I also managed to tighten up the cast photos to make them...

A garbage man.

They had to go. The top 6 front teeth were very unseemly and full of cavities. Non-savable. Two of them had just broken off at different points in my life, and one was very close to breaking off - it could've gone at any time. I had two molars on top (one on each side) that gave me daily pain...

I have found that .PNG files are working great for me. No more garbled .JPEGs. I am going to go ahead and put the progress of the WC2 page on hold so I can go through and re-do all the screen caps I took in .PNG form, and also make the sizes of 2x2 and 4x4 images the same. I have done some work...

LeHah wins the thread.

I just got a blue point Siamese cat for the new digs I just moved to, and I was trying to think of what to name her. I wanted to go with "Hobbes," mainly because of her tiger striped feet and tail, but since it was a girl, I had to think differently. I ended up going with "Spirit," to honor a...

It's funny, I tried GIF files, and paint.net makes them look fuzzy. Maybe I'll try some GIFs here soon, but I don't really want to go through the work of re-doing all those other ones, heh. When I am done with the whole thing, I will go back and re-do them just to clean things up a bit. I just...

Is it just me, or does WC3 seem easier when you crank the difficulty up to "hard"? I turned it up today just to see what would happen, and all I did was kick ass. No problem with Vaktoths or Cap Ships, and I flew the Arrow on every mission that I could (excluding the first Hellcat mission and...

I can get screen caps for you of the nav maps if you want, since I am going through everything for the Wing Commander project anyways.

I can officially say "HOLY COW," now that I am done with the Secret Missions 2 page. Over 100 screen shots and several hours later, I might add. The total number of new screen caps on that page is 104, which is close to 1.75 times the amount I took for the first two pages combined. You can check...

I tried to make a Wing Commander board game as a teenager. It didn't turn out so well, and I never got the chance to playtest it.

Don't worry, I'm getting there. ;)

Oh, the deaths in Wing Commander II. You know, I was upset when Bossman got shot down during Secret Missions 2, but each new death in WC2 brought more emotion out of me than the previous one. I remember the late night gaming sessions with my friend. We each drank a Mountain Dew in...

Trust me, the rocks hurt. I'm kind of taking a break from playing right now to write these pages, but soon I will be back in the cockpit for Wing Commander IV. However, the Secret Missions write up is done, and is live as of right now.

The kind of stuff that Wing Commander was doing was just not being done at the time. It took Nintendo several years to catch up with the release of Star Fox, and even that was polygonal 3-D, unlike the realistic looking bitmaps of Wing Commander. I remember having the choice between staying the...