How EXACTLY do you play wads in Doom 1/2 in Eternal?

[Baraksha1]

I unlocked Doom 1 and 2 and had fun with them and I noticed people were able to make wads work on them. I thought the process would be easy but whatever I do it doesn't seem to work. I usualy play wads with Source Ports which are easier to load so im not particularly used to this.

I noticed the game keeps the original game wads in the source folder of Eternal under "Classic Wads" I assumed that I can play the custom wads by simply swaping between the wads and renaming them to DOOM.WAD / DOOM2.WAD but whenever I try that the game crashed/freezes when trying to start the game. I did some research and realized that...SUPRIZE most wads this days rely on source ports and don't really work on vanilla doom, so I decided to look up some vanilla doom wads I can download.

I downloaded a recomanded wad that apearantly works with vanilla called "Back to Saturn X" and after using the old wad swaping trick I mentioned it ALMOST worked. the game loads but I was stuck in the main menu and certain things seem to not load very well. similar issues accured with other mods I attempted to play. some of them even crashed despite being vanila compatible.

my assumption is that this is happening because the wad file I am replacing in the folder is the IWAD and that is usualy remained untouched. but that just confuses me more because then how are people able to load patch wads?.

can anyone by chance explain this to me a little better and perhaps help make this work? is there something im missing?

[fenderjaguar]

what are you trying to play in, DOSbox, or booting into DOS and running it natively?

[GepardenK]

Originally posted by fenderjaguar:

what are you trying to play in, DOSbox, or booting into DOS and running it natively?

He's trying to play custom WADs through the computer in the Fortress of Doom

[Baraksha1]

^

[Fang]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/782330/discussions/0/1867245566134003068/

I haven't tested this myself yet, but it seems to have helped people. I'm assuming some more modern wads don't work if they have dependencies on sourceports, yeah.

Try some older doom megawads.

I just tested it with Plutonia and that works!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2034921593

[Baraksha1]

Originally posted by Fang:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/782330/discussions/0/1867245566134003068/

I haven't tested this myself yet, but it seems to have helped people. I'm assuming some more modern wads don't work if they have dependencies on sourceports, yeah.

Try some older doom megawads.

I just tested it with Plutonia and that works!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2034921593

yeah, the classicwads folder was apearantly not current in the game's first release. this was patched later on while I was still going through the campaign lol.
i'll try out Plutonia, thanks anyways

EDIT: oh sick, Plutonia actualy works fine!. thanks
I would like to know more about which wads are compatible. because the vanilla doom wads wiki page I found didn't seem to have anything that worked for me. lol

[Fang]

Originally posted by Baraksha1:

Originally posted by Fang:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/782330/discussions/0/1867245566134003068/

I haven't tested this myself yet, but it seems to have helped people. I'm assuming some more modern wads don't work if they have dependencies on sourceports, yeah.

Try some older doom megawads.

I just tested it with Plutonia and that works!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2034921593

yeah, the classicwads folder was apearantly not current in the game's first release. this was patched later on while I was still going through the campaign lol.
i'll try out Plutonia, thanks anyways

It's really fun as a novelty, but I wouldn't recommend going through it like this anyway. It runs at a very low framerate as a nod to the DOS era. Doom Guy needs to upgrade to 512mb RAM dammit!

[Time Stamp]

I can recommend Alien Vandetta
it has vanilla comp, and the over-limit maps do not crash in Eternal

but you will have to do some extra things to get it to work
assuming you all ready bought Doom2

download a DOOM WAD editor and open up your main 1/2.wad file and just import all of the mod lumps in to the main wad from said mod.

take note that Eternal already has the game soundtrack in the main game files
so if it can not detect the music names for Doom2 it will default to Doom1 music

[positron01]

I recommend playing with GZDoom if you got the WADs on hand.

[Baraksha1]

Originally posted by Ahcruna:

I can recommend Alien Vandetta
it has vanilla comp, and the over-limit maps do not crash in Eternal

but you will have to do some extra things to get it to work
assuming you all ready bought Doom2

download a DOOM WAD editor and open up your main 1/2.wad file and just import all of the mod lumps in to the main wad from said mod.

take note that Eternal already has the game soundtrack in the main game files
so if it can not detect the music names for Doom2 it will default to Doom1 music

that explains why I hear the og DOOM2 ost in Plutonia lol. also I know I can easly play this with GZDoom. but I kind of want to see how far I can go with playing Doom IN DOOM lol

[Time Stamp]

I agree with Baraksha1, from my point of view it has nothing to do with playing it 100% correct
it's a curious thing to see how far you can push the port within Eternal

this is how I play DOOM it on my main computer
https://i.imgur.com/SPe2q9V.jpg

that is, if I'm not playing it on my 486 with a daughterboard
which sounds like this by the way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4wqUDMmIJY

have a nice day