[Added] GAMEINFO keys for startup screen

[Enjay]

Question: Is there any way to get a file that contains a gameinfo lump specifying an alternative startup to be autoloaded and work?

I have tried putting one in the autoload section of my ini and I even tried my skins folder. On both occasions, checking the console confirmed that the file had been loaded but it was, presumably, too late in the load process to take effect. The only way it seems to work is using the -file parameter.

[edit] Just by way of a trial I even tried inserting it into doom2.wad and it still didn't work. [/edit]

[Gez]

No, sorry. Autoloaded files are loaded after the IWAD is selected; GAMEINFO parsing is necessarily done before IWAD selection.

Also it's only done on files loaded from the command line, so yeah it will not do anything in an IWAD. So for standalone TCs a complementary mechanism will have to be made.

Of course, you can just have a setup like this in a TC: customiwad.wad, startup.wad, runtc.bat
Content of runtc.bat:

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zdoom startup.wad

Content of startup.wad: a single gameinfo lump with this:

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IWAD = customiwad
STARTUPTYPE = <"whatever">

customiwad.wad contains all the rest.

Should work.

[Enjay]

That may well work (I haven't tried it yet) but seeing as how it requires a bat file/modified command line to run, I don't see a huge difference between a bat file with this

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zdoom startup.wad

and one with this

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zdoom -iwad customiwad.wad -file startup.wad

What I was really hoping for was to create a nice spiffy startup for Doom and have it autoload just for fun.