SGTNAPALM Posted November 13, 2017 Bit of a long-time lurker of the Doom community in general, hi. Recently decided I wanted to download every single mod contained on the Top 100 WADs Of All Time/Cacowards pages as a personal archival project. I have noticed that several links are dead, however. I have compiled a list of all dead links and (what I believe to be) reputable mirrors to all relevant files. Spoiler Format: [Mod Name - Author] [Link to bestwads/cacowards page where mod is mentioned] [Link to mirror] [Notes] Dwango5 - Various https://www.doomworld.com/10years/bestwads/1995.php https://www.wad-archive.com/wad/333ca955620fd1678619e62976fb96bb Batman Doom - ACE Team https://www.doomworld.com/10years/bestwads/1999.php https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/themes/batman/batman Dark 7 and Mission Pack - Bryant Robinson https://www.doomworld.com/10years/bestwads/2002.php https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/d-f/dark7mpk Doom 64: Absolution - Various https://www.doomworld.com/10years/bestwads/2003.php http://www.doom2.net/doomdepot/abs-download.html RTC-3057 Demo - Many https://www.doomworld.com/10years/bestwads/2003.php http://www.doomworld.com/3ddownloads/misc/3057demo.zip Foreverhood v1.0 - Skadoomer https://www.doomworld.com/13years/best3.php https://iamsparky.wordpress.com/foreverhood/ (Note: Link on page will take users to where they need to be, but goes through a redirect and requires user to browse website for the proper files. A direct link may be ideal, if allowed.) Paranoid - The Persecution Complex https://www.doomworld.com/17years/best3.php https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/p-r/paranoid Doomguy's Warzone - Doomguy 2000 https://www.doomworld.com/17years/others.php http://www.doomguy2000.com/downloads.html HEH https://www.doomworld.com/17years/others.php https://www.doomworld.com/vb/losers/12978-heh/ (Note: For people like me reading these pages in the far future, this is an enigma.) Grezzo 2 - Nicola Piro https://www.doomworld.com/19years/others.php http://www.moddb.com/mods/grezzo-2-dlc/downloads/grezzo-2-final-version (Note: I'm sorry.) Samsara - TerminusEst13 https://www.doomworld.com/20years/multi.php https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=51771 (Note: Kinsie appears to have continued this project by Terminus' blessing.) Push - TerminusEst13 and co. https://www.doomworld.com/21years/multi.php https://github.com/TerminusEst13/push (Note: Doomworld link leads to two dead links and the GitHub. Newer players may not know to create the PK3 file themselves.) Sheer Poison - zan-zan-zawa-veia (a.k.a. yakfak) https://www.doomworld.com/22years/best3.php https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/s-u/shpo1 Eon Weapons - Ru5tK1ng https://www.doomworld.com/22years/multi.php https://www.doomworld.com/23years/multi.php https://zandronum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5344 ChaosCore CTF - RoSKing et al. https://www.doomworld.com/22years/multi.php http://files.funcrusher.net/wads/chaoscorectfmpii-b.zip (Note: Could only find on Wadseeker.) Juneheim - Marcaek https://www.doomworld.com/23years/best3.php https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/88614-mayhem-16-juneheim-map-compilation-updated-october-1st/?do=findComment&comment=1695401 (Note: Link on page directs to OP of forum thread, must manually browse the thread for download link.) 32in24-16 - YEDS gang https://www.doomworld.com/23years/multi.php https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/91306-32in24-16-doot-ctf/?do=findComment&comment=1811411 (Note: Link on page directs to OP of forum thread, must manually browse the thread for download link.) These pages get linked around a lot for beginners looking for new mods, so I figured for posterity's sake I'd try and fill in the gaps. Please post other dead links you've found, or correct me if I made any errors or broke any rules (for redistribution clauses, banned sites, etc.) Interestingly, the more recent I got in these lists, the more dead links I found. When Best-Ever died, it created a lot of dead links on these pages. Dropbox's decision to kill public links also killed a bunch of mods, notably TerminusEst's earlier works (though his GitHub pages still exist). Almost everything posted on the /idgames Archive has survived. Rarely, conversations on these forums that in turn linked to files or other information wound up being deleted. I suspect that as services like Dropbox and Google Drive and MEGA become more popular (that do not have the time-tested stability of sites such as the /idgames Archive, for example), dead links will become a more frequent problem over the next ten years. I would implore modders to create as many mirrors as reasonable if at all possible, for the sake of preservation. Not all links are prize winners; some are honorable mentions, or at least mentioned anywhere at all in the descriptions given (Eon Weapons, for example, as a supplement to certain multiplayer award winners.) Thanks to Revenant100 for pointing out newer versions of certain files and where to find harder-to-find files. Bonus facts: My current archive of every DOOM mod ever listed on those pages is 9.29 GB large, clocking in at 466 files with no duplicates. Grezzo 2 accounts for approximately 31% of that at 2.85 GB. The first ten years account for approximately 3% at only 282 MB. Maybe you'll find that interesting. EDIT 1: Apparently HEH is an inside joke from before my time and doesn't concern me, disregard. 20 Share this post Link to post
SGTNAPALM Posted November 13, 2017 That was easier than I thought it would be, awesome work! Thanks a million. Maybe I'll be back next year. 1 Share this post Link to post
Graf Zahl Posted November 13, 2017 I can't believe we are doing this for historical completeness LOL! Thanks anyway for relinking that - even if it was just for reliving some bad old times... :D 0 Share this post Link to post
Diabolución Posted November 13, 2017 https://www.doomworld.com/17years/others.php Regarding this page, I have to change manually the encoding from Unicode to Western so that this page shows properly certain characters, such as emdashes and Æ. It seems this page has to be recoded as actual UTF-8. 0 Share this post Link to post
DMPhobos Posted November 14, 2017 I can't belive that Dwango5 link went dead or a while, how times have changed... 0 Share this post Link to post
