• The game was ported by Imagineer, who worked with id to port Wolf 3D to the SNES. Their company logo is displayed when you start the game up instead of Williams Entertainment.
  
  
• You can play any episode at any difficulty level. Perhaps the biggest (and best) change between versions. This goes to show that there were item placements for lower difficulties on the U.S. version, but for some reason Williams Entertainment didn't want to make The Shores of Hell and Inferno available to the lower difficulties. Imagineer didn't care apparently (Maybe because the FPS genre is less popular in Japan and didn't think Japanese players would be as good at the game).
  
  
• Whole different ending sequence when you beat Inferno (I beat it on the lowest difficulty level). Instead of giving the words about the big bad boss dead once and for all, it gives some minor text congratulating you for beating the final boss, and in the end stating "Your work here is done" (Sorry, I don't remember the screen word for word). After this, the game credit screens (2 of them, same as the U.S. version) appear. After this, the game goes back to the title screen.
  

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Knee Deep in The Dead ending:

You have won over the Knee-deep in the dead boss.

This is not the end.

You will now enter The Shores of Hell.

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The Shore's of Hell ending:

You have won over The Shores of Hell boss.

This is not the end.

You will now enter Inferno.

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Inferno ending:

Congratulations! You have won over the final boss.

You have now cleared all the levels.

Because you are the super solder, You can finish here.

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Ledmeister said:
There are also minor differences in the PlayStation and Sega Saturn Doom games released in Japan, if you're looking to add to your library. :)

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Mattfrie1 said:
[*] You can play any episode at any difficulty level. Perhaps the biggest (and best) change between versions. This goes to show that there were item placements for lower difficulties on the U.S. version, but for some reason Williams Entertainment didn't want to make The Shores of Hell and Inferno available to the lower difficulties. Imagineer didn't care apparently (Maybe because the FPS genre is less popular in Japan and didn't think Japanese players would be as good at the game).

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J-selva said:
I knew about this and pointed it out in a previous thread. On a similar note, the game does have all the 27 levels "in it". Only, trying to access the missing ones gives a black screen. Could that mean that they were planned to be included? Perhaps...

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printz said:
If they went through all the trouble to rewrite the Japanese port of Super Famicom Doom, why didn't they use the Japanese language...? I know that either it's Japanese games that use Engrish, or they don't get rewritten at all. Not that American games are translated from English into pseudo-English. Odd.

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(How many Japanese people say badass?)

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Antroid said:
When i had an actual SNES and Doom for it (no idea which version it was though... had a williams logo in the intro), dying at that place in e1m8 didn't bring about any sort of ending, but just booted me back to title screen. The other two endings were fine. I went crazy over that, time after time beating E1 just to try to do something differently at the last map, and still die and get thrown to the beginning of the game. Anyone know if that happened in all the copies? Of that version, at least.

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deathbringer said
I had assumed he was translating.

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• Monsters are placed in any direction.
  Even though the monsters are one-sided on this version, they are shown facing in any direction on the automap.
  
  
• Monsters immediately face you as you come into vision of them.
  As soon as you see a monster, the monster turns to face you, even if they are shown not facing you on the automap. This is why you can't creep up on enemies in this version, whereas you could in the 32X version. Also, when you have an invisibility sphere, the monster's still turn to face you, but they won't move to attack.
  
  
• Enemies always move towards you when they see you.
  This is why monsters are so aggressive in this port. Take an Imp for example, in any other version, they might throw a fireball and walk away from you, and then throw another. In the SNES port, they can throw a fireball and then they move closer, making them harder to get away from. This could also be a precaution so monsters don't turn and infight with each other.
  
  
• When you move out of an awakened monster's view, they turn in any direction to find you.
  Even though monster's always seem to face you, they can still move in any direction to find you.
  
  
• Monster's stop moving if you are out of their vision long enough.
  If you have awakened a monster, and move out of their sight for long enough, they go back to being stationary.

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Mattfrie1 said:
Because of this, I've been able to observe some interesting things about monster behavior in the SNES port

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deathbringer said:
Does the Cyberdemon still have it's "melee" attack in this version or would you have been killed long before it got near you?

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Mattfrie1 said:
Also, I do intend to get other Japanese version's of id's games (I think only Wolf 3D and Doom 64 were the only other id games released for consoles in Japan), but if anyone knows any difference's with games off the top of their head, feel free to contact me. :)

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Mattfrie1 said:


I'd guess that it does, judging that the Japanese version seems to be like an extension of the U.S. version, but I haven't messed around with Cybie enough to know. When I did get to him on both E2M8 and E3M9, it only took me FIVE rockets to kill him! Wonder if that was made easier for the Japanese version...?

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