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Doom – PlayStation 2 Port

Update 28/2/09:

Cosmito has been doing alot of addition work on my quick PS2 port of doom lately, recently adding sound support. To keep updated on the latest PS2Doom changes,  check Cosmitos website.

Original post:

Doom by id Software seems to available for every platform known to man, except for the PlayStation 2. So I wondered how long it would take to port it over to PS2 and the answer to that question turned out to be less than 3 hours. Using the PS2 port of SDL, gsKit (SDL requires it for video) and PS2SDK, all available from PS2dev.org Subversion repository and a SDL port of Doom available here, I managed to get a very basic (read: hackish) port of Doom running on the PS2 without much effort.

I've only tested the port over PS2Link and it will most likely not run from a CD-R. There is no sound, however there is support for sound in PS2 SDL, but does not appear to work with Doom and I havn't investigated the cause. Saving and loading of games works, as they just save to host/PC. The Dualshock controls are as follow (USB keyboard and mouse are untested)

Left Analog Stick : Move

Cross             : Enter

Square/R1         : CTRL / Fire

Circle/R2         : Space / Open doors

Triangle          : Escape

L1                : x

L2                : y

L1 and L2 are for entering savegame names

I will not continue to work on this port, it was just a quick nostalgic proof of concept port :-)

Download: ps2doom-src.zip ps2doom-bin.zip (Binary includes shareware data)

Update: Follow this thread for further work on this port.

Update 2: A lsdldoom PS2 port by Jason Yu with sound effect support has surfaced. I've compiled the source into a single ELF with the DOOM shareware data included, which should run from CD-ROM, USB, etc (not tested). Included in the archive is also a ps2-packer compressed version of DOOM.ELF named DOOMP.ELF.

Download: lsdldoom-ps2-bin.zip