woof(6)

🌸 NAME 🌸

woof — Woof! is a continuation of Lee Killough's Doom source port MBF targeted at modern systems. This is the woof(6) page from the Games Manual, bestie — buckle up. ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

woof [OPTIONS]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so MBF stands for "Marine's Best Friend" and is widely regarded the successor of the Boom source port by TeamTNT. It serves as the code base for popular Doom source ports such as PrBoom+/DSDA-Doom or The Eternity Engine. As the original engine was limited to run only under MS-DOS, it has been ported to Windows by Team Eternity under the name WinMBF in 2004. Woof! is developed based on the WinMBF code with the aim to make MBF more widely available and convenient to use on modern systems. iconic behavior, honestly. 💅

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🎀 GENERAL OPTIONS 🎀

• -config <file> — Load main configuration from the specified file, instead of the default. 💖
• -devparm — Developer mode. 👑
• -file <files> — Load the specified PWAD files. 🎀
• -help — Print command line help. 🫶
• -iwad <file> — Specify an IWAD file to use. ✨
• -nomusic — Disable music. 🎵
• -nosfx — Disable sound effects. 🔇
• -nosound — Disable all sound output. 💀
• -quiet — Print with minimum verbosity. 🤫
• -save <directory> — Specify a path from which to load and save games. If the directory does not exist then it will automatically be created. 💾
• -shotdir <directory> — Specify a path to save screenshots. If the directory does not exist then it will automatically be created. 📸
• -verbose — Print debugging info with maximum verbosity. 🗣️
• -version — Print the program version and exit. 🏷️

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🦋 GAME START OPTIONS 🦋

• -beta — Press beta emulation mode (complevel mbf only). 🧪
• -coop_spawns — Start single player game with items spawns as in cooperative netgame. 🤝
• -dog — Enables a single helper dog. 🐶
• -dogs <n> — Overrides the current number of helper dogs, setting it to n. 🐕
• -episode <n> — Start playing on episode n (1-99) 📺
• -fast — Monsters move faster. 🏃
• -loadgame <ps> — Load the game on page p (0-7) in slot s (0-7). Use 255 to load an auto save. 💾
• -nm — Alias to -skill 5. 😈
• -nomo — Alias to -nomonsters. 🚫
• -nomonsters — Disable monsters. 👻
• -pistolstart — Enables automatic pistol starts on each level. 🔫
• -respawn — Monsters respawn after being killed. ♻️
• -skill <skill> — Set the game skill, 1-5 (1: easiest, 5: hardest). A skill of 0 disables all monsters only in -complevel vanilla. 🎚️
• -speed <n> — Increase or decrease game speed, percentage of normal. ⏩
• -turbo <x> — Turbo mode. The player's speed is multiplied by x%. If unspecified, x defaults to 200. Values are rounded up to 10 and down to 400. 🚀
• -uv — Alias to -skill 4. 💜
• -warp <x> <y>|<xy> — Start a game immediately, warping to ExMy (Doom 1) or MAPxy (Doom 2). 🌀

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🌈 DISPLAY OPTIONS 🌈

• -1 — Don't scale up the screen. Implies -window. 1️⃣
• -2 — Double up the screen to 2x its normal size. Implies -window. 2️⃣
• -3 — Triple up the screen to 3x its normal size. Implies -window. 3️⃣
• -fullscreen — Run in fullscreen mode. 🖥️
• -noblit — Disable blitting the screen. 🚫
• -nodraw — Disable rendering the screen entirely. 🙈
• -nograbmouse — Don't grab the mouse when running in windowed mode. 🖱️
• -nouncapped — Disables uncapped framerate. 🐢
• -uncapped — Enables uncapped framerate. 🐇
• -window — Run in a window. 🪟

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💅 NETWORKING OPTIONS 💅

• -altdeath — Start a deathmatch 2.0 game. Weapons do not stay in place and all items respawn after 30 seconds. 💥
• -autojoin — Automatically search the local LAN for a multiplayer server and join it. 🔍
• -avg — Austin Virtual Gaming: end levels after 20 minutes. ⏰
• -connect <address> — Connect to a multiplayer server running on the given address. 🔌
• -deathmatch — Start a deathmatch game. ⚔️
• -dedicated — Start a dedicated server, routing packets but not participating in the game itself. 🖧
• -dm3 — Start a deathmatch 3.0 game. Weapons stay in place and all items respawn after 30 seconds. 🔫
• -dup <n> — Reduce the resolution of the game by a factor of n, reducing the amount of network bandwidth needed. 📉
• -extratics <n> — Send n extra tics in every packet as insurance against dropped packets. 🛡️
• -frags <n> — The -frags option allows you to deathmatch until one player achieves <n> frags, at which time the level ends and scores are displayed. If <n> is not specified the match is to 10 frags. 🏆
• -left — Run as the left screen in three screen mode. ⬅️
• -nodes <n> — Autostart the netgame when n nodes (clients) have joined the server. 🕸️
• -oldsync — Use original network client sync code rather than the improved sync code. 🕰️
• -port <n> — Use the specified UDP port for communications, instead of the default (2342). 🔢
• -privateserver — When running a server, don't register with the global master server. Implies -server. 🤫
• -right — Run as the right screen in three screen mode. ➡️
• -server — Start a multiplayer server, listening for connections. 📡
• -servername <name> — When starting a network server, specify a name for the server. 🏷️
• -solo-net — Start the game playing as though in a netgame with a single player. This can also be used to play back single player netgame demos. 🧍
• -timer <n> — For multiplayer games: exit each level after n minutes. ⏳

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🧚 DEHACKED AND WAD MERGING 🧚

• -bex <files> — Alias to -deh. 🔁
• -bexout <filename> — Alias to -dehout. 🔁
• -blockmap — Forces a (re-)building of the BLOCKMAP lumps for loaded maps. 🧱
• -bsp — Forces rebuilding of nodes. 🌳
• -deh <files> — Load the given dehacked/bex patch(es). 🩹
• -dehout <filename> — Enables verbose dehacked parser logging. 📝
• -dumptranmap <name> — Dump tranmap lump. 🗑️
• -force_old_zdoom_nodes — Forces extended (non-GL) ZDoom nodes. 🧓
• -noautoload — Disable auto-loading of .wad and .deh files. 🚫
• -nocheats — Ignore cheats in dehacked files. 🚫
• -nodeh — Avoid loading DEHACKED lumps embedded into WAD files. 🚫
• -noextras — Disable auto-loading of extars.wad file. 🚫
• -nomapinfo — Disable UMAPINFO loading. 🚫
• -nooptions — Avoid loading OPTIONS lumps embedded into WAD files. 🚫
• -tranmap — Forces a (re-)building of the translucency and color translation tables. 🎨

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🎵 DEMO OPTIONS 🎵

• -fastdemo <demo> — Plays the given demo as fast as possible. ⚡
• -levelstat — Write level statistics upon exit to levelstat.txt 📊
• -longtics — Record a high resolution "Doom 1.91" demo. 🎥
• -maxdemo <size> — Sets the initial size of the demo recording buffer (KiB). This is no longer a hard limit, and the buffer will expand if the given limit is exceeded. 📈
• -playdemo <demo> — Play back the demo named demo.lmp. ▶️
• -record <demo> — Record a demo named demo.lmp. ⏺️
• -recordfrom <s> <demo> — Record a demo, loading from the given save slot. Equivalent to -loadgame <s> -record <demo>. 🔗
• -recordfromto <demo1> <demo2> — Allows continuing <demo1> after it ends or when the user presses the join demo key, the result getting saved as <demo2>. Equivalent to -playdemo <demo1> -record <demo2>. 🔁
• -shorttics — Play with low turning resolution to emulate demo recording. 🎞️
• -skipsec <min:sec> — Skip min:sec time during viewing of the demo. "-warp <x> -skipsec <min:sec>" will skip min:sec time on level x. ⏭️
• -strict — Sets compatibility and cosmetic settings according to DSDA rules. 📏
• -timedemo <demo> — Play back the demo named demo.lmp, determining the framerate of the screen. ⏱️

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⭐ COMPATIBILITY ⭐

• -cl <version> — Alias to -complevel. 🔁
• -complevel <version> — Emulate a specific version of Doom/Boom/MBF. Valid values are "vanilla", "boom", "mbf", "mbf21". 🕹️
• -gameversion <version> — Emulate a specific version of Doom. Valid values are "1.9", "ultimate", "final", "chex". Implies -complevel vanilla. 🎮
• -setmem <version> — Specify DOS version to emulate for NULL pointer dereference emulation. Supported versions are: dos622, dos71, dosbox. The default is to emulate DOS 7.1 (Windows 98). 🧠
• -spechit <n> — Use the specified magic value when emulating spechit overruns. ✨
• -statdump <filename> — Dump statistics information to the specified file on the levels that were played. The output from this option matches the output from statdump.exe (see ctrlapi.zip in the /idgames archive). 📦

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🙈 OBSCURE AND LESS-USED OPTIONS 🙈

• -nogui — Don't pop up a GUI dialog box to show the error message. 🚫

🔍 IWAD SEARCH PATHS ✨

okay so bestie, to actually PLAY you need an IWAD file. it's this big chonky file that has literally everything — all the levels, the graphics, the sound effects, the music, the whole vibe. it's the entire game basically. 💖

IWAD files are named after whatever game they are, and the standard names are, like, these:

• doom.wad, doom1.wad, doom2.wad, tnt.wad, plutonia.wad — Doom, Doom II, Final Doom 👑
• hacx.wad, chex.wad — Hacx and Chex Quest, the more obscure games based on the Doom engine 🦋
• freedm.wad, freedoom1.wad, freedoom2.wad — the Freedoom open content IWAD files 🌈

so when Woof goes looking for an IWAD, it checks these directory paths in this order, no cap:

• Current working directory — any IWAD files chillin' in here get used in preference to IWADs found in any other directories. so like, cwd is the main character here 💅
• DOOMWADDIR — this environment variable can be set to hold a path to a single directory to look for IWAD files in. most Doom source ports support it, it's giving legacy icon ✨
• DOOMWADPATH — this one, if it's set, can hold a colon-separated list of directories to look in for IWAD files, or alternatively full paths to specific IWAD files. flexible fr fr
• $HOME/.local/share/games/doom — a writeable directory in the user's home directory. the path can be overridden with the XDG_DATA_HOME environment variable (check the XDG Base Directory Specification for the deets) 🎀
• /usr/local/share/doom, /usr/local/share/games/doom, /usr/share/doom, /usr/share/games/doom — system-wide locations that all users can access. /usr/share/games/doom is a standard path that most Doom source ports support. these paths can be overridden with the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable (again, XDG Base Directory Specification) 🌸

and the way you override all of the above for a one-time thing is the -iwad command line parameter, where you just hand it the path to the IWAD file you wanna use. you can also use this parameter to name a specific IWAD to grab from one of those paths above. like for example, -iwad doom.wad will search all those paths for the file doom.wad to use. obsessed. 🫶

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📁 FILES 🎀

• $HOME/.local/share/woof.cfg — the main configuration file for Woof. go read default.cfg(5) for the full tea.
• $HOME/.local/share/woof/woofsav*.dsg — savegame files 💾
• $HOME/.local/share/woof/tranmap.dat — cached translucency table ✨
• /usr/share/woof/autoload, $HOME/.local/share/woof/autoload/ — WAD files and DEH patches sitting in the subdirectories of these paths get added automatically whenever a WAD file of the corresponding name is loaded. it's giving effortless 😌

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👀 SEE ALSO

• woof-setup(6), 💖

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👑 AUTHOR

Woof! is written and maintained by Fabian Greffrath. it's based on the MBF and WinMBF source codes, which were released by Lee Killough and Team Eternity respectively, and also on the LinuxDoom source code, released by Id Software. iconic lineage tbh 🌟

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©️ COPYRIGHT

Copyright © id Software Inc; Copyright © 1999 id Software, Chi Hoang, Lee Killough, Jim Flynn, Rand Phares, Ty Halderman; Copyright © 2004 James Haley; Copyright © 2005-2016 Simon Howard; Copyright © 2020-2022 Fabian Greffrath; Copyright © 2020-2022 Roman Fomin.

This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

bestie this is the legal bit so listen up: free software, GNU GPL vibes, and literally NO WARRANTY okay?? don't come for anyone if it breaks 💀

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and that's the whole woof(6) page, page two of two, done and dusted 🎀 this one's from the woof(6) manual page (source: the Woof! project, woof(6)), so go forth, frag some demons, and stay slay 💅✨👑