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I have updated the OP with v1.3 of the resources. Changelog is as follows: Added 3 new mid textures: SPC*** (ty RMG) Added 8 new skies (SKY2 - SKY9) (cheers dmdr) Readded exit sign texture Removed 4 duplicate sprites (thanks Spendoragon) Added UMAPINFO lump so people can see how to use it define their SKY There are now several colors of sky to choose from thanks to @dmdr. Unfortunately, a lot of them were too big and didn't work but we still have a decent selection of sky colors now. I have added a UMAPINFO lump so people can check the wad out in SLADE and see how to define their own custom SKY (it's very simple). I'll be jamming all the newly posted maps too, I'm very excited for that so expect some feedback this weekend :) Let me know what you guys think of the resources, I think they're pretty well matured now.

What a cool thread! I was actually playing WADPACK2 (different from WADPAK2) from D!Zone Gold very recently. There's no accompanying readme and I couldn't see this covered earlier in the thread, if you're looking for something to investigate I wouldn't mind knowing which maps are in that wad. I'm gonna check out these other wads, curated 90s PWADs turned into episodes is something that I didn't know I needed until now. Given that several people have extensive experience with these WADs it could be cool to get a personal top 3 or top 5 list in case people want to check them out. Edit: I just started playing WADPAK1a from idgames and E1M1 matches map01 from WADPACK2 (linked earlier in this post) so it may be that WADPACK2 is WADPACK1a converted to Doom 2.

Hey Team, I'm back after 4 days off for sorta emergency dental/oral surgery and wow, so much progress! Sorry about having to step out like that, it's all fixed now so I'm good to go :) The first thing I want to address is @RjY's concern. Since Doom It Yourself is the name of a old source port I will rename the project (not sure what, feel free to throw out names, everyone). I'm big on preservation and I think RjY is right, naming this Doom It Yourself will make it harder to get info on the old source port so we will use a different name (maybe just DIY Doom?) Now, onto the skies. I will be adding a number of skies today/tomorrow so expect v1.3 to come out. I will include the exit sign so lil piss boy @dmdr can have his fancy little signs. I will also add the MIDSPACE textures @RastaManGames suggested but I'll make the grey a bit darker. I'll include some of @Blast_Brothers skies and also likely the plutotnia ones from @dmdr Great work both of you guys, I really like what each of you has made. @Spendoragon - You are a true gc, thanks so much for the playtesting you've done. I'll be giving you a tester credit for that amount of work that you've done <3 @Ralphis - that's really cool to hear! I lovee playing with Oda so I'm happy to help out however I can. I will make sure coop support is present and lockouts have been accounted for. I'll edit the OP to mention this and also make it part of my acceptance criteria when I go to test the maps. Thanks for the heads up :) @Fuzzball - Hell yeah, cool to see you on board, hombre. @Terrarienn - Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. @Peccatum Mihzamiz - Have a play around with the resources and see if anything grabs you. I think they're inviting to work with, it's very fun :) @effiesectu - Yup, we've always got spots so map away :) I have edited the OP with the latest map entries. I'm still recovering from another dental appointment today so I'm not gonna do any playing or editing. Tomorrow I will update the resource pack and also start playing through the latest maps. Man, I love seeing the lofi art in this thread. Fellownoob posted some and @game's drawing is so damn cool. I love this surreal and eerie feeling, it reminds me a lot of FAITH. Phew, that was a lot of stuff. Tomorrow will be a big work day for the project so we'll get resources v1.3 and a bunch more playtesting done. Great work everyone! For anyone who I didn't mention by name, I did look over the whole thread and it's actually all looking really good. I'll give feedback on each map as I play them proper.

Totally true @dmdr I'll try to knock up a few more in the next couple of days. If anyone else wants to make some post them in this thread and if they suit I can add it to the resources. I think the star sky is the most important one but I do wanna make the 'blue skies and fluffy white clouds' sky too.

+JAM I'm replaying it now and I'm liking it even more than the first time. It feels like more than the sum of it's parts though the small QoL stuff like weap switch and fire speed increases are much appreciated. If it's not caco material now then when all 3 eps are done I imagine it will be.

I agree with everything boris' said. 'Simple' jumps are fine but I wouldn't add required SR50 or even difficult SR40 jumps unless it's going to be known as a challenge wad and you expect the players to be well experienced.

I've started testing the maps and man, they look so good in software mode in Woof. My recording HDD is being a shitter atm so no videos, unfortunately. I'll edit this post as I play a few maps tonight. @lunchlunch - Fantastic map, the first fight works perfectly. Reusing that same space and watching the back and white fill up with colorful corpses looked so good. I really don't have many notes, the balancing seems spot on for me but that may have been a lucky run on my end, I'll try it again later and see. I think there is enough health, armor and ammo now. That last AV rush is really fun, it seemed a lot scarier before I realized I had 90 rockets. @dmdr - Nice opening, first fight isn't too hectic if you get half-decent infighting going. The vanilla switch textures need to be changed and it needs a non-iwad midi. I really enjoyed the main fight with the cybers, it was a total clusterfuck and enough of the aggro was directed at other demons that it was fun just strolling around and watching them kill each other. Despite the lack of a backpack I found the fight to be pretty safe, the times I died were when I was trying to clean up the the two cybers at the very end. I think something may have broken (or I'm missing something) because I flipped all of the switches and I still can't progress. Let me know what I'm missing. This is a solid map, chaotic and crazy but not too grim, I like it. (fuck the exit sign) @RastaManGames I'll have a look at the texture definitions tomorrow, normally I just black out all the iwad textures in the TEXTURE lump but they're still there. Just type ALL or DRK when looking for textures and you'll get the pertinent ones popping up.

I've used them straight into the 3.5mm jack and they worked fine, yup.

I've used as my daily drivers for ages HD6XX and they're fucking mean. It's worth having some audio stack for it tho, amp/dac/etc. If you can afford them then yeah, get them.

I have updated the OP to include v1.2 of the resources. 1.2 only has one change, a sky has been added (heads up @SynDoom). Let me know what you guys think, it's pretty basic but I think it gets the job done. I'll update the OP now with all the new mappers (woo!). I'm quite busy so it will be later when I can come back and reply/comment properly but I wanted to get the sky update out ASAP. Edit: @Skeaze go for it m8! This is a great project for mappers that are starting out :) Any questions just chuck them in this thread or in the Editing Questions subforum. @ryiron You can absolutely put your name down to map. Check my comment to Skeaze in this post too :) Edit 2: We've now got over 32 mappers signed up, megawad here we come ;)

This mapset kicks fucking ass. The increased weapon swap speed, the faster monsters, great map flow, I loved playing through this set. This map feels like quintessential Boom with strong skillsaw vibes as mentioned previously in the thread. I do love the sprites, they all suit the gameplay and OTEX perfectly. I'm very keen to see what the next episode is like. Edit: I forgot to mention that I appreciate the variety in the maps. It's not just visual variety but also gameplay and set pieces, each map feels decidedly different to the one before it and the one after it. I'm replaying JAM and I'm loving it even more than the first time. Edit 2: @Vortale since the hud isn't widescreen compat I made a copy of flat 'O8DMDA13' and renamed it 'GRNROCK' and it looks better IMO Ideally, a widescreen hud would be used but I think this a fair in-between.

I've had an issue like that but it was purely cosmetic and was fixed by restarting SLADE. I'd try converting, saving the wad then re-opening and seeing if it works.

I've updated the OP with v1.1 of the resources. I have added 3 midtexture fences (MID***) in black/white/grey so they can suit as many other colors as possible. I have also included 4 new textures that are solid colors so you can use them to build your own switches (SW*EZ) and I've left the old switch texture in. I also removed the EXIT sign texture. I think the resources are in a good place and I don't see them changing very much, if at all, but I'm still open for comments so don't hold back if you have any thoughts or ideas. *Actually, I'll need to look at the skies, check my comments later in this post. I'm excited to test the two maps that have been submitted, I'll record a video of my playthrough and chuck it up on youtube. There won't be any commentary as my PC is set up in the lounge on my TV and my mic is attached to my desk in my study. @ViolentBeetle Mmm, I have solid sky colors set up currently but you're right. I'll look at the skies now actually, I'm thinking I'll do a bright blue sky with clouds (?), a night sky with stars and some hellish red one too. What do you guys think? Ah, bugger. I saw a recent Boom wad that had a hub map that I tried out so I thought it was working via UMAPINFO. It turns out that only the door that actually leads to a different map was the one that I chose, the rest led to teleports to different parts of the map, d'oh! But that's fine, I will just order the maps appropriately, we can exceed the 32 map limit which is the most important factor. Thanks for the heads up yo.

It's awesome to see everyone getting on board. I'm updating the resource pack today, I will be including some midtexture grates in Red, Blue, Green and Dark Grey. I'm hesitant to make a new mid texture for each of the shades. How's that midtexture look? I didn't want to take a regular Doom 2 midtex and color it since the shapes are pretty recognizable, the alternative is more of a fence design, rather than a grate. I don't want to include more than 1 style of midtexture. In regards to switches @dmdr and everyone else, what I'm thinking of is making a whole bunch of switches that are just solid colors (so the whole switch will change color when toggled), that way you could make switches of any color, just use grey textures around them to make them look like switches. The alternative is I use the existing switch texture and change the grey to different colors. Let me know what you guys think. I think I'm also going to get rid off the exit sign as I don't think it fits anymore with the rest of the wad. @Thelokk - Go for it, dude. This set would be great for anyone just starting out, no need to worry about texture choices, just colors. @game - Bunny and Beetle are exactly right, voodoo dolls are a huge feature advantage over vanilla Doom 2. That being said, I wouldn't recommend using features for the sake of using them. Although we are using MBF21 for this wad it is an evolution of Boom so you could check out the Boom Edit Example and see what the cutting edge features Boom features were in 1998, maybe one of them will spark an idea. "I'm glad I figured out a unique idea, although the geometry will be basic." - that's one of the major strengths to this project IMO, with these textures simple geometry goes a long way. @lunchlunch @dmdr - I'm shocked to see maps this early, I'll give them a jam and record a playthrough for you both (no mic tho). I'll also update the OP with all the new mappers and link the updated resources in a few hours (it's still early here in NZ) once I confirm exactly what's going in there. Edit: I'm watching a recent @Dwars video and he talks about MBF21, I've timestamped it below for anyone interested

I'm trying out Doom Retro for the first time in a long, long time and it's crashing JAM every time I open the menu (warping to maps works fine). It's a standard Boom wad that runs under complevel 9 so I'm not sure what the issue is (not seeing any error message when game crashes to desktop) but I'm assuming it has to do with the menu lumps?

If you're working on ports that don't support MAPINFO then you need to do it via DeHackEd.

Given that it's 90s shovelware, if the awesomeness doesn't melt our faces then the wooden floor that's been inexplicably tagged as a damaging sector probably will.

Stoked to see people signing up :D I've updated the OP with names (✯𝔉𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔑𝔬𝔬𝔟✯ your name is impossible to ping you with unless you know the ALT code for those stars). I've also posted about this project in the perpetual /vr/ retro FPS thread and we got one sign up there so that's cool.

Very cool to see this kick off! It's gonna be great fun seeing what we turn up from these ever mysterious relics of the mid 90s..

I've been thinking recently that I'd like to record some demos and submit them to DSDA but not for speed, rather to show 'yes, I can beat this wad'. It's similar, in a way, to Decino's playthrough videos but more accurately I'm trying to recapture some of the essence of The Doom Honorific Titles (wiki link here). To be honest, I really love the idea of DHT, the thought of being challenged to complete a random* wad to prove yourself. It really feels like an early internet idea, I wish that it would be resurrected by someone. In any case, the reason for this thread is to ask people which maps they would consider as 'trophy' maps. Maps to beat and record a demo because to be able to beat it, without saving, is a legitimate achievement. I've got a thread that can be used as a hard wad list but that looks more entire wads rather than specific maps. It's necessary to be more granular because "sunder" isn't as approachable or useful as a goal as "sunder map 17". I'll get the ball rolling, Scythe map24: Hatred. I specifically chose this map because it is definitely not the hardest map I've ever played or beaten but I remember when I was really starting to knuckle down with Doom in my teens (Scythe released in 2003 when I was 14) Scythe was one of the first wads I wanted to tick off the list as having completed without saves and Hatred was a very daunting map to beat. It's not extremely difficult once you pick apart the combat puzzle but it does require good execution (don't blow yourself up with the revs) and understanding of Doom to beat. I think UV Maxing (UV, all kills, all secrets) but without rushing/worrying about time is what's required for the demo. I'm curious to see which maps people come up with and I'm also curious if demos like this are common?

My first thought was "another xdarkmasterx map, can't wait to get my shit kicked in" but I was surprised at how much tamer than the other maps of yours that I've played Buried Castle is, at least at the very start. I had a lot of fun with this map, I especially liked the cyberdemon chase. The crusher to kill the imps after the blue key ambush is a much appreciated touch, I wasn't looking forward to having to clean that up. Fun map as always, I'm always stoked to when I see you've posted a new map @xdarkmasterx Small issue, the room where you get a rocket launcher + boxes of rockets has some cages with dead bodies in them but the line with the midtex isn't set to block player movement. There's a bug here where if you shoot the red wall I'm aiming at here the projectile will pass right through it. I've had the issue before in my maps too but it was so minor that I didn't find it worth spending time fixing (just moving around the line didn't fix it). Similar issue as one above but can be hit with projectiles but not with hitscan. It's not even worth fixing but I noticed it so I may as well mention it.

All of those new sprites look great, can't wait to see how they'll look in game

You need to use it as middle texture on a 2 sided linedef:

I'll assume this is with a vanilla wad, my guess is the TEXTURE* lump is messed up somehow. I'm thinking that the texture size has been set incorrectly. Correctly set texture size in TEXTURE1. Note the texture dimensions at the bottom middle of the screen: Incorrectly set size, note the blank space below the texture, I think that's whats happening to you:

Holy shit, this is well unexpected. It's always good to see a megawad release and I'm guessing after 1.5 years you guys feel the same. I'll give it a jam and let you know what I think. Here's just running commentary/notes as I play: