ECWolf

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ECWolf is a port of the Wolfenstein 3D engine based of Wolf4SDL. It combines the original Wolfenstein 3D engine with the user experience of ZDoom to create the most user and mod author friendly Wolf3D source port.

Quote from https://bitbucket.org/ecwolf/ecwolf/src/master/README.md

ECWolf was constructed with GZDoom's API in mind, so their command syntax/configuration appear to be very similar, but cross-compatibility should not be assumed or expected. There will usually be specific commands/configs required for each system that corrupt/are incompatible with the other, resulting in issues.

This system scrapes metadata for the “ecwolf” group(s) and loads the ecwolf set from the currently selected theme, if available.

Grouped with the “ports” group of systems.

Emulator: ecwolf
Folder: /userdata/roms/ecwolf
Accepted ROM formats: .ecwolf, .pk3, .squashfs

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

Install to roms/ecwolf/. Supports the original DOS executables (wolf3d.exe, spear.exe, etc.). Requires all supplementary files that were included with the original installation.

1.x mods may not be compatible with 2.x, and vice versa. The philosophy on backwards mod compatibility going forward is TBA.

Wolfeinstein 3D: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2270/Wolfenstein_3D/
Wolfweinstein 3D Shareware: http://maniacsvault.net/ecwolf/files/shareware/wolf3d14.zip
Spear of Destiny: https://store.steampowered.com/app/9000/Spear_of_Destiny/
Spear of Destiny Demo: http://maniacsvault.net/ecwolf/files/shareware/soddemo.zip
Super 3D Noah's Ark: https://wisdomtree.itch.io/s3dna / https://store.steampowered.com/app/1285050/Noahs_Ark/

Put the game's folder in the /roms/ecwolf and add the extension .ecwolf
and inside that, the appropriate files: .wl6 or .wl1 or .sod or .sdm

For example: /roms/ecwolf/Wolfenstein 3D.ecwolf/<.wl6 game files>

/userdata/roms/ecwolf/Spear of Destiny.ecwolf/
                                             ├── audiohed.sod
                                             ├── audiot.sod
                                             ├── config.sod
                                             ├── gamemaps.sod
                                             ├── gamemaps.sd2
                                             ├── gamemaps.sd3
                                             ├── maphead.sod
                                             ├── maphead.sd2
                                             ├── maphead.sd3
                                             ├── vgadict.sod
                                             ├── vgagraph.sod
                                             ├── vgahead.sod
                                             ├── vswap.sod
                                             ├── vswap.sd2
                                             └── vswap.sd3
                                                
/userdata/roms/ecwolf/Super 3D Noah's Ark.ecwolf/
                                                ├── audiohed.wl6
                                                ├── audiot.wl6
                                                ├── config.wl6
                                                ├── gamemaps.wl6
                                                ├── maphead.wl6
                                                ├── vgadict.wl6
                                                ├── vgagraph.wl6
                                                ├── vgahead.wl6
                                                └──  vswap.wl6

/userdata/roms/ecwolf/Wolfenstein 3D.ecwolf/
                                           ├── audiohed.wl6
                                           ├── audiot.wl6
                                           ├── config.wl6
                                           ├── gamemaps.wl6
                                           ├── maphead.wl6
                                           ├── vgadict.wl6
                                           ├── vgagraph.wl6
                                           ├── vgahead.wl6
                                           └── vswap.wl6
                           
 ## Shareware

/userdata/roms/ecwolf/wolf3d14.ecwolf/
                                     ├── audiohed.wl1
                                     ├── audiot.wl1
                                     ├── config.wl1
                                     ├── gamemaps.wl1
                                     ├── maphead.wl1
                                     ├── vgadict.wl1
                                     ├── vgagraph.wl1
                                     ├── vgahead.wl1
                                     └── vswap.wl1


 ## Demo

/userdata/roms/ecwolf/soddemo.ecwolf/
                                    ├── audiohed.sdm
                                    ├── audiot.sdm
                                    ├── config.sdm
                                    ├── gamemaps.sdm
                                    ├── maphead.sdm
                                    ├── vgadict.sdm
                                    ├── vgagraph.sdm
                                    ├── vgahead.sdm
                                    └── vswap.sdm

ECWolf configuration

Standardized features available to all cores of this emulator: ecwolf.videomode, ecwolf.padtokeyboard

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

Gamepad is not detected in ECWorlf…

For further troubleshooting, refer to the generic support pages.

ECWolf

Quick reference

BIOS

ROMs

Who to install games:

Emulators

ECWolf

ECWolf configuration

Controls

Troubleshooting

Further troubleshooting

Batocera.linux - Wiki