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How do I play it? "gzdoom myhouse.wad" doesn't work. "gzdoom -wad myhouse.wad" doesn't work either. There's also a pk3 file in the drive. What is it for?

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1: Get gzdoom set up. 2: Get gzdoom to run Doom II so you know everything is working. 3: Run myhouse.pk3 with gzdoom.

The file myhouse.wad does work, but it's very short.

watch the video: https://youtu.be/5wAo54DHDY0

I was a Doom II junkie back in the day and probably don't consume youtube videos like some people - but this video kept my attention.

Follow the download link from [1], download `myhouse.zip`, put `myhouse.wad` from the zip where your other WADs are. Run GZDoom and use the [Browse…] button in the initial dialog to load `myhouse.wad`. Voilà.

[1]: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/134292-myhousewad/

No, do NOT use the .wad version. Use the .pk3 version.

The .wad was added at a later date, it's not the mod, it's a stripped down vanilla level with no magic.

I'm pretty sure the .wad was always there. It was just hidden in the .zip file in the Google Drive download as a red herring. It's not something to be avoided, just play the .pk3 file afterwards.

You add doom2.wad (Doom II – Hell on Earth (v1.9)), then run the pk3 file with gzdoom.

where is the doom2.wad coming from?

Your purchased Doom copy of course ; ) (just search for it, come on, the top results give it to you - just like the search results for "how to run myhouse.wad")

I just purchased I and II from GOG, they're EXEs; i'm on a macos machine :'(

IIRC they can be extracted using innoextract: https://github.com/dscharrer/innoextract

Needs to be used with the offline installer files from GOG

GOG's installers are made with InnoSetup, you can use a tool like InnoExtract to get the files out of them (source at https://constexpr.org/innoextract/ or in MacPorts/Homebrew).

You can uh

find them on the internet.

I wont tell you that the record 2020_03_22_DOOM on archive.org has it. I can't confirm.

Or just use freedoom2.wad from the FreeDOOM project and rename it as doom2.wad

There's an encrypted copy on the Quake CD.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7b97c87435e91b6b38eee8fcc601c6588d44e89e

my gzdoom download had one included iirc.

Get freedoom2.wad from https://freedoom.github.io and rename it to doom2.wad

You're going to have not the same textures as regular Doom 2 so plenty of designs and custom textures based on the originals used alongside them will look out of place. For playing with MyHouse for the proper experience, it would be best to get proper Doom 2.

Most environment textures of FreeDoom (if not all) are designed to be compatible on art style so you can play IWADs with no art clashing.

I played Requiem, STRAIN and lots of classical PWADs (even Back To Saturn) and the megawads always looked great on every level.

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