I own the original DOOM and DOOM II / Final DOOM on here and I currently have a MacBook Pro. Using PrBoom - i"d love to be able to play some DOOM on here and I'd love to be able to just grab the WADs to make these compatible, but no such luck since everything is wrapped in the .exe installer.

Would it be at all possible to - as an extra - have the WADs be downloaded from the extras menu?

The .wad file is located in the DOOM folder, wherever you installed it to.

That much I know - that isn't a part of the ask.

I was asking if the WAD files could be added in as an extra - while DOOM isn't supported outwardly my Mac/Linux or anything other than Windows, there are a bevy of launchers out there that you can just load the WADs into and play from any of those devices. If a user only has access to the .EXE installer, there's no way to get those files other than finding them online somewhere or having access to a Windows machine to install them to.

No, that's not true. You can use innoextract or Wine to extract the exe installer. It's a bit tedious, but it is not impossible.

That can be very tedious,

I'd also like to see if the wad files can be added to extras, Its not a huge installation, but I already have all my doom sourceports set up and it would be really convenient if I could just download the wad file and drop it into my iwad directory.

just use wine to install the game and then move the wads yourself I don't get it yeah its tedious but it would literally only take 10 seconds

It's seriously just a request that would be helpful to other people in the future - if it's done once, no one has to install Wine and go through the process. It's not really something that needs to be argued about.

Hard to disagree there.

At the same time, I can't see GOG doing this (be it for the Doom series or any other DOS era and beyond games that happen to have source ports that require specific files apart from all the other installer chaff like the same set of DOSBox files/etc.) any more than I could see them working out a distribution license with a source port that auto-detects WAD(s) based off of the known locations from default GOG Doom installs.

Download the exe and see if you can extract the wad file from it.

Of course you can. Innoextract does the trick quite smoothly.

But topic starter is on macOS and to run the extractor natively: Not the rocket science but for the general public installing Wine would be preferable.

It would have been helpful to not have to install wine. It would have been helpful to have been able to get the wad's

Just spent 45 minutes looking for 'wine', only found WinOnX in AppStore, installed it, crashed on launch. Yep. 10 seconds.

@pierredufresne

I completely agree. It should be more simple. However, let me share my approach that hopefully be helpful to an easy and fast approach. Start from step 6 for subsequent extracts.

Objective: Install Homebrew
1. Open Terminal
2. Run this: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
3. Await install completion

Objective: Install Innoextract
4. Run this in Terminal: brew install innoextract
5. Await install completion

Objective: Prepare folder and file
6. Create a game folder in your download folder (e.g. "UltimateDoom")
7. Download Game files via the "Download Offline Backup Game Installers"
8. Place the downloaded exe file in the gamefolder (e.g. "setup_the_ultimate_doom_1.9_(28044).exe"), if you downloaded something starting with "GOG_Galaxy...", you have downloaded the wrong file.
9. Delete the last part of the setup file name so you don't have paranthesis (e.g. "setup_the_ultimate_doom_1.9.exe")

Objective: Extract exe with Innoextract
10. Run this in Terminal to open the folder: cd ~/Downloads/*GameFolderName*/ (e.g. cd ~/Downloads/UltimateDoom/)
11. Run this to extract the exe: innoextract FileName.exe (e.g. innoextract setup_the_ultimate_doom_1.9.exe)

DONE! Use wads as you like.

For follow up extracts start from step 6.

Let me know if this was helpful.

EDIT: I found a way to only extract 1 file from .exe with Innoextract. Follow this guide and adjust to the game. This way you can skip step 6 and 8 above. I also believe that if you put ' ' around the exe file, you don't need need to edit filename to remove parentheses. See link: https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/wiki/Extracting-the-DIABDAT.MPQ-from-the-GoG-installer

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