![]() Unfortunately that means the game is going to tell you to hit the spacebar while you have a controller in your hand, so you'll have to do some mental remapping as well. If this is your first time playing X-Wing or TIE Fighter and you decide to follow this guide, I highly recommend you go through some (if not all) of the flight school tutorials in the game. So let's get started: Control Overviewįirst things first, regardless of how you play these games, you're going to have to memorize a lot of controls, and putting them on a gamepad doesn't really help matters much. The controls of these games are pretty damned unintuitive even in their native form, so although I did everything I could to make the controls as easy to use as possible, they're still going to take a whole lot of explaining. Select this configuration, turn on your controller, and then start the game! You're good to go! You should see a configuration called "Xwing TIE Fighter": Place the config file in the Joy2Key folder, then run Joy2Key. Setting Up Your Controllerĭownload Joy2Key and extract it to a folder, then feel free to download my custom controller config file. So either bail out now or buckle the hell in, cause here we go. But if you're willing to play the versions with slightly-lesser graphics and no VO, then on with the show.Īlso in case you haven't noticed already, this is going to take a while. ![]() So if you really want to play the 1998 versions then none of this guide will apply, sorry about that. The controller remap problem notwithstanding I actually recommend playing the '93-'94 versions anyway, there isn't a significant difference in the graphics, and personally I prefer the original midi soundtrack over the standard-issue Redbook audio Star Wars soundtracks any day. And since those joystick buttons are not able to be remapped, I'm not sure it'll be possible to make a controller workable in the 1998 versions, though if you have a solution please post in the comments. UPDATE: Based on feedback in the comments, it would seem that this setup will not work in the 1998 editions, which I'm guessing is due to the fact that it auto-detects at least eight joystick buttons compared to the originals release's four. To my knowledge the controls are identical in both editions, so I see no reason why this setup shouldn't work for all versions of the game. ![]() I've tested these controls on the '93-'94 versions of the games, but my computer doesn't seem to appreciate GOG's Windows 95 launcher, so I haven't been able to test the CD-Rom versions. But feel free to follow along in whatever remapping software you like though it goes without saying that your results may vary. I really like Joy2Key, it's extremely easy to use and set up. If you're not familiar with Joy2Key, it's a piece of shareware software that does exactly what you'd expect it to, you can download it here for free. So far I've completed the first set of TIE fighter missions using these controls, and while the handling can be a little unwieldy, all things considered it works pretty well.īefore we start, I should make it abundantly clear that neither X-Wing or TIE Fighter allows you to remap your controls in-game, so I'm using Joy2Key to remap my Xbox 360 controller. But if you're like me and a flight stick isn't really a great option, and you just want to give a controller a shot, I'd like to recommend the following control scheme. That's the way the game was intended to be played, after all. To be absolutely clear, this is not the ideal way to play these games, and if a flight stick & keyboard is feasible for you, that will absolutely be your best bet. So given the new-found interest in these games, my hope is that making them (somewhat) playable on a controller might just make them a bit more accessible, so I just thought I'd share. The very idea of playing X-Wing or TIE Fighter on a controller seemed completely absurd.īut is it? After thinking it over all day Tuesday, and after a few failed attempts to cram the incredibly complex X-Wing/TIE Fighter control scheme onto an Xbox 360 controller without turning my hands into a pretzel, I eventually managed to find a configuration that I think works pretty well. One thing I did know for certain, having played the game for countless hours as a lad, was that the controls were far too complex to map to a gamepad. What am I supposed to do, dig out my old Gravis and put it on a dinner tray? Play on my shitty little laptop and let my big screen go to waste? As incredibly excited as I was to play these games again, I just wasn't sure what I was going to do control-wise. ![]() With X-Wing and TIE Fighter having been unexpectedly re-released this week, and me with my gaming PC in my living room hooked up to my TV, I found myself in a bit of a pickle regarding how I should play two of my favorite PC games of all time.
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