Doomsday Engine

I did a little digging into this issue, since I know Plutonia 2 (pl2.wad) has a built in Dehacked/MAPINFO lump and it changes the names of the music files (nearly all of which are built into pl2.wad, so the rest of the tracks in this game play fine in Doomsday).

For the Map04 music, the MAPINFO lump directs Map04 to use D_RUNNIN for its track. D_RUNNIN is the track name used for Map01 of Doom II-based games, but there is no D_RUNNIN entry in pl2.wad. It looks like Vanilla Doom treats this case by using D_RUNNIN from Plutonia.wad, which is in fact "The Imp's Song" (Doom E1M2).

For the title screen issue, the Dehacked lump (and the separate .deh file) renames DM2TTL (the filename for the title screen music) to COUNTD (the track name for Map03 of Doom II-based games). There is no D_COUNTD entry in pl2.wad, so it looks like it would resort to D_COUNTD in plutonia.wad, which the song there is "On the Hunt" (Doom E1M6).

Took a quick initial look. At least the MAPINFO is failing to parse. It stops reading the MAPINFO after it encounters the "sucktime" property. I'll fix that problem and then see how the music is being translated...

• PL2 title music should be d_countd, and
• PL2 map 4 music should be d_runnin.

At least those are playing for me in 2904 (MUS music lumps, not external).

xe_sued wrote:

skyjake

Confirmed, the music definition for the PL2 title and Map04 is correct. Find attached the mapinfo.lmp of PL2, which contains the music definitions for the individual maps. The title music is not defined in there, but the dehacked.lmp found on PL2.WAD contains an entry "Text 6 6 dm2ttlcountd".

I tested in build 2904. Initially it wasn't working, but when I loaded in Plutonia 2 by itself, it then worked properly. It doesn't work if the separate Dehacked file for Plutonia 2 (pl2.deh) is also loaded in.

I think PL2.WAD contains a DEHACKED lump that gets loaded automatically. It seems likely that loading the DEH patch a second time may cause some unpredictable issues.

I'd like to reopen this, if possible. I found another error with the soundtrack in Plutonia 2, this time with Map23. The MAPINFO lump tells Map23 to use D_ROMER2, which is the Map27 music filename. In Plutonia, Map27 is "I Sawed the Demons" (Doom E2M1), but it plays the Map27 music from Plutonia 2 instead.

Also, when loading Plutonia 2 without the separate DEH file, the word "unknown" appears at the bottom of the map title when starting a map.