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Facing off with mutants in MAP06: Digi-Ota.

HacX (pronounced "hacks") is a total conversion for Doom II. It was created by Banjo Software in 1997, and featured an entirely new set of graphics. HacX uses a DeHackEd modified version of the Doom engine and the authors of HacX paid id Software $5,000 for the rights to market HacX as a commercial add-on for Doom II.

HacX itself was generally unsuccessful; by the time it was released, the superior Quake engine that had just come out made the Doom engine pale in comparison. Public interest for Doom and games derived from it was, effectively, dead; even though HacX was considered a decent TC, it arrived on the market too late to become a success.

HacX was originally priced at $14.95 on a CD-ROM, and $20.95 on diskettes. The sprites and other graphics from HacX have been reused in many other TCs/PCs since, although Banjo Software has forbidden the use of its graphics in other WADs.

Development started on a sequel, but it failed due to a number of problems.

HacX is now being distributed for free on its website kept online by Rich Johnston (Nostromo), one of the developers. The HacX CD is considered to be extremely rare.

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[edit] Notable figures

Despite the game's commercial failure, some of its creators have since become successful and relatively well-known professional game developers. Iikka "Fingers" Keränen went on to work at Looking Glass, ION Storm, Ritual Entertainment, Rogue Entertainment and most recently, Valve Software. Kenneth Scott has since worked as an artist at Xatrix Entertainment, Croteam, ION and id Software, and currently works for Microsoft Game Studios.

[edit] 2.0

In November 2008, Nostromo declared on the HacX homepage that a new version of HacX is being made. The comment stated:

Believe or not, after nearly 10 years since Hacx has been released, a version 2.0 is currently in production! As many of you may have noticed, the original game was released as, shall we say, a not quite complete product. This was due to the fact that we had to rush it to the market before the Quake engine came out ...not that it made any difference, unfortunately.

Recently, I was contacted by an individual that goes by the online name of Xaser who was real excited about making a complete version for the ZDoom engine. He provided an updated script for all the maps and, based on his awesome enthusiasm and remarkable reworking of the script, I gave him the go ahead to build away. He is currently workin on some maps and building a team.

[edit] Weapons

[edit] Monsters

[edit] Levels

First "episode":

Second "episode":

Third "episode":

Final "episode":

[edit] Cheat codes

The cheat codes for HacX are different from the ones in the original Doom. [1]

  • wuss - toggles God mode
  • blast - keys, all weapons, full armor and ammo
  • zap - taser
  • seeit - power-up menu
  • superman - toggle temporary invincibility
  • whacko - berserk
  • ghost - toggle temporary partial invisibility
  • boots - toggles boots
  • bright - toggles light amplifiers
  • walk - toggles clipping
  • warpme## - jump to level ##
  • wheream - shows coordinates
  • show - toggle map detail
  • tunes## - change music to level ##

[edit] External links

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