Wing Commander Prophecy OEM (August 11, 2013)

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When Wing Commander Prophecy came out in 1997, it was common practice for companies to create an additional SKU that was somewhere between a downloadable demo and the full game. The specialized OEM version of the game would be then offered to manufacturers for bundling with graphics accelerators, sound cards or other upgrades. For years, the OEM version of Wing Commander Prophecy was thought lost? until now!

Prophecy OEM was bundled with the appropriately-named Real3D Starfighter graphics card as the third disc of the install software (an odd choice for Real3D, as the Starfighter was not a 3dfx card which would take advantage of Prophecy's other major commercial tie-in.) The disc is identical to Prophecy's first CD, including all the FMV and missions. It differs only with a final splash screen informing gamers that they can finish the story by picking up the full copy of the game. Download it here:

Wing Commander Prophecy OEM (645 mb, .iso)




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Original update published on August 11, 2013
 
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For those who'd want to use HCl's enhancement pack with this version of WCP: WCP OEM stores its configuration in a different registry branch than the regular version, which means HCl's patched EXEs won't know where to get their configuration, and the game will stop with the "Cannot determine which DLL to load" message.

Copy the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Origin Systems\Wing Commander Prophecy OEM" data over to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Origin Systems\Wing Commander Prophecy" to get it to work.

I'll come up with a better, cleaner workaround tomorrow after a good night of sleep, along with a version of the OpenGL pack installer that supports the OEM.
 
While I am sure HCl will come up with a cleaner solution later, in the meantime I hex-edited the EXEs from his WCP Enhancement Pack to have them read the WCP OEM regsitry instead. I hope it will work for you guys, it worked on my PC.

1) Install WCP OEM
2) Unzip the Enhancement Pack over (don't overwrite prophecy.exe)
3) Unzip the edited files attached in this post
 

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I altered the OpenGL package for WCP/SO to support WCP OEM. If some of you guys would test it before I ask the CIC guys to copy it over the download section...

Download it here.

Now with WCP OEM being freely downloadable and compatible with both HCl's enhancement pack and Pedro's OpenGL, everyone can join in multiplayer jousts at anytime !
 
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