| Effect | Code |
| Play with 2 player split screen mouse/keyboard | -2 |
| Use Wingman Extreme for input | -w |
| Use GCI flight controller on COM2: for input | -g |
| Use GCI flight controller on COM1: for input | -g1 |
| Load the indicated .lvl file and records record.dat demo | -L <.lvl file> |
| Use VESA 640x480 for output device | -V |
| Null (benchmarking) GFX device | -B |
| Use DirectX5 for output device | -X |
| Record game to record.dat file | -r |
| Play the demo once | -p <demoname> |
| Enable space combat | -S |
| Enable space Boss encounter | -O |
| View keyboard bindings | -? |
| Use fast logs | -f |
| Run game indicated number of times faster. | -s <number> |
| Gather and dump frame rate statistics | -T |
| Only one sim per render | -1 |
| Do the checksums | -c |
| Set the default character | -C <character name> |
| No logs | -N |
| Set screen resolution (320x200, 320x240, etc.) | -M <mode> |
| Set pixel format to INDEXED8 or RGB565 | -P <mode> |
| Abort after 100 frames | -A |
| Force high color | -H |