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according to this https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/11167 the source code of WC1 is at least "archived" here so it should be possible to look that up, the scoring system I mean

Thanks for your input Dondragmer! I finished my playthrough of WC1 this weekend, focusing on the losing path. Pretty sure I never played Chengdu, Port Hedland, Hubble's Star or Hell's Kitchen before. You would think that on the losing path, the game would help you to get back on the winning...

Thank you for the all this information! I didn't know about the command line switches or the additional 3DO missions or the SNES cutscene yet. I was going to get started with the DOSbox version of WC1 this weekend and see where it takes me. I'll report how it goes =)

Hello everyone, after easily 10 years without Wing Commander, I have decided to play it again, at least WC1 and WC2 (and SM/SO) but if I enjoy it and find the time, why not WC3-5 too. I played through each of them 2-3 times already. Now I have realised that there is probably a lot of missions...

Are these not beautiful words? Im not sure I would get the color gradients on the WC fonts right but I guess I could overlay them on an early shot of here flying towards the starbase.

Receiving WC1 as an X-Mas gift in January 1992, sent by my grandma from France. I still remember unwrapping it, was a sunny day ;) Didn't have English classes for another few years, but the graphics were enough to get hooked. Broke the "one hour a day on the computer" rule by my mother so many...

Thanks for the suggestions so far, Ive been browsing through them (couldnt find some of the WC2 ones on youtube though) and liked them all. I wouldn't mind putting up Spirit's suicide, was an act of love, wasn't it? If there was some final quote from her written out on the scene just before she...

Hello everyone, I'm looking to decorate a bare wall in my apartment and remembered how I used to put up the most beautiful computer game boxes back in my youth (WC1 always had a nice spot!). So I came up with the idea of putting up screenshots of my favourite games from back then. And I'm not...

A Mass Effect style game in the WC universe would be great. Or better yet, a game where you manage your own Bengal/Confed class carrier, rushing from hotspot to hotspot to stop the Kilrathi advance. Do all the mission planning, set nav points, assign wing commanders and wingmen, extract...

I tried running some of the Vampire simulator missions since I first thought it was a problem with that model as it occurred on the first Vampire/Devastator mission but that did not help. Extracting midplas.iff to a new folder mesh also fixes it though.

PopsiclePete, ran that command and reloaded one of the later missions and the exact same error is back. Not sure if it makes a difference but it is the german version.

Just finished my third playthrough of WCP (and went through WC1, WC3 a few weeks ago). Gameplaywise, WCP is the best (not surprisingly), more so with OpenGL. Especially liked sharpshooting with the Devastator gun (in behind-the-ship view), tons of fun. The story, however, is crap. I liked...

Alright it works now. After finding out that the mesh files are in DATA.TRE, I copied that file from CD1 to my installation directory (where it already was with exactly the same file size!) and that somehow did it. Not quite sure what caused the problem, maybe the OpenGL installation for WCP...

Hello there, I'm having a weird crash with Wing Commander Prophecy. It crashes back to Desktop when I enter Hrissith 1a/1b (the first mission with either Vampire or Devastator). The message I get is "Fatal: Iff:Iff open file 'mesh/midplas.iff' not found and not optional". So it would seem it...

I didnt read any posts beyond the initial one, because the initial one made me frown already... To start with, youre naming genres that are pretty general but which were restricted in their nature due to what computers were able to do back then. "Maze" RPG/Dungeon Crawler (Wizardy, Stone...

I wouldn't trust my mind about things that happened ten years ago but I believe it was two Grathas ramming each other that gave me the break. Poured my DFs into the third then killed the fourth while my wingman (maybe the only time I let him do some kills) served off the former two. I second...

WC2, easily. Everytime I see that Ralari fly through the screen and Khasra and Thrakhath speak... then the audience at Ghorah Khar... humanity at stake... there isn't a lot of things I can remember from being 9,10 years old but playing WC2 is one of them. My computer wasn't powerful enough and I...

Nice sketch, really. Reminds me so much of WC2 which I will hopefully play again soon. lll trade firepower for speed anytime.

Just read the first post and browsed through the answers so forgive me if I repeat something. I wouldn't say they don't make games like this anymore - back then Wing Commander was revolutionary, in terms of graphics, narration, music maybe and non-linear story. Nowadays this is pretty common...

Hello people, I'm afraid what I'm looking for isn't exactly Wing Commander. I remember playing a Space Sim which had two huge capital ships and they were called Battleaxe and Red something. It had some quite advanced graphics. I was looking to play it again with DOSBox. I remember some...