Brollixx Posted June 26, 2002 I havent played doom 2 wads in a couple of years and i was wondering , how do you play doom arcade? the guy was too stupid to put a readme that is of any help or use at all. It runs with zdoom, so could somebody please tell me how to make the freakin thing work? 0 Share this post Link to post
Doom II Guy Posted June 26, 2002 Yeah, I also couldn't get it to work. It says "Push SPACE to begin", but when I do nothing happens. 0 Share this post Link to post
Brollixx Posted June 26, 2002 I didnt evenn get that far, i got to the part where it keeps going to the regular doom screen then i start screaming and cussing 0 Share this post Link to post
Brollixx Posted June 26, 2002 I finally got it to come on, but i get a bunch of signs with exclamation marks on them and it cant read about 95% of the scripts.. so its a doom2 where no swtiches work 0 Share this post Link to post
Doom II Guy Posted June 26, 2002 AHEM....like I said you could be using an old version of ZDooM. 0 Share this post Link to post
Doom II Guy Posted June 26, 2002 Oh, well that must not be it then. I can't get it to work myself, so hopefully someone else will know. There is v1.23 BETA out now though. 0 Share this post Link to post
DooMBoy Posted June 27, 2002 Odd, considering that the thread starter poses a question. :P 0 Share this post Link to post
gatewatcher Posted June 27, 2002 I hope pritch sees this and moves it to the questions forum because this is a legit question. 0 Share this post Link to post
Doom II Guy Posted June 27, 2002 Pfff...spam thread my ass. This is legit. 0 Share this post Link to post
sirjuddington Posted June 27, 2002 It says press space, but it really means 'press the use key' ;) As for the exclamation marks problem, you probably are forgetting to load something (like a resource wad or deh patch) 0 Share this post Link to post
Doom II Guy Posted June 27, 2002 Press the use key? But the space button IS my use key! 0 Share this post Link to post
NiGHTMARE Posted June 27, 2002 According to the "about" section on the Doom Arcade website, you need to use ZDoom v1.23 beta 28 or newer. This is presumably because of things like slopes, new linedef types, ACS commands, etc that aren't present in v1.22. You can find the latest beta's here: http://zdoom.notgod.com/ftp/ 0 Share this post Link to post
sirjuddington Posted June 28, 2002 DooMBoy said:Hey, SlayeR, cool Heretic avatar! Hehe, someone notices! 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted July 7, 2002 i've noticed the whole time, but i've been bugged by the world to respond (nice, man) 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted July 7, 2002 The exclamation marks are showing where an item has been placed in the map that Zdoom doesn't understand. This is because you are using 1.22 and DA is meant for a much later version of Zdoom. (1.23 b28 as has already been said). A whole bunch of new items have been added to Zdoom since 1.22 (which is coming up for 3 years old) and GooberMan has made extensive use of them. Unfortunately, the link to the latest version of Zdoom (1.23 b33) isn't too easy to find as it is not yet an official release version, but you can find it here. http://zdoom.notgod.com/ftp/123beta33.zip (Although, NiGHTMARE already told you most of that.) As far as the press space thing not working, that is actually a problem with b33. The player start is behind some impassible lines that you "use" when you press space. This runs a script (script 6) that returns the viewpoint back to the player, and allows you to move. Unfortunately, as I said, activating it is a bit broken in b33. The easy way round this is to bring down the console and type "puke 6" to run script 6 instead. This problem will be fixed for the release version of the next Zdoom. I *think* everything else in DA works in b33. 0 Share this post Link to post