Doom Ports and Freedoom

chuckee71 · Postby **chuckee71** » April 21st, 2013, 5:18 pm

In your opinion, what is the best version of Doom that you have played? I play the PC version all the time. When I am on the go, I play the Game Boy Advance version all the time. I often play the Playstation version too. I never played the Jaguar version, but it is a very fun-to-play port.
Have you ever heard of Freedoom? It's a GNU/BSD licensed free game that has 3 versions. Ultimate Freedoom is based on Ultimate Doom, FreeDM is deathmatch, and Freedoom is based on Doom 2. I recommend that you run this on ZDoom. Again, I have the Real PC Doom. Remember, If you want to get Doom for free, get Freedoom. Do not download Doom from a torrent site, or Id software's company will lose profit. I bought mine from Steam. You can extract the wad for Doom Builder 2 by going to c/Program Filesx86, Steam, steamapps, common, (game), base, and you can get the wad. Master Levels for Doom 2 has the full doom2.wad bundled with it. FreeDoom is actually based on the Doom source code, which is how the developers were able to turn the game to a WAD file and mimic Doom's gameplay. Remember, the bolded words are a reminder for the Video Game Critic to review the GBA version he forgot to review. Bye!

LoganRuckman1 · Postby **LoganRuckman1** » April 21st, 2013, 8:29 pm

I'm guessing you're a huge Doom fan.

Greisha1 · Postby **Greisha1** » April 21st, 2013, 10:59 pm

I used to play the Ultimate Doom a lot for the PC, but no longer have a PC that can run it.

Algus1 · Postby **Algus1** » April 22nd, 2013, 4:35 am

Whatever you're posting from now Greisha is probably enough to run Doom lol. It has been ported to just about everything.

I run it with prboom on my Chromebook via some hacking voodoo that gives me a Linux desktop. Been playing Freedoom a bit, glad the levels aren't just clones of Doom levels as it gives something fresh to look at. The visuals are hit or miss but the audio is decent.

Every time I fire up regular Doom these days, it is massive nostalgia wave though. I played the heck out of this game in the early 90s. Unfortunately, that's not something Freedoom can replicate.

chuckee71 · Postby **chuckee71** » April 22nd, 2013, 6:39 am

That's why there are source ports. If doom can't run on the pc, take the wad and put it next to Zdoom, Prboom or something.

Sut1 · Postby **Sut1** » April 22nd, 2013, 3:08 pm

I have a soft spot for the 32x version as that's the one I played when Doom was the big thing. Still think its one hell of a conversion now. Was going to get the Saturn version but by all accounts it sucks big time.

chuckee71 · Postby **chuckee71** » April 22nd, 2013, 3:21 pm

The 32x version of Doom is decent, but SEGA should've left the BFG 9000 in the Refinery level in the Deimos part.

Postby **Herschie** » April 28th, 2021, 11:27 pm

I recently started playing Doom 64 and I am absolutely hooked! Butchering enemies with a chainsaw has proven to be most satisfying. But I never got into Doom in the 90s because I'd get motion sickness.

So I figured that if I did a search that I could find everyone's favorite version. Apparently there are better Doom games out there than on N64 that now I must try.

But now that I've revived this thread I'd be interested to see what everyone's favorite version of Doom is.