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Heretic

Untested nobody has played it on Walnut yet

Raven Software's 1994 dark fantasy shooter on the Doom engine, Shadow of the Serpent Riders' five episodes, played with DSDA-Doom from your own copy.

Genre
shooter first-person
Theme
fantasy
Players
single player
Input
made for keyboard and mouse
View
first-person
Needs
your own game data
Engine
id Tech 1 DSDA-Doom

How it's built, patched and set up for its played test. The numbers are under Test runs.

Heretic runs on DSDA-Doom, the Doom port Walnut packages and patches for the PS3 (big-endian sound lumps, textures in formats the RSX has, batched GL draws). The engine is free; the game’s data is not, so Walnut doesn’t offer it: Walnut Games makes a package of it from your own copy (the Overview’s Installation, and the Guides). Nobody has played it on Walnut yet. DSDA-Doom with Freedoom runs at about 56 frames a second on its OpenGL renderer; with this game’s WAD it has not been tried.

Status

Untested on the PS3: published so that Walnut Games can set up its data; nobody has played it on Walnut yet. Its launcher starts DSDA-Doom 0.30.0 (Debian’s package with Walnut’s patches, dsda-doom), which plays Heretic and Hexen too (started as dsda-heretic, Debian’s link to it); it plays Freedoom 2 at about 56 fps on its OpenGL renderer.

  • Data: game-data-packager’s heretic-wad (build.toml [data_setup]), made from the player’s own copy, in /usr/share/games/doom/heretic.wad.
  • Launcher (desktop/launchers), NoDisplay=true with X-Walnut-Requires= the WAD (shown once the menu rule for it exists, PLAN 5.10): dsda-heretic -iwad /usr/share/games/doom/heretic.wad -vidmode gl -width 1920 -height 1080 -fullscreen.

Engine options

DSDA-Doom is the one Walnut ships and patches; the research’s pick for vanilla exactness is Chocolate Doom (a draft here). The options:

  • Chocolate Doom (the pick: vanilla-exact; chocolate-doom)
  • Crispy Doom (crispy-doom)
  • DSDA-Doom (dsda-doom)
  • Doomsday (doomsday)
  • Russian Doom

Research

What the surveys and plans said about it, newest first; each line names its source, the section and the date.

  • 2026-10-20, pc-classics.md, “Alternatives and popularity”: Heretic/Hexen (1994/95): Chocolate Doom (2437 stars), vanilla-exact: the pick; alternatives Crispy Doom, DSDA-Doom, Doomsday, Russian Doom.

Build

Packagesdsda-doom
Suitenot in the game suite yet
Game datathe player supplies it (see the game's page)

Our source packages

None: the game runs from Debian's packages as they are.

Played test

What a played session sets up (rating/test.toml); the medal comes from these sessions only.

Processdsda-heretic
Set aside~/.local/share/dsda-doom, ~/.dsda-doom (the game starts on fresh defaults)
Load ends at^(R_Init|S_Init|HU_Init|ST_Init|Playing demo:)