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Here's a deep and useful look at some obscure gear: mkdud1 has posted a control map for the 3DO CH Flightstick Pro and a look at how to restore their potentiometers! The distinct CH Flightstick Pro is probably familiar to a lot of classic fans… but fewer know that a version was also released for the 3DO which was explicitly supported by Super Wing Commander and Wing Commander III! Tracking down (or emulating) a Flightstick Pro makes the 3DO Wing Commandering experience a truly beautiful thing. If you'd like to know more, you can find the original thread on Reddit.

Here is a map for the CH Flightstick Pro controls for 3DO SWC. I have updated this on 1-18-26 to include some of the hat functions; this is helpful during combat when you want to send a quick taunt during combat or a command to your wingman. The slightly hidden red printing for the right shift button reads "Right Shift with B = Brake to 0,

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The work continues! Our exploration of Wing Commander Prophecy's hidden mechanics has been taking longer than we expected but we are ready to premiere the WCPedia pages for the second series... along with a couple of fascinating discoveries! This week we are looking at the G'wriss Series which introduces enemy capital ships and gives you the first look at the multi-wing strikes that make a lot of Prophecy missions so cool! There are six missions in series C but you will only encoutner three of them in any given playthrough. C1 is the same for everyone and we've discovered some cool secrets there. C2 is decided based on how much damage the Midway takes in C1, with more damage meaning more NAV points to visit (just one in C2a, two in C2b and three in C2c).

You can find the individual pages for the first series missions below.

• C1: G'wriss - Convoy Rescue
• C2a: G'wriss - Alien Starship Encounter
• C2b:

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Back in 2024, we made an interesting discovery: we identified that the 'pin up' poster briefly seen in Lieutenant Blair's quarters in the Wing Commander was made from a stock photo that had been reused in other places! This conclusively disproved an old (and already very unlikely) piece of IMDb trivia that it was a photograph of Sarah Michelle Gellar and it brought us to a new question: who was the stock photo model?

As unlikely as it seems, we now have an answer... because she stopped by the forums to tell us herself! Her name is Rae Cline and a portfolio shoot made it into a stock photo collection way back when. Here's her story:

Hi Bandit LOAF. The woman is me. Yes, it is from stock footage. The photographer is Jack Cutler. You can find him on IG @jack_cutler_foto. You can find me on Instagram, too, @raeclineauthor.

I never received any royalties for the stock photo in Wing Commander, of course, but

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Local authorities across several Imperial and Federal colonies have confirmed a sharp rise in pirate activity, coinciding with the military confrontation surrounding the HIP 87621 enclave.
Traders report increased interdictions along previously stable shipping lanes, while independent miners have warned of sustained harassment at long-established extraction sites. System security offices acknowledge that patrol coverage has been reduced, citing the redeployment of forces toward strategic objectives elsewhere.
A spokesperson for the Imperial Internal Security Service commented that "temporary pressure" on border systems was inevitable while major forces remained on standby around HIP 87621. Federal officials echoed similar sentiments, stressing that order would be restored once current campaigns concluded.
Independent pilots have voiced growing frustration, describing a lack of response to

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It's time for another thrilling edition of the monthly Wing Commander cartoon party… with a real cartoon included this time! This month we'll be stepping back in time to 1992 to imagine what it was like when Wing Commander: Privateer was being made… and we'll be enjoying some of the truly ridiculous nonsense television that defined the era.

Back in 1992, Origin couldn't settle on a name for their space trading game. The developers wanted to call it Free Trader in honor of the Traveller tabletop game that had greatly inspired them, but legal could not clear the name. It went through dozens of suggestions before being announced as the tepid "Trader Commander" and finally being changed to the not-quite-definitory Privateer. The game's storyboard artists riffed on the situation by labeling their work with the names of notorious media including films, TV shows and albums. We've already watched three of the

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We have seen the horrible future of THX 1138 and said… hey, a world where the government keeps you drugged, happy and working maybe isn't that bad. For next week we've chosen the (current) lone romantic comedy in the queue: a Dean Martin film called Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957). You can join us this Friday via Discord to watch along.

So what could this possibly have to do with Wing Commander? Look closely at the poster: the female lead is none other than Anna Maria Alberghetti, who will in roughly 700 years have a space cruise liner named after her! And then due to the events of Secret Ops quickly NOT have a space cruise liner named after her. Ms. Alberghetti was a singer who started perforing professionally as a child and then became an actress as a teenager. Ten Thousand Bedrooms is her 'best known' movie and so we thought we'd take the opportunity to try and find out… why did they name a spaceship