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Utility for converting a Doom IWAD into a format for GBA Doom.

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Utility to process Doom IWAD files for GBA Doom.

It can write either a new WAD file and/or a C Source file.

This is required to reduce the memory footprint of some of the data structures in Doom to get it to fit in 256Kb.

We will pre-calculate more fields so that the lumps stored in the WAD can be used directly from the ROM rather than having to load and convert them in memory.

For example:

In the WAD file a vertex is stored as two short values. (X and Y). When it is loaded into memory, it is shifted left by 16 to convert to 16.16 fixed point. By re-writing this lump and storing it in fixed point, we do not need to copy this into memory at runtime.

Usage: GbaWadUtil -in iwad_file_path -out gba_iwad_path -cfile iwad_cfile_path.

I plan to add PWAD support so that an IWAD and 1 or more PWADS can be converted to a GBA IWAD.

It is a command line util so it can be integrated into a build process.

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