Master Levels for Doom II - 25th Anniversary MIDI Pack

[Peter]

The 25th Anniversary of the 'Master Levels for Doom II' happened on the 26th of December 2020. And for 25 years, this very questionable set of levels did not contain any original music.

 

This is my MIDI pack to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of these levels, each with their own unique music made specifically to fit the feel of the map.

 

Currently mainly for Crispy Doom, using the 'Doom Classic Complete' arrangement (looking for people to port this over to other source ports).

This also works for GZDoom with Blzut3's Master Levels patch set to the PSN order and with music set to "Doom 2 Classic (Doom 2 Order)"

Download: ml_midipack_crispydoom.zip

 

Here's the Full OST on my bandcamp:

https://megasphere.bandcamp.com/album/master-levels-for-doom-ii-25th-anniversary-midi-pack

 

And also here on YouTube:

 

Edited December 6, 2021 by Peter
Minor update

[Endless]

Just finished the Master Levels and made a special review for its 25th anniversary, and I was just thinking ''Wouldn't it be nice if it had a proper soundtrack?''. A Christmas miracle, I see.

[TrialD]

Oh wow, def can't wait for these juicy tunes.

[Diabolución]

I cannot believe what I am reading. Bespoke MIDIs for Master Levels for Doom II? Hell yes!

 

Now if only someone developed an analogous pack for the extra levels related to them, this would be fucking awesome. Even more awesome, I mean.

[dmslr]

"It is appalling. It is abysmal. It is the most repulsive set of levels you can play for Doom in the entire world. I've tried to play 3000 levels in D!Zone and you would never come across a level as bad as any of these ones and boss levels in Doom 2. Jesus Christ on a bike, those were some awful levels. (...) Tier F? Tier Z! All of them! All of them!!!"

                                           - Peter 'Megasphere' Lawrence

Edited December 25, 2020 by dmslr

[ChopBlock223]

I don't exactly love the Master Levels, but I appreciate any effort and any new music people make.

[Umbra]

I adore the Master Levels. I cannot wait for this release!

[Faceman2000]

Nice! Maybe this will motivate me to play through them finally! Last set of official levels I’ve yet to beat.

[Nevander]

Very nice. Looking forward to this, I have yet to actually fully play through all of the levels. Using new music made specifically for them will be a great experience!

[Doomkid]

Like some others have hinted toward, this will finally give people a reason to replay the Master Levels!

[Orchid87]

Does something like this exist for Plutonia?

Edited December 26, 2020 by Orchid87

[Gez]

2 minutes ago, Orchid87 said:

Does something like this exist for Plutonia?

Yep!

[Orchid87]

3 minutes ago, Gez said:

Yep!

Big thanks!!

[Diabolución]

As far as the official IWADs / PWADs go, at this rate in a few months only doom.wad and nerve.wad will feature these old MUS songs.

 

doom.wad

doom2.wad -> The current project led by Doomkid.

tnt.wad -> That supposed project by CammyBanana (I just hope this project replaces every old song).

plutonia.wad -> This was done years ago, led by Jimmy.

That bunch of loose levels. -> This very same thread.

nerve.wad

[Peter]

65% percent done now. Had a break recently, now back at it.

[dmslr]

The pack is just 20 wads that must be loaded with a respective level, right?

[Nevander]

When this is done, I'd love to combine it with ZDoom Master Levels Menu Interface.

[Devalaous]

16 hours ago, Nevander said:

When this is done, I'd love to combine it with ZDoom Master Levels Menu Interface.

 

Reminds me, I always wanted to update that to fix its Bad Dream issue + add the related free levels and rejected master levels

[Fullside]

Heck yeah. No more IDMUS while playing virgil.wad :)

[Mystic 256]

14 hours ago, Devalaous said:

 

Reminds me, I always wanted to update that to fix its Bad Dream issue + add the related free levels and rejected master levels

There were rejected Master Levels?

[kmxexii]

46 minutes ago, Mystic 256 said:

There were rejected Master Levels?

 

officially speaking, Chris Klie had six submissions that were rejected and Tom Mustaine had three, two of which became MAP01 and MAP17 of TNT: Evilution, the last being the aptly-named Doom2 Map14 Homage. There were also an unspecified number of maps from a mystery author who were pulled out because of legal reasons, paving the way for @Soundblock's inclusion.

Edited January 8, 2021 by kmxexii

[Devalaous]

The Map14 Homage is especially notable for appearing in a magazine for a preview of Final Doom on the Playstation (Final Doom on PS1 was a mix of Master Levels, TNT and Plutonia) , with some remnants of mystery levels being found on the final version. 

 

All seven known rejects are freely downloadable, Klie's ones are on idgames I believe. 

 

Edited January 8, 2021 by Devalaous

[Nevander]

Is there a pack somewhere with all seven together? I'd love to add them to the existing Master Levels for like a Master Master Levels.

[dmslr]

@Nevander did you know about this?

[Nevander]

Oh sweet. Thanks.

[Doomkid]

4 hours ago, kmxexii said:

Tom Mustaine had three, two of which became MAP01 and MAP17 of TNT: Evilution

A funny thing about Map01 of TNT is that you can find some variants of it in DWANGO wads, and iirc at least one of them was released before TNT (but don’t quote me on that).

 

Since a couple early MIDIs by Mustaine are also in the DWANGO wads, I can’t help but wonder if, after being rejected for the Master Levels, he figured it at least deserved a home in a DM compilation, not realising it would soon be made an official part of Doom through TNT.. Just another one of those old mysteries.

[Devalaous]

9 hours ago, Nevander said:

Is there a pack somewhere with all seven together? I'd love to add them to the existing Master Levels for like a Master Master Levels.

 

If you'd like your own copies to fool around with in projects:

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/s-u/twm01

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/d-f/device_1

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/a-c/cpu

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/d-f/dmz

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/d-f/e_inside

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/a-c/cdk_fury

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/g-i/hive

 

These are the original versions.

[Diabolución]

On 1/8/2021 at 9:45 PM, Nevander said:

I'd love to add them to the existing Master Levels for like a Master Master Levels.

 

This is the whole shebang.

 

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/post/2232727/

 

If you intend playing the Cabal levels in continuous mode (and only in continuous mode, as these alternative ones are harder), check out these instead of the ones posted at /idgames.

 

https://doomshack.org/uploads/caball.zip

 

Same as above, but as loose levels:

http://www.jbserver.com/downloads/jdoom/wads/cranium.zip

https://doomshack.org/uploads/cabal(v1.1).zip

Edited January 12, 2021 by Diabolución
Missing "out".

[Peter]

6 MIDIs left to do now.

 

The deadline I set is for Friday but hopefully I can finish before then.

[Devalaous]

2 hours ago, Peter said:

6 MIDIs left to do now.

 

The deadline I set is for Friday but hopefully I can finish before then.

 

im putting off replaying the rest of the Master Levels till this is done, got Doom Launcher all set up and waiting :)