Shadow Warrior cut beta maps remastered (E1L3 & E1L4 done)

[Whirledtsar]

Hello everyone! I just joined but I have been a SW fan for years and a Build mapper for about a year. Recently I decided to take the cut maps from the 95-09 SW beta and update them to work with the final game.

E1L3: This level was very unfinished and had a simple layout compared to retail levels, but had some cool ideas. It's still fairly short & simple, but I added some new rooms & effects and reworked progression. Has about 45 enemies and takes 10-20 minutes to beat. It is confirmed to work in VoidSW, Redux, and BuildGDX. However, GDX is somewhat laggy, which is strange considering how small it is.

E1L4: This level was much more complete, but still needed work. It's a bit longer than L3, with ~65 enemies. Tested on VoidSW.

Downloads: mega.nz/folder/8CJ3hAaD#XtG27k3BKEOiHEzSKBKUeg

Here are a few comparison screenshots.

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E1L3

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[Robman]

tiles.cfg (8.15 KB)
ws_e1l3.zip (49.77 KB)

Welcome to the forum! Great to see another SW mapper around here, heck it's nice just to see some new posts here and congrats on finally pushing this forum to 100 registered users! Considering this forum in its current form has been up for 16 years, that's pretty sad lol.

I remember perusing the beta and shareware files and poking around in this one, there was a time I wanted to restore all the beta/share maps to retail v1.2 usability but after "completing" just 1 of them, that was enough for me lol, I added that map to my SWC20 add-on but I must say it's one of my least favorites that I've done. Lots of share/beta maps can at times be left up to the current map maker to guess how the map was to flow and function as in some iterations, the coding/tagging system was different.

I've added your files here to the forum for redundancy and will add your map to the "New Maps made after 2010" section of the SWC website soon.

[Whirledtsar]

Hi Robman. I plan to do the remaining maps in the 95-09 beta except for the one that eventually became Monastery (since 3DR already finished it). This one was pretty unfinished and needed a lot of my own ideas. But the next one is in a more complete state so it doesnt need as much added. Which map did you do for your addon?

[Whirledtsar]

Download updated (same link). Just added some more detailing and a few more enemies for NPNG masochists.

[Whirledtsar]

There is now a second map available at the same download link. When theyre all complete, Ill package them as an episode. But for now youll have to do katana start. You are a true ninja, right?

[Robman]

Here's my add-on link - swcentral.weebly.com/swc20.html

Here's the vid for the beta map I "finished" :

Feb 15, 2021 0:33:55 GMT -5 Whirledtsar said:

You are a true ninja, right?

Ah, Shyeah!

[Whirledtsar]

Looks cool. I havent seen that map before. This project will only cover the levels from the 95-09 beta: tcrf.net/Proto:Shadow_Warrior_(1997)/Prototype_1995-09-08#Levels