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This instructional video will teach you how to install Tie Fighter Special Edition on Wine with the enhanced voices and music restored. Basically this how to get the BEST version of that particular Tie Fighter game (not the 1995 one Collectors CD). This is specifically for the 1998 CD version with the texture-mapped graphics and the John Williams soundtrack. I do demonstrate Battle 1, Mission 2 from start to finish just to show you what you'll be working with.

My ISO is older than some of you have been alive. It is NOT the GOG install, but GOG does sell this version of Tie Fighter as part of their Restoration Project for old games. The GOG version says that it supports Ubuntu. I'm not sure if that means it supports it natively. As I said, my version of this game is OLD. Possibly older than GOG. All relevant links will be included below. I hope you will enjoy this video and also playing this game. I'm not done yet. I plan to run a lot more games on Wine after seeing how smoothly this game runs and how well it works. I was using an Xbox compatible controller just so you know that it works, even on Linux. But you MUST use both joystick and keyboard. The control setup is complicated, but this is the ONLY way to play Tie Fighter. Quick tip: The "K" key during flight will give you every keyboard control you will ever need.

UPDATE COMPARISON:

I just got back from my friend's house who happens to have the GOG version installed. He said he modified nothing at all. The exe file was a completely different CRC than the Tie Fighter Music Fix exe. Much of the music did not play. (He is using Linux, so that could be a Linux issue) The GOG version did have the DirectX 11 Wrapper. It also uses the OGG fix for music, however the OGG files are 192 bitrate. I tested the OGG files that I create in this video, and they are 499 bitrate. (Thank you SoX!)
The modifications that I show you to use in this video will make your version of Tie Fighter 98 the most Linux-compatible version it can be.

All relevant links are in the text below. If you need any help with any of this procedure, watch the video. It is clearly explained.

Relevant links:

GOG Tie Fighter Special Edition currently $9.99
https://www.gog.com/en/game/star_wars_tie_fighter_special_edition

Github page for X-Wing Ddraw D3D11
https://github.com/rdoeffinger/xwa_ddraw_d3d11/releases

Tie Fighter Resources for music and video:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=79295

Install Instructions for GCDemu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cdemu/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gcdemu

After mounting cue file with CDemu, you must do this:

1) Go into cdemu, click on device write down device for SCSI CDROM device, example: /dev/sr1 (but you have to use YOUR device name)
2) Go to commandline and enter these commands:
sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom
sudo mount /dev/sr1 /mnt/cdrom

Use sox to convert WAVs from CD:

Installation:
sudo apt install sox libsox-fmt-mp3

Batch processing:
for f in *.wav; do sox "$f" -C 10 "${f%.wav}.ogg"; done