Star Wars Gamer

Monopoly Star Wars

gordonj — 2006-01-22T14:52:55+00:00

The Monopoly Star Wars review has been updated along with a bunch of new screenshots and some notes on its compatibility.

Empire at War Demo: Part 2

gordonj — 2006-01-20T15:24:19+00:00

We now have the Empire at War demo available for download. Go grab it whilst it's hot. It's a UK based server.

Empire at War Demo

gordonj — 2006-01-18T10:13:08+00:00

GameSpot will be hosting the exclusive world premier of the demo for the upcoming 'Empire At War' title, a RTS set between the events of Episode 3 and 4. After the disapointing 'Force Commander' and the overly complex 'Supremacy' have LucasArts got it right this time, we're certainly hoping so.

The demo will be available from 9AM PST (5PM GMT) today from GameSpot. A free signup is required. The demo is 742Mb and if you're not a premium subscriber you're looking at about a day to download the demo.

Update: The demo is also available from download.com.

Starfighter: Reviewed

gordonj — 2006-01-08T14:15:46+00:00

I've just put up a review of Starfighter, the Episode 1 arcade shooter. There's the usual review, screenshots, cheats for the PC version, demo again for the PC, and some notes on compatibility.

The Clone Wars: Reviewed

gordonj — 2005-12-30T20:57:58+00:00

Having recently acquired a GameCube and a video capture device I thought I'd write some reviews for the GC games. First up is The Clone Wars.

There's a review, some screenshots, cheats for the GC and for the first time here at swgamer some videos of the game.

Unfortunately the videos are only available in Windows Media Version 9 at the moment, hopefully I'll add some QuickTime formatted ones once I can work out how to convert them in a way that doesn't result in 100Mb files.

Coming soon, probably in the next few months, coverage of 'Star Wars: Lego', 'Republic Commando', and the newer 'Rogue Squadron' games.

Front page updated

gordonj — 2005-12-30T20:52:16+00:00

As you'll notice the front page has now been updated to the new design. I've reorganised the games into genre rather than series as it makes more sense for the newer games.

I hope you like the new layout, if you've got any comments please mail us at webmaster@swgamer.com.

Xbox 360 Compatibility

gordonj — 2005-12-29T12:26:15+00:00

The Xbox 360 has been in the shops for a while, although with very limited availability, and no doubt found its way into many a home this christmas. A dozen Star Wars games were released for the original Xbox, some of these will play on the new 360 and some aren't officially supported and so probably won't play.

These titles are officially supported:

Episode III Revenge of the Sith
Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Starfighter Special Edition
Knights of the Old Republic
Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

And these ones didn't make the cut:

Battlefront
Battlefront II
The Clone Wars
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Jedi Starfighter
Obi-Wan
Republic Commando

You can find the full official list here.

Rebel Assault: Mac Demo

gordonj — 2005-12-20T17:49:56+00:00

A demo for the Apple Mac release of Rebel Assault is now available for download. You'll need the classic environment installed if you want to try it on OS X.

Direct linking to downloads

gordonj — 2005-12-20T17:47:34+00:00

Some sites, which will remain nameless, have started to link directly to the patches and demos available for download from this site. Please don't do that, it uses up our valuable bandwidth without crediting the source. As you may have noticed this site contains no adverts and has no incoming revenue stream, we cannot afford to subsidise bandwidth for other sites.

Feel free to link to the page containing the links to the downloads, eg pages named demo_??.shtml. We move our demo/patch hosting around from time to time as we rely on generous offers to host the downloads for free. If you link directly to the downloads you'll find your link might break at some point in the future.

Those of you with links already in place will find that users visiting from your site will be automatically redirected to the relevent page.

Or you could just download the demo and host it yourself...

Rebel Assault: Mac and 3DO

gordonj — 2005-12-14T13:31:31+00:00

I've recently acquired the Mac and 3DO versions of Rebel Assault. I've added the cheats and codes for both Mac and 3DO versions along with some screenshots of the 3DO version. The compatibility page has also been updated.

Yoda Stories on Windows XP

gordonj — 2005-12-02T16:57:36+00:00

Alex emailed in to ask about Yoda Stories compatibility on Windows XP. After a bit of investigation it seems it is possible to get it to run. Just follow the following steps.

Download an updated WavMix dll from here http://www.compuphase.com/wavemix180.zip, for info click here
Unzip that file and copy the wavemix32.dll over the version that exists in your Yoda Stories directory.
Right click on the 'YODESK.EXE' file in your install directory, click properties. Choose the compatibility tab then tick all the check boxes and select 'Windows 95' for the compatibility mode.
Now start the game as normal and it should run. You may be able to untick the '640x480' and '256 Colour' options, just experiment and see what works for you

Pit Droids: A lick of paint

gordonj — 2005-10-17T22:36:35+00:00

We've given the Pit Droids a lick of paint with a new review, some more screenshots and some details on it's compatiblity on modern platforms.

Rebel Assault: Mega CD

gordonj — 2005-10-16T00:22:56+00:00

I've recently picked up a copy of Rebel Assault for the Sega Mega CD from EBay so I've updated the cheats to include the Mega CD codes and there's a few more screenshots, taken using the Kega emulator.

New Site Design: First Look - Rebel Assault

gordonj — 2005-10-12T23:58:56+00:00

Today brings the first new content to Star Wars Gamer in over five years. We've been working away to redevelop the back end of the site to create a much more flexible and manageable infrastructure. Hopefully this will enable us to bring you more detailed content more quickly and more easily.

Rebel Assault is the first game to be converted over to the new system and with it there's a new review, 23 new screenshots, a new strategy guide and some details on its compatibility on modern platforms.

The design is pretty much the same as it was before but the tabels have gone and have been replaced with CSS. Even after all these years we still believe the design meets its goals of easy navigation and page size. It also renders well in text based browsers.

If you're interested in how the back end works it's powered by AxKit which is an XML pipelining engine. Basically the details for each game will be stored in one or two XML files, these are then passed through a XSLT stylesheet to produce the final page. This should reduce the number of files required to build the site from over 300 to about 20.

If you've got any comments, we'd love to hear them, drop us an email.

Rebel Assault Demo

gordonj — 2005-09-22T12:36:54+00:00

A bit of a rarity for you here, I've found a pre-release demo for the ancient action-on-rails shooter 'Rebel Assault'. Coming from the era of 386 and early 486 gaming it's a blast from the past, the graphics are terrible and the gameplay lacks variety but it's interesting non the less. Check out the demo page for more details.