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nDoom 2.1 adds PWAD support for thousands of games!!!
« on: January 28, 2012, 10:18:09 pm »
Did you believe nDoom 2.0 couldn't become more epic? Today you get nDoom 2.1 with a new major functionnality: the support for PWAD files! ;D


There are 2 kinds of Doom WAD files:
* IWAD
* PWAD

IWAD files include all the data needed to run the game. They're quite big but can be used alone.

PWAD files (Patch-WAD) only include some data. Usually small, they can't be used alone. They are designed to be loaded over an IWAD file in order to replace some maps or sprites for example.



Some commercial WAD files are PWADs, like the ones in the Master Levels for Doom II:




But allmost every 3rd party WAD file available on the Internet is a PWAD file. So there were thousands of WAD files on the Internet that you couldn't use with nDoom untill today.

You can even patch your game several times! Here is Doom2 patched with 2 PWAD files:
- the Otakon levels
- the Nintendo skins




Although all 20 commercial PWAD files from the Master Levels for Doom II are working perfectly, there are many various PWAD editors/generators and not every PWAD seems to be supported for now.
Please help me determine/understand which PWAD are or aren't working, and which PWAD would really be worth supporting.



Download nDoom 2.1 and working IWAD/PWAD files from the TI-Planet news:
http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=8723
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Re: nDoom 2.1 adds PWAD support for thousands of games!!!
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2012, 11:23:08 pm »
This is super great! I always wondered if we could ever play such mods eventually :D.
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Re: nDoom 2.1 adds PWAD support for thousands of games!!!
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2012, 11:31:58 pm »
Wow that's great! Now the sky is the limit!
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Re: nDoom 2.1 adds PWAD support for thousands of games!!!
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2012, 11:32:28 pm »
Ghost busters!!!!
Also how do you edit music out of the wad files
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Re: nDoom 2.1 adds PWAD support for thousands of games!!!
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2012, 03:10:01 am »
amazing, i like that nintendo skin xp where can i find those wad's? cause i've been looking around on the internet, and i find some, but they are all not supported, quite strange
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Re: nDoom 2.1 adds PWAD support for thousands of games!!!
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2012, 03:11:16 am »
Good job, as usual ;)
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Re: nDoom 2.1 adds PWAD support for thousands of games!!!
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2012, 03:18:09 am »
wow GREAT WORK!
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Re: nDoom 2.1 adds PWAD support for thousands of games!!!
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2012, 04:47:48 am »
Quote from: Nick on January 29, 2012, 03:10:01 am
amazing, i like that nintendo skin xp where can i find those wad's? cause i've been looking around on the internet, and i find some, but they are all not supported, quite strange

The Nintendo skin is here:
http://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_voir.php?id=3912
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Re: nDoom 2.1 adds PWAD support for thousands of games!!!
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2012, 08:29:41 am »
I assume them to be a minority, but many PWAD files are supported.

I've uploaded some of them here:
http://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_list.php?id=Patchs%20Niveaux%20Doom2%20Nspire

All those PWAD are working.



Unsupported PWAD give an error message.
As designed in nDoom 1.0, messages automatically kill the game.

Some messages might just be minor warnings and the PWAD file might run correctly by just commenting the error message.

Again, for testing and improving PWAD support, I need your help :)
« Last Edit: January 29, 2012, 08:30:43 am by critor »
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Re: nDoom 2.1 adds PWAD support for thousands of games!!!
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2012, 08:42:56 am »
wow, that's a lot of files Ö you should be really proud of it, i never expected it to have that much possibilities..

but i have a question about ti planet, why are there pop-up adds? i've seen them the last 2 days, but never really knew from which site (too much tabs), but now only omnimaga and tiplanet were open, and as soon as i opened tiplanet an add popped up!? i know this isn't the right place, but i wouldn't start a topic about it and i don't have an account there..
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Re: nDoom 2.1 adds PWAD support for thousands of games!!!
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2012, 09:17:44 am »
I'm wondering if Megaman 8-bit deathmatch works for ndoom 2.1
It does have wad file, but there are bunch of dll files and pk3 files so I'm kinda confused.
EDIT: It's only 155kb... O.o
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Re: nDoom 2.1 adds PWAD support for thousands of games!!!
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2012, 10:31:11 am »
You just need the ".wad" file.
".pk3" files aren't supported.

Do you have a link?
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Re: nDoom 2.1 adds PWAD support for thousands of games!!!
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Re: nDoom 2.1 adds PWAD support for thousands of games!!!
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2012, 11:43:47 am »
Quote from: TBO_Yeong on January 29, 2012, 10:32:23 am
@Critor: http://cutstuff.net/mm8bdm/?page_id=5

This PWAD doesn't work.
I'm getting an error message.

I'll try to investigate it another week-end.
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Re: nDoom 2.1 adds PWAD support for thousands of games!!!
« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2012, 11:44:15 am »
oh, ok. D:
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