[PsyDoom] Caldera Of Wretchedness

[intacowetrust]

Download link (see readme inside for how to launch):
https://www.mediafire.com/file/yvlxer3jbrah1bu/CalderaOW.zip/file

 

 

'Caldera Of Wretchedness' is a single level demo designed specifically for the 'PsyDoom' source port of PlayStation Doom to PC (version 0.8.3 and later).

It showcases some of the new features of PsyDoom versus the original PSX Doom engine such as greatly extended limits, Doom 64 style dual colored lighting, Lua scripting for advanced sector actions, Arch-viles and so on. It also features new music, composed in the engine's original tracker format as well as new textures and flats (courtesy of OTEX).

 

The map is intended to be played with PsyDoom 0.8.3 or later, and would probably be considered very challenging to most. Some of the challenging sections can be optionally skipped however, at the loss of some rewards. Hopefully a future PsyDoom update with save functionality might mitigate some of the frustrations of dying.

 

More screenshots:

Spoiler

 

Playthrough video (SPOILER ALERT):

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Here is the new music track also, in standalone format and looped once:

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Hope you enjoy!

Edited October 18, 2021 by intacowetrust

[Wavy]

Just launched this up in PsyDoom and god damn this is awsome. Really pushing the engine to its limits. Great stuff!

 

Also, where are the Archvile sounds from? Did you make them? They sound and fit in quite well with the other sounds.

[intacowetrust]

5 minutes ago, Wavy said:

Just launched this up in PsyDoom and god damn this is awsome. Really pushing the engine to its limits. Great stuff!

 

Thank you, happy to hear you're liking it thus far! :)

 

5 minutes ago, Wavy said:

Also, where are the Archvile sounds from? Did you make them? They sound and fit in quite well with the other sounds.

 

The Arch-vile sounds are thanks to team GEC of the GEC Master Edition (and other projects) - I think they did a really superb job with them. @Erick194 has a video showcasing the new sounds that they made here:

 

 

[00_Zombie_00]

I am a big fan of your work, this map is amazing, it has a terrifying atmosphere, along with the great background music. One question, which map editor do you use? I opened this map using ultimate doom buldier, but the map was destroyed. I really want to make maps for PsyDoom.

[Impboy4]

1 hour ago, 00_Zombie_00 said:

I am a big fan of your work, this map is amazing, it has a terrifying atmosphere, along with the great background music. One question, which map editor do you use? I opened this map using ultimate doom buldier, but the map was destroyed. I really want to make maps for PsyDoom.

https://github.com/Erick194/DoomBuilderPSX/releases/download/DoomBuilderPsxV2/DoomBuilderPsx.V2.zip

You need this as well for the resources: http://www.mediafire.com/file/f8ffd4h95dk4364/PSX_PK3.rar/file

[00_Zombie_00]

1 hour ago, Impboy4 said:

https://github.com/Erick194/DoomBuilderPSX/releases/download/DoomBuilderPsxV2/DoomBuilderPsx.V2.zip

You need this as well for the resources: http://www.mediafire.com/file/f8ffd4h95dk4364/PSX_PK3.rar/file

Thank you very much, I'm doing some tests, everything works fine. thank you so much

[intacowetrust]

On 12/1/2021 at 1:33 PM, 00_Zombie_00 said:

Thank you very much, I'm doing some tests, everything works fine. thank you so much

 

Glad to hear you are up and running and thanks @Impboy4 for answering the question. Just to add also some additional documentation for how to mod for PsyDoom can be found here:

https://github.com/BodbDearg/PsyDoom/blob/master/docs/PsyDoom Modding Overview.md

 

The PlayStation engine is a bit of a strange beast as you've noticed and the map format is very different, meaning weird corruption and/or crashes when loading in standard Doom tools which are unaware of it. Presently only the GEC fork of Doom Builder (DoomBuilderPSX) can edit PlayStation format maps.

[taufan99]

We need more D64-like maps on PsyDoom like this.

[Devalaous]

9 hours ago, taufan99 said:

We need more D64-like maps on PsyDoom like this.

 

'Doom 64 for Doom 2 for Playstation for Psydoom'

 

Definitely gonna download this later, Psydoom has been an amazing port.

[Herr Dethnout]

On 10/23/2022 at 4:15 PM, Devalaous said:

'Doom 64 for Doom 2 for Playstation for Psydoom'

 

Don't give me ideas...

 

Spoiler

hehe

 

[quakis]

@intacowetrust Only recently discovered PsyDoom and got it up and running. After being hit by a wave of nostalgia, I then gave this level a spin. Very atmospheric piece of work that captures what makes the ambiance of PSX Doom tick for me. The use of colour especially stood out that helped establish a distinct mood during the earlier cavern and dungeon portions. I'd love to see more works like this.

 

Here's my full review: https://taw.duke4.net/2024/01/doom2/caldera-ow/

Edited January 9 by quakis
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[intacowetrust]

6 hours ago, quakis said:

@intacowetrust Only recently discovered PsyDoom and got it up and running. After being hit by a wave of nostalgia, I then gave this level a spin. Very atmospheric piece of work that captures what makes the ambiance of PSX Doom tick for me. The use of colour especially stood out that helped establish a distinct mood during the earlier cavern and dungeon portions. I'd love to see more works like this.

 

Here's my full review: https://taw.duke4.net/2024/01/doom2/caldera-ow/

 

Awesome, glad you liked it and thanks for writing the review :)