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[Feature] Doom WADs support

Open NotaInutilis opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

I'd just like to manage Doom WADs with Romm.

WADs are packaged mods for Doom, Doom 2 and other Doom engine games. It's a well documented format. https://doomwiki.org/wiki/WAD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_modding

A lot of those have IGDB pages. They are listed as mods for Doom 1 or 2 and usually have the "wad" tag. Some examples below. https://www.igdb.com/games/thatchers-techbase https://www.igdb.com/games/my-house https://www.igdb.com/categories/wad

In the way that RomM can handle these files, we can make the very shoddy analogy that the PWAD (mod) is a rom, the IWAD (original game, doom.wad, doom2.wad) is a bios and the game engine is an emulator.

Moreover, since Doom 1 and 2 are open source, there are a lot of source ports (GZdoom, Boom,...) that allow Doom to run on anything, including a web browser! A source port could be included in RomM along with all its emulators. Unfortunately, I don't have a suggestion for which one to use.

NotaInutilis avatar Sep 28 '24 05:09 NotaInutilis