Go for it, it doesn't seem to be viewed as negative - ZDoom recognizes the IWADs for Urban Brawl, Harmony, Adventures of Square etc.MSPaintR0cks wrote:Hey
Even if it`s really shunned upon in this community, I would love to make this game run as standalone file somehow. So that people who have no idea how to use the original IWADs can still download and play it. And yes, I know why that is a bad idea in some cases.
I already tried to alter some stuff in the ZDoom pk3 file, but it still is really hacky.
Could someone here help me with that somehow? Would be so awesome. :3
Zdoom.pk3 is included with ZDoom and contains the resources it needs, so don't edit that. If you add the right resources to your ShadowOfTheWoolBall.wad, it can function as a replacement for doom2.wad. To find out exactly what resources it's missing, run "zdoom -iwad ShadowOfTheWoolBall.wad" then open the console and see what errors it has printed out.
One tricky thing that got me when I was trying to do something similar: when loaded as an IWAD, ZDoom assumes your wad is for shareware Doom 1 and won't let you access episodes 2 and 3, because it tries to guess which game your IWAD is for by looking at which lumps are present or not present; you can what it uses to determine this here: https://github.com/rheit/zdoom/blob/9cf ... adinfo.txt
I was able to fix this for your wad by just adding an empty lump called FREEDOOM, which may be a bit of a hack but it works, and is easy to remove if you find a better way. So add that and fix any errors you see on startup, and you're standalone!