Wing Commander

cooperative multiplayer in the browser

1 Game files

Bring your own game. Drop a .zip of your Wing Commander or Wing Commander II folder, or the GOG installer (setup_wing_commander_*.exe), here, orAnother game: drop its .zip or GOG installer here, or . Nothing is uploaded: the files are unpacked and kept in this browser only.
No game files yet.

◆ Lobby

Load Wing Commander or Wing Commander II (step 1) to enter: this page connects to the lobby only with a game to fly. The public chat room (WC-LOBBY; when it is full, WC-LOBBY0, WC-LOBBY1 and so on) where pilots find somebody to fly with. It links your browser directly with the other pilots in it, as a game does.

2 Room

Voice diagnostics

Speak on each computer and compare reports. Input energy checks the microphone; received energy checks incoming sound; playback shows whether the browser started the audio. Reports contain states and counters, not recordings.


      

      

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        Controller buttons and axes
        

        

        

          
          
          
          
          
        

        
The controller is the game's mouse and keyboard: the sticks steer (left stick turns and pitches, right stick pitches and rolls), the buttons press the game's keys. In menus and the barracks the left stick moves the pointer and the Fire guns button clicks. Each browser window has its own controller, so two windows side by side make a split screen: one controller each, or a controller in one and the keyboard and mouse in the other.

      

      

      
    

  


  

    
3 Fly

    

      
      
      Load the game files and join a room first.
    

    

      
      

    

    

    

      
      
Click the screen to give it the keyboard. Caps Lock is the game's Esc (it skips cutscenes), because the browser keeps Esc for leaving full screen; in Chrome and Edge a short tap of Esc also reaches the game in full screen, and holding it leaves. Press 0 to type a chat message to the other pilots, Enter sends it; in space Enter fires missiles. With voice on push to talk, hold ` (or the left stick's button on a controller) to speak. Ctrl+F10 releases the mouse.

    

    

      How a mission goes, and the second player's seat
      
Load the game files (step 1): the help is the game's own.