Need list of essential Megawads for vanilla Doom

Could anyone post a list of essential Megawads for vanilla Doom? Quality stuff that's on par with id iWADs or better. Only vanilla engine please.

Thanks!

The only IWADs that exist for vanilla Doom are Doom, Doom 2 and the two episodes of Final Doom. As such, I'm inclined to believe you meant PWADs.

Oh yes, my bad! I meant Megawads!

https://soulsphere.org/random/neovanilla.txt

Disclaimer: this list is not mine.

Back to Saturn x should work under vanilla Doom.

Define megawads. Do you require 32 maps for it to be an "essential" megawad? Or can any multi-level wads qualify?

For instance, Suspended in Dusk is only 4 levels long, but it won a cacoward. I think the award presentation said something like, "You won't believe you're playing vanilla Doom."

2 hours ago, Jaws In Space said:

Here you go

 

1994-12-13 NJ Doom
1995-11-20 Cleimos II
1995-12-10 Memento Mori
1996-03-21 Icarus: Alien Vanguard
1996-05-31 TNT Evilution
1996-05-31 The Plutonia Experiment
1996-07-27 Memento Mori II
1996-08-xx Perdition's Gate
1996-07-xx Hell to Pay
1996-10-31 Realm of Chaos
1997-05-02 Hell Revealed
1997-07-04 Requiem
1997-09-14 S.T.R.A.I.N
1997-11-14 Eternal Doom
1997-11-27 Invasion
1998-03-15 Invasion 2
1998-10-19 Mars War
1999-12-19 Demonfear
2001-09-16 Revolution!
2002-07-24 2002: A Doom Odyssey
2002-12-26 Alien Vendetta
2003-04-10 Scythe
2003-12-31 Hell Revealed II
2005-03-09 Kama Sutra
2008-12-31 Plutonia 2
2010-11-25 Epic 2
2011-04-19 Plutonia: Revisited Community Project
2011-11-27 Jenesis
2011-12-10 Doom the Way id Did
2012-01-18 Base Ganymede: Complete
2013-12-23 Doom 2 the Way Id Did

2017-03-09 Back to Saturn X E1
2017-05-29 TNT Revilution

What a beautiful list.

Is "The Rebirth" vanilla friendly?

If so then I'd also recommend that one.

No End in Sight is vanilla friendly save for certain levels of episode 4.

https://www.doomworld.com/files/file/18645-aaa/

Another two vanilla megawads for The Ultimate Doom. I haven't tested if they are compatible with Doom Registered (certain wads without E4Mx levels have TEXTUREx/PNAMES lumps which need the missing SKY4).

https://www.doomworld.com/files/file/15645-aaa/

https://www.doomworld.com/files/file/18667-aaa/

18 minutes ago, Litrivin said:

No End in Sight is vanilla friendly save for certain levels of episode 4.

https://www.doomworld.com/files/file/18645-aaa/

 

Another two vanilla megawads for The Ultimate Doom. I haven't tested if they are compatible with Doom Registered (certain wads without E4Mx levels have TEXTUREx/PNAMES lumps which need the missing SKY4).

https://www.doomworld.com/files/file/15645-aaa/

https://www.doomworld.com/files/file/18667-aaa/

 

 

YES YES YES on No End in Sight. The best UDoom megawad of all time if you ask me.

20 hours ago, Jaws In Space said:

Here you go

 

1994-12-13 NJ Doom
1995-11-20 Cleimos II
1995-12-10 Memento Mori
1996-03-21 Icarus: Alien Vanguard
1996-05-31 TNT Evilution
1996-05-31 The Plutonia Experiment
1996-07-27 Memento Mori II
1996-08-xx Perdition's Gate
1996-07-xx Hell to Pay
1996-10-31 Realm of Chaos
1997-05-02 Hell Revealed
1997-07-04 Requiem
1997-09-14 S.T.R.A.I.N
1997-11-14 Eternal Doom
1997-11-27 Invasion
1998-03-15 Invasion 2
1998-10-19 Mars War
1999-12-19 Demonfear
2001-09-16 Revolution!
2002-07-24 2002: A Doom Odyssey
2002-12-26 Alien Vendetta
2003-04-10 Scythe
2003-12-31 Hell Revealed II
2005-03-09 Kama Sutra
2008-12-31 Plutonia 2
2010-11-25 Epic 2
2011-04-19 Plutonia: Revisited Community Project
2011-11-27 Jenesis
2011-12-10 Doom the Way id Did
2012-01-18 Base Ganymede: Complete
2013-12-23 Doom 2 the Way Id Did

2017-03-09 Back to Saturn X E1
2017-05-29 TNT Revilution

This is exatly what I've asked for!

I would add, Perdition's Gate and Hell To Pay, two commercial products wich are pretty fun, great music too.
PS: I recommend creating a patch to change the enemies and sounds back in Hell To Pay though, the new sprites are questionable. It comes handy in Freedoom too.

Some good lists here. Off the top of my head, only two stand-outs are absent (if restricting it to vanilla-compatible full megawads, and avoiding 'novelty' wads):

H2H_Xmas

Extremal

Maybe also:

Wonderful Doom

I've made it my mission to point out whenever it comes up that Perdition's Gate has officially been as free as any other Megawad for a while now. But as far as I know, Hell to Pay is considerably more elusive.

On 11/28/2017 at 4:44 PM, Jaws In Space said:

2011-11-27 Jenesis

Isn't that Boom compatible?

https://www.doomworld.com/files/file/18100-aaa/

https://www.doomworld.com/files/file/18616-aaa/ <--- It seems to be 100% vanilla, despite being on the Ports directory.

https://www.doomworld.com/files/file/18383-aaa/ Ok, this is not megawad, actually. But it is quality stuff.