Sunlust

Sunlust
Authors	Zach Stephens, Daniel Jakobsson
Port	Boom-compatible
IWAD	Doom II
Year	2015
Link	Doomworld/idgames
	This mod received one of the 2015 Cacowards on Doomworld!

Sunlust is a 32-map megawad for Boom-compatible source ports, created by Zachary Stephens (Ribbiks) and Daniel Jakobsson (dannebubinga). It is notorious for its high level of difficulty.

Development started in March 2013, and the first public beta was released on June 13, 2015. The final version was released to the idgames archive on August 9, 2015, and it won a Cacoward that year.

Content

Levels

• MAP01: Chasing Suns
• MAP02: Down Through
• MAP03: Forgotten Shrine
• MAP04: Sol
• MAP05: Gear Up
• MAP06: Neo Gerouru
• MAP07: Total Enclosure
• MAP08: Oneira
• MAP09: Saquasohuh
• MAP10: Maru
• MAP11: Cave Culture
• MAP12: Dangeresque
• MAP13: Ruins of Skania
• MAP14: Troglobite
• MAP15: Strength and Anger
• MAP16: Lost Antiques
• MAP17: The Womb
• MAP18: Mu Cephei
• MAP19: Blood Geometry
• MAP20: Inverti in Darkness
• MAP21: Entering Aquatic Desert
• MAP22: Black Rabbit
• MAP23: In Flight
• MAP24: Dying on Cue
• MAP25: Proxyon
• MAP26: Kinetics
• MAP27: Emerald Spire
• MAP28: Maelstrom
• MAP29: Go Fuck Yourself
• MAP30: God Machine

Secret maps:

• MAP31: Birds of a Feather
• MAP32: Postcoitus Doom

Soundtrack

• MAP01: "Diary" by Jean Baudlot & Fabrice Visserot from Flashback, sequenced by Simon Agozzino
• MAP02: "Magician Type 0" by Tetsuya Kawauchi from The House of the Dead, sequenced by Magnus Andersson
• MAP03: "Greek Temple" by Jeremy Soule from Secret of Evermore, sequenced by The Jade Emperor
• MAP04: "Desk Lamp" by Stuart Rynn (stewboy)
• MAP05: "Lord of Space" by James Paddock (Jimmy) (from TNT 2: Devilution)
• MAP06: "Plantation Crash" by Kenny Chou (C.C. Catch) from Zone 66, sequenced by James-Alan Nguyen
• MAP07: "Dead City" by Dennis Martin from The Legend of Dragoon, sequenced by Zagro
• MAP08: "Dead Sea" by Yasunori Mitsuda from Chrono Cross
• MAP09: "Chasing Devrich" from Death Come 4
• MAP10: "Awaken" by Yasunori Mitsuda from Xenogears
• MAP11: "Mist" by Stuart Rynn (stewboy)
• MAP12: "Mountain Pass" by Osamu Kasai & Masaaki Harada from Ys I (Famicom), sequenced by Amanesan
• MAP13: "Quickfast" by Paul D (originally made for NOVA: The Birth)
• MAP14: "Another World of Beasts" by Nobuo Uematsu from Final Fantasy VI
• MAP15: "Depths" by Zachary Stephens (Ribbiks)
• MAP16: "Castle Center - Main Theme" by Masahiko Kimura, Motoaki Furukawa, and Mariko Egawa from Castlevania 64, sequenced by Hyena
• MAP17: "Apostate" by Danny Baranowsky from The Binding of Isaac, sequenced by Ribbiks
• MAP18: "Your Mission" by Masami Ueda from Resident Evil 2, sequenced by Necro
• MAP19: "Mission Landing" by Michiel van den Bos from Unreal Tournament, sequenced by Per Kristian Risvik
• MAP20: "The Pervert" by Masaharu Iwata from Final Fantasy Tactics, sequenced by Jeff Copperthite
• MAP21: "Ocean Flute" by Stuart Rynn (stewboy)
• MAP22: "Snow Battle" by Tatsuyuki Maeda from Dragon Force, sequenced by SilverKnight
• MAP23: "Menu" by Jeremy Soule from Secret of Evermore
• MAP24: "Unholy Voices (Shareware)" by Daniel Bernstein from Blood
• MAP25: "Dreams" by Jan Paul Moorhead from The Incredible Machine 3
• MAP26: "Nest" by Kevin Schilder from Hexen II, remix of "Mist" from Heretic
• MAP27: "Bloody Excrement" by Hitoshi Sakimoto from Final Fantasy Tactics
• MAP28: "Gate of the Ancients" by Brian Luzietti from Stonekeep
• MAP29: "Max Man" from by Yuzo Koshiro from Streets of Rage 2, sequenced by José Felix
• MAP30: "Retribution Dawns" by Aubrey Hodges from PSX Doom, sequenced by Jay Reichard (silentzorah)

Secret maps:

• MAP31: "Garden" by Stuart Rynn (stewboy) (from Jenesis)
• MAP32: TNT: Evilution MAP16/MAP26 MIDI by Jonathan El-Bizri

• Title screen: "Premonition" by Yasunori Mitsuda from Xenogears
• Intermission screen: "Dust to Dust" by Kohei Tanaka from Alundra
• Text screen: "The Male Pattern Baldness of Ed Harris" by Toasterhead

Speedrunning

MAP30 earns its reputation as a difficult slaughter map.

Three speedrunners have completed the very difficult D2all UV max of this mapset. Daerik did it first in 2020 with a time of 4 hours and 23 minutes. Then Nevanos took the record the following year in 4 hours flat. In 2023, KineticBeverage set a new record of 2 hours and 57 minutes.

Current records

The DSDA episode records for Sunlust are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV speed episode, MAP01-MAP10	08:57	Starduster	2023-08-09	sle1-857.zip
UV speed episode, MAP11-MAP20	22:09	0xf00ba12	2017-11-17	sle2-2209.zip
UV speed episode, MAP21-MAP30	30:00	0xf00ba12	2019-02-05	sle3-3000.zip
UV speed run	1:18:40	Starduster	2023-07-16	slall-7840.zip
UV max episode, MAP01-MAP10	34:59	KineticBeverage	2023-06-02	sle1m3459.zip
UV max run	2:57:59	KineticBeverage	2023-08-11	slallm25759.zip
NoMo episode, MAP01-MAP10	05:46	Teedre	2020-11-12	slep1o546.zip
NoMo run	32:54	Starduster	2021-01-24	slallo3254.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on August 27, 2023.

External links

• Sunlust at Doomworld/idgames
• Sunlust at the Doom Speed Demo Archive
• Doomworld forums thread
• Review at ONEMANDOOM: WAD Reviews