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Re: WADs dont load

by scbs29 » Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:05 am

Thanks again for all of the advice.
I downloaded the patch and upgraded to ultimate Doom and now the 2002ado.wad and 007ltsd.wad
work fine.

Re: WADs dont load

by Medricel » Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:08 pm

Enjay wrote:I don't even think there were any new textures.
The orange sky (SKY4). That's about it.

Re: WADs dont load

by Enjay » Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:45 pm

scbs29 wrote:I do not have Ultimate Doom so there are only the 3 episodes.
I'm pretty sure that you can get a free patch to upgrade Doom to Ultimate Doom.

Oh, BTW the only thing of significance added to the Ultimate Doom was the fouth episode. I don't even think there were any new textures. If that is the case, you should be able to get an Ultimate Doom WAD to work with a non-ultimate IWAD. But, like I said, I'm sure the patch is free.

ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pc/msdos/games/i ... tuff/doom/

Re: WADs dont load

by scbs29 » Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:38 pm

Thanks for all of the replies.
I tried the suggestion of BoldEnglishman and copied into my DOOM folder.
If I do this then 2002ado will work, and replaces the 3 episodes in DOOM. I do not have Ultimate Doom
so there are only the 3 episodes.
The Licensed to Spell Doom, however, under the same conditions still fires up the default doom.wad.
It would appear then that I will have to look out for Ultimate Doom if I want to play these wads.

Re: WADs dont load

by Project Shadowcat » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:42 am

Yeah, 007: License to Spell Doom was an Episode 4 replacement.
2002ADO should replace all four episodes.

Re: WADs dont load

by SoulCrow » Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:59 am

Are you sure it is the Ultimate Doom? I can't remember exactly, but Licence to Spell Doom may have only replaced Episode 4 - which the original Doom does not have. As is stated above, you might wanna check if it is "The Ultimate Doom" that you have.

"If not, either move doom.wad to that directory, or copy 007ltsd.wad and the various ZDoom files to your Doom 1 directory." -- Try this as well.

Re: WADs dont load

by scbs29 » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:46 am

Tried that, selected doom.wad.
Still no difference, loaded doom 1 wad.
I think I will give up and forget these wads :-(
Thanks for all the advice.

Re: WADs dont load

by NiGHTMARE » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:43 am

Do you have doom.wad and doom2.wad in the same directory?

If so, when you run ZDoom it should come up with a menu asking you which IWAD you want to use. Make sure you select doom.wad.

If not, either move doom.wad to that directory, or copy 007ltsd.wad and the various ZDoom files to your Doom 1 directory.

Re: WADs dont load

by scbs29 » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:28 am

According to the txt file the 007ltds.wad is 007: Licence to Spell DooM and when I drop the wad onto zdoom
the splash screen tells me that this is the case. The program then reverts to the doom2 wad.
The 2002ado.wad is described as 2002 A DOOM ODYSSEY, and again when dropping onto zdoom the splash
screen echoes this.

Re: WADs dont load

by Remmirath » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:18 am

Are you sure that these wads have custom maps in it?

Re: WADs dont load

by scbs29 » Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:44 am

Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately, using the bat files to launch the wads or dragging and dropping them onto
zdoom as Kappes Buur suggested do not work, as I said in my first post.
No matter what I do the wad for doom 2 loads and plays.
This is why I thought possibly the wads are corrupt ?

Re: WADs dont load

by Kappes Buur » Sun Feb 08, 2009 7:51 pm

scbs29 wrote:I think that I may need to tender an apology.
I have investigated these wads further and found that they say Ultimate Doom.
I thought, however, that ZDoom would play them.
It has been quite a while since I had any contact with DOOM so I can only plead
a 'senior moment'.
Are there any differences in Ultimate Doom that cause my problem ?
No apology is necessary.
You are correct in your thinking that zdoom will play these wads.
And having a ''senior moment', I know what you mean, as I have them quite often as well.

doom -iwad 007ltsd.wad -nomusic and doom -file 007ltsd.wad -nomusic are incorrect for playing zdoom.
it should be
zdoom -file 007ltsd.wad or zdoom -file 007ltsd.wad -nomusic
or just dragging the pwad onto the zdoom icon.

Did you read the entry in the wiki ?
http://zdoom.org/wiki/Installation_and_ ... n_of_ZDoom

Re: WADs dont load

by Ceeb » Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:49 pm

scbs29 wrote:I think that I may need to tender an apology.
I have investigated these wads further and found that they say Ultimate Doom.
I thought, however, that ZDoom would play them.
It has been quite a while since I had any contact with DOOM so I can only plead
a 'senior moment'.
Are there any differences in Ultimate Doom that cause my problem ?
Ultimate Doom is Doom 1 with an extra episode. Any WADs for Doom will work with Ultimate Doom, but not the other way around. Doom 2 is a completely seperate game. WADs for Doom 2 won't work with Doom, and vice versa. Also, so you don't need to use command lines and batch files, might I suggest you get ZDL?

Re: WADs dont load

by scbs29 » Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:37 pm

I think that I may need to tender an apology.
I have investigated these wads further and found that they say Ultimate Doom.
I thought, however, that ZDoom would play them.
It has been quite a while since I had any contact with DOOM so I can only plead
a 'senior moment'.
Are there any differences in Ultimate Doom that cause my problem ?

Re: WADs dont load

by scbs29 » Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:23 pm

Thanks for the reply.
I have tried the wads in DOOM with the bat file
doom -iwad 007ltsd.wad -nomusic
and
doom -file 007ltsd.wad -nomusic
after extracting to c:\doom

I just get the standard DOOM playing.
Have I got the arguments correct in the bat file, I am afraid that it is quite a while since I
tried using a different wad file.

Mind you, in the explanatory txt file with 007ltsd it states
Description : An Ultimate ZDoom episode!
Yes, I decided to go all modern and build a source
port only episode. Having seen the ZDoom features for
the first time shortly after the release of Shadowcaster,
I decided to build for ZDoom, as it's features are REALLY
cool, and I have lots of cool ideas for them!

Grateful for any advice.

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