TIE Fighter Custom Audio

Audio files in TIE Fighter (for its CD and Remastered editions only) provide audio for briefings, debriefings, and in-flight radio messages. These files can be modified to provide custom audio files, which in turn can allow mission creators to accompany their custom missions with audio that matches their own custom briefings and in-flight radio messages.

This page serves as a guide on how to configure custom audio files for TIE Fighter, as well as an explanation for how audio files work in TIE Fighter.

Limitations

TIE Fighter CD vs. TIE Fighter Remastered

Audio is available in both TIE Fighter CD and TIE Fighter Remastered (95/98); however, only in TIE Fighter Remastered are the audio files stored on the user's hard drive. While it is possible to use custom audio on TIE Fighter CD, it would necessitate creating a new CD image / ISO with the updated files, or using a tool (such as XCDR) that could swap files from being read on the hard drive instead of on the disk. As both scenarios require considerable effort, this page will focus explicitly on the installation of custom audio for TIE Fighter Remastered, even though the steps and information would also apply to TIE Fighter CD in most cases.

Sixteen Radio Messages

By design, TIE Fighter only supports 16 in-flight radio messages (not counting mission complete/failure messages). While there are mixed results with having messages above this limit in TIE Fighter Remastered, this is not supported, and under no circumstances will function with audio messages.

Secret Order Debriefing Audio

Audio for the Secret Order member in TIE Fighter is hard-coded to run based on whether the ***secondary*** mission objectives are successful or not. It does not matter what the mission itself has been coded to display.

For example, a mission that has been configured for the Secret Order member to reply when the primary objectives are complete will play the audio for secondary objectives failed if the secondary objectives were not completed (or did not exist).

In general, this speaks to a standard principal: TIE Fighter is expecting certain standard behaviors when it comes to what audio is played, and anything outside of the standard game experience is unlikely to function as desired.