Freedoom

From Chocolate Doom

Chocolate Doom running with Freedoom.
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Chocolate Doom running Eternal Doom with Freedoom.

Freedoom is a Free IWAD file that can be used to play Doom without buying a copy of Doom. However, it requires a Boom-compatible engine to run. Because Chocolate Doom is only compatible with Vanilla Doom, Freedoom does not run properly with Chocolate Doom.

However, Chocolate Doom can still be made to run with Freedoom. The only incompatibility between the two is that the levels distributed with Freedoom do not run. Because of this, Freedoom will run without problems provided that replacement levels are always loaded.

Simple instructions:

  1. Download and extract Chocolate Doom.
  2. Download and extract Freedoom, and copy the doom2.wad file into the Chocolate Doom folder.
  3. Find a megawad or TC, that replaces all 32 levels of Doom 2 (Map01 - Map32), and load it in the normal way with the -file parameter. For example: 
chocolate-doom -file filename.wad

The idgames archive is a good place to find WADs to play with.

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External links

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