AM2RLauncher VS RBDOOM-3-BFG

You'll need a copy of the unaltered last official release ver. 1.1 (Google=Friend), and the AM2R Launcher. The Launcher will automagically update the official release with all community updates.

https://github.com/AM2R-Community-Developers/AM2RLauncher)

There's endless freeware PC games I recommend for people with low spec builds especially like Iji, Cave Story (fuck Nicalis, and download the NXEngine-evo version), and a million and one RPGMaker games like Yume Nikki. There's also really great fangames like Jojo 7th Stand User, Pokémon Infinite Fusion, AM2R, Power Bomberman, and don't get me started on Sonic fangames but a recent one that's fantastic and unique is Sonic and the Fallen Star.

If the error has "libgit" anywhere: known issue that was recently fixed in dev builds. https://github.com/AM2R-Community-Developers/AM2RLauncher/issues/40

For AM2R there's a bit of a trick.

https://github.com/AM2R-Community-Developers/AM2RLauncher/releases/tag/2.3.0 you should be running am2r thru the launcher and update it to ver 1.5.5, only complication is I think you might need a zip of 1.1 to “reinstall” the game.

We *do* have Mac am2rlauncher builds, but they're not ready yet and need a lot of testing / further improvements. If you'd like to help with that, feel free to join on discord/matrix/xmpp and ask on any channel. The tldr; last time i checked is tho, that you need xdelta3 installed via homebrew, download the am2rlauncher release from the actions (https://github.com/AM2R-Community-Developers/AM2RLauncher/actions/workflows/build-and-publish.yml , you need to be logged into github in order to see them) and then run them the launcher from a terminal with "open /path/to/am2rlauncher.app" iirc.

I am currently in the progress of getting a Mac build of the AM2RLauncher released too, but it currently still needs a bunch of things fixed. WIP builds can be downloaded (you need to be logged into GitHub) here: https://github.com/AM2R-Community-Developers/AM2RLauncher/actions/runs/4047592654

RBDoom3bfg, same thing, but for the BFG edition.

On the other hand BFG edition supports 120Hz rendering and has some great gamepad support. However the "shoulder lamp" and some tweaked brighter lighting destroys the game's atmosphere IMO while some textures and lights appear worse. I'd still recommend it if you liked the original game, but perhaps also play it with RBDoomBFG and its GI datapak - it introduced PBR shaders and changes the lighting considerably, but the game wasn't designed for that so i'd recommend it only for a second playthrough (you can disable most of the effects but even then it still looks off). The official BFG edition is closer to the original Doom 3 but still has its own issues so unless you want 120Hz rendering and/or gamepad support, i'd still recommend the original (with Dhewm3). Also note that the original BFG edition doesn't allow you to skip cutscenes which is annoying for a second playthrough.

BFG has better out of the box support, but both versions are open source and as such the community has made source ports for both of them to the point they are essentially equivalent and you only pick the one with the features you want the most, last time I played was using BFG because RBDOOM3 added support for PBR so the game isn't so absurdly dark but your mileage may vary and may prefer dhewm3's more faithful experience using the original release