Doom

Overview

Emulators:
- gzdoom (Standalone) (Default)
- lzdoom (Standalone)
- prboom
Path(s):
- doom
Supported Extensions: .doom

Setup

Introduction

AmberELEC supports the Doom engine trough lzdoom (standalone). It’s possible to load mods and keep them in your gamelist beside your main Doom, Doom 2, SIGIL, Heretic and Hexen wads. The system recognizes all the .doom files that can be placed in /roms/doom but it needs the original (not shareware) versions of the main games placed in /roms/doom/*.wad, the mods instead must be put into /roms/doom/mods/*.wad, *.ipk3. However this is a standard that we are using, no one is forcing you to use this method unless you’re sharing the .doom and the shareable mod files with the community (see each mod’s licence about sharing).

Savefiles will be put into /roms/gamedata/lzdoom/*.zds

So a sample directory tree is like:

/roms/doom/
./iwads DIR
./mods DIR
Castlevania.doom
Doom.doom
Doom_2.doom
Heretic.doom
Hexen.doom
SIGIL.doom
Simpsons_Doom.doom
TNT.doom

/roms/doom/iwads
doom.wad
doom2.wad
heretic.wad
hexen.wad
plutonia.wad
tnt.doom
SIGIL_v1_21.wad

/roms/doom/mods
Castlevania.ipk3
ulsimpdm.wad

How to create a .doom file

The file is simple and self explaining:

IWAD=/storage/roms/doom/iwads/doom.wad
MOD=/storage/roms/doom/mods/ulsimpdm.wad
-- end --

IWAD is the main base game file, in this case is doom.wad. MOD is obviously the mod is loaded. Please note that the names are case sensitive.

Limitations

Some mods can run very slow, sorry for Castlevania fans.
Tough the shareware version of doom can be played with lzdoom it doesn’t allow to load the mods, so you need a retail verson.
PRBoom currently only runs IWADS and not mods. If you want to run mods, please try gzdoom or lzdoom.

If you created some .doom files and you want to share them with the community you are very welcome. Actually the .doom repo is here. You can even share the mod files if the licence allows it. It’s forbidden to share the copyrighted .wad files such as the retail version of doom.wad