by Enjay » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:18 pm
Yeah, as I said, it does seem to contain those levels. I guess the thing that threw me was that the exe has been modified to skip the "which episode" menu. I have ripped the WAD apart before, but my fuzzy memory was remembering that there was only one episode's worth of levels in there. That was wrong. They're all there, but only the single episode is accessible if played using the regular chex exe.
Why not include it as a IWAD? Well, I'd say even more so now because it's a cheap and possibly even illegal hack. To do it properly, you wouldn't just have to add it to the IWAD list, but make it skip the episode choice (which uses normal Doom graphics and names, so looks out of place). Also, there are the changes to names etc in pickup messages and so on. In other words, as it is at present, Chex works but does not behave as the original release did. In addition, extra Zdoom stuff would be wrong. There isn't a drop of blood in chex, but the bad guys leave dripping blood decals all over the walls in Zdoom. Simply including Chex as a IWAD would mean you were playing a buggy, flawed game. So, it needs more than just being added to the list, it needs to be supported as an additional game (albeit with minimal changes).
Yeah, as I said, it does seem to contain those levels. I guess the thing that threw me was that the exe has been modified to skip the "which episode" menu. I have ripped the WAD apart before, but my fuzzy memory was remembering that there was only one episode's worth of levels in there. That was wrong. They're all there, but only the single episode is accessible if played using the regular chex exe.
Why not include it as a IWAD? Well, I'd say even more so now because it's a cheap and possibly even illegal hack. To do it properly, you wouldn't just have to add it to the IWAD list, but make it skip the episode choice (which uses normal Doom graphics and names, so looks out of place). Also, there are the changes to names etc in pickup messages and so on. In other words, as it is at present, Chex works but does not behave as the original release did. In addition, extra Zdoom stuff would be wrong. There isn't a drop of blood in chex, but the bad guys leave dripping blood decals all over the walls in Zdoom. Simply including Chex as a IWAD would mean you were playing a buggy, flawed game. So, it needs more than just being added to the list, it needs to be supported as an additional game (albeit with minimal changes).