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The Ultimate Doom Mod Collection?

Posted by timothy on from the obsessive-compulsive-is-being-polite dept.

Croakyvoice writes "Law56ker has today released the Nxdoom Collection, a massive collection of 220 Doom Mods for the Dreamcast, a collection of best Total Conversions, Megawads, and Various levels for use on NXDOOM for the Sega Dreamcast. Wads Include Duke Nukem GP, Half Life, Star Wars, Goldeneye, Quake 2 and Star Trek. They come on 2 CDS." Registration is required for downloading anything, but if you're low on Megawads this seems like one-stop shopping.

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  1. Tick Tock by AtomicSnarl · · Score: 2

    As if my time off wasn't short enough....

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  2. Brings 'Niche' To a Whole New Level by Grond · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So this is a collection of mods for the original Doom, which was released 15 years ago. Except it's for the Dreamcast, which ended production 7 years ago and was never a big seller. On top of that, you need a modded Dreamcast. So basically this will appeal to almost no one.

    1. Re:Brings 'Niche' To a Whole New Level by HeavensBlade23 · · Score: 3, Informative

      For the most part the DC didn't need a 'mod'. Almost all of them were perfectly capable of reading CD-Rs and executing homebrew code, which is why it was one of the most pirated consoles ever.

    2. Re:Brings 'Niche' To a Whole New Level by Peter+Cooper · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I'm a DOOM fan, I have a Dreamcast (though not hooked up) AND it's modded.. and.. I'm still not really interested enough to actually download it. So, yes, this is ultra niche ;-)

      That said, it sounds like a great cultural artifact.

    3. Re:Brings 'Niche' To a Whole New Level by Uipe · · Score: 2, Insightful

      How can the "Parent" be moded has Interesting, and not flame bait or troll ? Today I went to my little cousin birthday party and in the living room I found his father talking to his friends about the cool PS3 he had bought his son and how cool it was in the big LCD, describing all its nifty features specially those he never used, like internet and movies (blueray movies are still really expensive here) and everything while the kids were all in the basement playing in the old Dreamcast I had offered my cousin... so ya I think what counts is if its fun not how old the game / console is.

    4. Re:Brings 'Niche' To a Whole New Level by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 2, Funny

      The Dreamcast does not NEED to be modded in any fashion to run homebrew. Are you sure you have one? And not, say, an empty cookie tin?

  3. Re:Gutted by BobNET · · Score: 3, Informative

    What about a PC collection?

    http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/

  4. Re:Shovelware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Surely Beorn Stronginthearm is my uncle?

  5. Re:Gutted by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ooer ... there's my own WAD in there too. Five maps of single-player mayhem, for Doom 2. Released over nine years ago, which was pretty late by Doom standards...

    If you want something a bit more modern, there's always this for Half-Life, and this for Half-Life 2: Episode One (Liverpool nil). And some reviews!

    Aaaand ... some bonus Quake!

    Ahem. That's quite enough links, I reckon!

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  6. Re:Gutted by Toonol · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Doom 3 was a great 'meh' because it didn't "appeal is to twitch-kids who enjoy playing hyper-modded versions for mowing down hundreds of sprites on the screen at a time without the distraction of a real z-axis the likes you'd get in a Serious Sam game."

    Go back and play it. It's fun, it's fast, and having 30 monsters on screen at once, combined with the wonderful lack of cut-screens, make it a refreshing change from modern shooters.

  7. So Many Clarifications for the Ignorant... by nz17 · · Score: 5, Informative

    *Sigh* Looks like there is a lot ignorance about this whole topic. (And I don't mean ignorant in an insulting way.) So let's clear some things up:

    1) You don't need to play these files on the Dreamcast version of DOOM. These mods will all work fine on the various Windows, DOS, and other version of DOOM that can load PWADs. Just download the collection and extract them.

    2) This collection is special because _all_ of the files have been tested and confirmed to correctly work on the Dreamcast version of DOOM, nxDoom. Because of system hardware limitations not all mods will correctly work on the DC version of DOOM, so Law56ker's collection is a real time-saver for anyone that wants to play DOOM mods on any system with limited hardware similar to a Dreamcast.

    3) A modified Dreamcast is not necessary to run these files. Because the boot system for Dreamcast software was deciphered years ago, all home-brew/independent software form the last few years can easily boot without hardware or software mods.

    4) The reason that this software needs to be downloaded, modified, and then burned to disc is due to a limitation of DOOM and other games built in a similar way. The original files from DOOM and/or DOOM 2 are needed to run these mods because the DOOM engine requires the original files.

    5) The Dreamcast port of DOOM, nxDOOM, has support for the Modlist (making selecting and loading mods quick and easy), VMU saving (to continue the game later or save preferences), and control via keyboard, mouse, and/or Dreamcast controller.

    I hope this clears up any misunderstandings.

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  8. Oh, and The Summary is Wrong by nz17 · · Score: 4, Informative

    6) Absolutely no registration is required to download this collection of DOOM files.

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