Now You Too Can Play Jane's Fighters Anthology!

#FightersAnthology #CombatFlightSimulator #milsim
The ISO files that I use as well as the patch can be found at the following link: drive.google.com/open?id=1HFg...
This video uses music produced by Meteor in association with Heatblur Studios, so the license for that is copied below:
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Hi Everyone!
We really hope you enjoy "Defender of the Fleet", an album composed by the great Meteor together with us for our F-14 Tomcat, free
for all F-14 customers!
You may use these songs in accordance with the Creative Commons non commercial (4.0) license, detailed below:
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If you'd like to support Meteor directly, check them out at / whoismeteor
Enjoy! \m/
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[@Magooch86]

I sank at least 100 hours into this game as a pre-teen and am now just getting into DCS in my 30's, I've found I still retain some of the muscle memory from this game, fantastic sim for its time!

[@LFGerm]

Same :D

[@betterness23]

Same boat!!

[@chrisoliver5302]

LOL, ditto. Im guessing you also would listen to the Top Gun soundtrack while playing? I know I did.

[@lucasart328]

Looks very good i never played gamr likr this

[@MasterCrazd]

Miss this game so much, great memories of this and the Logitech WingMan Force 3D as a kid. felt like a real fighter pilot !

[@Splinter00S]

That's the reason this was the first video series I made, as I spent a lot of time playing USNF '97 as a kid, and with the exception of the non-specific aircraft select screen and the lack of some of the music from USNF'97, this really is the superior game!

[@Football__Junkie]

This game was way ahead of its time. Endless planes, weapons, stages, and even had online gameplay!

[@goodisnipr]

Understatement. With this game, I was flying the F-22, F-35, and X-32 set in a future war Russia vs Ukraine in 1997! I still want to know if the Atomic Moth is a real aircraft, and I wouldn't be surprised if it is. If I knew how to get the game to run on Win10, I would make a video to show it in game.

[@UGFhero]

anyone remember the aurora plane and just going as fast as possible? haha I loved this game as a kid.

[@Splinter00S]

I did a showcase on it actually: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqXFdaqPgcajjrc

[@timsgta]

I played all the Jane's games back then and the graphics for the time were awesome!

[@eugenebroski]

One of my favorite games of all time! I remember playing this when I was 14 in 1998 and 1999. So many planes to choose from but my favorite was the F-22 because of the stealth, speed, and maneuverability in dogfights. I remember there was a cheat to unlock over 100 levels. I loved playing this online with dialup against other online players. The dogfights and missions were fun. I bought a Microsoft Sidewinder joystick that made the game more fun and easier to play. Great combat simulator. I loved video games in the 90s.

[@RegularCupOfJoe]

My goodness, thank you! I still have the discs for this game but they are scratched up to hell. Thank you for the ISOs!

[@Splinter00S]

No problem, the reason I sought these out actually was that my original USNF '97 disc was scratched to hell lol

[@reignman40boozer5]

Still one of my favorite games. I had USNF (not 97) and ATF in the mid-late 90's as a kid. I loved ATF but always had problems running it consistently. I found out about FA in 2004 and bought it off ebay. Still love firing it up now and again and tinkering with the toolkit. Amazing that it still works so well even on Win10.

[@MrSinnerBOFH]

I got all of Jane’s disks, and it was so awesome! The best simulator out there! Jane’s Anthology and Jane’s F-15E Strike Eagle were my favorite. Now I’m starting on DCS. Getting back in the cockpit!

[@chrisadish]

Thank you so much for this! Played it years ago myself, and its good to be back. Thanks for the isos, very grateful!!

[@Splinter00S]

Always happy to help reconnect someone with a childhood favorite!

[@sil3ntsp3ct3r]

Put Heatblur’s soundtrack over my childhood Absolutely phenomenal

[@Splinter00S]

They really did a bang-up job on that soundtrack!

[@tiadaid]

Thanks mate, I got it to work and I'm enjoying going back to my childhood with this!

[@Splinter00S]

Glad to have reunited another person with a childhood memory!

[@Fer-De-Lance]

My father was a weapons systems operator in the F-4/E and I remember him laughing when he saw his old steed in this game.

[@Splinter00S]

Nice! Did he serve in Vietnam, or afterwards?

[@Fer-De-Lance]

@@Splinter00S No he flew in the 1980s. He was mostly a liasion officer (for the sake of brevity) [The F-4 did not have MFDs]. He deployed in Desert Shield/Storm with the Army (he relieved his CO (O-5) of command for incompetence and cowardice, de facto not de juro as he was and O-3 at the time and none of the O-4s stepped up). He still works with military aircraft.

[@charlesbukowski9836]

@@Fer-De-Lance what was situation????? why didnt the XO step up??? sounds weird..

[@Splinter00S]

I'm definitely curious about the story here! What does he do now, you mentioned he still works with military aircraft?

[@borntorazehell777]

I miss this game. Wish they made a remaster of this with current graphics tech and release it on console too.

[@AllThingsFlightSim]

Why not get DCS?

[@borntorazehell777]

@@traininglanes6761 Maverick, from the Top Gun movie.

[@borntorazehell777]

@@AllThingsFlightSim PC broke down, so now i'm on console only. Waiting to get the PS5 sometime in March, as well as Sony's new cognitive intelligent XR series 4KTV, which launches at the end of March (Bonus).

[@borntorazehell777]

@@traininglanes6761 Sometime in the 90s when I was just a teen, but Top Gun has been around since 86.

[@tiadaid]

@@AllThingsFlightSim If DCS offer a "Fighters Anthology" bundle, I'd gladly buy it. Unfortunately they only offer individual aircraft at high prices. It'll cost a bundle for anyone to have something similar to Fighters Anthology.

[@user-le8eh8by6h]

Had this one too for a while loved it also Jane's combat made pretty good sims.

[@thejetfighter]

Thanks for the video and the ISO. Link is still working. 😀

[@swordsnake0078]

Awesome awesome awesome. Brings back those beautiful days.

[@USNRaptor]

In order to hide the waypoints, you just hide the aircraft. They're both interconnected. If you need any mission building tips, feel free to contact me. Also, I have txt files of tips in my FTP found on my website.

[@Splinter00S]

Ah, makes sense, although that's kinda a bummer, I'd like to remove the waypoints without hiding the objects. Oh well. And I'll probably reference those, as I think I'm going to refine this scenario a bit more!

[@USNRaptor]

@@Splinter00S I'll build a mission in 1/2 to 1 hour,, and then spend several hours fine-tuning it. My Vietnam campaign missions average about 12 hours per mission (mostly flying the mission, then tweaking the faults found), and that doesn't include the research I did to get details about the mission. The coverted campaigns (i.e. Baltic 1976 and the upcoming Kurli 2018) take about half the amount of time.

[@Splinter00S]

Yeah, that sounds about right. I think I spent a month day and night working on the first two missions in a campaign I had planned to make for Descent Freespace 2 back in high school, and that one didn't need all the historical research FA campaigns (should) have!

[@Splinter00S]

@@stephentoth6646 Actually I didn't know about it as a kid. I didn't even know about Fighters Anthology, I only had Jane's USNF '97. I'm becoming familiar with JFATK though since I've had to use it multiple times to unpack campaign missions so I could replay them when I had technical difficulties with a recording!

[@deicorpse8931]

Thanks for releasing the ISO files! Also, have you ever considered playing the original Rainbow Six titles? I would love to see you play those!

[@Splinter00S]

My long term plan is to start playing all the old Tom Clancy games once I get through all the Delta Force games.

[@deicorpse8931]

@@Splinter00S I really look forward to it! I actually discovered this channel by looking for DeltaForce 2 play throughs.

[@USNRaptor]

Deicorpse, if you decide to get back into FA, be sure to check out my website. Just google usnraptor.

[@Splinter00S]

Great! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@vincebagadonis8016]

Damn! I almost forgot how easy carrier landings were back in the golden age of sims compared to DCS! Air to air refueling too!

[@ruirebelo1893]

Still got the CD!! And my first PC game was Red Baron from 1990.

[@audunskilbrei8279]

This game has the best UI buttons ever.

[@Daimo83]

Just discovered this game and was looking for some tips. I can't believe it even works with my modern USB rudder pedals with no issues.

[@Splinter00S]

Nice! I tried but couldn't get it to work with my complete HOTAS+pedals set, but it didn't recognize anything but the joystick so I've been using the twist axis for ruddering.

[@timsgta]

@@Splinter00S we used to use CH flightsticks or thrustmaster...now I have a not as old Saitek AV8R-01...

[@Splinter00S]

@@timsgta When I was a kid I had an old Logitech joystick, nothing fancy but it was a real workhorse, so much so that when our gameport version finally failed, we replaced it with an identical joystick that connected through USB instead of gameport

[@HarryJc]

i loved this game back then

[@mayhem3102]

I love that game!

[@SBT222]

Love your videos and been playing the game a lot with keyboard. Dug out my saitek cyborg evo but I just can't get it to work in game. Thrust and twist rudder both work but no the X-Y axis on the stick, nor any of the buttons sadly

[@Splinter00S]

The only thing I can think of to check is make sure there aren't any more axes on your joystick, the game can be dumb in picking what it considers the x and y of the joystick. Also, make sure you don't have any other game controllers plugged in, as it may default to trying to use them. One last thing you could try is to try and emulate your joystick as a generic 3-axis 4 button joystick, but I don't know how well that would work.

[@SBT222]

​@@Splinter00S With an Xbox 360 controller also plugged in, setting the stick as the prefered device in Win 10 settings did the trick, although it did not work when it was the only controller connected. Even weirder is the xbox controller used to work with the game but now it does not want to. Thank you for the tips, now is time to truly enjoy this game as intended with a stick!

[@charlesselrachski34]

Thank You !

[@Splinter00S]

No problem!

[@elvoria]

Imagine this game is remastered. Will definitely be in my wishlist.

[@Splinter00S]

I'd love for the entire Jane's series to be remastered!

[@NyteStalker89]

Fairly certain the license for the Defender of the Fleet album relates ONLY to the DCS F-14 and videos made around it, not for other games.

[@Splinter00S]

I remember I had the same question when I first made this video and emailed them asking about it, and they must have told me it was alright since I posted the video. It's going to be moot in a month or so anyways because I have plans to delist this video once I make an updated version.

[@NyteStalker89]

@@Splinter00S Ahhhh fair enough!

[@vvitchaven]

Unfortunately it doesnt work on my PC with Windows 10... it used to work last year. Now? Nothing. I can turn the game on. I choose a mission. Click "Play". And nothing..

[@maximilianoolivares8076]

Hello my friend .. greetings from Chile .. I have a problem downloading the janes from the link that you mentioned and the radar does not show it is transparent apparently it is ai but it is transparent ... thanks for uploading the game I have been looking for it for years

[@Splinter00S]

What sort of download problem? As far as the radar goes, if you hit esc in-flight, go to the windows tab and make sure that the radar is checked, otherwise you can toggle it with shift-9 iirc

[@Luke17d]

Pre-patched? Wow thank you so much!

[@Splinter00S]

Not quite, you have to install the patch, but it's included along with the isos

[@Luke17d]

@@Splinter00S I am sorry but I have the game installed and the CPU grab. I set the affinity to 0 and the gameplay is still fast. Am I doing something wrong or do you have any other suggestions? Thank you

[@Splinter00S]

Did you copy the FA102.exe to your computer and run that? If you install that patch you shouldn't need any cpu tools to keep the frame rate stable

[@Luke17d]

@@Splinter00S hmm when I do open it, it just freezes. Maybe I need to change the compatibility? I will work on it and see what happens. Thank you

[@Splinter00S]

Wish I could be of more help, but I'm the lucky guy that had everything work on the first go lol. The one thing I can think of is that because the game's default install path is the C drive, you'd need admin privileges for the patcher but windows should ask for those automatically.

[@GregCrack]

One of the greatest flightsims ever! You still can play this on modern computers with actual windows installed. Creating a batch file will make it possible. Open a texteditor like wordpad and copy the following lines: rem First kill Explorer.exe, which messes up the colors taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe rem Change to the application directory F:\Fighters Anthology (this will do, anyway where you installed the game, if not type the correct path) rem run the application FA.EXE rem Wait for the emgame to quit, press Enter to continue pause Restart Explorer.exe start explorer.exe exit Then name this file fa start.bat, copy it into your game directory and doubleclick it, good flying! With a little modification of this file you also can start Microproses "European Air War" on actual Systems. All you have to do is to change the name and path to the eaw.exe file instead, and copy this file renamed as eaw start.bat into the eaw game directory. Doubleklick it and enjoy!

[@Splinter00S]

Actually with the 1.02f patch it's perfectly playable on modern systems out of the box!

[@vvitchaven]

It not.

[@GregCrack]

It not what?

[@kylebrady969]

Just installed and gave the game a shot. Would you happen to know/recall what the patch executable is called for the game?

[@Splinter00S]

The patch executable is fae102.exe and the game runtime executable is FA.exe iirc

[@kylebrady969]

@@Splinter00S cool, thank you!

[@marioatencii3659]

i have like zero experience mounting ISOs in 7zip since windows 10 usually does it for me, and i really can't seem to set this up right. can you give me a slightly more detailed rundown on how to do it?, i also haven't watched the whole video because i don't want to get my first impressions spoiled. can i get some help?

[@Splinter00S]

If you've downloaded Daemon Tools Lite (which I personally use), when you open it up there should be what looks like a CD in the bottom tray titled quick mount. Just left-click on that and navigate to where you saved the FA_1_00F.iso and select the file. It will then make a new labeled drive (like E: or F:) with the iso loaded. At that point just run the installer from the """disc""" and just make sure you have the iso mounted when you play the game.

[@lcollingwood5959]

I cant get cockpit view to work. The BS button toggles it but mine is grayed out. Its always full screen?

[@Splinter00S]

What do you mean by cockpit view? Do you mean the cockpit frame that surrounds the HUD? Because that only shows up when the game is set to 800x600 or lower, it will not work for 1024x768.

[@Dragonman1OOO]

My problem with this game is that since I got my new videocard (Geforce GTX 1660 Super) the graphics are messed up. I am even barely able to exit the game to return to Windows (It was Win7 back then, now I use Win10). Any idea how to solve it?

[@Splinter00S]

Afraid not, only idea I've got is to do a full uninstall and do a clean reinstall

[@geauxtigersdjs]

This game like many older ones does not work well with multicore cpus > fine/get Tackleberry's patch. There are command line edits that will fix too. Just google it.

[@MatPost]

I installed this game and applied the patch but it crashed everytime when choosing any of the missions themselves. Any tips?

[@Splinter00S]

The campaign missions or just any mission period? If the campaign missions it could be a problem with playing the videos, if any mission probably some sort of graphics issue. Unfortunately I can't provide any more support than that because I did not have any involvement in making the game or patch

[@ruskiwaffle1991]

Been interested in these kinds of sims but is there a DL link?

[@Splinter00S]

The link is in the description

[@davidtheday]

Anyone here from the old Tour of Duty days? This is ATFS_DarkRain

[@Duvstep910]

@Splinter00S whenever i try to start the Ukraine Campaign; it says 'could not set video mode 1'. Any idea on how to fix this issue? Thanks in advance

[@Splinter00S]

Hmm, never had that problem before. I guess the first thing to try would be to let the game's intro videos play out and/or try to start a vietnam campaign to see if it's a problem with the campaign video that tries to play.

[@Duvstep910]

@@Splinter00S i got the vietnam campaign videos to work but the ukraine ones don't..

[@Splinter00S]

@@Duvstep910 I don't know that i can offer any advice beyond what I have already. The only thing I can think of is try some of the windows compatibility mode options like disabling scaling and high DPI stuff.

[@Football__Junkie]

Any ideas on how to play this on a Mac without Windows BootCamp?

[@Splinter00S]

I've never used a Mac in my life so I'm afraid I can't help you with that.

[@Raulmexp]

Thanks! how do you fix the speed of maneouvers?

[@Raulmexp]

dont need, i just patched and it fixed! thanks.

[@Splinter00S]

@@Raulmexp No problem, glad to see another person able to enjoy a classic game! :)

[@ruskiwaffle1991]

There is no compatibility setting for windows 2000, so what do i use then?

[@ruskiwaffle1991]

Also no "fa.exe" on first ISO

[@Splinter00S]

You shouldn't need to use any compatibility setting, if you apply the patch it should work natively.

[@Splinter00S]

It should install to your hard drive once you run the setup file.

[@Duvstep910]

+Splinter00S i got it installed but when i tried to get into the reference it keeps saying to insert disc two

[@Splinter00S]

So there's two .iso files included, and if you want to view the reference section you have to load the other .iso file

[@tabletkatabletkova1107]

Partal solution i found(if the problem is game not seeing the disk, even if inserted) : 1. The iso for reference needs to be mounted as CD-ROM, not DVD, I used powerISO to mount it as such. (windows mounts as DVD) 2. It seems that the CDs were meant to be swapt when it displays the warning(even after you are done browsing the reference with disk 2, game promts you to insert disk one), so even when I mounted both disks to two different volumes, one cloudent be found by the game. So have ONLY disk 2 mounted, start he game, and everything in disk 2 from refernce should work (eg. cockpits will crash the game) Then to play the game, swap the disk 2 iso for disk 1 Sad that you cant realy alt-tab to swap the disks when game asks you to, then it would be possible to do it as intended. MAYBE with the no disk patch and disk 2 mounted

[@aaron7609]

I think I bought all of these "Jane's fighters" series. Easy to control and even we can enjoy the reality of the modern air battle. Why they don't make remake version of these master piece??? Why????

[@ruskiwaffle1991]

The "simcade" market died in 2000s i think and nowadays you either get hyper realistic sim like DCS world or pure arcade like ace combat, but i wanna see another game like this too

[@Splinter00S]

EA might not even own the rights to the Jane's franchise anymore, there was that one-off Ace Combat style Jane's game (JASF), and nothing since. The studio behind the naval titles seemed to have spun off their own studio and retained the rights to those games since the current version of Fleet Command/Dangerous Waters you can get isn't published by EA. And on top of all that, the whole flight sim market kinda cratered for awhile and only started gaining popularity again when DCS started expanding. We're in a renaissance now though that DCS and MSFS2020 kicked off and we're already starting to see some Jane's style titles like Tiny Combat Arena entering the fold now that it's popular again. I think it's only a matter of time before we start getting some spiritual successors to the old Jetfighter and Jane's games.

[@happyloaf]

How did you get the game to be full screen? Mine runs in a tiny area in the center of the screen?

[@Splinter00S]

Actually that's how I play my game, and I just scale it up to 4k (without changing the aspect ratio). If you want to run it in full screen, you have to set the display scaling on your card by going to your AMD or NVIDIA control panel, and then under the monitor or desktop options there should be an option for display scaling. I would recommend one that preserves the aspect ratio, but if you absolutely must fill the screen there should also be a full screen option. Once that's set, any full-screened game that is below your native resolution should scale up to fill most or all of your monitor depending on whether you chose full screen or aspect ratio scaling.

[@happyloaf]

@@Splinter00S That was the secret! I had no scaling on. Now it's time to figure out how to get my rudder pedals (G29 racing pedals on a bodar to work) or just use my fighterstick and no rudder pedals.

[@Splinter00S]

@@happyloaf Glad I could help! I have a Thrustmaster HOTAS + Pedals setup, but the game only recognizes the joystick portion of the setup (that's fair, it's an old game and these are technically 3 separate devices), so I've taken to using the twist axis on my joystick as the rudder.

[@happyloaf]

@@Splinter00S I don't have a twist axis but it recognizes my pedals as one axis but it's wonky and reads my clutch as left perfectly by the gas as right is random on if it accepts it. I might just try to play without rudder.

[@kaiserball2120]

it wont work, when i started the game it appears a error saying to put the CD-ROM

[@Splinter00S]

CD1 still needs to be mounted when you play the game. If you try to view the Reference section of the game, you'll need to mount CD2 and the main portion of the game will be unplayable until you remount CD1.

[@kaiserball2120]

@@Splinter00S But before i start the game, i mounted CD1 with CD2, and appear the error

[@Splinter00S]

The game references the install drive letter for the CD path I do believe. When you run the game, is the disc mounted in the *original* drive letter that it was mounted in when installed?

[@simongills2051]

Hi. Just get a nice old windows millenium or W98 laptop with 16 mb GPU and 600 MHz or more to run this, such as a Toshiba 6070 with Nv 420 Go GPU to run it butter smooth. F-18 super Hornet, MSCS2, Wings over Vietnam al those superb Sims on the right hardware runs butter smooth😊. Toshiba SP 6070 for example.

[@SandMartin]

You need a patch to correct swing wing aircrafts

[@jacobhoffman927]

I still have the original copy of janes FA and miraculously my laptop can run it. The only annoying thing is all my flight stick hardware won't work with the game so keyboard controls only

[@Splinter00S]

That's a shame. The game is thankfully well designed so it's perfectly playable with the keyboard unlike most flight sims, but the joystick adds so much immersion!

[@jacobhoffman927]

@@Splinter00S I would love a modern version of FA the ease of use of the classic FA with the graphic level of DCS, DCS is great but it's a bit to complicated for my taste

[@Splinter00S]

@@jacobhoffman927 I've been hearing good things about Tiny Combat Arena, although I have yet to try it myself.

[@chris101gray3]

I had a version of this called US Navy Fighters

[@Splinter00S]

That's actually what I grew up with for a significant portion of my childhood, US Navy Fighters '97 until an uncle got me my copy of Fighters Anthology

[@Duvstep910]

I wonder if this will work with a playstation controller

[@Splinter00S]

That'd be interesting to see, I think without remapping it using third-party software the game would probably read one joystick as an actual joystick and the other joystick as a throttle which would be... interesting... to work with lol

[@MatPost]

Can it be played with a controller? EDIT: TQ

[@Splinter00S]

I think it can in theory if you set up the controller as a joystick

[@9hk38f]

Anyone know where/how to buy or download this game?

[@Splinter00S]

I put a link in the video description.

[@VincentViolence]

When I go to patch it just crashes..

[@VincentViolence]

Mounted ISO, click install nothing happens... Tried the .exe trys to patch and crashes.

[@Splinter00S]

Wish I could help, but I've never had any problems myself. Only thing I could really recommend is to try running them with compatibility mode.

[@Hooligan2099]

can i play it in windows 10?

[@Splinter00S]

Yes! Just make sure to install the patch!

[@markingraham4892]

Terrible approach but great video.

[@Splinter00S]

Thanks!

[@Duvstep910]

+Splinter00S i got it installed but when i tried to get into the reference it keeps saying to insert disc two

[@Splinter00S]

Oh, so for that you just need to load up the second iso file into your virtual drive, that one contains the reference disc, that's the FA_2_00F.iso file.

[@Duvstep910]

@@Splinter00S ah ok. And do you have any tips to share on how i could fly with a controller because i don't have a joystick. If not then im just gonna tough it out with the keyboard 😅

[@Splinter00S]

@@Duvstep910 I'd recommend the numpad, I've never tried using a controller other than a joystick!

[@Duvstep910]

@@Splinter00S thanks for bringing this to me; ive been searching for a while now; working through the training missions and im loving it 😁

[@Splinter00S]

Glad to hear it!