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Dec
Here's a couple of slick screenshots from Cmdr Exorcist's Tarsus built for Space Engineers. It's a little blocky due to the nature of the game, but the overall layout looks pretty good!
"Sorry boys, I'm just a tourist with a fried nav console."The legendary TARSUS from Wing Commander Privateer is the latest addition to my shipyard workshop. I hope you'll enjoy flying this beast!
Dec
…The Wing Commander movie club is back from our vacation to Westworld and, well, there are still a few bugs to be worked out. The movie holds up very well, it's still tremendously fun. Objectively, you recognize that it isn't much of a story as over half the run time is devoted to setting up the world and explaining how the theme park works… but subjectively, that's the fun part and Michael Crichton made exactly the right choice focusing on what's actually most interesting here. And after so many somber British war movies, its breezy sub-90-minute run time was certainly a nice feature!
We already talked about Michael Crichton's star system in the intro post so there's not a lot more to say about Westworld's connection to Wing Commander! We did manage to find one almost-reference: hidden in Privateer 2's data is a list of ships for an earlier version of the booth database which is totally different from
Dec
This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that are referenced by Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is Crash (1996) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post here. The movie will start at 7 PM PST/10 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time!
Dec
…Last month, we published an article cataloging the wings worn by Wing Commander's various fighter pilots. We failed to include one pretty important reference: Jazz's wings from Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi! You may remember that these wings played an important role in Wing Commander II's treason mystery and as a result got their own closeup shot! When Jazz shoots Specialist McGuffin for discovering his communications with the Kilrathi, McGuffin grabs his wings as he dies. Jazz then steals Stingray's wings and he is blamed for the murder (until Sparks provides an alibi). Of course, as we pointed out in the initial article there's not a clear place on the Wing Commander II duty uniforms where wings are worn! But the scene provides a great look at them:
In case you aren't familiar with the joke about this scene, Specialist McGuffin is named after the idea of a "MacGuffin" which is a word
Dec
…A BlueSky user named revenant was recently noodling around with the SNES port of Wing Commander and made a pretty exciting discovery and a cool tool for taking a closer look at the game's assets! Revenant turned ROMs of the two surviving SNES ports into in flight object viewers that let you explore the in-game background layers, essentially letting you scroll through the different ships and objects stored in the game! Their first thread starts here.
completely pointless activity of the week: hacking a Mode 7 object viewer into the janky SNES port of wing commander
(d-pad cycles objects/frames, start button exits)
right now this only shows the 'up close' frames for ingame objects (which are background layers rather than the sprites used for distant objects)
also the displayed names of objects come from the list of text strings which doesn't always match the actual object - i.e. unused Venture graphics are
Dec
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Hopefully you were able to secure some great deals over the weekend, but if you're still looking to check things off the list for the Wing Commander fan in your life, here's a rundown of WC items for sale!
Print Art
- End Run Cover by David Mattingly $20-$100 (search for "Wing Commander")
- Malcolm McDowell Autographed WC3 PSX Print $65 (15% off through December 31)
Movies & TV
- Academy DVD: Amazon $10.96 | Walmart $12.86 | Deep Discount $8.16
- Movie Digital: Amazon $9.99 | Fandango $9.99 | Google/YouTube $9.99
Novels ($6.99) Freedom FlightBaen EbookAmazon KindleApple BooksB&N NookKoboGoogle Play End RunBaen EbookAmazon KindleApple BooksB&N NookKoboGoogle Play Fleet ActionBaen EbookAmazon KindleApple
