Title: Earth Filename: levels/doom2/d-f/earth.zip Size: 1.21 MB Date: 08/07/98 Author: Roger Ritenour Description: Ten level episode replacement for first episode of Hell on Earth. Story Line You arrive on earth to find it subverted by savage aliens. Your point of arrival is a rocky coastline with rolling surf: Levels: The Ruins (MAP01): You stand facing out to sea with rolling breakers splasing on the rocks. Behind you are the ruins of civilization, haunted with alien hellspawn. Seek the Sword of Damocles... The Tomb (MAP02): To have hope of freeing the world, you must take back the one place the enemy considers special... Mines of Moria (MAP03): Like its Lord of the Rings namesake, it is crawling with evil things... The Chasm (MAP04): The enemy is bivouacked in rugged coastal terrain. You mission is to clear them out... Strategic Defense Command (MAP05): A deep underground command and control center, one of the last great hopes for mankind in repelling the alien invasion. However, it seems to be off line, You need to find out why... Observation Station (MAP06): This place has seen some action before it fell to the enemy. Beware!... The Emerald Tower (MAP07): Your mission is to capture the Emerald Tower. Short, sweet, and relatively easy!?!... Ammo Pit (MAP08): This is the domain of the arch-vile. Trick him into helping you... Islands (MAP09): You arrive on an rocky island in a rugged fjord. Out to sea and somewhat up the coast is another, larger island that you must somehow reach... The Hill (MAP10): You must capture a heavily defended hill. Then home at last! You arrive in your comfortable penthouse suite where you end the episode... Combat These levels contain a wide variety of combat situations requiring different strategies. To win these levels, especially at the more difficult skill settings, requires thinking in terms of fields of fire, looking out for your flanks and backside, and keeping open lines of retreat. Most of the monster placement is randomized so that their location and response are different each time these levels are played. Hence, you will be unable to count on finding specific monsters at specific locations. The monsters occasionally show sneaky behavior due to features in the level designs. Setting: This episode is set on a rocky coastline. with spectacular outdoor views. These include high vistas and overlooks, live surf crashing onto the rocks, scenic elevator rides on the outside of tall buildings, and a spectacular bridge crossing the canyon in THE CHASM level. General: Secrets generally have some clue that the thoughtful and observant player can spot. These levels are designed to be winnable at the easier skill settings without finding the secrets, but to win the more difficult settings requires locating most of the secrets. There are no totally hidden hazards or traps; there will always be some visual or audio cue to warn of there presence. Some of the pools and slime pits have depth, ie, you will sink into them, sometimes up to your eyeballs. One final note; cliff edges at most of the high vistas are lethal to fall off of (one cannot expect to survive a fall of several hundred feet in real life). Credits: Olivier Montanuy, author of WINTEX. I borrowed his grandfather clock and television, though they have been enhanced. Check them out, you will find them in THE HILL. Stephen's DOOM Music v. 1.5 for some of the music selections. Doom version 1.2 for some additional music selections. Anton Baranov (AN_MUSIC.WAD) for other music selections. Base: New levels from scratch (three rooms in MAP06 are essentually the same as the first three rooms in Steve Benner's tutorial with Waded in 'Tricks of the Doom'.) Build time: Editor(s) used: Wintex WinDEU32 Waded BSP, Colin Reed WARM11, Robert Fenske (Both node builders used in final version, Some maps would not build correctly under one or the other node builder, thus requiring the use of both in the final version.) RMB, Jens Hykkelbjerg Corel Photopaint 6 CorelDraw 6 Bugs: Occasionally experience the soul-in- the-wall bug on several levels when killing a pain elemental. (This is a doom II bug that occasionally occurs in the ID Software's original levels. It occurs in tight surroundings where one of the three lost souls that replaces the pain elemental occasionally materializes in nearby void space.) MAP08 runs a little slow in Final Doom and possibly in versions of Doom2 1.9 and higher. Monsters that cheat: A monster revived by an arch-vile that can walk through walls and is invulnerable. This bug rare (I've seen it three times) and I do not have a clue what causes it. I am curious if any others have encountered it in any other Doom2 level. Rating: (71 votes)

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ZDL is a prior choice for singleplayer games, managing P-WADS and I-WADS, and even Source-Ports you are using. It is no rare that many just rename ZDL.exe to dosbox.exe to launch the game in the source-ports with mods, where even overlay will work. Doom 2 has an issue with it, but it is fixable at all. Using Bethesda's Port wad browser. Hockey.wad (hockey.wad) A deathmatch level for Doom II: Hell on Earth consisting of an ice hockey rink and surrounding stadium. It contains new sound effects for the pistol, shotgun, chaingun, rocket launcher, and plasma gun. Hockey.wad was released on June 13, 1996 and took an hour and a half to create. KILLER (killer.wad).

View earth.txt System Administrator: This is a re-release of Earth.wad. The original release has disappeared off the ftp.cdrom.com site and at least several of the mirror sites that I checked. It appears that there has been some confusion with a June 1998 release of a PWAD called Earth1, which appears to have accidently replaced my older release. Please restore my PWAD, Earth.wad (without deleting what is now Earth1.zip). The original release was in mid-1997 under Earth.zip, or possibly earth1.zip, and I have had some recent inquires about it (which is what prompted me to discover it was missing). Roger Ritenour Title : Earth Filename : Earth.wad Author : Roger Ritenour Emale Address : ritenour@mail.comet.net Description : Ten level episode replacement for first episode of Hell on Earth. Story Line : You arrive on earth to find it subverted by savage aliens. Your point of arrival is a rocky coastline with rolling surf: Levels: The Ruins (MAP01): You stand facing out to sea with rolling breakers splasing on the rocks. Behind you are the ruins of civilization, haunted with alien hellspawn. Seek the Sword of Damocles... The Tomb (MAP02): To have hope of freeing the world, you must take back the one place the enemy considers special... Mines of Moria (MAP03): Like its Lord of the Rings namesake, it is crawling with evil things... The Chasm (MAP04): The enemy is bivouacked in rugged coastal terrain. You mission is to clear them out... Strategic Defense Command (MAP05): A deep underground command and control center, one of the last great hopes for mankind in repelling the alien invasion. However, it seems to be off line, You need to find out why... Observation Station (MAP06): This place has seen some action before it fell to the enemy. Beware!... The Emerald Tower (MAP07): Your mission is to capture the Emerald Tower. Short, sweet, and relatively easy!?!... Ammo Pit (MAP08): This is the domain of the arch-vile. Trick him into helping you... Islands (MAP09): You arrive on an rocky island in a rugged fjord. Out to sea and somewhat up the coast is another, larger island that you must somehow reach... The Hill (MAP10): You must capture a heavily defended hill. Then home at last! You arrive in your comfortable penthouse suite where you end the episode... Combat : These levels contain a wide variety of combat situations requiring different strategies. To win these levels, especially at the more difficult skill settings, requires thinking in terms of fields of fire, looking out for your flanks and backside, and keeping open lines of retreat. Most of the monster placement is randomized so that their location and response are different each time these levels are played. Hence, you will be unable to count on finding specific monsters at specific locations. The monsters occasionally show sneaky behavior due to features in the level designs. Setting: This episode is set on a rocky coastline. with spectacular outdoor views. These include high vistas and overlooks, live surf crashing onto the rocks, scenic elevator rides on the outside of tall buildings, and a spectacular bridge crossing the canyon in THE CHASM level. General: Secrets generally have some clue that the thoughtful and observant player can spot. These levels are designed to be winnable at the easier skill settings without finding the secrets, but to win the more difficult settings requires locating most of the secrets. There are no totally hidden hazards or traps; there will always be some visual or audio cue to warn of there presence. Some of the pools and slime pits have depth, ie, you will sink into them, sometimes up to your eyeballs. One final note; cliff edges at most of the high vistas are lethal to fall off of (one cannot expect to survive a fall of several hundred feet in real life). Additional Credits : Olivier Montanuy, author of WINTEX. I borrowed his grandfather clock and television, though they have been enhanced. Check them out, you will find them in THE HILL. Stephen's DOOM Music v. 1.5 for some of the music selections. Doom version 1.2 for some additional music selections. Anton Baranov (AN_MUSIC.WAD) for other music selections. * Play Information * Episode and Level # : Map01-Map10 of Doom II Single Player : Yes Cooperative Player : Yes (untested) Deathmatch : Yes (untested) Difficulty Settings : Yes, full range, all settings are slightly more difficult than standard Doom settings. New Sounds : No New Graphics : Yes, a new non-repeating, vertically retilable sky to support some spectacular vistas plus a lot of new wall textures. Special graphics to implement special effects such as the live surf. The graphics in this pwad are designed to complement and enhance rather than to replace the standard Doom graphics. New Music : Yes, a mixture of new music, existing, and a few pieces from doom1 as judged appropriate for the mood of the level. Demos Replaced : A short demo on Ammo Pit replaces demo1 (note: this demo was recorded under version 1.7 and will not likely play correcly under other versions) *Construction * Base : New levels from scratch (three rooms in MAP06 are essentually the same as the first three rooms in Steve Benner's tutorial with Waded in 'Tricks of the Doom'.) Editors used : Wintex WinDEU32 Waded BSP, Colin Reed WARM11, Robert Fenske (Both node builders used in final version, Some maps would not build correctly under one or the other node builder, thus requiring the use of both in the final version.) RMB, Jens Hykkelbjerg Corel Photopaint 6 CorelDraw 6 Known Bugs : Occasionally experience the soul-in- the-wall bug on several levels when killing a pain elemental. (This is a doom II bug that occasionally occurs in the ID Software's original levels. It occurs in tight surroundings where one of the three lost souls that replaces the pain elemental occasionally materializes in nearby void space.) MAP08 runs a little slow in Final Doom and possibly in versions of Doom2 1.9 and higher. Monsters that cheat: A monster revived by an arch-vile that can walk through walls and is invulnerable. This bug rare (I've seen it three times) and I do not have a clue what causes it. I am curious if any others have encountered it in any other Doom2 level. bugs with solutions on next release: 'Observation Station', pink bug in secret teleport. Defeating monster cache wakeup; possible on 'The Chasm', consider a guard monster trapped near switch for access back to bridge. 'Observation Station', possibility of knowledgeable player of luring trigger monster out of blocking position. * Copyright / Permissions * You MAY use these levels as a base to build additional levels You MAY modify these levels provided that you give proper credit to the originator, whether it is me or someone I borrowed from. If you do, please drop me a line, I would like to see what you come up with. You MAY distribute this WAD in any electronic format provided you include this information file unmodified.

An IWAD - short for Internal WAD - is the main resource file for a Doom-engine game, containing all the game's original sounds, levels, and graphics. ZDoom needs an IWAD file in order to play; without one the ZDoom engine has no game data to use.

• 1Supported IWADs

Supported IWADs

Notes:

• Some file names are links to a page on the
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  Doom Wiki where you will find checksums for known versions of the concerned file.
• Some files have conflicting names; ZDoom provides you with possible aliases. Note that an IWAD is actually identified by its content rather than its name. Also, any archive format supported by ZDoom can technically be an IWAD.

Commercial games

Game	Name	File name	File aliases	Notes and download links
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Doom (Registered)	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination doom.wad	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on GOG.com — Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on Steam
	The Ultimate Doom	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination doom.wad		doomu.wad
	Doom 'BFG Edition'	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination doom.wad	bfgdoom.wad, doombfg.wad	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on GOG.com — Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on Steam — Part of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Doom 3: BFG Edition
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Doom II	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination doom2.wad	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on GOG.com — Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on Steam
	Doom II 'BFG Edition'	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination doom2.wad	bfgdoom2.wad, doom2bfg.wad	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on GOG.com — Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on Steam — Part of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Doom 3: BFG Edition; also loads Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination nerve.wad
	Final Doom — TNT: Evilution	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination tnt.wad	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on GOG.com — Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on Steam
	Final Doom — The Plutonia Experiment	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination plutonia.wad
	French Doom II	doom2f.wad	No longer sold; a patch is available at Doomworld/idgames for the original English version.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Heretic (Registered or Commercial)	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination heretic.wad	hereticsr.wad	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on GOG.com — Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination buy on Steam
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Hexen (Full)	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination hexen.wad	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on GOG.com — Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on Steam
	Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination hexdd.wad	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on GOG.com — Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on Steam
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Strife (Full)	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination strife1.wad	strife.wad	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on GOG.com — Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on Steam — Also loads Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination voices.wad
	Strife: Veteran Edition	sve.wad	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on GOG.com — Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Buy on Steam — Also loads Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination voices.wad
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Chex Quest	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination chex.wad	No longer sold, originally distributed in cereal boxes.

Free-to-play games

Game	Name	File name	File aliases	Notes and download links
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Doom (Shareware)	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination doom1.wad	Doom shareware at Doomworld/idgames
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Heretic (Shareware)	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination heretic1.wad	Heretic shareware at Doomworld/idgames
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Hexen (Demo)	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination hexen.wad	hexdemo.wad, hexendemo.wad	Hexen demo at Doomworld/idgames
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Strife (Teaser)	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination strife0.wad	Strife teaser at Doomworld/idgames
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Freedoom: Phase 1	freedoom1.wad	freedoomu.wad	Official site
	Freedoom: Phase 2	freedoom2.wad	freedoom.wad
	FreeDM	freedm.wad
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Blasphemer	heretic.wad	blasphem.wad, blasphemer.wad	Official site
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Chex Quest 3	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination chex3.wad	Official site
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Action Doom 2: Urban Brawl	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination action2.wad	Official site
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Harmony v1.1	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination harm1.wad	Official site
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Hacx v1.2	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination hacx.wad	Official site
	Hacx v2.0	hacx.wad	hacx2.wad	WIP download thread
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	The Adventures of Square	square1.pk3	Official site
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Delaweare	delaweare.wad	Official site
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Rise Of The Wool Ball	rotwb.wad	Download thread

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ZDoom will detect any of those present in its search path and let you choose at startup which game to play (if it doesn't, see the FAQ). In addition to them, some 'total conversion'-type mods, such as Wolfenstein 3D TC, can be played as their own IWAD; however since they are not detected as such by ZDoom, you need to use the -iwad command line parameter.

In order to play a custom level designed for any of the above games you have to have that particular game's full IWAD (loading PWAD with shareware, demo or teaser versions is disabled). If you do not have the necessary IWAD, or if you have an old, unpatched version of the IWAD in question, you will get an error message on startup. (But often old versions are accepted too.)

The IWAD file(s) should be placed in a directory where ZDoom will find them. This includes the same directory as the ZDoom executable, as well as those pointed to by the DOOMWADDIR environment variable. You may also configure other directories for ZDoom to search in the zdoom.ini file. On Linux, the directories $HOME/.zdoom and /usr/local/share are checked by default. Finally, if you have bought a supported game from GOG.com or Steam, ZDoom is able to find the IWADs directly in their installation folder and you do not need to move or copy them to ZDoom's folder.

Obtaining IWADs

As noted aboved, some IWADs can be downloaded freely; however most 'full' games are not and must be bought from one of the following sources:

GOG.com

This store offers downloadable versions of Ultimate Doom, Doom II: Hell on Earth (bundled with Final Doom and the Master Levels for Doom II), Heretic, Hexen, Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, and Strife. The Final Doom version offered is the later Anthology version, which fixes many mapping errors (such as the infamous missing key in TNT MAP31).

Steam

This store offers downloadable versions of Ultimate Doom, Doom II: Hell on Earth, Final Doom, Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, Hexen: Beyond Heretic, Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, and Strife; as well as the Master Levels for Doom II which is a set of PWAD, not an IWAD.

Warning: following the release of

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Doom 3: BFG Edition, the Master Levels are no longer available to purchase individually but can be bought as part of the Doom Classic Complete Pack.

Note: The version of Hexen: Death Kings available on Steam is not patched. You need to download and apply the Death Kings 1.1 patch first. (The 'readme.txt' file it tries to patch has been renamed readme-dk.txt by Steam, but is not important.) All other IWADs from Steam are fully patched.

Amazon.com, eBay.com, etc.

Second-hand copies of the original games can be found on such sites.

Flea markets, used-games bins in brick-and-mortar stores, etc.

It's mostly a matter of luck, but they can still sometimes be found this way.

Custom IWADs

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Since version 3.2, GZDoom allows to define custom IWADs that can be detected without having to update the engine's own internal list. These custom IWADs need to have the .iwad or alternatively .ipk3 (not the traditional .wad and .pk3) extension, and they need to include an IWADINFO lump.

Doom 1 Wad

See also