theserbiandoomer Posted June 11, 2013 Im trying to play Ultimate Doom using chocolate doom. I drag the IWAD into chocolate doom at it wont play the game. When i first downloaded it, it would play Doom 2. Now somehow its playing the Plutonia experiment. Does dragging and dropping not work? Please help!! 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted June 11, 2013 Chocolate Doom does not support drag and drop. The documentation (INSTALL.txt) explains how to get started: * Within Explorer, simply place the IWAD file in the same folder as the Chocolate Doom files, and double-click chocolate-doom.exe. * Run Chocolate Doom from the command prompt with the '-iwad' command line parameter to specify the IWAD file to use, eg. chocolate-doom -iwad c:\games\doom2.wad * Set the environment variable DOOMWADDIR to the location of a directory containing your IWAD files. * If you have multiple IWADs in different directories, set the environment variable DOOMWADPATH to be a semicolon-separated list of directories to search (similar to the PATH environment variable). 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted June 12, 2013 If you want drag-and-drop of IWADs for ChocoDoom, create a batch file, named chocolate-doom.bat (or anything else you want; the extension is important but not the name). A .bat file is a text file, so edit it and put this single line of code in it: chocolate-doom -iwad %1 0 Share this post Link to post
schwerpunk Posted June 12, 2013 Indeed. Or make a bunch of shortcuts for each iWAD. 0 Share this post Link to post
theserbiandoomer Posted June 12, 2013 What kind of launcher can I use? 0 Share this post Link to post
theserbiandoomer Posted June 12, 2013 Gez said:If you want drag-and-drop of IWADs for ChocoDoom, create a batch file, named chocolate-doom.bat (or anything else you want; the extension is important but not the name). A .bat file is a text file, so edit it and put this single line of code in it: chocolate-doom -iwad %1 How do I go about doing this? 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted June 12, 2013 Gez said:You don't know how to create a text file? We were all once computer novices, weren't we? :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted June 12, 2013 I'm only asking to make sure that's the issue here. 0 Share this post Link to post
theserbiandoomer Posted June 13, 2013 I know how to make a text file but I dont know what to put in the text file. 0 Share this post Link to post
wesleyjohnson Posted June 13, 2013 In windows, Open NOTEPAD (or WORDPAD). Type in (or copy) the line: chocolate-doom -iwad %1 Save it as a ANSI TEXT file (not the defaults in windows) with a name like "choco.txt" Rename it to "choco.bat" ( You could try to name it "choco.bat" in the editor, but this is safe. ) Make it executable, if your system requires that to execute the file. (Right click, properties). (I run Linux, so your executable requirements may vary). Bring up a DosBox or the command line, and type in the name "choco" example: >> choco plutonia.wad 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted June 13, 2013 theserbiandoomer said:I know how to make a text file but I dont know what to put in the text file. Just the code line I put above. (chocolate-doom -iwad %1) Nothing else is needed. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted June 13, 2013 wesleyjohnson said:In windows, Open NOTEPAD (or WORDPAD). ( You could try to name it "choco.bat" in the editor, but this is safe. ) This'll fail on any stock install of Windows because the shell option to hide known file type extensions is always enabled. If you name a file this way in Notepad with that setting enabled, it will append .txt silently and invisibly to the end of every file name, even if it already has an extension. 0 Share this post Link to post
sector666 Posted July 1, 2013 I know you can right click on a file, choose properties, and change the filename there. Hitting OK to confirm does change the extension too if it was altered. But I don't know if that still works if hide known file type extensions is enabled. In case anyone finds this thread wanting to drag and drop pwads with Choco Doom as well: chocolate-doom -iwad doom.wad -file %1 -skill 4 -warp 11That would load the pwad using doom.wad (assuming it's in the same folder as Choco Doom) and start E1M1, on UV difficulty. chocolate-doom -iwad doom2.wad -file %1 -skill 3 -warp 07 -fastDoom2 using pwad's Dead Simple replacement, Hurt Me Plenty, fast monsters. Having a few bat files for the different episodes and iwads is very convenient if you don't want to use a launcher. 0 Share this post Link to post