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    doom wads not working

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      KingCosmuder
      last edited by KingCosmuder

      Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 4GB Ram
      Canakit Power Supply
      Retropie 4.7.1
      Built from raspberry pi imager
      PS4 Controller connected via bluetooth
      lr-prboom emulator

      verbose log: https://pastebin.com/y3C3afNB

      downloaded doom 2 wad and setup the prboom emulator and the stock doom that comes with it runs fine, but my wad for doom 2, doesnt work and kicks me back into emulationstation a few seconds after launching it. i made a doom2.sh in \RETROPIE\roms\ports with this #!/bin/bash
      "/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 PORT "doom" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/doom2/DOOM2.WAD" and placed my wad into the doom folder with no luck and tried making a sub folder doom2 and tried placing it in their as show above but no luck and i have tried other doom wads and the same issue persists

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        ExarKunIv @KingCosmuder
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        @kingcosmuder i dont have it on my system just yet, (busy with other ports) but did you try changing DOOM2.WAD, to doom2.wad.

        i think that is how it was on my old system

        RPi3B+ / 200GB/ RetroPie v4.5.14, RPi4 Model B 4gb / 256gb / RetroPie 4.8.2
        RPi5 4gb / 512gb / RetroPie 4.8.9 -Basic
        Maintainer of RetroPie-Extra .

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          sleve_mcdichael
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          [libretro ERROR] retro_load_game: couldn't read WAD header from '/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/doom2/DOOM2.WAD'
          [INFO] [Environ]: SET_MESSAGE: ROM loading failed...
          [ERROR] Failed to load content
          

          Looks like it doesn't like your WAD. Try using another source. I've found one that works; I can't tell you where to get it but I can probably get away with sharing the crc32 and md5sum to help you determine if you've found the right one:

          pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/doom2 $ crc32 DOOM2.WAD 
          ec8725db
          pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/doom2 $ md5sum DOOM2.WAD 
          25e1459ca71d321525f84628f45ca8cd  DOOM2.WAD
          
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