Doom Engine WAD Reader and Extractor

Note: This application supersedes the console based WAD extractor utility that I was hosting previously.

About

The Doom Engine WAD Reader and Extractor is an application designed for viewing and extracting the data found inside the Doom Engine data files known as “WAD” files.

The following features are supported:

  • Graphics (Flat, Patch and Sprite files)
    • View, Extract as PNG file, Extract raw Lump file
  • PC Speaker
    • Play, Extract as Wave file, Extract raw lump file
  • Digital Sound
    • Play, Extract as Wave file, Extract raw lump file
  • Map Files
    • View, Extract raw lump files
  • Music
    • Extract raw lump file

Screenshots

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A creature sprite resource from Hexen

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A Weapon sprite resource from Heretic

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A “flat” image resource from Strife

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A patch image resource from Doom II: Hell on Earth

Downloads

19 Responses to “Doom Engine WAD Reader and Extractor”

  1. Terry Butler » Doom Engine WAD Reader and Extractor – Release v0.8.5
    February 20th, 2010 at 7:01 pm

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    March 8th, 2010 at 5:09 pm

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  3. Johan
    July 19th, 2010 at 12:35 pm

    On the DooM wad reader, first it says can’t find mscoree.dll (So I downloaded it) Now it says .NET inilatizion error.

  4. Terry
    July 19th, 2010 at 12:48 pm

    Did you download and install the entire .NET framework or just copy small parts (individual .dll files)?

    If you haven’t installed the entire .NET framework, that might be the reason. It’s probably missing parts of it or isn’t configured right.

    If you’ve installed the whole thing and it’s having issues, I’m quite honestly not sure what the problem is.

    Let me know either way.

    Best regards,
    Terry

  5. Johan
    July 19th, 2010 at 12:53 pm

    Well, I’ve downloaded the .Net Framework but when I’m suppose to run it, it says can’t run. I am using a very old laptop with Windows 2000 so it’s not sure it works. Thanks for your help anyway.

  6. ChuckNorris
    October 19th, 2010 at 4:54 pm

    how do I play the Musics (RAW format)?

  7. tom
    December 2nd, 2010 at 8:27 pm

    how do i extract all?

  8. Terry
    December 8th, 2010 at 10:18 am

    Hey guys,

    Tom:

    This is one of the projects I’m going to release as open source, meaning that others will be able to contribute to the project, as well as allowing me to leverage the use of existing libraries and code more easily, meaning I’ll be able to provide a MUS player and extractor to MIDI, for example.

    Johan:

    I’m not sure why this is. I hope that you found a solution.

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  10. Emre
    June 23rd, 2011 at 9:05 pm

    If you want to extract everything just use DeuTex. http://www.google.com/search?q=deutex

  11. Terry
    June 23rd, 2011 at 9:20 pm

    Thanks, although it was the WinTex shell I used back in the Windows 3.1 days that inspired me to want to learn the Doom file formats to program this.

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  13. Versus
    September 15th, 2011 at 7:52 pm

    “This is one of the projects I’m going to release as open source”

    That will be Greatful!!

  14. Terry
    September 20th, 2011 at 1:16 am

    HI Versus,

    I will get around to it eventually, I promise. I was hoping to go through the code and fix up a bunch of stuff first though and remove some stuff.

    I will post about it when I do!

  15. Dargor
    October 21st, 2011 at 10:00 pm

    Man, you’re GREAT! This is what i was looking for. THANKS! :D

  16. Terry
    October 22nd, 2011 at 11:28 am

    Hi Dargor, thanks for posting! :)

    I have every intention of improving this one day as well as releasing it as open source–after I clean up some embarrassing crappy code that is ;) –which I’m hoping will also go a long way to improving it.

    The extraction process is something I really hoped to improved as it’s somewhat shoddy at the moment!

    Best regards
    Terry

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  18. Doink
    August 2nd, 2012 at 12:47 am

    Hey terry i search for this kind of program almost a day and finally founded… i have just one problem when i extract the maps like you say at the beginin is a raw lump file can i open those files with some drawing editor?? if you know which can you tell me please??

    Doink

  19. Terry
    August 5th, 2012 at 3:48 pm

    Hi Doink

    You won’t be able to open those in any drawing editor that I know of. What really needs to be done I imagine is to translate the Doom map to something like SVG.

    It would be pretty cool to do, I will admit. I don’t have the time right now but I’ll see if time permits soon to do something.

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