ASF: Tarkin

ASF: Tarkin is a X-Wing Vs TIE Fighter Single player add-on that gives you 20 new missions, new flyable ships, and improved capital ship behavior. Its totally free, no license no nothing!

The story driven missions follows the struggle of control over Yoti controlled space. Rebel friendly Yoti politicians used the shock of the Rebel victory at Endor to gain control of the Yoti parliament, but the Yoti Imperialist Party haven't given up and neither have the Imperials. Grand Admiral Thrawn have sent the Advanced Strike Force: Tarkin to recapture the system. 

You can freely download ASF: Tarkin and/or give it away to any friend that have an ORIGINAL! copy of XvT, the exe file found in this add on is a version of the original exe file so Lukasarts owns the copyright to it, you can't legally download this file if you don't own a original version of XvT.

If you have a pirate version of  XvT and installs this upgrade then you will most likely reinstall the copy protection and the game would not work anymore, so hands off!

For Multiplayer gamers: You can't use a Tarkin upgraded game when playing against normal XvT users. But this isn't a big problem, simply put the normal z_xvt__.exe file and the Tarkin z_xvt__.exe file into two separated folders, then copy the appropriate exe file into the XvT main directory when you want to change game style. The 'opt project' where i got my E-Wing from are currently working on a XvT launcher that lets you chose which exe file you want to use, I'll make a link to it as soon as it is finished. If you accidentally chooses to fly a Tarkin added ship while running the normal exe file the game will inform you it can't find a file and lock up, press 'F' to exit to windows then copy the Tarkin exe into XvT's main directory and restart the game.

(Q: I installed ASF: Tarkin before taking a copy of my original z_xvt__.exe file, what should i do?

A: You have the original exe file on the CD, simply copy it back onto the HD. You also have to turn of its write protection, so that you can overwrite it with the Tarkin exe. Click on the exe file with the right mouse button, chose 'Properties' and deselect the write protection.)

Please remember that you have the entire XvT game on your CD, whatever you do to the copy on your Hard Drive the original unchanged file can be found on the CD. Copy the original file back onto the HD and turn of the write protection.

WARNING: ASF Tarkin will probably not work on a minimum installed XvT. I don't know how Tarkin will behave if you use a XvT 3D upgrade, it might disconnect the upgrade. Check if the 3D upgrade file contains a z_xvt__.exe file, if it doesn't then you could try to reinstall the 3D upgrade. If it contains the exe file then you just have to chose witch upgrade to keep, or you could use a ship editor to give the 3D exe the same ship values as the Tarkin exe has.

I have divided this game into two seperat ZIP files and three smal lst files.

Tarkin.zip 1 383 kb

Tar-opt.zip 583 kb (read below before downloading)

Rebel.lst 2 kb

Imperial.lst 2kb

Missions.lst 2 kb (i don't know if you need this,but it's only 2 kb so who cares)

Tar-opt.zip

If you want to you can ignore the Tar-opt.zip file and instead go into XvT's Ivfiles directory and copy and rename the following files.

Original file name - Copy and rename to

Conc.opt - Contain.opt
Tieadv.opt - Tiedel.opt
Assault.opt - Mislbt.opt
Freight.opt - Frtc.opt

To copy and rename the files do this: Press once on the file to copy, go into the 'Edit' menu on top of the Window and select 'Copy', the menu will automatically close so re-enter the menu and press 'Past'. You will now have a new file in the Ivfiles directory called 'Copy of -file name-', press once on this file, wait a second and then press once more. The cursor should now blink at the end of the file name, use the 'Back arrow' key to erase the name, type in the new name and press 'enter'.

If you chose to download the Tar-opt.zip file then simply unpack the files into XvT's 'Ivfiles' directory.

Tarkin.Zip

The Tarkin.zip file should contain the following:

<Combat> 20 .tie mission files
<Data> ship.dat
<Frontres> Spec640.lst, frntspec.lst
<Ivfiles> contain.opt, tiedel.opt, mislbt.opt, frtc.opt
z_xvt__.exe
fronttex.txt
specdesc.txt
strings.txt
read-me.htm (read-me.htm is this file, your reading it now!)

Load Tarkin.zip into Winzip (or another zip prog), click on the Extract icon. Use the 'Extract to' or 'Folders/Drives' directory window to locate the XvT main directory (you should see a list of folders named: Battle, Combat, Data, Frontres ect...). The folowing options should be marked, 'All Files', 'Overwrite Existing Files' and 'Use Folder Names'. Click on extract to finish instaling Tarkin.zip.

The .lst Files

If ASF: Tarkin are the first missions you add to XvT then simply copy the 3 'lst' files into the 'combat' directory of XvT.

(The lst files are identical as all missions can be played by both sides, so if one is missing then just copy and rename one of the others, see the Tar-opt.zip part above to learn how to copy and rename files.)

If you already have custom missions added to XvT then use the notepad to copy the ASF: Tarkin part of one of my 'lst' files, then simply past it back at the end of your own 'lst' files and change the ID numbers to some that are unused in your 'lst' files.

(To copy the Tarkin part: Load one of my lst files into notepad. Press and hold the left mouse button at the beginning of the ASF: Tarkin headline, look for '//'. While holding the mouse button pressed move the mouse down until you reach the end of the file (make sure all the text is marked), now let go of the mouse button. Go to the Edit menu on top of the window and click on 'Copy'. Close the file and load one of your own lst files, go to the end of the file, select the Edit menu and click 'Past'. Check if the ID numbers are already used or not, if they are used then change the numbers so all missions have their own number. (they don't have to be in any particular order), save the file and load the next of your lst files and repeat the 'Past' part.)

That's it XvT should now have plenty of new ships to fly, 20 new missions and fast and dangerous capital ships.