Bug#776061: game-data-packager: please add a game-data-competn package containing the Compet-N set of PWADs

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Mon Jan 26 08:59:25 UTC 2015


Control: clone 776061 -2 -3
Control: retitle -2 g-d-p: please add support for the Doom 2 Master Levels
Control: retitle -3 g-d-p: please add support for No Rest For The Living

In a similar manner, please add packages to keep the "Master Levels for
Doom 2" and the "No Rest For The Living" episode.

The former is an officially released set of 20 PWADs (with accompanying
TXT files) that were created by selected community members who were
contracted by ID for that very purpose. The disadvantage of this set is
that all maps are in individual PWADs and often occupy the same map
slot, so they need to get loaded and played separately. Ideally, the
package g-d-p creates for them comes with a Zenity frontend that allows
for selecting one of them and automatically calls 'doom-engine' with the
correct '-file' and '-warp' parameters.

The latter is the latest addition to the official Doom canon and comes
bundled with the Doom 3 BFG Edition, which is sold on Steam and rather
common nowadays. It is a PWAD that needs to get loaded alongside
DOOM2.WAD. Some maps exceed Vanilla Doom's static engine limits, so a
'boom-engine' is required to run it. Prboom-Plus, for example,
recognizes the PWAD at startup and already sets the correct map names,
par times, music, etc.

- Fabian



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