DOOM Retro v5.0.3 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:

• Further improvements have been made when toggling widescreen using the + and – keys while the menu is open.
• Minor improvements have been made to the help screen shown when pressing the F1 key.
• A crash no longer occurs when moving the mouse while the help screen is open.
• A bug is fixed whereby some elements in the menu would only cast their shadow on the left side of the screen in some instances.
• A warning is now displayed in the console if a savegame couldn’t be deleted in the save or load game menus when pressing the DEL key.

DOOM Retro v5.0.2 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:

• Minor changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
• The values of all CVARs that have been changed from their defaults are now highlighted when entering the cvarlist CCMD in the console.
• Pressing the ENTER key now closes the console if nothing has been typed in.
• These changes have been made to voodoo dolls:
  • They now move at the correct speed when on very slow scrolling floors.
  • The angle they face no longer changes once they teleport.
• A bug is fixed whereby the BFG-9000’s secondary projectiles would fire off in the wrong direction in some instances.
• The english CVAR now uses a value of british rather than international.
• Several improvements have been made to translating certain words when the english CVAR is british.
• Gibbed corpses now gib even more when reacting to further splash damage if the r_corpses_gib CVAR is on.
• The vertical position of an arch-vile’s shadow when the r_shadows CVAR is on has improved.
• A crash no longer occurs when pressing certain keys while the help screen is open.
• The player’s health, armor and ammo in the alternate widescreen HUD will now quickly count up from zero when entering a map if the animatedstats CVAR is on.
• A bug is fixed whereby the melee attack of monsters specified in DEHACKED lumps wouldn’t work if they used thing types 150 to 249.
• The vertical positions of the text on the intermission screen have improved.
• The vertical positions of the monsters’ shadows in DOOM II’s cast sequence have improved when the r_shadows CVAR is on.

DOOM Retro v5.0.1 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:

• A crash no longer occurs when loading a savegame from a DSDHacked-compatible WAD.
• A bug is fixed whereby no music or sound effects would play when opening DOOM Retro for the first time after installing it.
• Panning around the automap using a controller’s left thumbstick when the am_followmode CVAR is off now works as intended.
• These changes have been made when playing Smooth DOOM MBF21:
  • Bullet casings no longer disappear and leave blood splats on the floor.
  • Blood splats now appear around corpses spawned at the start of a map when the r_corpses_moreblood CVAR is on.
• The savegame CVAR is now:
  • Updated when deleting a savegame in the save or load game menus using the DEL key.
  • No longer updated if the player cancels entering a savegame description in the save game menu.
• A bug is fixed whereby WADs placed in the autoload folder were causing a “W_GetNumForName: PLAYPAL not found!” error at startup.