During Quarantine, I began working on a new project in my free time on-and-off. Now, First off. Doom has a surprisingly interesting history with Nintendo, and it's not something often talked about. The first entry, on Nintendo systems being the infamous port of Doom on the Super Nintendo. While it's generally agreed to have not aged well, It was remarkable for the time considering it ran on inferior hardware, and I always found the little differences in mechanics and gameplay quirks interesting. With hearing recent news that Randy Linden, The man behind the port, is soon to release the official source code for it and with Doom 2016 on, and the upcoming Doom Eternal coming to Switch - I felt more motivated to put more time into my mod, in hopes to finish it. Introducing Super Doom. A gameplay mod that aims to recreate and emulate the SNES experience as much as possible on the GZDoom engine. This mod is meant to be near-universal and should not only be compatible with nearly all vanilla mappacks (so long as they don't add any new monsters, textures or weapons), but is also planned to have content for Doom 2, along with optional graphics/resources to run the game with to make your game feel more like the SNES experience.
How this even started to begin with, is a funny story. I met up with the creator of the original SNES TC on YouTube and learned he was not only working on an unfinished Doom 2 conversion, But also various other fixes. I talked to him and got permission to use his resources and convert his DEHACKED scripting to DECORATE. While some may say trying to recreate the SNES experience is questionable, I'll be honest: I always found the small differences in the port interesting and I feel playing it at a higher frame rate would improve the experience and allow players to appreciate them as much as I did. It's genuinely an interesting way to replay through Doom. This mod currently is playable, but nowhere near finished. I still have to create Doom 2 assets and do some further balancing. I also don't think this will be near accurate to the SNES experience until Randy Linden actually releases his source code. Really, This mod is for all those Nintendo nuts (like myself
) and people who grew up with the SNES version of Doom.
