Wing Commander 2 Special Edition

badkarma9000

badkarma9000

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I have a CD that comes with WC2, and the two add on mission packs, with the speech pack.

I'm having a heck of a time getting this to run, when WC1 worked fine for me using DosBox .61 under Windows XP (my soundcard is an Audigy 2 Platinum).

When I try to "winstall", it asks me where to install the game to, and I put "C", logically. Then it puts "Cam" as the default, and of course it says, "No can do, can't find Wing Commander 2 game there" or whatever.

I finally got the thing to run just by copying all the files from the CD into a folder on my C drive, mounting it in Dosbox, and running wc2.exe

It runs great! Except now, at the 2nd mission, right when the Concordia should come on the screen and congratulate me and ask me to land, I crash to desktop. Has anyone experienced this and know of a way around it? I really want to play this game.
 
sounds like you on the right path with the copying all the files to the hard drive part, but what I did to get it to work on my comp was I copied all the files to C:\WC2, took the files off of read-only, opened up ms-dos for games with ems support(located in C:\windows), it then restarted my comp into ms-dos mode, then change directory to C:\WC2, and type wc2, so1, or so2. its just that easy. the cutscenes still play uber fast, but it did that when I first bought the game years ago.
 
That bug is 100% normal for DOSBox 0.61. You just need to add the following line in your dosbox.conf:
loadfix

That's it. After that, the game should work ;)
 
Where can you get DOSBox from, and would it let my play WC II Speical Edition on my Win98 machine?
 
badkarma9000 said:
I have a CD that comes with WC2, and the two add on mission packs, with the speech pack.

I'm having a heck of a time getting this to run, when WC1 worked fine for me using DosBox .61 under Windows XP (my soundcard is an Audigy 2 Platinum).

When I try to "winstall", it asks me where to install the game to, and I put "C", logically. Then it puts "Cam" as the default, and of course it says, "No can do, can't find Wing Commander 2 game there" or whatever.

I finally got the thing to run just by copying all the files from the CD into a folder on my C drive, mounting it in Dosbox, and running wc2.exe

It runs great! Except now, at the 2nd mission, right when the Concordia should come on the screen and congratulate me and ask me to land, I crash to desktop. Has anyone experienced this and know of a way around it? I really want to play this game.
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Ah thank you! You've told me how to get my WC1 Special Edition disk to work in dosbox. Thank you.

I do have a copy of KS i got from a friend but it has that damn music bug and the rapiers cockpit is off the rest of the fighter when it opens after landing. Not to mention that the planet in the end cutscene is missing. Since Dosbox works with USB joysticks and makes the sound run correctly, I'll use this instead to get the "full" experience.

Also, will the wcsav.exe utility work with the older versions of Wing Commander one or only Kilrathi Saga. I say this because the game won't let you keep your Pewter Planet (c), so I transfer my game to SM1 and add it in along with the kills from the last mission.

Thanks
 
@TopGun:
You can get Dosbox at: dosbox.sf.net And yes, it will work with WC2 Special Edition. I'm not sure about Win98, but as far as I know that should work as well.
 
The only problem you could have is the power of your computer. DosBox (as far as I can tell) needs a fairly powerful computer to run it. My Athlon 2600 isn't ridiculously powerful but you may need something with a little more punch than a 98 machine.
 
THE_WUQKED said:
That bug is 100% normal for DOSBox 0.61. You just need to add the following line in your dosbox.conf:
loadfix

That's it. After that, the game should work ;)
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How do you do that?
 
Do the voices run at normal speed in WC2 on dosbox? They ran way to fast in the KS version, not to mention the in filight movement was kinda choppy.
 
Do the voices run at normal speed in WC2 on dosbox? They ran way to fast in the KS version, not to mention the in filight movement was kinda choppy.
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You can adjust that via changing the DOSBox-CPU cycles - The short keys are Ctrl+F11 and F12 to lower / up it. But they should be mentioned in the readme, too. So you should be able to get it the way you want. But I noticed for perfect videos etc. you need a much slower cycle setting than for gaming (considering it's the same with KS and with my DOS version in pure DOS with my K6-2 + disabled cache, I guess this thing is normal for WC2 :( )
How do you do that?
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There are two ways to do so:
1. When in dosbox simply type "loadfix" and press ENTER - You have to do that everytime you want to play WC2 then.
2. You open your DOSBox.conf File and add "loadfix" to your autoexec.bat (at the very end, where you also can mount your drives etc.)
If you still have trouble or so, you also might want to check the Readme, it's described there, too. - But imo more complicated ;)
Hope that helps :)
 
Its fantastic there are programs to run these older games in today's pc's.

What Im confused about is why games like Doom and ROTT can run without ANY emulator/dosbox or whatever program. Oh well....might have been a lack of forsight on the coding part.
 
Iceman16 said:
sounds like you on the right path with the copying all the files to the hard drive part, but what I did to get it to work on my comp was I copied all the files to C:\WC2, took the files off of read-only, opened up ms-dos for games with ems support(located in C:\windows), it then restarted my comp into ms-dos mode, then change directory to C:\WC2, and type wc2, so1, or so2. its just that easy. the cutscenes still play uber fast, but it did that when I first bought the game years ago.
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I had to go badkarma's way because Windows XP doesn't have a dedicated dos mode, it has command prompt. That method you mentioned won't work with XP.
 
What Im confused about is why games like Doom and ROTT can run without ANY emulator/dosbox or whatever program. Oh well....might have been a lack of forsight on the coding part.
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Well, I guess it's simply cause of a similar reason to why some Windows95 games do not run under Windows XP, even with Comp. modes, and some others work without it.

To the Win XP thingy without any emulator: I just tested my WC1 and WC2 DOS version that way and it works - except sound, that is. So maybe VDMS or so would work there, too. But besides that, DOSBox is a way better solution cause it doesn't need another CPU-Slow-Down utility.
 
Sylvester said:
I had to go badkarma's way because Windows XP doesn't have a dedicated dos mode, it has command prompt. That method you mentioned won't work with XP.
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ah.sorry, forget my post above if your running something other than win 98, I just reread badkarma's post and read that he's using windows xp. sorry about that
 
jammyo2k said:
The only problem you could have is the power of your computer. DosBox (as far as I can tell) needs a fairly powerful computer to run it. My Athlon 2600 isn't ridiculously powerful but you may need something with a little more punch than a 98 machine.
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My machine is a Celeron 400 MHz :(
 
My machine is a Celeron 400 MHz
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Hmm, that's at the borderline for WC1 and WC2, I'd say. So definitely worth a try, but no guarantee it's enough. - But you won't be able to play Privateer with that one :(
 
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