In-game cheats

The use of in-game cheats is allowed when flying Emperor's Hammer missions.

This page documents their effects.

TIE Fighter

TIE has unlimited weapons and invulnerability cheats. Using either will reduce the score by 90%

X-Wing vs TIE Fighter and Balance of Power

XvT/BoP has the option of using unlimited waves where your flight group will endlessly respawn. Enabling this results in a score of 0 being recorded and no information about the completion time is saved.

Scores of 0 result in the pilot file requiring TAC approval before it is accepted.

X-Wing Alliance

XWA has unlimited weapons and invulnerability cheats. Using invulnerability will reduce the score by 90%.

Note: unlimited weapons does not affect the score. If you wanted to run a competition that forced players not to use it, including a severe penalty for each warhead fire and doing a custom scoring system is perhaps the best option. This would somewhat reduce the benefit of using the cheat, but not prevent it entirely.

X-Wing

X-Wing has unlimited weapons' and invulnerability cheats. Using either results in no score being recorded in the pilot file.

Note: the post-mission debrief screen shows an unchanged score. This is inaccurate - no score is actually recorded.

Note: because no score is recorded, you effectively cannot fly the tour of duty with cheats as you can never progress to the second mission.