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We're getting WING COMMANDER FMVs, gang!!! Jim Vessella found over 600 source tapes in the EA archives and have been restoring them

10/10/26, 11:18 pm28 reposts98 likes

Supcat @ Laperopter Corporation

@supcat.bsky.social

This is awesome! Now I can only hope for the same for Road Rash 🥹

solon's haunted library

@chorby.org

Lol the C&C remakes were AI upscaled and these probably will be too, I'll ask to make sure those aren't being considered New Originals by any means and are clearly labeled after being put into production. It's just professional

solon's haunted library

@chorby.org

Upscales are not considered substitutive in any ways, all the way down to them toggling these found master FMVs with the separate upscaled versions. They will all be 'on disc' as it were and the metadata behind the scenes in-archive are separated and isolated as part of the remaster project.

solon's haunted library

@chorby.org

He's also announcing the Wing Commander III 30th Anniversary Edition: Kilrathi Saga FMVs sourced and upscaled Community Enhancement Patch added 60fps Controller support

Ben Lesnick

@banditloaf.wcnews.com

Thank you so much for covering this! You broke the story.

solon's haunted library

@chorby.org

It was my first time being in a panel for archivists where there were Big Boy Cameras around, and so I was like 'EA cares a lot about archiving, huh?' they got the boom operator for this panel