Thus Spoke... Lightspeed? (October 11, 2008)

[Bandit LOAF]

Madman has found something truly bizarre in his travels: a Wing Commander Academy 'speech pack' patch... that wasn't made by HCl. It even includes an Origin-style installer - what is going on here? No professional speech pack was ever released for the game... so where did this come from? You can download a copy here (742kb ZIP) and study it yourself.


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Original update published on October 11, 2008

 

[Wedge009]

The actual speech data is located in wcaspech.exe, in ZIP format. Whoever made it may have just taken the corresponding WC2 speech files and packaged them nicely for ease of installation as a courtesy.

 

[Evan]

Wasn't digitized speech integrated in WCA? My version has speech integrated.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

It had speech for taunts but not wingmen.

 

[Madman]

The actual speech data is located in wcaspech.exe, in ZIP format. Whoever made it may have just taken the corresponding WC2 speech files and packaged them nicely for ease of installation as a courtesy.

Essentially the difference between HCL's version on wedge's site and this seems to be that one uses the concordia and one uses the canaevon voice packs from wc2 for the wca starbase, otherwise they are definitely the same file. Although whether that is due to origin, or a fan, making the copy I don't know!