GZDoom

• Emulator: GZDoom
• Folder: roms/gzdoom/
• Accepted ROM formats: .wad, .iwad, .pwad, pk3,.ipk3, .zip or .7zip

No GZDoom emulator in Batocera needs a BIOS file to run.

Place your GZDoom ROMs in /userdata/roms/gzdoom/.

Each game needs a .WAD (Where's all data?) or .IWAD (Internal WAD), it's the main resource file for a Doom-engine game, containing all the game's original sounds, levels, and graphics.

Some files have conflicting names; GZDoom provides you with possible aliases.

In addition, some “total conversion”-type mods, can be played as their own IWAD; an IWAD is actually identified by its content rather than its name.

In order to play a custom level designed for any of the above games you have to have that particular game's full IWAD. If you do not have the necessary IWAD, you will get an error message on startup.

Custom IWADs can be detected. These custom IWADs need to have the .iwad or alternatively .ipk3 (not the traditional .wad and .pk3) extension, and they need to include an IWADINFO lump. It can also contain DEFBINDS, DEFCVARS, and KEYCONF lumps.

IWad:

{
	Name = "My Kickass Custom Game"
	AutoName = "MyCustomGame"
	Game = "Doom"
	Config = "Doom"
	StartupType = "Hexen"
	BannerColors = "ff ff ff", "c9 00 00"
}

A PWAD, patch wad, is a WAD containing lumps of data created by a user as an add-on.

The PK3 file format is the same as the ZIP file format, and is treated exactly the same by GZDoom.

[Under Construction]

GZDoom compatible games: https://zdoom.org/wiki/IWAD

WADs created for GZDoom (Mods): https://zdoom.org/wiki/Category:WADs_created_for_ZDoom

Eduke32 includes the following features:

• FraggleScript support (so Legacy/SMMU maps are supported)
• Global FraggleScripts via the FSGLOBAL lump
• OpenGL renderer, allowing the following features:
• Full 3D floors (including slopes)
• Reflective floors
• Dynamic lights, brightmaps, glowing flats, custom hardware shaders
• Quake II/Half-Life-style skyboxes in addition to regular ZDoom skyboxes
• High-quality (HQnX) rescaling filters for graphics, sprites and textures
• MD2, MD3 and limited DMD (Doomsday) model support
• 32-bit colors (Sprites and textures are no longer translated to Doom's palette)
• True freelook

Save location saves/gzdoom/<game>.<save game extension>

[Needs review]

Standardized features available to all cores of this emulator: gzdoom.videomode, gzdoom.padtokeyboard, gzdoom.videomode, gzdoom.bezel, gzdoom.bezel_stretch, gzdoom.hud, gzdoom.hud_corner, gzdoom.bezel.tattoo, gzdoom.bezel.tattoo_corner, gzdoom.bezel.tattoo_file, gzdoom.bezel.resize_tattoo

Here are the default GZDoom's controls shown on a Batocera Retropad:

• Some issues reported for Gamepad on Batocera.