Posted February 14, 2015
Starting with Wing Commander 1, Secret Missions and Secret Missions 2!
Wing Commander GOG.com Tech Review and Tweak Guide
In this video I am showing you how to improve certain aspects of the GOG.com release of Wing Commander, Secret Missions and Secret Missions 2.
Topics covered include:
- Improving graphics
- Improving music and sound effects with Munt MT-32 emulator
- CPU cycle speed
- Changing sound device (no sound, PC Speaker, Adlib or Sound Blaster and Roland MT-32)
- Joystick calibration
- Transferring pilots
Link to my website: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/tech-reviews-and-tweak-guides-series.html
Link to Munt Roland MT-32 emulator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/munt/
Use these lines to edit WINGCMDR.CFG (WC 1 and SM1) and CRUSADE.CFG (SM2) to change the audio device.
No Sound:
v z
PC Speaker:
v p z
Adlib / Sound Blaster:
v a904 z
Roland MT-32:
v r z
Wing Commander Privateer GOG.com Tech Review and Tweak Guide
In this video we are improving graphics, sound, music and other aspects of the game. I cover:
- Full screen aspect ratio corrected image
- Output modes
- Scaler mode
- Improving sample rate
- Using a virtual MIDI device and soundfonts
- Running INSTALL.EXE to change sound devices
- Fixing the slowing down of music in space flight
- Calibrating joystick
Download BASSMIDI: https://kode54.net/bassmididrv/
Download VirtualMIDISynth: http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth
Download Weeds General MIDI Soundfont v3.0: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/general-midi-and-soundfonts.html
Wing Commander II GOG.com Tweak Guide
In this video we are tweaking Wing Commander II from GOG.com.
We will improve the graphics, look at ways to tweak the speed of the game, configure the game to use Roland MT-32 music via Munt emulator and address an error to do with the joystick.
Link to Munt: http://sourceforge.net/projects/munt/
Wing Commander III Tweak Guide
In this video I am tweaking the GOG release of Wing Commander III Heart of the Tiger.
I will cover:
- Configuring the game for General MIDI
- Using VirtualMIDISynth and SoundFonts
- How to toggle subtitles
- How to change the language to German or French (Text only)
- How make the graphics smoother when moving around the ship
- Setting the perfect cycle speed to avoid some bugs
- Boost the sample rate for digital speech and sound effects
- Configure joystick as input device
- Configure joystick hat and rudder with the game
At the end you can watch me play the game a little bit (first mission).
Wing Commander GOG.com Tech Review and Tweak Guide
In this video I am showing you how to improve certain aspects of the GOG.com release of Wing Commander, Secret Missions and Secret Missions 2.
Topics covered include:
- Improving graphics
- Improving music and sound effects with Munt MT-32 emulator
- CPU cycle speed
- Changing sound device (no sound, PC Speaker, Adlib or Sound Blaster and Roland MT-32)
- Joystick calibration
- Transferring pilots
Link to my website: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/tech-reviews-and-tweak-guides-series.html
Link to Munt Roland MT-32 emulator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/munt/
Use these lines to edit WINGCMDR.CFG (WC 1 and SM1) and CRUSADE.CFG (SM2) to change the audio device.
No Sound:
v z
PC Speaker:
v p z
Adlib / Sound Blaster:
v a904 z
Roland MT-32:
v r z
Wing Commander Privateer GOG.com Tech Review and Tweak Guide
In this video we are improving graphics, sound, music and other aspects of the game. I cover:
- Full screen aspect ratio corrected image
- Output modes
- Scaler mode
- Improving sample rate
- Using a virtual MIDI device and soundfonts
- Running INSTALL.EXE to change sound devices
- Fixing the slowing down of music in space flight
- Calibrating joystick
Download BASSMIDI: https://kode54.net/bassmididrv/
Download VirtualMIDISynth: http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth
Download Weeds General MIDI Soundfont v3.0: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/general-midi-and-soundfonts.html
Wing Commander II GOG.com Tweak Guide
In this video we are tweaking Wing Commander II from GOG.com.
We will improve the graphics, look at ways to tweak the speed of the game, configure the game to use Roland MT-32 music via Munt emulator and address an error to do with the joystick.
Link to Munt: http://sourceforge.net/projects/munt/
Wing Commander III Tweak Guide
In this video I am tweaking the GOG release of Wing Commander III Heart of the Tiger.
I will cover:
- Configuring the game for General MIDI
- Using VirtualMIDISynth and SoundFonts
- How to toggle subtitles
- How to change the language to German or French (Text only)
- How make the graphics smoother when moving around the ship
- Setting the perfect cycle speed to avoid some bugs
- Boost the sample rate for digital speech and sound effects
- Configure joystick as input device
- Configure joystick hat and rudder with the game
At the end you can watch me play the game a little bit (first mission).
Post edited October 16, 2015 by philscomputerlab