Tools to remake PS1 Doom

[vstar950]

I hope this helps anyone looking to completely customise and remake psx doom.

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/122093-psx-doom-modding-tools/

 

[FAST6191]

While not the strangest of the "let's modify ports of Doom" things I have seen (SNES, GBA and Jaguar all having been looked at considerably from the hacker side of things in threads I have seen, and plenty of others claiming it was their childhood version of Doom) I do have to ask if there is anything special about the PS1 version that would make one want to have a look in?

 

[vstar950]

I really like the music. My childhood version of Doom was on super Nintendo. Because that's all I had. When I moved up to PlayStation I got hooked on the PlayStation version because you could play two player with two separate consoles on two separate TVs. The other thing I really did enjoy was the game shark code make a rapid fire for all guns. No other Port of Doom has that code. and since all of us in high school were on PlayStation 1, that was the console to go to and we wanted to have all the games we liked on that one console. Emulation and other things as well.

 

[FAST6191]

To be a pedant I should note that link play would technically have been possible on SNES doom. See Xband.

Anyway don't know that I have seen people discuss PS1 networking before. I picked up a cable for it the other month because I pick up strange cables like that when I find them but never even knew about it back when.

 

[Jayro]

Did the PS1 run the game using real 3D rendered polygons and textures like DOOM64, or did it stick to a ported doom engine, keeping the graphics looking good? I've never played the PSX port.

 

[FAST6191]

Did the PS1 run the game using real 3D rendered polygons and textures like DOOM64, or did it stick to a ported doom engine, keeping the graphics looking good? I've never played the PSX port.

For the most part Doom 64 was the only thing that was its own thing. Everything else might lack one or more enemies, tweak a few minor things, maybe lose a level or two, maybe have a bit of different music and naturally could run like arse because bad port/weak machine but still fundamentally going to be Doom. Today it is pretty much Doom 64 and whatever source port floats your boat/works on the machine you have, or nostalgia for a lesser version. Some like the extra levels from XBLA Doom 2 ( https://gbatemp.net/threads/a-bit-of-doom-2-xbla-hacking.229989/ ) but that is perhaps a different discussion
Videos that might serve as a reasonable overview on differences

 

[vstar950]

Mega rapid fire for ps1 Doom. This code was also available on Final Doom

 

[Jayro]

The one thing that chaps my ass about DOOM on the GBA is the resolution it runs at... The pixels aren't even square, they're stretched. It's like they took the game running at 160x120, and stretched it to fit the 240x160 window. Making the 4:3 aspect ratio stretched to fit the 3:2 ratio GBA screen, resulting in rectangular pixels that are HUGE.

Now I know optimizations had to be made to get a smoother framerate, but they could have at least used a 2x2 pixel scaling, even if it meant thin black bars on the sides. Personally, I wanna see a doom port on the GBA that has 1:1 pixels... A real 240x160 30FPS version of DOOM. I don't know why this hasn't been done yet. The GBA has more than enough hardware to make DOOM run perfectly at such a small resolution.

 

[vstar950]

There was a mod for the GBA version that made it look very nice.

On second thought it might be a gz Doom mod for the ROM

 

[Jayro]

There was a mod for the GBA version that made it look very nice.

On second thought it might be a gz Doom mod for the ROM

The PC conversion mod helps uncensor the game's blood and optimizes it, but the resolution scaling is still garbage. It's the one thing modders haven't messed with yet.

 

[vstar950]

Ps1 version had its own thing going. For me my favorite thing was mega rapid fire for all weapons code from gameshark. I could have a full auto rocket launcher and bfg among all the others.

 

[EldritchPenumbra]

While not the strangest of the "let's modify ports of Doom" things I have seen (SNES, GBA and Jaguar all having been looked at considerably from the hacker side of things in threads I have seen, and plenty of others claiming it was their childhood version of Doom) I do have to ask if there is anything special about the PS1 version that would make one want to have a look in?

The ambient sound track, the lighting, and the fact that you get Super Shotgun in DOOM as well as 2. It's just an amazing port compared to all others from the day, in fact I never liked the Sony Playstation but bought one just to play this version of the game.... while sitting in the dark with fat head phones on.

 

[torrent_get]

There is a native ps1 master edition DOOM currently at beta 4 - 11/16/22.



https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/101161

 

[EldritchPenumbra]

There is a native ps1 master edition DOOM currently at beta 4 - 11/16/22.



https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/101161

It's went up a version since I last looked at it! Glad to see they didn't burn out and give up on the project, it looks very impressive!