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The Force Engine

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Overview

Introduced in 1995 by Ports, the The Force Engine was a port system. It is grouped with ports titles in EmulationStation. Its platform tag is pc for proper filtering.

Technical specifications

  • Manufacturer: Ports
  • Release year: 1995
  • Hardware type: port
  • Platform tag: pc
  • EmulationStation group: ports

Supported ROM extensions

tfe

Emulators

  • theforceengine (theforceengine) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_THEFORCEENGINE

Notes

The Force Engine (TFE) uses the games files from older LucasArts games like Dark Forces & soon Outlaws. To use TFE, you need to do the following:

  1. Install the game you wish to use with The Force Engine in Windows (Steam or GOG receommended)
  2. In this example, go to your C:\GOG folder and copy the Star Wars - Dark Forces folder to your roms/theforceengine folder.
  3. Create an initial file with a tfe extension, like so: Star Wars - Dark Forces.tfe.
  4. Update you games list in EmulationStation and the game should be available under Ports.

Mods:

Mods have to be installed into the /userdata/system/configs/theforceengine/Mods folder. The mod files should be in zip format only. To launch directly into your mod, create a file in the roms/theforceengine folder with the .tfe extension. Again choose the name which makes sense, i.e. the mod game / level name. i.e. Assasssination at Nar Shaddaa.tfe

Then edit the file with the name of the mod zip file only. i.e. aons_modern.zip

Update the games list and you can now launch the mod directly.

A good source of missions to try are available here: https://df-21.net/downloads/levels/

Dark Forces HD Textures:

To use HD textures you need to have a copy of the Remaster version of the games also. Copy the enhanced.gob file from the Remaster installation into the previous Star Wars - Dark Forces folder.

Notes:

It is important to use the exact directory name above. A keyboard and mouse / touchscreen is required to create the initial user profile & game start.

Source data: REG Linux emulationstation/es-system/es_systems.yml