Replacing custom weapons with default ones

[ZikShadow]

I've been trying to remove the custom weapons in Dusted's Touhou Doom (leaving behind the enemies though, for obvious reasons), mostly just so I could go through the mod with gameplay mods, and have been encountering some problems.
Mostly in that I don't really know how to replace the custom entities in the maps themselves with default variants. I did try to search the how-to's online, but either it's not there, I'm not very good at searching specific questions, or I just suck at understanding what's already there. I did attempt to do it myself multiple times though, with no progress.

I downloaded TerminusEst13's DemonSteele TD patch to find out how did he replace the items, and tried copying over the class names from GZDoom's originals.

It went like:

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actor Shotgun : DoomWeapon replaces MWeapWand1 {}
actor ClipBox : Clip replaces CWeapStaff1 {}

With this, the Sapphire Wand found at the start of Map02 disappears (couldn't found it at all), and the Serpent Staff turned into a clip instead of clipbox. I tried changing the names to see if that's how the replacing stuff works, but it just makes the pickups disappear.

Thought for a moment, maybe I could do it straight by tampering with the original file itself using SLADE, but checking out the .wad itself, I couldn't figure out which part controls the pickup entities in the map's wads themselves.

I managed to have gameplay mods be sort-of compatible with the mod itself by eliminating all KEYCONFs in the .pk3, so that part is done atleast.

So I guess the main question now is, how do I replace custom weapons in wads with default ones? And, what is the best way of doing it, doing scripts or tampering with the maps?

[ZikShadow]

Okay, I somewhat got it by basically making a new actor with the action of spawning the old stuff:

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actor WandOfEmbersAmmoChange : RandomSpawner  replaces WandOfEmbersAmmo
{
    DropItem "Shell"
} 

actor WandOfEmbersHeftyChange : RandomSpawner  replaces WandOfEmbersHefty
{
    DropItem "ShellBox"
} 

actor BManaChange : RandomSpawner  replaces BMana
{
    DropItem "Clip"
} 

actor BBManaChange : RandomSpawner  replaces BBMana
{
    DropItem "Clip"
} 

actor SBManaChange : RandomSpawner  replaces SBMana
{
    DropItem "ClipBox"
} 

actor MBManaChange : RandomSpawner  replaces MBMana
{
    DropItem "ClipBox"
} 

actor GManaChange : RandomSpawner  replaces GMana
{
    DropItem "RocketAmmo"
} 

actor GBigManaChange : RandomSpawner  replaces GBigMana
{
    DropItem "RocketAmmo"
} 

actor GSmallManaChange : RandomSpawner  replaces GSmallMana
{
    DropItem "RocketBox"
} 

actor MGManaChange : RandomSpawner  replaces MGMana
{
    DropItem "RocketBox"
} 

actor ClawAmmoChange : RandomSpawner  replaces ClawAmmo
{
    DropItem "Cell"
} 

actor ClawHeftyChange : RandomSpawner  replaces ClawHefty
{
    DropItem "CellPack"
} 

actor EtherealArrowsChange : RandomSpawner  replaces EtherealArrows
{
    DropItem "Shell"
} 

actor EtherealQuiverChange : RandomSpawner  replaces EtherealQuiver
{
    DropItem "ShellBox"
} 

actor ElvenAmmoChange : RandomSpawner  replaces ElvenAmmo
{
    DropItem "Backpack"
} 

actor ElvenGeodeChange : RandomSpawner  replaces ElvenGeode
{
    DropItem "Backpack"
} 

actor HellstaffAmmoChange : RandomSpawner  replaces HellstaffAmmo
{
    DropItem "RocketAmmo"
} 

actor HellstaffHeftyChange : RandomSpawner  replaces HellstaffHefty
{
    DropItem "RocketBox"
} 

actor CManaChange : RandomSpawner  replaces CMana
{
    DropItem "Backpack"
} 

actor MWeapWand1Change : RandomSpawner replaces MWeapWand1
{
    DropItem "Backpack"
} 

actor WandOfDarknessChange : RandomSpawner replaces WandOfDarkness
{
    DropItem "Backpack"
} 

actor FWeapAxe1Change : RandomSpawner replaces FWeapAxe1
{
    DropItem "Chainsaw"
}

actor CWeapStaff1Change : RandomSpawner replaces CWeapStaff1
{
    DropItem "Shotgun"
} 

actor MWeapLightning1Change : RandomSpawner replaces MWeapLightning1
{
    DropItem "Chaingun"
} 

actor CWeapFlame1Change : RandomSpawner replaces CWeapFlame1
{
    DropItem "RocketLauncher"
} 

actor SpellBinderChange : RandomSpawner replaces SpellBinder
{
    DropItem "RocketLauncher"
} 

actor MWeapFrost1Change : RandomSpawner replaces MWeapFrost1 
{
    DropItem "PlasmaRifle"
} 

actor FWeapHammer1Change : RandomSpawner replaces FWeapHammer1 
{
    DropItem "RocketLauncher"
} 

actor MWeapBloodscourge1Change : RandomSpawner replaces MWeapBloodscourge1 
{
    DropItem "BFG9000"
} 

actor FWeapQuietus1Change : RandomSpawner replaces FWeapQuietus1 
{
    DropItem "BFG9000"
} 

actor CWeapWraithverge1Change : RandomSpawner replaces CWeapWraithverge1 
{
    DropItem "BFG9000"
} 

actor EtherealCrossbowChange : RandomSpawner replaces EtherealCrossbow 
{
    DropItem "SuperShotgun"
} 

actor DragonClawChange : RandomSpawner replaces DragonClaw 
{
    DropItem "Chaingun"
} 

actor NecromancerGauntletsChange : RandomSpawner replaces NecromancerGauntlets 
{
    DropItem "PlasmaRifle"
} 

actor GoldenWandChange : RandomSpawner replaces GoldenWand 
{
    DropItem "PlasmaRifle"
} 

actor HellstaffChange : RandomSpawner replaces Hellstaff 
{
    DropItem "RocketLauncher"
} 

actor ScarletScepterChange : RandomSpawner replaces ScarletScepter 
{
    DropItem "PlasmaRifle"
} 

actor FantasyWandChange : RandomSpawner replaces FantasyWand 
{
    DropItem "BFG9000"
} 

actor SapphireStaffChange : RandomSpawner replaces SapphireStaff 
{
    DropItem "PlasmaRifle"
} 

actor UltimateHellStaffChange : RandomSpawner replaces UltimateHellStaff 
{
    DropItem "BFG9000"
} 

actor CrimsonStaffChange : RandomSpawner replaces CrimsonStaff 
{
    DropItem "Shotgun" , 255 , 1
    DropItem "SuperShotgun" , 255 , 1
} 

actor CultAmmoChange : RandomSpawner replaces CultAmmo 
{
    DropItem "Shell"
} 

actor LargeCultAmmoChange : RandomSpawner replaces LargeCultAmmo 
{
    DropItem "ShellBox"
} 

actor UACPlasmaticRifleChange : RandomSpawner replaces UACPlasmaticRifle 
{
    DropItem "Chaingun"
} 

actor NailGunMGChange : RandomSpawner replaces NailGunMG 
{
    DropItem "Chainsaw"
} 

actor NailsChange : RandomSpawner replaces Nails 
{
    DropItem "ClipBox"
} 

actor STRailgunChange : RandomSpawner replaces STRailgun 
{
    DropItem "PlasmaRifle"
} 

actor STBFG10KChange : RandomSpawner replaces STBFG10K
{
    DropItem "BFG9000"
} 
 
actor STMinigunChange : RandomSpawner replaces STMinigun 
{
    DropItem "Shotgun" , 255 , 1
    DropItem "SuperShotgun" , 255 , 1
} 

Not sure if this is the best way, but it works for me.