"Pistol start" on hardest difficulty

[Schizophriend]

I usually play Doom mods and the likes through GZDoom and I always play through each map with a pistol start, unless they're specifically not made for that.

Everyone probably knows what "pistol start" means, but I'll explain it briefly anyways. It's when every level is designed in a way so you can beat it even if you start without any additional weapons other than the pistol, which is your default weapon, as if you were starting a new game.

From what I know, Heretic's maps are made with the same idea in mind, so every map should be beatable if you only start with the melee weapon and the wand.


Now what I don't understand is, how do you do a pistol start (or rather, a wand start?) in Heretic when you're playing on the hardest difficulty? When playing with GZDoom, the game autosaves after each map, so you can't just die and reset the map since it will always load your savefile after dying.
But you also can't use a map warping cheat since GZDoom treats it as if you're playing on DOOM's nightmare difficulty, where cheats are turned off.

So how do I do it? Only way I could think of would be to use the cmd.exe to load every map individually on the 5th difficulty.

[Schizophriend]

Oh nevermind, apparently the "engage" cheat still works... well just ignore this then

[masternoxx1]

There is probably a way to disable auto load in GZdoom I would suspect. You might do a search for that.

Normally, all you need to do is DIE on any level

[masternoxx1]

After you start the game in GZdoom its under miscellaneous options "enable autosaves" or some such