How many wads do you have???

[Stealthy Ivan]

Heh, I looked in my doom dir, I have 1,205 wads, dating from as far back as 1994! I think I need to pick through all of them when I have time and do some cleaning. :P How many do you guys have in your Doom dir? Oh and CD's like D-zone and Maximum Doom do not count, just whats on your hard drive!

[Searcher]

Must be close to 3,000 maybe more (11,600 files). 2.3 gig in that doom 2 directory. The doom directory is only half that size.

Edit:
Just did a sort to find out for real. there are only 1,257 actual wad files (1.79 Gig) in that doom 2 directory.

The doom directory has 300 actual wad files in it.

I would have assumed I had more wads, based on 11,600 files in there, but I do have a boatload of demos in there as well.

[Enjay]

No idea. I've got loads on my HD in different places and a whole bunch of extra CDs too.

[printz]

Those with hundreds of wads, have you played them all, or are you simply storing them for safety's sake?

[Stealthy Ivan]

When I first downloaded them of course I played them, some I liked and played alot, and some I forgot about... Thats why I have to go through and clean my doom dir :P

[Enjay]

I DL WADs and then play them as soon as possible. I then put a short review in the zip comments mainly to remind myself what the WAD was about, or its theme etc. The ones I really enjoy, I keep somewhere convenient and replay. The others I keep elsewhere and occasionally dip back into on an infrequent basis. I rarely delete a WAD totally unless it is utter crap.

[Captain Red]

2.58 GB worth of doom related products!
In case, you know, I'm stranded on a desert island with nothing but a solar powered laptop... a really crappy solar powered laptop... and my external hard drive... umm...

:D

[GGG]

I'm not about to spend an hour organizing my directories to count them. Let's just say it's a big enough number.

[Ichor]

GGG said:

I'm not about to spend an hour organizing my directories to count them. Let's just say it's a big enough number.

Just search for *.wad.

[Stealthy Ivan]

Captain Red said:

2.58 GB worth of doom related products!
In case, you know, I'm stranded on a desert island with nothing but a solar powered laptop... a really crappy solar powered laptop... and my external hard drive... umm...

:D

Heh, then be glad you still have DooM... :P

[Dutch Doomer]

2000+ or so...meh I dunno alot.

And about 50+ unfinished stuff from myself some demo wads and some serious work which are an long way from finished, I haven't been mapping much lately.

[Searcher]

I play every one I download. Then I create a small text file with my first impressions of the map and the time of my first max run. Noting things like health, ammo, theme, tricky parts, etc.

If a map is total crap I do delete them but save the small text file to warn myself, if needed, in the future.

[printz]

ON THIS COMPUTER. I HAVE TWO.

Searching the Doom, Doom 2, Doom remnants, Heretic, Hexen, Strife directories... damn, only 567 wads. Not all are "official", extracted or whatever. I rarely copy paste the idgames listings from a FTP site, and when I do, I later delete the junk I had stored. And I'm not an avid enough player to have thousands of played wads.

[Grazza]

6600 uncompressed wad files in c:\doom + c:\doom2. Many more in zip files, and on external hard disks, and some in other locations on the hard disk, though quite a number of them will be duplicates. I'd hazard a random guess at 25000 unique wad files in total.

[Stealthy Ivan]

Grazza said:
I'd hazard a random guess at 25000 unique wad files in total.

Holy shit, you have seen alot of peoples work/levels! You have more wads than any one else I know! Heh, must have been interesting to see all of the different styles (excluding the rip off's) that people have!

[Enjay]

The frightening thing is he can remember details of most of them and find them almost instantly in the /idgames database too even with just the scantest clues about their identity.

[Alboroto]

12. Double checked.

[myk]

I clean up my wads directory once in a while, so I don't really keep that many. I have about 700 wads on my hard drive, currently.

[Erp]

8451 pwads.

[Siggi]

Far too many. :)

My wads folder on my desktop machine is 2.71 GB.
My laptop's wads folder is more realistic, only containing wads I play regularly and some more recent ones. 95 files only. 600MB +/-

I've got more wads in other locations, like my old p166 which is sitting in the cupboard.

[EANB]

~60

I only keep the good ones.


Edit= Heh, and they are all still in the 'unzipped' folder.

Edit2= I probably have around a hundred in skulltag's and Zdaemon's 'wads' folder.

[Antidote]

Doom Directory 1 (both Doom 2 and Doom + Ports) has 1450 Files, 3.85 GB
Doom Directory 2 (both Doom 2 and Doom + Ports) has 1079 Files, 1.93 GB
Doom Directory 3 (both Doom 2 and Doom + Ports) has 1628 Files,- 713 MB
Doom Directory 4 (both Doom 2 and Doom + Ports) has- 259 Files,- 787 MB
----------------------------------------------------+__________ +______

Total----------------------------------------------- 4416 Files, 7.28 GB

I didn't know I had that much!

(the - before the numbers do not mean it's negative, its just the forum doesn't allow more than space between words for some reason.)

As for WAD files, I don't know exactly, as you can tell I would have to look through a lot of files! I can make a very rough guess though:

Doom Directory 1 (both Doom 2 and Doom + Ports) 725 WADs
Doom Directory 2 (both Doom 2 and Doom + Ports) 540 WADs
Doom Directory 3 (both Doom 2 and Doom + Ports) 814 WADs
Doom Directory 4 (both Doom 2 and Doom + Ports) 130 WADs
-----------------------------------------------+_________

Total------------------------------------------ 2029 WADs

Edit: Searched for *.wad and got: 1494, not that close.


(Divided files from each directory in half. I did this because of the Text files that mostly all of my WADs are accompanied with.)

[Aleaver]

392 wads in all together

164 in Doom
228 in Doom 2

[myk]

Psycho Siggi said:
95 files only. 600MB +/-

Strange, that's more than 60 MB per wad. The 700 or so wads I have occupy 960 MB (text files included).

[TheDarkArchon]

Over 1000 items (including backups), totalling just user 5.2 GB

[Negatronica]

900, about 100 are probably backups and test wads.

[Siggi]

myk said:

Strange, that's more than 60 MB per wad. The 700 or so wads I have occupy 960 MB (text files included).

That struck me as odd too.
However, most wads are rather large in this case as there are a few mega wads and large ZDoom wads. Neodoom.wad, for example, is reportedly 67.2MB.

Giving this a 2nd look. It does seem as though something is amiss.

[Stealthy Ivan]

Shtbag667 said:
900, about 100 are probably backups and test wads.

900? Heh, whats up fellow Team VPO member? Long time no see, what have you been up to these days (send me a PM). :)

[stphrz]

87

[Steeveeo]

327 (but thats just because I recently went thru and deleted a bunch of crap wads)

totalling 2.04 GB


((Also I found a few Quark.wads that are for a Quake (and Quake engine games) editor that uses wads for stored textures. But, you never specified for what game!))