Category:Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom

Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom
Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom
Platform	Dos & Windows
Release Date	Feb 1996

Description

Box Back Cover

System Requirements

Computer.	Wing Commander IV requires at least an IBM 486 DX/2 66+MHz or 100% compatible system, and MS-DOS version 5.0 or higher. Pentium™ machines are recommended for SVGA spaceflight.
Video Card.	VESA-compliant SVGA (640x480). A local bus or PCI video card is required.
Hard Drive.	You must have a minimum of 30 MB free on your hard drive to install and play this game.
CD-ROM Drive.	You must have at least a double-speed CD-ROM drive with a transfer rate of 300,000 bytes/second or higher.
Mouse.	Wing Commander IV requires a Microsoft or 100% compatible mouse using Microsoft software driver version 7.0 or higher or 100% compatible software driver.
Memory.	Wing Commander IV uses 360K (368,640 bytes) of conventional RAM (base memory) and 7000K (7,168,000 bytes) of either extended memory (XMS) or expanded memory (EMS). You must have a minimum of 8 megabytes of RAM installed in your machine. We recommend using an XMS setup for machines with only 8 megs RAM.

Box Contents

MS-DOS

English

(6) CDs (your game!)
Wing Commander IV Introduction (40 pp.) with basic installation instructions, Tutorial, Option Screen information, detailed Installation Help, directions for Creating a Boot Disk (p. 11) and Troubleshooting answers to possible problems (p. 32)
The Price of Freedom (48 pp.) giving you an expanded version of what happened between Wing Commander III and Wing Commander IV.
Playguide (32 pp.) telling you how to play the game and set game options.
Reference Card (4 pp.) listing all keyboard, mouse and joystick commands in the game.
Registration Card — we'd love to know who you are!
Catalogs and other advertising, describing the worlds of gaming opportunities EA provides.

Russian

Wing Commander IV Manual Russian

Windows

Sony PlayStation

Credits

Team

Advertising

Versions

European PC CD

DVD

Ports

DVD

Same as the PC (Win95) version, but with high quality video sequences - as clear as a real movie rather than higher compression Xan movie.

Macintosh

Identical to the initial PC release.

Playstation

Cuts out a significant amount of video and missions (no Circe Series, for instance). Ground missions replaced with new space-based missions with similar objectives. Briefing videos altered slightly to represent this.

Strategy Guides

Re-Releases

Screenshots

Development

Patches / Addons

Origin

Fan Made

Editing Tools

Miscellaneous Files

Music

High quality background music

Main Title, Space Ambush and Combat by George Oldziey
The Borderworlds by George Oldziey
Telamon, The Dead Planet by George Oldziey
Blair and Tolwyn Prepare for Battle by George Oldziey
Confronting Tolwyn, War Averted, Tolwyn's Death by George Oldziey
Engage by George Oldziey
So, You Think You've Won by George Oldziey
End Music by George Oldziey

Thanks to Mad Hatter. (Details, more)

Various tracks

Credits by George Oldziey
Final Mission by George Oldziey
Victory by George Oldziey
End Music by George Oldziey
End Credits by George Oldziey
Inflight Music
More Inflight Music by George Oldziey
Inflight by George Oldziey
Inflight 1 by George Oldziey
Inflight 2 by George Oldziey
Inflight 3 by George Oldziey
Inflight 5 by George Oldziey
Inflight 6 by George Oldziey

Cheats

PC

In flight, press Alt-O.
Select invincibility.
Start the game with "wc4 -chicken" at the command line to enter debug mode. You should see the message "Chicken mode: [ON] Boc Boc!" during game start-up.
Ctrl-W destroys your target. Ctrl-Alt-W destroys all enemies on the radar. Alt-F displays framerate.
Start the game with "wc4 -mitchell" at the command line to get the message "Mitchell don't work here no more. He work for Bazooka Joe now." during game start-up.
Start the game with "wc4 -mitchell2" at the command line to get the message "I told you he don't work here no more! You call Bazooka Joe! during game start-up."
Start the game with "wc4 -test" at the command line to get the message "Test okay!!!" during game start-up. The game then crashes.

PlayStation

At the Wing Commander copyright screen, press Up, Down, Down, Up, R2.
Press R1 or R2 to select a game level.

Manuals and Game Documentation

Cutscenes

Behind The Scenes Of WCIV Carlos Mendonça found something really neat that we don't recall seeing before - seven behind the scenes videos from the set of Wing Commander IV! They were found in the January 1996 copy of Multimedia World Live! and are a mixture of interviews, behind the scenes action, and even a blooper video. Here they are in their original form of 320x240 12 frames/sec Cinepak video and 8 bit sound.

blair2.avi - Interview with Mark Hamill.
maniac1.avi - Interview with Tom Wilson 1.
maniac2.avi - Interview with Tom Wilson 2.
wing1.avi - Behind the scenes, interviews with Chris Roberts, Mark Hamill, Malcolm Macdowell, Tom Wilson, Jason Bernard.
wing3.avi - Wing Commander IV trailer.
wing4.avi - Briefing blooper.
wing5.avi - Those damn doors again.