Doom Legacy Support

ddraig · Post by **ddraig** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 23:41

Hi,
First of all thanks for gzdoom!

My question is, what type of Legacy support should I expect from gzdoom? The main reason why I ask is that I have downloaded a ton of wads from Jive's DLW site. He enhanced various wads for Legacy as well as making some collection megawads converted for legacy features.
http://www.doomwadstation.com/dlw/Doom2_1.html

Should I expect these to run fine in gzdoom? Or is it better to just grab the originals?
If it's hard to say, thats cool. Just I wanted to send some of my pwads over to a friend so we could do some co-op online, an wanted to get an idea of compatibility, before knowing what to send.

Thanks.

EDIT: Sorry bout that. I did a crosspost. This one here needs to be removed:

http://forum.drdteam.org/viewtopic.php?t=2900

InsanityBringer · Post by **InsanityBringer** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 23:49

First of all, you could of just requested a mod move your thread.

Secondly, I tried the Rainbowstar level that came with the legacy 1.42 release (or something similar). I found that most of the level actually ran better, but there were several issues, none serious. The mods you want should work well enough for the gameplay to have no problems.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:49

The only Legacy WADs I thoroughly tested are Nimrod, Hi-Tech Hell and Icerial2. I know for sure that Phobia: The Age does not work properly.

ddraig · Post by **ddraig** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 17:17

ok thanks.

Boingo the Clown · Post by **Boingo the Clown** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 16:20

I am currently in the process of switching The Ultimate Chex Quest to GZDooM. If my experience switching DeiMWolf over is anything to go by, I shouldn't have any problem.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 17:38

Problems mostly occur with dirty FraggleScript code.

Unfortunately Phobia seems to be full of it, heavily depending on bugs in the implementation in order to run. I actually fixed some of these FS bugs which causes the problems. If you don't make extensive use of FS or make sure your code is clean you won't encounter any serious problems.

The biggest issue is that Legacy happily spawns monsters in places where they are blocked. Phobia makes the mistake to spawn new monsters in the place of other objects and then removing the objects, not the other way around.

ddraig · Post by **ddraig** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 22:40

thanks again.
Not a legacy issue, but I noticed that Scimitar.wad which has an embedded DEHACKED patch does not seem to work with gzdoom or zdoom, at least the custom monsters dont seem to be right.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 23:18

I have played that WAD and didn't encounter any problems. What is wrong?

ddraig · Post by **ddraig** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:28

Maybe nothing then. Just the trooper zombies at the start, when attacked emit some small white cacodemons. Its like the troopers are supposed to be replaced or something but they are not. Perhaps thats by design from the wad author then, that attacking the troopers emits these custom monsters?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:15

Hm. The Troopers are altered Pain Elementals and the white Cacos are altered Lost Souls. The A_PainDie codepointer should have been removed though.
I have no problems with the Dehacked patch in this WAD. Can you post your console output when starting it?

ddraig · Post by **ddraig** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 19:44

I'm still running 1.0.24 mind and for zdoom I didnt grab the svn version. Whats the quickest way to post console output short of a screengrab? I didnt notice a log file generated or a way to copy output.

edit: same thing happens for 1.0.29 too. really odd, Im not seeing any white cacos at all now for 1.0.24 or 1.0.29 when I run 'gzdoom -file scimitar.wad'

NeoHippo · Post by **NeoHippo** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:16

ddraig wrote:... Whats the quickest way to post console output short of a screengrab? I didnt notice a log file generated or a way to copy output...

Would the following link be helpful ?

http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f= ... le#p288136

ddraig · Post by **ddraig** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:53

much obliged!

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