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ay mates, lelkins here. i have this knack for classic doom. anything can run doom (including, but not limited to toasters, fridges, road kill skunks, potatoes, my hp 250 g2, your great great great grandparent's maiden's dog house and many more) which is basically a piece of the craptop gaming holy grail, and this fangame is no exception.
mega man 8-bit deathmatch is actually a full-on doom total conversion that includes the entire cast from the mega man franchise (even the nice >:] woodman) in a story-driven quake-like deathmatch game and runs nicely on most low-spec machines. this fangame heavily relies on zandronum, a doom source port that focuses on multiplayer and bots, which is thankfully on linux. even if it's this simple to have running on linux, they don't have an official launcher like how they have on windows. you *could* run mm8bdm through wine, but it doesn't even work properly aND WE WANT NATIVE, DAMMIT!
the reason why i made this entire thing is because i wanted to play mm8bdm on linux, i found out how to run it after looking at one forum thread with a small hint revolving around doomseeker and wanted to share with everyone. not many people know how to properly run this game on linux and i had to turn it into a full tutorial. it's so god damn fun, i HAVE to tell you to try this game out, be it singleplayer or multiplayer.
you need the following: zandronum (available on arch: yay -S zandronum; and flathub for everywhere else) and an extracted copy of mm8bdm obtained through the official cutstuff website. you need this for the two files
optional: doomseeker to unlock multiplayer server magic and the easier-ish way to play.
this time, you have two options! a singleplayer-only, a tad bit harder way or an easy, multiplayer compatible way!
zandronum -iwad [[THAT FOLDER]]/megagame.wad -file [[THAT FOLDER]]/MM8BDM-v6a.pk3
(if you used flatpak, replace "zandronum" with "flatpak run com.zandronum.Zandronum")
(the default wadseeker location is "/home/user/.config/doomseeker", by the way!)
(rapid round. this is for a singleplayer campaign. i don't know how to make servers. just search somewhere else, sorry!)
please note that this configuration saves upon exit and can be saved manually too. if you want to play again, just press "create game" and hit play.
since doomseeker is actually a server list finder thing, you can actually play multiplayer! just press the filter button (ninth button in the ribbon, shaped like a funnel) and search megagame.wad in the WADS part. you will find multiple servers that can be played.
unlike the windows version, you don't have proper default controls. but thankfully, dr light (the character you talk to in the single player campaign) does tell you to check the control settings and gives you the options screen, so no biggie i guess.
have fun, mates!
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