DBP50: Emerald City

DBP50: Emerald City
Authors	Doomer Boards community
Port	Limit-removing
IWAD	Doom II
Year	2022
Link	Doomworld/idgames

Emerald City is a 16-level megawad for Doom II designed for limit removing source ports, created by various members of the Doomer Boards community, led by LunchLunch in his first DBP as a project lead. It is the 50th entry in the ongoing Doomer Boards Projects. Work on the project was carried out during July 2022. The first version was released on August 1, 2022. After some bugfixing the final version was uploaded to the idgames archive on August 14 of the same year. The maps are themed around cities being conquested by plants and animals after the fall of Man.

Content

The mod uses an internal DEHACKED lump to add custom decorations and ambient sound things to fit its theme (including replacing Wolfenstein SS and Commander Keen), as well as to change level names and contents of text screens. Custom PLAYPAL, COLORMAP, ZMAPINFO, and UMAPINFO lumps are also included, as well as a custom status bar.

Levels

• MAP01: The Passage by Jon Vail (40oz) and Pixel Fiend
• MAP02: Nothing but Flowers by indigo
• MAP03: Concrete Jungle by LunchLunch
• MAP04: UrbEx by Maxwell
• MAP05: Lush by LunchLunch
• MAP06: Growing Cadenza by Glikkzy
• MAP07: Green Day at the Dump by Ilya Lazarev (joe-ilya)
• MAP08: City of Fallen Angels by NoisyVelvet
• MAP09: Life After People by 40oz
• MAP10: Milne by kvsari
• MAP11: Phosphorwire by SuperCupcakeTactics
• MAP12: 50% Pork, 50% Tapeworms by Rancid Sam
• MAP13: Depot by LunchLunch
• MAP14: Walled Garden by matador
• MAP15: Flood Skinny Dipper by BiZ
• MAP16: Credits by indigo (credits map)

Soundtrack

• MAP01: "The King's Court" by Kevin Schilder, from Hexen II
• MAP02: "Draracle Halls - Shining Path" from Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny
• MAP03: MIDI rendition of "Forest Temple" from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (sequenced by Anthony Jakob)
• MAP04: "Graveyard" by Seppo Hurme, from Gubble
• MAP05: MIDI rendition of "Pyrite Town Theme" by Tsukasa Tawada, from Pokémon Colosseum
• MAP06: "Acid Space Jam" by Maxime Tondreau (Psychedelic Eyeball)
• MAP07: MIDI rendition of "Brain Stew" by Green Day
• MAP08: MIDI rendition of "Overdose Delusion" by Akira Yamaoka, from Silent Hill 2 (sequenced by fatal)
• MAP09: "Huline Temple" from Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny
• MAP10: "Doomed Traveller's Song" by Kevin Schilder, from Hexen II
• MAP11: "Unreleased 07" from Blood
• MAP12: MIDI rendition of "The White Cloud in the Sky (Grillin Village)" by Tsuyoshi Sekito, from Brave Fencer Musashi (sequenced by jarzzy)
• MAP13: MIDI rendition of "Emerald Mist" by Yasuhiro Ichihashi, from Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (sequenced by Baka94)
• MAP14: "Take These Pills And Be Who You Are" by Jazz Mickle (jmickle)
• MAP15: "Ruins (Emerald City Mix)" from Brandish
• MAP16: MIDI rendition of "Laura's Theme" by Akira Yamaoka, from Silent Hill 2 (sequenced by Daniel Wright)

• Title screen: MIDI rendition of "Chykka Larva Battle" by Kenji Yamamoto, from Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (sequenced by Justin Bailey)
• Intermission and text screens: "Lands of Lore Theme (Unused)" from Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos

Built-in demos

This WAD features three built-in demos. All require Doom II v1.9 to view them. The demo levels are:

Demo	Level	Skill	Tics	Length
DEMO1	MAP03: Concrete Jungle	4	1599	0:45.69
DEMO2	MAP06: Growing Cadenza	4	2333	1:06.66
DEMO3	MAP09: Life After People	4	1688	0:48.23

Speedrunning

Current records

The DSDA episode records for DBP50: Emerald City are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV max run	1:32:18	Blake Collins (Rayziik)	2022-12-19	dbp50ALLm13218.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on April 13, 2023.

Gallery

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  An abandoned apartment in MAP02

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  The starting area of MAP03

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  Overview of MAP10

Trivia

• The opening scene of MAP01: The Passage is meant to depict the image shown in the INTERPIC graphic.
• "Laura's Theme" was originally intended to be used as the music for the end credits but the first release candidate uses "Legendary Theme" from Gitaroo Man instead as indigo mistakenly believed it was being used in MAP08. It was reverted back to "Laura's Theme" in subsequent releases.

External links

• DBP50: Emerald City at Doomworld/idgames
• DBP50: Emerald City at the Doom Speed Demo Archive
• Release thread on Doomer Boards
• Release thread on Doomworld forums