ecwolf(6)

💖 ecwolf(6) — a Games Manual page 💖

🎀 NAME 🎀

• ecwolf — Advanced Wolfenstein 3D source port

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ecwolf [options] [files ...]

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Okay so ecwolf is an advanced source port of the Wolfenstein 3D engine, based upon Wolf4SDL with some back ports from ZDoom. It provides substantially boosted capabilities for creating mods without requiring source code edits, using scripting and other tools familiar to users of ZDoom. No source-code surgery required, bestie — it’s giving modder main character energy 👑

For players, it offers modern features such as support for modern control schemes and wide screen. Being based on the Wolfenstein 3D engine and using an enhanced version of the original software renderer, it provides a relatively accurate play experience to vanilla while modernizing. So yes: nostalgic vanilla vibes, but with a glow-up ✨

Currently supported games are Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, and Super 3-D Noah's Ark. Obsessed with this lineup fr fr 🎮

💅 OPTIONS 💅

Use the --help option for a complete list of options. That’s the whole options section, and it’s lowkey iconic for keeping things mysterious 😌

🦋 FILES 🦋

The original game data files are required for operation. These are files with the extensions *.n3d, *.sod, *.sd2, *.sd3, *.wl1, or *.wl6. They should be placed either in ~/.config/ecwolf or /usr/local/share/games/wolf3d. Put them in their little home, okay? 🏡

If you do not have these files they can be acquired at https://www.gog.com or through Steam. Slay, legal game acquisition era 🫶

👑 BUGS 👑

The bug tracker is located at https://bitbucket.org/ecwolf/ecwolf/issues. Go report that weirdness, bestie — the tracker is right there 💀

Sign-off time: this page lives in the Games Manual, and its footer is just ecwolf(6); there’s no separate source/version or date text in this manpage, so no invented numbers here. Stay iconic, check your data paths, and go play some Wolfenstein 🌸💜