Help with Brutal Doom

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I can't get this working :(

I have doom2.wad and brutalv20b.pk3 located in:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/

created a emulator.cfg file called "brutaldoom2" located in:
/home/pi/RetroPie/configs/ports/brutaldoom2/emulators.cfg

emulator.cfg file looks like this:
zdoom = "/opt/retropie/ports/zdoom/zdoom +set fullscreen 1 -iwad /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/doom2.wad" -file
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/brutalv20b.pk3"
default="zdoom"

created a script called "Brutal Doom 2" and it is located:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/Brutal Doom 2.sh

The Brutal Doom 2.sh file looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 PORT "brutaldoom2"

Brutal Doom 2 appears in Ports, but when I launch the game it's just the normal doom2 game.

what am I doing wrong?

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@lowres

from what I can tell the script seems to be working correctly and getting the information from the "emulators.cfg" file I created because if I misspell the doom2.wad location then it doesn't load and crashes back to emulation station.

so it is loading the doom2.wad so how do I get the brutalv20b.pk3 file to work with it?

edmaul69

@lowres linux is case sensitive. If any part of the brutal doom pk3 has caps in it you have to put caps in the emulators.cfg and i think brutal doom had a capitol "B" so you need them to match

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@edmaul69

the one I have is all lower case. I double and tripple checked lol. Does what I'm doing look right like it should work? I feel lime I'm on the right track but it's all pretty new to me

edmaul69

@lowres are you trying to play the brutal zdoom blood and gunmods only or are you trying to play the brutal zdoom levels. If you are trying to play the brutal levels you also need the hellonearthstarterpack. As far as only using the gun and blood mods your emulators.cfg looks right.

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@edmaul69

I downloaded another brutal doom file that is "brutalv20b_R.pk3

I got it working with this in my emulators.cfg file:

zdoom = "/opt/retropie/ports/zdoom/zdoom +set fullscreen 1 -iwad %ROM% -file /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/brutalv20b_R.pk3"
default="zdoom"

Now Can I add another file? I have the DoomMetalVol4.wad which is remixed music, but I can't seem to get it to load with brutalv20b_R.pk3, I tried using this:

zdoom = "/opt/retropie/ports/zdoom/zdoom +set fullscreen 1 -iwad %ROM% -file /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/DoomMetalVol4.wad
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/brutalv20b_R.pk3"
default="zdoom"

but only the first file will work, not sure if I have to add anything to make the config file load both the wad and pk3 file I want?

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solved it. I had to rename the "DoomMetalVol4.wad" to "metal.wad" and it works. Maybe it was too long, or the upper and lower cases were an issues not sure but this is my Brutal Doom 2 emulators.cfg:

zdoom = "/opt/retropie/ports/zdoom/zdoom +set fullscreen 1 -iwad
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/doom2.wad -file
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/metal.wad
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/brutalv20b_R.pk3"
default="zdoom"

all is good now :) and I just got the Brutal Doom Hell on Earth setup too. Thanks for mentioning that

edmaul69

@lowres you actually dont need doom metal. If you go through the music channels the doom metal is in there on one of the channels.

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@edmaul69

oh really? I spent hours figuring it out so I'll just leave it lol. Atleast I learned a lot today. Speaking of music, I read that you needed all the music files in mp3 format named correctly in the same folder as the wads to get game music working, but the original music is working just fine in normal doom and doom 2 by just changing the midi device to OPL. Was that an old issue? I have all the mp3 files but didn't have to use them