Open WAD files in your browser
The file Doom keeps its maps, pictures, sounds and music in, and every Doom mod comes in. Open one right here to see each map drawn and hear its music. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your file opens like a folder, its files listed on the left, with a page beside them on what it is and what it holds.
- Listed like a folder • Unpacks only what you pick
- A page on what it is • From its own manifest or index
- Pictures, sounds and text • Each opens in its viewer
- Export • Save as ZIP or Extract all
About WAD
Doom, made by id Software in 1993, keeps everything in a WAD: the whole game in an IWAD, like DOOM2.WAD, and a mod's maps and graphics in a PWAD loaded over it. Heretic, Hexen, Strife and Freedoom use the same format, and Quake and Half-Life named their texture files WAD too.
A WAD is a list of lumps, each an 8 letter name, an offset and a size. A map is its marker lump, like MAP01 or E1M1, then its things, lines, sides, vertices and sectors. Pictures are drawn in the WAD's palette, PLAYPAL, sounds are DMX samples and music is MUS, Doom's own MIDI.
Filepeek names the game by its lumps and draws every map with its monsters, items and secrets at each skill, and a map opens as a picture of its own, drawn as the automap shows it. Pictures open in the WAD's palette as PNGs, sounds play as WAV and music as MIDI. A Quake or Half-Life WAD shows its textures, and a Wii WAD what title it is, never decrypted.
Doom WAD file
.wad
Format
- MIME type
- application/x-doom-wad
- Made by
- id Software
- Released
- 1993
Inside the file
- Directory
- Lumps, each with an 8 letter name
- Maps
- Doom, Hexen or UDMF
- Pictures
- In the WAD's own palette
- Sound
- DMX samples, and MUS or MIDI music
Opens in every browser
No browser opens a WAD: they download it. Filepeek opens it as a folder with its maps in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Questions
How do I see what's in a Doom WAD?
Drop it on this page or choose Peek a WAD. Its lumps are sorted into maps, graphics, sprites, flats, textures, sounds and music, with a page beside them on each map.
Can I see a map without playing it?
Yes. Every map is drawn on the WAD's page with what it holds at each skill, and opens on its own as the automap shows it, sectors shaded by their light.
Can I hear its music?
Yes. MUS music plays as MIDI, through the same sounds as a MIDI file, and sound effects play as WAV.
Does it open Quake and Half-Life WADs?
Yes. WAD2 and WAD3 files, Quake's and Half-Life's textures, open as a folder of pictures.
Is my WAD uploaded?
No. It opens inside your browser and never leaves your device.