Unable to run with shareware version. about pcdoom-v2 HOT 6 CLOSED

Submitted pull request: #21

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I would say that this is normal because PCDoom-v2 emulates the Ultimate Doom version of the Doom v1.9 executable, which has this bug because this version wasn't meant to be run with the shareware or the registered IWAD, only the Ultimate Doom. If you try the IWAD from the registered version, you'd get the same crash and your fix doesn't resolve it.

Also, please check if this fix still makes it possible to select the fourth episode. By looking at the fix, I see that it won't be drawn on the screen but you may still be able to move the skull cursor over its position where it's supposed to be in the menu.

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Hi Fabien,

One way to fix it would be to add a check at the end of M_Init.

// Remove the fourth episode if the "m_epi4" lump is not found
if (W_CheckNumForName("m_epi4")<0)
    EpiDef.numitems--;

I haven't tested this code, but something with this logic would also work with the registered version of Doom, assuming that numitems is always equals to the size of the array which contains the four episodes.

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I think i should add earlier versions emulation using '#ifdef's. Emulation of versions down to 1.666 should be easy.

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I think i should add earlier versions emulation using '#ifdef's.

I think that's a great idea.

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Fixed in 886a838

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