Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (Windows)

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Also known as: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D Developers: Factor 5, LucasArts Publisher: LucasArts Platform: Windows Released in US: December 3, 1998 Released in EU: December 3, 1998 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has a hidden sound test. This game has revisional differences.

Taking place after the events of A New Hope, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron is the video game where you fly around doing missions in various aircraft, and get some side story on Rogue Squadron itself along with Kasan Moor joining the New Republic. If you have played Shadows of the Empire, you may realize that this game is based on the success of its Battle of Hoth level.

Unused Graphics

This background image was used for the title screen of Rogue Squadron on N64, but goes unused here.

Development Text

Throughout the main executable are file directories.

D:\Scoundrel\Code\RoguePC\src\ai\ai.c
D:\Scoundrel\Code\roguePC\DbgFinal\RoguePC_dbgfinal.pdb
DbgFinal/RoguePC_dbgfinal.exe

At 0x239E4C is documentation of a decompression tool used by the developers.

FlobDec-Blocky16 Module: Cannot allocate memory services.

Blocky16-Tile
Decompresses a block16-tile video frame.

This module decompresses the block16-tile compressed animations used in Outlaws, Monkey Island III, and Shadows of the Empire PC. 
Images are deltad, so they must be decompressed sequentially from frame 0.

Music Test

Enter MAESTRO into the passcode option. It allows listening to the entire MusyX-composed Star Wars soundtrack through the High Scores menu, in the Concert Hall.

Revision Differences

The v1.2 patch included the Naboo Starfighter in addition to fixing a problem related to graphical corruption with a 3D accelerator card in 3DFX chipsets.