Doom X

DoomX - Doom/Doom2 for Xbox Consoles V0.12 Alpha
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In true fashion ive released a working alpha of DoomX. while Doom 3 may or may not ever see the light of day on the Xbox here is something to chew on for the time being. This port is a based from the original Doom sources and Bruce Lewis's Win32 WinDoom code, so credit goes to him first and foremost for his work.

To clear it up this version doesnt contain any of the new Doom enhancements such as 3d models, dynamic lights, texture filtering etc this is a standard version of the Doom engine running on Xbox Hardware.

Finally with each release, I have also decided to bundle the source code with it for people to play around with. If youe going to make changes to the code one thing i do ask you to note is:

The source is based off Bruce Lewis' WinDoom source code so if you wind up making a homebrew release it would be appreciated if you credit him, ID software for the original sources , myself for the work done up to this point and of course Superfro, Op-code and Plonkman for the startup screen and finally ExitWound for the background image.

If you make some code changes you'd like to see them in the next release email me and ill try and squeeze them in for you.



Whats Working
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Graphics
Sound
Controller
Load/Save
Quicksave
Exit Game
Rumble Support


Whats Not
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MIDI Sound
CD Sound
Network Code - commented out =p
Other stuff


What May Be Implemented In Future
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HDTV support
Keyboard support


If you want to help with any of this stuff, send me your diffs.



How to Install/Play
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You *need* a working Xbox mod chip solution, stop reading this if you dont have one.

The archive comes with Doom Shareware WAD file so you can get started quickly.

Burn to a cd the normal way and put either DOOM.WAD or DOOM2.WAD in the same directory as your default.xbe if you want to try out your retail wad files.

Press 'A' to start DoomX in 640x480 mode (looks best but menu and status bar is small - this is by design)

Press 'X' to start DoomX in 320x200 mode (default - but scaled to fit tv screen - this looks generally worse but status bar and Menu are normal size if you prefer it this way. Personally my tip is to stick with 640x480 mode it looks *much* better)



Tested WADS
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Doom.wad - Shareware
Doom.wad - Retail
Doom.wad - Final Doom Retail
Doom.wad - Ultimate Doom Retail
Doom2.wad - Shareware
Doom2.wad - retail

Anything else hasnt been tested but should work ok.


Gamepad
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Gamepad has the following mappings:

Left Analog Stick up/down - Forward/Back
D Up/Down - Forward/Back
Left Analog Stick left/right - Strafe Left/Strafe Right
Right Analog Stick left/right - Turn Left/ Turn Right
Right Trigger - Fire
Left Trigger - Run
A Button - Use
X Button - Enter Key
DPad Left/Right - Cycle weapons
Start Button - Doom In Game Menu
White/Black - Cycle thru weapons


Bugs
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Yes there are bugs.

DoomX crashes on exit.

Loading Doom2 saves when playing Doom == bad

This is an alpha after all.