Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
Here's a neat discovery: one of the groups working on an AI remake of Wing Commander Privateer made a great discovery during the course of their work: some of the secret command line switches used to QA test the original game! These allow a player to jump from the DOS parser right to any location in the game with any amount of money in the bank. Pretty fun! Command line switches are well documented in some games, like Wing Commander I and II, but less so on others like Wing Commander Academy. And like this discovery, some have only recently been found! The Wing Commander Armada cheat discovered by AllTinker, for instance, was truly astounding!
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Original update published on October 25, 2026
Hello my friends, while working on my Privateer project I discovered these undocumented command line switches for PRIV.EXE:
Example to skip intro and start in Oxford with 100000 credits:
PRIV 1.3 -K -B39 -D100000
For Righteous Fire you have to add the letter "r" somewhere, e.g. at the end:
PRIV 1.3 -K -B39 -D100000 r
Description:
1.3 first, exactly as written: without it the game ignores all of these switches.
-K skips the intro.
-B39 starts you at Oxford (base 39).
-D100000 sets your credits to 100,000.
No space after the letter: -B39, not -B 39.
When they apply: -B and -D only take effect after you pick "New Game" or "Load" in the main menu, and they override the save's base and credits.
List of all bases/planets, time to visit the Derelict Base (59) again:
-B - Base - Type
0 - Achilles - Mining
1 - Anapolis - Refinery
2 - Basque - Mining
3 - Basra - Refinery
4 - Beaconsfield - Refinery
5 - Bodensee - Agricultural
6 - Burton - Agricultural
7 - Charon - Mining
8 - Drake - Pirate
9 - Edinburgh - Refinery
10 - Edom - Agricultural
11 - Elysia - Agricultural
12 - Erewhon - Pleasure
13 - Glasgow - Refinery
14 - Gracchus - Refinery
15 - Hector - Mining
16 - Heimdel - Agricultural
17 - Helen - Agricultural
18 - Jolson - Pleasure
19 - Joplin - Refinery
20 - Kronecker - Mining
21 - Lisacc - Mining
22 - Liverpool - Refinery
23 - Macabee - Mining
24 - Magdaline - Pleasure
25 - Matahari - Pleasure
26 - Meadow - Refinery
27 - Megiddo - Pirate
28 - Mjolnar - Agricultural
29 - Munchen - Refinery
30 - N1912-1 - Pleasure
31 - New Constantinople - Special
32 - New Detroit - Special
33 - New Iberia - Agricultural
34 - New Reno - Pleasure
35 - Nitir - Agricultural
36 - Oakham - Pirate
37 - Olympus - Pleasure
38 - Oresville - Agricultural
39 - Oxford - Special
40 - Palan - Agricultural
41 - Perry Naval Base - Special
42 - Remus - Refinery
43 - Rilke - Refinery
44 - Rodin - Agricultural
45 - Romulus - Mining
46 - Rygannon - Mining
47 - Saratov - Mining
48 - Siva - Agricultural
49 - Smallville - Pirate
50 - Speke - Pleasure
51 - Surtur - Agricultural
52 - Thisbury - Refinery
53 - Trinsic - Agricultural
54 - Tuck's - Pirate
55 - Valkyrie - Mining
56 - Victoria - Agricultural
57 - Vishnu - Mining
58 - Wickerton - Refinery
59 - Derelict Base - Special (Privateer only)
60 - Gaea - Agricultural (RF only)
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Original update published on October 25, 2026