TIE Fighter

Star Wars: TIE Fighter

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This article is about the DOS/Windows game. For the Imperial starfighter, see Empire starfighters.

A sequel to X-wing and still considered one of the best computer space-sims over a decade since it's original release.

The TIE Fighter game places the player in the role of one of the many fighter pilots flying for the Empire in the years following the destruction of the first Death Star. Though the missions involve simple civil unrest on the Outer Rim, later missions are fought against the Rebellion and even a splinter Imperial faction which attempts a coup d'etat against the Emperor. Many notable Star Wars characters make appearances, including Grand Admiral Thrawn and Darth Vader.

An upgraded version built around the XvT graphics engine was released in 1998 but was later found to have severe issues when combined with 3D Accelerators under Windows XP. Fortunately a compatibility patch XP users was created by fans, and can be found at: http://www.lucasfiles.com/index.php?action=file&id=653

Instructions for playing custom missions in Tie Fighter

For missions WITH OUT a BATTLE1.LFD file included.

All versions of Tie Fighter will use this same method.

Goto where you in stalled your copy of Tie Fighter, and navigate to the mission folder. Rename B1M1FM.TIE to B1M1FM.ORG. This will save the origional mission so you can fly it again later. You just have to rename it back to B1M1FM.TIE.

To install a custom mission, download the mission you wish to fly and rename it as B1M1FM.TIE and place it in your Mission folder. Now you can create a new pilot file and fly the first mission in the first tour of duty. This will now allow you to play the new custom mission. For mission WITH a custom BATTLE1.LFD file included

If your custom mission has a BATTLE1.LFD File included, follow the instructions below.

Navigate to where you installed TIE Fighter, and select the RESCOURCE folder. There find and rename BATTLE1.LFD to BATTLE1.ORG. Copy the new custom BATTLE1>LFD into this folder

The new custom mission will have a different filename (eg. R2F905.tie). DO NOT RENAME IT. Leave it as is and copy that file into your MISSION folder.

After you complete those steps, start the game and create a new pilot and play the first mission of the first tour of duty in game, there you begin the custom mission.

Links

from http://ho.rebelsquadrons.org/new_projects/game_info/tief

MobyGames http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId=240/

Screenshots, hints, tips: http://members.tripod.com/~stanislavs/games/tie.htm

http://www.cdaccess.com/html/pc/tiefight.htm

Extensive reviews of TIE Fighter http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue20/greviews/tie.html http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue21/editor/tierev.html

All versions of the X-Wing trilogy http://www.totallygames.com/games/xwing.htm

Two Custom missions http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/chalex/Tiefight.htm <currently down>

Mac review: http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/tiefighter.shtml

TIE Fighter Game Builder: http://www.winwins.com/tgb/

Special Operations Squadron (many editors): http://membres.lycos.fr/sosleader/links.htm

Library files (missions and editors): http://www.benimar.com/black_knights/library.htm

Gamers' Workshop: http://grafix.tripod.com/cheat.htm

Omega Squadron: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/1945/hq.htm

Several custom missions: http://softlyspokenmagicspells.com/tie.html