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We've got a pretty cool discovery today: a YouTube account has uploaded a very early trailer for Wing Commander Prophecy! It has some spectacular footage of the game's engine much earlier in development, more than we've seen before. It's not clear where this was originally published but we suspect it dates to around E3 1997, possibly included in a press kit and released with an overseas magazine.

The resolution is low (it's from 1997!) but there are some good looks at Prophecy's early light including an early version of the Midway, early asteroids, a fascinating not-seen-before version of the UI and even an unreleased destroyer-style capital ship briefly visibile!

Thanks to some help from the original uploader we've learned the source of this trailer: the December 1997 cover disc for a Russian gaming magazine called Gameland. Gameland published extensive Prophecy previews in their November and January

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Wing Commander's pantheon of cheats is well known, from 'Origin -k' activating the finger of death to alswantsmoreships giving als more ships almost every game has had a hidden option used by the developers for testing but kept in for players to discover. That is, with the notable exception of Wing Commander Armada, 1994's wonderful multiplayer-and-strategy take on the series.

Until now! Thanks to some amazing research by--who else?--AllTinker, the process for accessing Wing Commander Armada's 'debug mode' is known! For the past few years we've known that an Armada 'cheat' existed but have had no idea how to access it or even what it really did. That's because one of the game's programmers mentioned in a Facebook comment that they were surprised that the team had kept their promise never to reveal it all these years (32 years and counting). But that was just an added challenge for AllTinker!

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Everybody loves RoboCop! It might have an earnest claim for the perfect all around movie. It can be light and fun or endlessly deep in the same viewing. Whether you're looking for spectacular action and endless gore or a meditation on the human condition, they're both perfectly formed right there… and neither diminishes or even begs for the other. Hurrah!

We already discussed the interesting history of the Righteous Fire "Enforcer" in our RoboCop 3 post but we thought it would be important to compare it to the original... especially RoboCop's unmasked face to the face texture used to create the Enforcer. What do you think, did RoboCop influence this fellow (if he is a fellow)?

Here are further comparisons with the different shots and animations used in the Righteous Fire introduction:

The wonderful ED-209 also brought to mind something hidden inside Wing Commander III's files: untextured meshes of two

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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 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) 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!

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The last time we checked in with 3D printer modeler Tyrel Lohr they were putting together an impressive fleet of ships from Wing Commander Armada. Now they're back with more Wing Commander ships and are getting a little carried away... or should we say carrier'd away? Lohr has created printable 3D versions of the original Snakeir design from The Secret Missions 2 and, most exciting of all, the Hakaga carrier from the cover of Fleet Action! Doing the Hakaga in the original game's style makes so much sense... after all, they're clearly artist Paul Alexander's interpretation of the Ralari as a heavy carrier! You can buy Lohr's wonderful models and print themselves for yourself through Cults.

Kilrathi Hakaga supercarrier based on the artwork from the Wing Commander 'Fleet Action' novel cover. Not a perfect rendition, but it captures the basic feel of the ship, while trying to blend in a bit more with the

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Wing Commander III is unique in the series in many ways... and one you may not know is that it was popular enough that they actually dubbed the entire game in Korean! Dubbing games--especially in languages other than French, German and Japanese--was a rare and expensive thing at the time. Unfortunately, the actors that dubbed the full motion video are not credited in the game itself. AD recently found a very low resolution image that purports to show them and we've been attempting to use it to find the correct credits.

Here's what we've found so far! As you can see, we are still missing Tolwyn and the actor who did both Vagabond/Flash. If you can make out the image or you know more about accessing the Korean portion of the internet we'd love to know who they are! Our closest possibility for Vagabond/Flash is 황윤걸 (Hwang Yun-geol)... but we aren't confident enough to be sure.

• Blair - 박일 (Park Il)
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