Known lost WADs of our history?

[thestarrover]

Dfear6.wad (Dfear6.zip) by Adam Windsor

 

Demonfear, Adam Windsor's 32-level megawad, was originally released in 6 parts, Dfear1.zip to Dfear6.zip. If, somehow, parts 1 to 5 are available via an archived page of gamers.org, on some CDs (this one for example) and on doomshack.org (uploaded if I'm not mistaken by @Diabolución), the sixth and final part, Dfear6.zip, seems to have disappeared into thin air and can't be found anywhere.

According to a 1999 Linguica post , Dfear6.zip was available on this site, before being replaced by the single wad version. (Unfortunately wayback machine didn't save any pages before 2001).

It would be nice to play the megawad as it was originally intended by his author

[Andromeda]

20 minutes ago, thestarrover said:

Dfear6.wad (Dfear6.zip) by Adam Windsor

 

Demonfear, Adam Windsor's 32-level megawad, was originally released in 6 parts, Dfear1.zip to Dfear6.zip. If, somehow, parts 1 to 5 are available via an archived page of gamers.org, on some CDs (this one for example) and on doomshack.org (uploaded if I'm not mistaken by @Diabolución), the sixth and final part, Dfear6.zip, seems to have disappeared into thin air and can't be found anywhere.

According to a 1999 Linguica post , Dfear6.zip was available on this site, before being replaced by the single wad version. (Unfortunately wayback machine didn't save any pages before 2001).

It would be nice to play the megawad as it was originally intended by his author

 

Perhaps @Capellan still has it?

[Capellan]

8 hours ago, Andromeda said:

 

Perhaps @Capellan still has it?

 

I do not.  However, the compiled version is different from the original dfears only in that it has a couple of bug fixes.  Playing the maps in dfear6.wad would not be any different to playing those in dmonfear.wad,  Quite likely identical; as far as I recall the bug fixes I did were all for maps from dfear1-5.

 

[Grazza]

Here it is:

Dfear6.zip

 

I'll also throw this one in, in case it is of any historical interest:

MM2-TRI.ZIP

[thestarrover]

33 minutes ago, Grazza said:

Here it is:

Dfear6.zip

 

I'll also throw this one in, in case it is of any historical interest:

MM2-TRI.ZIP

Amazing! Thank you so much @Grazza for both files! I've been looking for dfear6.zip for a long time! 

Thanks again!

[Capellan]

1 hour ago, Grazza said:

I'll also throw this one in, in case it is of any historical interest:

MM2-TRI.ZIP

 

Boy, we played a lot of mm2-tri back in the day.

[Marmiteman02]

Chambers Of Dis by the frontman for Morbid Angel. I know it contained the map, but also a copy of the Doom2 Iwad.

[taufan99]

2 hours ago, Marmiteman02 said:

Chambers Of Dis by the frontman for Morbid Angel. I know it contained the map, but also a copy of the Doom2 Iwad.

Not lost at all. Here's a legal version without the IWAD assets.

[Endless]

2 hours ago, taufan99 said:

Not lost at all. Here's a legal version without the IWAD assets.

Oh damn I never knew about this. Awesome as hell. The .txt feels like a 90s kid showing off his map haha

 

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I made this awesome map for Zdoom called Chamber
                          of Dis.
                          
                          I worked on this map on and off while writing for
                          our Heretic record.
                          This is designed for single player gameplay and
                          it's REALLY BIG.
                          
                          Test your gamming skills and see how you stand in
                          this environment of Survival Terror!!!

 

[taufan99]

43 minutes ago, Endless said:

Oh damn I never knew about this. Awesome as hell. The .txt feels like a 90s kid showing off his map haha

A big shame it just doesn't play good at all, even as a shovelware/amateurish maps enjoyer myself.

[tatsu91]

8 hours ago, Endless said:

Oh damn I never knew about this. Awesome as hell. The .txt feels like a 90s kid showing off his map haha

 

 

I find it so funny that One of the biggest Death metal bands made Doom material

[Lord of all demons]

On 3/26/2022 at 7:27 AM, Gez said:

If we're drifting into "projects that were announced and then disappeared", there are a few noteworthy ones.

 

Hi-Tech Hell 2 was supposed to be the sequel of a more ambitious project that would be released later. Don't ask me how that works.

                          hth2 is a sequel for an (yet) unreleased
                          ZDoom wad. Featuring a storyline, dummy 
                          actors, intro/conversations you can skip, 
                          the very different kind of teleports you've 
                          ever seen before... and more.

Anyway, Hi-Tech Hell 1 never happened.

 

Hellstorm: Dark Ascension was one of these very ambitious partial conversions from the late nineties. The Doom source code was opened, and so it was possible to make mods that included a new executable with more stuff in it! More monsters, more weapons, more effects... Of all such projects, only Caverns of Darkness saw the light of day. What happened instead was a decoupling of engines and mod projects, with some engines (ZDoom, EDGE, Legacy, etc.) moving ahead with more and more editing features and mod projects getting built around an existing port. That was a much more future-proof solution, so it's for the best. Anyway, if I bring up Hellstorm, it's because of its historical importance: just go take a look at its bestiary. Notice anything familiar? Yes, this was the debut of Amuscaria's spriting career. Those sprite edits ended up getting included in the Demon Eclipse resource files, even if left unused (a secret Hellstorm-themed level was planned as an Easter egg); and from there they'd find their way to other ZDoom projects. Some of them, like the nightmare and archon even got fancy redesigns at some point.

 

I wonder what ZDoom projects are they talking about, I want to see a list of some them.

 

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Speaking of abandoned, ambitious projects with their own custom engine, there's another one that has historical relevance: that's right, the Eternity TC! While the TC project eventually died, the custom engine soldiered on, eventually shedding off all the custom Eternity TC content that had been added to focus on being a general-purpose Doom source port instead.

 

I'm going to pretend Mordeth's daughter is named Meredith.

 

[Marmiteman02]

On 10/17/2022 at 5:57 AM, LoneAlpha2401 said:

Does anyone have information on Doom GTS? Apparently it was a highly ambitious wad for either GZ or Zandronum with some rather janky looking 3d models, but some interesting features promised. Doing a reverse image search on the screenshot I had saved brought me here: https://www.igdb.com/games/doom-gts/presskit Trying to contact the creator of it, ViperGTS96, seems to be a lost cause as their website and discord server are solely focused on Farming Simulator (?) and their twitter is privatized.

 

Is that supposed to be Duke Nukem ? This reminds me of the early 3d GZdoom models.

[Wadmodder Shalton]

On 10/16/2022 at 9:57 PM, LoneAlpha2401 said:

Does anyone have information on Doom GTS? Apparently it was a highly ambitious wad for either GZ or Zandronum with some rather janky looking 3d models, but some interesting features promised. Doing a reverse image search on the screenshot I had saved brought me here: https://www.igdb.com/games/doom-gts/presskit Trying to contact the creator of it, ViperGTS96, seems to be a lost cause as their website and discord server are solely focused on Farming Simulator (?) and their twitter is privatized.

This image here , IMO, looks like it would've been Lawnmower Man-quality 3D models jammed into the GZDoom and Zandronum engines..

[Doomlover77]

@Grazza Triage.wad in Mm2-Tri.zip was used in the Dm96 map collection in May 1996. I had a look at it today and recognised the map. @Doomlover77  

[Szymanski]

On 3/9/2023 at 3:02 AM, Wadmodder Shalton said:

The early version of End Game from January 2004 which had the texture that were going to be used in Mordeth Episode 3 that was quickly taken down before being reuploaded with said textures replaced with GothicDM textures, meaning that the early version would be nearly difficult to find.

 

Given that the Mordeth mod has recently been getting new status updates, Episode 2's release is possible while Episode 3's fate is currently uncertain.

I probably have it somewhere, but I won't be distributing it out of respect for Mordeth. Would be best if people forgot it existed.

[Wadmodder Shalton]

Here is the documenting of every map from the beta builds of Plutonia 2 during 2001-2008, especially the PWADs  with more than one map.

 

May 30th 2001 build - maps 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 24, 27, 28, 30, 32

 

August 6th 2002 build - maps 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32

 

May 3rd 2005 build - maps 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32

 

April 26th 2006 build - maps 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32

 

January 8th 2008 build - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30

 

July 27th 2008 build - maps 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32

 

This would give a huge incite on which maps did make it into the final version of Plutonia 2 and which maps got cut during development.

Edited April 27 by Wadmodder Shalton

[FEDEX]

Hi @Wadmodder Shalton builds from january and july 2008 are the same file

[Wadmodder Shalton]

2 hours ago, FEDEX said:

Hi @Wadmodder Shalton builds from january and july 2008 are the same file

Actually, P2Beta03.zip and P2Beta04.zip which are included in the link are what the two betas are meant to be.

[Naan]

I haven't seen it mentionned on this topic but while searching for early Boom mapsets I found The Parallel Dimension from the Parallel Team whose website is still hosted by Doomworld here : https://www.doomworld.com/parallel/

 

In there I learned that the team was working on a sequel called Extinction which Chapter I was expected to be out on September 2002 but seemingly never got released since then.

 

I wonder what that project became.

 

Some screenshots from Extinction are available on that website :
 

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 27 by Naan

[Endless]

7 hours ago, Naan said:

I haven't seen it mentionned on this topic but while searching for early Boom mapsets I found The Parallel Dimension from the Parallel Team whose website is still hosted by Doomworld here : https://www.doomworld.com/parallel/

 

In there I learned that the team was working on a sequel called Extinction which Chapter I was expected to be out on September 2002 but seemingly never got released since then.

 

I wonder what that project became.

 

Some screenshots from Extinction are available on that website :
 

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Damn that one looks really cool. Never heard of it before and the scope seems juicy.

[Marmiteman02]

I remember a Doom wad that included Quake's enemy roster (Obviously in sprite form) from years back. I've searched for ages trying to find it, but no luck.

[SiFi270]

That could be QDoom, one of the two episodes of Securitron, or one of the Quake TCs listed on this page.

[Endless]

3 hours ago, Marmiteman02 said:

I remember a Doom wad that included Quake's enemy roster (Obviously in sprite form) from years back. I've searched for ages trying to find it, but no luck.

This thread is meant to be used as a memorial for WADs that we have proof are not available for download any more, aka lost media.

 

If you are not sure about the status of the WAD, better use the "looking for a WAD thread" before posting here.

[Wadmodder Shalton]

Any of the projects by The Videogame Cemetery, which are as follows:

 

Killing Joke Game - a WAD about clowns similar to Happy Time Circus 1 & 2

 

Darkness of the Daleks - a Doctor Who themed total conversion focusing on the Daleks

 

Horrifying: Resurrection of the Dormant - a horror-themed WAD

 

Untitled Tamagotchi WAD - an unnamed WAD based on the Tamagotchi virtual pet franchise

 

Doom: Annihilation - a PSX-styled WAD with original levels planned for GZDoom. Not to be confused with the 2019 Direct-To-Video movie of the same name.

 

Cries of Doom - a PSX-styled WAD with original levels planned for GZDoom.

 

Perhaps VGCtm is still working on these but for now, they are extremely WIP.

Edited May 14 by Wadmodder Shalton

[Mad Butcher]

There apparently was a Freddy Krueger WAD uploaded to idgames in 1995 but was removed because the zip file was corrupted.

 

Usenet posts:

Freddy Krueger Doom

Whatever happened to Freddoom?

[Doom64hunter]

On 5/4/2023 at 12:55 PM, Marmiteman02 said:

I remember a Doom wad that included Quake's enemy roster (Obviously in sprite form) from years back. I've searched for ages trying to find it, but no luck.

 

Possibly this was some old version of "Aeons of Death" from back in the day. I'm not sure whether it included the full roster, but it definitely included some of them, along with defined behavior -- the Rottweiler, Zombie, Death Knight and Shambler at least.

 

I may even have this build on my old hard drives somewhere -- will edit this post if I find it.

[Flower_XD]

I'm not sure if was post here before, but I found Tribute to Malinku thread, but no link seems to work, so I think we may considered lost, right?
I could not find the tribute :\ 

[FEDEX]

1 hour ago, Flower_XD said:

I'm not sure if was post here before, but I found Tribute to Malinku thread, but no link seems to work, so I think we may considered lost, right?
I could not find the tribute :\ 

 

They were a download link, but were hosted in sendspace (good in the old days, but crappy nowadays)

I'm sure our back-ups masters @VVL or @Mad Butcher have a copy of this 

[Endless]

2 hours ago, Flower_XD said:

I'm not sure if was post here before, but I found Tribute to Malinku thread, but no link seems to work, so I think we may considered lost, right?
I could not find the tribute :\ 

@Decay is still around and kicking, maybe he can update the link or replace it.