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Yeah I noticed the preview pic was pre-Sigil II but I've seen other posts about the episode menu made after Sigil II, and it all still fit.

It actually just barely still fit after adding in the episodes from the Master Levels, so I ended up doing a little futzing with the menudef after all. I changed the spacing to 16, which I just think looks nicer, and ended up changing the menu position so it looks more centered. Only thing it bumped into the "Which Episode?" patch so I moved that up into the negatives, which turns out as soon as it's negative anything it just shoots up to the top of screen. A little weird, but whatever I guess.

This is the menu after setting the title patch to 50, -1 and the position of the menu itself to 30, 0:

I'm not... super happy that I can't seem to make the title patch go a little lower? But when you're dealing with such a huge list of episodes you do kinda need to make sure you have plenty of room for them all. I could just get rid of the "Which Episode?" heading altogether, it's not like what this menu is for is going to confuse anyone who plays it (just me), and technically most of them aren't really "episodes" under the Doom 1 definition anwyas.

Quake 1 technically has more episodes but you select them from those in-world introduction maps, so even the remastered version doesn't need to cram as much crap onto the screen as I'm trying to do. Considering the all of that I don't think it looks too bad.

I'm on the fence about keeping that custom, not all caps version of the Sigil 2 patch. I made the author-defined ML episodes white to match the box art because I thought it would look cool and since Sigil is already doing the Nightmare font thing I might as well add in a little personality for other stuff too. I mean to this day retail releases only ever treat Master Levels out of the box as 20 individual wads or an single episode, and neither of those approaches actually reflects what the handful of maps with an actual plot are about, so they've always sort of stood apart from the other episodes in that way.

But at this point it's all just fiddling around, the actual problem I was having is solved. So WadSmoosh rules. Now if I can just figure out how to swap between the Sigil soundtracks without having to close and reopen GZDoom I'll have the perfect iwad...

Yep, simple as that, thank you!

I scrolled through all the comments going back to page one, and like I said I did an option search for "menu," so I felt pretty confident I tried everything I could find... but also the answer was always just going to be something I overlooked somehow, wasn't it?

Either way, thanks for helping me find it!

I don't understand what's happening with the episode selection menu. You never mention it at all yet the preview pic is nice and legible with all episodes up to Sigil displayed properly. Of course Sigil II is out now so the list is even longer, but nobody here seems to have much of an issue with that.

There are two posts of other people having issues with the menu selection, one was from a custom version that didn't use the ForceList thing in the Menudef, so not really applicable to me. The other had my exact same issue.

From user Kthulhu:

The response to that came from debridmax87 which simply suggested going into the wad and changing the line spacing. Which... okay, first of all, if that was the actual solution then why the hell is it mentioned nowhere in your readme? This isn't some shoddy fly by night thing you've got going here, WadSmoosh is quality, and your readme's and the like are extremely comprehensive, but nowhere do you mention "oh and also the episodes aren't gonna fit so after you run this program I wrote to specifically do everything for you automatically you actually need to do something yourself not automatically." That doesn't make any sense. Why would it be like that? This can't be the correct answer. Nevertheless, having no other options, I tried it, and...

...it just squished everything together. Predictably, maybe, but this is ugly, and more to the point it doesn't look like the preview image which means I've done something wrong, this isn't the intended fix, and nobody else is having these problems which means there's some sort of obvious thing I've overlooked or maybe it's like a secret or something. But then it gets worse. While that other post I mentioned isn't applicable to me because I'm just trying to get the doom_complete.pk3 out of the box to display the episodes correctly, Vorpal Void comes in with the answer about using ForceList and shares this image:

WHAT?! Holy hell, if my menu looked like THAT it would solve my ACTUAL problem of wanting to fit the Master Levels episodes in there, which would add another option for Dr. Sleep's Inferno, Cabal, and Titan. And this screen here has plenty of space for that, but it doesn't look like your preview screenshot and it doesn't look like my episode menu either.

I intuited that the solution has to be some sort of resolution thing, right? If it was something hardcoded into the Menudef itself you would 1. have mentioned it and 2. more than two people would have brought it up by now. But what options need to be changed? I cannot stress enough that I have tried *every* one of them that I could find, even the ones that didn't seem to make any difference at all and I didn't understand what they meant to begin with. The only things that seemed really relevant or to have much of an affect on anything were all inside the Set Video Mode options, and if all you wanted to do was adjust the display of the gameplay itself those all clearly change things... but not a single damn one of them changes the resolution of the menus. The only thing useful I did find was by searching for "menu" in the option search and getting rid of that yellow tint that covers the screen when you open the menu.

Am I taking crazy pills? What's going on here? Honestly at this point I've considered making my own episode name graphics that are like... what, 5 pixels high?! Will that help? Or maybe just taking away the ForceList and just having it display regular text? And I don't really want to do either of those things but like I don't know that I have any other options. Can someone let me in on this secret knowledge?