Back to Saturn X

A checked version of this page, approved on 23 October 2014, was based on this revision.

Back to Saturn X is a series of megawad/partial conversion projects for Doom II, designed to be compatible with DOOM2.EXE. It features an exclusive texture set, original music, and a new palette and colormap.

Song and album titles from Guided By Voices provide the title, episode names, and map names, and are also inserted into storyline text.

The first episode was originally released on December 10, 2012 for Doom's 19th birthday, featuring twenty regular levels, one secret level, and a recurring train station hub. An additional level was inserted later in a later release on August 1, 2013. The episode received one of the 2013 Cacowards. The second episode was released on 1 September, 2014, with another twenty-one levels, a secret level, four episode hubs and an ending screen. One final episode remains in development.

Content

Levels

Episode 1: Get Out Of My Stations

MAP01: Back to Saturn X Radio Report by Michael Mancuso and Richard Frei
MAP02: Postal Blowfish by Kim Bach and Michael Mancuso
MAP03: The Room Taking Shape by Paul DeBruyne
MAP04: A Good Flying Bird by Michael Mancuso
MAP05: Total Exposure by Walker Wright
MAP06: Mix Up The Satellite by Trevor Primmett
MAP07: Metal Mothers by Björn Ostmann
MAP08: Get Out Of My Stations I (Episode Hub) by Michael Mancuso
MAP09: Some Drilling Implied by Michael Mancuso and Travers Dunne
MAP10: A Proud And Booming Industry by Paul DeBruyne
MAP11: The Colossus Crawls West by Ed Cripps
MAP12: Underground Initiations by Travers Dunne and Paul DeBruyne
MAP13: I'll Replace You With Machines by Michael Mancuso and Paul DeBruyne
MAP14: Big Chief Chinese Restaurant by Matthew Edwards and Michael Mancuso
MAP15: Tricyclic Looper by Brett Harrell
MAP16: Get Out Of My Stations II (Episode Hub) by Michael Mancuso
MAP17: Navigating Flood Regions by Michael Mancuso
MAP18: Cyclone Utilities (Remember Your Birthday) by Simon Judd
MAP19: Bingo Pool Hall of Blood by Richard Frei and Michael Mancuso
MAP20: U.S. Mustard Company by Matt Cibulas
MAP21: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft by Nick Laurent and Richard Frei
MAP22: Gonna Never Have To Die by Matt Cibulas and Paul DeBruyne
MAP23: Get Out Of My Stations III (Episode Hub) by Michael Mancuso
MAP24: Tough Skin River by John Oksasoglu
MAP31: The Hard Way by Paul DeBruyne

Soundtrack

MAP01: "Entering" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP02: "Phobophobe" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP03: "Drilling By Night" (Stuart Rynn)
MAP04: "Clonk" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP05: "Atmospheric Pressure" (James Paddock)
MAP06: "Nanonucleonic Cyborg Summoning" (Elric Sullivan)
MAP07: "Conductor" (James Paddock)
MAP08: "Waiting" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP09: "Untilted" (James Paddock)
MAP10: "Coal" (James Paddock)
MAP11: "Yaw" (James Paddock)
MAP12: "Liquid Luck" (James Paddock)
MAP13: "Escape Velocity" (James Paddock)
MAP14: "24" (Stuart Rynn)
MAP15: "Quicksilver" (James Paddock)
MAP16: "Waiting" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP17: "Dirt" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP18: "Untitled" (Simon Judd)
MAP19: "Faultline" (James Paddock)
MAP20: "The Cry" (James Paddock)
MAP21: "Heliotrope" (James Paddock)
MAP22: "Womp" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP23: "Waiting" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP24: "Within Reach" (James Paddock)
MAP31: "Atomic" (James Paddock)
Ending screen: "Undersea" (Michael Mancuso)

Episode 2: Tower in the Fountain of Sparks

MAP01: Shadow Port by Josh Sealy, Michael Mancuso and Boris Klimeš
MAP02: Underwater Explosions by John Oksasoglu
MAP03: Wings of Thorn by Brad Spencer and Xaser Acheron
MAP04: Dirty Water by Mike Alfredson and Richard Frei
MAP05: Tower in the Fountain of Sparks I by Xaser Acheron
MAP06: Useless Inventions by Björn Ostmann
MAP07: Shrine to the Dynamic Years (Athens Time Change Riots) by Eric Baker
MAP08: A Blue Shadow by Matt Tropiano and Richard Frei
MAP09: Adverse Wind by Adrian Hanekom and Michael Mancuso
MAP10: Eureka Signs by Michael Mancuso
MAP11: Tower in the Fountain of Sparks II by Xaser Acheron
MAP12: Demons Are Real by Paul DeBruyne
MAP13: Nation Gone Dry by James Paddock and Richard Frei
MAP14: Shocker in Gloomtown by Brett Harrell and Björn Ostmann
MAP15: The Theory of Broken Circles by Björn Ostmann
MAP16: Tower in the Fountain of Sparks III by Xaser Acheron
MAP17: Steeple of Knives by Xaser Acheron
MAP18: Optional Bases Opposed by Paul DeBruyne
MAP19: Unbaited Vicar of Scorched Earth by Richard Frei
MAP20: Speedtraps for the Bee Kingdom by Richard Frei and Michael Mancuso
MAP21: Bulldog Skin by Adam Woodmansey and Michael Mancuso
MAP22: Bite by Matt Cibulas
MAP23: Tower in the Fountain of Sparks IV by Xaser Acheron
MAP24: Perhaps Now the Vultures by Richard Frei
MAP25: Unstable Journey by Brett Harrell
MAP26: Beneath a Festering Moon by Xaser Acheron
MAP31: Fireking Says No Cheating by Josh Sealy, Michael Mancuso and Boris Klimeš

MAP01: "Alien Jungle" (Stuart Rynn)
MAP02: "94" (Stuart Rynn)
MAP03: "Twilit Jungle" (James Paddock)
MAP04: "Lost City" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP05: "Mystproj" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP06: "Encased" (James Paddock)
MAP07: "Free from My Shackles" (Eric Baker)
MAP08: "The Night Guard" (James Paddock)
MAP09: "95" (Stuart Rynn)
MAP10: "Noir" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP11: "Mystproj" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP12: "Mist at Dawn" (James Paddock)
MAP13: "Scattered Ashes" (James Paddock)
MAP14: "Enigma" (James Paddock)
MAP15: "Geometry" (James Paddock)
MAP16: "Mystproj" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP17: "Ominus" (Xaser Acheron)
MAP18: "Hell Jungle" (Stuart Rynn)
MAP19: "Kashmoney Temple" (Xaser Acheron)
MAP20: "Ether" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP21: "Stormwater" (James Paddock)
MAP22: "Lurking" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP23: "Mystproj" (Michael Mancuso)
MAP24: "Petrichor (Blood of the Stone)" (James Paddock)
MAP25: "Weather Warning" (James Paddock)
MAP26: "Angry Science" (Xaser Acheron)
MAP31: "Vinefort" (James Paddock)
Ending screen: "Cruel" (Michael Mancuso)

Title screen: "Back to Saturn X" (James Paddock)
Intermission screen: "Intermission" (James Paddock, Michael Mancuso, and Xaser)
Text screen: "Wait for Dawn" (Elric Sullivan)

External links

Doomworld forums thread - Episode 1
Doomworld forums thread - Episode 2