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Revision as of 09:18, 10 October 2013

Star Wars: Dark Forces
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Developers
LucasArts
Engines
Jedi
Star Wars: Dark Forces on Wikipedia
Star Wars: Jedi Knight
Subseries of Star Wars
Star Wars: Dark Forces 1995
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II 1997
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith 1998
Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast 2002
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy 2003
Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster 2024

General information

Wookieepedia - A huge wiki dedicated to the Star Wars universe
Steam Users' Forums
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Template:Availability Table

Improvements

Patches

1.2 Update patch

The 1.2 Update patch fixes some issues with the Classic version of Dark Forces (this does not work with the DOS version).

XL Engine port

XL Engine (formerly DarkXL and DaggerXL) is a fan project aimed at porting the Jedi, XnGine and Build engines to modern systems with additional features. Support for Dark Forces is currently in alpha stage.

Jedi Academy mod remake

Dark Forces: A Mod For Jedi Academy was a fan remake for Star Wars: Jedi Knight – Jedi Academy. A demo version containing the first six levels was released in January 2008. Progress then stalled, and the project was cancelled on January 27, 2012.

Game data

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Save game cloud syncing

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Video settings

In-game options menu.

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Input settings

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Remapping

You can change these controls using INSTALL.EXE (KEYCONFI.EXE in the demo) (Or SETUP.EXE)

To access this in the Steam version, open your DOSBox configuration file and change dark.exe to install.exe (change it back once you are done configuring). You can also use DOSBox's built-in keymapper (Ctrl+F1).

Mouse settings cannot be changed in the demo.

DOSBox mouse sensitivity

Instructions

Audio settings

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Issues fixed

Game randomly changes colors

Instructions

Game appears stretched horizontally

Instructions

Run retail version without the CD

Instructions

Update Steam DOSBox version/Run without Steam

Instructions

Enable Steam overlay

Instructions

Run on Mac OS or Linux

Instructions

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) MS-DOS 5.0 (Retail)
Windows 2000 or newer (Steam)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.5 MB free space (Retail)
80 MB free space (Steam)
Video card (GPU) 256-color VGA/MCGA (Retail)
DirectX 5.2 (Steam)