General Hints & Tips

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

PC Games

Hidden names
When using the random name generator, press it enough times and you will get character names from the Homestar Runner cartoons, such as "Homsar" and "Kerreck." It might take a few tries to find these.

Easy Money
Have Zaalbar make you grenades, T3 make you programming spikes, and Canderous make you stimulants. You can then sell these things to different merchants you encounter.

Easy battles
For an easy win against any opponent, target them by pressing R. Then, start running around in circles. This can be very helpful if you only have a small amount of health remaining and need to heal yourself. It can also help in a Jedi battle, as the enemy will eventually put his or her lightsaber away, giving you an opportunity to attack.

If you happen to find yourself dying frequently in a battle and you have plenty of advanced medpacs and other healing items, wait until the enemy takes off lots of your health. After doing so, quickly press Start and save the game. Load it again and your screen should be in the combat "pause" mode, with the enemy sighted message. Press Start again and go to your inventory. You can now use as many medpacs or life support packs as needed, as compared to the normal one per round. This trick is especially useful when approached by Dark Jedi and you are stuck.

Keep The Sandpeople Robes

Once you obtain the robes and complete the associated quest, equip it to another party member when you select the option of handing it over.

Keep The Sith Armor

Once you obtain the armor and complete the associated quest, equip it to another party member when you select the option of handing it over.

Easy Path to the Dark Side

When you discover the stowaway aboard the Ebon Hawk, select the option Get out of here, whoever you are! Right now!! Then, before she leaves, talk to here again and select the same option. Continue to repeat as you gain 1 Dark Side point each time.

Raise or Lower your Voice

(Note: You need two controllers for this trick) With your primary controller plugged into ports 1, 2 or 3 have a second controller plugged into port 4. While playign the game, press the black or white button on the second controller to raise and lower the pitch of the in-game voices.

Secret Ending

(Note: You need two controllers for this trick) With your primary controller plugged into ports 1, 2 or 3 have a second controller plugged into port 4. Before you enter the final battle with Darth Malak (do NOT open the door), pull both the 'L' and 'R' buttons on both controllers for a secret ending.

Magic Healing

Go to a area that is safe from combat (Not in combat or in a room) and pause and go to the map screen. Now hit the X button to jump back to the Ebon Hawk and be healed. Select Map again and hit X again to go back to where you where.

Fight Security Droids

To fight security droids, using vibroblades helps a lot, but make sure you have at least one other member in your party to back you up.
- Stalkie

Finish the Game

To automaticly beat the game go to the rancor gaurding one of the swoopgangs base and save right outside the chamber it's in. Go in side and kill the rancor,then load your saved game and go and kill it again. Do this untill you see that your saved game is different, and it takes you to a different place. this is where y ou will fight the final boss, a dark jedi who has bastila.
- Stalkie

Defeating the Dark Jedi in the Sith base at the water world
Have the main character as Bastila and Big Z in your party. Once inside the base, after getting past the water pressure is a room where you will find Sasha. Next to that room is another room with a dark Jedi and two fish-like creatures. To defeat the Dark Jedi, have Bastila throw the lightsabers at her and make Big Z attack her with two swords. Keep doing this and she will die quickly. You can take out the other two fish creatures afterwards.