XW-F 6: TIE Fighter: Demonstration

Battle Information

Game platform: X-Wing
Missions: 1
Release date: 2004-10-20
Last updated: 2012-11-03
Creator:

HA Ender mBind

Average rating 0.5
Reviews: 2
Bug reports: 1
Times completed: 6
Comments:

XW port of first TIE mission ever made! Check readme.txt.

Should work for both CD and 95 versions of X-Wing.

Battle Reviews

VA Locke Setzer

1

2023-03-06

This is basically a port of the original demo for TIE Fighter, something an old timer like me has very fond memories of! But, these days, you're probably better off finding the original demo and launching it on DOSBox then trying to play this. Getting the "Fly Imperial Fighters and Transports" to run on modern systems isn't much fun (I used DOSBox to launch the batch file, and still had to re-write some gotos to get it to run). And in this day and age, that patch leaves a lot to be desired - the least being that X-Wing resolves all battle scores as "0" when using Imperial ships, so you can't even submit a proper BSF for completing this mission.


LCM Marek Ny`Irfa

0

2020-09-16

Ehh, I reallly don't see any added value of missions ported from TIE-Fighter. Leave the TIE stuff to TIE, and XW to XW. It's more troublesome with the patch than its worth really. Feel free to skip it until the XW patches get upgraded to work with the EHSP.


Battle Bug Reports

VA Locke Setzer

2023-03-06

It's a known bug for the "Fly Imperial Fighters and Transports" patch, but all scores result in 0 when flying a non-standard ship. Not usually a supporter of delisting missions, but this one may be worth considering just that without a modern patch...


High Scores

Mission: There is no recorded high score

Top Ten

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Battle Completion Statistics

This battle has been flown by 6 pilots a total of 6 times.

X-Wing (SP) Mission

Title:		 TIE Fighter: Demonstration
Missions:	 1
Author:		 SCO-TCT-TCS-PROF/FA Ender mBind/CS-10/SSSD Sovereign
		 (mindb_ender@hotmail.com)
Storyline:	 David Wessman and David Maxwell of Peregrine Software.
Game Platform:	 X-Wing (CD and 95)
Ships:           TIE Fighter
Difficulty:      Tricky

THESE LEVELS ARE NOT MADE, DISTRIBUTED, OR SUPPORTED BY LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY.
ELEMENTS TM & (c) LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY.

Installation 
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X-Wing 95:
0] Download and install the IMP-XW patch according to its own instructions
1] Run full install of the game so the mission files will be on your hard drive. The game will take 
   it's mission information by preference from the harddisc, but might still give a warning. In 
   that case - Ignore. 
2] Locate your X-W Directory and open the folder labeled "Mission", or "Classic" in X-W95. 
   Copy the *.xwi, *.brf files of the custom battle into it. 
3] Create a new pilot based on your pin and the battle's type and name. For example: 2883tc01.plt if
   I would be flying the first XW-TC battle.
4] Fly the first "Historical Combat" mission for the "X-Wing".

XWing CD: 
0] Download and install the IMP-XW patch according to its own instructions
1] Rename Waistem.BRF and Waistem.XWI of this custom mission to XWDEMO.BRF and XWDEMO.XWI
2] Put IMP.XCD, XWDEMO.BRF and XWDEMO.XWI in your new "C:\Mission" folder and use XCD to start X-Wing CD.
3] To activate XCDR go to your X-Wing folder and type the command: XCDR C:\Mission\IMP.XCD
   before launching X-Wing via the "BWING" command. (It is recommended to make a .bat file
   that does this automatically for windows. You can change the XWINGCD.BAT file to do so.)
4] Create a new pilot based on your pin and the battle's type and name. For example: 2883tc01.plt if
   I would be flying the first XW-TC battle.
5] Fly the first "Historical Combat" mission for the "X-Wing".

Description
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This mission is the elusive "TIE Demo" mission, that was part of the flyable demo of 
TIE Fighter and is in fact the first TIE mission ever made, but also in storyline:
It happens just before the first mission of Battle 1 (and the Battle of Hoth) and is 
Mareek Stele's first actual combat mission. All official TIE Fighter missions are part
of the Emperor's Hammer History and this would be the earliest bit.

The Demo actually uses a mix between the X-Wing and the TIE Fighter mission formats:
It has the 48 possible flightgroups of TIE, but like X-Wing it has no included briefing
and it uses a craft slotlist that is closer to that of X-Wing as well - also only
using craft that are in X-Wing: this means this mission can be flown in X-Wing.

Using hex editting I've ported the demo mission completely to the X-Wing mission
format. To finish it off I've added a full modern day animated briefing (the demo doesn't 
have one). Besides the briefing this is a complete port, with all the same craft on the same 
locations doing the same things. Giving you all the chance to play it (again).

For the Glory of the Empire!

NOTE 
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This mission should work for the CD and 95 versions of X-Wing.


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