25 years and 4 days ago today, I renamed a file that has caused a lot of confusion. First, I am shocked that DWANGO WADs are still played. Second, I'm thrown how Shockwav3 picked up on the ties to BLUDBATH and DWANGO!. Those were the last two files I compiled for DWANGO and OLYMPUS BBS. Both are contenders for the work that should have produced DWANGO9. I came across Doomkid's video and a screenshot from this forum late one night and it melted my mind. All these WAD names sounded so familiar. I restored a backup from '98 this weekend (no, CD backups were not common at that time). Those are the files shown in Doomkid's screenshot and they match the files I uploaded to DWANGO BBS.
BONUS: One reason DWANGO!.WAD came after DWANGO10 is possibly because of my obsession with what would have been DWANGO9 MAP01. Entryway remakes were all the rage on the Houston server. I worked on this map until the servers were shutdown. It then got updated again in 2002 for a new engine that allowed jumping. It got a few more updates over the years as I used it for local LAN play. It is only one map, it has had many names over the years including DWANGO9, it has updates that would have never made it to a final DWANGO WAD, and it is the only map I have worked on since compiling BLUDBATH and DWANGO!. I like it, but it was never intended to be distributed. If you need one good death match to come out of your search for DWANGO9, submitted for your approval / internet complaining, I give you Beta4Ev.wad. -Voyager7
DWANGO9ish.zip
