Any Doom Mods Recommendations???

RetroFreak89

Hey everyone,

Lately I've been into these doom mods I've tried quite a few of them
I want to try some more but running out of ideas so I thought I'd
ask here if anyone knows any good worth wile mods to check out???

I'm not even sure if there's a lot of people even playing and modding doom
on the pi.....
I know a few people that's about it lol

edmaul69

@retrofreak89 as far as level + mods i will post the entire game list i have when i get the time

edmaul69

@retrofreak89 here is my doom engine game list. all the wolfensteins are doom mods as well

Aliens TC
Batman Doom Plus
Batman Doom
Brutal Doom - Project Brutality
Brutal Doom 64
Chex Quest 2 - Flemoids Take Chextropolis
Chex Quest 3 - Chucktropolis
Chex Quest
Deus Vult 2
Deus Vult 
Doom 64 GP32
Doom II - Hell on Earth
Doom II - Master Levels
Doom II - No Rest for the Living
Doom Raider
Doom
Final Doom - Evilution
Final Doom - The Plutonia Experiment
Fistfull of Doom
Hacx - Twitch 'n Kill
Hell Revealed 2
Hell Revealed 
Heretic - Shadow Of The Serpent Riders
Heretic
Hexen - Beyond Heretic
Hexen - Deathkings Of The Dark Citadel
John Romero's Doom e1m8b
John Romero's Ultimate Doom e1m8b
Knee Deep in Z-Doom
Legacy of Suffering
Lynx
Nostromo's Run 
Plutonia 2
Project Brutality
Scythe 2
Strain
Strife - Quest for the Sigil - v.1.2
Strife - Quest for the Sigil 
Stronghold
Sunlust
Temple of the Lizardmen - Hard
Temple of the Lizardmen 2
Temple of the Lizardmen 3
Temple of the Lizardmen
The Island
The Ultimate Doom
The Ultimate Torment and Torture
TrailBlazer
Unloved
Valiant
Vanguard
Winter's Fury
Wolfenstein 3D - High Resolution
Wolfenstein 3D - Spear of Destiny - High Resolution
Wolfenstein 3D - Spear of Destiny - Return To Danger
Wolfenstein 3D - Spear of Destiny - The Ultimate Challenge
Wolfenstein 3D - Spear of Destiny
Wolfenstein 3D
Zen Dynamics

RetroFreak89

@edmaul69 Nice ty i Will check out a few of these

RetroFreak89

@edmaul69 also i wanna rename some of my doom wads which is the file i need to rename So it shows up on emilation station is it the .sh file?
I wanna put spaces in between So instead of Brutaldoom as it showing now i want Brutal Doom where do i change that??

edmaul69

@retrofreak89 all the names i posted are the names of my .sh files. They are what show up in emulationstation.

RetroFreak89

@edmaul69 i gotcha So if i ever want to change the name of a mod Just change the sh file name?

edmaul69

@retrofreak89 yup.

jcook84

Back to Saturn X (either episode)
UAC Ultra
Sunlust
Sunder
BloodStain
ZBlood
Death Foretold
Brutal Doom, Brutal Wolfenstein

I like using perkristian's smooth weapon animations +"Random Deaths and Decoration" on the more vanilla wads to keep it feeling familiar, but also updated.
(Smooth Doom also works for this, but the later versions are pretty jazzed up).

Edit: Off topic, but check out "Arcane Dimensions" on QuakeSpasm for pc (just don't create a bunch of threads requesting a QuakeSpasm port, lol)

ExarKunIv

@edmaul69

i have a few questions i would like to bounce off of you if you dont mind

1 for Aliens TC, what files do i need. i unzipped it and there are a few .wads in there. or do i need all of them

2 does zdoom have hardware render or is that only gzdoom? im trying to play City Of The Damned: Apocalypse and it is telling me to turn on hardware rendering

3 i have Strife to load, but the colors are all crazy. no other mod is doing that i dont have a clue where to start

thx for any input

edmaul69

@exarkuniv 1 & 3 i will answer when i get home. 2. Yes you need gzdoom for that. Pirate doom only lets you play the first level and effs up the colors on level 2 and wont let you play for the same reason.

detron

I have downloaded Doom mods for 20 years, or bought collections on CD and such.

am I the only one who would love to see a DOOM specific (ok Heretic and Hexen can join, as well as Wolfenstien 3D and such) distro for the Raspberry Pi?

RetroPie has simplified the emulation scene on the Pi, and it is wonderful. I know it plays DOOM like a champ, but I am thinking more of a system where the launchers for mods and maps are auto generated. Folders where you put files based on whatever segregation method makes sense to achieve the goal.

Maybe when I finish my degree (I am 40, so I work and go to school), I will have time to learn to program properly and put in some effort on something like this. But to be honest, I would prefer it to already be done.

edmaul69

@detron the problem with automating is that some mods require being loaded before others and there is no automation process that i could think of that would work properly for every situation without duplicates of the same file.

edmaul69

@exarkuniv ok so to answer your questions

1: this is what i have for aliens tc. you use doom 1 not doom 2 and i use these two files here:

zdoom = "/opt/retropie/ports/zdoom/zdoom -iwad /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/doom.wad -file /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/ALIENSTC.pk3 -file /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/zcoopm1.66.pk3

here is how i have strife. you do not use any doom wads with strife.

zdoom = "/opt/retropie/ports/zdoom/zdoom -iwad /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/strife.wad"

edmaul69

@detron if you put doom 2, heretic, hexen, tnt and plutonia in there own folders in /roms/ports/ i believe it automates their configs.

RetroFreak89

@exarkuniv for me alien tc runs absolutly horrible on the pi 3 :( to bad my game pc is dead it fried while ago So pi is pretty much all got for doom modding..

RetroFreak89

@jcook84 what does the smooth animation do? I dont really get what it does it just smoothens the animation? That is it?
Is it it a big difference

RetroFreak89

I also found another cool mod Pro Doomer 3 it soposed to have a tonssss of levels as well but it runs really horrible om thinking it might need gzdoom for it to run smooth..
Same with Aliens Colonial Marines (doom mod )
Also lags rly bad especially the first level where Its snowing outside lol it just stutters like a bitch

RetroFreak89

@edmaul69 Ed what sound options is better ? Opl sythensis sound OR timidy ++
Trying to use one that uses less resources i want to tweak and get it running as smooth as possible also changing the audio channels from 32 down to 8 helps with performance a little bit

detron

@edmaul69 said in Any Doom Mods Recommendations???:

@detron if you put doom 2, heretic, hexen, tnt and plutonia in there own folders in /roms/ports/ i believe it automates their configs.

I will have to give that a try (once i have time) .

thank you for the info.