RANdoom and modem play: How does it work?

[Jonathan Bulliung]

If I use RANdoom to randomize E1M1 and then play DOOM over the modem BUT
the other guy has just normal DOOM, what happens?

[James Antoniou]

Jonathan Bulliung (kni...@crash.cts.com) wrote:
: If I use RANdoom to randomize E1M1 and then play DOOM over the modem BUT

: the other guy has just normal DOOM, what happens?

You will get a 'consistency error' which means that your WAD files do not
match-up, so to speak. There is a way to play MoDOOM (and I imagine net
and serial DOOM also) with RanDOOMed WAD files - make sure you all use
the same random number seed, weight file, and randomizing technique when
creating the WAD (i.e., make sure everything about the randomization is
identical between computers). You should also do randomizations from
original WAD files; RanDOOM supposedly restores randomized WAD files
back to their original state if you ask it to, however, this becomes a
problem after more than 1 randomization iteration. It's best for you
both to just RanDOOM from an original WAD file.

I've played MoDOOM several times this way.

- Jim Antoniou
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[God]

kni...@crash.cts.com (Jonathan Bulliung) writes:

>If I use RANdoom to randomize E1M1 and then play DOOM over the modem BUT
>the other guy has just normal DOOM, what happens?

You get an 'inconsistancy failure' because the WADfiles aren't the same.
If you want to do that you gotta give him a copy of your WADfile

Lars

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[Scott Coleman]

cspa...@sus.edu.eur.nl (God) writes:

>kni...@crash.cts.com (Jonathan Bulliung) writes:

>>If I use RANdoom to randomize E1M1 and then play DOOM over the modem BUT
>>the other guy has just normal DOOM, what happens?

>You get an 'inconsistancy failure' because the WADfiles aren't the same.
>If you want to do that you gotta give him a copy of your WADfile

Well, here's at least one case where God is not omniscient. ;-)

You can also avoid consistency failures by running RanDOOM with the SAME
command line switches on all machines. Be sure everyone starts from a STOCK
.WAD file first!

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