Holy Hell you guys! The new updated DOOM for the snes is about to go on sale from our bois over at Limited Run.

Check it out, standard gives you a box, game manual and even a cool poster for $100.

but the collector's edition gives you all that and a certificate of authenticity for $175! (new rumble controller not included)

What you think about this? Worth getting?

LRG is trash, and anyone who buys anything marketed by the manufacturer as a collectible is a rube.

>limited fun

>>11860041 (OP)
The FPS in this version is so bad that you can die just trying to turn around lol. Whoever pays $100+ schmeckles on this is a fucking moron

this is my impression of LRG

I think you should buy an ad.

>>11860046
>>11860057
Looked up a video
Looks like this is one that they actually did well
>>11860072
It's a new version fixed by the original guy with a Super FX 3
fixed music and framerate, resolution is still pretty low though

>>11860486
>Super FX 3
should say "Super FX 3"

>>11860041 (OP)
>14 new levels
Which are?

>>11860567
The ones that were removed in the original SNES game I believe

>>11860486
Apparently the Super FX 3 is a raspberry pi
>it has since been revealed that this chip is, in reality, a Raspberry Pi RP2350B
https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/07/developer-of-snes-doom-defends-the-tech-behind-limited-runs-2025-update
Randy says that it only runs some of the code though

>>11860595
it's one of the microcontrollers, not the same as the full fledged desktop pi boards
>>11860041 (OP)
this looks genuinely awesome and hopefully won't just be crapped out and glued together when it goes into full production

>>11860632
Yeah it's not a full raspberry pi. Just when I read Super FX 3 I thought it was something from the 90s but it's actually a modern chip. I don't care really, but I could see why some people might, because it's more impressive when people do these updated games using the same hardware from back then and not new stuff.

>>11860681
I couldn't care either but isn't it the equivalent of putting a NUC in a SNES shell ?

I would've liked to see him remake a SNES rom for a SuperFX 2 chip (flashcart compatible) using Doom's actual source code. His own engine is rendering the game with polygons and I feel like that slows everything down rather than using the SuperFX like running Doom in software.

>>11860694
I'm pretty sure it's just doing some extra calculations to make the new features work, maybe freeing up some space for the new levels, but it's still the same Doom as before

>limited scam

>>11860632
>hopefully won't just be crapped out and glued together when it goes into full production
If the PCB's they've sent out to people are anything to go by, looks like they've actually put effort into the quality

>>11860694
No, it's the equivelant of a flash cart pretending to be one of the expansions chips
You can see the PCB's on youtube

>>11860784
>If the PCB's they've sent out to people are anything to go by
It's not. Wouldn't be the first time reciewers get a higher quality product to bait the actual paying customers into buying way overpriced crap.

>>11860041 (OP)
>certificate of authenticity
wow, authentic garbage

>>11861136
Yea like what? They are charging 75 for a certificate and a cart cover swap?

Obviously this isn’t for me but how do our Doom friends feel about it, if say someone gifted it to you or whatever?

I'll be forever thankful to Randy for his bleem work (esp. bleemcast), but I don't own a SNES nor do I support LRG. Glad to see he's still "in the scene" I guess.

>>11860595
So it basically just has the ARM SoC of a Raspberry Pi emulating an overclocked FX in software? Lame, literally not even Everdrive tier.

>>11860681
There was never a FX3, and the FX was a proprietary Nintendo chip, so there is no way they would be able to get their hands on them anyway unless they gutted existing games which many would be against them doing.

I wasn't expecting them to be able to fabricate their own ASIC, but I was hoping for at least a FPGA implementation like most higher end flashcarts do. Especially at the prices they are charging. Software emulation with a Pi SoC is laughably lame and not worth the price.

>>11860694
Sounds like the chip is emulating just the equivalent of an overclocked FX chip, not running the entire game on the SoC and just outputting the video to the SNES like that Doom on NES cart did. If they were doing that they could run the game at a much higher res and framerate, but you would also basically just be running the game on a Pi in an overly expensive manner.

>>11860721
I highly doubt it has anything to do with freeing up space, this isn't the early 90s anymore, we can easily stuff gigs of data into a SNES cart now if we wanted to.

>>11860784
That means nothing, they can easily fabricate higher-end PCBs or cherry-pick the best ones to send out to reviewers and then send out lower quality junk to the masses. It's why any reviewer that has a shred of integrity and has gotten big does not use their actual name/address when ordering something to review it, especially if they suspect something like this could be going on or to review it for defects.

>>11861136
Yeah, woopee, a piece of cardboard that says "This person owns a real cart", as if that can't easily be replicated too, or anyone would even give a shit to. Not like a major corporation like Nintendo is making these, if LRG can make this "certificate" anyone can copy it.

>>11861193
>So it basically just has the ARM SoC of a Raspberry Pi emulating an overclocked FX in software?
Is that even possible through a SNES cart that still uses ROM, wouldn't that need some sort of OS and more than just the SOC?
I would assume it's set up like FPGA

>>11861197
>That means nothing, they can easily fabricate higher-end PCBs or cherry-pick the best ones to send out to reviewers
I don't think that's how it will be, at least for a first run

>>11861214
>Is that even possible through a SNES cart that still uses ROM, wouldn't that need some sort of OS and more than just the SOC?
Well yes, it's not just going to be the bare chip connected to the ROM and have it somehow know it needs to emulate a FX chip, there is likely a flashrom with a very minimal bootrom/kernel on it that it just enough to boot the chip into that emulator state. Would not be the first time, I recall seeing such RPi replacements for the SID chip on Commodore64s and other devices.

That's still not a FPGA though, it's just emulating it in software.

>>11861220
Why not? It not like corporations have not done that many times in the past.

I think its cool Randy Linton worked on the pronect. Not really sure if I’m gonna get a copy, but I like playing weird ports of doom so I might.

>>11860041 (OP)
I can play Doom while taking a shit, this isn't as impressive as it would be in the 90s.

fuck you and limited run too, faggot.

>>11860041 (OP)
>$100 for a game that's been free for 30 years
lol

What kind of idiot would expends money with that?
>>11861154
>and a cart cover swap
Which isn't even red

>>11860041 (OP)
Golly gee, only $100 to play a shitty version of a game legendary for being able to run on literally anything with a screen and two transistors to rub together. Buy an ad faggot

>>11860569
How fucking pointless.

>>11861154
I posted my thoughts about it here: >>11861294 ... and here: >>11861431

Randy's a cool guy, but this project really doesn't feel like it has all that much reason to exist (at least not as a commercial product), and I have no trust or confidence in Limited Run Games.

>>11864675
>but this project really doesn't feel like it has all that much reason to exist
It's Doom anon, barely any of its ports have any reason to exist

>>11864730
Yeah, but they aren't for money. Some dude didn't go and redo 32X Doom to make it not suck because he thought it would be a profitable venture, he just thought it'd be cool to see how good you could actually make Doom run on the thing with enough effort and time.
Hell, I'm assuming that this is probably Linden's own perspective on this, but LRG being the ones doing it just poisons it.

Like, if this was just "Hey, I did this, go try it on your flashcarts or Raspberry Pi's, and here's how you could make your own if you want to and you're technically inclined." it'd be one thing, but you just KNOW that LRG are gonna make sure to shit the bed with these cartridges, and for a premium.

this seems extremely niche. the original was the poverty version of Doom

how many will sell?

>>11864785
not too many
>>11864779
right, but this is officially licensed

>>11860041 (OP)
i thought at first this was a compilation of multiple versions. What a shitty ass way of waste your money, in fact i actually would rather spend 100 bucks on the poster alone

>>11864675
Yea looks like lrg seem super shady. Any idea how their port of red faction to the ps4 went?

>>11864785
>how many will sell?
It's LRG so it'll sell out then be stuck in production hell for a year or two.

>>11860041 (OP)
LRG is such a fucking scam

It's a cool "what if" project, but I would still rather just play the original SNES Doom IF I wanted to play Doom on the SNES. No matter what they do, it's still just going to be Doom but shittier, so trying to improve it strips away more of that unique shittiness of the original. It isn't like, say, PlayStation Doom which has some unique styling and elements which aren't just objectively worse than the PC version.

>>11866716
It is still 100% Doom on SNES, just with way better performance