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Wing Commander 1/2 - Strange gameplay mechanics while in flight

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First post, by Thraka

Posted on 2008-05-20, 05:15

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In Wing Commander 1 if I fire the ship doesn't care what arrow keys are depressed or pressed while firing. If I'm holding LEFT UP and I then hold SPACE down and let go of LEFT UP, the game still thinks LEFT UP is being pressed until I let go of SPACE.

Anyone else have this issue with WC1?

WC2 seems to just not look at what the arrow keys are doing (it is like it forces a depress on the keys) when I hold the space bar down.

Makes it pretty hard to play 😀

Thoughts?

Reply 1 of 3, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-05-20, 07:52

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Not sure, but it sounds like multi-key presses (except modifiers like SHIFT and CTRL) is problematic, perhaps even not supported.

There is a setting in DOSBox called usescancodes or something like that. Try setting it on/off, true/false or whatever that setting is.

Reply 2 of 3, by ADDiCT

Posted on 2008-05-20, 08:37

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You can also try "priority=normal,normal" in dosbox.conf. On my system, i have "multiple keypress"-problems with the default setting.

Reply 3 of 3, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2008-05-20, 14:03

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Use Joystick 😀

1+1=10

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