About Doom 2's Soundtrack
Overview
Like the first game, Doom 2's music was composed by Robert Prince[1]. However, doom2.wad arranges its data in a more complicated fashion. Unlike the original layout, which used a D_ExMy pattern that was easy to follow, doom2.wad names its Lumps after the title of the song and the number of times it's appeared in the game so far.
In other words, instead of looking for D_MAP01 to find the music for the first level, you need to know to look for D_RUNNIN. This unorthodox approach doesn't seem to have bothered WAD authors, but it's definitely not intuitive.
The Lump names for each song, their titles[2], their associated level code, and their SHA-256 hashes are found in the table below. The hashes are probably more important than the rest, as they'll be used to identify tracks in fan made WADs.
| Level | Lump | Song Title | SHA-256 Hash |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAP01 | D_RUNNIN | Running From Evil | |
| MAP02 | D_STALKS | The Healer Stalks | |
| MAP03 | D_COUNTD | Countdown to Death | |
| MAP04 | D_BETWEE | Between Levels | |
| MAP05 | D_DOOM | DOOM | |
| MAP06 | D_THE_DA | In the Dark | |
| MAP07 | D_SHAWN | Shawn's Got the Shotgun[3] | |
| MAP08 | D_DDTBLU | The Dave D. Taylor Blues[4] | |
| MAP09 | D_IN_CIT | Into Sandy's City[5] | |
| MAP10 | D_DEAD | The Demon's Dead | |
| MAP11 | D_STLKS2 | The Healer Stalks | |
| MAP12 | D_THEDA2 | In the Dark | |
| MAP13 | D_DOOM2 | DOOM | |
| MAP14 | D_DDTBL2 | The Dave D. Taylor Blues | |
| MAP15 | D_RUNNI2 | Running From Evil | |
| MAP16 | D_DEAD2 | The Demon's Dead | |
| MAP17 | D_STLKS3 | The Healer Stalks | |
| MAP18 | D_ROMERO | Waiting for Romero to Play[6] | |
| MAP19 | D_SHAWN2 | Shawn's Got the Shotgun | |
| MAP20 | D_MESSAG | Message for the Archvile | |
| MAP21 | D_COUNT2 | Countdown to Death | |
| MAP22 | D_DDTBL3 | The Dave D. Taylor Blues | |
| MAP23 | D_AMPIE | Bye Bye American Pie[7] | |
| MAP24 | D_THEDA3 | In the Dark | |
| MAP25 | D_ADRIAN | Adrian's Asleep[8] | |
| MAP26 | D_MESSG2 | Message for the Archvile | |
| MAP27 | D_ROMER2 | Waiting for Romero to Play | |
| MAP28 | D_TENSE | Getting too Tense | |
| MAP29 | D_SHAWN3 | Shawn's Got the Shotgun | |
| MAP30 | D_OPENIN | Opening to Hell | |
| MAP31 | D_EVIL | Evil Incarnate | |
| MAP32 | D_ULTIMA | The Ultimate Conquest | |
| - | D_DM2INT | Untitled[9] | |
| - | D_DM2TTL | Untitled[10] | |
| - | D_READ_M | Untitled[11] |
Additional Notes
- 1. As listed in Doom 2's credit screen.
- 2. Sourced from John Romero's Doom Credits Page.
- 3. A reference to Shawn Green, who did some of the programming and level design.
- 4. A reference to Dave Tayor, a programmer who worked on Doom and Doom 2.
- 5. A reference to Sandy Petersen, who designed many if not most of the levels in Doom and Doom 2.
- 6. A reference to John Romero, co-founder of id Software and an extremely well known game developer.
- 7. This title is a reference to American Pie, a very well known pop song.
- 8. A reference to Adrian Carmack, an artist and a co-founder of id Software.
- 9. This is the title screen's music.
- 10. This plays during the text only intermission screens.
- 11. This is heard when viewing the help menu.