Help running Doom PWADs

[aFriendNamed5]

Hi all,
This problem is seriously making me lose my mind...

I'm on RetroPie 4.4, trying to use lr-prboom to load some Doom mods. I've looked at the wiki and followed the instructions, and spent over 3 hours following several other guides from around the internet and no joy.

Example: trying to run the Batman Doom mod.

I have a folder set up at /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/batman
This folder has symlinks to the prboom.wad and doom2.wad (needed by batman mod), as well as the batman.wad and batman.deh files, and a prboom.cfg which links to the batman.wad and batman.deh files.

I have a script called Batman.sh in the ports directory which contains the below:
**#!/bin/bash
"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 PORT "doom" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/batman/doom2.wad"
**
The shell script has +X permissions.

Every time I run Batman.sh, it loads up the vanilla version of doom2 - it seems to completely ignore the the prboom.cfg I have in the "batman" folder which tells it to load my custom .wad and.deh files.

What am I doing wrong? Is there any easier way to load Doom mods, like a gui menu or something?

If someone has functional Doom mods working in their RP setup, could you possibly link me to a download of your folders/files? I'll provide my own commercial Doom wads, that's not a problem. I'm just at my wit's end with this...

[edmaul69]

@afriendnamed5 you need to edit the emulators.cfg to change what emulator loads. Also not sure if pr-boom can run batman.

[hansolo77]

@afriendnamed5 Maybe you need a space after PORT before "doom"?

If that doesn't work, you could always get DosBox and run it through that. DosBox is my next hurdle to learn how to use.

[aFriendNamed5]

@edmaul69

Edit the cfg in what way? Because ideally I want to use lr-prboom - I tried zdoom and batman had random gfx glitches, and the controller didnt work in the menus.

Everything I've read says prboom should work fine, I just can't work out why it's not acknowledging the custom prboom.cfg in the batman folder.

[aFriendNamed5]

@hansolo77

Tried the space thing - weirdly it IS there in my actual script, something must have gone weird when I copy/pasted it here.

And dosbox is way too much faff and hassle for me, my patience is almost non-existent at the best of times!

[edmaul69]

@afriendnamed5 i dont think you can use batman doom on lr-prboom. As for the glitches you need the batman doom patch. Batman doom plus is better too as it fixes other issues with batman doom as well.

[aFriendNamed5]

Ok,so I've switched to zdoom and am trying to get the controller to operate in the menu so I don't need a keyboard.

I've seen @mediamogul's post about using xboxdrv and I honestly don't understand it, I'm no code junkie.

I'm trying this method [here] (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16078/zdoom-and-gampad-fully-working-in-menu-with-no-keyboard&ved=2ahUKEwj45MWg_c7bAhULTcAKHc9GAmkQrAIoADAAegQICBAL&usg=AOvVaw2ONXORvHygVePb7rGmylnf) but can't get zdoom to recompile.

Has anyone tried the above method? Maybe can share their recompiled zdoom files?

[aFriendNamed5]

I'm still no further forward if anyone can offer some help?