Monday, July 14, 2025

Raridoom .9

I said I was done with Rarity vs The Changelings. 

...I say a lot of things.

So I only tested it on the zdoom version that Chex Quest came with. Apparently, that version was more forgiving than the current gzdoom. Zdoom didn't care if an actor had 'Game Doom' in the definition, it would spawn it anyway. Gzdoom was like 'lol, no, you're playing Chex, not Doom' and wouldn't spawn it. That fix took fifteen seconds to figure out.

And then I kept playing.

The blue skullkey got defined twice and zdoom was like 'yeah, i guess that's the same thing' and gzdoom was like 'absolutely not, those are two separate actors' so I got stuck on map 3 because the fimfic key (man, remember when 502fiction was a thing??) wouldn't open the door. The rooms were boxy and square with a lot of straight lines. The doors were really wide and most were missing the 'lower unpegged' flag and many had different light levels than the rooms they were connected to. Bridge items are hacks and I never really liked them. 

So I ran through the maps and did a little updating.

There aren't many changes. Mostly just minor adjustments to the maps, some height changes, more curved lines, an occasional extra monster, that sort of thing. I tried to remove a couple double-definitions and that broke it so just ignore those error messages, you shouldn't see them during normal gameplay, anyway.

But still! You can now play vanilla Rarity vs The Changelings on GZdoom. Link in the sidebar has been updated or click here; just replace the old 'rarity.wad' with 'raridoom point 9.wad' and play as usual.

and if you find anything i missed, plz let me know!! 

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

We made it!

I'll freely admit I'm not always the most up-to-date on things (I'm still running slade 3.2.5 and i guess 3.2.7 came out about four months ago...), and once again, I missed something very important; but I didn't want to post this yesterday (for obvious reasons).

Rarity vs The Changelings now has a post on Equestria Gaming!

They've even put the files together to make it easier to download and play. It's more focused on Custom Edition because it's playable with modern gzdoom, and honestly is a work of art in its own right (I still haven't figured out how the magical beams work, and it impresses me every time).
That said, if you want a more vanilla raridoom experience that still works with gzdoom, keep watching this spot 😁.

Also I threw the Nintendo Hard difficulty in there as a joke. It's like four lines of code and I never made it past map 3. But apparently it's doable, so check that out, too.