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                        FOOTBALL! A new game for Doom2!
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                      created by DENIS Fabrice aka DeF-46!


                    Visit the -Leprechaun doom- Web site at:


                   HTTP://student.ulb.ac.be/~bpereira/leprech

                          (opened since June, 1, 1997!)

                  Mainly ORIGINAL creations, other quality patch,
                levels, games like Football and mid-air jousting,
                  cool demos, utility to record/playback demos,
                 and other fresh goodies for the real doom fans!




CONTENTS
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 + Installation
 + Notes
 + Gameplay
 + Additional notes about the Installation
 + Desinstallation
 + What's new?
 + Contact the Authors




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INSTALLATION
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The FOOTBALL game for DOOM2 needs an EXE patch. That means that a copy
of your DOOM2.EXE will be done, and ONLY the copy will be patched.

To install the FOOTBALL patch, unzip the archive into an SUBDIRECTORY of
your Doom2 directory, say like 'FOOT'.

Then run the INSTALL.BAT from this directory. The first time you run the
install, it will create the FOOTBALL EXE patch.

   ALWAYS RUN THE INSTALL FROM THE SUBDIRECTORY!

Once this is done, you activate/deactivate the FOOTBALL patch as many
times as you want, using the install batch but remember:

   ALWAYS ACTIVATE THE FOOTBALL PATCH TO PLAY THE FOOTBALL WAD !!

When you add the FOOTBALL.WAD to the WAD list in DM, or your preferred
deathmatch launcher, just add the name of the subdirectory before like:

    'FOOT\FOOTBALL.WAD'

This way, all the files stay in the subdir, it's clean, it's simple!


That's all for the quick-n-easy install!


If you have downloaded other patches by the same author (like Leprechaun)
you don't need to uninstall one to install the other!



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NOTES
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Please note that this level is NOT FINISHED, but I wanted to release it
for the opening of the -Leprechaun doom- Web site in June 1997.

There's still lots of design to do, but the game's there!




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GAMEPLAY
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Remember to activate the FOOTBALL patch before playing the FOOTBALL wad!

The patch changes the 'mass' of the player, so that when you fire on the
other guy, he moves back much more than normal.

2 or 4 players are required, if you are 4, then there are 2 players per
team of course!

If you are 3, then record a demo, and the 3rd guy will stand on the side
of the terrain, and 'film' the action like a cameraman!


The rest is simple, choose your side, BLUE or RED, then pickup the DOUBLE
SHOTGUN at the center of the terrain.

To score a goal, you have to 'push' a guy of the opposite team into the
goal, use the DOUBLE SHOTGUN and try to aim in the right angle!


You must kill the other guy, so that his dead body can enter the goal!


When a dead guy enter into a goal, it activates a 'switch' and you'll see
skulls at the side of the goals. Count the number of skulls for the points.


The first team who scores five skulls of HIS COLOR (BLUE team = BLUE skulls)
win the game!


I have lost the demos that I have made, so you'll have to see it for
yourself at your next deathmatch 'party'...



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ADDITIONAL NOTES ABOUT THE INSTALLATION
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About the way the install works:

   DM (DeathManager!) will only execute DOOM.EXE or DOOM2.EXE, whatever it
   finds in the Doom directory.

   By using the option 1-'Install', you effectively make a copy of the
   FOOTBALL EXE patch under the name 'doom.exe', and Doom2.exe is
   temporary renamed to DOOOM2.exe (with 3 o's).

   This way, the FOOTBALL EXE patch will be used by DM.

   Using the option 2-'Uninstall', will simply rename DoooM2.exe to the
   original Doom2.exe and delete the file 'doom.exe'. DM will then use the
   original Doom2 Exe.


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DESINSTALLATION
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If for some very strange reason you want to remove completely the patch
from your hardrive, it is very simple.

First, run the install and select option 2, this will remove doom.exe
from your Doom2 directory, and restore Doom2.exe.

Second, just delete the subdirectory where you have unzipped the stuff!

And voila!


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WHAT's NEW?
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Nothing!

This patch was never released before, this is the first version.

There's still a lot of work to do in this level, like :

  - design the level so that it looks more like a real football terrain.
  - change the dbl shotgun fire sound to the sound of someone shooting
    in the balloon.
  - change the ugly skull posts into neat pannels with digits!
    (like in the watertag deathtag level)
  - plus some texturing...


Soooo check out from time to time on the web site for updates!





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CONTACT THE AUTHORS
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    Send your suggestions/comments! We want to know if there are
    still enough DOOM FANS out there to invest our time creating
    other levels and patches!


    Contact by e-mail: BORIS Pereira, maintainer of the web site,
                 and   FABRICE Denis, creator of the patch,
                  at   bpereira@ulb.ac.be


May -31- 1997.

