"Replaces" doesn't always work in DECORATE?

[Ceeb]

In my mod I've replaced most of the original Doom arsenal, and so I used, in the first line of each weapon, the line "Weapon Replaces (weapon here)". Some of these work, like my chainsaw in place of the old one, the Photon Rifle replacing the Plasma Rifle, my minigun, and my RPG.

Others, like my weapons to replace the shotgun, double-barrel shotgun, and BFG don't. Here's some culprit code, for example.

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ACTOR TripleShotgun : Weapon Replaces SuperShotgun

I know this should cause each Super Shotgun to be replaced with my Triple Shotgun, but wherever I look, there's Super Shotguns.

EDIT

I just tried running my WAD without it's dehacked patch and it worked. I did use frames from the shotgun and super shotgun... But why would that have any bearing on this?

[Rachael]

Replaces only changes certain references to the item.

EDIT: I am not really sure exactly what is going on here.

[Ceeb]

Replaces only changes certain references to the item.

EDIT: I am not really sure exactly what is going on here.

Note my edit, running it without my DeHackEd patch fixed things. I just went ahead and rewrote my patch (the damn thing was a mess anyway) and wrote most of the stuff in DECORATE. (Like, I was using fireballs from Doom 64, which had more frames.)

[Enjay]

I don't know if this is what's happening, or even if it is supposed to. However, when a pickup is changed by dehacked, it gets replaced with an internally generated dehacked pickup (I think). So, perhaps, Zdoom is no longer seeing the supershotgun as a supershotgun, but a dehacked actor, and so it isn't replacing it

[Zippy]

Definately sounds like DeHackEd could be the issue. Considering the purpose of DeHackEd is to mix around the frames and properties of actors, it actually wouldn't be terribly surprising if running DECORATE alongside it was problematic.