Wanton Destruction for Shadow Warrior Released!

[Joe Siegler]

Over the years we've been asked several times whatever happened to the Shadow Warrior add-on pack, Wanton Destruction. This add-on was produced by a company called Sunstorm (featuring DNF developer Charlie Wiederhold). The add-on was completed, but then shelved by the distributor. It wasn't our choice, and it wasn't Sunstorm's choice. So the product sat. Eventually Sunstorm went out of business, and the product essentially died. As time went by, we at 3D Realms had thought the product was lost. We never had a copy ourselves of the add-on, and with the company non existent, the chances of releasing it were pretty much zero. We tried to locate it a few times over the years, but pretty much gave up hope, and wrote it off.

Fast forward to this Monday, and we get an email from Anthony Campiti, the former President of Sunstorm. Anthony tells us that he discovered a CD called "Add-on Archive 1". Much to his surprise (and ours), this CD contained the completed version of the Wanton Destruction add-on. A few emails were exchanged, and a CD arrived at 3D Realms HQ on Thursday afternoon with the materials!

So now we bring the file to you. Available now for download after having been thought lost all these years is the Wanton Destruction add-on for Shadow Warrior. If you still have your copy of the registered version of Shadow Warrior (that is required), fire it up, as there's some new stuff to check out. You can download the add-on from the links below. If you don't have a copy of Shadow Warrior, and want one, we still sell it, you can get one at our online store here, or you can just read more about Shadow Warrior here.

Here's a few (newly written) words about the add-on from both Anthony & Charlie (then of Sunstorm) about Wanton Destruction:

Anthony Campiti: When Shadow Warrior was released, it quickly became the favorite game in the office. Who could forget those damn sticky bombs! When we were given the chance to create an add-on for SW, we jumped in determined to make it the best add-on product on the market. Our level designers did incredible work and stretched the limits of the BUILD engine.

Unfortunately, due to various circumstances Wanton Destruction was never released. Years went by and we moved onto dozens of other projects. But, recently I was going through our software archives and I found a CD-R labeled 'Add-on Archive 1'. I'm happy to say it includes a complete archive of the Wanton Destruction project. I quickly sent and email to 3DRealms so they could get into the hands of the Shadow Warrior fans! Enjoy more Lo Wang!

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Charlie Wiederhold: "I want to thank Anthony Campiti (who founded Sunstorm Interactive and gave me my first professional gig in the industry) for finding and passing along a CD of Wanton Destruction he found recently. We've been looking high and Lo for it for years but it seemed lost to the ages. I personally think this is the best Build Engine add-on Sunstorm ever produced and I was always sad the Shadow Warrior fans never got to enjoy it.

Duke It Out in DC, Duke Carribean and Cryptic Passage were all created by a handful of people (literally, you could count them all on one hand). In 1997 Sunstorm was contracted to do two add-ons at the same time, so we decided to hire level designers from the Build community as contractors for the majority of the levels and Robert Travis and I worked with these designers to pull the whole thing together. When you read the credits list you might recognize a couple of them as they have gone on to professional careers in the gaming industry.

The Wanton Destruction add-on was completed and approved by 3D Realms, but unfortunately didn't go any farther. Shadow Warrior was a dream to build levels for so I'm happy that the work all the designers put into it will finally see the light of day. Even if a little late. Enjoy!

Here are the download links for the Wanton Destruction addon. We hope you enjoy it!

• 3D Gamers
• Fileshack
• Fileplanet (Coming Soon)

Please note that this add-on requires an unmodified v1.2 registered version of Shadow Warrior. In other words, if you're using the JonoF Windows port, you'll need to have the original game available in order to get this installed.

[Cerberus_e]

congratulations

[Phayzon]

xLike 40 million dude!!!

[laffer]

Cool! Awesome! That's very good news

[ultra tree 85!]

Its great that the add- on can finally see the light of day!

[8IronBob]

That's awesome. I'm waiting in 3D Gamer's line now as we speak. It should be nice to bring back the addon that should've been around a long time ago. I still see that the Wanton Destruction teaser is still available, but the teaser's not necessary as you can have the whole kit and kaboodle for that same token. Here we go...

[Joe Siegler]

Yeah, the teaser is there, I didn't see the point in removing that - because at the time, it truly was intended to preview the full version, which never showed up until today.

[GodBlitZor]

Dear god.....
:\o/:

[avatar_58]

Nice! This is VERY interesting news!

[tpz]

Thanks a lot guys!

[Gryph]

If you told me you were going to release it for free I wouldn't have bought it back then.

[Phayzon]

In jfShadowWarrior, how do you include Wanton.dat? Because soundless DOS sw isnt all that good

[avatar_58]

Phayzon said:
Because soundless DOS sw isnt all that good

I'm going to attempt the VDMsound method later, since that seems to be the best way.

[Phayzon]

good luck

[8IronBob]

Well, the only other hope is that JonoF can build that feature to run WD in his next version, if the user of SW has the WD addon, then JonoF should build the feature into his port for you to use that .GRP file as well. Wish he would've done that with the Duke 3D port for those addons. Something to think about.

[TerminX]

Wanton.dat is just a renamed DOS sw.exe that looks for wt.grp rather than sw.grp. Your original sw.exe is renamed to sw.tmp (IIRC) when you run wanton.exe, and then wanton.dat is renamed to sw.exe. On exit, they're switched back. The wanton.dat version of sw.exe might have some other misc changes, but it's really unknown what they are or if they're important at this point. What you need to do for now is run JonoF's sw.exe with the parameter "-gwt.grp". I've tested this and it appears to work fine. Do note that I was using current development code, not what's publically available, so you might need to use ProAsm's "SWP" which I'm sure you can find easily enough by just glancing around the Shadow Warrior source code forum.

Oh yeah, one last thing -- for anyone too lazy to dig out their SW CD (like me) so that sw.exe passes the checks, when you first start the installer, wt.grp and all the other files are extracted to a directory under your temp directory. You can pull them out of there.

[Phayzon]

Wanton.dat has the stuff like level names and renamed 2nd episode, not required for play, but it'd be nice to have.

[TerminX]

Phayzon said:
Wanton.dat has the stuff like level names and renamed 2nd episode, not required for play, but it'd be nice to have.

That stuff's doable through JFSW.

[wieder]

Ahh... much better.

I've had the promo box on my desk for years. Here are some scans of it if you want to see how it would have worked. The front flap was more of a half flap that opened up like Lo Wang was cutting it away. Pretty sweet... and easily one fo the best Addon boxes I've seen. You can click the images to see bigger versions.

[GodBlitZor]

Nevermind, extracted it with Winrar.

[8IronBob]

TerminX said:
Wanton.dat is just a renamed DOS sw.exe that looks for wt.grp rather than sw.grp. Your original sw.exe is renamed to sw.tmp (IIRC) when you run wanton.exe, and then wanton.dat is renamed to sw.exe. On exit, they're switched back. The wanton.dat version of sw.exe might have some other misc changes, but it's really unknown what they are or if they're important at this point. What you need to do for now is run JonoF's sw.exe with the parameter "-gwt.grp". I've tested this and it appears to work fine. Do note that I was using current development code, not what's publically available, so you might need to use ProAsm's "SWP" which I'm sure you can find easily enough by just glancing around the Shadow Warrior source code forum.

Oh yeah, one last thing -- for anyone too lazy to dig out their SW CD (like me) so that sw.exe passes the checks, when you first start the installer, wt.grp and all the other files are extracted to a directory under your temp directory. You can pull them out of there.

Oh, that worked a wazillion times over. I believe that you would recommend a second shortcut to SW with the WD command, and one shortcut for regular SW. You sorta forgot to point that out, but that would be a good help.

[Phayzon]

TerminX said:

That stuff's doable through JFSW.

I dont know how though

EDIT: @person who posted promo box

WTF!? TWO new episodes!? I only see that Code of Honor is replaced w/ Wonton Destruction, wheres San Fran' Treat?

[GodBlitZor]

Dear god, the new enemies threw the fun factor down a bunch. So annoying.

[wieder]

Phayzon said:
EDIT: @person who posted promo box

WTF!? TWO new episodes!? I only see that Code of Honor is replaced w/ Wonton Destruction, wheres San Fran' Treat?

It's a promo box. Most of the information would be incorrect. The screenshots are all from normal SW.

GodBlitZor said:
Dear god, the new enemies threw the fun factor down a bunch. So annoying.

Tell me about it. I'm thinking that either not using the real wanton.exe is messing up their intended functionality, or something broke along the way in the version that Anthony had laying around. I'm hoping myself or someone else can sit down and break the art and sounds out that are good... and the rest of the stuff can be purged to the original stuff. Or at least the original *sounds* as the "Ah! Damn you" sounding line is awful.

[Funduke]

Many thanks!

... the download is at seven percent ....

Greetings
Funduke

[GodBlitZor]

NotWieder3DR said:

It's a promo box. Most of the information would be incorrect. The screenshots are all from normal SW.

Tell me about it. I'm thinking that either not using the real wanton.exe is messing up their intended functionality, or something broke along the way in the version that Anthony had laying around. I'm hoping myself or someone else can sit down and break the art and sounds out that are good... and the rest of the stuff can be purged to the original stuff. Or at least the original *sounds* as the "Ah! Damn you" sounding line is awful.

yeah - thats the annoying part

AH DAMN YOU!11 every 3 seconds is really annoying.

[TerminX]

I think you guys are just experiencing the bug with JFSW where if you compile with MSVC, the compiler optimizations screw up the enemy roam sounds, resulting in the pain sounds being played instead of that growling you'd normally hear. I don't have enemies saying "ah, damn you!" every few seconds here, and my exe is built with MinGW (GCC) instead of MSVC.

[wieder]

TerminX said:
I think you guys are just experiencing the bug with JFSW where if you compile with MSVC, the compiler optimizations screw up the enemy roam sounds, resulting in the pain sounds being played instead of that growling you'd normally hear. I don't have enemies saying "ah, damn you!" every few seconds here, and my exe is built with MinGW (GCC) instead of MSVC.

Very good point. That's exactly it.

[TerminX]

Here's a binary built from the latest source, includes OpenGL voxels and the other new stuff like the working automap, built with gcc 3.4.2.

http://www.eduke32.com/stuff/SW.zip

[JonoF]

Here's an SWCUSTOM.TXT to set the map and episode names (attached).

Jonathon

[mental stampede]

Thanks for the build, TX. That audio bug was terrible!

@NotWeider3dr, which levels are yours?

[djimd]

JonoF said:
Here's an SWCUSTOM.TXT to set the map and episode names (attached).

Jonathon

That was quick - thanks mate.

[wieder]

mental stampede said:
@NotWeider3dr, which levels are yours?

All of the multiplayer ones, the airplane, and the rooftops final boss level.

I left Sunstorm before the project was complete to go work for Ritual on Sin. This was before we had any new art or sound effects in, so playing through some of these levels is a suprise for me since I hadn't seen some of them.

I'm a little disappointed that it doesn't look like they spent time polishing them up to a more professional quality level like we had done for the previous addons, but perhaps they knew it wasn't going to make it out and stopped. Still some pretty neat things in some of them and it's fun to dredge up the memories from the couple of months we were working on it. I listened to the Fifth Element soundtrack non-stop while working on those levels.

I haven't played all the way through it, but I think it starts off a little weak compared to some of the cooler later levels I remember.

[ProAsm]

So are we allowed to modify it for a standalone model for JFSW as its all done, with .def, .bat and swcustom files and a lot smaller as most art files is not needed.

[wieder]

ProAsm said:
So are we allowed to modify it for a standalone model for JFSW as its all done, with .def, .bat and swcustom files and a lot smaller as most art files is not needed.

You can do whatever you want to it and redistribute whatever you create. There isn't anything "official" about it anymore.

[Cerberus_e]

I have a computer with XP but another PC with windows 98 and the regular shadow warrior works perfectly, no ports needed... so I just install the expansion and I don't have any problems with "annoying enemy bug" etc?

NotWieder3DR said:
rooftops final boss level.

you spoiled the game

[ProAsm]

Cool, then here it is.
NB: You will need either the latest Swp.exe or TerminX's Sw.exe to play it as it needs the latest /h command to pull in the .def file.
http://www.proasm.com/files/swtcs/Wantdest_v10.zip (13.1 megs)
http://www.proasm.com/files/Swp21.zip
Just doubleclick the WantDest.bat file

[Blade Nightflame]

Cerberus_e said:
I have a computer with XP but another PC with windows 98 and the regular shadow warrior works perfectly, no ports needed... so I just install the expansion and I don't have any problems with "annoying enemy bug" etc?

you spoiled the game

Why did you read it then?

[Cerberus_e]

Blade Nightflame said:
Why did you read it then?

show me where it's indicated that there is a spoiler ahead, then.
I never understood the people that say: "why do you read spoilers?", and will never understand them.
they think it's easy to avoid them, even when they aren't indicated.

then again, I was half joking.

[TerminX]

ProAsm said:
Cool, then here it is.
NB: You will need either the latest Swp.exe or TerminX's Sw.exe to play it as it needs the latest /h command to pull in the .def file.
http://www.proasm.com/files/swtcs/Wantdest_v10.zip (13.1 megs)
http://www.proasm.com/files/Swp21.zip
Just doubleclick the WantDest.bat file

Of course, if you built with MSVC people will want to shy away from your build.