Gipsy Danger
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Link to the game page would be nice
I sometimes wish Chris Roberts could get a hold of the Star Wars franchise and make a proper flight sim game within this Universe. Would be ..... amazing. Just look at Star Citizen and imagine that within the SW universe.
Logitech Extreme 3D Pro will do you good. It's not built for a game as detail-oriented as Falcon 4.0, but for space-sims it's great.Can anyone recommend a inexpensive joystick for these games? I really miss playing them that way. A 360 controller seems to work ok but would much prefer a stick.
We'll I played many, many hours of these two games back in the 90's and I exclusively used a mouse and KB. It was kinda ridiculous to swipe.. lift to opposite side, repeat, repeat, in order to make fast turns.. but it was still super fun. Basically when you cease mouse movement, the ship is oriented straight ahead.How do these play with a mouse and keyboard?? I played the shit out of TIE Fighter back when I was like 12, I had a joystick at the time. I don't have a wired controller to hook up to my laptop though.
I am conflicted over which version to play, especially since saves aren't shared. The DOS version has the better cutscenes and original fantastic MIDI music.....but the Windows version has better graphics, controls, and music lifted from the movies.
The DOS version is the original release, not the Collectors Edition (which is what it should be), so it's missing the voice acting, the expansions, and the SVGA resolution, and more, so the choice is almost decided for you. Windows version, or wait until GOG puts in the DOS Collector's version. That is, if you're talking about TIE Fighter of course, which I seem to just carelessly assume everyone is lately.
Wait, they didn't give us the DOS CD version of Tie Fighter? Yikes. Guess I won't lose my disk after all.
Do we know that the DOS versions are going to be for sale?
Logitech Extreme 3D Pro will do you good. It's not built for a game as detail-oriented as Falcon 4.0, but for space-sims it's great.
If there was a remake of X-Wing and/or TIE-Fighter with current-gen graphics and full Oculus Rift/Morpheus support I'd play nothing else for the next years.
That shouldn't be an obstacle: 8 buttons (incl. R+L triggers) + 4 dpad directions + Select button are already 13 buttons. You could add the right analog stick and the R3 and L3 buttons and thus get 19 "buttons". L and R triggers could also be used as modifiers for whole new sets of button functions.anyway a current-gen 'tie-fighter' has to work with the limited amount of buttons on a gamepad controller
Saw these two guides posted on GOG's forums, for people looking to get their controllers/joysticks working (and just general setup instructions):
Guide: Play X-Wing Series on a Modern Windows PC (with 360/PS3/Joystick controls) (this guide also goes over updating the voice overs to better quality, and updating the music to a better sounding one in the Window release)
How to get TIE Fighter: Collector's CD running in DOSbox
My guide . I haven't tried it but I'm guessing you can use the same methods on the GOG edition to get the 360 controller working on it.
I've got the Tie Fighter Reconstructed mod for the GOG Edition ready to be released. It restores DOS Soundtrack in high quality, including the battle music (non-dynamic) and parts of the game which were stripped of music such as the registration screen and the briefing map, and also restores the higher quality speech from the DOS CD edition of the game.
I think its going to take me a few days to get it permanently hosted on our site, but if anyone has any suggestions for a temporary host (mediafire, mega?), I can upload it and post the link for people to enjoy right now!
X-Wing Alliance was fantastic: so much variety and depth, but easily accessible. Once you get into the mechanics, it's hard to go back to Rogue Squadron.
My guide . I haven't tried it but I'm guessing you can use the same methods on the GOG edition to get the 360 controller working on it.
I've got the Tie Fighter Reconstructed mod for the GOG Edition ready to be released. It restores DOS Soundtrack in high quality, including the battle music (non-dynamic) and parts of the game which were stripped of music such as the registration screen and the briefing map, and also restores the higher quality speech from the DOS CD edition of the game.
I think its going to take me a few days to get it permanently hosted on our site, but if anyone has any suggestions for a temporary host (mediafire, mega?), I can upload it and post the link for people to enjoy right now!
Would it be possible to put the original interactive music into the Windows version?
as someone who owns both tie fighter versions, I am surprised so many people are so upset about the soundtrack differences. the OST in the newer version may not be as clever but it is high quality and makes me proud to be imperial every time I hear it.
What, no X-Wing Alliance? That was always my favorite one.
Wouldn't something like dropbox work, or a google drive link? You'd probably want to make a dummy (non-personal) account though I suppose.
Don't worry though, if it takes a few days that's fine. Thanks for putting it together!
Not without reprogramming the game I believe, if it weren't difficult it'd probably have been done by now. Still, it sounds like at least using the music originally created for the game instead of randomly dropping in John Williams is a nice step in the right direction, and the Windows version does play the appropriate song for the events happening on the screen I believe, it just doesn't mix it in realtime like imuse does.
I have a feeling they may not release it, or if they do, it will be severely compromised. They just straight up disabled 3D acceleration in these games, which isn't too big of a hit because X-Wing, Tie Fighter and XvT look pretty much the same in 3D and Software mode, but the difference is HUGE with X-Wing Alliance. If they re-release that game, hopefully it's a proper re-release.
[*]Re-orchestrated music tracks by Daniel 'Yitzchak' Bennett based on the DOS version of Tie Fighter. This restores the awesome original soundtrack of Tie Fighter (which was removed from the Windows version in favour of John Williams' score). However, it is not dynamic like the DOS version.
[*]Menu music is MUCH higher quality
I still have this POS that I had as a young kid playing X-Wing.
Time to see if it still works, lol.