Setting up the game data
What works: HEXEN.WAD from Hexen: Beyond Heretic 1.1 (1.0 does not run): a CD, an installed copy, Steam's common/Hexen folder or GOG's installer; HEXDD.WAD from Deathkings of the Dark Citadel if you have it.
- With Walnut Games (the easy way)
- With game-data-packager (a terminal, any Debian system)
- By hand (the files, where they go, their checksums)
1. With Walnut Games
In Walnut Games, open Hexen: Beyond Heretic: Install, then Add game files... The chooser lists the disc in the drive, mounted discs and USB sticks, GOG and Steam folders, and the ISOs, installers and archives in Downloads and your home folder; you can also pick a file or folder yourself. It checks every file against the checksums below and installs an ordinary package (hexen-wad), which Remove data takes away again.
In a terminal, the same with walnut-data (part of Walnut Games):
walnut-data import hexen /path/to/your/copyA source is the disc in the drive (/dev/sr0), an ISO (.iso, .img), a BIN/CUE image (the .cue, or the .bin with its .cue next to it), an Alcohol 120% image (the .mds, or the .mdf), an installer or archive (GOG's setup_*.exe) or a folder (an installed copy, Steam's or GOG's). Images are opened read-only; nothing is copied out of them that the game doesn't need.
Add-ons, each from a copy that has it (the app shows Also add for every one the source holds):
| Package | What | Command |
|---|---|---|
hexen-deathkings-wad | expansion | walnut-data import -p hexen-deathkings-wad hexen /path/to/your/copy |
With Walnut's licensed suite as an apt source, the app offers Install from Walnut licensed instead (walnut-data install-repo hexen). walnut-data remove hexen takes the data away again.
Which copies work
- Hexen: Beyond Heretic 1.1: a CD, an installed copy (Steam:
common/Hexen) or GOG’s installer (setup_hexen_beyond_heretic_1.1_(42801).exe, which has no Deathkings). Version 1.0 (the floppies and the first CD) does not run and is refused; Raven’s update to 1.1 isn’t applied for you yet. - The Macintosh CD’s
Hexen.WADis taken as a 1.1 copy (taggedmac): it is the same game with Macintosh fonts and menu art, but it has no GENMIDI instrument bank, so DSDA-Doom’s OPL music player is unavailable with it; our default player (fluidsynth) plays the same music lumps. - Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, the expansion, is optional:
HEXDD.WADfrom its CD or an installed copy (Steam:common/Hexen Deathkings of the Dark Citadel). It gets its own entry in Play.
2. With game-data-packager
walnut-data runs game-data-packager, Debian's tool that makes a package out of game data: Walnut's build of it (Debian's 89 with our patches) comes with Walnut Games. Run it yourself to keep the .deb, or to make it on another computer. It writes <package>_<version>_all.deb into the folder after -d (. is the current one), one package per -p:
| Package | What | Command |
|---|---|---|
hexen-wad | full | game-data-packager -d . --no-download -p hexen-wad hexen /path/to/your/copy |
hexen-deathkings-wad optional | expansion | game-data-packager -d . --no-download -p hexen-deathkings-wad hexen /path/to/your/copy |
Then install the file it made, from the same folder:
sudo apt install ./hexen-wad_*.deb--no-download: only your files are used.- It reads a folder, an installer or an archive; it doesn't open disc images. Mount an ISO first (open it in the file manager, or
udisksctl loop-setup -r -f FILE.iso, thenudisksctl mount -b /dev/loopN) and give it the mount point, or let walnut-data do it. BIN/CUE and MDF images: walnut-data only. - Walnut's patches that concern this game: Accept GOG's Hexen installer, setup_hexen_beyond_heretic_1.1_(42801).exe; Accept the Macintosh Hexen CD's Hexen.WAD as hexen.wad?mac. Debian's own game-data-packager doesn't have them, so it may refuse some of the copies above.
3. By hand
Copy the files to the paths below as root (sudo cp), with the names exactly as written, upper and lower case included: Linux tells them apart. Where a file has several accepted versions, any one of them does. Check a copy with sha256sum FILE (sha1sum or md5sum where the table says so) and compare the sum. Files copied by hand belong to no package: Walnut Games goes by the packages, so it still shows the data as missing, and Remove data leaves them alone.
hexen-wad (full)
Into /usr/share/games/doom, 19.2 MB.
| File | Versions | Size | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
hexen.wad |
1.1, mac (any one) | 19.2–20.1 MB | |||||||||
Checksums
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hexen-deathkings-wad (expansion, optional)
Into /usr/share/games/doom, 4.2 MB.
| File | Versions | Size | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
hexdd.wad |
1.0, 1.1 (any one) | 4.2–4.2 MB | |||||||||
Checksums
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