Wolfenstein 3D V5.0! Its here! - Perfect Sound, Instant Save/Load & Lots More!!

So after a long time and a lot of work, Wolfenstein 3D V5.0 is finally here! :D

Incase you were wondering what happened to v4.9, well it was only released to beta tester Da1writer, and thus I skipped a public version and just went to 5.0.

I have made a hell of a lot of changes, fixes and other stuff to this version. I would also like to say a huge thanks to Chilly Willy Aka JF for all his help on the version too. Without him the sound and music especially wouldn't be like it is today.

Sound and Music are now both perfect. Just saying that is like Music to my ears (pun intended). Saving and loading is also now instant, and actually works. No more save corrupted messages Thanks Chilly Willy and WolfGL

Crashing bugs are now gone, I myself worked really hard on these and am pretty confident they are gone forever

TV out is pretty cool too

So enough blabbering here is the changelog :

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- Added Fullscreen at last. Now fills the screen properly. (Zack)
- Fully fixed the sound & Increased Volume. (Chilly Willy)
- Added Tv out (Chilly Willy's New SDL Lib)
- Fixed menu dialogue box corruption bug (Zack)
- Improved menu control system - X = Confirm, O = Cancel/Back (Zack)
- Improved menu dialogue box text - Now easier to follow (Zack)
- Fixed bug that made a certain version of the wolf3d data files crash upon level 3 of wolf3d (Zack)
- Enabled pause feature (Zack)
- Improved cheat code input - now easier to do cheats (Zack)
- Fixed cheat activation sounds not playing (Zack)
- Wolf3D Full Version Now uses 1 eboot for both cd and floppy files - (Floppy Files Require you to apply a once off patch) (Zack)
- Made graphics buffer non-cacheable to avoid cache flooding (improves speed and FPS). (Chilly Willy)
- Save and Load gamestate taken from WolfGL ; modified to fix checksum problem.
- Control Cleanup (By Chilly Willy) Mapping by (Zack & Chilly Willy).
- Added Option to change Cpu speed. O + Start toggles between 180mhz, 222mhz and 333mhz. (Chilly Willy).
- Fixed bug in gameloader where it would pick the wrong game sometimes. (Zack).
- Source code cleanup (can be cleaned more however) (Zack).
- Other various fixes (Zack).

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So I really hope you all enjoy the new and final release that I Zack will be making of Wolf3D. I am delighted that It turned out to be as amazing as I wanted v5.0 to be, so you can now finally enjoy all versions of Wolf3D how they were meant to be played.

Enjoy! & Stay tuned for my next port. I may give you a clue as to what it is later :D

Note : If you use Wolf 3d Floppy version files, please use the patch below before you run the game or it wont work. Just copy and replace the files in the patch folder with the ones you have already.

ONLY DO THIS IF YOU USE THE FLOPPY VERSION FILES OF WOLF3D FULL VERSION. IT IS NOT NEEDED FOR ANY OTHER VERSION.

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I have this for the 3DO it certainly looks different on that system. It's more powerful than the Supuer Nintendo, but less powerful than the Playstation, and it looked different

Finally, the Wolf3D that the PSP was always meant to have.

Looks awesome! Much better then 4.8 that's for sure!

Here are my only concerns:
The Gold Cross Treasures fail to produce any sound. (both on Wolf3D and Spear of destiny)
I was able to crash the entire PSP (had to hard reset it), on the first level of spear of destiny right in front of the elevator just by pressing left then right on the joystick. (tried but can't reproduce crash, must of been a really rare 1 time thing or something)

Also the music in the levels seems a tad bit to fast for me. D=

Other then that I must say it's amazing, I really wish you wouldent stop working on it though. You are doing such a great job with every release! Can't wait to see your next port!

Great job Zack! Looking forward to your next project. :)

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Originally Posted by elliott_nally

Looks awesome! Much better then 4.8 that's for sure!

Here are my only concerns:
The Gold Cross Treasures fail to produce any sound. (both on Wolf3D and Spear of destiny)
I was able to crash the entire PSP (had to hard reset it), on the first level of spear of destiny right in front of the elevator just by pressing left then right on the joystick. (tried but can't reproduce crash, must of been a really rare 1 time thing or something)

Also the music in the levels seems a tad bit to fast for me. D=

Other then that I must say it's amazing, I really wish you wouldent stop working on it though. You are doing such a great job with every release! Can't wait to see your next port!

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Hi, Thanks.

Music definitely isn't too fast. We tested. It's just your used to hearing it being played too slow ;)

Very great work. I'm still amazed how long you've stayed with this. It's really great how far this has come ;)

Awesome man.
Still can't try it, but you're certainly working hard.

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Originally Posted by HardHat

Finally, the Wolf3D that the PSP was always meant to have.

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And we still give you props for your port in the readme ;)! Yeah, I can speak for Zack and say that this was something we wanted the psp community to have for a long time. Wolfenstein 3D, finally in it's full glory, the best wolfenstein port I can think of on any handheld! We tried our hardest to fix everything we could and make it as perfect as possible for everyone to enjoy. So even though this project comes to a close but the fun for the rest of y'all have just started with Wolfenstein 3D on PSP! Hope you all enjoy Wolfenstein and as Hardhat has mentioned, the way it always was meant to be :)! Hope to see everyone later when Zack and I (mostly Zack) start the next project, laterz :cool:!

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Originally Posted by elliott_nally

Looks awesome! Much better then 4.8 that's for sure!

Here are my only concerns:
The Gold Cross Treasures fail to produce any sound. (both on Wolf3D and Spear of destiny)

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Actually, they do make a sound, but it's quiet and very low pitched. It might be hard to hear on the built in speakers, especially if you are playing the music. The sound is clear on good speakers/headphones.

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I was able to crash the entire PSP (had to hard reset it), on the first level of spear of destiny right in front of the elevator just by pressing left then right on the joystick. (tried but can't reproduce crash, must of been a really rare 1 time thing or something)

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If you find a way to reproduce it, be sure to report it.

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Also the music in the levels seems a tad bit to fast for me. D=

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As Zack said, that's from listening to it at the wrong pace for so long. :D

Thans again for your help Chilly Willy, now that this project is finished, Zack and I can move unto our next one. I can't say what it is right now but I believe everyone is going to be surprised, I promise ;)!

Great job on the port. I like the TV-out option, more new homebrew should include TV-out. I also like the options for game versions.

great job. i love it

Thanks so much to all the people working on it! Really looking forward to check it out tonight! :)

big gratitude to Zack from Russia! These games was very popular, when 386 computers was super advanced :) . So it is a big present - this port with good playability. Thanks!

from Russia with love

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Congratulations for your work, Zack (and also ChilliWilly & da1writer).
Looks good, sounds good, plays good - nothing more to say !
Good luck for your new project.

Greetings from germany,
Fredd543

This is absolutely brilliant, thanks to all who worked on it.

Awesome release.

Thats some very nice work Zack and Co. :)

I love it!!! Many thanks to all who worked on this. Great work!

Many thanks!
I posted it on another forum, but maybe this one is visited more often, I noticed few thigs:

- how to change controls? It seems that readme file says nothing about that. In-game menu says: no options avalible
- how to change savgame name? pressing X gives me "y" and nothing more
- sometimes dificulty level optios are grayed-out, i can choose first, or first and last dificulty (in spear of destiny, shareware and full), I don't remeber happening it in pc version

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Originally Posted by soulburn

Many thanks!
I posted it on another forum, but maybe this one is visited more often, I noticed few thigs:

- how to change controls? It seems that readme file says nothing about that. In-game menu says: no options avalible
- how to change savgame name? pressing X gives me "y" and nothing more
- sometimes dificulty level optios are grayed-out, i can choose first, or first and last dificulty (in spear of destiny, shareware and full), I don't remeber happening it in pc version

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I also replied to you at that other forum but I will repeat it again here to save someone else asking ;)

Controls : Can't be changed via the menu i am afraid. Someone would need to write a psp specific input handler for it.

Savegame name : Someone could add an osk to wolf to change the name, i just didn't think it justified the time taken to do so. Are you really going to have more than one save per game? I don't think so at least.

Difficulty : Yeah that's a weird random bug that i only discovered after releasing. It only happens randomly. Next time you start the game it should allow you to select them as usual.

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Thanks for all the nice comments. There is a possibility of a 5.1 release. There is that bug mentioned above that i would like to fix, and maybe add those status messages that some member mentioned before. I will think about making it. Just want to wait a bit for any more bug reports before deciding.

From readme:
- Configurable Controls and mappings (Zack & Chilly Willy)

so, how can I configure it? nothing else in readme about that. how to switch between digital and analog movement?

- Dpad is now default for movement, to change to analog see below

see where? default mapping is described, but nothing more. is something missing in readme?

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Originally Posted by soulburn

From readme:
- Configurable Controls and mappings (Zack & Chilly Willy)

so, how can I configure it? nothing else in readme about that. how to switch between digital and analog movement?

- Dpad is now default for movement, to change to analog see below

see where? default mapping is described, but nothing more. is something missing in readme?

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Sorry both those statements are incorrect.

The guy that does the readme files (da1writer) was in a big rush last night and obviously forgot to remove those parts before he had to go.

So it is as I said above at the moment.

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Originally Posted by Zack

Sorry both those statements are incorrect.

The guy that does the readme files (da1writer) was in a big rush last night and obviously forgot to remove those parts before he had to go.

So it is as I said above at the moment.

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Whoops, sorry about that Zack and Souldburn. I think the controls are the best as they can be IMO. Analog runs, digital walks, your choice in what to use.

ok, everything is clear now :) however, if version 5.1 will be comming, an option to decerse/incarse analog sensetivity would be useful, it's a litlle bit to fast for me now.

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Originally Posted by soulburn

ok, everything is clear now :) however, if version 5.1 will be comming, an option to decerse/incarse analog sensetivity would be useful, it's a litlle bit to fast for me now.

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Joysens already does that.:D
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/sho...hlight=Joysens


Freakin sweet Zack, thx:cool::thumbup:

The stick is the mouse - unless you are holding O, then it's cheats. It is analog - if you press the stick a little, it goes slower, and if you press it all the way over it goes faster. Maybe a little too fast for folks... probably needs to be scaled slower. There is a run button (SQUARE) for folks who want to move faster with the DPad.

I've never seen the bug where the difficulty levels are grayed out... not once in several days. Guess you're just lucky. :D

I tried to get Zack to put in an OSK, but noooooooo. :) Until there is one, you have to be satisified with using things like the weapon selector buttons to give you "1" to "4" to use in the savegame tags as identifiers.

EDIT: Actually, the weapon selectors are no longer available for use in the tags since Zack convinced me to make O a cancel button in the menu. So there's really almost nothing to use in tags right now. Oh well.

Also, there's an error in the control listings in the readme...
START = Menu (Esc)
O + START = cycle CPU speed between 133, 180, 222, 266, 300, and 333 MHz.
SELECT = Enter
O + SELECT = Backspace

This is a great homebrew. Thank you so much for your time investment to make my(and many others) lunch break alot better tommorow. I've been waiting for the sound/save game fix. Once again thanks this is seriously awsome.

Hmm, I have a quick question, Zack.

Are you testing your releases on both a Slim and Fat PSP? Or just one of them?

EDIT: Also, I'm having issues with SoD Full in that the difficulty screen is messed up like the poster before me. It only allows me to select the first difficulty. I'm going to try getting rid of the Wolf_3D folder though and just putting the game on new to see if that'll fix it too.

EDIT 2: It seems doing that fixed Wolf3d Full at least. The only issues I see left is that item pickup has no sound and the music is indeed too fast. (I can provide a clear example of the PC audio and PSP audio if you'd like a comparison that clearly shows.)

Note: I'm using a PSP Fat. The sound could all be completely fine on Slims for all I know.

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Originally Posted by AshTR

Hmm, I have a quick question, Zack.

Are you testing your releases on both a Slim and Fat PSP? Or just one of them?

EDIT: Also, I'm having issues with SoD Full in that the difficulty screen is messed up like the poster before me. It only allows me to select the first difficulty. I'm going to try getting rid of the Wolf_3D folder though and just putting the game on new to see if that'll fix it too.

EDIT 2: It seems doing that fixed Wolf3d Full at least. The only issues I see left is that item pickup has no sound and the music is indeed too fast. (I can provide a clear example of the PC audio and PSP audio if you'd like a comparison that clearly shows.)

Note: I'm using a PSP Fat. The sound could all be completely fine on Slims for all I know.

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Hey ashtr.

The bug regarding difficulty being grayed out is random, and unrelated to what psp your using. No need to do what you did above. Just go back to the xmb and boot the game again, and it should be fine. I will fix this in v5.1.

As for the audio we are pretty sure that it IS being played at the right tempo. Try the second level on Wolf3D full. It is slower than the first tempo wise.

Provide the sample anyway. If your playing Wolf3D Via Dosbox that could be why the sound is slower. Doxbox could be using a unfixed fmopl generator. Who knows :p

The game runs fine if you copy just the folder you need to PSP\GAME, it causes issues with saving however.
It also wont run from game352, only game.

Very minor things, but is there any chance of using relative rather than static paths if there is to be another release? :P

The saving even mostly works when playing straight from the GAME\Wolf_3D(F) folder (to skip the menu), but when loading saves it gives the 'the save file is, shal we say, "corrupted"... message'. Loads fine to the correct place, weapons are back to default however.

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Originally Posted by bah

The game runs fine if you copy just the folder you need to PSP\GAME, it causes issues with saving however.
It also wont run from game352, only game.

Very minor things, but is there any chance of using relative rather than static paths if there is to be another release? :P

The saving even mostly works when playing straight from the GAME\Wolf_3D(F) folder (to skip the menu), but when loading saves it gives the 'the save file is, shal we say, "corrupted"... message'. Loads fine to the correct place, weapons are back to default however.

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Hmm... Does that definitely happen in this new version? It shouldn't

Delete your old save file (from previous release of Wolf) and try again.

That definitely should not happen.

I deleted the whole wolf dir from psp before using the new version at all.

Worked great, so I tried just using the wolf_3d(F) folder in \GAME and renamed it wolf_3d, got that save issue.

Renamed it back to wolf_3d(F), copied the rest of the folders back to GAME and put wolf_3d(F) in its right place, deleted the save files.

Saving works great again.

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Fresh copy works fine, apologies for the false alarm.

No idea what changed, perhaps saving with the menu, then loading it without the menu lead to games loaded from that save also being corrupt.
I created a 2nd save slot and it was also giving the loading error.


All running beautifully once again now, thanks again for all the work. :)

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Originally Posted by bah

I deleted the whole wolf dir from psp before using the new version at all.

Worked great, so I tried just using the wolf_3d(F) folder in \GAME and renamed it wolf_3d, got that save issue.

Renamed it back to wolf_3d(F), copied the rest of the folders back to GAME and put wolf_3d(F) in its right place, deleted the save files.

Saving works great again.

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Fresh copy works fine, apologies for the false alarm.

No idea what changed, perhaps saving with the menu, then loading it without the menu lead to games loaded from that save also being corrupt.
I created a 2nd save slot and it was also giving the loading error.


All running beautifully once again now, thanks again for all the work. :)

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Yep should have mentioned that. If you use the gameloader Do not rename the folders!

If you don't use the gameloader re-naming shouldn't be an issue.

I have never been able to get any Wolf3d versions to work on my psp.
always screws up at the same place.

The game menu loads (where I can choose spear or plain wolf3d)
if I choose any of them then the memory stick light flashes for about 2 seconds and then my psp freezes with a blank screen

Mine is a japanese psp2000, cfw 4.01 m33-2, 4 gig sandisk memory stick.
Faking the regions doesn't work same with disabling any plugins.

The game is placed in /PSP/GAME

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Originally Posted by kurikai

I have never been able to get any Wolf3d versions to work on my psp.
always screws up at the same place.

The game menu loads (where I can choose spear or plain wolf3d)
if I choose any of them then the memory stick light flashes for about 2 seconds and then my psp freezes with a blank screen

Mine is a japanese psp2000, cfw 4.01 m33-2, 4 gig sandisk memory stick.
Faking the regions doesn't work same with disabling any plugins.

The game is placed in /PSP/GAME

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Your wolf 3d data files are corrupt or missing. Try another set of data files.

I am not accusing you I am just saying this to everyone : Can people please read the readme files included with the game before posting "it doesn't work"

it does work, and if it doesn't your doing something wrong.

Read the readmes and you won't have any problems. I am sorry if that sounded abrupt or rude, it just gets tiresome seeing people post that "it doesn't work" when it does.

People posting that could also put others off trying it, which is equally as annoying since it is a false statement.

Again that all wasn't aimed at just you, it was aimed at everyone. Read before you post please people.

If you have infact read the readme and are still having problems, please do post and I will help you get it running.

Hey kurikai, I'll help you out in a little bit. To Zack, I'll probably be getting off work early today, so I can't wait to talk with ya about 5.1! You got me real excited, cya later tonight and your last pm, I forgive ya ;)!

Update: kurikai, check you PM box here in this forum. Zack, I'm definitely getting off early due to no work is happening at all today due to Anchorage problems :(! Talk to you shortly. Oh and Thanks bah, I'll put that save issue in my next readme release.

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Originally Posted by AshTR

The only issues I see left is that item pickup has no sound and the music is indeed too fast. (I can provide a clear example of the PC audio and PSP audio if you'd like a comparison that clearly shows.)

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There is no difference in sound between the Phat and Slim. As I mentioned to someone else, the sound of picking up certain things (most notably ammo clips and crosses) are very low pitch and quiet. You won't hear them well on the built-in speakers because they can't handle low pitched sounds well. They may be drown out completely by the music. Try turning off the music and/or using headphones/external speakers.

If some could provide a link to something demonstarting what the real speed of music is, it would make it easier to fix (if needed). That would be like a video or audio recording of a real PC playing W3D under actual DOS, not an emulator.

EDIT: One other reason certain sound might be missing (if indeed they really are) - there are three sources of noise in Wolf3D: Music, Sound Effects, and Digitized Sounds. Music is played through the FM synthesizer. Sound Effects are ALSO played through the FM synthesizer. Digitized Sounds are played through the DMA DAC. All three are independently enabled/disabled in the Sound Menu. Most of the sounds of picking up items are NOT digitized sounds - they are Sound Effects. So if you turn off Music and Sound Effects (because some people don't like playing FPSs with music), keeping only Digitized Sounds, you will not hear certain sounds - notably picking up items.

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Originally Posted by JLF65

There is no difference in sound between the Phat and Slim. As I mentioned to someone else, the sound of picking up certain things (most notably ammo clips and crosses) are very low pitch and quiet. You won't hear them well on the built-in speakers because they can't handle low pitched sounds well. They may be drown out completely by the music. Try turning off the music and/or using headphones/external speakers.

If some could provide a link to something demonstarting what the real speed of music is, it would make it easier to fix (if needed). That would be like a video or audio recording of a real PC playing W3D under actual DOS, not an emulator.

EDIT: One other reason certain sound might be missing (if indeed they really are) - there are three sources of noise in Wolf3D: Music, Sound Effects, and Digitized Sounds. Music is played through the FM synthesizer. Sound Effects are ALSO played through the FM synthesizer. Digitized Sounds are played through the DMA DAC. All three are independently enabled/disabled in the Sound Menu. Most of the sounds of picking up items are NOT digitized sounds - they are Sound Effects. So if you turn off Music and Sound Effects (because some people don't like playing FPSs with music), keeping only Digitized Sounds, you will not hear certain sounds - notably picking up items.

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Hey Chilly Willy, most people are right about the speedy tempo of the music. I think it's fine but if you want to try to figure out the right tempo, play Wolfenstein on Dosbox. That will give you the right estimimate. It does look like we do plan on releasing a version 5.1, so I guess it could be fixed...

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Hey Chilly Willy, most people are right about the speedy tempo of the music. I think it's fine but if you want to try to figure out the right tempo, play Wolfenstein on Dosbox. That will give you the right estimimate. It does look like we do plan on releasing a version 5.1, so I guess it could be fixed...

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Err... according to the ModdingWiki, the IMF speed of Wolf3D is 700 Hz. The code currently processes to music as four chunks of 64 samples at 44100 Hz. So the speed is 44100/64 = 689 Hz, so if anything, it's SLOW, not fast. At 1.5% slower than nominal, you shouldn't be able to tell the tempo is off. I'd have to check how DOSBOX emulates the OPL, but it could be off, and people are used to hearing it being played off.

EDIT: I checked to original source code from id... they set the Timer 0 int rate to 700 Hz. So that pretty much settles that question.