Rise of the Triad

Rise of the Triad: Dark War (1994) by Apogee Software is a fast-paced first-person shooter built on a modified Wolfenstein 3D engine. It features dual-pistol gameplay, jump pads, destructible environments and over-the-top weapons. Batocera uses Taradino, a source port of the original game. This system scrapes metadata for the “ports” group(s) and loads the rott set from the currently selected theme, if available. Grouped with the “ports” group of systems.

Quick reference

  • Emulator: Taradino
  • Folder: roms/rott/
  • Accepted ROM formats: .rott

BIOS

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

ROMs

You need the commercial version of Rise of the Triad game files. Place them directly in /userdata/roms/rott/. Then create an empty file called Rise of the Triad.rott in the same directory.

Required files

You should include the following files as a minimum:

  • DARKWAR.WAD
  • DARKWAR.RTL
  • DARKWAR.RTC
  • REMOTE1.RTS

File names can be upper or lower case.

Directory structure

/userdata/roms/rott/
               ├── DARKWAR.WAD
               ├── DARKWAR.RTL
               ├── DARKWAR.RTC
               ├── REMOTE1.RTS
               └── Rise of the Triad.rott

Saves

Save location roms/rott/

Emulators

Taradino

Taradino has no additional ES configuration options beyond pad-to-keyboard mapping.

Controls

Here are the default Taradino controls shown on a Batocera Retropad:

Gamepad button Action
Left analog stick / D-pad Move
Right analog stick Look / Turn
A (South) Menu back
B (East) Open door
X (West) Toggle weapon
Y (North) Drop weapon
L1 Strafe left
R1 Strafe right
L2 Run
R2 Fire
L3 Toggle run

Do not enable the joystick or gamepad option in-game as compatibility doesn't work well. The controller is mapped to keyboard events instead.

Troubleshooting

My game does not launch

  • Make sure the required WAD files (DARKWAR.WAD, DARKWAR.RTL, DARKWAR.RTC, REMOTE1.RTS) are present in /userdata/roms/rott/.
  • Verify the .rott launch file exists.

Further troubleshooting

For further troubleshooting, refer to the generic support pages.

  • systems/rott.txt
  • Last modified: 5 weeks ago
  • by wizzard