Talk:SIGIL

shouldn't this be canonically SI6IL? -- Shambler (talk) 16:50, 1 June 2019 (CDT)

Other than in the URL and title of the official page, no '6' is used in referring to the WAD. It's a 'G' in all mentions of SIGIL on said page, in the download zip filename, all filenames inside the zip, througout both .txt files in the .zip, and in all text lumps in the .wad. So I'd say SIGIL is canonical and SI6IL should be a redirect. --Xymph (talk) 06:45, 2 June 2019 (CDT)

I have created it as a redirect. --Quasar (talk) 00:28, 6 June 2019 (CDT)

Is Sigil now an official expansion?

Now that Id have released it as addon DLC in their new release of Doom 1, would it be appropriate to consider Sigil an official release? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.150.243.237 (talk)

id is licensing peoples' mods to allow people to play them on the console versions of the game primarily. This doesn't necessarily make their stories and content canonical until and unless somebody from id describes them as such. This is an important distinction to make. --Quasar (talk) 13:19, 8 March 2020 (CDT)

Fair enough, but then we have to make another call. It's Romero after all, so just what do we consider canonical? Does it go to whoever happens to legally own the game at the time, or to the intent of the original creators? It's a bit muddled in either case, but whether canonical or not, it still seems to me to be official (which is itself another distinction). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.150.243.237 (talk)

It's one of the official add-ons, so yes it's official in a way. As for whether that's canonical, well, to be honest, Doom isn't a game where canon really matters much. --Gez (talk) 18:35, 8 March 2020 (CDT)

The source on v1.23

Here's an excerpt of the update email I received from Romero's store.

Subject: An updated version of SIGIL Megawad featuring Buckethead is available for download
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2025 20:53:41 +0000

[snip]

The seller has added the following message for this update:

I call this "The Simple Update" for SIGIL. The process to play SIGIL needed to be a little simpler for some users. Now it's very easy to play. One WAD has the MIDI music, the other has the Buckethead music. Don't worry, you didn't miss the 1.22 version — that was only for id Software's use.

[snip]

The beginning of the CHNGLG lump:

v1.22 -> v1.23
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- SIGIL_V1_23_REG.wad now replaces SIGIL_SHREDS.wad; it's a combined paid version of the normal WAD with the MP3 soundtrack.
- Par times in the 'COMPAT' version fixed to replace episode 3 rather than 5.

v1.21 -> v1.22
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- Internal version for console releases. Not used as a base for v1.23.

The free WAD is identical to v1.21, sans the change log and the order of the lumps, so I'm not sure if it's going to be publicly released. --Egor (talk) 14:09, 6 August 2025 (CDT)