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Tutorial Collection / Re: [INSTALL] Installing MM8BDM on Mac OSX
« on: September 10, 2017, 03:33:32 PM »
This topic led me to believe that MM8BDM uses a special version of Zandronum that needs to be ported. I was wrong, you don't even need Wineskin to do multiplayer. This assumes you know how OSX Zandronum and Doomseeker work, which isn't far away from Windows at all:
1. Download the latest version, unzip it.
2. Take megagame.wad and place it where you put your other IWADs (doom.wad, heretic.wad, etc.). Take skulltag_actors.pk3 and place it somewhere where Doomseeker will notice (all skulltag stuff ends up in my folder of downloaded stuff from multiplayer servers, but if you're afraid of deleting it on accident putting it in the same place as megagame or your usual PK3/WADs folder works too.)
3. Put mm8bdm-v5b.pk3 (or whatever the newest version is) somewhere where Zandronum will see it. If you do not have this attempt to join any server in Doomseeker that uses megagame.wad. Doomseeker will start looking for WADs and PK3s you don't have as usual, among these is the important thing you need: mm8bdm-v5b.pk3 (or whichever version the newest is). You might want to move this somewhere safe where you don't delete it.
4. You're done. Enjoy.
This should also be true for any platform that a Zandronum and Doomseeker version exist for. You don't even need to update your IWAD aliases. I really don't know about single player yet but I might attempt it later.
EDIT: Okay, singleplayer works. This setup or similar launches the vanilla game without problem, just set it up in the create game menu of Doomseeker and click Play Offline. Only thing is that it goes straight past the start menu into Dr. Light's tutorial/the start spawn point in front of the lab (in theory starting the game from Zandronum itself could fix this, but Doomseeker is better at loading other items with the WAD which is needed here), but no biggie there as you have Player Setup. Want to add mods? Just add them in the bottom.
EDIT 2: Just so you know, this all is also true for v5c and beyond. Just remember to download and update your files when they come out. Also I have no clue how to deal with the skins folder as I don't really use customs.
1. Download the latest version, unzip it.
2. Take megagame.wad and place it where you put your other IWADs (doom.wad, heretic.wad, etc.). Take skulltag_actors.pk3 and place it somewhere where Doomseeker will notice (all skulltag stuff ends up in my folder of downloaded stuff from multiplayer servers, but if you're afraid of deleting it on accident putting it in the same place as megagame or your usual PK3/WADs folder works too.)
3. Put mm8bdm-v5b.pk3 (or whatever the newest version is) somewhere where Zandronum will see it. If you do not have this attempt to join any server in Doomseeker that uses megagame.wad. Doomseeker will start looking for WADs and PK3s you don't have as usual, among these is the important thing you need: mm8bdm-v5b.pk3 (or whichever version the newest is). You might want to move this somewhere safe where you don't delete it.
4. You're done. Enjoy.
This should also be true for any platform that a Zandronum and Doomseeker version exist for. You don't even need to update your IWAD aliases. I really don't know about single player yet but I might attempt it later.
EDIT: Okay, singleplayer works. This setup or similar launches the vanilla game without problem, just set it up in the create game menu of Doomseeker and click Play Offline. Only thing is that it goes straight past the start menu into Dr. Light's tutorial/the start spawn point in front of the lab (in theory starting the game from Zandronum itself could fix this, but Doomseeker is better at loading other items with the WAD which is needed here), but no biggie there as you have Player Setup. Want to add mods? Just add them in the bottom.
EDIT 2: Just so you know, this all is also true for v5c and beyond. Just remember to download and update your files when they come out. Also I have no clue how to deal with the skins folder as I don't really use customs.