DOOM Retro is intentionally minimalist in its approach, and so it does a few things differently
 if compared with other modern DOOM source ports. Open the ¥ DOOM Retro Wiki for details.

DOOM Retro v5.8.2 is now available to download as either a 32 or 64-bit Windows app. Here’s a list of what’s changed since the last version:

• DOOM Retro is now built using v18.1.0 of Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2026.
• Minor changes have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• Minor changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
• When changing a CVAR in the console, a message is now displayed indicating that the CVAR has been changed and what it was previously.
• The values of color CVARs in the console, shown either by entering a CVAR individually or by using the cvarlist CCMD, are now shown with a colored background.
• A new palette CCMD has been implemented that will display a table of all 256 colors in the current palette.
• The spawn CCMD now still tries to spawn things anywhere around the player if there isn’t enough space directly in front of them.
• Minor improvements have been made to the colors used for the DOOM Retro logo in the console when the edge color is bright.
• These changes have been made to the support of DEHACKED lumps:
  • The trail of smoke behind rockets fired by the player and cyberdemons when the r_rockettrails CVAR is on now appear if thing 149 and/or its accompanying states are replaced.
  • A bug is fixed whereby the execution of certain codepointers could be repeated in the same tic in some rare instances.
• Navigating to E1M0, E2M0 and MAP99 in Legacy Of Rust using the map CCMD or IDCLEV cheat has been fixed.
• These improvements have been made to the support of DBIGFONT lumps:
  • Black pixels are no longer translucent.
  • ON/OFF and HIGH/LOW now appear in the options menu.
• A bug is fixed whereby music wouldn’t be played in some rare instances when extras.wad was autoloaded.
• The screen now always clears to black at startup.
• A bug is fixed whereby certain player’s stats would become invalid when a monster is resurrected.
• The default values of the crosshaircolor and am_crosshaircolor CVARs are now correct.
• Improvements have been made to the position of the STTMINUS lump in the status bar and widescreen HUD when the player is dead and the negativehealth CVAR is on.
• The map title and author in the automap are now always truncated correctly when the r_screensize CVAR is 8.