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Version 4.32
(c) 1994
By Terran Melconian
NEW FROM 4.31
* One more demo showing the 3 secret areas in Episode 1 Level 1
* "Cool" pulsating colors added
* One command line option added, to turn off those damned pulsating colors.
* Bug fix for maximum ammunition modification, no longer gets messed up
if you collect ammo when you are near the limit.
NEW FROM 4.30
* Recorded demos showing how to find the secret levels in all three
episodes
* List of popular command line options and cheat keys
NEW FROM 3.14
* New numbering system. DOOMM now uses a real version numbering system
instead of joke numbers involving mathematical constants.
* Support for debugging power-ups.
* Support for the berserk power-up.
* Support for difficulty level modification.
* Support for the registered version of DOOM.
* Maximum values for ammo and health have been increased.
* Command-line version has been removed.
NEW FROM [no number]
* Completely new menu-driven interface
* More detailed modification allowed
* Support for modification of ammunition
ON THE LIST FOR FUTURE VERSIONS:
+ Return of command line processing as part of the DOOMM executable.
+ Completion of the Episode 3 demo.
LIST OF VERSIONS
[no number] Very first version, command line only
3.14159 First release with new menu driven interface
4.2.71828 Not released
4.3 Second numbered release
4.31 Not released
4.32 This version
1.0 OVERVIEW
DOOMM is a savegame editor for the popular action game DOOM produced by
id software. DOOMM, meaning DOOM Modifier, will allow you to edit the saved
games produced by DOOM in order to increase your health, ammunition, etc.
In order to use DOOMM, you must have and should be familiar with DOOM.
DOOMM version 4.3x is compatible with DOOM version 1.2 and possibly
later releases. To modify savegames for DOOM version 1.1 and before you must
obtain DOOMM version 3.14.
When you start DOOMM, you should see the title screen for a few seconds
and then a menu will appear. If you do not have any savegames in the
current directory, DOOMM will detect this and exit after displaying the title
screen. The menu is divided into sections, each of which is explained
below.1
2.0 SETUP
This simply allows you to select which savegame you want to edit. Press
the down arrow to move to the one you want, press space or enter to select
it, then press tab to move to the OK button. Press space or enter to
accept. If you select a game which does not exist (it says "BLANK") you
will be given an error and asked to choose again.
The second option on the savegame menu will allow you to choose which
difficulty level is saved in the savegame. Note that reducing or increasing
the difficulty will not affect the number of monsters in the current level,
but will affect the monsters in subsequent levels.
3.0 HEALTH MENU
There are two options on the HEALTH menu, HEALTH and ARMOR, which allow
you to change your health and armor, respectively. Simply enter the value
you want, using backspace to erase the existing value if necessary, then
press tab to go to the OK button and press enter to quit. To exit back to
the main menu, press escape.
NOTE: If you set your health to a value above 199, the limit, your health will
reduce to 199 when you play as soon as you get a health potion. There are
ways around this, see later.
4.0 ITEMS MENU
This menu gives you several choices. The WEAPONS selection allows you
to select which weapons you want. Move through the list of weapons with the
down and up arrows, selecting or deselecting the desired weapons with space
or enter. When you have finished, press tab and then press enter. Note
that the Plasma Rifle and BFG 9000 do not function in the shareware version
of DOOM.
The KEYS option lets you select various card and skull keys. It
operates in the same manner as the preceeding option.
The AMMO and MAX AMMO let you select how much ammunition you currently
have and how much you can carry, respectively. Enter the values you desire,
using backspace to delete the old values. To move from one type of
ammunition to another, you must use tab. Do not try to use the down or up
arrows. If you desire to give yourself the maximum amount of ammunition
available, you can enter -1 in the box. Note that if you save the game and
reload it the number will have been translated into the actual value of the
maximum amount. You can enter values larger than this, but Bad Things will
happen if you do. Besides, two million should be enough for anyone.
The POWERUPS option lets you select items you may want, such as a computer
map, light amplification visors, and radiation suits. Check the items you
want. The DEBUG ITEMS menu lets you select items which are available by
pressing certain combinations. Typing IDDQD while playing DOOM in
non-nightmare mode will activate godmode, for example (See CHEATS.DOC for
more information concerning codes you can enter). The fourth item,
indicated with question marks, does something, but I'm not quite sure what yet.
5.0 MODIFY
The MODIFY menu will allow you to modify your DOOM executable to
overcome limitation which cannot be surmounted in any other manner. There
are four options on this menu. The first item, "shareware health", will
modify the maximum health value on the shareware version of DOOM. The
default maximum amount is 199, but this will increase it to 999. Note that
if you are playing after having made the modification and you get a blue
heatlh potion when your health is greater than about 220 it will move
directly to 999.
The second option, "shareware ammo", will modify the MAXIMUM ammo that
you start with. This is useful if you wish to use the IDKFA command to give
yourself the maximum amount of ammunition you can carry and you do not like
the limits which are ordinarily imposed. Note that the maximum ammunition
for specific games should be modified under the ITEMS menu and this option
will affect only NEW games which you start after making the modification.
The third and fourth options do the same thing as the first two, but
they work with the Registered version of DOOM instead of the shareware one.
Note that DOOMM cannot detect which version of DOOM you have, so you must be
careful to select the correct option from the menu. Also note that in the
registered version of DOOM the health maximum modification will raise the
maximum health value above 999, but it will never "jump" to the maximum as
in the shareware version.
In order for any of these options to function properly, you must be
running DOOMM from the directory which contains your DOOM.EXE file. Note
that DOOMM does not detect if your DOOM.EXE is absent, and if you try to
modify it when it isn't there, Bad Things might happen.
6.0 RECORDED .LMPs
.LMP files are external demos which can be recorded with DOOM. The
three .LMPs included with this program, SECLEVx.LMP, show you how to access
the three secret levels, one in each episode. In the first episode, the
demo is of level three. In the second episode, the demo is of level 5. In
the third episode, the demo is of level XXX. If you are not familiar with
playing external demos with doom, you can use the RUNDEMO batch file which
will prompt you for which demo you would like to play and then play that
demo. If you would like to learn how to play demos and record your own, see
CHEATS.DOC. As a bonus, the file SEC11.LMP has