================================================================ Title : 2002 A DOOM ODYSSEY (V2) Filename : 2002ado.wad Authors : Paul Corfiatis (leader), Chris Hansen, Kristian Aro VIRGIL (the Doom Poet), Sam "Metabolist" Woodman Rory Habich, Anthony Soto, Joseph Pallai. Email Address : pcorfiatis@our.net.au (Paul) doomed_krise@hotmail.com (Kristian) neworderdatabase@hotmail.com (Anthony) IMJUSTJOE@prodigy.net (Joe) C.N.H.DK@mail.tele.dk (Chris) virgil_32@hotmail.com (VIRGIL) rhabich@freeler.nl (Rory) sewoodman@talk21.com (Sam) Note : This is an updated version which fixes a few minor crannies in some of the levels. The original version was released on July 24, 2002. Improvment changes were made to E1M3, E1M5, E2M2, E4M2, E4M5 and E4M6. Also, some other changes have been made. A MAPINFO entry has been added into the wad which allows for seperate level by level skies and the correct music arangments for Episode 4. There is also an all-new E5M1 for Zdoom players only. Description : A 4 episode megawad for the Ultimate Doom containing 4 all new challenging episodes for you to test you're skill on, great architecture and lots of hard work, put into every level. A recomended download. Story : You fight you're way through a monster infested bloodbath to destroy that spider. Then you return home to find out the awful truth that you're wife "Stephanie" has been kidnapped by Tommy the Trooper. Then you must go back into hell somewhere else to destroy Tommy and rescue you're wife. Additional Credits to : All the authours for the Utilites which made this megawad possible. ID software of course for allowing all us authors and others to create addon levels for their games over the past 10 years. And myself for making sure this great megawad would be completed and not go dead like some other megawads such as Doom Millennium?. Also credit goes to members who signed in and gave it a try but couldnt get any ideas going. ================================================================ * Play Information * Game : THE ULTIMATE DOOM Episode and Level # : ALL - Thats 4 all new episodes. Single Player : YES - Recomended. Cooperative 2-4 Player : YES - Good for some of the harder levels (such as E4M6). Deathmatch 2-4 Player : YES - Not in all levels. Difficulty Settings : YES - In every level. New Sounds : NO - This is Doom. New Graphics : YES - Taken from various wads, etc. New Music : YES - All new original songs written by Paul Corfiatis. Thats 27 new level songs and 4 misc songs. Demos Replaced : ALL - All recorded with Doom v1.9. * Construction * Base : New levels from scratch Editor(s) used : Various * Known Bugs * If the game crashes using Doom v1.9. Here are some possible solutions it is recomended that you use a source port to play this megawad. See the Requirements section below. E4M9 Items dissapering : A source port will display this level properly. Savegame bug : If you play using the old Doom.exe V1.9 and try to save a game and it crashes with "Savegame buffer overrun" or the screen messes up. That means the level is too big to save in. This occurs on some of the big levels such as E2M7, E3M7 and E4M6. Visplane error (VPO) : This is a limit in the original Doom v1.9 (DOS version). No more visplanes The game crashes in very detailed areas. Visplane overflow It is recomended that you use a source port such as BOOM or ZDOOM to prevent this from occuring. See Requirements below. The chances of getting a VPO is hard. But in levels like E4M5, E4M6, E2M7, E3M5, E1M8 where there is lots of detail you are at risk!. In Doom95, VPO errors dont seem to be as easy to occur, the limit might be doubled???. * Who did which level? * If I did not include this here, Kristian would murder me!, estimated percentage of level written besides names. I'm not telling you the level names, you find out by yourself. Episode 1 Episode 3 E1M1 Paul Corfiatis 100 E3M1 Sam Woodman 100 E1M2 Kristian Aro 100 E3M2 Paul Corfiatis 100 E1M3 Paul Corfiatis 100 E3M3 Rory Habich 100 E1M4 Kristian Aro 100 E3M4 Rory Habich 100 E1M5 Paul Corfiatis 100 E3M5 Virgil the "Doom" poet 100 E1M6 Kristian Aro 100 E3M6 Chris Hansen 100 E1M7 Paul Corfiatis 100 E3M7 Paul Corfiatis 100 E1M8 Kristian Aro 100 E3M8 Paul Corfiatis 100 Episode 2 Episode 4 E2M1 Paul Corfiatis 100 E4M1 Paul Corfiatis 100 E2M2 Chris Hansen 99 / Paul Corfiatis 1 E4M2 Anthony Soto 93 / Paul Corfiatis 7 E2M3 Rory Habich 100 E4M3 Chris Hansen 100 E2M4 Paul Corfiatis 100 E4M4 Chris Hansen 100 E2M5 Paul Corfiatis 100 E4M5 Chris Hansen 96 / Paul Corfiatis 4 E2M6 Rory Habich 100 E4M6 Joe Pallai 98 / Anthony Soto 2 E2M7 Kristian Aro 75 / Paul Corfiatis 25 E4M7 Chris Hansen 99 / Paul Corfiatis 1 E2M8 Paul Corfiatis 100 E4M8 Paul Corfiatis 100 Secret Levels E1M9 Paul Corfiatis 100 E2M9 Paul Corfiatis 100 E3M9 Sam Woodman 100 E4M9 Paul Corfiatis 100 E5M1 Paul Corfiatis 100 * Requirements * Hard drive Space : 20 megs, the wad is almost 12 megs. But this shouldnt be a problem because most computers today have thousands of megs free space. Minimum : Doom v1.9 on a 486 with fast video card but due to the detail in some of the levels you are at risk of a Visplane releated crash. If you use Doom95, the Visplane limit seems to be bigger and there is less chance of a crash. Recomended : A source port such as Boom on anything faster than a P100. A recomended DOS source port is BOOM which is avaliable at the TeamTNT site at (www.teamtnt.com). This port removes the Save game and Visplane limit and is very stable. There are other good source ports avaliable such as win95/98 based ZDOOM and Doom Legacy. Go to www.doomworld.com to download a selection of freeware source ports. The 5 best source ports are: - BOOM - An Excellent DOS based source port by TeamTNT. Go to www.teamtnt.com for more info. Very stable and runs on computers as slow as 486s. - PRBOOM - A windows port of Boom above. Runs well even in the old Win95. - ZDOOM - A windows port which can even play Heretic and supports all Boom features and hexen scripts, many music formats, the lot. Win98 recomended (Crashes alot in Win95 due to sounds, etc). Can also crash in Win98 but is much more stable. Zdoom is recomended to run levels such as E5M1. - MBF - A modified version of Boom which adds a few extra features. - DOOM LEGACY - Another good windows port which takes 3d floors, etc. E5M1 might also work in Legacy? * Copyright / Permissions * Authors MAY NOT use these levels as a base to build additional levels. You MAY distribute this WAD, provided you include this file, with no modifications. You may distribute this file in any electronic format (BBS, Diskette, CD, etc) as long as you include this file intact. * Where to get this WAD * FTP sites: Other: THE 2002 A DOOM ODYSSEY SITE http://www.geocities.com/doomod2001/ * Other stuff by Paul Corfiatis * Visit Paul's Doom page at http://www.geocities.com/paul33_au/