Pincushion's Starsiege Archive

The links here were broken for a few months. I apologize, they're fixed now. For convenience I've also gathered all the individual skins into a single pack.

  Pincushion
  27 April 2007

This is a repository of large files I consider some of the most essential (though technically optional) elements of the Starsiege experience. When Starsiege was first released in the Spring of 1999 many of these files appeared in various places on the net and, over the years now, have slowly disappeared again. This page was created to preserve these gems for the benefit of those who still play and for those who have yet to start. Enjoy!

  Pincushion
  12 December 2001

Windows 2000 Installer

To install 1.000 on a Win2K machine place the Starsiege CD in your drive and then run this program (3.6MB). (Note: I've never used this installer, so I can't answer questions about it.)

Patches

These will upgrade a pristine 1.000 install to various version levels. Version 1.004 is required for play on most public servers, but older versions can be valuable for various reasons.

S1TO1002_StarsiegePatch.EXE (538KB)
s1000to1003_usa.exe (1.3MB)
s1000to1004_usa.exe (1.4MB)

Skin Packs

Get all the skins in Pin's Starsiege Skin Pack (64.0MB) or download the following original files individually.

Kamosa (Starsiege devteam member and ex-Dynamix webmaster) gathered several packs of community-created skins:

Skin Pack #1 (5.2MB), Skin Pack #2 (10.8MB), Skin Pack #3 (9.6MB), Skin Pack #4 (6.5MB), Skin Pack #5 (11.9MB), Skin Pack #6 (15.7MB), Skin Pack #7 (8.9MB).

And as a special bonus, here's the official TFC skin pack (214KB).

Taunt Packs

IT LIVES! A classic Testcase Custom Quicktaunt Packs page, reconstructed.

See Pincushion's Starsiege Tauntpacks for more taunts.

Campaign Terrain

To join a Starsiege server you must have the terrain file used by the map the server is running. All the maps that came with the game used terrain files stored in the multiplayer folder. Eventually scripters figured out how to use the terrain files stored in the campaign folder, and many new maps (including Overrun and SSL) eventually came to use them. One small problem. A few players don't have the campaign folder, probably because they got a free version of Starsiege (eg. included with some versions of Tribes) and it didn't include the single-player campaign.

Players in this situation find they can't join certain servers, or get booted when the server cycles to a map that uses a campaign terrain. If you are one of those people you can download campaign.zip (28MB) and unzip it into your Starsiege folder. If you do it right you should end up with folders called "Starsiege/campaign/Human" and "Starsiege/campaign/Cybrid (Advanced)" each containing 20 or so files whose names end in .ted.vol.

Master Servers

In early 2002 Dynamix's master servers were down for an extended period. During this time Kowh shared (what I believe is) the official master server program (148KB). Rock was unhappy with its performance and wrote his own (122KB). They enabled the Starsiege community to continue playing on public servers and are archived here in case of future master server outages.

Alpha Tech Releases

The original Starsiege demos:

ATR1 (15.3MB) a.k.a. Earth Siege 3 ATR1. The ATR1 patch is incorporated into this version.
ATR2 (29.5MB) and the ATR2 patch (341KB).

For more information about the ATRs and the Starsiege Universe see Starbuck's excellent web site.

Check out Pincushion's Starsiege Editing and Scripting for maps, scripts, and links to other interesting Starsiege sites.
Email: pgarpincushion AT oocities.com  -  Last updated: Fri Apr 27 14:51:52 PDT 2007