Tachyon: The Fringe (2000) Classic

I just spent a few hours of looking on the internet for this. Now i found it, to upload it here.. Tachyon: The Fringe Classic game, from 2000. Jake Logan was an ace pilot, living in Sol and holding a steady job flying for Advanced Ganymede Technologies. However somewhere in the middle of a mission it all went wrong and explosions ended up killing several civilian lives. Jake has now been fired from his comfortable job, arrested by Star Patrol and exiled from Sol space. What's left is The Fringe, which consists of unexplored and contested sectors, linked together by gates run by the Tachyon Corporation. Out here, the rule of law is thin... and corporate rivalries take one a whole new deadly meaning. Take for instance a dispute between the Galspan corporation and Bora Mining, a conflict which threatens to overwhelm all allegiances within the Fringe. Tachyon: The Fringe is a 1st-person space combat game. Players will sign up for missions, which vary from starbase to starbase. The objectives include escort missions, combat, recon, search and destroy, cargo scanning and sector defense. Completion of these missions will increase Jake's credit balance and unlock new equipment and ship types from different corporations. Typical equipment includes laser guns, projectile guns, missiles, scanners, ECM, mines and targeting equipment. Jake can also hire wingmen to help him out for a small initial fee, as well as a percentage of each completed mission in which they participate. There are over 60 different missions, each of which is scripted. There is no free flight ability while not on a mission, though it's usually possible to move between space stations and sectors. Tachyon: The Finge also features two different multiplayer modes (Arena or BaseWar), which can be played over the Internet at NovaWorld. From: http://www.mobygames.com/game/tachyon-the-fringe Crack and serial should be included. NOTE: I did not make this torrent myself, so even I do not know yet if everything works. EDIT: Everything works, crack and all. Enjoy! - Banan

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bananrepublikken (2009-01-09)

Oh, and remember to seed. Nothing is worse than finally finding that game you loved, only to discover its abandoned and seedless..

Tadayoshi (2009-01-09)

Will dl and if its good then i'll seed for a while. Fantastic game and i hope this torrent works.

bananrepublikken (2009-01-10)

It does. Been playing it for a while now, it's still great!

KingOfNoPants (2009-01-11)

Oh hell yes, I remember this.
Awesome game, made more awesome by the fact that your character's voice is Bruce Campbell!

NTMID8 (2009-01-18)

I'm kinda new to this. Will someone post the steps to get the game to work after d/l. Please give every step. thx

Aerionix (2009-01-19)

Nice find. Been looking for this myself for a couple of years now. Got it when came out... I mean it's bruce effin campbell!! But misplaced it over time. Thankee Sai.

bananrepublikken (2009-01-25)

OK, NTMID8. First you have to unpack the .rar files.
To do that, I recommend you get WinRAR.
Second, you need a program that can emulate an additional cdrom drive. DaemonTools lite works fine for this purpose.
When you've done those steps, it's just straightforward, just like as if you had the physical cd in the computer.
Then, use the patch and crack included (in that order), and you're good to go.

herokid672 (2009-01-30)

I downloaded this and installed the game, and it works. Thats all I did, but when I get the key to go the ripstar region. The game crashes and it says Space.ICD has stopped working. The patch u gave me didn't work says a file or something is missing. Any help? Was there the CRACK file I was supposed to put somewhere or something?

murl (2009-03-07)

Thank you so very much. I spent months trying to find this game in a torrent with no luck, and finally gave up. Decided to check again, and here it is. You are my hero!

bananrepublikken (2009-03-21)

To herokid..
Hmm, TBH i hadnt gotten that far myself yet, when i uploaded it, but now it wors fine for me. Om about to run the game now (bora side), dunno about how it works with the Galspan side. Im sorry, but i cant help, as everything works for me, and i'm no real pro fixing PCs..
To murl; hehe, thanks!

pajamaman (2009-04-22)

First and foremost, I give you my thanks bananrepublikken for uploading this torrent. You don't have any idea how happy I was to finally find this game for years.
Secondly, can you guys help seed? I'll seed too after downloading, you can be sure about that.
Thanks again bananrepublikken

happytechie (2009-05-28)

Did not install for me. Unzipped with 7zip. Initial error - no "mss.dll" (miles sound system dll). Downloaded mss.dll so that error gone. Then autorun opened, clicked on install and nothing happened. Tried mounting with Daemon Tools and by burning with imgburn. No joy. Will dl again and see what happens.
Note for herokid672: I bought this game in 2001 and it crashed in the ripstar region on one of the campaigns (I think bora) but not on the other campaign. Not doing something simple avoided the crash - I forgot what it was.

captin_chocobo (2009-05-29)

hey guys. i mounted the tachyon.iso with demon tools and installed the patch, but it is still saying to install the cd rom. i hate to ask but i think im gonna need a step by step on this one. in my defence, this game is really awesome and really want to play it. please help me out.

Wess212 (2009-07-31)

i was looking for this game, thanks!
for those that are wondering, i'm running it on Vista 64 bit, works great, only played a training mission so far.

battle21 (2009-10-15)

whenever i download a torrent i seed it

battle21 (2009-10-15)

the download is still slow and its 400kb/s

battle21 (2009-10-15)

captain_chocobo you need to crack it

battle21 (2009-10-15)

please seed!!!!!!!!!!!

guitarking77 (2010-01-17)

i downloaded the torrent and monted the iso on daemon tools but the auto run didnt start... ive done this before on many occasions and the autorun always starts up but i cant seem to get it to start up so i cant install the game... what am i missing here?

nick1ss1gndon (2010-02-01)

Installed everything, but when I start the game and click single player, it prompts me to click a slot, and click play. Play, however, doesn't become selectable. I've installed all the patches before copying the crack, and still nothing.

Pindalol (2010-02-01)

to bananrepublikken,
this is the first time for me to download something from piratebay, so i am kind like a newbie.
i installed winrar and deamon tools, i already unpacked the winrar files, but im stuck by deamon tools, it says i have to mount something, but i have no idea what! please help me out!

bunda6000 (2010-02-21)

I have the same problem as nick1ss1gndon, can anyone help... ?

Sid_of_Id (2010-03-28)

Could someone be kind enough to post a step-by-step to properly install and update/patch this game.
I'm usually pretty good at figuring it all out myself, but I'm not having a lot of luck with this one.

UniqPhnx (2010-04-05)

nick1ss1gndon & bunda6000: you need to write a name in the slot

JxNe (2010-08-24)

I'm sorry. But usually I can figure this stuff out but I absolutely couldn't do it. That's great you guys were able to get it working, how about posting REAL actual step by step. I mounted and installed, only that whenever I wanted to start the game, it told me to mount the right CD. I ended up getting so frustrated that I decided to delete it. This is a great game and I was looking forward to play it but I'm sorry, it would have been great if a README file had been included.

JxNe (2010-09-01)

Yea, gave it a second shot, except this time made it into a CD-ROM and it is still giving me the same Error. It installs and everything. Teases me with the pre-game animation and then tell me I need to insert the corrent CD. I'll just order this off Amazon or something. highly disappointed that no READ ME was included and that you gave piss poor instructions. (7th comment down)

f-wolf (2010-09-12)

Thank you friend,game works perfect on Vista,thank you very much once again...

JxNe (2010-12-08)

ALL RIGHT; FINALLY GOT THIS TO WORK FLAWLESSLY!
here's what I did.
1. mounted with Daemon Tools Lite; it opened up the CD. Went to the TTFSetup folder, executed the setup file, installed.
2. Afterwards, I downloaded the SPACE.EXE (it is the one named FIXED EXE) patch from this website: and the NO CD patch as well.
3. After the game installs, replace the space.exe file in your directory. "C:\Program Files\NovaLogic\Tachyon".
4. Then run the NO CD Patch as well, OBVIOUSLY the FIX EXE. and NO CD patch have to be UNRARED!
5. Open up Tachyon and start blasting away.
*IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, LET ME KNOW*

useed4me (2011-03-11)

was searching for this :)
tanx for the upload

BadBoyDeGekste (2011-05-25)

omg been looking for this game since months
thanks for the upload :D

Semblance (2012-06-23)

Works fine, thanks a lot.

Buba_Smith2 (2013-11-28)

I installed this on Win7 x64, works perfect. Thought I'd post step-by-step instructions for those who need them.
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
1) unrar tachyon.rar (rar files are like zips if you're unfamiliar. 7zip is a free program that does the trick nicely)
2) you should now have a file called tachyon.iso You can either burn this file to a physical CD or mount it using a virtual drive like Daemon Tools.
3) once you have the disk mounted (virtual or physical), open the disk and find the TTFSETUP folder. Open it and run the file SETUP.EXE
4) follow the standard installation instructions. It will prompt you to enter a serial key, use one of the ones in the file 'serial numbers.txt' from the torrent folder. I used the first, 2UZW-Z4GT-NMVE-FJAR-SQS5
5) once installed, unmount/eject the disk. You're done with it. Open the game folder which should be located somewhere like, C:Program Files (x86)NovaLogicTachyon
Copy the file 'ttf_update_050500_xx.exe' into this folder from the 'update' folder in the torrent. Once copied, run this file.
6) Copy the 3 files in the 'no-cd' folder of the torrent into the main Tachyon folder just like you did with the update file. It will prompt you to overwrite the space.exe file. That's fine.
7) Click on the Tachyon.exe file to launch the game.
That's it. On a side note, I have 2 game controllers installed and my joystick is the second. It did not work until I changed the controller in the in-game options, but now it works perfectly.
I also have not played the game through yet, so I'm not sure if the future issues will come up or not, but I suspect the people who experience those issues did not correctly patch the game.