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HowTo
How to manually install game files and play the game.
Doom for Android (FREE) How-ToDoom for Android is based on the work of Vladimir Silva and his port of PrBoom to the G1. Because Doom requires some large game files to work, you must either download them from the Doom for Android application (WiFi connection HIGHLY recommended) or perform the manual installation detailed below. This game is still a work in progress so please bare with us as we make several changes to the code base. There may be times that controls get switched or files move around, requiring a complete re-install of the application. We will try our best to avoid these situations, but if we feel the change is for the better, then we will go ahead and implement a change that requires a re-install. Installing Free Game Files ManuallyIf you have a slow connection on your phone, do the following.
Installing Retail Game Files ManuallyIt is possible to install retail doom files, Do this if you own retail doom files: doom.wad or doom2.wad
ControlsBeacause this is a PC game, navigation controls are difficult to setup as the original game uses the keyboard arrows. However controls have been partially reworked. This software is based on the PRBoom game engine
Adjusting Trackball SensitivityFrom in-game Main Menu, go to Options --> Mouse Sensitivity Adjust the Horizontal and Vertical sensitivity by pressing a and d to increase and decrease the sensitivities. Hint: Adjust vertical sensitivity all the way down if you do not want the track ball to move you forward and backward. Hint: Increase horizontal sensitivity to turn quicker in the game. Resetting key bindingsIf you've managed to hose your key bindings and need to get them back to their defaults, simply go to your SD card, navigate to the doom folder and delete prboom.cfg. Now when you start the game that file will be re-created with the default settings and off you go! Extra argumentsExtra arguments are parameters you can pass on to the PrBoom Doom engine. In case you are unaware, Doom for Android is a port of PrBoom so in theory, whatever PrBoom can do, Doom for Android can do. So, if you check out The Doom Wiki's page on source port parameters, you will find a table of parameters that all sorts of Doom ports can accept. As long as it says PrBoom can accept it, feel free to try it out. There are no guarantee's about what the end result will be, but here is to hoping for good things. The ultimate goal is to allow other mods to be loaded and played. Some of these mods require these extra arguments to be played, such as the WolfenDoom mod (although I have yet to make this work myself). Here is a hint, if you need to pass filenames as parameters make sure to include /sdcard/doom/ before the file name, otherwise you are guaranteed to get nasty errors. If you are fortunate to figure out how to get some other mods working, please join the doom-for-android discussion group and let others in the community know and enjoy the extra gameplay! While I am at it, let me give you an example of extra arguments to get the Ultimate Simpsons wad to work with doom2.wad.
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Hi guys, I've installed those three files, but when I try to run the game I get the following error message: Invalid library /data/data/android.game.doom/files/libdoom_jni.so. Having trouble? Try cleanup.
Have tried cleanup - doesn't change it.
tried downloading and did everything smooth. i cant get the "/" when i have to rename the doom file on the SD. can someone help. email me at mayniak90@gmail.com. thanks
It is possible to remap the controls in-game, but it's tricky because you can't see the skull cursor and some of the keys are mapped differently than they are labeled on the keyboard. Use S to move down (you have to count to know which option you are on) and hit enter to select, the press the key you want. It will take some trial and error, but it's worth it.
(for G1) Best Key Bindings I have found are: Up: 1 Down: A Left: Q Right: W "Use" (open doors): 0 (zero) Fire: 9
Makes it control kind of like you are holding an old Nintendo controller.
You can also go into the doom folder on your SD card and edit prboom.cfg.
@chefgon, those bindings work pretty well, although the numbers are used to switch your weapons, so I guess you would want to remap those as well.
@gordonma, Try choosing "Install Game" when you see this error. A fix is in the works which will avoid having to do this in the future.
Is there any way to use cheats in the game?
@TacoAssassin?, there will be in an upcoming update. Since I did not originally write this application, I am going through it and fixing things up. One of those things is the way keys are mapped to the game. There is a configuration file that is going to be included with the application which will define the key bindings correctly and allow cheats to be entered via the keyboard, as you would expect with any doom port.
Jave.net.socketexception:unknownerror.... added update and this is what happened every time I tryed to download game :[
@eliedru, This problem has been fixed as of version 1.15.666
i had to manually create a doom folder on my sdcard for the automatic downloads to work and i have 1.15.666.
otherwise, this is really awesome, it works really well.
however i've been trying for ages but i can't jump through that damn window on level 2 of doom2. could this be a bug with the game which means i can't run fast enough?
@luke, try mapping Autorun to a key like 'r'. This way it will toggle run on and off so you can run through to that window.
@clark you are the man! binding the run key did the trick.
looks like run and autorun are not mapped to any keys accessable from the g1 keyboard by default. might be useful to put words to that effect on this wiki page.
@luke, I've actually added those to the prboom.cfg file that the application creates. New installs will get this update, others just need to go to their /doom folder on the SD card and delete prboom.cfg.
Awesome effort... thanks for this. Squinting a bit though to see the monsters
Feel free to join the Doom-for-Android google group to discuss everything about this application. Head on over to http://groups.google.com/group/doom-for-android/
~clark
so when in the menu and playing the game i cant go up or down
I'm getting an error message that goes past to fast to see. It immediately jumps to "Tap Menu > Start to try again"
Hey,
I've been trying to download the doom2.wad from my phone, but it cant seem to get the folder. Could you guys host doom2.wad so I can manually install it?
@dwidel I got the same problem, but I installed the files manually and then unmounted my sd card and it worked. If your phone is still connected to your computer, try unmounting it and see if that works.
@dwidel, the message is probably "Invalid or missing libdoom_jni.so ..." Try and either use the cleanup command and re-install game files, or uninstall the app and re-install. When the game runs for the first time, it will need to download that file. It's best to make sure you have some sort of data connection at this time.
I tried to include it with the application, and it worked during testing but once I posted it on the market the file did not show up as it was suppose to. So for now i have to use this little work-around. I'm still looking for a solution that will not require a download, except for the game data files.
~clark
@anthonyalmighty, no can do with the doom2.wad. It is a commercial game file and it would be a copyright violation to host it. You should keep your eyes out for a copy in a bin somewhere for a couple of bucks.
~clark
Hey guys. I had problems with the game and I uninstalled it and fixed them. However, I had 950MB left on my card before I installed the game; and when I uninstalled the game I noticed I had 150 left. I made sure that everything in the game folder was deleted, but I still have 150 left. Any hidden files?
@solar, there is one hidden file named .nomedia which is located in /doom/sound on the sdcard. That file is empty and is there so the music player will not scan that folder. What OS are you on?? Whatever OS you have, you should enable viewing of hidden files so you can see them if they are there. If you do find something from Doom for Android, please let me know (the dev) and I'll look into possible causes as its not intentional if it's happening.
~clark
man i really want the old controls back becuase the new update messed up my controls
man i really want the old controls back becuase the new update messed up my controls
I have yet to find anything. Kinda weird. Is there any way to reformat the SDcard?
Where caan I find manual to find secrets & strageties for doom
Oh my god. I am the dumbest person alive. I feel so stupid.
I thought it went from 900mb free to 100mb free. But it said 900mb TAKEN to 100mb taken.
Sorry for the confusion... Although I do have one question, Did you purposely take out sound or will it not work? Is it possible to get sound?
Never mind I misunderstood the whole sound thing. Are you guys able to work on the other 2 parts of the Doom that you need to pay for?
How does key mapping work? I need to set r as run but I'm having trouble figuring it out.
Ya know, never mind someone answered it earlier. Thanks
Your were correct about the message being "Invalid or missing libdoom_jni.so ..." This phone doesn't have a data plan and I didn't have wireless when I installed the wads. I reinstalled doom from the marked and that enabled it to download the missing file. Thanks.
I've seemed to have lost the original hud somehow (with the characters face). I'm pressing x to toggle between the different huds but I can't get it back. how do I restore the original hud?
god mode?
To get god mode, enter "iddqd" on the keyboard while playing the game.
doesnt work at all
Are there any codes it would be awesome!!!
sound isnt working, although it said sound was sucessfully installed. halp!
The game appears to b playing itself. All I can do is watch, I have no control. What is wrong and how do I fix this problem? I may need to just play it on my N64 & uninstall, getting aggitated!
Same here :-(
Duh! Figured it out...push the menu button then use toggles to choose mode of play.
Press the back button then navigate using W and S. Enter with trackball press.
Love this app - quite possibly the best on my phone -- works great,even great sound! I have a problem though - I seem to be stuck in the opening board - I believe I am missing something incredibly obviousbut I've been looking everywhere and I can't find a way out! Somebody please help me stop feeling like a drooling retard and point me in the direction please! Thanks in advance!
Love this app - works great,even great sound! I have a problem though - I seem to be stuck in the opening board - I believe I am missing something incredibly obviousbut I've been looking everywhere and I can't find a way out! Somebody please help me stop feeling like a drooling retard and point me in the direction please! Thanks in advance!
Love this app - works great,even great sound! I have a problem though - I seem to be stuck in the opening board - I've been looking everywhere and I can't find a way out! Somebody please help me stop feeling like a drooling retard and point me in the direction please! Thanks in advance!
nice game
@papadave, have you ever figured out your problem? Could you tell me exactly where it is you're stuck? What do you see?
-BMFC
It is so cool that my family
Is there any way to save a game so you don't have to start from level 1 each time you play? I don't know about you, but I can't play it all day!
I need help!
How do you switch your HUD back to normal? Email me at klondikebarian@aim.com
even though it closes with no force close problem for me? this is really solid. they need more games like this for the g1. it has 512mb ram for god sakes! and the rest of us are sitting here playing pac man! I thank you for putting a REAL video game on here.
How do you switch your HUD back to normal?
How do I change weapons I'm playing on t-mobil my touch w/Google
Same problem. How do you change weapons and jump on using Mytouch?
someone please allow weapon change in mytouch, i don't care how it is going to be done, just have some way to do it
No keyboard hardware for mytouch
Did not work on my Verizon Motorola Droid downloading Sceffs blend from Market. It could not find the wad after installing it repeatedly. Installed over browser from this group and it can at least start, but no controls yet.
Needs mytouch support for weapons changes. Was playing great until I got the chainsaw....
Can't wait to play this, too bad it doesn't work :(
On my doom game for android I finnaly got in to play but thers nothing to kill there all dead so what do I do and how do I go about this I really wanna play this game and I cant turn right so email me at ajreyes@live.com and please let ne know what I should do
Awesome game. Doom$android bring me back to ol' good 386 times. GL@HF lads.
Is it possible to fix the touch controls so the game doesn't lag while moving?
I have the EriS and only controls are the on screen dpad and the track ball any way I can change weapons?
Plan better fucker
Work on Eris support please.
Dangit i cannot get this to work for the droid at all, it says the invalid file libdoom_jni.so didn't work or some crap but when I try to download the shareware one IT DOESNT WORK LIKE THE FREAKIN WEBSITE IS DOWN! I have all the files necessary and am wondering what the frick do I do with the libdoom_jni.so file...SINCE IT WONT DOWNLOAD
The app crashes as soon as you start it on a T-mobile Pulse (Huawei U8220)
I'm also wondering what to do with the libdoom_jnl.so file. Where does it go? I cannot download the file on my phone - I have no WiFi? and no data connection. Should it go somewhere in the .apk or in the doom folder on my sdcard?
Hope someone knows what to do - I can't play without this file in the right location.