GZDoom

• Emulator: GZDoom
• Folder: roms/gzdoom/
• Accepted ROM formats: .wad, .iwad, .pwad, .gzdoom

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

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

Files MD5 sums: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_files

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.

Custom mods can be used by creating a new text file named after the game with the extension .gzdoom. For example:

Aliens Eradication.gzdoom

-iwad DOOM2.WAD -file ALIENS_ERADICATION_TC_2_0.pk3 ERADICATION_MAPSET_2_0.wad

Additional music can be added to system/configs/gzdoom in the fm_banks & soundfonts folders respectively.

[Under Construction]

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

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

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:

For further troubleshooting, refer to the generic support pages.