[TopAce]

I just love it that many that come here use "we".

[spas12]

Well TopAce, I used "we" because I'm helping work on the conversion with sound effects.

[brandx0]

Yes, this is true.

Speaking of which, someone get this guy a badge

[Vidmaster]

Space Combat and Epic Battles as they are described in the X-Wing Novels 
No Factor5 arcade junk.

[Topgun]

Hey, the Factor 5 games were good.

[CaptJosh]

Speaking of those, I need to get copies of RS2 and RS3 for my Gamecube, since LucasArts decided to be bastards and not release them for Computer.

[Topgun]

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[StarSlayer]

Will those work in the emulator on Wii?

[Mongoose]

I'm fairly certain that the Wii can play any and all GameCube titles, if what I've been told is true.

[Topgun]

Yep.

[Titan]

now if only i could convine my parents to buy me those and a memory card...

[CaptJosh]

AFAIK, for GC games, it's not emulation. I believe it runs them natively.

[starlord]

the wii architecture is extremely close to the GC. Just a little more raw processing power (completely aside of the X360 and ps3 beasts)

[swashmebuckle]

Hey guys, this conversion looks amazing!  I know it might be too late for this, but here are some things I'd like to see after spending some time with the old X-Wing Collector's CD last night:

1) Fast acceleration/deceleration for fighters.  I'm guessing you're not going to employ the glide function that was so critical in BtRL on account of it not really being very Star Warsy, so I thought that you could maybe keep chases from descending into simple turning matches by making running a viable option, even for slower ships.  It would be great to push hard in order to dive behind a friendly cruiser and then slam on the breaks, or to make a desperate breakneck escape through a twisting tunnel.  And the faster you go the wider you turn so...maybe disable the match speed function?  Will even suggesting that get me banned?

2) Blasters that can recharge and fire faster.  After launching awesome streams of destruction from a Viper, it was hard to go back to 2 shots per second and running dry halfway through a dogfight in X-Wing.  Shooting is just fun and should be encouraged, though I do like the first shot being more powerful mechanic.
 
3) An awesome asteroid field chase!

[chief1983]

Ships will definitely fly different than either FS2 or BtRL, I'm not sure about fast acceleration, but glide is a big no.

The fire rate is something that will be quite different than most have ever seen, we're looking at doing a burst fire, in which most guns deplete very quickly, but charge back within moment, causing you to control your fire bursts, but still give you a high ROF when you do fire.  You just won't be able to stream aim for too long, and good aim will really pay off.

Asteroids at some point are probably a given, it is Star Wars.

[Flipside]

Something that was really missed from the Star Wars games was the real ability to 'skim' along the surface of a Star Destroyer or something, popping turrets.

At least with Auto-Aim you won't have to be actually flying directly towards the target ship in order to do it

[chief1983]

Yup, that's going to help that out a lot I think.  Most fighters will have at least some degree of an autoaim FOV cone, to compensate for the incredibly precise hit boxes, unlike the giant blob you had to hit for a fighter in XvT.  You'll still have to lock that turret though, although I think I want to code that away too.  Have it just aim for the nearest object in the reticle if there's not a targeted item in the cone.

[LordMelvin]

... Have it just aim for the nearest object in the reticle if there's not a targeted item in the cone.

Probably something you've already thought of, but what are the odds on getting a quasi-preferential autotarget, such that if there's a friendly x-wing in the center of the targeting array, and a hostile tie right behind it, but also in the target cone, we shoot the tie and not the x-wing? I'm thinking here of Wedges awesome moment in ANH where he almost collides with a friendly craft and blows up the craft behind it, for example. Whether having auto-aim disregard allies entirely or non-targeted allies, or something else, but friendly fire avoidance seems ... important to me.

At least accidental friendly fire. And anyways, that was Quake. And he totally deserved it.

[brandx0]

Perhaps also a reticle to show just what the lasers are shooting at rather than just guessing by their flight path.  Something to let you know what your guns are pointing at.

[chief1983]

Well, maybe we can have the reticle that's already in the center of the hud move around a bit.