[Tutorial] WADs and What they do

[fortegigasgospel]

Hey all, just giving a friendly tutorial on how to use WADs, as well as a run down of various ones.
First off, how to use them, when we open 8BDM we get the launcher pop up first, you will see the Start button and a blank bar below it with "Add File" next to it. Press that and find a WAD you wish to load, do it again until you have loaded all of the WADs you want in the order you wish for them. Viola, you have WADs loaded.
WADs come in different flavors, or well types. The main types you will see are Map Packs, Mods, and Expansions.
Map packs add more maps to the game for you to play in for almost every game mode.
Expansions usually consist of more maps, weapons, and skins.
While Mods can be any number of things, such as weapons, game modes, or modifications.
Now the part you've been waiting for, here are just some examples of various WADs for 8BDM. If you wish for your WAD to be listed let me know, if your WAD is listed and you wish for it not to be, do so also.
-=Map Packs=-
CSCM (CutStuff Community Maps)

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CSCM is a map pack made by the community members themselves, of course the moderators for it make sure the maps meet certain standards. It has 2 different WADs to use, Remixed: which is a map pack of maps based off the robot masters but are not core maps, and the main CSCM which are original content maps made by mappers.

AMP (Another Medal Please or Another Map Pack)

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AMP is another popular map pack made by Mendez. It has a good selection of maps to choose from.

IX-Pack

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This map pack is made by both Mr.X and Ivory. Featuring maps made by both indicated by an X or an I.

SHARP

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Sharp is a map pack by Shade Guy and Vortale, though small it makes up in quality maps.

BME (Best Maps Ever)

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This map pack is special in which all the maps share the same textures and music, and are hardly able to be played on. Though this makes it a popular map pack for messing around in.

ROZ-Pack

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Another map pack with quality over quantity, this time made by Rozark Kyuoko.

DRSG (Duora Super Gyro)

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A map pack made by Duora Super Gyro, what is might lack in quality it certainly makes up for in uniqueness.

Kapack

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Made by Kapus, with a small selection of maps that are easy to play in.

-=Mods=-
Saxton Hale Mode

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Saxton Hale has become rather popular, it is a mode that is played in last man standing. When the round begins a random player(s) is(are) selected to be the boss(es). The other players must work together to defeat the boss player before they defeat everyone else. This mode comes in many different versions, which have a slight difference between them, ++ and Rebirth as the main two.

Roboenza

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Roboenza is played in last man standing as well, this is your zombie mode, where one player is randomly choosen to be the zombie at the start of the round and must attack other players to turn them into zombies as well. The game ends when either all players alive are zombies or all zombies are dead. Also the zombies have a timed life span before they die, so they have to act quickly to get other players.

Bot Apoc

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Bot Apocalypse is a game mod that uses team last man standing and pits players versus bots. The players are automaticly put into the same team and a number of bots, which scales per players, are put into the opposing team while they duke it out. If there is enough players 1 will randomly be chosen to play as the bot leader as well to give the bots an added edge of a player who won't get stuck everywhere.

March of the Metools

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Made by Cutman Mike himself this Capture the flag mod gives each team a metool, which a random player respawns as, which must make it to the other team's flag point before their own.

Screw Scramble

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Another mode made by CMM, this time the goal is to collect screws dropped by other players in order to reach a certain score before everyone else.

Mission Mode

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Yet another mode made by CMM, this mode gives the player 4 player classes to play as, Megaman, Protoman, Bass and Roll. As well as bosses to fight. They have stages to play through, and each character gets a unique weapon for each boss defeated. There is even mods for this mode featuring more characters such as Fake Man, Dark Man, Doc Bot and Duo as well as X, Zero, Axl and Vile.
Though CMM has no interest in continuing this mod, the moded versions are still being worked on.

Weapon mods, such as D.I.R.P. by Gummywormz and Ukiweps by Uki both add a selection of weapons to use and even allow them to replace weapons in maps.
LMSgames (Last Man Standing Games)

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This is a mini game collection of 30 minigames made by Gummyworms.

Classes

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Class modes add classes to the game, allowing you to play as a "character" with set weapons. The main Class Mods out at this time are Class Based Mod (aka YD) which uses robot masters made for pure enjoyment, Justified which is more canon based, CSCC and Teaparty classes both use user created characters.

?Box

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This mod replaces many items with ? Boxes from Megaman 3, shooting them makes a random item spawn.

Chaos Generator

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This mod by Beed causes numerous effects to take place during matches.

-=Expansions=-
Powered Up

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Though Powered Up was added to the core, this expansion features it's own maps and power ups.

RNC (Rockman No Constancy)

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An expansion featuring maps, and weapons based on the popular Megaman 2 Hack.

Halloween Mini Expansion

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A mini expansion featuring halloween themed maps, weapon recolors and skins

Holiday Expansion

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Happy Holidays, this expansion features maps, skins and weapons for the winter holidays.

[Ceridran]

Justified which is more cannon based

I need this version

How long does it take to load another cannonball

[Zard1084]

Wow i'm suprised to see Teaparty on the list! its that popular?? i should work on it more when i get my laptop back...

[fortegigasgospel]

Wow i'm suprised to see Teaparty on the list! its that popular?? i should work on it more when i get my laptop back...

Well it needs to be updated. I added it cause I felt it was warranted. I'll be adding links to topics soon as well btw.

[ice]

Battle & Chase seems to be coming back again also, there was a server up last night

[ZeStopper]

The beta works with v3b?

[FTX6004]

I think you spell "Rockman No Constancy" wrong.

[CDRom11_2007]

Lets just say his spelling has *puts on sunglasses* no consistancy

[fortegigasgospel]

Updated the first post, now there is links to the topics for each as well as a few additions.