HELL2PAY DEMOPACK - a community demo project organized via the Doomworld Demos Forum

"Limited Edition" (demo version) of the Doom 2 megawad "Hell2Pay" by Wraith Corporation
Download link: http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/doom2/Missions/hell2pay.zip.html

This is a demopack for the free demo version of a very rare commercial megawad. Sadly, the full version is no longer for sale, and was never made available for free, and thus is essentially lost. Still, these 15 maps are quite interesting, and when I (GB) proposed this wad for a demopack, all the maps were claimed within about 2 days.

UV Max demos (100% kills and secrets) by (in order of appearance):

Jochen "Angus" Schneidau (cohen-lbg@gmx.de)
Rich Sham (rjsams1@hotmail.com)
Donatas "Donce" Tamonis (dtamonis@takas.lt)
cycloid
Graham "Grazza" Burgess (gkburgess@compuserve.com)
Drew DeVore "stx-Vile" (drwdevore@aol.com)

	 Time	Source Port	Player
	 ----	-----------	------
Map01	 0:52	Doom2.exe	Angus
Map02	 3:47	Doom2.exe	Angus
Map03	 2:51	Doom2.exe	Angus
Map04	 7:11	Legacy1.4	Rich
Map05	 5:46	Doom2.exe	Donce
Map06	 7:59	Legacy1.4	Rich
Map07	10:23	PrBoom2.2.4	cycloid
Map08	 9:29	Legacy1.4	Rich
Map09	 6:56	Legacy1.4	Rich	
Map10	 1:40	PrBoom2.2.4	Grazza
Map11	 4:59	PrBoom2.2.4	Grazza
Map12	 2:40	PrBoom2.2.3	Vile
Map13	 4:36	Legacy1.4	Rich
Map14	 2:33	Doom2.exe	Angus
Map15	 6:44	PrBoom2.2.4	Grazza

Playback info:
Legacy1.40 (which is what Rich used) is mostly compatible with Legacy1.41.
All the PrBoom demos were recorded with Doom2.exe compatibility and play back with Eternity 3.31 beta 5 and Doom2.exe (except the map15 demo for some reason) as well as PrBoom of course. And most likely future ports that have Doom2.exe compatibility.
Legacy - http://legacy.newdoom.com/
PrBoom - http://sourceforge.net/projects/prboom/

I (GB) added a batchfile to playback all the demos and to play each episode seperately.
If the wad, the demos, the batch files and all the executables you need (legacy 1.4 and prboom) are all in your Doom2 folder, then the batch file will work as it is, without modification. Otherwise, you will need to edit the batch file (e.g. in Notepad) to add in paths, or to change the executable if you want to watch the doom2.exe-compatible demos with eternity, glboom or doom2.exe. Remember that it is not a good idea to try to watch the Legacy demos with anything other than Legacy! Note that watching all 15 demos in one go means quite a lengthy session. Have plenty of popcorn ready, or break it into shorter batch files.

Please see the individual text-files for comments on the demos by the players.

Important note: If you intend to watch the Doom2.exe-compatible demos using a port, then you can use the unmodified file htp-ltd.wad straight from the file hell2pay.zip that you downloaded. If you wish to watch them using Doom2.exe, then you will need to "install" the wad. The makers provided a couple of ways to do this - the fast install is recommended. Alternatively, you can simply run deusf manually. Make sure there is a copy of doom2.wad in the same folder AND that there isn't a copy of doom.wad in the folder. Then:
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deusf -app htp-ltd.wad
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will give you a wad that can be used with Doom2.exe.


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