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No Rest for the Living is the title of the new Doom II expansion set developed by Nerve Software for the release of Doom II on the XBLA.

Episode

The episode consists of nine levels in all. As Doom II did not have episodes per se calling No Rest for the Living an episode is technically a misnomer. The new maps are a separate selectable campaign at the inception of the game, in a fashion similar to Doom's episode selection. Selecting "Hell on Earth" propels the player into the classic 32 map Doom II campaign, whereas selecting "No Rest for the Living" starts the new 9 map addition.

According to Nerve Software boss Brandon James the expansion set "continues on Earth after Hell's forces have [seemingly] been vanquished".

Levels

Level 1: The Earth Base
Level 2: The Pain Labs
Level 3: Canyon of the Dead
Level 4: Hell Mountain (Exit to secret level - Found behind the blood waterfall is a teleporter, takes you to the red skull key. Take the teleporter there and back to the level, climb the small mound with the skull switch which will open a door ahead, in UV a cacodemon is inside and some demons. Enter and open secret door on the right by the candles, flick switch to open door to the left. Flick another switch to open a door beside the first switch and lowers bars. Go through and hit that switch and then back to the 2nd switch and turn left up the stairs, lower the lift and sprint across to the secret exit before the wall shuts again. If you fail, go back on the lift again and try once more - Silrath)
Level 5: Vivisection
Level 6: Inferno of Blood
Level 7: Baron's Banquet
Level 8: Tomb of Malevolence
Level 9: March of the Demons (Secret level)

Playing on PC

The Episode is implemented as a PWAD which can be extracted if you own the XBLA version and a USB stick.

Copy the Arcade Game to a USB stick on the Xbox 360
Get the Xtaf USB Explorer
Connect the USB stick to your PC
Use the Open Disk menu option
Locate the 32MB large DOOM2:XBLA file and Extract it to Disc
Open the extracted file with wxPirs
Extract a file called Doom2.disk (This Contains all relevant Game Data)
Open Doom2.disk with a Hex editor and search for the string PWAD
Extract everything from PWAD to the last SECTORMAP string you can find after that
Save this data to D2_NRFTL.WAD and use it with the source port of your choice

Please not that the secret exit of level 4 will not put you to Level 9, maybe somebody will make a zdoom MAPINFO for that later on.

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 * [[MAP02: The Pain Labs (No Rest for the Living)|Level 2: The Pain Labs]]
 * [[MAP03: Canyon of the Dead (No Rest for the Living)|Level 3: Canyon of the Dead]]
+* [[MAP04: Hell Mountain (No Rest for the Living)|Level 4: Hell Mountain]] ''(Exit to secret level - Found behind the blood waterfall is a teleporter, takes you to the red skull key. Take the teleporter there and back to the level, climb the small mound with the skull switch which will open a door ahead, in UV a cacodemon is inside and some demons. Enter and open secret door on the right by the candles, flick switch to open door to the left. Flick another switch to open a door beside the first switch and lowers bars. Go through and hit that switch and then back to the 2nd switch and turn left up the stairs, lower the lift and sprint across to the secret exit before the wall shuts again. If you fail, go back on the lift again and try once more - Silrath)''
-* [[MAP04: Hell Mountain (No Rest for the Living)|Level 4: Hell Mountain]] ''(Exit to secret level)''
 * [[MAP05: Vivisection (No Rest for the Living)|Level 5: Vivisection]]
 * [[MAP06: Inferno of Blood (No Rest for the Living)|Level 6: Inferno of Blood]]